@DCBrainLawyer @thespybrief I guess the confluence of pending social security insolvency, the effect of cancer mortality on FISA revenue less pension liabilities, and the second-order effects of public health advocacy was- and I cannot stress this enough- not the rich vein of comedy I took it for. My bad.
@60_healey@ArnoldBogis@RadioFreeTom Nope. Patton thought that Brigade and Division commanders were being relieved before they could get their legs underneath them as commanders of units at their respective levels.
@BarkyVonS@aviationarchive I have heard the explanation that there was some anomaly in the band's record deal or some deal with the rights holder to Fortunate Son that made the song easy and affordable to license for films.
@ShippingManJr@cwamidon@cpgrabow I take your point on both of those counts. Especially in regards to Navy contracts. It is probably part of the reason why US shipllyard labor forces are so inflexible relative or foreign yards: under a Navy contract the cost of inefficient labor can just be passed on the Navy.
@ShippingManJr@cwamidon@cpgrabow I think it is going to be necessary to broadly have the flexibility to combine or merge trade separations and otherwise reorganize labor rules in a manner that would not emerge from an adversarial bargaining process.
@anthonytheminty@DakotaAHensley@jonallendc Yes. I didn't believe it was a directive personally aimed at him. But the among the major driving factors behind that directive were the American priests Drinan and Robert John Cornell on one hand and several priests who had become involved with the Sandinistas on the other.
@ShippingManJr@cwamidon@cpgrabow Rebuilding the US Shipbuilding Sector and the maritime sector will likely require the wholesale rewriting of a large chunk of US labor law which means it is very unlikely to ever occur (even if it is only dedicated to shipbuilding and maritime sectors).
@Jimotti_Junichi@Liz_aroma An aspect that I am not seeing involved in Japanese discourse on tipping is that there was a fair amount of it that involved a degree of normalized tax evasion. If a server was tipped in cash, a portion of the tips wouldn't be reported and is part of the reason why it has stayed.