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RoidingOldMan

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    Not a monarchy?

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  • All but 2 have ancestors from the British Isles. Not the same thing as them being related by blood.

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  • How does that work if there are more total people than total jobs?

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  • Like yes, money is needed to pay people money. That assumes we want to keep the system more or less exactly the same.

  • Nashville is furious about power outages. Republicans say ‘woke’ is to blame.

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  • Seems like it's different in about half the country. Interesting.

  • Nashville is furious about power outages. Republicans say ‘woke’ is to blame.

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  • These contracts are short, like 1-2 years. Typically you re-trim every 2 years. So if you do a terrible job and then get outbid 2 years later, you basically walk away with money and leave the next contractor with extra work. That's the typical situation. That's often how these sorts of disasters happen. Someone underbid and then couldn't deliver. Now it's the taxpayer's problem.

    Again, it's not political. Someone underbid. Someone accepted the underbid. The contractor that underbid couldn't accomplish the task. Now they're behind. Where are you seeing a left and right in this?

  • Nashville is furious about power outages. Republicans say ‘woke’ is to blame.

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  • There is nothing political about this. At all. There are trees. They need to be cut within a certain distance of the line. Budges get cut, they get behind, and a tree they thought they'd trim again in 2 years becomes one that causes a power outage 3 years later. That's how it goes.

    There's not a left or right wing way to trim a tree. There's a correct way and a wrong way. It's about how many miles they need to do in how much time.

    You're imagining an argument about fast and efficient vs. slow and careful. In reality they're highlighting the dangerous trees and making sure those ones get done in ideal weather, and the others can get done in less than ideal weather. It gets done at the speed it gets done.

    Again, it could not be less political.

  • Nashville is furious about power outages. Republicans say ‘woke’ is to blame.

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  • That's someone describing an occupation that they have no idea about. Arborist is the step above journeyman tree trimmer. There are specific rules about what an Arborist is allowed to do vs. what a regular tree trimmer is allowed to do. Mainly working within certain distances of powerlines. Kinda like how EMT Paramedic is the step above EMT Basic. There isn't anything "woke" going on in tree trimming. Just like there isn't anything "woke" happening at paramedic school.

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  • Nobody does trainings on tree health. That's not how any of this works. They do apprenticeships. Once they finish they're basically free to do whatever they want.

  • Nashville is furious about power outages. Republicans say ‘woke’ is to blame.

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  • Tree trimmers are not thinking to themselves "is this how a Republican or a Democrat would trim a tree?" They're cutting like they were trained to do. Politics could not be less involved.

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  • “It’s certainly not a conservative value to leave the trees hanging around power lines that will fall during a storm,” he said.

    He seems to be saying it's a Democrat value to do things wrong on purpose?

    It's a terrible terrible sign that tree trimming is being viewed through this partisan lens.

  • ‘It’s sick’: Trump administration uses mascot called ‘Coalie’ to push dirtiest fossil fuel

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  • ‘It’s sick’: Trump administration uses mascot called ‘Coalie’ to push dirtiest fossil fuel

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  • I assume there's a cartoon where they burn him?

  • What should be in a movie about the rich?

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  • I like it. Reminds me a little of Citizen Kane.

  • What should be in a movie about the rich?

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  • Reminds me of depression era Hollywood. The common theme was how rich people are unhappy, and people living on the edge of broke are living the most fulfilling and happy lives. Frank Capra was the king of movies like that. It Happened One Night (1934), You Can't Take it With You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939). Among so many others. My Man Godfrey (1936).

    There's enough that I can name ones just about poor people pretending to be royalty. Midnight (1939), Trouble in Paradise (1932), The Lady Eve (1941), Thirty Day Princess (1934), The Princess Comes Across (1936). And the previously mentioned Frank Capra also made Lady for a Day (1933), and remade it as Pocketful of Miracles (1961). All of those movies are about poor people pretending to be rich, all of them are romantic movies about the rich and poor falling in love with each other.

    John Q (2002) is a Denzel Washington movie where he takes an ER hostage until they'll give his son a heart transplant. Feels even more relatable today. Kind of a different angle, not really about rich people.

    EDIT: Easy Living (1937) is a great screwball comedy. A rich man throws an expensive fur coat out the window. A poor girl finds it, and suddenly gets treated like she's rich. Strongly recommend.

  • Public health crisis unfolding in Minneapolis as residents avoid healthcare

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  • We are at the Anne Frank portion of the new holocaust.

  • unpacking.

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  • "I'm in."

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  • KEY PATTERN: They're a bunch of liars.

  • save water.

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  • Yes, do your sanitizing right on top of human waste. Brilliant.

    I think some prisons are set up similarly, or at least have toilet/sink combos.

  • And then everyone stood up and clapped

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  • So he invented a gambling robot that is wrong sometimes?