What was that device used in the French Revolution?
Yeah thing is if moving the factory to Mexico was the right move they would have already done it. All of these guys act like freight costs don’t exist. I can assure all of you that they do lol.
EDIT: I feel like a lot of people don’t realize that on most cheap/heavy products transportation costs are a significantly more important factor than labor. The only situation where labor costs can truly overrun transportation cost is when the process for making the product is at least medium labor intensive. That’s why there’s a cement plant within 50 miles of each and every one of us and our clothes are made in Vietnam. The logistical cost concerns are going to dwarf labor costs when it comes to the question of ‘where will we do final assembly on 250,000 cars per year’. Yes assembling the cars is labor intensive but first you must assemble XX,XXX individual parts in a place, and then ship back out 250,000 cars to dealerships around the country one truckload at a time.
To not do that you have to assemble the car in some other fairly developed fairly expensive place (because you need the logistical infrastructure to input all those parts and output all those cars) that somehow is so much cheaper on labor than (checks notes) Detroit, MI or (checks notes again) Ohio/Kentucky…
In an environment where you can’t just snap your fingers and hire new people from the bottomless pit of new hires you have to actually sit down and negotiate with the workers you have. And that negotiation, if the workers have any leverage at all, quickly results in them getting a reasonable % of their total production.
And that last point I know something about. I have a lot of leverage in my line of work because my book of business is attached to me and very portable. You can say you don’t want me and the attached business if you want, but there are literally hundreds of brokerages that would love to tell me whatever I want to hear to get me to give them a try. So if anything my deal is a little unfair, my way, because this is capitalism and I have all the leverage.
In ten years being able to operate a business will be about competing for employees. I would expect the customer service to get quite a bit worse lol.
Idk where this belongs maybe its own thread but this case is a big deal
I remember this discussion several months ago: Programming or How to Exit Vi Without Rebooting - #96 by TheDudeAbides
and thinking “how havent they been brought into some anti trust thing?”
This is a really bad time for google to get dragged into this. Basically their only defense is that their product is so superior to other search engines that’s how they have so much market share, but at this point in time google’s search is so bad it’s practically been unusable for months unless you’re searching for stuff that is trying to sell you something like “where to buy levi’s near me” and even then it’s remarkably bad at the thing it’s trying to do.
edit: I think I know what must have happened and why this is coming now - lots of evidence the US govt is bringing against google is from internal chats and memos that werent supposed to get saved, but after the mass layoffs and the shitty manner in which google did it, I bet someone (or a dozen) went informant, LOL. Don’t fuck your employees! Especially ones that can fuck you! Especially super smart ones you gave generational wealth to who are very pissed off and can get good lawyers!
I was just shopping for some discount Etsy agitprop and regret to report that FAFO has been thoroughly co-opted by the fascists.
they found out and then fucked around. shame
In todays duh! news, man portrayed as anti sex trafficking hero in Sound of Freedom was actually using his status to coerce employee/volunteers into compromising positions.
RFK Jr. going independent, seems bad for Trump as he’s likely to peel off more Republicans than Dems.
He’s going independent? I think his effect is jack shit either way.
lol these fucking idiots
An LGBTQ-inclusive student mural created inside a Michigan middle school must be painted over by the end of October. The decision, made last week by the local school board, comes nearly a year after the mural ignited backlash from some parents who said it promoted LGBTQ imagery and witchcraft.
@Danspartan You ever hear of Grant, Michigan? Looks like it’s a half hour north of GR and a half hour west of Muskegon. I’ve driven through it, but never spent time there.
I’ve heard the name but never been there. My parents had friends in Coopersville , probably the closest.
- No, he will be removed. Republicans will rally around a different speaker.
- No, he will be removed. Moderate Ds and Rs come up with a compromise speaker.
- Yes. There will be a vote to remove him, but Democrats cut a deal and save him to prevent a more extreme speaker.
- Yes, and there will be no vote to remove him.
Needs another option: “Yes, there will be a vote to remove him, but democrats will save him. No deal will be cut, they just will.”
This is what I would have picked if it were an option.
That was intended to be a part of the “Democrats cut a deal” option, but I worded it poorly.
I guess I don’t undertstand the motion to vacate process
what can matt gaetz do by himself? he can raise a motion and … then what happens? there is an up or down vote on whether to keep the current speaker? It seems like there’s no leverage here, there clearly aren’t more than what, 10 people that would vote to dump mccarthy, are there? Democrats can’t be dumb enough to dump him since they’ll absolutely be guaranteeing that someone even dumber ends up there
In theory every democrat should vote to vacate a republican chair.