Zipitydew

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[–] Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 months ago

I believe those are two separate things. The 4 years being for how long this contract will stand. And the wage increase being immediate change to the pay grade tiers.

But we'll have to see when details are out. I'm only guessing based off other union contracts I've had experience with.

[–] Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Yes. They moved here. Have done the same things. Pissed many people off. Thankfully this time they can be easily contained due to how Lemmy works. They could just grow up and not be an embarrassment to the left. But that's apparently too big an ask.

[–] Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Hardly, the mods kept refusing to do anything about the brigading of other subs. To the point the admins stepped in and removed a couple of them. Then afterward the sub decided they'd rather go private than comply. At this point most of back and forth is wiped out because the sub is locked. But there was far more going on for a while than their claim that one post shut them down immediately. They had already been in trouble for a couple months.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/bp39gb/chapotraphouse_gets_a_call_from_the_admins/

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fmfirtv1vndy21.png

[–] Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Tons of them on r/space. They and the people who have become Boeing experts since February.

[–] Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No because it just landed perfectly fine as even NASA mission leads figured would be the case.

[–] Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Hasn't made it to re-entry burn yet. That's scheduled for about 40 minutes from now. Is supposed to land around 10 pm New Mexico time. Or about 2 hours from now.

[–] Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

In very small numbers. Car recycling/scrapping is a huge industry in developed nations. One that the big manufacturers support for a couple reasons. Main one being to maintain artificial price flooring. If used cars are expensive and harder to come by, people give in and buy new. The manufacturers knew this. But it didn't occur for them to actively engage in such practices until Cash for Clunkers happened in the US.

Also, low income countries already get their cars from manufacturers people in western nations have never heard of. China, India, and even Iran export new cars to these nations. Options that would be easier to obtain and maintain than something like a 20 year old GM SUV never sold directly in that market.

The author's guess at potential future concerns doesn't seem reflective of reality around car ownership economics. Plus China is already getting new EVs to some of these markets at artificially low costs.

[–] Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Worked with one a while back. She was trying to get out. Her whole family abandoned her. She finally went back and agreed to the arranged marriage temple leadership was demanding. Was immediately pregnant after the wedding. Forced to quit her job to be a stay at home mom.

Firmly believe such behavior should be in our modern concept of slavery.

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