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Royalfan5

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  1. One of the things working in the commodity business has taught me is that a 3% miss on something like corn yields, or sow farrowings turnings into 30% moves in other areas really quick. I don't think that is something that is grasped by the public at large very well. Also that if you get behind, it's hard as hell to catch up, so you have to stay ahead of things, and the cult of cost cutting is bring that home in a lot of lower end retail business now. Locally we just had a Family Dollar have all their staff quit, near the Burger King where all the staff quit after both places tried to run who they had into the ground.
  2. The Mayor and Chancellor Green have pretty much washed their hands of trying to do anything proactive after dumbfuck Ricketts and Governor Candidate and current Regent Pillen have been trying to kneecap them on everything.
  3. The speed that stuff has fallen apart here in Lincoln has been shocking even with pretty decent vax rates in Lancaster Co. The Garth Brooks Stadium concert is cruising ahead for next week to supercharge things too.
  4. I got COVID immediately after getting my first Moderna shot. I got symptoms on Sunday, and could taste and smell again by Friday
  5. I’ve noticed today’s talking point to circulate is Mike Rowe peddling the you can’t look down on the unvaxxed about it because it’ll hurt the salt of the earths feelings, and then you’ll never get them to take it
  6. I've always loved the Olympics. All of it comes from being raised in a sports loving family that had a bunch of success in wrestling and T and F, along with my Grandma being around at the dawn of Women's sports. (She was in tennis exhibitions vs. the US open champ in the late 40's, and MVP of the Navy's women's basketball team) So this was always something we took seriously, and then getting engaged to a T and F coach/D2 All-Conference athlete enhanced that. I've donated money to the USOC to the athlete funds for year, and will probably continue to do so. While the games have been weird this year, I've found plenty to enjoy, and will probably continue to do so in the future. I'll echo the sentiments that I could give a shit about the nationalism angle, and just want to see athletes doing cool shit, regardless of their flag, and my understanding of their sport. The IOC is corrupt as fuck, and bidding for games is fucked up, but what country does a good job wringing graft out of mega projects? I don't feel worse about watching it that I do any NCAA stuff. And if an athlete wants to use the podium to promote a cause, I say more power to them, because I'm not into needing to police shit because folks can't handle that things are messy, and I don't think the athletes owe me shit.
  7. So you want the US to give up our imports? Shit countries have fought wars with plenty of hired soldiers, why should the Olympics be any different? Why get hung up on blood and soil nationalism now?
  8. The US Military literally has a program to recruit Olympic Athletes from other countries. Do you want to see the best in the world regardless of how they get there, or are you someone who jacks off to petty rules bullshit?
  9. I wonder how much having crowds at the Olympic Trials and then going back fucked with them instead of being empty the whole time.
  10. They're starting to find out that they were going to be finding out real soon.
  11. https://www.etsy.com/shop/HeroPropsStore
  12. I know a guy that makes theatre props for a living that is making Fifth Element Multi-pass holders for vaccine cards, which is how I would go if I needed a card holder.
  13. Given our track record in meddling, might be a spot to let the Cubans handle it themselves
  14. No, it’s that you can’t go custom hire shit done easily because the labor force left in the great migration. Doing everything yourself is expensive and time consuming if you don’t have the network base to do stuff. Sitting here in Nebraska, I can fill a pen at a feedlot with three text messages, never see that cattle and not have to worry if there there, that they’ll get fed, and that you’ll have a market. It’d probably take me 5 text messages if I picked up the lease on farm ground anywhere in the state to get it farmed with me doing any of the labor. If you don’t have that, it’s going to be harder to produce in that area.
  15. Anything existing acreages are being snapped up pretty quick. Haven’t seen much on new development yet, and around here’s there’s enough old home sites, chunks of grass etc that leaves corners around for right now. It’ll be interesting to see how some of new comers do that have shown up lately without prior connections and going backwards in the level of amenities offered
  16. She’s not wrong about network effects. There’s a reason we raise livestock where we do, packing plants are where they are, certain food crops are grown where they are.
  17. I’ll just note that 4-H hasn’t had any issues as far as I know, and has been teaching useful stuff to all manner of youth for a long time.
  18. Dwayne Andreas would be proud of this.
  19. Of course if we successfully shuffle more kids into the trades, it probably isn’t going to do a fucking bit of good for the short staffed service industry
  20. The OWH mouthpiece has him getting fired because he rarely came to work and let his deputies handle everything. Guy I know from church stuff that got caught in the Covid layoffs last year basically confirmed that was the case.
  21. Is Chipotle entitled to enough workers to run a location at low wages? There are going to be less workers entering to workforce in coming years. If you are dependent on that category of worker to make your enterprise work, you are going to have a bad time if you don’t get ahead of that.
  22. Sure they can exist, but you can’t bitch too loudly about not being able to fill them, and probably don’t want to build a business around them in coming years.
  23. If the jobs are filling what are they bitching about then? Also, I'll assume they've done the demographic research to prove that the labor pool isn't shrinking demographically, that'll be facing increased competition anyway coming forward.
  24. If the jobs aren't filling at 2.13+tips, doesn't that suggest the employer is mispricing the market?
  25. Are you under the impression that the Catholic Church hierarchy is in lock step on all issues?
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