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loobkoob, in Property developer Tim Gurner wants unemployment to "rise to 40-50%" reminding people that "they work for the employer, not the other way around" [video, 2 min]
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Personally, I'd like to see Tim Gurner's properties rise to a 40-50% vacancy rate to remind him that properties require people to be of any use or value.

I don't know how he thinks 40-50% unemployment rate would lead to a functional economy. If half the population can't afford to buy anything, does he really think that's going to be good for businesses? Unless he's an advocate for universal basic income, of course, but something tells me he's not...

mPony,

he's an advocate for universal basic poverty

NataliePortland, in US military asks the public for help finding its missing F-35 fighter jet after its pilot had to eject while training over South Carolina
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What, this F35? No sir this one was mine already. Ya I’ve had her for years. Hang on a sec lemme ask my cousin if he’s seen yours around

Hey Greg!….

TipRing, in Property developer Tim Gurner wants unemployment to "rise to 40-50%" reminding people that "they work for the employer, not the other way around" [video, 2 min]
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And how does he expect businesses to stay afloat with half their staff? Does he believe businesses don't need labor? Unemployment at 40-50% would indicate an economy in shambles.

Harlan_Cloverseed, in Pay Transparency Is Sweeping Across the US (Paywall)
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Please report companies when they are breaking this law! People think this is unenforceable, but that’s incorrect. Each state has a way to report law breaking companies. Lack of pay transparency causes substantial illegal discrimination against all different classes.

HubertManne, in Property developer Tim Gurner wants unemployment to "rise to 40-50%" reminding people that "they work for the employer, not the other way around" [video, 2 min]
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In some cases they work for a employer. The successful type ones, although I guess im not real sure if you can call someone who can't get workers and employer anymore. So the more I think of it he is right. There are business owners and then there are successful business owners which can also be called employers.

HubertManne, in Pay Transparency Is Sweeping Across the US (Paywall)
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This is the number one reason they have to use recruiters. If im looking I respond to adverts with pay scales that meet my minimum or the same with recruiters but since recruiters are an open communication channel I will give a chance to answer if the position can meet my floor. Not putting in the compensation is like putting an ad out looking for the worst and dimmest and they are likely not to get many bites from them either.

Chozo, in John Roberts Begs the Liberal Justices to Stop Criticizing the Court

"Why won't they just let us make wildly unpopular decisions that jeopardize the livelihoods of Americans without having to make us feel bad about it?!"

-Roberts, 2023

keeb420,

"Why can't we be blatantly corrupt without getting called on it? "

mouth_brood, in NASA clears the air: No evidence that UFOs are aliens

There’s no evidence that they’re not aliens either…

correcthorsedickbatterystaple,

there's no evidence you're not typing that comment because a gnome jumped up your butthole

Itty53, in NASA clears the air: No evidence that UFOs are aliens
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I'm gonna propose to the alien believers a different explanation of UAPs: they're black projects. Yes all those physics defying things are man made, and they probably have an understanding of physics we don't currently know about in the wider public.

Technology trends exist. We can see them. It's no wonder that every generation's stereotype of unidentified craft always always always mimicked the latest generation of military flight tech. That's what's been true since the inception of the whole thing. It's true today too, thirty years from now we'll get a public look at the crafts they're testing out in the skies today. Be that because they get used or because they become obsolete. Thats how it goes.

So why the hearings in Congress? Because they're black projects. We're talking trillions in this rabbit hole. Congress very much has an urgent want to understand what they military might be keeping from it, vis a vis private contractors. We're talking multiple times the budgets of nation-states and we're getting receipts that are basically "trust me bro"s.

But Congress can't very well tell the truth of all that without undermining the American military, and thereby America itself. So they go along with the same "aliens" reasoning, "uhh yeah, let's go with that, okay", and keep pressing for more information.

Is that crazy? Yeah, you bet. But it's no crazier than believing all that and that there's aliens. Because the alien conspiracy crowd asserts virtually everything I just said, just, with aliens. Aliens aren't necessary for any of it though.

In the history of nations there's never been a more sure-fire way to lose democracy than making an enemy of the military complex propping it up. So Congress ought to be careful too, keep a little plausible deniability for themselves.

DrYes,
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they probably have an understanding of physics we don't currently know about in the wider public.

I don't believe any secret agencies have a better understanding of fundamental physics. They have better technology and engineering.

Itty53,
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If a private, but not secret agency has access to the physics and can't engineer it, there's a question of why. As much as we'd like to disassociate engineering from discovery, they're linked together. Engineering leads to further observation leads to discovery and vice versa back the other direction. It's entirely possible there's "new physics" at play even if they're only theoretical to the Discovery Channel right now. Who's to say, really?

So while I'm not gonna disagree with you, and you're right there's a difference between engineering technology and physics itself, I still don't really see the distinction as that important to the discussion here.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, after all. We're talking about exactly that level of technology, commonly being called physics-defying by many engineers today. That's magic to common understanding, for all intents and purposes, even if it's possible that we could all eventually understand and demystify it given the education to do so.

Until then? Hard to close doors other than just "do we need this for the story". And aliens don't need to be there, hence my whole line of thinking above. That's just another example of "any secret is the exact secret I want it to be" kind of thinking. See also "everything I don't understand is a communist" or more recently, "everything I don't like is woke". I like to make reference to dinosaurs, because no one ever does. Why not? It could be dinosaurs in those crafts too! There's more evidence for that than aliens, right? We know 100% dinosaurs existed, here. They would've had much much more time to develop technology than we did, eons longer. So again why not? "Because it's absurd." Yep. It is. Every argument against it counts against aliens too.

Harlan_Cloverseed, in Russell Brand accused of rape, sexual assaults and abuse
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Every shithead on Facebook is coming to his defense

Ni, in Antarctic sea-ice at 'mind-blowing' low alarms experts
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Hard to know what to say to these stories anymore. But one idea is:

One thing you can do is write to your MP or representative.
Here is a letter template to write to your MP if you are in the uk - you could also use the template in the US or elsewhere in the world : https://www.theclimatecoalition.org/write-to-your-mp

Ni, in Antarctic sea-ice at 'mind-blowing' low alarms experts
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![https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/7205/production/_131098192_antarctic_sea_ice_extent-2023-09-14-nc.png.webp] (url)

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/23E5/production/_131098190_antarctic_sea_ice_winter_2023_map-2x-nc.png.webp

Not sure if this link is working but you can clearly see the melt difference.

aeternum, in Russell Brand accused of rape, sexual assaults and abuse

paywall.

https://archive.md/akh0n

is there anyone in hollywood that isn't rapey? FFS.

JelloBrains, in Biden urges carmakers to give UAW workers more in strike talks
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I'd be surprised if the union believes he's going to look out for them, after what happened with the rail contracts. I believe that is why the UAW has yet to endorse his 2024 campaign.

Harlan_Cloverseed, in Russell Brand accused of rape, sexual assaults and abuse
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This guy has always come off as a sociopath.

ripcord,
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And a semi-stipid person's idea of a smart person.

Half of what he says is gibberish, but he makes it sound smart.

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