THE MORNING RANT: Buck Shots - Business & Economy Edition (03/11/2024)

Profit Wizardry at Target

The stock of mega-woke corporation Target is rising, and it is a Wall Street darling right now for pulling off the seemingly impossible - its same store sales are plummeting, yet it is posting spectacular profits with strong gross margins.

“Target shares pop more than 12% as retailer boosts profits, despite lackluster sales forecast” [CNBC – 3/05/2024]

Target’s net income for the three-month period rose by nearly 58% to $1.38 billion, or $2.98 per share, from $876 million, or $1.89 per share in the year-ago quarter. That was significantly higher than Target’s forecast range of between $1.90 and $2.60 per share.
Its margins also were healthier compared with a year ago. Its fourth-quarter operating income margin rate was 5.8% compared with 3.7% in the year-ago quarter…

Without going all green-eye-shade, there are a few simple truths that are in play:

1) If revenue is declining but the gross margin (profit per unit sold) is increasing, there are many fewer units of merchandise being sold than there used to be.

2) Accounting wizardry, timing of expense recognition, and cost-cutting gimmicks might show a short-term growth in profit, but that is not sustainable in the face of declining revenue.

Even so, Target’s comparable sales declined for the third quarter in a row. The key metric, which includes digital sales and takes out the impact of store openings, closures and renovations, fell 4.4% in the fiscal fourth quarter…

A 4.4% revenue decline is even worse when you factor in the impact of inflation, since all things being equal, the same basket of goods would result in increased spending year over year. Those consumers repulsed by Target’s vulgar products for children are clearly still refusing to spend their money at Target. By contrast, Wal-Mart’s same store sales are up 4%.

My wish for Target is that it maintains its ongoing journey of declining revenue, and that its MBAs and accountants stay busy conjuring up clever new ways to show book profit growth.

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Comical Revisions to Government Jobs Reports

I don’t know if there is anything that is so openly fraudulent – yet somehow taken seriously – than the Department of Labor’s monthly jobs report. Pro wrestling is more honest than the phony numbers published by our government. But media and Wall Street still continue to believe that the latest jobs report will be honest despite prior months’ reports constantly being revised for their initial overstatement of jobs created.

In the most recent jobs report for February 2024, there was triumphant news of blowout job creation! 275,000 jobs were created which “smashed consensus forecasts” of just 200,000 new jobs, showing just how strong the labor market and economy is. This number is going to be revised downward in a month or two. Those 75,000 extra jobs will retroactively evaporate.

In this same jobs report, the December and January job creations numbers were retroactively revised downward by a combined 167,000 jobs.

“Takeaways from the February jobs report” [The Hill – 3/08/2024]

Nonfarm payrolls for December were revised down to 290,000 from 333,000, and January payrolls were revised down to 229,000 from a surprising 353,000, the Labor Department reported Friday. The total revisions for those months resulted in 167,000 fewer jobs than previously reported.

Our government’s fabrications are not a problem, they’re policy. Yet their next economic lie will be treated as factual by our elites, because the Labor Department’s fabrications serve the elites’ financial and political interests.

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”Free Enterprise”: Using Government to Cripple Your Competition

You’ve probably heard by now how California Gov. Gavin Newsom exempted Panera Bread from California’s new fast food minimum wage law – and what a coincidence – the Panera franchise owner in California (Greg Flynn) is a friend and supporter of Gov. Newsom’s political campaigns. Our own co-blogger K.T. has been all over the story, since she is on the ground in California reporting on life under Newsom’s arrogant rule, but I’d like to chime in too.

Here is a quick overview of the story:

“Panera Bread exempt from California’s $20 minimum wage law after owner donated to Gov. Newsom” [NY Post – 02/28/2024]

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law that exempts Panera Bread from a new $20-an-hour minimum wage hike for fast food chains after the billionaire owner of several of the chain’s locations donated to his campaign, according to a report.

Panera wasn’t exempted by name, rather the legislation created a strange carve-out that exempted “chains that bake bread and sell it as a standalone item.”

Newsom reportedly sought the exemption, which benefits among others Greg Flynn, the billionaire CEO of Flynn Restaurant Group, the company that owns some two dozen Panera Bread locations in the state.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom pushed for a “bread exemption” to his new law raising the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 an hour.
Flynn, who attended the same high school as Newsom, has been involved in business dealings with the California governor, according to Bloomberg News.

Greg Flynn has denied having a specific role in crafting the bread exception. Of course he denies it, because he didn’t have to specifically ask for it. That’s not how the corrupt business-political nexus works. Flynn knows he can count on Newsom to carry water for him, just like Newsom knows he can count on Flynn to continue his various forms of campaign support. But Flynn’s people might have reached out to remind Newsom’s people of their special relationship…

Flynn quietly lobbied Newsom’s aides to reconsider whether Panera Bread can be considered fast food, according to Bloomberg News.

“Capitalists” like Greg Flynn who use the power of government to cripple their competition make me ill. I’ve read that he is now promising not to take advantage of this special “Panera law” because of the intense criticism it has generated. Sorry, but I still give him no credit. The time to do the right thing isn’t when your scheme gets exposed. The time to do the right thing was when your powerful political friend was creating beneficial loopholes that hurt the competition.

McDonalds should add the “McBreadLoaf” to its value menu to get itself the same exemption that Newsom carved out for Greg Flynn and Panera.

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A Fast Food Education

Speaking of fast food employment. This tweet below was flying all over the internet a few weeks ago, with the left outraged at seeing a young teenage boy celebrating his part-time gig at Burger King.

Rob Province had the best response: ”You’re gonna work for that kid.”

In my several decades of private sector hiring, managing, and being managed, I can tell you that those who did “low-status,” entry-level jobs as teenagers not only make the best employees, but they also make the best managers and executives.

If I were given the choice of hiring either this young man who worked part-time at Burger King while going to school, or hiring an Ivy Leaguer with a resume loaded with faux-community service and prestigious internships - but no real-world job experience - I would hire the Burger King kid in a heartbeat.

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Home Renovations Are Banned in Beverly Hills

“Judge halts home upgrades in Beverly Hills over city's lack of affordable housing” [KABC – 01/18/2024]

A Los Angeles County Superior Court ruling has found that the city of Beverly Hills cannot issue new construction permits because it is not following state laws requiring it to plan for affordable housing.
Judge Curtis Kin's ruling still allows Beverly Hills to move forward with any new residential developments, but prohibits the city from issuing permits for residential renovations, commercial developments or any other construction projects.

Rich California leftists provide the funding for the communists who are now targeting rich California leftists.

That’s a shame. Anyway…

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Soaring Insurance Premiums

I mentioned earlier the phony jobs reports that our government issues. I wonder if the government’s phony inflation reports include the cost of auto and home insurance. Unless you don’t own a car or a house, you’ve probably experienced sticker shock over the past year or two whenever you receive notification of your insurance premium renewal. Premiums have been rising about 20% per year, with no slowdown in sight.

“How High Could Home Insurance Rates Jump This Year?” [Money - 03/01/2024]

While the rate of inflation in home insurance prices is expected to slow down this year, Stuart Winchester, founder and CEO of Marble, says he’s counseling customers to still expect 10% to 15% hikes.

Because journalism is so awful now, it’s hard to find actual reporting about the increase in insurance premiums that doesn’t reflexively blame “climate” disasters. The problem is actually related more to surging replacement and repair costs rather than due to natural disasters. Cars have become much more expensive, with minor fender benders now involving complex electronics and sensors rather than being about pounding out a dent. Everything involved in housing construction costs has gone up dramatically too in the post-Covid era of inflation and shortages.

Beyond disaster risk, Loretta Worters, spokesperson at the Insurance Information Institute, says, "Much of the increase can be attributed to supply-chain issues and labor shortages driving up the cost of home repairs and replacement." She also points to several other issues that insurers are facing, including fraud, excessive claims and legal system abuse.

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Iowahawk Weighs in on the Sussexes Attending SXSW

My old hometown of Austin is infested right now with media, entertainment, and tech moguls thanks to the SXSW confab.

Back when it was just a music festival, it was a fun time. Although I attended some “official” events in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, my favorite part of SXSW by the early 21st century wasn’t the official music showcases, rather it was the spillover and unofficial events that popped up all over the place. By my office near downtown Austin there were several restaurants and saloons, and during the festival they’d set up outdoor stages in parking lots featuring musicians who weren’t invited to perform at the actual event. These unofficial venues were also delightfully devoid of VIPs.

I’ve been gone a few years, and I hope the unofficial SXSW scene is still going strong. As for the official celebrity-studded SXSW scene, good ol’ Iowahawk, who is now an Austin resident, offers up his eloquent summation of what SXSW has become.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 last

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 11, 2024 11:00 AM (GBKbO)

2 On it

Posted by: Skip at March 11, 2024 11:02 AM (jAw5X)

3
ESPONJA!!1!!11!!

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 11, 2024 11:02 AM (bEb2S)

4 Fine then TJM you get em

Posted by: Skip at March 11, 2024 11:02 AM (jAw5X)

5 "The lassoing of John Holmes"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 11, 2024 11:03 AM (Zz0t1)

6 2) Accounting wizardry, timing of expense recognition, and cost-cutting gimmicks might show a short-term growth in profit, but that is not sustainable in the face of declining revenue.
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This is my guess. Time will tell, I suppose. It is possible that Target has managed to move up in the market space and command wider margins than other major retailers, and so don't care about revenue declines because the average ticket has greater margins.

I kind of doubt that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 11:04 AM (HnUIn)

7 Our government’s fabrications are not a problem, they’re policy. Yet their next economic lie will be treated as factual by our elites, because the Labor Department’s fabrications serve the elites’ financial and political interests.
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Lies only matter when they're recognized. If we refuse to recognize them, they will become true.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 11:04 AM (HnUIn)

8 Willowed: I paid no attention to the Oscars, but I did see a promo for Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire! This one includes Peter, Ray, and Winston from the first films, and was co-written by Ivan Reitman (who directed the first film) and his son Jason. Jason masterminded the grand Ghostbusters: Afterlife film from 2021.

Possibly good???

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 11, 2024 11:04 AM (J2vNu)

9 Greg Flynn has denied having a specific role in crafting the bread exception. Of course he denies it, because he didn’t have to specifically ask for it. That’s not how the corrupt business-political nexus works. Flynn knows he can count on Newsom to carry water for him, just like Newsom knows he can count on Flynn to continue his various forms of campaign support. But Flynn’s people might have reached out to remind Newsom’s people of their special relationship...
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Yup. He gave the money. Newsom delivered the goods. They didn't need to discuss it. The plan probably wasn't even Flynn's in the first place. He didn't know what Newsom would deliver (not specifically), but he knew that Newsom would deliver.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 11:05 AM (HnUIn)

10 >>If I were given the choice of hiring either this young man who worked part-time at Burger King while going to school, or hiring an Ivy Leaguer with a resume loaded with faux-community service and prestigious internships - but no real-world job experience - I would hire the Burger King kid in a heartbeat.

THIS

Posted by: Lizzy at March 11, 2024 11:06 AM (6IDWi)

11 Oops.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 11, 2024 11:06 AM (Zz0t1)

12 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 11, 2024 11:06 AM (Zz0t1)

13 Now, if I only had access to the time machine......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 11, 2024 11:07 AM (Zz0t1)

14 a Wall Street darling right now for pulling off the seemingly impossible - its same store sales are plummeting, yet it is posting spectacular profits with strong gross margins.

DU has assured me this is a sign of super greedy corporations putting profits for investors and CEOs ahead of customers and staff.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 11, 2024 11:07 AM (JCZqz)

15 A Los Angeles County Superior Court ruling has found that the city of Beverly Hills cannot issue new construction permits because it is not following state laws requiring it to plan for affordable housing.
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Interesting. So the rule in CA is that city governments *must* comply with zoning mandating high-density development (that's what this "affordable housing" stuff is really about - creating high-rise, high-density ghettos like we quit building by the 70s for a reason, then started tearing down) or they cannot fight the entropy that embeds all construction.

Commit suicide, or wither away into dilapidation.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 11:08 AM (HnUIn)

16 I don't know why I should even believe the revision of the revision of the revisions.

Posted by: fd at March 11, 2024 11:08 AM (vFG9F)

17 "If I were given the choice of hiring either this young man who worked part-time at Burger King while going to school, or hiring an Ivy Leaguer with a resume loaded with faux-community service and prestigious internships - but no real-world job experience - I would hire the Burger King kid in a heartbeat."
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This used to be one of the standard gateways into the workforce for young men and women. It was a great way to instill a solid work ethic in them and give them some keen life experiences for later...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 11, 2024 11:09 AM (7fElN)

18 McDonalds should add the “McBreadLoaf” to its value menu to get itself the same exemption that Newsom carved out for Greg Flynn and Panera.

Hell, just sell one unsliced hamburger bun. They don't define "loaf of bread" AFAIK, so why not?

Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2024 11:09 AM (CsUN+)

19 That kid looks awful young. You had to 15/16 and have a work permit...back when I was a kid.

Posted by: BignJames at March 11, 2024 11:09 AM (AwYPR)

20 McDonald's should pull all business out of California, including suppliers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 11, 2024 11:09 AM (GBKbO)

21 McDonald's should pull all business out of California, including suppliers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 11, 2024 11:09 AM (GBKbO)

Musk moved BACK to Cali.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 11, 2024 11:10 AM (Zz0t1)

22 While the rate of inflation in home insurance prices is expected to slow down this year, Stuart Winchester, founder and CEO of Marble, says he’s counseling customers to still expect 10% to 15% hikes.
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I like my insurer. They're reliable and competitive. They sent me a letter last year at renewal time apologizing for the rate increase. It was ... substantial. Like them or not, I shopped it.

They were still competitive. Not the cheapest possible, but in the bottom quartile of the quotes I got back and their service and support are excellent. I stuck with them.

I fully expect to get another version of that letter this year, and likely will see the same outcome when I shop it again. They're not fucking me over, it's just Brandon's America.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 11:10 AM (HnUIn)

23 That kid looks awful young. You had to 15/16 and have a work permit...back when I was a kid.

My first salaried job was when I was 15, and that kid looks like Methuselah compared to what I did.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2024 11:11 AM (CsUN+)

24 I haven't been in a Target since they started their tranny bathroom policy and I'm pretty sure that was many, many years ago.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 11, 2024 11:11 AM (BxvY+)

25 I didn't have a regular job as a teenager, but I did a lot of lawn mowing, throwing hay bales, loading junk into trucks, painting sheds and barns, helping people move, etc.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Ready for the Cart at March 11, 2024 11:11 AM (xPJvm)

26 If memory serves, weren't most of the jobs and economic reports under Trump revised as well...upward?

Posted by: Diogenes at March 11, 2024 11:11 AM (W/lyH)

27 Thx Buck. Subway makes its own bread . All they have to do is sell it as a stand alone item. That would be a kick in the teeth to the governmentalists

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 11, 2024 11:12 AM (8nE8r)

28 If memory serves, weren't most of the jobs and economic reports under Trump revised as well...upward?
Posted by: Diogenes at March 11, 2024 11:11 AM (W/lyH)

He said pussy, so nothing else matters.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 11, 2024 11:12 AM (Zz0t1)

29 Iowahawk has finally commented on necrophilian tendencies of the rich and famous.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 11, 2024 11:12 AM (4xVKD)

30 Top picture looks like Pfizer's earnings report after the initial introduction of Viagra.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 11, 2024 11:12 AM (991eG)

31 hiya

Posted by: JT at March 11, 2024 11:13 AM (T4tVD)

32 Thx Buck. Subway makes its own bread . All they have to do is sell it as a stand alone item. That would be a kick in the teeth to the governmentalists
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 11, 2024 11:12 AM (8nE8r)

I mentioned this. It was then pointed out that the statue specifically states that the menu item must be in place PRIOR to a specific date, preventing ANYONE from offering their breads as a menu item to circumvent the policy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 11, 2024 11:13 AM (Zz0t1)

33 Top picture looks like Pfizer's earnings report after the initial introduction of Viagra.

Yes, but after 4 hours, that became a problem.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2024 11:13 AM (CsUN+)

34
The problem is actually related more to surging replacement and repair costs rather than due to natural disasters.

Talked to an insurance agent about homeowners insurance costs and he explained I could sell my house at $200 per square foot, but any repairs now cost insurance companies about $300 per square foot.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 11, 2024 11:13 AM (RKVpM)

35 Iowahawk has finally commented on necrophilian tendencies of the rich and famous.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 11, 2024 11:12 AM (4xVKD)

It's sometimes tough to eat your own.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 11, 2024 11:13 AM (Zz0t1)

36 I mentioned this. It was then pointed out that the statue specifically states that the menu item must be in place PRIOR to a specific date, preventing ANYONE from offering their breads as a menu item to circumvent the policy.

Of course it does. Asshoes.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2024 11:14 AM (CsUN+)

37 Willowed:

Odd that none of the dead Israeli children is ever a concern. Only Palestinian children.
Posted by: Montec at March 11, 2024 10:01 AM (bWsRe)

Media "news" is greatly responsible for this by refusing to cover *decades* of nearly constant missile barrages the Israelis have endured. Or that there *was* a ceasfire and this is a declared intifada.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 11, 2024 11:06 AM (XjtdB)

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 11, 2024 11:14 AM (XjtdB)

38 This is why the stock market is no useful metric of anything.

Also, I am sorry to miss the art thread. Figures.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson work phone at March 11, 2024 11:15 AM (5YGrl)

39
Of course it does. Asshoes.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2024 11:14 AM (CsUN+)

Owebama did the same thing with Owebamacare, so this really should surprise no one.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 11, 2024 11:15 AM (Zz0t1)

40 "Already they are urging a change in the Church’s teachings on homosexuality."
At the Altar of the Zeitgeist: German Bishops Launch ‘Queer’ Commission

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Rock of These Days, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in Thee

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 11, 2024 11:15 AM (FVME7)

41 Would love to see the collection of "experts" in the Labor Department show how they calculate the various employment and inflation rates. I get the feeling that a bunch of over educated twits use numbers which have no relation to reality. They find what they want it to be , not what it actually is.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 11, 2024 11:15 AM (8nE8r)

42 I worked at McDonalds and while I was 'good' I realized I hated people and wanted no part of a customer service job.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson work phone at March 11, 2024 11:16 AM (5YGrl)

43 "Already they are urging a change in the Church’s teachings on homosexuality."
At the Altar of the Zeitgeist: German Bishops Launch ‘Queer’ Commission

That's not how this works.

You just gonna remove that whole 'man shall not lay with another man' thing altogether and pretend it didn't exist?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 11, 2024 11:16 AM (Zz0t1)

44 @32 thx Sponge , didn't see that. Newsom protected his little buddy

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 11, 2024 11:17 AM (8nE8r)

45 Hasn't Target also been closing stores? You can show increased profit on declining overall sales if you close unprofitable stores. Not sure if that's what's been going on.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 11, 2024 11:17 AM (iFTx/)

46 Commit suicide, or wither away into dilapidation.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 11:08 AM (HnUIn)

Odds that those things will be deathtraps in the inevitable earthquake?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 11, 2024 11:17 AM (XjtdB)

47 Little Buddy!

Posted by: Skipper at March 11, 2024 11:17 AM (5YGrl)

48 18 McDonalds should add the “McBreadLoaf” to its value menu to get itself the same exemption that Newsom carved out for Greg Flynn and Panera.

Hell, just sell one unsliced hamburger bun. They don't define "loaf of bread" AFAIK, so why not?

Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2024 11:09 AM (CsUN+)

Newsom can play that game, too. He'll push a revision to the bill thru the Legislature stating only bakeries having a name beginning with the letter "P" get the exemption. And so on and on, as needed for the grift to continue.

Posted by: Gref at March 11, 2024 11:18 AM (5fDan)

49 I worked at McDonalds and while I was 'good' I realized I hated people and wanted no part of a customer service job.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

So you learned a valuable life lesson early.
Sounds like a really big *win* for you.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 11, 2024 11:18 AM (4xVKD)

50 @32 thx Sponge , didn't see that. Newsom protected his little buddy
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 11, 2024 11:17 AM (8nE8r)

Yep. Did everything BUT name the company specifically, but made SURE that it was so incredibly specified, only an extremely limited number would benefit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 11, 2024 11:18 AM (Zz0t1)

51 Of all the crappy low-level jobs one could obtain as a teen, fast food would have to be the worst.

I worked grounds crew at a golf course most summers (weed eating the edge of a sand trap is a blast!), also worked retail at a clothing store and CD store.

Never once did I have any interest in working fast food. Kudos to those who can and do.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 11, 2024 11:18 AM (KbCG3)

52 That "Panera" exception to the CA minimum wage law is even worse than you think, since it only applies to fast-food places that sell bread as a standalone item *and* did so prior to 2015 (IIRC). New companies, even if they are bakeries that also sell fast food, will be forced to comply with this law that Panera got grandfathered out of.

Posted by: Octochicken at March 11, 2024 11:18 AM (oCS0o)

53 The gov issued inflation index has been a lie for decades and so is the new jobs created lie.

Posted by: vic at March 11, 2024 11:18 AM (A5THL)

54 Biden proposes $10,000 tax breaks for first-time homebuyers, 'starter home' sellers.

I love it! But it won't help tax payers in high cost of living states - or as I like to call it . . . states where we take care of ourselves. The SALT Cap remains at 10K so that money will eat right into their ability to place their State or Property taxes in for the reduction. IF we could raise the SALT cap - then its good for everyone. If not - its just another transfer of income from a family of four in NJ in the 22% tax bracket.

How about limiting corporate investors who are gobbling up entire neighborhoods of single family homes and turning them into permanent rental communities? 10k more for a first time home buyer is meaningless when they're up against bottomless pockets.

Will it be retroactive? I'm still in my first home.

No. You and I get screwed, as usual. But it will help those who haven't been able to purchase their 1st home yet. We have 4 young adults out of college and looking to buy. They could use a leg up.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 11, 2024 11:18 AM (JCZqz)

55 Wait, does this mean Biden is going to target Target for destruction?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 11, 2024 11:19 AM (5YGrl)

56 Off economic Topic but everything wrong today with Western Media in one AP/CP chyron...

"Pakistani court sentences 22-year-old student to death after finding them guilty of insulting Islam's Prophet Muhammad."

And the TV news was going ape over the "Holy Month of Ramadan" in broadcast news. BTW, look out for Islamophobia against the assholes allowed to chant "Kill the Jews" outside of synagogues here. That's the real problem in the world today.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 11, 2024 11:19 AM (2yu8s)

57
I used to write one annual check for homeowners insurance but as my token complaint about the so much higher expense I now pay it monthly.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 11, 2024 11:19 AM (RKVpM)

58 McDonalds should add the “McBreadLoaf” to its value menu to get itself the same exemption that Newsom carved out for Greg Flynn and Panera.

Hell, just sell one unsliced hamburger bun. They don't define "loaf of bread" AFAIK, so why not?
Posted by: Archimedes

California is screwing themselves with the $20/hr fast food minimum wage law.

People are bitching about 3 hash browns costing $18 at a San Diego McDonald's. People have no clue about cause and effect.

If you have five workers at $20/hr, that business has to pull in way over $100/hr. And they can't when you factor in everything else.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 11, 2024 11:20 AM (uiWTm)

59 Wait, does this mean Biden is going to target Target for destruction?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 11, 2024 11:19 AM (5YGrl)

They still suck the tranny dick, so.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 11, 2024 11:20 AM (Zz0t1)

60 Elon quoted Auron MacIntyre this morning. I hope he can move the overton window.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 11, 2024 11:20 AM (cf/0E)

61 Biden proposes $10,000 tax breaks for first-time homebuyers, 'starter home' sellers.

Left unspoken: where does he get the money, when the Federal government is currently going in the hole to the tune of $1T every 100 days?

Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2024 11:20 AM (CsUN+)

62 See? It's all good.

Chalkboard Heresy 🍎🔥
@CBHeresy
1. Woman goes to Haiti to write about r*pe in Haiti being exaggerated.
2. Gets r*ped repeatedly by Haitian man.
3. Blames it on misdirected “Black rage” against “white world.”
4. Says she is “grateful for the experience.”

White liberal women are not well.

https://tinyurl.com/mzxnaycd

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 11, 2024 11:20 AM (FVME7)

63 Corpse defilement is what the Demoncrats do to all of us each and every day (well, except those of y'all in the gated communities, you're not dead yet).

Posted by: XTC at March 11, 2024 11:21 AM (UnA8+)

64 Elon quoted Auron MacIntyre this morning.

Is Auron MacIntyre related to Auric Goldfinger?

Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2024 11:22 AM (CsUN+)

65 Chalkboard Heresy 🍎🔥
@CBHeresy
1. Woman goes to Haiti to write about r*pe in Haiti being exaggerated.
2. Gets r*ped repeatedly by Haitian man.
3. Blames it on misdirected “Black rage” against “white world.”
4. Says she is “grateful for the experience.”

Holy shit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 11, 2024 11:22 AM (R4t5M)

66 I used to write one annual check for homeowners insurance but as my token complaint about the so much higher expense I now pay it monthly.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

Based on the inflation rate you are decreasing the real value of the payment.
Good job!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 11, 2024 11:22 AM (4xVKD)

67 Disney seeking approval to expand Californian theme park. Proposal would not increase company's geographic footprint. Plan would allow for new attractions on unused spaces over the next 40 years.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 11, 2024 11:22 AM (2yu8s)

68 Sounds like a really big *win* for you.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 11, 2024 11:18 AM (4xVKD)

Well, yeah. I hated it, and that was good info. Motivation.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 11, 2024 11:22 AM (5YGrl)

69 Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 11, 2024 11:19 AM (RKVpM)

I used to pay annually because it gave me a discount. It doesn't any more so I don't any more.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 11, 2024 11:22 AM (XjtdB)

70 you want crappy jobs as a teen? How abut dragging a push mower around knocking on doors to ask if hey want their lawn mowed. and even better was going around trying to sell greeting cards.

Posted by: vic at March 11, 2024 11:22 AM (A5THL)

71 ... No. You and I get screwed, as usual. But it will help those who haven't been able to purchase their 1st home yet. We have 4 young adults out of college and looking to buy. They could use a leg up.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 11, 2024 11:18 AM (JCZqz)
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So how about agitating for normalizing interest rates instead, which will push down prices (and, as a consequence, down payments) back toward the historically rational level of 3x income? This would be good for all purchasers.

But it would be bad for banks and those who live on cashed-out equity. Can't have that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 11:23 AM (HnUIn)

72 52 That "Panera" exception to the CA minimum wage law is even worse than you think, since it only applies to fast-food places that sell bread as a standalone item *and* did so prior to 2015 (IIRC). New companies, even if they are bakeries that also sell fast food, will be forced to comply with this law that Panera got grandfathered out of.
Posted by: Octochicken at March 11, 2024 11:18 AM (oCS0o)
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actually 2023.

I'm interested in how this plays out due to the law of unintended circumstances.

If every other fast food joint is paying $25, will Panera have trouble attracting and retaining workers?

Posted by: WisRich at March 11, 2024 11:23 AM (G0vdT)

73 The Company Man is a great Utoob channel about various businesses and industries.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 11, 2024 11:23 AM (4tBH8)

74 54 Biden proposes $10,000 tax breaks for first-time homebuyers, 'starter home' sellers.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 11, 2024 11:18 AM (JCZqz)

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A ten thousand dollar tax break? You mean, what amounts to a rounding error in the final price of a home?

Also, tax breaks are just how people don't pay their fair share. Why do these good progressives want to increase the number of people who don't pay their fair share?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 11, 2024 11:23 AM (GBKbO)

75 @CBHeresy
1. Woman goes to Haiti to write about r*pe in Haiti being exaggerated.
2. Gets r*ped repeatedly by Haitian man.
3. Blames it on misdirected “Black rage” against “white world.”
4. Says she is “grateful for the experience.”

White liberal women are not well.

https://tinyurl.com/mzxnaycd
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 11, 2024 11:20 AM (FVME7)

If you had 'accept rape as a blessing that gives you understanding of the black plight' on your bingo card, please go to the window to collect your winnings.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 11, 2024 11:23 AM (Zz0t1)

76 Never worked fast food or retail as a kid. I spent summers working with a local farmer haying. Picked up bales of hay, stacked the wagon until full then off to the barn to unload and stack inside.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 11, 2024 11:24 AM (N39Ws)

77 McDonalds should add the “McBreadLoaf” to its value menu to get itself the same exemption that Newsom carved out for Greg Flynn and Panera.

Hell, just sell one unsliced hamburger bun. They don't define "loaf of bread" AFAIK, so why not?

Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2024 11:09 AM (CsUN+)

Newsom can play that game, too. He'll push a revision to the bill thru the Legislature stating only bakeries having a name beginning with the letter "P" get the exemption. And so on and on, as needed for the grift to continue.
Posted by: Gref

McDonald's files paperwork to change name to PcDonald's.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 11, 2024 11:24 AM (uiWTm)

78 Holy shit.
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Ramadan!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 11, 2024 11:24 AM (2yu8s)

79 It can be lunch time

Posted by: Skip at March 11, 2024 11:24 AM (jAw5X)

80 Newsom can play that game, too. He'll push a revision to the bill thru the Legislature stating only bakeries having a name beginning with the letter "P" get the exemption. And so on and on, as needed for the grift to continue.
Posted by: Gref

McDonald's files paperwork to change name to PcDonald's.

I guess Pizza Hut qualifies, since they make "bread".

Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2024 11:25 AM (CsUN+)

81 If every other fast food joint is paying $25, will Panera have trouble attracting and retaining workers?
Posted by: WisRich at March 11, 2024 11:23 AM (G0vdT)
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No, señor. ¡Aceptaré salarios más bajos si eso significa ir a trabajar en El Norte!

Posted by: Illegal Alien at March 11, 2024 11:25 AM (HnUIn)

82 That story reminds me of the couple who went on a trip around the world to show how everyone was the same and fundamentally good and they both ended up raped and murdered in... was it Afghanistan or kazakstan?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 11, 2024 11:25 AM (5YGrl)

83 @62 posted about this in the art thread. This is what we are up against with "woke". I , unfortunately, know women like this and any interaction I have with them "have a nice day".

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 11, 2024 11:25 AM (8nE8r)

84 you want crappy jobs as a teen? How abut dragging a push mower around knocking on doors to ask if hey want their lawn mowed. and even better was going around trying to sell greeting cards.
Posted by: vic

Mower in summer. Snow shovel in winter.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 11, 2024 11:25 AM (uiWTm)

85
I guess Pizza Hut qualifies, since they make "bread".
Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2024 11:25 AM (CsUN+)

But they didn't have it as an individual menu item in 2015, so.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 11, 2024 11:25 AM (Zz0t1)

86 Just got back from the week's main grocery haul. The prices are what make me optimistic about possibly beating Brandon. However great their resources are, they are not infinite, and I'm hoping this inflation will lead to making many "non-swing" states competitive.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 11, 2024 11:25 AM (1bNHn)

87 Does any restaurant that give you warm rolls with dinner now qualify as a bakery?

Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2024 11:26 AM (CsUN+)

88 My sincere apologies to Buck Throckmorton for having Moscow-on-the-Colorado in the People’s Republic of Travis County as his hometown.

Keep Austin 80 Miles North Of San Antonio On I-35.

I’ve been working, one way or another, since I was 15. Weird how all of a sudden working as a teenager is suddenly frowned upon.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 11, 2024 11:26 AM (L8s/5)

89 Does any restaurant that give you warm rolls with dinner now qualify as a bakery?
Posted by: Archimedes

Olive Garden. Any Italian restaurant.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 11, 2024 11:27 AM (uiWTm)

90 you want crappy jobs as a teen? How abut dragging a push mower around knocking on doors to ask if hey want their lawn mowed. and even better was going around trying to sell greeting cards.
Posted by: vic

- - Get summer job with local real estate agent

- - Spend summer shoveling horse shit out of stalls in barns during 100+ degree days for $5 an hour

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 11, 2024 11:27 AM (Zz0t1)

91 actually 2023.

I'm interested in how this plays out due to the law of unintended circumstances.

If every other fast food joint is paying $25, will Panera have trouble attracting and retaining workers?

Posted by: WisRich at March 11, 2024 11:23 AM (G0vdT)

Ah, thanks for the correction. By creating the Panera exception, Newsom may have unintentionally created the breakeven wage point for fastfood employers. Panera might be able to resist automating everything because it won't have to pay its workers as much. It'll definitely be interesting either way.

Posted by: Octochicken at March 11, 2024 11:27 AM (oCS0o)

92 70 you want crappy jobs as a teen? How abut dragging a push mower around knocking on doors to ask if hey want their lawn mowed. and even better was going around trying to sell greeting cards.
Posted by: vic at March 11, 2024 11:22 AM (A5THL)

Especially crappy job because greeting cards were on stone tablets in those days.

Posted by: Taken For Granite at March 11, 2024 11:27 AM (V5BDR)

93 I guess Pizza Hut qualifies, since they make "bread".
Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2024 11:25 AM (CsUN+)

But they didn't have it as an individual menu item in 2015, so.........

Yeah, well, we had the vegans who only wanted the bread, no cheese or sausage. Prove we didn't.

Posted by: Pizza Hut at March 11, 2024 11:27 AM (CsUN+)

94
I'm interested in how this plays out due to the law of unintended circumstances.
If every other fast food joint is paying $25, will Panera have trouble attracting and retaining workers?

Posted by: WisRich at March 11, 2024 11:23 AM

They'll still have workers but they'll be dumb as shit. The smart ones are down the road making $10,000 a year more in income.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 11, 2024 11:27 AM (RKVpM)

95 Honestly, at this point, I admire any high school kid who's able to work at all.

Tons of places simply will not hire under-18s anymore. This was starting when I was a teenager. I tried to find work and nobody would hire a kid 16-18. I dunno if it was liability or adequate older labor supply, but tons of places just wouldn't hire. The supermarket would (I failed to get hired there), but that's about it. The hardware store would, too, but only sort of - it was a family shop and they hired family.

I was able to work as a babysitter, though.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 11:27 AM (HnUIn)

96 It's easy to keep to your Keto diet in Haiti.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 11, 2024 11:27 AM (cf/0E)

97 When you have people like the dude from Panera super eager to jump into bed with Governor Newsom to arrange sweetheart deals on minimum wage, it is a sign that GOVERNMENT IS TOO BLOODY BIG.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 11, 2024 11:27 AM (L8s/5)

98 was it Afghanistan or kazakstan?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 11, 2024 11:25 AM (5YGrl)

A couple *just* got severely beaten and the woman gang raped in India. Americans have *no* idea how wonderful even our degraded culture is compared to the norm.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 11, 2024 11:28 AM (XjtdB)

99 In a sane world, Panera paying low wages to staff would be a deterrent from anyone seeking employment there.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 11, 2024 11:28 AM (Zz0t1)

100 No, señor. ¡Aceptaré salarios más bajos si eso significa ir a trabajar en El Norte!
Posted by: Illegal Alien

Lol...like they get paid anything like minimum wage.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at March 11, 2024 11:28 AM (JCZqz)

101 Just got back from the week's main grocery haul. The prices are what make me optimistic about possibly beating Brandon. However great their resources are, they are not infinite, and I'm hoping this inflation will lead to making many "non-swing" states competitive.

Don't expect to hear about it on CNN.

https://tinyurl.com/swadcdhk

Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2024 11:29 AM (CsUN+)

102 If I were given the choice of hiring either this young man who worked part-time at Burger King while going to school, or hiring an Ivy Leaguer with a resume loaded with faux-community service and prestigious internships - but no real-world job experience - I would hire the Burger King kid in a heartbeat.
*
THIS
Posted by: Lizzy at March 11, 2024

***
The Burger King kid will already have a hatred of humanity and a desire to crush and punish everyone he can, so *that* will be a win!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 11, 2024 11:29 AM (J2vNu)

103 95 Honestly, at this point, I admire any high school kid who's able to work at all.

Tons of places simply will not hire under-18s anymore. This was starting when I was a teenager. I tried to find work and nobody would hire a kid 16-18. I dunno if it was liability or adequate older labor supply, but tons of places just wouldn't hire. The supermarket would (I failed to get hired there), but that's about it. The hardware store would, too, but only sort of - it was a family shop and they hired family.

I was able to work as a babysitter, though.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 11:27 AM (HnUIn)

At the store I moonlight at, there is a prominent list outside the office that indicates the 15 year olds that work there and the rules that come with them (not working certain hours, school accommodations, etc). But this is TX and things might be different where you are.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 11, 2024 11:30 AM (L8s/5)

104 75 @CBHeresy
1. Woman goes to Haiti to write about r*pe in Haiti being exaggerated.
2. Gets r*ped repeatedly by Haitian man.
3. Blames it on misdirected “Black rage” against “white world.”
4. Says she is “grateful for the experience.”

White liberal women are not well.

https://tinyurl.com/mzxnaycd
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 11, 2024 11:20 AM (FVME7)

I haven't read the story (just saw the headline), but I claim mental illness hallucination - this didn't happen...at least not the way she said it did...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 11, 2024 11:30 AM (exHjb)

105 An article said a judge specified that the Panera rule didn't apply to any placed that didn't make the bread on site from scratch.
None of the big fast food places, including Panera, make their bread from scratch onsite.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 11, 2024 11:30 AM (4xVKD)

106 This one includes Peter, Ray, and Winston from the first films, and was co-written by Ivan Reitman (who directed the first film) and his son Jason. Jason masterminded the grand Ghostbusters: Afterlife film from 2021.

Possibly good???

I've been following the development on it and it looks good. The US trailer and promos are playing up the nostalgia again (the non-US trailers and promos aren't for whatever reason), but it's an all-new story drawing on some elements from the 80s Real Ghostbusters cartoon. Yes, they're doing the opposite of Disney and making the 'expanded universe' canon.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 11, 2024 11:30 AM (2ocoG)

107
A couple *just* got severely beaten and the woman gang raped in India. Americans have *no* idea how wonderful even our degraded culture is compared to the norm.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 11, 2024 11:28 AM (XjtdB)

Some couple of a Spanish origin were motorcycling around the world and were assaulted, robbed and she was raped.

They took to social media to tell everyone that's not the norm and everyone should feel free to visit the beautiful country of India immediately.

This happened in the city, not a rural area.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 11, 2024 11:30 AM (Zz0t1)

108 96 It's easy to keep to your Keto diet in Haiti.
Posted by: BourbonChicken

I think it's more Atkins/protein-based than keto/fat-based, as there probably aren't many fat Hatians to eat.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at March 11, 2024 11:31 AM (JCZqz)

109 I haven't read the story (just saw the headline), but I claim mental illness hallucination - this didn't happen...at least not the way she said it did...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 11, 2024 11:30

I'd like to prefer that. That delusion and mental illness is preferable to this one.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 11, 2024 11:31 AM (5YGrl)

110 I've been following the development on it and it looks good. The US trailer and promos are playing up the nostalgia again (the non-US trailers and promos aren't for whatever reason), but it's an all-new story drawing on some elements from the 80s Real Ghostbusters cartoon. Yes, they're doing the opposite of Disney and making the 'expanded universe' canon.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 11, 2024 11:30 AM (2ocoG)

They've made the HUGE mistake of casting Patton Oswald in a significant role, so the new Ghostbusters can FO. I won't be seeing it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 11, 2024 11:32 AM (Zz0t1)

111 Tons of places simply will not hire under-18s anymore. This was starting when I was a teenager.

same here, pretty much the grocery store and that was about it. I managed to find a driving range that hired me on but was a small family-owned place

and mowing lawns as a teen was priced out by the immigrant lawn crews that would do it in 1/3 the time it would take a teen, and for the same price

Posted by: brak at March 11, 2024 11:32 AM (25k9m)

112 @98 the woke mind virus infects the Islamic world also . A couple of years ago a woman decided in Turkey to walk around the country in a wedding dress to love for all people. She was raped , murdered and left in a roadside ditch a couple of days into her journey.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 11, 2024 11:32 AM (8nE8r)

113 Flynn and Newsom went to HS together and were business partners in the past.

Also McDonalds can’t do anything because the bill specifically says to qualify for the exemption, the store must have been making read as of 9/15/23.

And double also, Flynn said he will pay $20 now due to the blowback.

Posted by: Montec at March 11, 2024 11:32 AM (bWsRe)

114 106 I've been following the development on it and it looks good. The US trailer and promos are playing up the nostalgia again (the non-US trailers and promos aren't for whatever reason), but it's an all-new story drawing on some elements from the 80s Real Ghostbusters cartoon. Yes, they're doing the opposite of Disney and making the 'expanded universe' canon.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 11, 2024 11:30 AM (2ocoG)

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Afterlife was nostalgic trash...that I really enjoyed.

Frozen Empire is being directed by Gil Keanan, an underrecognized filmmaker of good quality (Monster House is a gem), while also scripted by Keanan and Jason Reitman. I have some hope. I'll probably take Junior to the theater for it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 11, 2024 11:32 AM (GBKbO)

115 WPRI 12
@wpri12
An unlawfully present Honduran man wanted for murder was arrested by Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in Warwick.

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Shouldn't that be, "An unlawfully present Honduran man wanted for unlawful murder"?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 11, 2024 11:32 AM (FVME7)

116 They'll still have workers but they'll be dumb as shit. The smart ones are down the road making $10,000 a year more in income.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

I'll be devil's advocate here.
If Panera pays less it'll have lots of very young '1st job' applicants because it'll be paying closer to what those workers are worth.
It'll also have huge turnoff of employees after they have a work history.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 11, 2024 11:32 AM (4xVKD)

117 62
‘ Says she is “grateful for the experience.” ’

I’ll bet she went to Haiti with this “experience “ in mind.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 11, 2024 11:32 AM (jbnUc)

118 Not surprised at all a young kid who earned hourly wage would be more responsible later in life.

Posted by: Skip at March 11, 2024 11:32 AM (jAw5X)

119 100 No, señor. ¡Aceptaré salarios más bajos si eso significa ir a trabajar en El Norte!
Posted by: Illegal Alien

Lol...like they get paid anything like minimum wage.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at March 11, 2024 11:28 AM (JCZqz)
______
Sure they do. Twenty-five pesos an hour.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 11, 2024 11:33 AM (1bNHn)

120 In an era where $4.25/ hr was minimum wage, I worked at an amusement park for cash under the table $1.50/hr to start and got myself to double that when I left when I turned 18 and developed enough experience to be hired elsewhere.

They were instrumental in getting me a much better paying job down the road. I applied at a warehouse and when they called down to the amusement park, their response: Hire this guy. Right now.

Starting out young pays off later on.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 11, 2024 11:33 AM (L8s/5)

121 Thx Buck. Subway makes its own bread . All they have to do is sell it as a stand alone item. That would be a kick in the teeth to the governmentalists
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 11, 2024 11:12 AM (8nE8r)

Jimmy Johns is probably pretty happy with this. they've had "day old bread" available for a dollar for ever. and it's usually just 4-6 hours old. great for either making subs at home since their portions have gotten so bad, or for use as garlic bread to go with italian dinners....

Posted by: SturmToddler at March 11, 2024 11:33 AM (bving)

122 I haven't read the story (just saw the headline), but I claim mental illness hallucination - this didn't happen...at least not the way she said it did...
Posted by: Nova Local

Her story of gang rape by desperate, impoverished Black men is SOOOO sexy...

Posted by: E. Jean Carroll at March 11, 2024 11:33 AM (JCZqz)

123
Yeah, when we were 15 and 16 we could work but a lot of machinery we weren't permitted to operate. 'Kids' may be allowed to work the cash register but not dip fries into hot oil.

I remember putting bottles on an assembly line, pumping gas, and baling paper when I was that age. Plus going to school and participating in after school sports.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 11, 2024 11:33 AM (RKVpM)

124 Afterlife was nostalgic trash...that I really enjoyed.

Frozen Empire is being directed by Gil Keanan, an underrecognized filmmaker of good quality (Monster House is a gem), while also scripted by Keanan and Jason Reitman. I have some hope. I'll probably take Junior to the theater for it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 11, 2024 11:32 AM (GBKbO)

There is one Ghostbusters movie and a second there shall never be.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 11, 2024 11:34 AM (L8s/5)

125 95 Honestly, at this point, I admire any high school kid who's able to work at all.

Tons of places simply will not hire under-18s anymore. This was starting when I was a teenager. I tried to find work and nobody would hire a kid 16-18. I dunno if it was liability or adequate older labor supply, but tons of places just wouldn't hire. The supermarket would (I failed to get hired there), but that's about it. The hardware store would, too, but only sort of - it was a family shop and they hired family.

I was able to work as a babysitter, though.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 11:27 AM (HnUIn)

Exactly - my kids were not hireable til 18 (now, the one was Covid era...and the 2nd tried at 16 and was turned down, so she want to work for herself with digital art - she is still gonna do that this summer and then at 18, look for real). But at 18, I make them get summer jobs...we'll see if my boys fare better than my girls on the age problem.

Now, I spend their 16th summer as the "learn to drive and get a license summer", so they have a shot at a job at 17...since pretty much the only easy hires under 18 are lifeguards around here, and mine don't swim well enough...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 11, 2024 11:34 AM (exHjb)

126 The exemption was idiotic anyway. Anyone working at Panera for $16/hr would quit and go across the street to Taco Bell for $20/hr.

Panera would never keep any employees paying $4/hr less than everyone else.

Posted by: Montec at March 11, 2024 11:35 AM (bWsRe)

127 126 The exemption was idiotic anyway. Anyone working at Panera for $16/hr would quit and go across the street to Taco Bell for $20/hr.

Panera would never keep any employees paying $4/hr less than everyone else.
Posted by: Montec at March 11, 2024 11:35 AM (bWsRe)

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What if Taco Bell isn't hiring?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 11, 2024 11:35 AM (GBKbO)

128 I haven't read the story (just saw the headline), but I claim mental illness hallucination - this didn't happen...at least not the way she said it did...
Posted by: Nova Local

You mean she E. Jean Carrolled it?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 11, 2024 11:35 AM (FVME7)

129 What if Taco Bell isn't hiring?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 11, 2024 11:35 AM (GBKbO)
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Then it sucks to be you.

After the Franchise Wars, all jobs are Taco Bell.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 11:36 AM (HnUIn)

130 Just because...

LETS DANCE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb9M_k0SM-4

Posted by: Jimmy Carter at March 11, 2024 11:36 AM (X4yCj)

131 The insurance for my home and car went up but not that much. The insurance for my business skyrocketed

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 11, 2024 11:36 AM (pVWRI)

132 129 Then it sucks to be you.

After the Franchise Wars, all jobs are Taco Bell.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 11:36 AM (HnUIn)

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I need to fund my three seashells!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 11, 2024 11:36 AM (GBKbO)

133 This one includes Peter, Ray, and Winston from the first films, and was co-written by Ivan Reitman (who directed the first film) and his son Jason. Jason masterminded the grand Ghostbusters: Afterlife film from 2021.

Possibly good???
*
I've been following the development on it and it looks good. The US trailer and promos are playing up the nostalgia again (the non-US trailers and promos aren't for whatever reason), but it's an all-new story drawing on some elements from the 80s Real Ghostbusters cartoon. Yes, they're doing the opposite of Disney and making the 'expanded universe' canon.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 11, 2024 1

***
I hadn't even heard a whisper about the new film!

The Eighties Real Ghostbusters animated series at its best was very good -- the story with the Sandman, for instance, and a werewolf episode, and a background story that involved Winston's ancestors in Africa. They kept the characters' personalities and dialog very similar to the first film, too.

Looks like I'm gonna grit my teeth, pony up some $$, and check out this movie when it opens!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 11, 2024 11:36 AM (J2vNu)

134 A couple *just* got severely beaten and the woman gang raped in India. Americans have *no* idea how wonderful even our degraded culture is compared to the norm.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 11, 2024 11:28 AM (XjtdB)

Americans are spoiled brats.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 11, 2024 11:36 AM (L8s/5)

135 What if Taco Bell isn't hiring?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 11, 2024 11:35 AM (GBKbO)

They’re always hiring. Fast food employee turnover is crazy high.

Posted by: Montec at March 11, 2024 11:36 AM (bWsRe)

136 Eeeenteresting. From Insty.

HIDDEN J6 TESTIMONY REVEALED: The Epoch Times’s Zachary Steiber’s report raises two huge questions regarding the events leading up to the January 6, 2021, riot:

Question 1: Why did the Democrats January 6 select committee claim it “found no evidence” that then-President Donald Trump offered to get 10,000 National Guard troops for the Mayor of D.C. when the committee heard direct testimony that Trump did make that offer and it was rejected?

Question 2: Does this evidence that the Democrats January 6 select committee hid from the American public tell us why Trump has never been charged with inciting insurrection????

I suppose that would have allowed Trump to use discovery, which clearly the Dems and Liz (BIRM) didn't want.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2024 11:36 AM (CsUN+)

137 Never worked fast food or retail as a kid. I spent summers working with a local farmer haying. Picked up bales of hay, stacked the wagon until full then off to the barn to unload and stack inside.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

That's hard work. I did that on occasson at the camp that I worked at, as they drafted people on staff to stack hay for the horses. It would kill most people if they had to do it every day.

On topic: Panera is fast food? Never seemed that fast to me.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at March 11, 2024 11:37 AM (vcOmj)

138 This used to be one of the standard gateways into the workforce for young men and women. It was a great way to instill a solid work ethic in them and give them some keen life experiences for later...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 11, 2024 11:09 AM (7fElN)

Learning how to work is important and an underrated thing to figure out.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 11, 2024 11:37 AM (L8s/5)

139 I've always marveled at Panera. Get a cup of coffee, use the free WiFi, sit in a pleasant atmosphere as long as you want. It can be your temporary office. Meet with clients, conduct interviews, the whole bit.
What companies compete with Panera?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 11, 2024 11:38 AM (4tBH8)

140 Mathy...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 11, 2024 11:39 AM (DeFcY)

141 You just gonna remove that whole 'man shall not lay with another man' thing altogether and pretend it didn't exist?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 11, 2024 11:16 AM (Zz0t1)

Hey, man, that wasn't God, that was just the Joos trying to harsh our mellow. God knows love means love and shit. -- German Bishops

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2024 11:39 AM (z99Zw)

142 After the Franchise Wars, all jobs are Taco Bell.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

My youngest son worked at Taco Bell when he was a teenager. What an awful place to work. They treated him like crap. One night, he just walked out and never went back.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at March 11, 2024 11:39 AM (vcOmj)

143 That bread carve out is even worse because it doesn't apply to restaurants that start baking bread and selling it after September 15th, 2023.

And strangely no body knows how it got put into the law, not even the lead that wrote the bills says he knows how it got put in there!

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 11, 2024 11:39 AM (++4z6)

144 I've eaten at Panera exactly one time in my life.

Resulted in some of the worst gas I've ever had.

Conclusion: Avoid that place like it's a drag show story hour.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 11, 2024 11:39 AM (Zz0t1)

145 24 I haven't been in a Target since they started their tranny bathroom policy and I'm pretty sure that was many, many years ago.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 11, 2024 11:11 AM (BxvY+)

When I saw ads indicating they’re wholeheartedly supporting segregation by race, I was done with them. I’m old enough to remember when that was seen as a bad thing.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 11, 2024 11:39 AM (L8s/5)

146 On topic: Panera is fast food? Never seemed that fast to me.
Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at March 11, 2024 11:37 AM (vcOmj)
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Panera is a market segment called "Fast Casual." These are restaurants like Panera, Pei Wei, etc. It's a different thing from both fast food ("quick service") and casual dining (think Applebees, IHOP, etc.). It splits the difference between the two.

But from a regulatory standpoint, "fast casual" is often considered "quick service" since those establishments are closer to fast food than they are to casual dining in terms of operation (no waiters, self-service drinks, self-service busing in some of them, etc.).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 11:40 AM (HnUIn)

147 99 In a sane world, Panera paying low wages to staff would be a deterrent from anyone seeking employment there.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 11, 2024 11:28 AM (Zz0t1)

Sane fast-food corporation CEOs will invest more dollars faster in robots, to do practically everything in their fast-food restaurants. Then Cali will have to spend MOAR on Universal Basic Income as fewer and fewer people can get the fast-food jobs. Or, Cali Legislature passes a bill requiring fast food restaurants to have at least X number of employees working per hour or day. For "safety reasons" or some BS justification the courts may buy. Woke is an endless racket for the Woke and the fake Woke-sters.

Posted by: Gref at March 11, 2024 11:40 AM (5fDan)

148 Favorite job I had in HS was working at an amusement park. Everyone there was 15-20ish, high school and college peeps and it was a really fun atmosphere.

Posted by: Montec at March 11, 2024 11:40 AM (bWsRe)

149 My kid is going to become the next Bill gates. Work. Pffttt...... He needs to concentrate on his school work. Besides, he has 4 tennis camps this summer to become the next Pete Sampras.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 11, 2024 11:40 AM (R4t5M)

150 Hasn't Target also been closing stores? You can show increased profit on declining overall sales if you close unprofitable stores. Not sure if that's what's been going on.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 11, 2024 11:17 AM (iFTx/)

Not unlike showing increased profit via layoffs... until the lack of productivity bites the next CEO in the ass. Still, that's their problem.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2024 11:40 AM (z99Zw)

151 I've eaten at Panera exactly one time in my life.

Resulted in some of the worst gas I've ever had.

Conclusion: Avoid that place like it's a drag show story hour.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 11, 2024 11:39 AM (Zz0t1)
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Counterpoint: Panera is often a great place to go bird watching.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 11:40 AM (HnUIn)

152 139 I've always marveled at Panera. Get a cup of coffee, use the free WiFi, sit in a pleasant atmosphere as long as you want. It can be your temporary office. Meet with clients, conduct interviews, the whole bit.
What companies compete with Panera?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 11, 2024 11:38 AM (4tBH

Starbucks and DD for coffee and sitting...
Pretty much every sub place for sandwiches...
And Great Harvest Bread Co for bread and pastries...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 11, 2024 11:40 AM (exHjb)

153 That bread carve out is even worse because it doesn't apply to restaurants that start baking bread and selling it after September 15th, 2023.

And strangely no body knows how it got put into the law, not even the lead that wrote the bills says he knows how it got put in there!

A complete lack of shame is the Democrat's superpower.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2024 11:41 AM (CsUN+)

154 Panera is the Subaru of fast food.

Posted by: Montec at March 11, 2024 11:41 AM (bWsRe)

155 ++++
Counterpoint: Panera is often a great place to go bird watching.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 11:40 AM (HnUIn)

You can do that from the parking lot.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 11, 2024 11:41 AM (Zz0t1)

156 Working when you're a teen and over summer in college,

is a great motivator for learning what you absolutely do not want to do for a living and getting you to work hard enough to get where you want to be.

All of that lawn-mowing and babysitting when I was too you to be hired, fast food, nursery(plants, yo!), oil rig work, welder's helper, wine and cheese shop, bartending, life insurance physicals work-

made sure that I worked hard as hell in school, once I started figuring things out.

A simultaneous Yay! and boo! for young naturalfake.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 11, 2024 11:41 AM (nFnyb)

157 Who will stop the winds?

Posted by: Skip at March 11, 2024 11:41 AM (jAw5X)

158 Geez! Police Academy is no joke!

https://tinyurl.com/5n78z5ny

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 11, 2024 11:41 AM (FVME7)

159 Yay, this means I get a raise!

What do you mean I’m fired?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 11, 2024 11:41 AM (u73oe)

160 McDonalds should add the “McBreadLoaf” to its value menu to get itself the same exemption that Newsom carved out for Greg Flynn and Panera.
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This made me think of a NatLamp squib from the 70s. In one of their many, many satires of the Soviet Union, they had a "news article" announcing that the Russians were opening a fast food chain in the U.S. called "Burger Czar." Their only offering was a giant seeded roll. Their motto was, "Have it OUR way."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 11, 2024 11:42 AM (DeFcY)

161 This bikini blonde remembers being able to afford going out to eat, but that was before Year Zero:
http://tiny.cc/v59jxz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 11:42 AM (HnUIn)

162 My wife likes Panera and goes there occasionally. It’s like $20 for a sandwich and a drink. But it is good I’ll give them that.

Posted by: Montec at March 11, 2024 11:42 AM (bWsRe)

163 Attention Target Shoppers! There are fewer of you here, you're buying less, but you're paying more for it and, you'll love this, we're making a bigger profit off you!

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at March 11, 2024 11:42 AM (XXe9x)

164 78 Holy shit.
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Ramadan!!!
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 11, 2024 11:24 AM (2yu8s)

And when Ramadan ends…eclipse time.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 11, 2024 11:43 AM (L8s/5)

165 157 Who will stop the winds?
Posted by: Skip at March 11, 2024 11:41 AM (jAw5X)

Right? We're getting some roof work done. Guy was out this morning to take some measurements but decided it was too risky.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 11, 2024 11:43 AM (T+Iwg)

166 In my town, all fast food pays $16-18 an hour. Even though the minimum wage is well below that. The market drove wages up. And every single place has a “we’re hiring” sign.

Posted by: Montec at March 11, 2024 11:43 AM (bWsRe)

167 I've eaten at Panera once or twice.

Meh.

Haven't been back cuz brown bagging it tastes better.

I don't see how they stay in business.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 11, 2024 11:43 AM (nFnyb)

168 Interesting. So the rule in CA is that city governments *must* comply with zoning mandating high-density development (that's what this "affordable housing" stuff is really about - creating high-rise, high-density ghettos like we quit building by the 70s for a reason, then started tearing down) or they cannot fight the entropy that embeds all construction.

Commit suicide, or wither away into dilapidation.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 11:08 AM (HnUIn)

If the city of Hollywood wants to fight this, they should simply stop requiring a building permit for renovations.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 11, 2024 11:43 AM (tkR6S)

169
Who will stop the winds?

Posted by: Skip at March 11, 2024 11:41 AM

We're still under a warning until 8 pm tonight. Gusts to 55 mph. I have a mess to clean up from a huge freaking branch but no way am I working under a tree line until this passes.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 11, 2024 11:44 AM (RKVpM)

170
I don't see how they stay in business.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 11, 2024 11:43 AM (nFnyb)

Fresh, clean, ORRRGGGAANNNNIIIICCCCC ingredients........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 11, 2024 11:44 AM (Zz0t1)

171 154 Panera is the Subaru of fast food.
Posted by: Montec at March 11, 2024 11:41 AM (bWsRe)

So they don’t actually sell food but are instead a division of United Way?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 11, 2024 11:44 AM (L8s/5)

172 BLM Grifter Talcum X Converts To Islam As Ramadan Starts: ‘My Heart Is With My Dearest Friends In Gaza‘

Left-wing activist and former Black Lives Matter lobbyist Shaun King chose the first night of Ramadan to publicly reveal his embrace of Islam, with supporters exclaiming “Allahu Akbar” at the news.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 11, 2024 11:44 AM (2yu8s)

173 Never once did I have any interest in working fast food. Kudos to those who can and do. Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 11, 2024 11:18 AM (KbCG3)

In our town, Jack in the Box was the job of last resort; if you couldn't find anything else, you could always work at Jack.

As a high school kid, I was a longshoreman unloading ore ships, a contractor repairing porches in an apartment building, stock boy in a plumbing supply shop, yard mower, sod layer, and best job of all, I worked in a combination pawn shop/liquor store/gun store. Everyone worked. My high school girlfriend managed the lingerie section at a department store. There was a very strong expectation that you were going to work at the refineries after graduation -- the only people who went to college were premeds, chemical engineers, and football players (and girls could be teachers).

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 11, 2024 11:44 AM (r5tfK)

174 Excellent rant and topic, Buck. I will take folks with practical experience over stupid credentials any day.

Titty-Caca as the case in point: Degree from BU in economics and doesn't know shit.

Posted by: Danimal28 at March 11, 2024 11:45 AM (klw0w)

175 We're still under a warning until 8 pm tonight. Gusts to 55 mph. I have a mess to clean up from a huge freaking branch but no way am I working under a tree line until this passes.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 11, 2024 11:44 AM (RKVpM)

We got this weather yesterday. Blew some trees down.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 11, 2024 11:45 AM (R4t5M)

176 Cali banned single family home zoning statewide. Yet somehow, I’m pretty sure no apartment buildings will be built in Beverly Hills or Los Gatos.

Posted by: Montec at March 11, 2024 11:45 AM (bWsRe)

177 I worked Burger King through college.

I remember being stoked at a 15 cent raise.

Times have changed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 11, 2024 11:45 AM (GBKbO)

178 I've always marveled at Panera. Get a cup of coffee, use the free WiFi, sit in a pleasant atmosphere as long as you want. It can be your temporary office. Meet with clients, conduct interviews, the whole bit.
What companies compete with Panera?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 11, 2024

***
At one time, I used to have a coffee and a asiago cheese bagel at one of the Paneras in Denver nearly every morning when I lived there. And before I got Internet at home, I used to go there on Saturday and Sunday mornings to read and post here.

Then they turned into Face Diaper True Believers. When that finally passed, I discovered they had hired some of the rudest employees I'd ever seen . . . and their prices are ridiculous now. Occasionally I'll stop there if I *have* to kill some time before an appointment, but it's rare.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 11, 2024 11:46 AM (J2vNu)

179 Rich California leftists provide the funding for the communists who are now targeting rich California leftists.

That’s a shame. Anyway…

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* A hungry crocodile has entered the chat *

Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 11, 2024 11:46 AM (/SEnn)

180 This guy is thinking.

https://tinyurl.com/bde8s6ma

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 11, 2024 11:46 AM (FVME7)

181 In honor of today's date, here's a musical interlude from the era when a surprising number of popular bands had names that were more like serial numbers:
https://youtu.be/lYBIRHi5-o8

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 11:46 AM (HnUIn)

182 DU has assured me this is a sign of super greedy corporations putting profits for investors and CEOs ahead of customers and staff.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 11, 2024 11:07 AM (JCZqz)

What do they have against monocles?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 11, 2024 11:46 AM (n+4am)

183 182 DU has assured me this is a sign of super greedy corporations putting profits for investors and CEOs ahead of customers and staff.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 11, 2024 11:07 AM (JCZqz)

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They say this while also attributing the slow down of inflation to Biden.

Did corporations get less greedy, or something?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 11, 2024 11:47 AM (GBKbO)

184 Geez! Police Academy is no joke!

That was genuinely funny. I'd wager that very few of the people who watch the clip would pass.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2024 11:47 AM (CsUN+)

185 If the city of Hollywood wants to fight this, they should simply stop requiring a building permit for renovations.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 11, 2024 11:43 AM (tkR6S)
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Unthinkable!

Posted by: Government Employee at March 11, 2024 11:47 AM (HnUIn)

186 Hasn't Target also been closing stores? You can show increased profit on declining overall sales if you close unprofitable stores. Not sure if that's what's been going on.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 11, 2024 11:17 AM (iFTx/)

Not unlike showing increased profit via layoffs... until the lack of productivity bites the next CEO in the ass. Still, that's their problem.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I think that's the key. They are shutting down stores losing money, and probably cutting back on staff, those pesky humans that want benefits and stuff.
Probably have a growing online sales business too, which I think most "retailers" now want. Get rid of the stores and shopping experience, and order everything online. Some minimum wage guy (the Amazon Model) will stuff your order in a box and ship it by UPS.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at March 11, 2024 11:47 AM (vcOmj)

187

Did corporations get less greedy, or something?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 11, 2024 11:47 AM (GBKbO)

How come they weren’t greedy between 2017 and 2020 and suddenly became greedy in 2021?

Posted by: Montec at March 11, 2024 11:47 AM (bWsRe)

188 Lol...like they get paid anything like minimum wage.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at March 11, 2024 11:28 AM (JCZqz)

They frequently do. Sometimes more. What the employer *doesn't* pay is benefits, and (more importantly) payroll taxes and other government required cost of hiring.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 11, 2024 11:47 AM (XjtdB)

189 This guy is thinking.

https://tinyurl.com/bde8s6ma
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 11, 2024 11:46 AM (FVME7)
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LOL

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 11:47 AM (HnUIn)

190 https://youtu.be/lYBIRHi5-o8
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 11:46 AM (HnUIn)

They had a couple of decent, catchy tunes, including that one.

The rest of their library is largely intolerable. I will be removing them from my rotation in the near future. Each time a song comes across, I'm reminded........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 11, 2024 11:48 AM (Zz0t1)

191 Is King Harv welcome at SXSW?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 11, 2024 11:48 AM (63Dwl)

192 75 @CBHeresy
1. Woman goes to Haiti to write about r*pe in Haiti being exaggerated.
2. Gets r*ped repeatedly by Haitian man.
3. Blames it on misdirected “Black rage” against “white world.”
4. Says she is “grateful for the experience.”

White liberal women are not well.

https://tinyurl.com/mzxnaycd
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 11, 2024 11:20 AM (FVME7)

If you had 'accept rape as a blessing that gives you understanding of the black plight' on your bingo card, please go to the window to collect your winnings.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 11, 2024 11:23 AM (Zz0t1)
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I read the article. There's no way that happened. This is clearly a rape fantasy from a mentally-ill woman. Not only that, it seems it was rape fantasy specifically about angry, feral black men with big dicks savaging her white twat mercilessly as she begged him to stop. "Stop, you beast. You angry, savage beast! Don't ravage me like that!" Take out the rape element, and it's the climatic scene in a romance novel.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 11, 2024 11:48 AM (iFTx/)

193 Is King Harv welcome at SXSW?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 11, 2024 11:48 AM (63Dwl)
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I doubt it. Their royalty quota is filled...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 11:49 AM (HnUIn)

194 187 How come they weren’t greedy between 2017 and 2020 and suddenly became greedy in 2021?
Posted by: Montec at March 11, 2024 11:47 AM (bWsRe)

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Because Trump is a tyrant who will destroy corporations with tyrannical powers if they hurt his voters.

Unlike Biden, who loves democracy too much to use tyrannical powers.

The answer is obvious: vote for tyranny to fight corporations. Vote Trump.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 11, 2024 11:49 AM (GBKbO)

195 Well, King Harv is dead so....dunno

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review at March 11, 2024 11:49 AM (xcxpd)

196 In Washington state, waiters get $14 an hour plus tips.

Posted by: Montec at March 11, 2024 11:49 AM (bWsRe)

197
I read the article. There's no way that happened. This is clearly a rape fantasy from a mentally-ill woman. Not only that, it seems it was rape fantasy specifically about angry, feral black men with big dicks savaging her white twat mercilessly as she begged him to stop. "Stop, you beast. You angry, savage beast! Don't ravage me like that!" Take out the rape element, and it's the climatic scene in a romance novel.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 11, 2024 11:48 AM (iFTx/)

So, you're saying E. Jean Carroll winning settlement against Trump has had an effect.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 11, 2024 11:49 AM (Zz0t1)

198 @32 thx Sponge , didn't see that. Newsom protected his little buddy
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 11, 2024 11:17 AM (8nE8r)

Other restaurants should fight it in court. It amounts to a Bill of Attainder directed at all restaurants not called "Panera".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 11, 2024 11:50 AM (tkR6S)

199 In Washington state, waiters get $14 an hour plus tips.
Posted by: Montec at March 11, 2024 11:49 AM (bWsRe)

PLUS tips?!?

Holy cow....... Last I heard, average wait staff salary was still below $3 per hour, plus tips.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 11, 2024 11:50 AM (Zz0t1)

200 And having worked entry level fast food jobs growing up, I gotta say as long as you don't STAY in fast food, nothing wrong with starting to work there, even starting young. Fast food taught me time management and standards and how to actually work with people. Valuable skills.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review at March 11, 2024 11:50 AM (xcxpd)

201 Minimum wage is over $16/hr in WA state

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review at March 11, 2024 11:51 AM (xcxpd)

202 197
I read the article. There's no way that happened. This is clearly a rape fantasy from a mentally-ill woman. Not only that, it seems it was rape fantasy specifically about angry, feral black men with big dicks savaging her white twat mercilessly as she begged him to stop. "Stop, you beast. You angry, savage beast! Don't ravage me like that!" Take out the rape element, and it's the climatic scene in a romance novel.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 11, 2024 11:48 AM (iFTx/)

So, you're saying E. Jean Carroll winning settlement against Trump has had an effect.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 11, 2024 11:49 AM (Zz0t1
________

Yea, except this insane woman's story was from 12 years ago. She was ahead of her time!

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 11, 2024 11:51 AM (iFTx/)

203 And having worked entry level fast food jobs growing up, I gotta say as long as you don't STAY in fast food, nothing wrong with starting to work there, even starting young. Fast food taught me time management and standards and how to actually work with people. Valuable skills.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review at March 11, 2024 11:50 AM (xcxpd)
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There was a time when something like a third of the American workforce had, at some point, worked for McDonald's.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 11:51 AM (HnUIn)

204 speaking of three shots of Jack

https://tinyurl.com/3heemf5w

Posted by: Kindltot at March 11, 2024 11:51 AM (D7oie)

205 PLUS tips?!?

Holy cow....... Last I heard, average wait staff salary was still below $3 per hour, plus tips.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 11, 2024 11:50 AM (Zz0t1)

Yep. $14 and some change minimum wage that the employer has to pay for wait staff. And then tips.

Posted by: Montec at March 11, 2024 11:51 AM (bWsRe)

206 200 And having worked entry level fast food jobs growing up, I gotta say as long as you don't STAY in fast food, nothing wrong with starting to work there, even starting young. Fast food taught me time management and standards and how to actually work with people. Valuable skills.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review at March 11, 2024 11:50 AM (xcxpd)

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Being a district manager of a fast food chain is hard work that pays quite well.

You can work up even in fast food.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 11, 2024 11:51 AM (GBKbO)

207 49 I worked at McDonalds and while I was 'good' I realized I hated people and wanted no part of a customer service job.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Amen. I learned this at the amusement park I was at, and Wendy’s. I have carefully avoided such jobs since.

Job requirements like “provide excellent customer service “ is code for getting screamed at by people all day and get otherwise treated as poorly as possible while putting on a smiley face.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 11, 2024 11:51 AM (L8s/5)

208 "Nonfarm payrolls for December were revised down to 290,000 from 333,000, and January payrolls were revised down to 229,000 from a surprising 353,000, the Labor Department reported Friday. The total revisions for those months resulted in 167,000 fewer jobs than previously reported."

-

I wonder if there are any historical parallels to this, especially when considering that Americans now have to go outside of the country to read news about what's happening inside their country.

Eh, probably nothing.

Posted by: Nikki Haley's luxuriously hairy nipples - Alex Jones Was Right at March 11, 2024 11:52 AM (AIJ3L)

209 Titty-Caca as the case in point: Degree from BU in economics and doesn't know shit.

Posted by: Danimal28 at March 11, 2024 11:45 AM (klw0w)

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You've apparently never seen her conduct a train ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 11, 2024 11:53 AM (WyzGk)

210 My first job getting a paycheck was being a bus boy at Antonio's Flying Pizza in Houston. I think I was 13 (maybe 14) and on the crew that opened the restaurant in the early 70s. Getting promoted to dishwasher was a huge deal.

Posted by: DanMan at March 11, 2024 11:53 AM (8uzBS)

211 201 Minimum wage is over $16/hr in WA state
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review at March 11, 2024 11:51 AM (xcxpd)

It’s a little lower for waiters since they get tips. In most places it’s $2 for waiters since tips is where their income comes from. In WA it’s $14.

Posted by: Montec at March 11, 2024 11:53 AM (bWsRe)

212 Job requirements like “provide excellent customer service “ is code for getting screamed at by people all day and get otherwise treated as poorly as possible while putting on a smiley face.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 11, 2024 11:51 AM (L8s/5)
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There is a world of difference between business-to-consumer customer service and business-to-business customer service.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 11:53 AM (HnUIn)

213 212 There is a world of difference between business-to-consumer customer service and business-to-business customer service.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 11:53 AM (HnUIn)

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I've gotten screamed at in both environments.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 11, 2024 11:54 AM (GBKbO)

214 In honor of today's date, here's a musical interlude from the era when a surprising number of popular bands had names that were more like serial numbers:

IMY2
https://tinyurl.com/984nhfz9

Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2024 11:54 AM (CsUN+)

215 And having worked entry level fast food jobs growing up, I gotta say as long as you don't STAY in fast food, nothing wrong with starting to work there, even starting young. Fast food taught me time management and standards and how to actually work with people. Valuable skills.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review at March 11, 2024 11:50 AM (xcxpd)
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lWorking in the university cafeteria as part of my financial aid package taught me I didn't want to work in food service.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 11, 2024 11:54 AM (DeFcY)

216 The most learning jobs I had as a 'yute' was waiting tables. It taught me to come out of my shell quite a bit, how to deal with people, good and bad, and that you control what you're going to earn with ethic and attitude.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 11, 2024 11:54 AM (Zz0t1)

217 Iowahawk moving to Austin was the final death toll of his conservative beliefs.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review at March 11, 2024 11:54 AM (xcxpd)

218 I've gotten screamed at in both environments.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 11, 2024 11:54 AM (GBKbO)
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Sure.

But in my experience with business-to-business (which is extensive), getting screamed at is pretty unusual. It happens, but not too often. The people on the other end of the transaction tend to be at least minimally competent and want the problem solved. Screaming isn't conducive to getting the problem solved.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 11:55 AM (HnUIn)

219 And having worked entry level fast food jobs growing up, I gotta say as long as you don't STAY in fast food, nothing wrong with starting to work there, even starting young. Fast food taught me time management and standards and how to actually work with people. Valuable skills.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review at March 11, 2024 11:50 AM (xcxpd)
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lWorking in the university cafeteria as part of my financial aid package taught me I didn't want to work in food service.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 11, 2024 11:54 AM (DeFcY)

There is that, too. Jobs that suck teach you to go find a job that doesn't suck as much.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review at March 11, 2024 11:55 AM (xcxpd)

220 i can't imagine what 20 an hour will do to food prices in Cali.

the other week i stopped by hardees for dinner, too lazy to cook that night. it was 24 for 2 meals. mcdonalds is just as bad. and in VA we don't have that outrageous of a minimum wage. one can only wait to see what happens out there.

at least in-n-out has stores out of CA so they won't end as a franchise...

Posted by: SturmToddler at March 11, 2024 11:55 AM (bving)

221 ========

I've gotten screamed at in both environments.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 11, 2024 11:54 AM (GBKbO)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 11, 2024 11:55 AM (Zz0t1)

222 Other restaurants should fight it in court. It amounts to a Bill of Attainder directed at all restaurants not called "Panera".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 11, 2024 11:50 AM (tkR6S)

They should, but they won’t. I, weirdo that I am, look upon this as a rule of law thing. Americans who revel in living in a corrupt society say “See! This is why networking is SO IMPORTANT!”

They will learn the wrong lesson.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 11, 2024 11:55 AM (L8s/5)

223 My first "real" job at 16 (or was it 15?) was a dishwasher at a chain restaurant. Worst. Job. Ever.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 11, 2024 11:56 AM (iFTx/)

224
Hey TJM,

You were right about Dune Part 2.

I guess they're setting up Chani as The Conscience of Paul, perhaps the Community Organizer of Arrakis.

Unneeded, unnecessary and not authentic to the novel.

But hey, Hollywood.

Otherwise, it was good. I enjoyed it.

Part 3 must be coming in a year or two.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 11, 2024 11:57 AM (nFnyb)

225 And having worked entry level fast food jobs growing up, I gotta say as long as you don't STAY in fast food, nothing wrong with starting to work there, even starting young. Fast food taught me time management and standards and how to actually work with people. Valuable skills.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review at March 11, 2024 11:50 AM (xcxpd)

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Being a district manager of a fast food chain is hard work that pays quite well.

You can work up even in fast food.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 11, 2024 11:51 AM (GBKbO)

Well once you no longer have to clean grease traps, I no longer consider that you're in fast food. Management is management. If you can get out of day to day operations, good.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review at March 11, 2024 11:57 AM (xcxpd)

226 And if tips don't cover the minimum wage, the employer is supposed to compensate to minimum wage.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 11, 2024 11:57 AM (R4t5M)

227 But in my experience with business-to-business (which is extensive), getting screamed at is pretty unusual. It happens, but not too often. The people on the other end of the transaction tend to be at least minimally competent and want the problem solved. Screaming isn't conducive to getting the problem solved.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 11:55 AM (HnUIn)

Never worked as a dispatcher I see…

In that gig, professional businesspeople treating others like absolute shit was just business as usual.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 11, 2024 11:57 AM (L8s/5)

228 Getting a McJob in HS is the best way to get kids to study hard to avoid having a McJob as adults,

Posted by: Montec at March 11, 2024 11:57 AM (bWsRe)

229 There was a time when something like a third of the American workforce had, at some point, worked for McDonald's.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 11:51 AM (HnUIn)

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"¿Le gustaría papas fritas con eso?"

Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 11, 2024 11:57 AM (WyzGk)

230 This guy is thinking.

https://tinyurl.com/bde8s6ma
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

One smart son in law.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 11, 2024 11:57 AM (4xVKD)

231 I had a paper route from 10 to 16, plus a lawn service during the warmer months. At 16, I started as a busy boy at a local mall restaurant.

Posted by: Beartooth at March 11, 2024 11:57 AM (LjgPm)

232
Accounting wizardry aside, people will notice their declining
quality of life and household economy.

The only people who care about the numbers are pols and bureaucrats.

Posted by: Speller at March 11, 2024 11:58 AM (pSotA)

233
the other week i stopped by hardees for dinner, too lazy to cook that night. it was 24 for 2 meals. mcdonalds is just as bad. and in VA we don't have that outrageous of a minimum wage. one can only wait to see what happens out there.

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Yep. My favorite has been watching people demand minimum wage doubles from $7.25/hour to $15/hour and then become confused when prices also double to adjust to the new value of one unit of unskilled labor.

Posted by: Nikki Haley's luxuriously hairy nipples - Alex Jones Was Right at March 11, 2024 11:58 AM (AIJ3L)

234 Flynn has announced he will pay $20/hr.
But other Panera franchisees, who knows?

Posted by: Montec at March 11, 2024 11:58 AM (bWsRe)

235 There is a world of difference between business-to-consumer customer service and business-to-business customer service.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 11:53 AM (HnUIn)

I cannot stop laughing.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 11, 2024 11:58 AM (L8s/5)

236 190 https://youtu.be/lYBIRHi5-o8
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 11:46 AM (HnUIn)

They had a couple of decent, catchy tunes, including that one.

The rest of their library is largely intolerable. I will be removing them from my rotation in the near future. Each time a song comes across, I'm reminded........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 11, 2024 11:48 AM (Zz0t1)

The last song from that album is awesome. T&P Combo. Would suggest checking it out before ditching them completely.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 11, 2024 11:59 AM (KbCG3)

237 There was a time when something like a third of the American workforce had, at some point, worked for McDonald's.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 11:51 AM (HnUIn)

That sounds crazy high....until I think about how many McDonalds there are out there...it's basically a mark of civilization. Like power lines.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review at March 11, 2024 11:59 AM (xcxpd)

238 224 But hey, Hollywood.

Otherwise, it was good. I enjoyed it.

Part 3 must be coming in a year or two.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 11, 2024 11:57 AM (nFnyb)

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Villeneuve is going to take a break from Arrakis. He'll do a Nolan in between Batman films. It's either Cleopatra or some other smaller project that no one knows anything about yet (time sensitive, is how he described it).

Dune 3 (Messiah) won't be around for 4-5 years minimum.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 11, 2024 11:59 AM (GBKbO)

239 Buc-ee's pays well, gives benefits and vacation at start and provides advancement opportunities.

I've never had a bad experience at a Buc-ee's.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 11, 2024 11:59 AM (Zz0t1)

240 I had a paper route 5th-7th grade. Lots of work for not much money. But not much money was better than no money for an 11 year old.

Posted by: Montec at March 11, 2024 12:00 PM (bWsRe)

241 225 Well once you no longer have to clean grease traps, I no longer consider that you're in fast food. Management is management. If you can get out of day to day operations, good.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review at March 11, 2024 11:57 AM (xcxpd)

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Oh lord...grease traps...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 11, 2024 12:00 PM (GBKbO)

242 "1. Woman goes to Haiti to write about r*pe in Haiti being exaggerated.
2. Gets r*ped repeatedly by Haitian man.
3. Blames it on misdirected “Black rage” against “white world.”
4. Says she is “grateful for the experience.”

Find a story that shows her photo...she is a singularly unattractive and grossly obese Blob, had to travel to a LOT of Dark Places psychologically as well as physically to finally fond Someone/ANYONE to do her "dirty"
The couple that were assaulted and the woman gang raped in India...he is 50 something, she much younger, making major ista/youtoob bucks traveling around by motorcycle, posting videos of her in thongs and open shirts from mainly poor rural areas. They "Gang" was 7 "Yoots" of one of India's lowest "Castes" likely untouchables, who were living in an encampment the pair set up an overnight tent in because "Even though verrrry wealthy, they balked at Hotel prices".

Posted by: birdog at March 11, 2024 12:00 PM (SFGDK)

243 I had a paper route from 10 to 16, plus a lawn service during the warmer months. At 16, I started as a busy boy at a local mall restaurant.
Posted by: Beartooth

--

I led a similar life.

It's interesting to look at now. Papers are dead, and both lawn mowing and back-room restaurant jobs have been taken over by illegals.

Our Betters damaged our country and our kids' futures beyond belief.

Posted by: Nikki Haley's luxuriously hairy nipples - Alex Jones Was Right at March 11, 2024 12:00 PM (AIJ3L)

244 Part 3 must be coming in a year or two.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 11, 2024 11:57 AM (nFnyb)
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I'll be seeing it this week, and I assume that they'll be competing the first novel. In which case, Part 3 would have to be Dune Messiah. In which case

SPOILERSPOILERSPOILER

Chani dies at the end.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 11, 2024 12:01 PM (DeFcY)

245 I read before that 1/7 people worked at McDonalds which is about 15%.

Posted by: Montec at March 11, 2024 12:01 PM (bWsRe)

246 It’s a little lower for waiters since they get tips. In most places it’s $2 for waiters since tips is where their income comes from. In WA it’s $14.
Posted by: Montec at March 11, 2024 11:53 AM (bWsRe)

Tip credit is not allowed in washington state. Tips are considered to be in addition to, not a part of an employee’s state hourly minimum wage

If you would like to read more about this subject, here is the relevant page of the WA state L&I web page.

https://tinyurl.com/tiplni

Posted by: Kindltot at March 11, 2024 12:01 PM (D7oie)

247 But in my experience with business-to-business (which is extensive), getting screamed at is pretty unusual. It happens, but not too often. The people on the other end of the transaction tend to be at least minimally competent and want the problem solved. Screaming isn't conducive to getting the problem solved.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 11:55 AM (HnUIn)

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This was my experience when working in software technical support after burning out as a developer.

There was certainly the occasional asshole, but when people working in a business need your assistance -- especially if you're very competent -- they tend to go the honey instead of vinegar route.

Posted by: ShainS -- Neo-Dissident (A psychpathocracy, if you can keep it) at March 11, 2024 12:01 PM (WyzGk)

248 Buc-ee's is great. Can be an insane asylum. Maybe that's why they pay a bit more.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 11, 2024 12:01 PM (R4t5M)

249 243 Chani dies at the end.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 11, 2024 12:01 PM (DeFcY)

=======

No one really dies.

Somehow, Feyd Rautha returned.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 11, 2024 12:01 PM (GBKbO)

250 Star Wars.

https://tinyurl.com/2vnw2bw4

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 11, 2024 12:01 PM (FVME7)

251 That sounds crazy high....until I think about how many McDonalds there are out there...it's basically a mark of civilization. Like power lines.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, New Dune 2 review
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Just because I like the idea of it, that reminds me of the Waffle House Emergency Rating that is an actual real thing used by professionals. If it's bad enough that the Waffle Houses in an area have closed, something extremely dangerous is happening.

Posted by: Nikki Haley's luxuriously hairy nipples - Alex Jones Was Right at March 11, 2024 12:02 PM (AIJ3L)

252 @220

>>i can't imagine what 20 an hour will do to food prices in Cali.

Increasing the minimum wage, necessarily increases the labor costs of everyone working at the company.

If the floor is now 20 bucks, the person with a little experiance who was making 20 bucks now should require a bump in his salary and so on and so on.

Looks like the Donks in Cali want to make FunEmployment Great Again.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 11, 2024 12:02 PM (JIdXK)

253 I don’t know if it’s true anymore (probably not with Ukraine and Russia) but at some point no two countries had ever gone to war with each other, that had a McDonald’s.

Posted by: Montec at March 11, 2024 12:03 PM (bWsRe)

254
The last song from that album is awesome. T&P Combo. Would suggest checking it out before ditching them completely.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 11, 2024 11:59 AM (KbCG3)

I will say that I do find the music behind the vocals not bad at all. Solid.

It's their voices.......incredibly monotone and childish. It's incredibly offputting to me. Just can't get past it. They try to seem all tough, but sound like a 10 year old alter boy after church trying to be down with the cool kids by dropping F bombs.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 11, 2024 12:03 PM (Zz0t1)

255 Part 3 must be coming in a year or two.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 11, 2024 11:57 AM (nFnyb)
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I'll be seeing it this week, and I assume that they'll be competing the first novel. In which case, Part 3 would have to be Dune Messiah. In which case

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 11, 2024 12:01 PM (DeFcY)

been so long since i read the books that i have forgotten how it goes. but then, it got really weird after the first one. they probably should quit there, but i imagine they'll run it into the groud deeper than a sand worm travels...

Posted by: SturmToddler at March 11, 2024 12:03 PM (bving)

256 In the real world, IE the household survey, the actual number of employed, US born citizens has not risen IN SIX YEARS.

In fact, full time jobs is DOWN 97,000 since February 2023.

https://t.ly/DzLUW - Zerohedge link

Posted by: deadrody at March 11, 2024 12:03 PM (OeYsY)

257 Take out the rape element, and it's the climatic scene in a romance novel.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 11, 2024 11:48 AM (iFTx/)

I've never read a romance novel but I think you don't take out the rape part. Bernie Sanders said women fantasize about being raped all the time and he's a Senator.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2024 12:05 PM (z99Zw)

258 In college, I waited tables at a high-end country club in Westchester county (just north of NYC).

Was unionized. All migrant workers and a few of us college kids. Was making something like $6/hr but tips were pooled because members didn't pay or tip, everything was included in their membership.

Mother's Day and Easter we made bank. Not an awful job. Waiting tables can be fun in the right environment.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 11, 2024 12:05 PM (KbCG3)

259 I stopped going to Target once they let the sodomites run loose in the shitters.

Ironically, I do stop in there now and then just to use the shitter. Figure I am costing them money with every flush.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 11, 2024 12:05 PM (/SHEi)

260 Good rant. Thanks, Buck.

Also in Hill's takeaway link, “One puzzling figure in the report was the 4,000 [decrease] in manufacturing employment. Despite massive public investments in domestic manufacturing construction since the pandemic, manufacturing employment has been flat as a pancake for the past 18 months,” ZipRecruiter chief economist Julia Pollak wrote in an analysis.

Keep harping on "shrinkflation" & pass that idiot Casey's bill, and let's see what we wind up with in as far as certain manufacturing within this country.

Average hourly earnings .....$34.57 an hour. Who's? Driven by government &/or unions?

Take heart: "The uptick in the unemployment rate likely comes as good news for the Federal Reserve, which has sought to weaken the labor market through interest rate increases in response to elevated inflation."
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Target sold its pharmacy & clinic business to CVS. A factor? (CVS & Walgreens will shortly be allowed to dispense abortion pills with a prescription.)
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Homeowners ^ thanks in part to "home sharing" inclusion. NOT requested; state mandated?

Funny how 'nicer restaurants' are operating w/teenager servers, etc. Special work permits needed. ha.

Posted by: L - We're done for now. We just don't have the guts to turn off the lights on the show at March 11, 2024 12:05 PM (GshMh)

261 Screaming isn't conducive to getting the problem solved.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Heh, guy in Sacramento had a really nasty computer problem with one of our systems. I was sent to fix it after the local peeps failed.
I got there and the owner started screaming at me. I stood there and when he finally took a breath I said "I'll stand here and listen to you all day; but, if you want your system fixed you'll let me get to work".
He got a funny look on his face and I went back, figured out the problem and fixed it.
Got out of there very quickly too!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 11, 2024 12:05 PM (4xVKD)

262 ++++
Counterpoint: Panera is often a great place to go bird watching.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 11:40 AM (HnUIn)

Panera’s squash soup is good. We don’t have one, though. We just got a Chipotle and holy smokes has that gotten expensive!

Posted by: Piper at March 11, 2024 12:05 PM (ZdaMQ)

263 253
The last song from that album is awesome. T&P Combo. Would suggest checking it out before ditching them completely.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 11, 2024 11:59 AM (KbCG3)

I will say that I do find the music behind the vocals not bad at all. Solid.

It's their voices.......incredibly monotone and childish. It's incredibly offputting to me. Just can't get past it. They try to seem all tough, but sound like a 10 year old alter boy after church trying to be down with the cool kids by dropping F bombs.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 11, 2024 12:03 PM (Zz0t1)

Yeaaaaaahhhhhh

Their lyrics are hilariously stupid. The music can be decent. I love Beautiful Disaster.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 11, 2024 12:06 PM (KbCG3)

264 been so long since i read the books that i have forgotten how it goes. but then, it got really weird after the first one. they probably should quit there, but i imagine they'll run it into the groud deeper than a sand worm travels...
Posted by: SturmToddler at March 11, 2024 12:03 PM (bving)
++++
See Also: Orson Scott Card.

Both Dune and the Ender story should have been one-and-done, and were probably supposed to be. But they became mega-hits and I imagine that both the authors and the publishers wanted to capitalize on the hit.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 12:06 PM (HnUIn)

265 "SXSW is now an annual swarm of douchebags taking selfies as they defile a corpse."

Helps explain their support for Hamas.

Posted by: p-squared at March 11, 2024 12:06 PM (i3SWt)

266 Almost without exception, when the Republicans are running the government, jobs are always revised up in a month, conversely, when Democrats are running the government, jobs are always revised downward.

You can set your watch by it.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 11, 2024 12:06 PM (aD39U)

267 If the floor is now 20 bucks, the person with a little experiance who was making 20 bucks now should require a bump in his salary and so on and so on.

Looks like the Donks in Cali want to make FunEmployment Great Again.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 11, 2024 12:02 PM (JIdXK)

oh yeah, i mean i know the knock on effects for the pay and employees, but i was more thinking about the hew and cry as a value menu combo becomes a 18-22 dollar item for a small, AND stores close and consolidate AND automate even more.

soon there's be 3 people in the mcdonals - a manager, one to load the machines with raw items, and one to hand the bags through the drive through...

Posted by: SturmToddler at March 11, 2024 12:06 PM (bving)

268 been so long since i read the books that i have forgotten how it goes. but then, it got really weird after the first one. they probably should quit there, but i imagine they'll run it into the groud deeper than a sand worm travels...
Posted by: SturmToddler at March 11, 2024 12:03 PM (bving)
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I gave up on the novels after Children Of Dune (which I read in serialized form in Analog).

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 11, 2024 12:06 PM (DeFcY)

269 Both Dune and the Ender story should have been one-and-done, and were probably supposed to be. But they became mega-hits and I imagine that both the authors and the publishers wanted to capitalize on the hit.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 12:06 PM (HnUIn)

I liked Speaker for the Dead.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 11, 2024 12:07 PM (aD39U)

270 What ever happened to the ADP numbers that used to be published?

Posted by: pawn at March 11, 2024 12:07 PM (XGbvx)

271 262 See Also: Orson Scott Card.

Both Dune and the Ender story should have been one-and-done, and were probably supposed to be. But they became mega-hits and I imagine that both the authors and the publishers wanted to capitalize on the hit.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 12:06 PM (HnUIn)

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Wrinkle to that:

Ender's Game the novel came about because Card was already writing the sequel, Speaker for the Dead. Ender started as a short story that he decided to expand later.

It's one of those weird situations where, without the sequel, the original would not exist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 11, 2024 12:07 PM (GBKbO)

272
Oh lord...grease traps...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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0500, rainy winter morning, Camp Swampy

Company Mess Sgt.: "Good news, troop, today is the day 'we' clean the grease trap!"

KP troop: *oh shit*

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 11, 2024 12:08 PM (XeU6L)

273 "SXSW is now an annual swarm of douchebags taking selfies as they defile a corpse."

Helps to explain their support of Hamas.

Posted by: p-squared at March 11, 2024 12:08 PM (i3SWt)

274 Plane had problems and prompted a nosedive. Apparently, 50 people injured and 12 hospitalized- TGP.

Not getting on any plane anytime soon.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 11, 2024 12:08 PM (R4t5M)

275 Bean was the book that shouldn't have been made, canonically.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 11, 2024 12:08 PM (aD39U)

276 265 I gave up on the novels after Children Of Dune (which I read in serialized form in Analog).
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 11, 2024 12:06 PM (DeFcY)

======

I really like Children of Dune. Almost as much as I like the original Dune.

I recently finished Heretics, and I will continue out of mere curiosity. Heretics wasn't good, but it wasn't...terrible.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 11, 2024 12:08 PM (GBKbO)

277 "SXSW is now an annual swarm of d-bags taking selfies as they defile a corpse."

Helps to explain their support of Hamas.

Posted by: p-squared at March 11, 2024 12:08 PM (i3SWt)

278 Ender's Game the novel came about because Card was already writing the sequel, Speaker for the Dead. Ender started as a short story that he decided to expand later.

It's one of those weird situations where, without the sequel, the original would not exist.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 11, 2024 12:07 PM (GBKbO)
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Huh. I learned something today.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 12:09 PM (HnUIn)

279 In Washington state, waiters get $14 an hour plus tips.
Posted by: Montec at March 11, 2024 11:49 AM (bWsRe)

And if you say anything against the Regime in Olympia, it's off to jail for ya!

Posted by: Diogenes at March 11, 2024 12:09 PM (W/lyH)

280 Go ahead and explain this: I'm mainly a sci-fi guy and I enjoyed the Alvin Maker stuff more than Enders Game.

Posted by: Nikki Haley's luxuriously hairy nipples - Alex Jones Was Right at March 11, 2024 12:09 PM (AIJ3L)

281 "SXSW is now an annual swarm of d-bags taking selfies as they defile a corpse."

Helps to explain their support of Hamas.

Posted by: p-squared at March 11, 2024 12:09 PM (i3SWt)

282 273 Huh. I learned something today.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 12:09 PM (HnUIn)

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Card explains it in his introduction to Speaker for the Dead.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 11, 2024 12:09 PM (GBKbO)

283 " Take out the rape element, and it's the climatic scene in a romance novel.
Posted by: Elric Blade"

You obviously haven't read many modern romance novels.

Taking out the rape element isn't necessary at all.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 11, 2024 12:10 PM (ou9hh)

284 And yet and yet, my perennial plaint: CJ Cherryh's books remain without a movie adaptation. It is boggling.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 11, 2024 12:10 PM (aD39U)

285 Card explains it in his introduction to Speaker for the Dead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 11, 2024 12:09 PM (GBKbO)
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Which I've even read. Maybe I skipped the introduction. Or just forgot.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 12:10 PM (HnUIn)

286 /adjust sock

Posted by: Muldoon at March 11, 2024 12:11 PM (991eG)

287 277 " Take out the rape element, and it's the climatic scene in a romance novel.
Posted by: Elric Blade"

You obviously haven't read many modern romance novels.

Taking out the rape element isn't necessary at all.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 11, 2024 12:10 PM (ou9hh)

That you, Bernie?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 11, 2024 12:11 PM (KbCG3)

288 279 Card explains it in his introduction to Speaker for the Dead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 11, 2024 12:09 PM (GBKbO)
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Which I've even read. Maybe I skipped the introduction. Or just forgot.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 12:10 PM (HnUIn)

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Don't worry. It just represents a deep moral failing on your part.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 11, 2024 12:11 PM (GBKbO)

289 Go ahead and explain this: I'm mainly a sci-fi guy and I enjoyed the Alvin Maker stuff more than Enders Game.
Posted by: Nikki Haley's luxuriously hairy nipples - Alex Jones Was Right at March 11, 2024

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As I recall, "Ender's Game" was one of Card's very first sales, or maybe even his first, to Analog Magazine in the very late '70s.

The "Alvin Maker" stories, at least the first novel, were fascinating.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 11, 2024 12:11 PM (J2vNu)

290 Don't worry. It just represents a deep moral failing on your part.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 11, 2024 12:11 PM (GBKbO)
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Yup. It can get in line, though. Moral failings are the glue that holds my component parts together.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 12:12 PM (HnUIn)

291 Cyteen would make a great TV miniseries. And it's female centric, and cheap, as almost everything takes place indoors.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 11, 2024 12:12 PM (aD39U)

292 I don’t know if there is anything that is so openly fraudulent – yet somehow taken seriously – than the Department of Labor’s monthly jobs report.

The Obama Administration were the ones who weaponized economics statistics - announcing good news (at least when a Democrat is President), and then quietly revising statistics downwards later.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 11, 2024 12:12 PM (YAtuc)

293 The predictions are already a “every McDonald’s will go out of business. But they never do.

Posted by: Montec at March 11, 2024 12:12 PM (bWsRe)

294 Noodus ace

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 11, 2024 12:12 PM (J2vNu)

295 NOOD NYT DEI

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 12:12 PM (HnUIn)

296 @264

>>soon there's be 3 people in the mcdonals - a manager, one to load the machines with raw items, and one to hand the bags through the drive through.

And that's all you will have, an automat for the modern age as having a dining room and restrooms will be too costly operate.

They could charge for parking spots where you eat your food.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 11, 2024 12:12 PM (JIdXK)

297 283 Don't worry. It just represents a deep moral failing on your part.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 11, 2024 12:11 PM (GBKbO)
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Yup. It can get in line, though. Moral failings are the glue that holds my component parts together.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2024 12:12 PM (HnUIn)

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LOL.

And somehow, you aren't married?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at March 11, 2024 12:12 PM (GBKbO)

298 "Tip credit is not allowed in washington state. Tips are considered to be in addition to, not a part of an employee’s state hourly minimum wage"

This is why you should never, ever tip in Washington State

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 11, 2024 12:13 PM (ou9hh)

299 Tip credit is not allowed in washington state. Tips are considered to be in addition to, not a part of an employee’s state hourly minimum wage

Cool. So in the unlikely event that I'm in WA in the foreseeable future, I will feel free to tip 5%.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 11, 2024 12:13 PM (sNc8Y)

300 278 And yet and yet, my perennial plaint: CJ Cherryh's books remain without a movie adaptation. It is boggling.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 11, 2024 12:10 PM (aD39U)

Do you really want Hollywood to add degenerate cat sex scenes to the Chanur stories?

Posted by: XTC at March 11, 2024 12:13 PM (UnA8+)

301 I enjoyed the Alvin Maker stuff more than Enders Game.
Posted by: Nikki Haley

Yeah, those were good stories.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 11, 2024 12:13 PM (4xVKD)

302 The "Alvin Maker" stories, at least the first novel, were fascinating.

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I should re-read them. I think I only made it to the third or so for similar reasons to why I eventually stopped reading Pohls stuff. But dang those first three Pohl Heechee books were fantastic.

Posted by: Nikki Haley's luxuriously hairy nipples - Alex Jones Was Right at March 11, 2024 12:13 PM (AIJ3L)

303 The White House, Briefing Room

March 10, 2024
Statement from President Joseph R. Biden on the Occasion of Ramadan

Not linked, reading suggested.

Posted by: L - We're done for now. We just don't have the guts to turn off the lights on the show at March 11, 2024 12:14 PM (GshMh)

304 Do you really want Hollywood to add degenerate cat sex scenes to the Chanur stories?
Posted by: XTC at March 11, 2024 12:13 PM (UnA8+)

Did those ever end? It had a sequel, then became a trilogy, then a 4th book which I never got around to reading.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 11, 2024 12:15 PM (aD39U)

305 Please plan your victimization accordingly.

Pittsburgh police announce they won't answer most calls from 3AM to 7AM due to staffing issues. Come see how many officers will even be working at night.

https://tinyurl.com/9bu36enf

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 11, 2024 12:15 PM (FVME7)

306 Joe King Carrasco!!!
Glad Iowahawk after moving to Austin found the REAL deal.
In 1980 or so Joe King played at our backyard house party, two of my Female college roomates were yuuuuge fans, and had the same birthday. We had a rental house in San Marcos, but used to drive to Austin, San Antonio, New Braunfels, Kerrvile, Round Rock, to see the band several times a month. When asked if he'd be willing to do a private gig , he asked for who? Pointed at Jan and Susan and he said "OH HELL yeah, I've seen them at all my shows!, Where and when???"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksOCraawZME

Posted by: birdog at March 11, 2024 12:23 PM (SFGDK)

307 Willowed: I paid no attention to the Oscars, but I did see a promo for Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire! This one includes Peter, Ray, and Winston from the first films, and was co-written by Ivan Reitman (who directed the first film) and his son Jason. Jason masterminded the grand Ghostbusters: Afterlife film from 2021.

Possibly good???
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 11, 2024 11:04 AM (J2vNu)

See it for yourself and decide. I loved "Afterlife". A real tribute to the original, and very emotional at the end. They managed to assemble many of the original crew, and even used some of the effects "plates" from the original hit. I now have it on Blu Ray. Does my 5.1 audio system justice. Son and I are going to see the new one on opening day. Nothing like a 60 foot screen to watch a movie like that.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at March 11, 2024 12:29 PM (iODuv)

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