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@Molson_Hart There's a line in the movie Casino, where DeNiro notes that LV moguls didn't need pension fund money anymore to build casinos, but instead junk bonds (bc USD could be created out of thin air post-1971). Severed links btwn money/labor/taxes. Full financialization.

[Rowen @SCBasenji]

@OrganizingPow3r @ryangrim for many jobs, you are correct. But there are structural barriers that prevent workers from switching to sectors that do have real shortages. Eg, can't get TWIC or a DoT CDL w/ medicinal marijuana use, since those programs are administered at the federal level.

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@ryangrim @OrganizingPow3r spoke to an old timer at a chemical wastewater treatment plant last week. He said 8/10 workers in his section are 60+; 6 of his co-workers have retired in the past 4 years. He's been working 15 hours overtime for the past year bc they can't find workers who certify.

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@ryangrim @OrganizingPow3r not to be that guy, but...

what Biden is saying is true, but wouldn't lead to a decrease in the labor force, if workers are just shifting jobs.

the real problem is that we're going through Boomer retirement.

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@eshaLegal The GERD has the potential to remake Eastern Africa. Everyone will be affected, so much so that a proxy civil war is likely...

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@PAstynome I put the odds at over 75% the West goes out with a bang (nukes) than a whimper...

The Christian Dominionists that have penetrated the high ranks of government and military (eg Pompeo) are fking scary. Armageddon is biblical.

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@dylangwall @CaucasianJames seniors.

Seriously, they've got the oldest customer base of major fast food. Arby's will die out with the Boomers.

[Rowen @SCBasenji]

@RexChapman Im old enough to remember when Jimmy Clausen was the LBJ of high school football.

Bryce Harper did live up to baseball expectations.

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@Tom_Fowdy Will Europe have enough electricity to produce the steel and aluminum?

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@Molson_Hart Gold doesn't make sense for anything non-industrial.

If Mad Max happens, the people with all the guns will take all the gold.

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@subzero810 @eshaLegal fk. I googled it, but didn't notice that it was 2017. With how crazy NBA salaries are for scrub players, it didn't seem that far out of line.

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@thinking_panda @eshaLegal Guy in the middle looks like a Uyghur Ted Cruz.

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@blob_watcher it's all culture wars, and the Dem message of "we're not fking idiots" only works at the pits of an existential crisis (covid, GFC).

I support most of the principles espoused by the activist Left, but I see how a lot of Americans would get turned off by the activists themselves.

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@PAstynome Zuck fanboys all work in Langley.

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@khan_zafarul @realsteelmuslim But India is a part of the US Quad, so crickets from western media.

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@blob_watcher I used to live in Alexandria before moving to Charleston. Both cities will get fked by sea level rise.

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@powerchowder69 @happy_beaner @ryangrim Or be like South Carolina, spend about 10 years and billions of dollars building a reactor, then cancel it because of mismanagement.

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@zerohedge The European approach is superior; giving credits to consumers to give to the energy producers and thereby keeping prices artificially highly.

Speculators and middlemen(person?) have yachts to feed!

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@Molson_Hart @pziobro a lot of things aren’t available to be bought, especially new cars.