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Fri Dec 08 2023 09:54:44 AM EST from IGnatius T FoobarYes of course, there is no burger, there is no restaurant, and there is no spoon.
Amazon, Target, Walmart, Lowes, $25 for an item ( was trying to avoid shipping and waiting so looking around local stores too ). Kmart, while no longer have any stores that i know of, popped up in the search, and for the same exact thing, $112, on sale for $67.. wtf. no wonder they are dead.
So over extended, bankrupt Chinese based Evergrande was told by HK court to liquidate any holdings in HK.
Sure they cant directly effect the parent company in China ( which is sort of funny, china says they are part of HK, yet they wont honor a court decision there . ) but it will still have a massive financial impact on the mainland, and ripple across the planet like it did when they basically went upside down.
Boooo local power company wants to raise rates 16%
Does not sound like a lot, but its incremental. little by little nickle and dimeing us. And for people really struggling and barely getting by, an extra 50 bucks a month hurts. Plus all the trickle up effects, due to costs of doing business.
I guess a bunch of tax cuts and stuff that Trump put into place, expire this year. Not sure the effective rate after everything is taken into account ( trickle down ) but supposed to be enough to 'feel'.
Of course they could be extended, but this admin wont do that. They love destroying us and taking all we have.
2024-04-04 19:09 from Nurb432
Boooo local power company wants to raise rates 16%
I offgridded my house and switched to horse poo for home heating for precisely that reason.
And to add, they had to publish some document as part of the approval process. Their reasoning is that demand is down. But at the same time, their costs are less..
Ya, they paid someone off.
So California passed that law where food workers get a bazillion dollars per hour pay. And they are acting surprised as prices have skyrocketed, people are being laid off, restaurants closing, and people being replaced by robots. ( coming soon, robot tax.. )
2024-04-12 19:17 from Nurb432
So California passed that law where food workers get a bazillion
dollars per hour pay. And they are acting surprised as prices
have skyrocketed, people are being laid off, restaurants closing, and
people being replaced by robots. ( coming soon, robot tax.. )
From the point of view of the employer, an abusive robot tax is preferable because robots don't have gender identity crisis, they don't go on strike, and if they die in an accident you don't get half as much bad press.
A friend of mine was hired to make some optimizations in a production chain in some Asian factory not long ago. He arrived there with the typical Western mindset - which means optimizing the prod chain equals removing people because of the reasons above. He changed mind in a week. Workers there didn't complain, didn't go on strikes, and the economical gain of replacing them was negligible.
That wont happen as long as there is government. They work hand in hand to fleece us.
"not your fathers union "
Thu Apr 18 2024 23:33:11 EDT from IGnatius T Foobarbusts up the unions.