Food Wars!

If I have 100 acres of land and cut down 66 acres last year, this year my maximum output is 50% of last year’s output but 100% is still going to be gone.

Don’t know if I should be surprised that Goblin Slayer 2 isn’t on here. On one hand, it’s hiiiighly controversial. On the other, it’s very high quality in both animation and story.

I’m not quite sure that’s true. Maybe in raw numbers, but we’re a living, breathing base of contributing users helping to keep a whole platform and community alive. It doesn’t matter if the Federation isn’t purely made up of former Reddit users as we’ve assimilated. Every contribution we make on this platform is one more that the last one doesn’t get. Votes, posts, comments, it’s all here and not there. I would very much like us to get to the size where the sports subs are active during game threads, but we’re still having an impact.

I don’t know if it’s explicit support, but I DO remember a few years ago when both the DNC and RNC were compromised and the only kompromat released was against dems

Often, but not daily. Maybe not even weekly. Certainly monthly and it’s because THEY FUCKED UP THE CALENDAR. SEPT IS 7 NOT 9 ALL THE WAY UP TO DEC YOU BASTARDS. Seriously though, fuck Julius and Augustus.

Just so everyone is aware, the FBI has an anonymous tip line…

Just a thought here. Matt Damon is 5’10", not 5’2" so of course every Jewish dick is small if you’re automatically knocking 8 inches off of your measurements.

I’m one ~70k karma and 11 years. Originally landed on the site at the peak of f7u12

He is, but also because of age. Judges and juries are very lenient on the elderly when it comes to sentencing due to prison survivability. That said, a deal is guaranteed and leniency isn’t, especially when we’re likely talking about white collar prison

Ah yes, the famously French “Volkswagen”

That’s a great argument for how out of touch the indicators they use are. Does it mean that we’re in a better position geopolitically? Almost definitely. Did these indicators at one point mean good things for the working class? Probably. But now, they feel more like gaslighting that temperature taking.

Our day will come

I don’t disagree with that being a better solution, but it wasn’t an option. Unironically, this was the train car moral dilemma. I think you’re undermining your own argument, though. That while rapidly declining workforce due to the sick day issue and the issues that arise from that may very well be a reason the Biden admin is trying to right that wrong. I still argue that instead of changing who the government forces to agree, the rail system should be nationalized. We’ve seen that the companies in charge of them clearly can’t manage them not just for their playing chicken with the economy forcing the government to bail them out of that disaster, but also the several toxic derailments since.

Alright, I’ll bite. Name me any other labor movement where a single union’s negotiations have the power to evaporate up to 4% of the nation’s GDP in its first month?

I ask you that to illustrate that the rail situation was absolutely dire with a projection on 90+billion in losses for the country each day after the first day and a projection of 700,000 lost jobs after the first month. It’s the only reason the government even has a seat at that bargaining table and it’s a damn good one. I wouldn’t dare give that power carte blanche, but I’m not faulting the government for taking the steps it took in that situation. Instead, I’ll choose to reward the further efforts to get the unions what they deserve even after being forced to play their hand.

The progressive move forward would be to dissolve and nationalize the rails after that shit show, but that’s a completely different conversation. We don’t have a system built on progressive values, we have one that’s been shattered and glued together several times and these are the late stage knells that we can expect at this point. But the path to actually building those progressive systems isn’t to throw away progress due to imperfection. The Biden admin getting those wins is progress worth preserving and building upon is my point.

Man you are debating in serious bad faith of you’re going to posit me as anti union.

You’re right, all unions had not agreed in the contracts months before, several agreed, but after brushing up, 3 of the 12 unions objected and it only takes 1 to spike the negotiations, that’s my error. I was mistaken in believing that when they sent the negotiated contracts to Congress in September that they had reached agreement, but moved to strike after negotiations feel apart in the cooling phase.

As far as everything else goes, yes, the point of strikes is to cause discomfort as a way of balancing power between labor and capital, however that doesn’t change the government’s obligation when it’s of such large consequence. They had exactly one lever and were forced to pull it, some more gleefully than others. At the end of the day, the Biden administration didn’t let the conversation stop there, and that is what sets the administration apart for the alternative.

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WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuters) - More than 60% of U.S. unionized railroad workers at major railroads are now are covered by new sick leave agreements, a trade group said Monday.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/most-unionized-us-rail-workers-now-have-new-sick-leave-2023-06-05/#:~:text=Under the agreement effective Aug,use as paid sick time.

I also disagree with the “better” part and the precedent you think that vote sets, for a few complicated reasons. First, “better” would have included hurting 100% of Americans with even more increased prices than were already being suffered from inflation numbers on the back end of the COVID economy. The administration had to choose between helping the union workers and helping all Americans. In the end, they chose both, just not immediately as illustrated above. As far as the precedent goes, rail unions are in a very unique position as Congress has a permanent seat at the bargaining table, this is not something other unions face. While we’re on precedents, they had already agreed on a contract months before and still moved to strike, that’s also a dangerous precedent. The whole thing was a shit show top to bottom. All things considered, I think the Biden admin is handling it the best that any ever could have.

They did, but they’re still dependent on competent home wiring, so results CAN vary

Majority*, more or less the only ones still bargaining are the operators, and I don’t understand your cynicism as the work is still being done. It’s obvious from the results so far that it’s succeeding, just slowly and out of the spotlight.

I’m aware of who they are, that article just had the easiest quote to pull showing that the admin kept working at it quietly behind the scenes. A better, yet more convoluted article would have been the one I’m linking below that shows the wins so far, the work that still needs to be done, more sources speaking on how their individual unions are doing, and a larger conglomerate of players still helping (the Biden admin is still a player)

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/01/railroad-workers-union-win-sick-leave