I love my local library. I just checked out a bunch of records that I’ve never heard on vinyl, and since my home Internet is currently shut off, I’ve been checking out a mobile hotspot once a week and plugging it straight into my router
There’s an HBO Max original reality series called The Raft that sets out to “replicate” this “experiment” while injecting the usually reality competition faire. It’s a pretty fun watch
New hires were, yes. Because of automation (and position hybridization, the rise of the gig economy, despecialization, and the rise of Walmart, of course). This is exactly the point that I’m making.
The U.S. We still had strong union grocery stores right up until automation hit. Then you get the big UFCW strike in California in 2003-2004, and what you’re left with is a store full of a bunch of people who are making middle class wages, but all new hires are making $8/hr with no benefits. Get on another 20 years, and that’s basically everybody working at a grocery store now.
Reaganomics absolutely blazed the trail, but self-checkout finished the job.
Yeah, I’m talking about pre and post self-checkout. 2005 absolutely could have done that for you.
20 years ago a cashier position in a grocery store was a well-paying union job with a pension. It could literally be your career. You could buy a house, raise a family, and retire from that position.
In a theoretical society in which all of my material needs were met, and I was given ample time off, I would volunteer to sit behind a cash register for a few hours a day and help people check out their groceries. I’m sure I’m not the only one. What do you even mean by “productive time”? When you say that it “does not provide value”, do you mean monetary value or social value?
Why did you make this about disability out of nowhere?
Weird aside, but Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Is actually kind of base on a true story. Oil, tire, and car companies did actually conspire to dismantle Los Angeles’ then extensive street car network, and then pretty much every other major American city too.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy
Is there a way to interact with this quiz that doesn’t involve me giving the NYT a dollar?
Oh, without a doubt
This is the way
OP, your friend is the victim of criminal cyberstalking and harassment. This dude should be reported to the authorities
Hmmm, some tasty soup does sound pretty good right now…
Oh shit, Baba Yaga’s coming. Better run
I mean, that’s just how I see it. Not disparaging anybody for their name or child’s name. Like, my parents named me Michael, and I happen to like it. But if I didn’t I would change it in a heartbeat (officially or not, it doesn’t really matter to me).
Just my opinion, but your name is exclusively a label for other people to call you. If you don’t like it, you can literally ask to be called anything else, but how other people will be able to pronounce it or not should be at least some small percentage of the thought process. Especially considering that children can’t pick their own names when they’re born
Growing up in California (especially Southern) you learn about “Fire Ecology” and how wildfires are a normal and natural part of the ecosystem and that many California-native flora are dependent on semi-regular burns. The problem with the fires lately isnt that they’re happening, it’s that they’re happening too frequently.
Basically, don’t worry, those sequoias will outlive us all
Most climate scientists would agree that we’re fucked, actually. But most climate scientists would also say that every little bit helps. It’s not a binary switch. You and I? Our children and our children’s children? They will not live in a safe, sane, or comfortable world. That shipped sailed a couple of years back. But you’re right, there is hope. If every corporation and state stopped extracting right now, then in about a 100 years, with a lot of hard work and dedication and an international effort like never before seen, we will return to normal.
So yeah, teaching kids to be good people, and good stewards of the planet is an extremely important and necessary thing right now, but so is teaching them to grow their own food, mend their own clothing, build things, build community. Because that’s the only way we get through.
I’ve been doing it since '01 (pronounced “Oh-Won”). I thought everyone else has been too?