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The Business of America Is Giving Workers the Business 0
At the San Francisco Chronicle, a long-time driver for UPS looks at the effects the flood of Amazon’s own delivery drivers has had on his industry. He posits that, in this new Gilded Age, it has not been salutary. A snippet:
Not surprisingly, Amazon’s workers don’t stay very long. The company’s annual turnover rate for warehouse workers is 150%. The company’s business model is to create bad jobs so workers won’t stick around and demand the pay and respect that they deserve.
Repubs in Disarray 0
Tom Hilton has the play-by-play.
The Phony “War on Christmas” 0
Michael in Norfolk looks behind the agitprop:
Aside:
As I journey about my neighborhood, it looks to me that, if there is a “war on Christmas,” Christmas is sure as heck winning.
GOP Goes a-Gaslighting 0
University of Maine political science professor Amy Fried reads the tea leaves and looks into the future:
Meanwhile in Congress, Republicans will be gaslighting and generating chaos in two ways.
One, they’ll probably try to obstruct normal governance by trying to coerce President Joe Biden to cut Social Security and Medicare, two incredibly effective and popular policies.
(snip)
Second, House Republicans are ready to take up a good deal of time with phony scandals — a clear contrast with their pre-election focus on inflation and the economy.
Follow the link for her reasoning.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another random act of politeness.
Yet another reminder not to toy with instruments of death.
Yet another reminder that “accidentalal” and “negligent” are not synonyms.
Yet another sacrifice to the NRA’s leaden idol.
Yet other reminder that we are a broken society.
Farcical Recognition 0
Madison Square Garden Entertainment uses facial recognition to ban a mother from seeing the Rockettes with her daughter because of her day job.
Via C&L, which has commentary.
The Galt and the Lamers 0
Ayn Rand’s philosophy of “objectivism” explained in four easy frames.
(Broken link fixed.)
Facebook Frolics 0
In an interesting twist, the con works only when you click on a link within Facebook. If you try to reach it otherwise, it redirects to another fake website. Snopes theorizes that this was an attempt to make the scam harder to uncover. I submit that it may rather be an indication of the scammers’ opinion of the susceptibility of persons assimilated by the Zuckerborg.