These aren't shifts: they're salaried employees so they are not paid per hour.

Anyhow much as amazon is an utter shitbag company, I don't see a particular problem with this, provided the workers aren't penalised for either not volunteering or for not delivering on their white collar work while "volunteering".

Seems like Amazon over-fired and now wants to get temporary, very expensive warehouse workers because they screwed up.

I lived in the wrong area of America, when I was there. Northern New Mexico has rock 'n weed patches, not lawns on the whole, so for me the crazy lawn thing was something that happened somewhere else.

The UK is obsessed with gardening, about 150x more so than the USA. We certainly do have lawns in the UK, and some people are very into them, but there doesn't seem to be the same level of obsession with the perfect manicure. If anything a good scattering of daises is considered rather pretty. Even very well kept gardens with full time gardeners won't generally have that astro-turf level of uniformity so highly prized in America.

What's the deal? Can you explain it to a foreigner?

Well to find some common ground, it seems we have some in our signatures. The "some people" is the same guy.

You say you don't despise them but your wrote like you do. And going for the free beer isn't compartmentalization.

Yeah but the kickbacks aren't as good.

At least a wheel works.

Though I'd sat patenting a scammy thing that cannot ever work is not as bad as patenting something that does work. Obviously he did it to make a point, but so many obvious things get patented.

Spam out patents, as long as they are perpetual motion machines they will probably go through

Didn't someone patent their variation of whatever the latest reactionless thruster idea is?

Was at a 4th of july party in one of the "elite" towns outside of Boston where every household has several postgraduate degrees hanging on their walls and shops at whole foods without even looking at the prices.

Given you appear to despise everyone involved, it's odd that you were (a) invited to such a party and (b) chose to go.

My suspicion is that many, if not most, people with the lawn signs are similarly uninformed about the specifics of the controversy they feel uninhibited in expressing a strong opinion about.

Your suspicion is that you're smarter and more well informed than teh lubruhls that you hate buit are partying with. ORLY?

Elitism it seems is quite nice for preening in the mirror

You're positively dripping with a sense of elitism.

RATs can also provide just about enough power to run the hydraulics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Though as you come in to land and the speed decreases, so does hydraulic power making the approach get more difficult as it completed.

People here in California just love electing incompetent politicians

No, it's you not them. The majority of land in question is run by the federal government, so the buck stops with your Daddy.

Literally nothing that you said in that entire post is true.

Ah but did you notice? President Dwayne Herbert Elionzo mountain dew Commacho values experts, raises that not sure is the smartest guy in the world and tries to get him to fix the problems. Sure it goes wrong but even so.

I'm this reality, the president thinks he's the smartest person in the world and experts are shunned.

If it's nonsense then there's no predictable algorithm to prove it's a simulation.

Occam's razor should tell you we're not in a simulation because it cannot be turtles all the way down. At some point the computer has to run on something, so that someone must exist. The voice is therefore something, or something plus a whole stack of nested simulations. The latter is always more complex than the former, so if you use Occam's razor then the former is more likely.

possibly? Hard to determine. Maybe that's why humans like feeding animals. But ultimately the mush of evolutionary reasons end up as us simply enjoying feeding animals.

There's definitely a problem intellectually in anthropomorphising animals, but there is an equal and much more overlooked problem in assuming that animals must necessarily be different.

I can agree that an exceedingly few people would drive on a trip that would take over 40 hours to cover. At least not for a vacation or something. I can see this happening if paid to do so as a matter of delivering something that would be difficult or inconvenient to move by air or sea.

We're not really talking about professional truckers in this context. And it's not like America is unique in this regard either. Humptulips to Fluffy Landings is 3200 miles or so. This is almost exactly the same lengthe as European route E45, from Alta (Norway) to Gela (Scicily).

I can agree that the size of the USA is difficult to comprehend. The USA is unique versus most every other nation on Earth when considering long distances that people might drive.

The distance aren't uniquely long. You can drive 3000 miles from one end of the contiguous 48 to the other and it's about the same distance in the Schengen Zone from the north to the south.

In Australia you can drive for 38 hours and not leave WA, with the longest drives being about 2700 miles.

The interstate highway system is unique in how it allows such ease of travel.

It's not. It's modeled after the German Autobahn and looks and feels much the same as similar systems elsewhere. Wide lanes, wide curves, gentle grades, controlled access via slip roads etc etc etc. You get on and then drive for ages before getting off. Driving from Switzerland to the UK (well the tunnel was different, but the but to Calais, say), was little different from driving on the interstate in America.

Perhaps there's a different name for this crime in other nations than jaywalking which could confuse you.

No, Jaywalking is not a crime in my country. It's an American name for an American crime (albeit a heavily exported one).

It appears you are overthinking the analogy of choosing which clothes to buy.

Maybe you should have chosen a better analogy.

They will look at the longest drive that they are expecting to take while owning that vehicle to decide what kind of vehicle to buy.

So does everyone also own a semi tractor since the heaviest load they're likely to pull is moving house? O do people hire moving companies or a U-haul for that task? People don't buy for extremes on the whole. So why distance?

I don't know what to think of your comment on how dangerous it is to drive in the USA versus other nations.

Maybe consideration of how the road design is often very flawed?

How wide is this gap?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

You have roughly twice the deaths per mile driven compared to my country and 4x the deaths per capita. Some of that is due to longer distances but quite a lot is not having viable alternatives to driving. For example, I've been doing quite a lot of work in Bristol recently, with my head office in London. It's drivable, but I usually take the train, since the train goes at 125mph, even through congested parts of London, it's a lot more spacious than a car and I can work (or even relax) on the train.