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  1. Is this bad union or bad management when it sounds like a bunch of emo gen alphas who are throwing a fit because they have to conform to a general color scheme (and call it a uniform). "Hundreds of Starbucks staff have walked out of over 50 stores since Sunday to protest the company's new dress code, which went into effect Monday. The union that orchestrated the walkouts hinted that more are planned. It also filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board alleging the uniform changes are illegal, per Bloomberg. The coffee chain announced the uniform updates in April, part of an ongoing effort to revive sales after five consecutive quarterly same-store sales declines."
  2. Is the thinking, if consumer prices have to go up regardless (e.g. tariffs or profiteering or inflation or whatever else comes up), might as well go up in the service of paying the middle class better?
  3. I suspect it's a blindspot for many of us, but what you described as being a virtue of agrarian society (i.e. being unskilled and not very smart, but being able to lift things or carry things or just do things physically) is very ableist. And I know that might make me sound namby-pamby around here, but ableism is a thing and the move of society to use your brains and skills versus just having two working legs or otherwise not being disabled in some way, was very equalizing for a lot of people. It shouldn't be lost that while, you are right, the future of AI and devaluing of skills is a risk for all, it's the differently abled who are hurt the most.
  4. Right, but the point being that "bringing back manufacturing jobs" is going to be expensive relative to the value you get, if you are trying to help humans have a middle class job (versus automation and/or paying a very low wage that is competitive globally and for the skill level e.g. screwing in screws).
  5. This headline caught my attention: UAE - Kids as young as four to learn AI. The United Arab Emirates will roll out AI classes as part of its state school curricula from primary onwards. The Gulf state’s education minister is vowing not to repeat the error of its slow adaptation to social media. https://www.cnbc.com/video/2025/05/06/uae-to-begin-teaching-ai-in-schools.html
  6. I've shared this before, but I have a friend who does some pretty basic and rote factory floor work at a Peterbilt plant. He essentially screws on 9 industrial screws (I could be exagerating, maybe its 15, but it's not much work) to the chasis or something as it hits his part of the line, does like 15 trucks a night (works the 3rd shift I think which is nights) and between the Union negotiated wages, perks and bennies, OT and 3rd shift stuff makes more than most pediatricians and state attorneys. It's a racket. Soooo....there is that extreme as well, I guess, is my point. But good for him, he just reupholstered his seats on his 2 year old boat. Must be nice.
  7. Trump to "snub" Israel as well as he visits *checks notes* KSA, Qatar, UAE and potentially Turkey.
  8. This is the insane world we live in: Treating consumers badly to boost profits is securities fraud, but treating consumers well and reducing profits is also securities fraud, because everything is securities fraud. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/08/unitedhealthcare-sued-by-shareholders-over-reaction-to-ceos-killing.html
  9. Changes nothing for me. Still out on this team as long as this management team is in charge.
  10. Disagree. A gay white male who isn't too zesty is not as career limiting as being BIPOC or a woman. Tim Cook, Peter Theil, etc. I think it's widely thought or accepted that being gay doesn't chnage the privilege of being a white male.
  11. Coo Coo Ka Choo little dude
  12. If the Memphis cops can get a not guilty, why not Luigi? Not that I think he should get a not guilty if he's guilty.
  13. Gainesville is still a dump. Went to the "Gainesville Zoo" last summer for some country inlaw reunion thing with the grandkids and wow. That was a sad state of affairs. An emaciated black bear in a chain link fence on a 200 sqft concrete slab was the highlight of the trip. Deformed giraffes cast off from mid-tier city zoos. A smattering of invasive species pawned off as attractions (e.g. raccoons, rabbits, wild boars). The sad part is I'm only slightly exaggerating.
  14. Sure, but on the whole, they don't have the infrastructure to really divert the waters and cripple Pakistan, which is what you'd need to do in short order (a swift, fatal blow) versus a slow, tortured process of diversion which would allow Pakistan to rally a) world sympathy (millions of innocent people affected by the lack of water) and b) Pakistan/China escalated response which would be bad for everyone.
  15. Speaking of Pete, what did Trump just say? Did his mask fall off and he loves Pete?
  16. For all the bluster, India is NOT going to do away with the Indus Waters Treaty. That would all but gaurantee a full on hot war with nuclear threat-- Russia and the US won't let it get that far. China might keep prodding Pakistan up that escalation ladder, but I'm not worried about it (I know I know, famous last words). Estimates are that the Indus water irrigates like 80%+ of Pakistan's crops and secondly reports are that India doesn't even have the technical abilities to divert the waters anyways (yet).
  17. Trump Announces Trade Deal With Britain The agreement is the first since President Trump imposed stiff tariffs on dozens of America’s trading partners. Trump said the deal would remake the global trading system, even as he added that its details were still being finalized. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/08/us/trump-uk-trade-news
  18. But then again, Trump is a moron, so he might actually do something wildly illogical by somehow backing Pakistan (e.g. giving some concililatory or complimentary language like "Shariff is a great guy, Pakistan and I are friends") and condemning India and being in direct conflict to his aims in other areas and completely mixing signals. I guess.
  19. The US would NEVER back Pakistan or condem India. Where are you getting that from? Pakistan is backed hard by China. We are anti-China very adamently when it can be done via proxy and shadow like in this case. If anything we are tying up closer to Russia through all this because India's arms are heavily supplied and financed by Russia. IMO
  20. Yea how? I need to see some legal eagles to provide a technical analysis of the case to explain how this happened.
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