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Also, you realize you, as management, are representing the owners when you negotiate lower wages with labor, right? It's not your money. It's no skin off your back. The corporate representation chart: Shareholders > Board of Directors > CEO and other appointed C-suite execs > Management appointed by execs > you.
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So, it seems to me that unions "got in trouble" on two main things: ridiculous, non-safety-related working conditions (everyone has a story about these sort of workplace rules) and investments and political activities related to pension funds. It seems the priorities of a labor organization should be 1) wages/hours 2a) workplace safety 2b) benefits. I think bozo's bad union/bad management happens when they start negotiating on issues other from these three and maybe a couple of others. That's how you get ridiculous workplace rules and weird seniority systems. I guess there are some unions or sets of labor (longshoremen?) where there is no sort of single employer that should be providing the benefits, so the benefits (pension health insurance etc.) come from the union itself. That seems problematic. I could be wrong on this, but it seems to me that unions really need to stick to the wage/hour knitting because that's where their utility lies. I think most people that negotiate know that often, when you start talking things other than money in what is essentially a monetary transaction, someone is about to kiss the donkey.
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You understand, though, that your employer is an organization that represents a whole lot of stakeholders, including the owners/shareholders. And it controls the purse strings. Whereas the employees are not an organization and do not control the purse strings. The sole leverage of an employee is "I quit." That works ok for that one employee, I guess, bootstraps and all, but doesn't help any of the others. And it only works ok for the employee if s/he can obtain a similar or improved situation elsewhere. And, when right-leaning means Trump, I'll take left-leaning every day and five times on Tuesday. That's not the ding you seem to think it is.
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The thing is, very few if any of us will a) know the terms of this new deal and b) have the ability to evaluate it, either on its own or in comparison to the prior deal or status quo. That means that Trump and his shills will tell us it's the most tremendous trade deal, like no one has ever seen. And then trade experts will chime in and tell us that it's either bad or not a material change from the prior deal and Trump will label them RINO, or from the failing ________, or some other nonsense, and the base will lap it up.
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An article about how the federal courts can enforce their orders. https://www.justsecurity.org/113218/federal-courts-enforce-orders-without-marshals/ This might be how the shooting starts.
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I personally intend to piss on a spark plug.
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In contrast to say Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, I believe only 30% of white-owned land in South Africa is subject to redistribution. Zimbabwe reduced white land ownership from 4400 farmers/owners to 300. Afrikaners are still quite privileged there. A bunch of em left when the bleks took over and a bunch of em came right back when they figured out it wasn't so bad. Crime in SA is bad, though, but on an equal opportunity basis. Of course crime is what you get when you ignore your social responsibilities as a nation and people.
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Fair point, but it's just an expansion of the notion that we have a goodly chunk of the population that's simply not capable of sustaining itself without help from society. Godalmighty. Name em and shame em.
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Well, that might be the result, but without collective bargaining, labor is completely at the mercy of management/corporate interest and that is rarely going to be to their benefit.
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Yeah, I see collective bargaining as essential. It's just so much of the other crap that unions get into that can make them distasteful and corrupt. But how do you curb the things that lead to corruption without hampering the essential purpose?
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Tensions between the natives and Indians in Prosper?
TwiceHorn replied to Im_smarter_then_you's topic in Daily Texan
Does economics have a separate admissions like other colleges? It's long been a poor man's (student's) route to a BBA when that danged ol lower-division GPA didn't cut the mustard. Answering my own question, the internal transfer requirement. https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/economics/undergraduate-program/prospective-students/internal-transfer.html Key takeaways: Is admission to the Economics major competitive? Is there a GPA cut-off? No, currently there is no GPA requirement and approval is not on a competitive basis. Our goal is to accept all students who want Economics as their major as long as they meet the eligibility requirements. But this is probably what gets a lot of people: Must complete one of the following courses in-residence with a C- or higher: ECO 304K Intro to Microeconomics ECO 304L Intro to Macroeconomics Calculus I (M 408K, M 408N, M 408C, M 408R or M 408Q) Calculus II (M 408L, M 408D, or M 408S) ECO 329 Economic Statistics Any upper-division Economics elective -
Tracking Trump Administration and Cabinet picks
TwiceHorn replied to PenelopeWitherspoon's topic in Cloak Room
Regarded. Also probably sinister. Some DOJ political hack, although a long-term one, Paul Perkins, appointed acting Register of Copyrights. Although it's an obscure position, the Register is usually an accomplished copyright scholar with industry experience of one form or another in the media world, so practical experience with both content authors and content publishers/distributors. -
As I said, the White House counsel advises the President directly, while the OLC advises the executive branch more generally, and neutrally, and its advice is more or less binding on the entire branch. So, analagous to your scenario, I think OLC would generate binding guidance based on advocacy and a request from White House counsel. The torture memos were a product of OLC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture_Memos Apparently drafted in response to requests from CIA. It's all the DOJ, so to some degree or other answerable to the AG and in turn the President, but previously, the division of responsibility at least maintained an illusion of sanity, which is now gone.
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ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
TwiceHorn replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
Latest local lawdogette (lawbitch?) victim of AI: https://search.txcourts.gov/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=83b29ea2-0113-4437-98c8-b00e40461e50&coa=coa05&DT=Order&MediaID=3f8209ac-9743-49b1-9498-660632c0c354 So, this case was a creditor of John and Donna Rochon seeking to recover $1M of jewelry allegedly gifted to their daughters before being sued by their creditors. John Rochon was CEO of Mary Kay after her son, Richard Rogers, stepped down. He (or Richard or both), took Mary Kay private and everyone became fabulously wealthy, with the Rochons maintaining a fleet of Maseratis for the entire family, private jets, etc. https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2004/march/not-so-pretty-in-pink/ They have a "family office" in the form of Richmont (lol) Capital Partners. https://richmont.net/ In the 25 years since stepping down from Mary Kay, Rochon pere et fils et filles has gone from fabulously wealthy to insolvent with a string of bankruptcies and fraud suits. Amazing shit. Lived in Dallas most of my life, and at least passingly familiar with Mary Kay, the person and the company. Had never heard of these Rochon grifters, but it's a really sordid saga. Culminating in their daughter filing a partially bullshit brief in what appears to be a losing effort to hang on to a bunch of expensive jewelry. -
ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
TwiceHorn replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
I don't recall Limewire. Vague recollections of Napster. But the difference here is that Limewire and Napster and similar P2P things were a vehicle for infringement, but not a direct infringer, only a contributory one. Neither Napster nor Limewire had the specific intent to directly infringe copyrights, they provided a means for their users to do so (knowing full well that they would). Kinda like the internet at large. This is an entity deliberately and knowingly directly infringing copyright on a scale similar to Limewire or Napster. Their only excuse in some cases being a thin fair use defense. To that end, the Copyright Office' "preliminary" view of infringement/fair use in training AI. Along with some political controversy. https://copyrightlately.com/copyright-office-ai-report/ -
And we have others not bending the knee and calling this for what it is.
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The AG doesn't really have any business doing that in the first place, because the AG doesn't represent the President, or really even the Office of the President. All that other shit aside. That's a job for OLC and White House counsel, the OLC providing guidance to the executive branch generally, and White House counsel advocating for the President specifically. All DOJ, but traditionally with different responsibilities and "clients."
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CEO of UHG Shot and Killed in NYC - WTF is wrong with you New York
TwiceHorn replied to Bevo's topic in Daily Texan
Man, this is one of those examples where shareholder suits and class actions in particular are pretty ridiculous. Just about any time a publicly traded company has a price gyration, particularly a drop, they get sued for securities fraud and/or breach of fiduciary duty. They mostly settle for decent, but not meaningful-in-a-big-way, amounts. The only real winners are the entrepreneurial lawyers that brought them. A facile response is to ban such suits. Most large corporations would be highly in favor of doing so and are probably lobbying intensely for it right now. Any such action needs to be carefully considered lest we get the "tort reform" result. But they do, if not often, serve a purpose in regulating corporate behavior in ways that even an effective SEC cannot. This is the type of suit that kept Elmo from getting his ridiculous comp package. I'm sure that's a popular result and this may be a popular result. The actual effect on corporate behavior is, I think, negligible. Also, this gets into that whole lawyer ethics thing. The real personal motivation for most of these suits is to make money for lawyers. But, they follow all the rules and most of the precedents and serve the theoretical reason for their existence (curb corporate behavior) to at least a tiny extent. And you can find other examples of such suits that serve to compensate the truly defrauded and actually punish or deter bad corporate behavior. So, should we do something about these lawsuits and lawyers when their motivations and raisons d'etre are quite a bit less than noble, and risk the unintended consequences? Or just let things chuckle along as usual? That is a bit of a false choice, as there are tweaks that could be made that reduce the ridiculous, hopefully without also reducing the sublime, but there is always the risk of unintended consequences. -
Valid questions. But the manufacturing jobs in question aren't shop/factory-floor jobs. They're things like engineering, marketing, etc. that are traditionally considered degree-holder jobs. Robots/automation may never replace skilled workers entirely, but they've already replaced a lot of unskilled jobs in manufacturing. Old-time manufacturing provided lots of jobs for halfwits and morons. Now now so much. We're still gonna have the moron problem.
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https://www.npr.org/sections/planet-money/2025/05/13/g-s1-66112/why-arent-americans-filling-the-manufacturing-jobs-we-already-have Key takeaway: Part of the political appeal of bringing manufacturing back is that, historically, they've provided good jobs and career ladders for people without a college education. However, many manufacturing jobs these days actually require college degrees. Carolyn Lee, the president and executive director of the Manufacturing Institute, says that roughly half of the open positions in manufacturing require at least a bachelor's degree.
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Yeah, he didn't do this to help fellow richies, except the long-term goal of eliminating income tax. He didn't know the market was gonna tank anymore than he knows how tariffs work. But, create a disturbance in the market and the richies will benefit more than anyone else as they can more easily absorb the risk of short-selling and similar strategies on a scale that reaps huge rewards. Give them even more inside information and it's that much worse.
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Tracking Trump Administration and Cabinet picks
TwiceHorn replied to PenelopeWitherspoon's topic in Cloak Room
Some follow-up on the dismissal of Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. A day later, Shira Perlmutter, the Register of Copyrights, who administers the Copyright Office and is influential on copyright policy, was fired. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shira_Perlmutter Like the Librarian of Congress, the Register is an apolitical position and was appointed by the Librarian. Trump I's House tried to make it a presidential appointment, but it failed in the Senate. Anyway, as the link below states, Perlmutter served with honor and distinction and without political rancor. Where this gets insidious is that the Copyright Office has been considering AI policy as pertains to copyright. Just before Perlmutter's dismissal, a "prepublication" of Section 3 of the Report dropped. It generally favors creators over AI takers. It's a nuanced report. And AI Big Tech hates it and has been lobbying Trumpco to make copying for purposes of training LLMs fair use (not infringement) in all cases. More here. https://copyrightlately.com/copyright-office-ai-report/ -
Haha sorry, love me a threadjack. But, there don't seem to be many developments in the AARP and JGG cases of late, so surly minds will wander. A sidenote. The notion of deporting immigrants to other than their country of origin is not without precedent, both benign and insidious. When we have an asylum applicant that doesn't clear the bar for asylum, we could do the cruel and send them back to the country where they are persecuted. Or, we could send them somewhere else that will take them and where they are willing to go. That has happened in our history. The UK, doubtless under Tory leadership (but I didn't check who really originated the idea, Boris, Nigel, Liz or one of the other Hitler Youth), prepped up Rwanda for that purpose, I suppose mostly for African immigrants/asylum seekers. Or maybe just being dicks. That's where Trump got that idea. The UK never actually did it although they had an agreement with Rwanda to do so. I guess Libya is just a more hideous variant on that notion. And most of Central America is pretty fucked up so sending a Salvadoran to Honduras or Guatemala isn't really an improvement on anything. Belize probably isn't taking anyone.
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Tells you a lot about what kind of porn the P2025ers watch.
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Well, you may not be able to count on SCOTUS to support Trump, but you can probably count on them to support big business.
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