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Have you ever managed a fleet of computers (corporate, education, industrial, etc)? I can tell you from first hand experience that a dead/damaged/missing/stolen computer is simply business as usual. Also the likelihood it will be seized at the border is low. Its not none, but it is low.

My phone when crossing the border will look something like this:

Everything is potentially dangerous. US Citizens have been deported

How am I fucking over my library? If it is seized at the border, I’m on the hook to pay to replace it, and I will.

I’m a nobody American citizen. I’ll be traveling internationally for a short vacation soon and already decided that the only electronics I’m taking are a burner phone and a loaner laptop I’m checking out from the public library. I have nothing to hide, but the GOP administration have shown they’ll make up any excuse to invade privacy and restrict liberty.

Hey DOGE, I think I found some waste,fraud, and abuse. Fulfill your mandate and stamp this out.

Mississippi is among the most impoverished states and relies heavily on federal funding. Democratic lawmakers warned the state could face a financial crises if cuts in federal funding come at the same time as state income tax reductions.

Hey Mississippi, that federal funding is what DOGE is frequently classifying as “waste, fraud, and abuse”. You might want to wait until you see the smoking crater the trump administration will leave for federal funding for states before you cut off your locally controlled income source.

Further, he pressured reddit to censor posts critical of him and his products. So much for Mr. Free Speech.

I wonder what the third-party app site’s policy is if the restaurant cancels the reservation. Does the “bidder” get their money back? If so, the restaurants themselves should buy up all the reservations on the third party site, then cancel them, then demand their money back (or do a chargeback through their credit card). Make their own restaurant toxic to the third party sites.

Oh man, reading that was a wild ride. The unrepentant convicted insurrectionist vacillates between deep hate speech and positive statements supporting his son. The wife watched her unemployed husband desend into the cult and is in a fantasy land of hoping her family will be the loving close family they were before the father/husband went full MAGA.

There is that one incident that the family cannot agree on. Guy Reffitt [the insurrectionist father] asked Jackson [the son] about his political convictions, and Jackson responded by saying he was communist. And that America should be communist. "That makes you a traitor, bro,” Guy purportedly said. And traitors deserve to be shot.

Father of the year here. /s

The dog thing wasn’t why she’s suing. Its office politics intersecting with legal language and authority disputes.

“Politicians won’t save you, revolution is a right”

The “politicians won’t save us” was part of the OP poster’s quote. The part about “revolution is a right” is part of a Victor Hugo quote.

It looks like you’re gluing two pieces together as one that never existed in the original to take issue with it. Read some Victor Hugo for the context of his quote to gain a better understanding of its origin in history and how it relates to today.

I suppose it could be intentionally vague or open to interpretation, but I would prefer a more unifying message like “take back the power” or “together we can fix things” rather than “none of them will help you”

You’re changing the entire message. The original is calling out the need for change, but not advocating what or how that change is enacted of affected. You’re prescribing the solution with your “take back the power” or “together we can fix things”. You’re welcome to do that with your own messaging, but that is very different than the OPs. What OP’s is doing isn’t wrong, it just isn’t where you want it to go.

What’s wrong with that statement? I read that as : “Don’t sit idle and expect your elected leaders will do everything for you. Your involvement is necessary for the change you want to see”.

How are you reading it?

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I think there is a bit of a difference.

There is, but while the timing is different, the results are now the same.

• Millennials entered the workforce during the Great Recession so they didn’t get to expereince a strong job market for their skills and have been playing catch up ever since and had everything stacked against them yielding few positive results.

• GenX entered the workforce and was able to leverage their skills while growing them only to see the job market for their skills decline or evaporate altogether.

Both groups are now currently struggling to find a sustainable livelihood especially with a path to a safe and secure retirement.

As GenX myself, I can identify with some of what was spoken of here, but I also have the self awareness that what GenX is now facing is essentially what Millennials have been facing for their entire time since entering the workforce 17 or 18 years ago.

Sure. We knew that, I think.

Schumer may not have known that, and now he does. And he knows we know it too. That’s why this is an interesting new piece.

That was the case but the past 10 years or so have changed and started going back the other way toward short lived cars.

Parts that used to be made of metal are now plastic which are cheaper to make, lighter, but also shorter lived as they age. On its surface this shouldn’t be a big deal because they’re cheap to make so replacement parts should also be cheap. However there are two problems with this line of thinking:

• Labor costs have increased - so even if the cheap part breaks and is cheap to buy the replacement, modern cars require lots of labor to disassemble cars to the point the replacement part can be put in.

• Replacement parts are getting VERY hard to get - this is true of not only cheap plastic parts, but also complicated electronic modules (which may need custom programming to install).

“Mechanically totaled” is a fairly common phrase auto techs are having to communicate to customers. This means that the cost of repairs is greater than the cost of replacing the entire car with one its same age and condition. This isn’t just lower end Kia cars (though they are a big offender here) but many cars across Korean, European, Japanese, and American brands.

You’re correct that today’s cars are more reliable than the 1940’s and 1950’s, but even those cars were serviceable with readily available parts and fairly cheap tools and labor. So when they broke, they could be fixed again. That can’t be said for many of today’s cars.

“I heard that one say you might not be wearing any clothes! Fire him!” - Loomer probably

Anyone employed there should have been paying attention for the last 15 years, and if they weren’t planning long term to find another job or train themselves while working there,

Lots of folks don’t have the capacity or luxury to be highly mobile with regard to their employment. Even if they did, these plant closures are just the beginning. Even those you are praising that do have the high skills and mobility will be facing this same fate in the days ahead. There’s no safe zone for solid future employment for any of us.

can’t say I have any sympathy for them.

I’ll always have sympathy for working people just trying to work scratching out a living.