LimesTheif
1yr ago
Well, not everyone, no. Maybe if UPS was opening a brand new sort facility in that area. But a few, sure.
Do women or black people control the NFL? No. It’s owned by old white guys. But Jon Gruden isn’t coaching anymore.
Did Jewish people just start working in the entertainment industry? Ice Cube appearing on the cover of the Nation of Islam’s rabidly anti-semitic newspaper ‘The Final Call’, years after his previous controversy surrounding his lyrics, didn’t keep him from being cast in family comedies.
I sincerely think you would like Farrakhan’s book where he cherry picks which Jewish bankers helped finance the slave trade, ignoring all the gentiles that did as well, and everyone else involved, and paints it as a coordinated “Jewish” effort.
LimesTheif
1yr ago
Dallas is a pretty good market, to be fair. It’s the fourth-largest metro in the U.S. and the top two house a pair of teams, each, where the Bears and Cowboys have nos. 3 and 4 to themselves. Also, culturally, Texas is football mad. But 💯 on your point about Jones being a savvy businessman and bungling sportsman.
LimesTheif
1yr ago
I don’t think anyone argued hierarchy wasn’t efficient, or at least I have not. I think you said small business, like sports teams, are pillars of efficiency. But sports teams aren’t finding their size in pursuit or as a result of efficiency, but literally by the arbitrary rules of their sport.
LimesTheif
1yr ago
Man you argue in bad faith. Where did I say feminism was all women versus all men? Where has anyone said that?
LimesTheif
1yr ago
…but it seems to me that everyone was waiting to see if the Ukrainians had a shot at some semblance of victory, or whether all this money and guns were just going down the toilet.
I know there are a non-zero number of American foreign-policy think tankers that view the proxy war as a good on its own, to the extent it weakens a potential rival in an emerging multipolar world. For those folks, the money and arms are not wasted so long as the conflict was prolonged.
Throat clearing: this can be true even if the Ukrainian cause is worthy of support on its own merits.
LimesTheif
1yr ago
They also have to maintain solidarity. The union is an organization and the business is an organization.
When the MİT murders some mouthy Kurds in Turkey, the PKK doesn’t want the heat that a retaliatory killing is going to bring, but if they don’t offer one up every now and again they will lose support from their base.
LimesTheif
1yr ago
Do they? Or is it that working conditions and wages are hammered out only every so-many years during contract negotiations, and that, by intent and structure, isn’t going to be something that can occur just whenever.
LimesTheif
1yr ago
Do you think any other model could win games? If so, why hasn't it been done? How does this example not apply more generally to every organization?
We’re talking about the economy, not some game where a higher power tells every firm they’re only allowed to have the exact same number of employees and set a salary cap on their wages and restrict which company employees can sign with when entering the industry and can extract concessions or prevent an employee from changing firms if an opposing firm doesn’t offer a higher guaranteed salary. It’s apples to oranges.
LimesTheif
1yr ago
I was just taking a shot at poor old Rod, but I’ll do that more plainly in the future. I was and am not expecting to accomplish anything.
I do appreciate the Mottizens that have provided info about the current specifics of excommunication in this thread.
LimesTheif
1yr ago
They’re very doomer, but still have enough yuks to keep me interested. Skip the most-recent episode (no. 675), in particular. They’re on tour, but still decided to still try and put out an episode, and it was a low-effort attempt guest hosted by an improv comedy duo that bombed. Not indicative of other recent efforts.
LimesTheif
1yr ago
Does anyone know any higher ups in the Catholic Church? Maybe, specifically in Louisiana?
Still-current ‘American Conservative’ (the publication) blogger and former trad-cath Rod Dreher, who has spent a career moralizing to others, has divorced his wife and converted to Orthodoxy. I think it’s only fair and right the Catholic Church excommunicate him for his divorce and heresy.
Just wanted to see if anyone can put in a call, get the ball rolling.
LimesTheif
1yr ago
Sex positive feminism and women-should-work feminism was pushed by elite men who wanted easy access to cute young women.
I’m not as familiar with the driving forces behind sex-positive feminism, but for women in the work place, ☝️ this is not only dubious, but appears bad faith and near-infalsifiable since a hand can be waived in the direction of some cohort of elite men and their plan(s) to get more women into the office, which of course they couldn’t and didn’t openly articulate, leaving no historical record.
Post-war, expand high school graduation percentages met with an increased demand for clerical work. Prior to then, women in the work force were more likely to be involved in manufacturing jobs (such as in the garment industry). Women found office jobs, which were far less dirty and dangerous, more appealing. And this, among other factors, led to increased participation in the workforce, and specifically by married women, who were less motivated to drop out of the work force as office work was more palatable.
After a couple decades, women began to expect to spend a significant period of their life in the workforce where prior generations had not. And from here, many women, of their own agency, began to pursue higher education and assert themselves professionally.
If you want to subjectively debate whether this was “good”, feel free to embark on that tangent. But if you want to objectively deny that a subset of women, through their own agency, pushed for greater economic opportunity and independence, then you’ll need to show your work.
NPR is often embarrassing, but I am curious if you are willing to co-sign Wesley Lowery’s “moral clarity” replacement for aiming in the direction of objectivity in journalism?
While your politics might or might not differ from Lowery’s, who is on the id-pol segment of the American left, you certainly seem to share his idea that a news outlet interviewing someone with controversial opinions is an endorsement of them — as evidenced by your framing of that NPR interview with an author who does not work for NPR but thinks looting is justified.
In America, sports teams are vanity projects ultimately run by billionaires who want a boost in name recognition. Their teams are exempted from anti-trust and artificially scarce, so the owners feel relatively secure they can flip their team if they run into financial problems, elsewhere, or pass it on to their children where it will retain some value. And, if those owners are bad at hiring general mangers, it’s not too much of a problem. They just need to be liked, or at least not disliked, by the other owners in their league. (Think Donald Sterling, who all the other NBA owners hated, versus Robert Sarver who just got a one year suspension and a fine, for pretty much the same offense. Not that Sarver is everyone’s favorite.)
The Sacramento Kings, New York Jets and Buffalo Sabres are all sitting on 10+ year playoff droughts in leagues with a salary cap. They and their owners will not be removed if things don’t improve.
Also, bad GMs love churning through multiple head coaches before ownership stops letting them pass the buck.
Sports teams in America are franchises of multibillion-dollar corporations.
LimesTheif
1yr ago
My sister has radiant heat for in the winter and mini splits for the summer. She loves that in the fall, she can use her mini splits to heat her house on the days it’s needed, and wait to fire the boiler up until winter has fully arrived.
LimesTheif
1yr ago
No scores is ace. I don’t mind reading comments, and don’t care for popularity contests. Feels chill, which is really nice.
LimesTheif
1yr ago
Bluesky is interesting. Twitter was already working on it as a protocol, under which, users could choose from different algorithms to populate their feed.
Right. The efficiency engineers at Amazon didn’t have any business incentive to budget in time to allow people to walk the distance required to urinate in a bathroom when picking orders. The plan was, pay $15-18 an hour when that was above most other entry level jobs and the labor market was weaker, and replace anyone who places a higher price on their dignity. The end result is ultimately people on the line pissing in bottles. The union does not exist to make the business efficient. It exists to give current employees bargaining power, where they’d otherwise be on the short end of an imbalance.
LimesTheif
1yr ago
Chester Himes’ Harlem Detective series. Really enjoying it, particularly the grim bits of humor, like a dead body’s head banging around after sliding out of a coffin while a hearse is being used in a car chase. Currently working on ‘All Shot Up’, which is the fifth of nine books in the series.
A couple (?) film adaptations have been attempted. There was a blacksploitation version of ‘Cotton Comes to Harlem’ and Bill Duke of ‘Predator’ and ‘Commando’ fame directed an adaptation of ‘A Rage in Harlem’. I found the former a bit hokey and the latter a bit tame.
LimesTheif
1yr ago
And if you have the stamina for it, there’s always the ‘Throwing Fits’ podcast and Instagram, if you want to try and chase fragmented trends based on the advice of two funny menswear bros.
LimesTheif
1yr ago
Did those people understand the board of a publicly traded company has a fiduciary responsibility to shareholders, whatever any employees may think, and Musk offered above share price, waived due diligence (legally-irrelevant public tantrum about bots aside) and assumed responsibility for clearing any objections from regulators?
A board would have to be able to sell shareholders on its stock being significantly undervalued to turn that down.
LimesTheif
1yr ago
I’m a sucker for world building.
Proud of myself for not buying cheap Miskatonic University swag off Etsy.
LimesTheif
1yr ago
Derek Guy’s ‘Die, Workwear!’ is (IMO) the best menswear blog out there. But it’s not really a guide. His current ‘How to Develop Good Taste’ series, now on Part 4, is a good read.
Guy’s instagram account of same name has some funny inside-baseball memes as well. Like how Daily Wire pundits are now wearing the kind of #menswear-era cuts and styles made popular 15 years ago by Thom Browne and Tom Ford: https://instagram.com/p/CixgYj-LV-c/
As for a guide, it depends on what you want, because the internet has fragmented men’s fashion. There’s a bit of nostalgia for the #menswear era of the late Aughts, because it might be the last time trends for men all moved in the same direction.
Digging into Flusser’s and Boyer’s books and learning to pick cuts that flatter your (you, your specific body) are a great base. Guy touches on these in his aforementioned series.
Rod does not want to discuss it and thanks you all for respecting his privacy.
The Chapo guys have baselessly speculated he’s running around Hungary with a group of male grad students for a reason.
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