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#41

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by Syt - May 17, 2024, 10:15:05 PM

Mercedes Benz workers in Alabama voted overwhelmingly to reject a union.

UAW claims Mercedes unfairly interfered in the vote and intimidated workers into voting against it. They're filing suit in the US and also in Germany under a law that holds companies accountable for human rights violations in their production chains (which, I think, is a long shot).

#42

Off the Record / Re: The China Thread

Last post by grumbler - May 17, 2024, 07:42:10 PM

It does indeed with the whole vibe around it.
Though to be fair its perfectly imaginable a group of western school kids could have been trained to do some silly little performance for prominent visitors. In democratic-Asia even more so.

Yeah but the fact that we don't do it is sort of the point. The current bastards in power in Hungary do the light version of this, regularly using kindergarten-age children as passive props but that's just evidence of where they are leaning culturally.

And this particular performance is especially horrible.

"We" do it all the time.  Kids in our schools celebrate all sorts of things from diversity to significant monarch birthdays.

Have you watched the video? Are the Canadian kids made to jump up and down in sync and wave flowers for minutes?

And for someone whom they don't recognize or care about.

CC is just in a contrarian mood and so trying to make false equivalences.  Ignore him.

#43

Off the Record / Re: The China Thread

Last post by Tamas - May 17, 2024, 06:34:36 PM

It does indeed with the whole vibe around it.
Though to be fair its perfectly imaginable a group of western school kids could have been trained to do some silly little performance for prominent visitors. In democratic-Asia even more so.

Yeah but the fact that we don't do it is sort of the point. The current bastards in power in Hungary do the light version of this, regularly using kindergarten-age children as passive props but that's just evidence of where they are leaning culturally.

And this particular performance is especially horrible.

"We" do it all the time.  Kids in our schools celebrate all sorts of things from diversity to significant monarch birthdays.

Have you watched the video? Are the Canadian kids made to jump up and down in sync and wave flowers for minutes?

#44

Off the Record / Re: Climate Change/Mass Extinc...

Last post by Tamas - May 17, 2024, 06:32:11 PM

After the Saudis, now it is time for Azerbaijan to host Cop29. 

#45

Off the Record / Re: Stocks and Trading Thread ...

Last post by Admiral Yi - May 17, 2024, 05:43:24 PM

Dow hits 40,000.

David Elias wrote a book back in 1999 called Dow 40,000.  The Dow was 10,481 at the end of 1999.  Most people thought he was ridiculous at the time, me included.

In his second act as an economic advisor to Dubya he got roasted for saying "the human capital stock wants to get back to work."

#46

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by Valmy - May 17, 2024, 05:31:12 PM

Mercedes Benz workers in Alabama voted overwhelmingly to reject a union.

Hopefully because management offers cushy and lucrative working conditions.

#47

Off the Record / Re: Dead Pool 2024

Last post by Caliga - May 17, 2024, 05:29:57 PM

 

#48

Off the Record / Re: Dead Pool 2024

Last post by grumbler - May 17, 2024, 05:12:58 PM

    He was the best jerk of them all.

#49

Off the Record / Re: Dead Pool 2024

Last post by Barrister - May 17, 2024, 04:45:31 PM

A name I hadn't thought of for many years, but instantly recognizeable:

RIP Dabney Coleman, age 92.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/dabney-coleman-dead-9-to-5-mary-hartman-tootsie-1235902521/

#50

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by Admiral Yi - May 17, 2024, 04:37:18 PM

Mercedes Benz workers in Alabama voted overwhelmingly to reject a union.