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Out of curiosity, what would stop these unions from just striking illegally anyways? Seems like at some point, it’ll be the only way forward if these co’s keep turning to binding arbitration.

Would you rather take on 30 otter-sized horses, or one horse-sized otter?

That was indeed what I was thinking of. I didn’t realize it was rejected. My bad, and thanks for the letting me know!

Not to mention that their orbits degrades over time so they have to be continually replenished. That comes at a huge cost which is highly subsidized by US tax payers.

The problem is systemic IMO. The whole VC model requires the enshitification cycle to work. Any technology that should reduce human labour and be a net positive for society instead always ends up in the hands of capitalists who’ll use it to extract maximal profit.

Like, on a fundamental level, automating people’s jobs is a good thing. The problem is all the benefits are going to a very small number of people.

Maybe I misunderstood your previous comment, because I’m not sure I understand what you’re trying to say here.

Are you saying my version of the title would have been fine without the “and” I added? I’m struggling to understand what you’re taking issue with.

You’re nitpicking. It’s not a direct quote anyways; it’s already paraphrased. They had no issue editorializing “them” to “companies”, so adding an implied “and” wouldn’t be any worse than that.

Oh, it’s basically the same as Asshole (or Janitor, as my grandmother called it) but with teams, a definite goal, and a few more valid card combinations. One is obviously a derivative. Now I wonder which came first.

Edit: And to answer my own question:

It is a Westernized version of Chinese climbing card games[5] such as Zheng Shangyou, Tien Len in Vietnam and the Japanese Daifugō.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_(card_game)

Yeah, I agree, but you still have to be able to read between the lines to grock what it’s saying. They left out the more important explicit part.

“Any federally regulated company, it’s a win for them at this point,” Boucher told Reuters in his first interview since the Thursday lockout. “This is disastrous for labour, for workers.”

That title is a bit of a misrepresentation of the union leader’s position. It should have read:

Canadian rail decision is a win for companies; disastrous for labour, and for workers, union leader says.

Hey asshats, remember when this exact thing happened in the US and the result of binding arbitration was that safety was undermined? I’ll bet the people of East Palestine remember.

Let’s not make the same mistakes. Give the teamsters their damned fatigue protections, and pay them a good living wage.

Backblaze regularly releases failure rate statistics of their drives, and it’s often a big enough dataset to be quite meaningful. I haven’t been keeping up with it lately, but there certainly was a period of time where there were substantial differences in the failure rates of different manufacturers.

So while you do still need to have drive failure mitigation strategies, buying more reliable devices can definitely save you time and headache in the future by having to deal with failures less frequently.

This might not be am option or helpful for everyone, but I’ve moved cities since I got my current phone number. Now I know if it’s from my own area code, it’s almost certainly spam. And since pretty much everyone has country-wide free long distance calling nowadays, long distance charges don’t really matter.

Not that the average person could even do this without a certain baseline level of fitness.

And that’s a huge understatement. You need incredible core and upper body strength to do any of those holds. You need to have an elite level of fitness to compete at that level.

“We are a legal family-run business.”

Just because it’s legal doesn’t mean it’s moral or that it should be happening at all. Hunting tourism is gross.

I think a blended model is a good solution. In Ontario, LCBO’s selection has gone downhill over the last 10 years. They’ve gotten complacent because they haven’t had to worry about competition. They’ve still got a huge amount of purchasing power because of the sheer volume, though, so they should be able to anchor prices against excessive profit gouging.

It’ll be harder for corner stores and boutiques to compete on price, but they’re also much more able to specialize and serve niche markets.

This is basically the same system Quebec has had for years, and it always seemed to work well there.

I’m happy to take it as a win that we can avoid a real war if it means some obnoxious pettiness.

This is also just a cutesy hand sign for “fox” in Japan, with zero alt-right symbolism. Foxes are a significant part of the mythology there, and there are all sorts of tales about leaving food for fox spirits to bring good fortune. There’s even a prominent vTuber who’s regularly depicted making the sign.

I wish these alt-right fuckwads would stop trying to wreck shit for the rest of the world.

One minor caveat where CPU could matter is AVX support. I couldn’t get ollama to run well on my system, despite having a decent GPU, because I’m using an ancient processor.

Presumably you meant: “Bribe someone for 1/1000th the cost.”