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Originally posted by second:
Trump also felt the need to call Obama a dumb nigger that would have flunked out of school if Obama had been white...
Yeah... Gonna need a legitimate source cited for this one.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Trump also felt the need to call Obama a dumb nigger that would have flunked out of school if Obama had been white...
Yeah... Gonna need a legitimate source cited for this one.
lol - irony
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Quote:https://theweek.com/articles/653840/donald-trumps-30year-crusade-again
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Trump also felt the need to call Obama a dumb nigger that would have flunked out of school if Obama had been white...
Yeah... Gonna need a legitimate source cited for this one.
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6ix, once in a while concentrate on what is important. For example, Why are you poorly paid? Because of the GOP:
These days, when people talk about the robot apocalypse, they don’t usually think of things like strip mining and mountaintop removal. Yet these technologies utterly transformed coal mining: Coal production almost doubled between 1950 and 2000 (it only began falling a few years ago), yet the number of coal miners fell from 470,000 to fewer than 80,000.
Or consider freight containerization. Longshoremen used to be a big part of the scene in major port cities. But while global trade has soared since the 1970s, the share of U.S. workers engaged in “marine cargo handling” has fallen by two-thirds.
Technological disruption, then, isn’t a new phenomenon. Still, is it accelerating? Not according to the data. If robots really were replacing workers en masse, we’d expect to see the amount of stuff produced by each remaining worker — labor productivity — soaring. In fact, productivity grew a lot faster from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s than it has since.
So technological change is an old story. What’s new is the failure of workers to share in the fruits of that technological change.
I’m not saying that coping with change was ever easy. The decline of coal employment had devastating effects on many families, and much of what used to be coal country has never recovered. The loss of manual jobs in port cities surely contributed to the urban social crisis of the ’70s and ’80s.
But while there have always been some victims of technological progress, until the 1970s rising productivity translated into rising wages for a great majority of workers. Then the connection was broken. And it wasn’t the robots that did it.
What did? There is a growing though incomplete consensus among economists that a key factor in wage stagnation has been workers’ declining bargaining power — a decline whose roots are ultimately political.
Most obviously, the federal minimum wage, adjusted for inflation, has fallen by a third over the past half century, even as worker productivity has risen 150 percent. That divergence was politics, pure and simple.
The decline of unions, which covered a quarter of private-sector workers in 1973 but only 6 percent now, may not be as obviously political. But other countries haven’t seen the same kind of decline. Canada is as unionized now as the U.S. was in 1973; in the Nordic nations unions cover two-thirds of the work force. What made America exceptional was a political environment deeply hostile to labor organizing and friendly toward union-busting employers.
And the decline of unions has made a huge difference. Consider the case of trucking, which used to be a good job but now pays a third less than it did in the 1970s, with terrible working conditions. What made the difference? De-unionization was a big part of the story.
And these easily quantifiable factors are just indicators of a sustained, across-the-board anti-worker bias in our politics.
More at www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/opinion/robots-jobs.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by captaincrunch:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Trump also felt the need to call Obama a dumb nigger that would have flunked out of school if Obama had been white...
Yeah... Gonna need a legitimate source cited for this one.
lol - irony
Says the guy who can't help himself from constantly lobbing personal attacks and doesn't back up a single word of his with any legitimate links to anything and regularly bails out of threads when he gets his ass handed to him.
You're a real character.
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Quote:But did you go to the link?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by captaincrunch:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Trump also felt the need to call Obama a dumb nigger that would have flunked out of school if Obama had been white...
Yeah... Gonna need a legitimate source cited for this one.
lol - irony
Says the guy who can't help himself from constantly lobbing personal attacks and doesn't back up a single word of his with any legitimate links to anything and regularly bails out of threads when he gets his ass handed to him.
You're a real character.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
https://theweek.com/articles/653840/donald-trumps-30year-crusade-again
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Or to this link where Trump was saying nigger-nigger-nigger since he was a baby-baby-baby? www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trumps-long-history-of
-racism-201446/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Says the guy who can't help himself from constantly lobbing personal attacks and doesn't back up a single word of his with any legitimate links to anything and regularly bails out of threads when he gets his ass handed to him.
cites? lol
You can make up any sh*t you want 6, you can even be superman for a day if you want to believe it.
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The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) was set up after the Great Recession to protect consumer finances. Republicans hated it from the start, and you can hardly blame them. After all, there are two sides to everything, and if you’re protecting consumer finances you must be protecting them from something. And that something is big banks and other financial corporations. Republicans don’t like it when their CEO pals are told that they have to either treat their customers fairly or else risk big fines.
Still, there was nothing Republicans could do about it once the CFPB was set up. Its funding comes from the Fed and its director is independent of Congress. But then Donald Trump was elected president. He couldn’t dismantle the CFPB or cut its funding, but he could install a new director who would simply decide not to open new cases. So that’s what he did.
More at https://consumerfed.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/CFPB-Enforcement-in
-Decline.pdf
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by captaincrunch:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Says the guy who can't help himself from constantly lobbing personal attacks and doesn't back up a single word of his with any legitimate links to anything and regularly bails out of threads when he gets his ass handed to him.
cites? lol
You can make up any sh*t you want 6, you can even be superman for a day if you want to believe it.
Brilliantly put G.
T
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Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by captaincrunch:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Says the guy who can't help himself from constantly lobbing personal attacks and doesn't back up a single word of his with any legitimate links to anything and regularly bails out of threads when he gets his ass handed to him.
cites? lol
You can make up any sh*t you want 6, you can even be superman for a day if you want to believe it.
Brilliantly put G.
T
lol... Your standards are comically low, when you hear what you want to hear.
What absolutely isn't brilliant, and needs no citations at all, is your atrocious grammar.
You are aware of commas... Aren't you?
I've just never seen you use one.
BTW... Captain. Your citation is right here: http://fireflyfans.net/mboard.aspx?bid=18
It's called the RWED in fff.net. You'll find dozens of examples.
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“It looks very much as if we are heading into an arms race where the current ban on full lethal autonomy” — a US military policy that mandates some level of human interaction when actually making the decision to fire — “will be dropped as soon as it’s politically convenient to do so,” said Stuart Russell, a professor of computer science at UC Berkeley and AI expert.
When is a killer robot tank not a killer robot tank? When the Army says it’s not. More at https://qz.com/1571597/
It seems foolhardy, but why would Republicans get the idea stuck in their heads to build killer robot tanks? Because it is an ancient ideal: "When robot assassins hunted down their own makers in an ancient Indian legend"
More at https://qz.com/india/1574936/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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