It's a multiplier on cold and transitions x% of wet to cold.
IrateAnteater
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Wait, does that imply the beard's fake, since it didn't see through other hair?
Unions won't vote for that either, because additional employees cost more money. The company is only going to have a fixed total number they can afford to pay out for labour. Only about half that is the actual wage the employee receives. So if you want to have more employees working less hours each, you are going to have to take a pay cut, which again, no unions are going to go for. And for that matter, the company usually won't go for that either. They want less employees, and not just to save on labour costs.
Unions are primarily hourly employees. Lower hours will always be met with resistance, since it will result in less overall pay.
Reagan accelerated what was already coming. Automation completely changes the balance of power in labour negotiations. Previously, unions had power because skilled labour is very expensive and time consuming to replace. If you automate the "skilled" portion of that equation, companies immediately become much more willing to simply shut a plant and move production elsewhere.
I think the decline in union membership is a symptom more than a cause. The late seventies, early eighties is where we saw industrial automation start to really take off. As actual skilled labour got handed over to automated processes, unions lost power (the political union busting also played a huge part), since their members biggest chip was the difficulty in replacing them if they all leave.
Any indication of what changed?
In my experience, the loudest conservatives I've met have all fallen into 2 categories:
Explicitly "fuck you I got mine" I can at least appreciate the honesty with these ones.
And "I haven't read a book since 12th grade, and now I struggle to read at a 2nd grade level." And that's just performing the act of reading. Actual comprehension and critical thinking are completely beyond them.
The religious types are part of the equation too, but my area isn't particularly religious, so I don't often come across those assholes.
Conservatives seem to have this weird belief that if they tried something and failed, then everything should be as if they never tried at all. Like, "attempted murder" just isn't a thing in their eyes.
Maybe it's just how their fragile egos handle not winning everything always.
Warren Buffett gives away another $1.1B and plans for distributing his $147B fortune after his death
This take would make more sense if it wasn't something he does every year.
Were you ever out bar hopping until after 2am in a town with a poutine place that stays open that late?
"Elites" is about as useless a word as "woke" or "terrorist"; depending on who you ask, you will get wildly different (and often mutually exclusive) answers on what it means.