afraid_of_zombies

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Hail the Omnissiah! Praise be to the machine-god.

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afraid_of_zombies,

We see the same thing in the U.S., where every president promises to restore the American manufacturing base, then comes up against the reality that U.S.-produced products made by U.S. workers paid U.S. wages cannot be competitive with something built in Southeast Asia and shipped overseas for less than $100 per ton.

That is the lie they tell us. Meanwhile we do everything we can to make we don’t have an industrial base.

  • We zone factories far away from everything instead of allowing them to be in normal commuting range
  • We tax the land they are on the same way we tax commercial property. Which you might think is fair but we don’t do that to farmers. Especially considering how easy retail gets it, with governments willing to give plenty of free roads and police protection to them
  • We treat inventory as taxable which punishes factories that want a buffer and rewards the quick turnover of fast fashion places. Ever wonder why they never have your size and you have to go to the website to get it?
  • Thanks to our shit medical system any workplace injury is going to be devastating which means that the insurance as a whole will be very high.
  • Factory investments take longer to pay off which doesnt mean much when we all think quarterly. A tax on rapid stock trading could probably fix that but that isn’t going to happen.

There are other factors as well. We don’t hire women to do factory work which limits the labor pool. There is still a lot of discrimination against Latinos and African Americans. Which again lowers the labor pool and kinda leaves us with…well the kind of people who feel only comfortable only working with white Christian men.

afraid_of_zombies,

I was in Asia and got pretty horrible food poisoning. My wife suggested we head over to this Japanese mall. Spent the day there. Use the toilet, walk around, buy something, use the toilet. That was the ideal toilet to have in that situation.

afraid_of_zombies,

Did a fast casual place last week with 3 other adults. 65 dollars for 4 burgers, 3 drinks, and 2 small fries. Of course they asked me for a tip.

I really try to avoid restaurants. Every time I go I end up angry.

afraid_of_zombies,

Last time I ordered pizza it came out to $30. We make it at home now. Better quality anyway, besides one of my daughters really loves cooking it with me.

afraid_of_zombies,

There is being in control and being in command. Being in command means you ultimately decide stuff being in control is when you allow no agency. What I typically do is give the people under me their own turf and gradually extended it as they show success.

afraid_of_zombies,

What blog did you copy that from? And yes it was a literary device but that doesn’t suddenly mean whatever ending you want goes there.

afraid_of_zombies,

It is only backed up because the other gospels plagiarized from it. This is like being amazed that Batman is an orphan in the comics, movies, cartoons, and graphic novels.

Mark diminished Mary’s role just like he did with the entire ministry. Matthew invented what happened next by trying to figure out what Paul was talking about in the letters.

Welcome to the Bible where what really happened doesn’t matter.

afraid_of_zombies,

Yes. You would have to hedge your bets and believe in every possible god. I wonder however if you could apply customer service techniques to it. The god that complains the most gets the most belief

afraid_of_zombies,

Scott Meyer is a very cool guy. Been enjoying his works for over 15 years now.

afraid_of_zombies,

Or every government contract I have ever been on.

afraid_of_zombies,

There are two kinds of apologetics arguments. The direct flawed and the same ones but ambiguous. Peterson is the latter.

afraid_of_zombies,

Ye olde camgirl

afraid_of_zombies,

Wrong. Making winding roads slows down traffic but increases the amount of time it takes to cover a given distance. Which leads to less people walking and cycling plus more local air pollution. You want nice grids. People walk in NYC they don’t walk in burbs. This is what city planners refuse to grasp. You don’t make driving more difficult, you make alternatives easier.

afraid_of_zombies,

I am not being snarky. Can you explain your comment? I don’t understand what you are saying.

afraid_of_zombies,

I am really not against the idea. The only thing I would say is maybe try it first on areas that are already losing money on mass transit. That way we could massively increase usage. If you are not making money on something stop pretending that you are. NYC system is almost break even so leave that one for last.

afraid_of_zombies,

What’s to stop Trump accounting under your system?

afraid_of_zombies,

For everyone like you there are who knows how many dozens sitting on inheritances. To be clear I am not against people making money, I am against assholes.

Look a long long time ago a housemate of mine just vanished. Me and the landlord were talking and we decided to put all his stuff neatly in the basement. He shows up a few months later, turns out he was in the hospital. Me and the landlord help him get all his stuff into a new unit. A little bit of work to not screw over a guy.

afraid_of_zombies,

No jobs and no culture and schools suck.

afraid_of_zombies,

Farm subsidies to not grow corn.

afraid_of_zombies,

I think it is nice when they do break even. It does cost money and effort to run them. I agree it is not essential that they do but it is nice. Cities have budget crisis if their system is running at cost or near it the chances of it losing funding is lower.

afraid_of_zombies,

I have had an IT role and been a controls engineer for many years now. There is a fair amount of overlap in duties and you only need one degree for that. Basically, a lot of it is IT for machinery. I have a hell desk support team who keeps most of the basics at bay and every time they all get sick at once I remember why I love them.

afraid_of_zombies,

It’s like that with everything isn’t it? The problems have been off-loaded. In my company for example we used to make our own motors, now we buy them. I doubt there is anyone left who knows how to build one where I work.

afraid_of_zombies,

You are correct. It wasn’t a typo. I stole it from the BOFH (bastard operator from ) Which if you are in IT you should read and laugh.

afraid_of_zombies,

Industrial, government, chemical, even residential if the place is big enough.

afraid_of_zombies,

If you combined the ages of my children it still wouldn’t be enough time to the first time I heard this.

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