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BigPaddy posted:Wasn’t this happening before covid due to corn being used to make fuel? Yeah It happens every once in a while when there is a drought or flooding because Iowan corn exports will go to ethanol first and export second.
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BigPaddy posted:Wasn’t this happening before covid due to corn being used to make fuel? Like a lot of the pre-pandemic economic problems COVID poured a tanker full of gasoline on an already burning building, turning something that was already a stretch but doable into something that is increasingly slipping out of reach for most working adults.
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I see the US going full Cold War against China in this upcoming decade, refocusing on overthrowing any country in latin / south america that crosses us, doing dumb poo poo in africa and southeast asia again, etc. Except even more incompetently than before because we are clearly the declining empire this time
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Jul 28, 2021 19:00
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Lol @ idiot Americans buying this stuff to the moon https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2021-07-07/money-stuff-owning-chinese-companies-is-complicated
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Justin Tyme posted:Sick of this bullshit wasteful society, full communism now Driving to work today, I watched a person water flowers underneath a tree while it was raining. Because heaven forbid they plant something mindfully and instead just blast water for these flowers cause they can't get water naturally from the loving sky
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Tempora Mutantur posted:Yeah hopefully we're not that dumb I'm not sure what this is in reference to, but lol
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It's really cool that stuff like medical debt and college debt likely led to one of my best friends throwing themself off a 20+ story building, but Nancy Pelosi and every other one of these ghouls gets to live forever. Like, no one gets a heart attack or slips and bangs their head on a counter or shower rod or something. They just get to impose their awful will on everyone until they turn to dust. John McCain died in office after like.... 40 years?! Goddamn I want term limits/age limits so bad.
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i know we all have wild doomsday fantasies, but a war with china? lol, lmao
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I like they can’t even imagine a framing that isn’t from their boomer perspective “imagine your child doesn’t want to go, but you pay taxes for someone else’s kid?”
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"we won't go to war because our economies are too intertwined" was also what people were saying before 1914
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sullat posted:Yeah It happens every once in a while when there is a drought or flooding because Iowan corn exports will go to ethanol first and export second. There was a derecho that wiped out a good chunk of Iowa's corn crop last year, too.
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Lol if you think the US won't start a hot war with China to keep the Number from going down you're not nearly cracked pinged enough
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I just hope china kicks our poo poo in hard and quickly
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gradenko_2000 posted:"we won't go to war because our economies are too intertwined" was also what people were saying before 1914 The economies are actually like 10x more intertwined in this case, though. War with China instantly wipes out trillions of dollars of Number. It would never be allowed by the people with hands on the real levers of power.
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PIZZA.BAT posted:oh it turns out that it's harder to import base materials and components when you deliberately piss off the international community / slap tariffs on literally everything. who could have seen this coming? The Trump tariffs are still in place. Voting works you guys
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jisforjosh posted:The only unitasker we regularly use is a waffle iron because waffles are amazing i think something you absolutely can't do it without is probably not exactly a unitasker, like waffle, aebleskivers, and potentially crepes, . i've got an oldschool heavy-iron fold type that you put on a burner/fire to do waffles and it's great and can slot away very nicely. imo those big electric ones are unneedingly bulky and lovely to clean, take up a lot of room, and i hate them.
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Crazyweasel posted:I like they can’t even imagine a framing that isn’t from their boomer perspective “imagine your child doesn’t want to go, but you pay taxes for someone else’s kid?” why do MY taxes pay for SOMEONE ELSE’S KID’S K-12 education? hosed up
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a shitload of my taxes pay for red state socialism to chud farmers. Nancy please do something about this
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the US isn't gonna be picking fights with anybody who can put the hurt on us either directly or indirectly lol, it'll be another proxy war. If China wants one they can do it over Cuba, but they obviously don't care and are instead going to war with the US tech sector and its domestic allies which is way too abstract for anybody here to get people to give a poo poo about We'll probably just start supporting terror groups and militias across Africa to try to gently caress with belt and road and try to goad them into doing something we can pitch as liberation via carpet bombing and mass killings
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Vox Nihili posted:The economies are actually like 10x more intertwined in this case, though. the last 100 years have been a continuous US war against communism, which the idiots in charge thought they won in 1992 and are only now realizing they actually lost to china. china isn't even seriously threatening US resource extraction as yet we're already embroiled in an escalating trade war and performing military exercises off their coast. we'll see what happens when the shortages really kick in
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Epic High Five posted:the US isn't gonna be picking fights with anybody who can put the hurt on us either directly or indirectly lol, it'll be another proxy war. If China wants one they can do it over Cuba, but they obviously don't care and are instead going to war with the US tech sector and its domestic allies which is way too abstract for anybody here to get people to give a poo poo about
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Epic High Five posted:We'll probably just start supporting terror groups and militias across Africa to try to gently caress with belt and road and try to goad them into doing something we can pitch as liberation via carpet bombing and mass killings https://twitter.com/NEDemocracy/status/1337063301113581568 you get one guess as to what "uyghur groups" consists of
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"Our economies are too intertwined for a war to happen!" The English on their trade with Germany in 1913.
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I noticed I didn't get the "and a half" part of my overtime, because I had the audacity to take PTO during that pay period and I didn't work 80 hours even though that day was more than 8 hours, so no overtime for me  I hate this country so much. There's always a loophole or carve-out for the elite to ride though. I'm going to look up the labor code myself. I'm pretty sure that shift>8 hours means I get OT regardless of the pay period. If it annoys HR, so be it, they're probably all barely working anyway gently caress them. Edit: California Labor Code §510. (a) Eight hours of labor constitutes a day’s work. Any work in excess of eight hours in one workday and any work in excess of 40 hours in any one workweek and the first eight hours worked on the seventh day of work in any one workweek shall be compensated at the rate of no less than one and one-half times the regular rate of pay for an employee. Any work in excess of 12 hours in one day shall be compensated at the rate of no less than twice the regular rate of pay for an employee. In addition, any work in excess of eight hours on any seventh day of a workweek shall be compensated at the rate of no less than twice the regular rate of pay of an employee. Nothing in this section requires an employer to combine more than one rate of overtime compensation in order to calculate the amount to be paid to an employee for any hour of overtime work. The requirements of this section do not apply to the payment of overtime compensation to an employee working pursuant to any of the following: (1) An alternative workweek schedule adopted pursuant to Section 511. (2) An alternative workweek schedule adopted pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement pursuant to Section 514. (3) An alternative workweek schedule to which this chapter is inapplicable pursuant to Section 554. (b) Time spent commuting to and from the first place at which an employee’s presence is required by the employer shall not be considered to be a part of a day’s work, when the employee commutes in a vehicle that is owned, leased, or subsidized by the employer and is used for the purpose of ridesharing, as defined in Section 522 of the Vehicle Code. (c) This section does not affect, change, or limit an employer’s liability under the workers’ compensation law. (Amended by Stats. 1999, Ch. 134, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 2000.) skooma512 has issued a correction as of 19:58 on Jul 28, 2021 |
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Xaris posted:this is also why the woke sinophobia and ~uyghur genocide~ narrative as advocated by state department/dod and repeated by dem libs is also really funny because it's very blatantly just an excuse to do more proxy wars. ah, china, doing lots of no-growth bad genocide, that's why we gotta bomb/coup bolivia because they'll be too friendly to china's interests and we want the lithium. china, doing bad unhealthy and bad hitler racism and big yikes whole-rear end showing microaggressions, they want to take over palestine, that's why we gotta support israel and bomb palestine to stop china. 
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https://twitter.com/DeItaone/status/1420454144171724801?s=19 https://twitter.com/DeItaone/status/1420452618082656261?s=19 https://twitter.com/DeItaone/status/1420455318488854536?s=19 https://twitter.com/LizAnnSonders/status/1420444892724084736?s=19 Edit: https://twitter.com/HEMENDRABISHT3/status/1420445244932329473?s=19 Uhhhhhhh....uhhhhhjh why? Mr Hootington has issued a correction as of 20:01 on Jul 28, 2021 |
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Mr Hootington posted:https://twitter.com/DeItaone/status/1420454144171724801?s=19 If the CPI is at 5% inflation is closer to 20% lmao.
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Just grabbed Jack in the Box for the first time in 10~ years. I forgot that the curly fries are so darn good.
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I got so mad when I realized that PTO hours don’t count toward 40 when calculating overtime hours. actually, I’m still mad about it, and will always be mad about it
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Inflation is running above our target and above the ability of the media to cover it up, but we won't actually do anything about it. DoomTrainPhD posted:Just grabbed Jack in the Box for the first time in 10~ years. I forgot that the curly fries are so darn good. I hope you enjoyed the 4 true curlies that end up in a large. The seasoning is the star though, And you can get entire bags of them frozen at the store for like 5 bucks, they taste the same and you get all the curlies. 
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a few DRUNK BONERS posted:I just hope china kicks our poo poo in hard and quickly sink one of america's carriers with a volley of anti-ship missiles and american hard power is dead forever. they're probably more afraid of that then a nuke detonating over the lower 48
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meowmeowmeowmeow posted:yeah its loving bullshit, like i didnt take a day off to just work 40 hours in the 4 other days Shouldn't have taken the day off peasant That's what you get for having something to do on a weekday.
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