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https://www.facebook.com/GovMattBevin/videos/529809734202323/
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https://twitter.com/cabel/status/1072976816208408576
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That's good for consumers; what do you care about the Xbox brand identity or whatever?
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Hitman 2
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https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1072965975853678592

https://twitter.com/Call_Me_Dutch/status/1072965367427825664
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Related
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/77295832
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prettyprincess posted...

tc probably says moderations are unjust

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-12/employees-at-amazon-s-new-nyc-warehouse-launch-unionization-push

A committee of employees at Amazons recently opened Staten Island fulfillment center is going public with a unionization campaign, a fresh challenge to the e-commerce giant in a city where it plans to build a major new campus.

Labor unrest is the latest complication in Amazons plan to invest $2.5 billion and hire 25,000 people in the city over the next 15 years. Several New York City politicians who were shut out of negotiations handled by the governor and mayor have raised objections to a new office park in Queens that threatens to overload mass transit and drive up rents in an already expensive housing market.

Now workers in a another borough are saying the company treats them like robots and should be focused on improving conditions there rather than raking in tax breaks to build a new headquarters.

The union theyre working with sees the up to $3 billion in incentives offered to bring an Amazon office campus to Long Island City as leverage to prevent the company from retaliating against them for organizing.

Employees backing the union effort said in interviews Tuesday that the issues at the warehouse include safety concerns, inadequate pay, and 12-hour shifts with insufficient breaks and unreasonable hourly quotas, after which they lose more of their day waiting unpaid in long lines for security checks.

"They talk to you like youre nothing -- all they care about is their numbers," said Rashad Long, who makes $18.60 an hour and commutes four hours a day to work at the warehouse. "They talk to you like youre a robot."

A handful of pro-union Amazon employees joined community activists and elected officials at a City Hall press conference Wednesday prior to a city council hearing about the proposed major office development in Queens. There, New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer denounced the governments "bad deal" with Amazon, asking, "What do the people get, and what are the workers going to get? Where is the labor agreement?"

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Amazon spokeswoman Rachael Lighty said in an email that the company "follows all state employment laws," including restricting employees hours to 60 at most per week. She said that during the extra-busy "peak" season, many employees welcome the opportunity to work extra hours at the overtime rate, which at the Staten Island facility is $26.25 to $34.50 an hour.

Not all Staten Island workers see it that way. Sharon Bleach said in an interview that shes insulted by the companys "power hours" in which employees are pressured to move extra fast in hopes of winning raffle tickets.

"Every day theyre changing the goal -- the finish line is changed every day," Bleach said.
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Amazon is slated to reap more than $1 billion in tax breaks and grants from New York as part of the Long Island City deal. Some lawmakers have said the states Public Authorities Control Board should reject the development unless the company makes stronger commitments in areas including infrastructure investment, housing affordability and worker rights.

Employees are working with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, or RWDSU, which has also backed organizing efforts at the Whole Foods grocery chain that Amazon acquired last year. Amazons workforce is union-free throughout the U.S..

Theres never been greater leverage -- if taxpayers are giving Amazon $3 billion, then taxpayers have the right to demand that Amazon stop being a union-busting company, said RWDSUs president, Stuart Appelbaum. Its incumbent upon the governor and the mayor to make sure that nothing happens to these workers who are standing up for their rights. If Amazon continues its union-busting activities in New York, they should call off the deal.

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https://twitter.com/rebeccavallas/status/1072848717202509825
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Rancid is great
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Related:
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/11/14/667805263/why-a-war-on-children-could-get-worse
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/11/magazine/war-yemen-american-bomb-strike.html
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https://twitter.com/taragolshan/status/1072932992249749506
https://twitter.com/CraigCaplan/status/1072932012091154432
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Questionmarktarius posted...

Darkman124 posted...

Questionmarktarius posted...

The only way to remove bias entirely from the process is every representative being "at large".

perfect is the enemy of good

...whut?

Our inability to remove bias entirely doesn't mean we shouldn't take steps to reduce bias in the process.
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Website that requires money to stay up would like to receive some money from its users. Wild
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MarqueeSeries posted...

Yeah like an education requirement of some sort tbh

Every president since Reagan has been an Ivy Leaguer
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CruelBuffalo posted...

Antifar posted...

CruelBuffalo posted...

Not attacking, just curious, what makes him pretty right wing

He was a member of the Bush administration who shares W's views on foreign policy and abortion.

Didnt he veto the anti abortion bill in Ohio?

Only the most extreme ones:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/john-kasichs-quiet-campaign-to-cut-abortion-access/
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CruelBuffalo posted...

Not attacking, just curious, what makes him pretty right wing

He was a member of the Bush administration who shares W's views on foreign policy and abortion.
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ThyCorndog posted...

CE seems to be split on whether the democrats are better off trying to fire up the left, or to try and take votes from the right

Democrats explicitly tried the latter strategy in 2016 and it did not work.
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Somebody who has an answer to the material problems people face more substantial than some invisible tax credit.
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Kombucha posted...

What kind & what battery life do you get?

They're Skullcandy, and I get probably 10 hours out of them, easily.
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Haqs anyone done a Mein Kraft joke here, or am I the first
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I have a pair of bluetooth earmuff style headphones for work because I was tired of the wire getting caught on things and either yanking my head or pulling the headphones out of the phone
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What do scientists see when comparing our future climate with the past? In less than 200 years, humans have reversed a multimillion-year cooling trend, new research suggests.

If global warming continues unchecked, Earth in 2030 could resemble its former self from 3 million years ago, according to a study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds.

During that ancient time, known as the mid-Pliocene epoch, temperatures were higher by about 2 to 4 degrees Celsius (3.6 to 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) and sea levels were higher by roughly 20 meters (almost 66 feet) than today, explained Kevin D. Burke, lead author of the study and a researcher and Ph.D. candidate at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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The new study is basically "a similarity assessment," Burke said. "We have projections of future climate available for the year 2020, 2030 and so forth." For nearly 30 future decades, then, he and his co-authors drew future-to-past comparisons based on six reference periods.

The reference periods were the Historical, about mid-20th century; the Pre-Industrial, around 1850; the mid-Holocene, about 6,000 years ago; the last Interglacial Period, about 125,000 years ago; the mid-Pliocene, about 3 million years ago; and the early Eocene, about 50 million years ago.

If we continue our current level of greenhouse gas emissions -- what some would say is a "business as usual" scenario -- the overall global climate in 2030 will most closely resemble the overall climate of the mid-Pliocene period, Burke said.

What did Earth look like then? Annual temperatures on average were about 2 to 4 degrees Celsius warmer than today, there was little permanent ice cover in the Northern Hemisphere, and the sea level was about 20 meters higher.

In some places, though, including cities in the United States, temperatures in 2030 would be roughly double the global average.

Burke presented a second scenario: If we continue as we are doing now, "we see that by the year 2150, future climates have an analog [or equivalent] coming from the Eocene, the climate of 50 million years before present."

"Proxies and models tell us that it may have been as much as, globally, on average 13 degrees Celsius [about 23 degrees Fahrenheit] warmer than present," Burke said. "During that time period, there was essentially no permanent ice cover in either of the poles, so sea level would have been much higher as well."

Although the geography and configuration of our continents and oceans were different at that time, there may have been swampy forests "as far north as locations in the Arctic Circle," he said.

Title feels like an oversimplification of what actually is being said here
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Sniper rifles
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Context is a thing that exists
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White nationalism reheated for the millennial age
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averagejoel posted...

really gamefaqs should just let us embed images in posts

You can, but imgur is messed up or something
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Love to pretend power doesn't exost
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Polling four years ago had Jeb Bush leading the GOP pack
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Oh you meant figuratively
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No one bite
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

That said, this is definitely going to be one of those past quotes that contradicts himself when they do end up blaming the Dems.

But if he did that, then he'd look like some sort of liar!

*stares directly into the camera like a character from The Office*
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Porkchops
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rikasa posted...

CE: "The two main parties suck and I would never vote for either."

Also CE: "RUNNING AS INDEPENDENT? Are you a motherfucking idiot?"

The two main parties do suck. Combining the two will not fix that!
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SauI_Goodman posted...

I would actually vote for this if it's Hillary v Trump again.

That's less likely than this happening
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What purpose would that serve?
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Zerocide posted...

Putting these clowns behind bars means the taxpayers are the one who are insuring his well being.

The appeals process necessary to avoid killing innocent people costs more than the marginal cost of a single prisoner.
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catboy0_0 posted...

so? put them on TV and dissect why they are wrong

How's that working out so far?
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monkmith posted...

you shut out the other side and all you'll do is embolden them.

Not actually true.
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https://twitter.com/NBC29Trials/status/1072539475081945088

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Set aside the necessity or lack thereof for increased border security: compromising with Trump on this or any other issue won't get Democrats anywhere, other than to disappoint the voters who expect them to work against Trump. If something like this were to pass, Republicans would turn around in a week and accuse Democrats of being in favor of open borders again. Meanwhile, Trump would have visible proof, however diminished, of a campaign promise delivered upon.
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CruelBuffalo posted...

@Antifar, should any man made barrier exist on the border to prevent undocumented entry to the US?

Nah.
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Things are going well: https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1072541835183165440
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UPDATE: https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1072540867590848514
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Zikten posted...

Because I could swear he was. This is why I sometimes believe in that thing about alernate universes or time travel changes to history. The theory about Berenstien bears

"Maybe I was wrong...or maybe alternate universes caused me to be inaccurate. Who can really say for sure?"
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Thank you, Mark Hamill
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lww99 posted...

Young American Jewish people get free trips to Israel? Since when?

1999
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Video game photo modes are great
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https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-sharp-declinein-number-of-american-jews-coming-on-birthright-trips-this-winter-1.6739756

Birthright is experiencing a sharp drop in participation rates this current winter season, according to five providers who spoke to Haaretz. The downturn is mainly being felt in the United States, which is by far the largest provider of participants to the program that brings young Jewish adults on free trips to Israel.

According to some of Birthrights key trip providers, who spoke to Haaretz on condition on anonymity, the drop ranges from 20 percent to 50 percent depending on the provider in comparison with the last winter season. The winter season extends from December through March.

Birthright has experienced drops in numbers before, especially during spates of terror attacks and violence in the region. But it seems a downturn of this magnitude, unrelated to the security situation, is unprecedented.

The trip providers told Haaretz they were not entirely sure of the reasons for the downturn, but offered several possible explanations.

One explanation was that because eligibility requirements have been loosened in recent years, young Jews feel less of a sense of urgency nowadays to register for the program. In the past, the program was open only to participants aged 18 to 26. In a bid to expand the applicant pool, Birthright announced a few years ago that anyone up to the age of 32 would be eligible.

Trip providers have also speculated that the downturn could reflect the well-documented fact that young American Jews are growing increasingly disengaged from Israel, and have less and less interest in visiting the country even when the trips are free.

Recent studies have shown that Jewish millennials, who are largely progressive, feel less connected to Israel than their parents and grandparents because they perceive the country's policies as antithetical to their values. In particular, they cite Israels treatment of Palestinians and of asylum seekers.

Last week, for instance, a petition signed by 1,500 Jewish students demanding that Birthright include in its itinerary Palestinian speakers able to address the realities of occupation was delivered to Hillel directors at over 30 campuses across the United States.

The petition was organized by J Street U, the campus affiliate of the pro-Israel, anti-occupation advocacy group. Hillel, the largest Jewish student organization in the world, is a major recruiter for Birthright.

The exclusion of voices of Palestinians and Palestinian citizens of Israel from Birthright runs counter to our core values, the petition said. On a trip to Israel, we should experience the countrys history and culture, but we should also learn about the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and hear the voices of Palestinians living under occupation. Last year, Birthright decided to discontinue these encounters, saying "further analysis of this module in the context of the educational trip as a whole" was required.

Last summer, left-wing activists organized several highly publicized walkouts on Birthright tours to protest what they described as the very one-sided approach of the program to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Birthright works with about 10 trip providers. Trip providers are required to recruit a certain quota of participants in order to maintain their status. If they fall below the quota two seasons in a row, they automatically lose their contract with Birthright. Last year, for example, the Reform movement lost its status as a trip provider because it failed to fill its quota.

Several trip providers expressed concern to Haaretz that because of the downturn in numbers experienced this winter, they were at risk of losing their contract with Birthright.

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