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Comment (loooks around) (Score 1) 115

Is anyone MAKING you work there?

Fucking walk away. Jesus, why is this hard?

Boss: "Do this thing I want"
Employee: "No"
Boss "We will fire you"
Employee "OK" ...I get it leaving a job is scary. But I'm not super-buying that as these are STARTUPS. You haven't been there 5 years or more.

No, what's happening here I suspect is that people are lured into a job that's too good to be true.
If that's the case, and you were hired under a set of understandings and they CHANGE the understandings midstream, then you have an actionable claim. Companies can't change the rules without offering fair compensation.

Comment Re:Totally a democratic move (Score 1) 109

The US empire was fading but it died with the election. It's just breathing it's last breaths as the world rearranges itself. Russia couldn't have done better if they had a spy elected. The advantageous position the USA held is gone permanently and the more it coasts on that power foolishly bullying the planet the faster it weakens while cementing resentments.

Internally, it's gone from cancer to terminal stage 4 cancer and is spreading into the bones. Like Rome, it will be dead for a couple generations with some people still in denial it's dead... some tribalists can't even realize as they confuse their tribe with the state.

Comment Re:The days when the republicans (Score 2) 109

Trump is a spot on clear Fascist. If experts are not enough (some who left already) then just read any books before recent times and cope with the fact nobody time traveled to write biased books on Fascism to smear Trump in the future.

Generic socialism, is the needs of the many out weigh the needs of the few. It's the rationale behind almost everything; The NAZI used it and their greatest enemy, the Communists also used it (and "Socialists" as a political group are different and are also not Communists. ) Adam Smith the father of Capitalism (a Marx invention) he argued socialism was best served by capitalistic competition (and strongly apposed crony rent-seeking capitalism; which is anti-competitive.)

Bernie is far more like the greatest president, FDR who is a populist socialist. China ignored the idiotic advice/propaganda of the US Chicago school of economics etc. which ruined everything, everywhere. China took the best of FDR and world history and made more progress than anybody in the history of the world. Their authoritarian system facilitated rapid change; as that is it greatest advantage, but as Franklin said, any form of government is fine if it is well administered. The implication being, the real problem is achieving and maintaining good administration. Also good luck is greatly under considered, especially with our "hero worship" of successful people.

Comment Re:fire is nice if it weren't for those nasty flam (Score 1) 117

you sound like you've lost touch with reality. i've given up on lost causes like you. The US empire is dead and it has cancer which is terminal with almost no chance for recovery. As predicted decades ago, 2025 will be marked as the final threshold to it's demise. All I can say to a few people who don't even remember the prediction is "I told you so."

Comment 'being shipped to' is interesting language (Score 1) 69

"Millions of tons of discarded electronics from the United States are being shipped overseas"

Let's be clear: nobody is simply loading up containers with e-waste and blind-shipping them into "Asia" as if unto the void.

1) Someone has e-waste that needs to be disposed.
2) It costs to dispose in the US, so some vendor in Asia is offering to dispose for less than (US costs MINUS shipping costs which are quite low westbound APAC). Or they're even offering to buy it.
3) profit

Blaming - as I think is implied - US vendors for shipping their shit to Asia is like blaming narco-trafficers for 'forcing' their product into the US. The problem here is the PULL not any hypothesized push.

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