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Answering my own question, there is a lot of automation already in eastern seaboard ports, but not in comparison with some cutting edge ports like Rotterdam. One of the biggest items being automated unloading cranes that aren't present in much of the US. So the "no automation" thing is a bit of a red herring. It's more like "no more automation," at least until the next contract.

Very few "feign" that it is irrelevant. Hell, we've got a trans person right here on this thread that wrestles with vague notions of fairness vs. broad participation.

There is no reason for the government to be involved. It's not involved in any other sport sanctioning issues. Especially not one of this tiny magnitude.

Crimean-Congo Haemhorragic Fever. Criminy.

Texas state universities are supposed to require six hours of US history covering colonial times to roughly the present. Wtf, Angelo State.

The NCAA has about shit to do with NIL. Ol boy Kavanagh doesn't apparently appreciate amateurism in athletics, so NCAA was told to butt out of that kind of regulation. I grant that they have been largely toothless in enforcing pay to play rules and the like, largely because they face sophisticated and well-financed institutions intent upon covering up their misdeeds. All they have to do here is set out a rule. Enforcing it will not be difficult and I doubt anyone attempts to circumvent it.

The NCAA is not toothless when it comes to this kind of rule. The sport sanctioning bodies are the only ones that should be addressing this. Just like all other issues of competition.

I think that holds true in court, too. Seems like about half or more of jurors like a kind of down-home, yet still competent lawyer over a very polished one. I know a few trial lawyers that cultivate that, including wearing brown suits or tweed sport coats in trial.

So what's left to be automated? Bulk? Shit, we know from The Wire 20 years ago that Patapsco was near-fully automated for containers. Isn't that cat largely out of the bag?

Hardly anything is. Someone's always got their thumb on the scale somewhere. Without unions or some form of labor organization, there's a gross leverage/bargaining inequality between management/business and labor. Unions went wrong in collaborating with the mob. As I understand it, originally their pension funds were flush with cash and the mob made lucrative offers for lending that cash to projects like Vegas, and then we went off to the races. There seems to be a good bit of that mob mentality hanging around unions, but it now seems to be mostly expressed in the crooked political arena with donation and endorsements and whatnot. I can't help but believe Daggett is doing Trump a favor here, or trying to. The other sort of problem with unions is that in lieu of salary and benefit bumps, which I think are always the main goal, they take "odd currency" like bizarro work rules that frustrate and annoy non-union employees,** probably them too. So we get a bunch of weird shit negotiated in collective bargaining. That's kind of inherent to negotiation, so I don't know how you fix that. **Almost everyone salaried that works or worked in a union shop has an absurd story about work rules. On the other hand, it takes two to tango, and businesses aren't going to do labor any favors without coercion. I'm not letting management off the hook, either. But we've spent plenty of time talking about how businesses suck in other contexts, and this is no different.

I'm now officially pro-union. However, unions need to get the fuck away from the mob and I don't know how on earth you pay a union president 7x what a typical member makes. That's corporatist right there. In Europe, unions work with government and management to be productive for themselves, their employers, and the country. See, for example, what happened in Germany when the wall fell and a bunch of cheap labor and manufacturing infrastructure became immediately available right across the way. If our unions were worth a shit, all our manufacturing jobs wouldn't have been off-shored. The idea of unions is great and labor organizations is indispensable. The US implementation of unions seems to suck dog dick.

Post more. I always come away educated.

Well, she's broke because she's a fucking moron who thinks Trump gave his own money as stimulus. Geezus jumped-up Christ.

Savor it. I blew through S1-3 like a drunk on a bender. Now I am rationing S4.

Praise bands and worship teams.😬😬

Well, at least she's dressed like a whore and curses a lot. Fine Christian woman.

Last time I had the flu was worse than Covid. But I'm vaxxed for Covid and wasn't for the flu.

I think what this is referring to is subpoenas, mostly.

Greg Abbott (with a dash of Cornyn). 😬😬

I don't think that yellow mesh is fading. It's hair/head mung.

I'd bet something Chinese and cheap. https://www.romlicenwatch.com/a-complete-guide-to-chinese-watch-movements/ That must have been an interesting project. Clean sheet design?

Sheeeit, a Rolex President is under $50k. Most Pateks are around that. What a load of shit.

Black shoes with khakis is . . . a choice.

What a conundrum. On the one hand, you'd like to see the sell-off of Infowars generate some healthy revenue for the plaintiffs. On the other hand, given the shaggy/surly problem, purchasing any of those assets is far from a guarantee of deplatforming Jones. Thus, I think the assets are of little value. The one exception might be the IP. There's probably some value in using "Infowars" to trash Jones and his ideas and followers. I'm not sure, though, that Infowars "subscribers" are as astute as we are regarding finding the new Jones outlet, but I suppose the conspiracy sites might spoon feed them.