Alex Lecea

Just a Dad; thoughts are my own, RTs and Likes not necessarily an endorsement. More Than Yesterday, Less Than Tomorrow.

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@MarcRyanOnAir Don’t you have an intern to open your mail? 🤣

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@JeremyOttoPxP We promise not to boo his children.

[Detroit Lions @Lions]

Wolverine with HANDS

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I just launched The York New Times -- a newspaper that automatically rewrites every biased article on @nytimes with @grok to get rid of pro-terrorism sympathies and wokeness. Share for a free subscription.

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@TigersJUK Shouldn’t that have counted as two challenges?!

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We are entering the best time of the year.

Remember, there are places on earth where it is "always summer," "always winter," "always springtime" -- but there is nowhere on earth where it is "always autumn."

It's a rare season; a fleeting joy. Enjoy it while it lasts. Let the withering of the leaves and the arrival of the frigid air clarify the heart. Don the sweater, drink the cider, light the candles, read and ruminate and reflect.

You only get to do this once a year. Don't waste it.

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@RaymondStern4 @IffyTheDopester Did your lose sync to the tv broadcast after commercial breaks? Been happening for me in the first half.

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@IffyTheDopester Yes! All the time. But today the delay relative to TV seems to change after every commercial break and I keep going out of sync. 😡

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@TheBig4Tweets Close monthend? It’s only the third day!

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

A #DavesCarIDService Labor Day weekend tribute to the workers who built America's cars. First up, the fellas at Ford's Piquette Avenue plant in Detroit, 1906.

Henry Ford had failed at his first two car companies, The Detroit Automobile Co (1899-1901) and the Henry Ford Co (1901-02). His new Ford Motor Co in 1903 was likely his final chance to make it in the car biz. Modest 3 story Piquette was his initial plant, opening in 1904, where workers assembled his first alphabetical models - the A, the B, R, S, and in 1907 the T.

Oddly the Piquette plant was not an assembly line per se. Each car remained stationary while worker teams rotated to perform assembly tasks on them. But the demand for Ford's cars was so high he knew they needed a more efficient way to assemble them to keep up. He harkened back to one of his first jobs, plant engineer for the Edison's Detroit lightbulb factory, where bulbs were made on a moving line process. He adapted that for car making, and Ford's big new Highland Park plant (1908) was designed on that principle.

Nearly every Ford T was made in Highland Park, and the assembly line efficiencies allowed the price to drop every year. By 1912, Highland Park had 25,000 workers. It was succeeded by the gargantuan River Rouge plant (1928), which at its peak employed 100,000 workers.

It all started with these assemblers, though. History doesn't record their names, but they included the "Magneto Girls," women who assembled the delicate innards of magnetos and coils. It was a tough job for tough people, but not unrewarded. Ford famously offered $5 per day, incredible blue collar wages at the time, to minimized worker turnover.

That kind of assembly line job is often unfairly characterized as mind numbing and repetitive, dunce work. Having worked on the assembly line at Wilson Trailer in my youth I can attest it requires always having your wits about you. I have many brilliant friends in the custom car building world who learned their craft on the assembly line.

There is dignity in any kind of work; and to me, especially in constructing cars. I look at this 1906 picture and wonder if any of the younger fellas remained at Ford for another 30 or 40 years, or started their own automotive enterprises. Did they think at the time that what they were doing was going to significantly change the world? Yep, I bet they did.

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@TigersJUK

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@daniellabruce_ Pizza Rolls! #repdetroit

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[andrew @a_seimet]

Andy Dirks hacked by crypto dorks 🥀

[Flippin' Bats Podcast @FlippinBatsPod]

🚨BAT FLIP ALERT🚨

The no doubt. The walk. The drop. The arms. The walk-off. The SWAG.

Bat Flip Grade: 8.8/10

[Governor Gretchen Whitmer @GovWhitmer]

Michigan has the best sports fans in the country, and nobody embodied that better than Andy Isaac.

Andy's humor, dedication, and love for our teams set a standard of excellence for all Michiganders. Today we remember Andy by officially proclaiming Saturday, March 8 as #Faturday.

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@samwizejr @priscanall @DiscussingFilm The Broccoli’s did own it but not any more.

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