Cpt_Obvious posted:

The whole "nations won't do something stupid" idea necessitates that the people in charge of those nations aren't themselves very, very stupid.

Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:

if i've learned anything from the climate thread it's that these days it's actually a good idea because there's a 50% chance that whatever body of water is next to the beach is either having a toxic algae bloom, is full of a cocktail of lethal chemicals, or is literally on fire

Popoto posted:

Kennedy, Castro and Khrouchtchev were three rational individuals that brought the world to a hair’s breath of Armageddon.

in the end, rationality will not save us.

Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

https://twitter.com/TheStalwart/status/1420031968511660035

skooma512 posted:

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.)

Paradoxish posted:

Love to see small business owners freak the gently caress out when the labor market shows the tiniest hint of behaving like a labor market. Turns out literally no one needs your job when you position yourself as an absolute rock bottom employer of last resort.

Xaris posted:

what the gently caress

khrushchev and kennedy were actually negotiating end to cold war which very greatly upset the cia when they found out. castro didn't want to do poo poo. cuban missile crisis was largely manufactured as a result of the likes of allen dulles and other bloodlusted airforce generals

Xaris posted:

what the gently caress

khrushchev and kennedy were actually negotiating end to cold war which very greatly upset the cia when they found out. castro didn't want to do poo poo. cuban missile crisis was largely manufactured as a result of the likes of allen dulles and other bloodlusted airforce generals

yr new gurlfrand! posted:

jokes on you shipping is hosed because they’re running on skeleton crews because the Indian crew working on the panaman vessel managed by the japanese firm subcontracted by the South Korean logistics company all got covid

RIP Syndrome posted:

Where's a good place to read more about this? I mean there is plenty of stuff on the Cuban missile crisis, but I'm interested in this take specifically.

fits my needs posted:

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1420735441590947841?s=20

Judakel posted:

The leadership positions are fully captured by capital and this might be too costly.

Beached Whale posted:

Killing Hope by William Blum is pretty much the best compendium of the CIAs innumerable atrocities and covers this and much more in great detail!

Beached Whale posted:

For example, we were so terrified of the communists being electorally popular in Italy that we airdropped millions of condoms that we had poked holes in with "Gift of the Communist Party" written on the package.

We're the worst!

Rutibex posted:

time to break out the bong and reach my own record high

Mr Hootington posted:

Personal consumption is through the roof. Americans are locusts. That drove it.

LegoMan posted:

https://twitter.com/screaminbutcalm/status/1105577845642878976?s=20

Paradoxish posted:

Can't see any possible implications to a massive increase in personal consumption during a period of rapidly rising inflation with little or no wage growth outside of the upper levels of the economy. Seems fine. Can't possibly be a bad thing.

Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:

Nikola finally got busted for saying that their truck rolling down a hill was a real prototype

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1420747201936912396


cant wait for his <1mm dollar fine and 6 months in prison (deferred)

StealthArcher posted:

Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:

Nikola finally got busted for saying that their truck rolling down a hill was a real prototype

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1420747201936912396


cant wait for his <1mm dollar fine and 6 months in prison (deferred)

Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1420455402513240069?s=20

Glumwheels posted:

Chuds don’t care but the extra money helped a ton of people keep the lights on and feed their families, pulling some out of poverty. Which meant that money was being spent in the downtown core that rear end in a top hat chud is crying has no business now. They wanted to hurt the poor and wound up hurting themselves/their local economy, get hosed.

fits my needs posted:

https://twitter.com/markets/status/1420745585552855045?s=20

Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1420455402513240069?s=20

quote:

But with today’s bitcoin prices and electricity prices in Los Angeles, he’s actually losing money.

Admiral Ray posted:

"Misled investors" is a good way to say "lied about every aspect of the company" since this is the guy that showed a video of a truck in neutral moving downhill as proof their truck worked.

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

Lacrosse posted:

Yeah but the silver lining is they won't have a labor shortage anymore if they don't have any customers to serve, so it's a wash

Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:

yeah it's not like you can't just find a handful of philippino pseudo slaves to shove onto the ship and get the crew requirement. way cheaper than the bribe you'll need to pay when they impound your ship in monrovia