@rustbeltjacobin High-Eds kind of just don't do unionism in practice unless they're some combination of really mission-driven and sometimes lower paid (like teachers, nurses, and reporters). It's weird they say they like it so much.
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Brett
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There are 2 dynamics here, both edpol
High-Eds have become uniformly pro union despite mostly not being in one
Low-Eds increasingly anti / ambivalent, such that most private sector jobs can prevent unionization unless forced into neutrality
Matthew Zeitlin@MattZeitlin
another data point here is that the union share of the workforce is near an all time low while approval for unions is really high
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@bataille_chris I think they were averse to the kind of disruption it would entail in their supply chains. They'd have to go tell suppliers they've known and worked with for 50 years that they won't be renewing contracts (and the latter will thus likely shut down and lay people off).
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Why was this so clear to anyone watching what was happening in China, especially once LFP hit the market, and so unclear to the Japanese (and US) car makers?
Ed King@edking_I
Japan's car giants are in trouble. They ignored / lobbied against electrification - and now it's come back to the bite them in the exhaust pipe @TheEconomist economist.com/business/2026/…?
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@jdcmedlock That's kind of bad for immigrants, though, judging by Scandinavia. The cheap firms tend to hire more immigrants and lower-income workers.
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We're costco guys, of course we support employer federations and union federations bargaining over sector wide wages to stabilize aggregate demand and use solidaristic wage compression to reallocate labor from low to high-productivity firms
James Medlock@jdcmedlock
Yea, I'm supportive of antitrust as a tool in the tool belt, but skeptical of it as a theory of everything. Small firms will always have a role, but I don't want to be a nation of small holder yeomen farmers. I'm a costco socialist: big firms, big unions, big government.
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@CJHandmer How to keep them clear of settling regolith and micro meteorite impacts, plus rail life issues (the bane of railguns as IRL weapons)
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Writing about lunar mass drivers - what do you want to know?
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@arpitrage World of Aristocrats. Everybody doing a performative attire, performative home, competitive behavior in public, etc.
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A post AGI world without the use of wages to allocate scarce and positional resources (for houses, cars, etc etc) will need to find new status markers built on consumption
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@TheBrianMcManus It's so wild how cheap Euro Discount Fares are. You never see that here in the US.
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I just got tickets from Paris to Cork for $25 each.
At that price you can slap me on the arse and call me princess during boarding for all I care.
The Driven Man@Thedrivenman
When the CEO of Ryanair wanted to charge passengers to use the toilet in flight.
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@StatisticUrban Given how readily she jumped into that kind of corruption, I wonder if she used to have shady practices when she was working for Sean O'Brien at the Teamsters.
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Kind of incredible how deep the corruption goes. It's seemingly almost everyone in the entire Admin.
Enforcement is selective, though. Used a cudgel against disfavored members.
NewsWire@NewsWire_US
LABOR SECRETARY CHAVEZ-DEREMER RESIGNS
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The big mistake Blue Origin made IMHO is trying to jump from occasional suborbital flights all the way to heavy lift rockets with methane-oxygen engines. Developing an easier Falcon 9 equivalent with the easiest possible kerolox engine would have gotten them into space faster.
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Unfortunately, space IS hard; the 100% success of SLS so far shows that the extra degree of oversight can be beneficial - neither Starship nor New Glenn are ready while SLS has already sent people back to the moon!
Stephen Clark@StephenClark1
Mission failure overshadows Blue Origin's rocket reuse milestone, with AST SpaceMobile's BlueBird 7 cellular broadband satellite declared a total loss after launching into the wrong orbit. arstechnica.com/space/2026/04/…
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@schuld3157 There’s definitely smoked and BBQ chicken, but it always feels like it takes forever compared to beef. Plus a lot of people here just eat chicken breasts from chicken, which dry out too easy
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海外の友人達、君達が今も素敵なBBQの画像を送ってくれていることを嬉しく思う。
ただ、気になったことがあるんだ。
鳥肉でやったりしないのかい? あるいは他の肉は?
日本人は焼き肉であらゆる肉を食べるから、気になって仕方ないんだ。教えてくれよ肉のプロ達よ。
迷えるラム肉を導いておくれ。
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@PythonMaps It’s always wild to see how rugged western North America is.
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Fun concept, the distribution of elevation levels on the earths surface
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@SwannMarcus89 That would require these folks not to be the most narcissistic and selfish people on Reddit. Even their answer is about the impact on them, rather than the SO and kids.
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Have you considered just not cheating and spending time with your kids instead?
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@quantian1 Wasn’t Perplexity also the company that got caught web-crawling on Reddit without paying?
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I always thought it was strange that accounts were talking about Perplexity (bad product) instead of Claude. Turns out they were being paid lmao
Dr. Simon Goddek@goddek
@realpeteyb123 Hey @nikitabier – is this against @X’s TOS?
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Australia successfully stopped the boats in 2014, and since then has not had a single landing in 12 years. Offshore processing on Nauru wasn’t especially helpful. What worked was rescuing boats and taking them back to Indonesia.
Sam Bowman@s8mb
Europe keeps trying offshore processing for asylum seekers. Britain attempted its Rwanda scheme; Italy is dispatching asylum seekers to Albania; Denmark has passed legislation to process claims abroad. They are trying because of Australia, where small boat crossing are widely thought to have been stopped by offshore processing. But they weren't. worksinprogress.co/issue/how-aust… Australia has used two policies to stop boat migration: offshore processing and naval turnbacks, where asylum seekers are transferred onto purpose-built lifeboats and towed back into Indonesian waters. It was turnbacks *alone* that stopped the boats: • In 2001, during the first wave of boat arrivals, the Australian government introduced both offshore processing and turnbacks. Arrivals fell from 5,516 in 2001 to just one person in 2002. • In 2008, both policies were abolished. Arrivals rose seventeen-fold the following year. • In 2012, the Gillard government reintroduced offshore processing, but without turnbacks. Arrivals did not fall. • In 2013, turnbacks were reintroduced alongside offshore processing and boat migration collapsed. • In 2014, offshore transfers were abandoned entirely, leaving turnbacks to do the work alone. Arrivals have remained at essentially zero ever since. Offshore processing is expensive and politically toxic. It is also unnecessary. Governments that want to reduce boat migration should learn from Australia and focus on turnbacks instead. New in Works in Progress by @AmeliaERWood. worksinprogress.co/issue/how-aust…
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@jdcmedlock Although I have wondered if we could frame it as “Everyone can join the National Guard” and then set the pay rates as a generous amount for a basic income.
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Framing matters so much even when in practice these things are similar. Nothing inherently undignified about receiving a check not directly tied work, capital owners do it all the time. Gotta set up institutions to create a social understanding of deservingness.
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@StatsLime Backwards though. With electoral college, you could win the election with just a few thousand fraudulent votes b/c swing states. Whereas fraud to win popular vote would usually require millions of fraudulent votes - much harder to go undetected
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Holy shit. I’ve finally found it. This is the first coherent argument I’ve ever heard of for the electoral college
I think it’s not worth the costs but it’s a miracle someone managed to come up with one
Wolf Tivy@wolftivy
Actually the argument for the electoral college is that it puts a hard limit on the gains from election fraud. One state can pump their "popular vote" numbers way up with fraud, but can only affect their own electors.
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@JamesSurowiecki If the farmers are concerned about being a minority faction, then they should do what every other minority faction does and form a coalition with other factions. Instead, they feel entitled to super-citizenship - more voting power than others.
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The "actual argument"'against the Electoral College is quite straightforward: if you believe in the virtue of self-government, majority rule is preferable to minority rule - which is what the EC enables.
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@CoKeynesian You used to see something kind of like that with the "Wolf Warrior" diplomacy style from Chinese diplomats in western countries, b/c even though it was bad and offended their hosts, it boosted their political position back home.
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US foreign policy has become a function of its own domestic culture wars.
Steven Edginton@StevenEdginton
The NYT reports British officials were "left stunned" by the State Dept when they raised concerns about free-speech and migrant crime. British diplomats' "jaws dropped" when confronted on these issues.
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