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This to me is the more damning stuff from the article

Employees knew about such rampages. Sometimes Musk would terminate people; other times he would simply intimidate them. One manager had a name for these outburstsElons rage firingsand had forbidden subordinates from walking too close to Musks desk at the Gigafactory out of concern that a chance encounter, an unexpected question answered incorrectly, might endanger a career.

After Musk had patrolled the factory floor for a while, executives pulled him into a conference room. I think we can fix this, one of his top lieutenants, Jon McNeill, told him, according to someone who heard the conversation. McNeill tried to calm Musk down, and repeated a proverb he had once heard: No man comes up with a good idea when being chased by a tiger. At that moment, Musk was the tiger. (A spokesperson for McNeill said he did not want to participate in this story.)

Musk, though, had other concerns. Whats that smell? he asked. Everyone went silent. They knew Musk was so sensitive to odors that job candidates were told not to wear cologne or perfume when they met him. They had seen him become upset over small issues like this, had observed him attack executives for their incompetence and inabilities. One person explained that there were vats of liquid silicon nearby. When heated, it sometimes smelled like burning plastic.

These vapors were going to kill people, Musk said. They were going to kill him.
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If it has been strange to watch Musks wild ride via news reports and social media, its been even weirder inside the company. Over the past six months Ive communicated with dozens of current and former Tesla employees, from nearly every division. They describe a thrilling and tumultuous workplace, where talented engineers and designers have done some of their proudest work but where, as one former executive put it, everyone in Tesla is in an abusive relationship with Elon. Almost all these employees spoke on the condition of anonymity because of nondisclosure agreements or fears of being sued or fired by Musk. (Even those with positive things to say asked for anonymity.) Most wanted the best for Tesla and said the recent profit report made them hopeful that the company is finally climbing onto firmer ground.

But experience gives them pause. A large number of high- ranking executives have left in the past two years, and Tesla has stumbled over basic tasks like delivering its cars. Working at the firm has been an agony and ecstasy, some saysometimes toggling between both extremes in a single day.
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But sometimes his impatience would turn into tirades. We called it the idiot bit, a senior engineering executive told me. If you said something wrong or made one mistake or rubbed him the wrong way, he would decide youre an idiot and there was nothing that could change his mind. Musk would openly deride employees in meetings, according to numerous sources, insulting their competence, bullying those who had failed to perform, demoting people on the spot. Musk could afford to fire, because a long list of qualified people wanted to work at Tesla. Its one of the few companies that is genuinely changing the world, a former executive said. And everyone was so smart.
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Over the next few weeks, executives kept arguing with Musk. A steady stream of engineers began giving notice. And a troubling trend emerged, according to former executives: If someone raised concerns or objections, Musk would sometimes pull the persons manager aside and order that the offender be reassigned, or potentially terminated, or no longer invited to meetings. Some executives began excluding skeptics out of self-preservation. If you were the kind of person who was likely to push back, you got disinvited, because VPs didnt want anyone pissing off Elon, one former executive who reported to Musk told me. People were scared that someone would question something.

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Cthulhu_Fhtagn posted...

I haven't played the new first one yet. How is it?

2016 and 2 are two of my favorite games this gen. You can play most of the content from 2016 in 2 via DLC, if that interests you.

Bishop9800 posted...

Still on the first one. How is the second?

If you like that, you will like this. There are a couple gameplay changes, mostly new tools to use, and I think the mission design has been sharpened a bit here, but it's a refinement of the formula rather than something wildly new.
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Elon Musk's boots don't need you to clean them
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Hairistotle posted...

i was thinking of giving it another go. sadly i was very disappointed with the amount of bugs i experienced

There's an update coming probably within a week or so that will hopefully address some of them
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It got buried under other releases this fall a bit, but it's super good and deserves more attention, in my opinion
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https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1073605021395238912
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lmao
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A hero
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I can't watch the video, who is she referring to? At any rate, she shouldn't do it.
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All my games are on Xbox One
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Paper_Okami posted...

only 3 or 4?

David Brooks
Bret Stephens
Bari Weiss
Ross Douthat
...are there others?
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JustinMeme posted...

I know FH4 is called Fortune Island but what exactly is the gimmick?

Heavy stormy weather and rugged terrain...but now there's treasure (in the form of 10 chests containing a million credits each). It's less off-road focused that Storm Island, there are road races, but it's basically Storm Island 2.

Also there's a big mountain pass style road for drifting that a lot of fans have been wanting.
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I'd post some pics from it, but imgtc is out of order
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teepan95 posted...

Sure they've done shitty things, but plurality of opinion, dude

Anti-Trump conservatives, even without the Weekly Standard, will continue to hold a disproportionate voice in the media: there are like 3 or 4 of them working as columnists for the NYT.
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/green-party-candidate-named-as-fake-jfk-jr-profiting-from-qanon

Believing in the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory means buying into a lot of crazy ideas.

QAnon supporters think Trump is engaged in a shadow war against Democratic pedophiles, and that hell soon send all of his political enemies to military tribunals. After that, they think Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are headed for cells in Guantanamo Bay.

But a faction of QAnon supporters has become convinced of an idea that stands out for being ridiculous, even by the standards of QAnon-world. A number of QAnon believers have become convinced that John F. Kennedy Jr. faked his death in 1999, and now shows up at Trump rallies in disguise.

Now someone is taking advantage of that ludicrous belief. For months, a Twitter account called TheRealRAnon has been posing as a man some QAnon believers think is actually Kennedy.

In fact, the Twitter account appears to be run by a former Green Party congressional candidate in Arizona who makes money off QAnon supporters through Amazon affiliate links.

The idea that Kennedy faked his death to help QAnon arose this summer, when Q, the anonymous poster behind QAnon, disappeared for about a month. In Qs place, a new mystery poster, R, appeared on the QAnon forums to claim that Kennedy was somehow involved in the conspiracy theory.

Thanks to those clues, plenty of QAnon believers became convinced that Vincent Fuscaa fedora-wearing Trump superfan from Pennsylvania who regularly appears in the background of Trump campaign speechesis actually Kennedy in disguise.

They analyze his cheekbones for proof, run age-analysis imaging on pictures of Kennedy to show that he would now look like Fusca, and worry about the fact that Fusca seems significantly shorter than Kennedy. Even after Q returned and claimed that Kennedy is actually dead, a number of QAnon believers continue to insist that Fusca is actually Kennedy.

Its unclear how Fusca has taken his oddball internet fame. He didnt respond to comments for this story, but he has frequently posed for pictures with excited QAnon believers.

But Fusca isnt the only one enjoying QAnon believers misconceptions about him and Kennedy. Until it was deleted on Wednesday, a Twitter account called TheRealRAnon had amassed more than 30,000 Twitter followers by posing as Fusca. Promising a 2024 Fusca presidential bid, the account tweeted QAnon-related items that QAnon fans thought gave them a direct line to Fuscaand thus, in their minds, to Kennedy himself.

But a series of digital clues first outlined in a Medium post by writer Douglas Stewart suggest that the account is run by Ray Parrish, an Arizona man who lost a 2016 congressional bid for the Green Party.

Before the Twitter account changed to @TheRealRAnon, for example, it was previously called RayParrishAZ and RayandJill2016, and was used to promote Parrishs congressional bid. Previous tweets from the account, many of which have now been deleted, show the accounts operator tweeting as Parrish, referring in the first-person to his congressional bid and interacting with reporters.

In its Twitter bio, the Fusca impersonation account had a series of links to various conspiracy theory books sold on Amazon. All of the URLs were affiliate links, meaning that the operator of the Twitter account would get a cut of the profits from Amazon. The URLs also have the same affiliate name that was used on other Twitter accounts Parrish has used to sell vitamins, another connection to the Fusca account.

More accurately, by pretending to be a guy they think is JFK Jr.
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The Wonderful Company
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teepan95 posted...

We need anti-Trump conservatives, now more than ever

We have the wars they started to keep us company.
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Genocet_10-325 posted...

Say there were tapes of Trump literally admitting to

We've been down this road multiple times already.
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*vegy smiles*
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Damn_Underscore posted...

They aren't a danger to society, they just screwed over society to make more money.

That is a danger to society
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teepan95 posted...

That's a valuable viewpoint we're losing

It's not.
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https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/johnsonandjohnson-cancer/

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J&J has been compelled to share thousands of pages of company memos, internal reports and other confidential documents with lawyers for some of the 11,700 plaintiffs now claiming that the companys talc caused their cancers including thousands of women with ovarian cancer.

A Reuters examination of many of those documents, as well as deposition and trial testimony, shows that from at least 1971 to the early 2000s, the companys raw talc and finished powders sometimes tested positive for small amounts of asbestos, and that company executives, mine managers, scientists, doctors and lawyers fretted over the problem and how to address it while failing to disclose it to regulators or the public.

The documents also depict successful efforts to influence U.S. regulators plans to limit asbestos in cosmetic talc products and scientific research on the health effects of talc.

A small portion of the documents have been produced at trial and cited in media reports. Many were shielded from public view by court orders that allowed J&J to turn over thousands of documents it designated as confidential. Much of their contents is reported here for the first time.

The earliest mentions of tainted J&J talc that Reuters found come from 1957 and 1958 reports by a consulting lab. They describe contaminants in talc from J&Js Italian supplier as fibrous and acicular, or needle-like, tremolite. Thats one of the six minerals that in their naturally occurring fibrous form are classified as asbestos.

At various times from then into the early 2000s, reports by scientists at J&J, outside labs and J&Js supplier yielded similar findings. The reports identify contaminants in talc and finished powder products as asbestos or describe them in terms typically applied to asbestos, such as fiberform and rods.

In 1976, as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was weighing limits on asbestos in cosmetic talc products, J&J assured the regulator that no asbestos was detected in any sample of talc produced between December 1972 and October 1973. It didnt tell the agency that at least three tests by three different labs from 1972 to 1975 had found asbestos in its talc in one case at levels reported as rather high.

Most internal J&J asbestos test reports Reuters reviewed do not find asbestos. However, while J&Js testing methods improved over time, they have always had limitations that allow trace contaminants to go undetected and only a tiny fraction of the companys talc is tested.

The World Health Organization and other authorities recognize no safe level of exposure to asbestos. While most people exposed never develop cancer, for some, even small amounts of asbestos are enough to trigger the disease years later. Just how small hasnt been established. Many plaintiffs allege that the amounts they inhaled when they dusted themselves with tainted talcum powder were enough.

The evidence of what J&J knew has surfaced after people who suspected that talc caused their cancers hired lawyers experienced in the decades-long deluge of litigation involving workers exposed to asbestos. Some of the lawyers knew from those earlier cases that talc producers tested for asbestos, and they began demanding J&Js testing documentation.

What J&J produced in response to those demands has allowed plaintiffs lawyers to refine their argument: The culprit wasnt necessarily talc itself, but also asbestos in the talc. That assertion, backed by decades of solid science showing that asbestos causes mesothelioma and is associated with ovarian and other cancers, has had mixed success in court.

In two cases earlier this year in New Jersey and California juries awarded big sums to plaintiffs who, like Coker, blamed asbestos-tainted J&J talc products for their mesothelioma.

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eston posted...

At some point they will have to make a sequel

I mean, maybe, but it's also a game that has changed a ton even since it first came out. What could a sequel provide that can't be given in a free update?
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Funkydog posted...

How is one popular game going to rival Steam?

All the Fortnite tweens don't have Steam accounts, but they already have Epic Store accounts.

Also I imagine the immense revenue they're getting from Fortnite is what allows them to offer a bigger cut to developers.
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https://twitter.com/Grace_Segers/status/1073339417698422785
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Ambience posted...

So Trump snowflakes whined that a magazine on their side didn't like their cult leader and got it shut down?

I think the better view here is that "there's no audience for an anti-Trump conservative magazine; all the anti-Trump conservatives are already columnists."
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https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/14/media/weekly-standard-end/index.html

The Weekly Standard, the magazine that espouses traditional conservatism and which has remained deeply critical of President Donald Trump, will shutter after 23 years, Clarity Media Group, the owner of its publisher announced Friday morning. It will publish its final issue on December 17.

The announcement came after the magazine's editor-in-chief, Stephen Hayes, met privately with Ryan McKibben, the chairman of The Weekly Standard's publisher, MediaDC.

"For more than twenty years The Weekly Standard has provided a valued and important perspective on political, literary and cultural issues of the day," McKibben said in a press release. "The magazine has been home to some of the industry's most dedicated and talented staff and I thank them for their hard work and contributions, not just to the publication, but the field of journalism."

The closing of the magazine represents a broader shift in conservative media. Outlets on the right that are critical of Trump have lost influence or changed their tone, while media organizations on the right supportive of the President have flourished.

In a note sent to staff Friday morning, Hayes referenced the difficulty conservative news organizations critical of Trump have had in recent years.

"This is a volatile time in American journalism and politics," Hayes wrote. "Many media outlets have responded to the challenges of the moment by prioritizing affirmation over information, giving into the pull of polarization and the lure of clickbait."
Hayes said it was a "profound honor" to work with The Weekly Standard's staff, and added, "I'm proud that we've remained both conservative and independent, providing substantive reporting and analysis based on facts, logic and reason."

For months, The Weekly Standard's leadership had butted heads with MediaDC, and the two parties had previously agreed to allow Hayes to search for a new owner, people familiar with the matter told CNN earlier this month. Hayes conducted a search, according to those people, but MediaDC recently informed The Weekly Standard that it was no longer interested in selling.

Meanwhile, MediaDC poured resources into expanding the magazine belonging to one of its other properties, The Washington Examiner. It was The publisher announced last week that The Washington Examiner magazine would grow into a weekly publication. The Washington Examiner is less critical of Trump than The Weekly Standard.

The Weekly Standard was founded in 1995 by Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes. During the presidency of George W. Bush, it was widely considered to be aligned with the administration and with neoconservatism broadly.

Under Hayes' leadership, The Weekly Standard has remained steadfast in its criticism of Trump. Trump's supporters have lashed out at The Weekly Standard and its influence in Republican circles has dwindled.

But while The Weekly Standard's influence in Republican politics has declined, its web traffic has increased, people familiar with the data said.

The magazine has also earned praise for some of its recent work. In November, for instance, the magazine published audio of Republican Congressman Steve King telling attendees at a campaign event in Iowa that "there's plenty of dirt" coming from Mexico, apparently referring to Mexicans themselves.

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Criminalizing sex work is extremely shitty stuff. Making vigilantes and watch dogs out of the public is worse
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Anteaterking posted...

I guess CBS is more optimistic about Bull than I am.

Everything on CBS lasts like 8 years. How many years has Blue Bloods been on?
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Website looking for money to offset costs of business
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https://wapo.st/2S4tyMY

A 7-year-old girl from Guatemala died of dehydration and shock after she was taken into Border Patrol custody last week for crossing into the United States illegally with her father and a large group of migrants along a remote span of New Mexico desert, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Thursday.

The childs death, which has not been previously reported, is likely to intensify scrutiny of detention conditions at Border Patrol stations and CBP facilities that are increasingly overwhelmed by large numbers of families with children seeking asylum in the United States.

According to CBP records, the girl and her father were taken into custody at around 10 p.m. on Dec. 6 south of Lordsburg, N.M., as part of a group of 163 people who approached U.S. agents to turn themselves in.

More than eight hours later, the child began having seizures at 6:25 a.m., CBP records show. Emergency responders who arrived soon after measured her body temperature at 105.7 degrees, and according to a statement from CBP, she reportedly had not eaten or consumed water for several days.

After a helicopter flight to an El Paso hospital, the child went into cardiac arrest and was revived, according to the agency. However, the child did not recover and died at the hospital less than 24 hours after being transported, CBP said.

The agency did not released the name of the girl or her father, but he remains in El Paso awaiting a meeting with Guatemalan consular officials, according to CBP. The agency is investigating the incident to ensure appropriate policies were followed, the agency said.

Food and water are typically provided to migrants in Border Patrol custody, and it wasnt immediately clear Thursday if the girl received provisions and a medical exam during the middle of the night, prior to the onset of seizures.

Our sincerest condolences go out to the family of the child, CBP spokesman Andrew Meehan said in a statement to The Washington Post.

Border Patrol agents took every possible step to save the childs life under the most trying of circumstances, Meehan said. As fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, we empathize with the loss of any child.

Though much of the political and media attention has focused in recent weeks on migrant caravans arriving at the Tijuana-San Diego border, large numbers of Central Americans continue to cross the border into Texas, Arizona and New Mexico. The groups sometimes spend days in smugglers stash houses or walking through remote areas with little food or water prior to reaching the border.

Arrests of migrants traveling as family groups have skyrocketed this year, and Homeland Security officials say court rulings that limit their ability to keep families in detention have produced a catch and release system that encourages migrants to bring children as a shield against detention and deportation.

In November, Border Patrol agents apprehended a record 25,172 family unit members on the Southwest border including 11,489 in the Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol sector in south Texas and 6,434 in the El Paso sector, which covers far west Texas and all of New Mexico.

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You're talking about like a 30 minute span of time.
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Neat, an iPhone!
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/business/media/cbs-bull-weatherly-dushku-sexual-harrasment.html

In March 2017, Eliza Dushku, an actress known for her work on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, signed on to play a major role in three episodes of the CBS prime-time drama Bull, and there were plans to make her a full-time cast member.

Her time on the set began promisingly. The shows star, Michael Weatherly a mainstay of CBSs prime-time lineup for 15 years seemed friendly. And a producer and writer on Bull, Glenn Gordon Caron, told Ms. Dushku she would be more than a love interest.

Then came a series of comments that made Ms. Dushku uncomfortable. In front of the cast and crew, Mr. Weatherly remarked on her appearance, and made a rape joke and a comment about a threesome. Shortly after Ms. Dushku confronted the star about his behavior, she was written off the show. She believed her time on Bull came to a sudden end as a result of retaliation.

After she went through mediation with CBS, the network agreed to a confidential settlement that would pay her $9.5 million, roughly the equivalent of what Ms. Dushku would have earned if she had stayed on as a cast member for four seasons.

Details of Ms. Dushkus experiences on Bull and the confidential settlement she reached with the network emerged during the course of an investigation that began in August, when the CBS Corporation board hired the law firms Covington & Burling and Debevoise & Plimpton to examine accusations of sexual misconduct made by multiple women against Leslie Moonves, the companys former chief executive. The board also instructed the outside lawyers to investigate cultural issues at all levels of CBS.

In a draft of the investigation report, which was reviewed by The New York Times, the lawyers said the networks handling of Ms. Dushkus complaints was not only misguided, but emblematic of larger problems at CBS. When faced with instances of wrongdoing, the company had a tendency to protect itself, at the expense of victims, the investigators wrote.

Ms. Dushku declined to comment for this article. In a statement on Wednesday, CBS confirmed the settlement and pledged to improve working conditions.

The allegations in Ms. Dushkus claims are an example that, while we remain committed to a culture defined by a safe, inclusive and respectful workplace, our work is far from done, the statement said. The settlement of these claims reflects the projected amount that Ms. Dushku would have received for the balance of her contract as a series regular, and was determined in a mutually agreed upon mediation process at the time.

In an emailed statement to The Times, Mr. Weatherly apologized for his behavior with Ms. Dushku.

During the course of taping our show, I made some jokes mocking some lines in the script, Mr. Weatherly said in the statement. When Eliza told me that she wasnt comfortable with my language and attempt at humor, I was mortified to have offended her and immediately apologized. After reflecting on this further, I better understand that what I said was both not funny and not appropriate and I am sorry and regret the pain this caused Eliza.

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There's no alternation between you and your opponent (typically), though. There are no turns.
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Soccer was actually fairly popular in the US in the early 20th century, with multiple attempts at forming a professional league akin to the one for baseball. But anti-immigrant sentiment and then the depression in the 20s and 30s led to a prolonged decline that didn't really change until the late 60s, when the televising of the 1966 World Cup Final led to the formation of the NASL.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-13/tesla-workers-start-a-drive-to-unionize-solar-panel-factory

Employees at Tesla Inc.s solar-panel factory in Buffalo, New York, are kicking off a union-organizing campaign, a fresh challenge to the automaker that has so far successfully resisted similar efforts by the United Auto Workers at its sole car plant in Fremont, California.

The campaign would involve about 300 production and maintenance employees at the western New York facility and is a partnership between the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the United Steelworkers, who began hearing from workers earlier this year, according to local USW organizing coordinator Dave Wasiura. They want a fair wage thats reflective of the state investment that the company received, he said in an interview.

Wasiura said the unions have created a committee of pro-union employees in the plant and are working toward securing support from a strong enough majority of the workforce to file for a unionization election with the National Labor Relations Board.

A Tesla spokesperson said that Tesla pays workers an average of $16.20 an hour and gives them benefits and an equity stake in the company. Tesla also pays performance bonuses, and said that the hourly wages are better than the average production worker makes in the Buffalo region.

"We offer wages and benefits that exceed those of other comparable manufacturing jobs in the region, and we recently increased our base pay even further," Tesla said in a statement. "In addition, unlike other manufacturers, every single employee is an owner of Tesla, as everyone receives stock upon hire and for good performance, which results in significantly more compensation beyond our already high wages."

Workers want better pay, according to the union. I wanted to work at Tesla because I wanted a job in green energy, a job that can change the world, said Rob Walsh, another organizing committee member. But I also want a fair wage for my work.

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One issue I'd always heard was that, because of the speed at which Sonic can travel, creating bigger 3D levels posed a logistical challenge, at least in the Dreamcast/GC era. That is, levels had to cover greater distances, requiring more objects and resources, than say an equivalent Mario level.
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Untreated mental illness and legal representation poorly suited to keep it in check.
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There is no strand of politics immune from having shitty people attached to it.
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The thing that makes 2D Sonic good is level design that rewards exploration and a patient approach. You can go fast, but it won't necessarily be on your first run through the level.

This was basically lost in the transition to 3D; the upper and lower paths of levels were now just one. Which makes it feel very linear and less satisfying as a platformer.
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Does anyone remember the crowd at E3 when the Brawl trailer hit? Smash has been big since Melee.
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She went to the same college as me, graduated the year before I arrived, but we had mutual friends. They all called her Sandy, so it didn't click right away when I heard about her campaign.
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I think a British remake of Veep would be more useful
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This is an imperfect measure on a lot of levels, but:
https://deadline.com/2018/07/film-industry-revenue-2017-ibisworld-report-gloomy-box-office-1202425692/

Vs.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-11-13/sports-revenue-to-reach-67-7-billion-by-2017-pwc-report-says

To the extent that revenue is a reflection of popularity, it would seem that sports are more popular, but even that has to be caveated with the fact that the sports figure is a projection for all of North America.
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Waluigi
Rayman
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https://amp-tennessean-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.tennessean.com/amp/2288164002

A soon-to-be congressman from Tennessee told constituents Tuesday he believed vaccines may be causing autism, questioning data from the Centers for Disease Control and other institutions disproving such a theory.

Not only did Republican Mark Green, a Congressman-elect from Clarksville who is also a medical doctor, express hesitation about the CDC's stance on vaccines, he also said he believed the federal health agency has "fraudulently managed" the data.

His remarks came in response to an audience question at a town hall meeting in Franklin from a woman identifying herself as the parent of a young adult with autism. The woman was concerned about possible cuts to Medicaid funding.

"Let me say this about autism," Green said. "I have committed to people in my community, up in Montgomery County, to stand on the CDCs desk and get the real data on vaccines. Because there is some concern that the rise in autism is the result of the preservatives that are in our vaccines.

"As a physician, I can make that argument and I can look at it academically and make the argument against the CDC, if they really want to engage me on it," Green said.

Despite calls by the anti-vaccination movement for parents not to vaccinate their children against a number of diseases, CDC data disproves the movement's findings.

Through multiple studies, the CDC has found no link between autism and vaccines, including from the mercury-based preservative in vaccines referenced by Green.

The American Academy of Pediatrics has reiterated those findings.

"Claims that vaccines are linked to autism, or are unsafe when administered according to the recommended schedule, have been disproven by a robust body of medical literature," wrote two American Academy of Pediatrics doctors last year. "Delaying vaccines only leaves a child at risk of disease."

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