No, this is a straight up win for UAW. They are trying to unionize Tesla's workers, so any anti-union activity on Elon's part only plays into their hands at the NLRB level.
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This is a win for UAW though. They are trying to unionize Tesla's workers and this behavior gives them an edge on the already labor-friendly NLRB by showing that Elon is actively anti-union.
If anyone thinks for a moment that union organizers don't actively plan this kind of thing out, I can assure that they do. It's part of their job description. My union is a lot smaller than UAW and our organizers get up to all kinds of subterfuge and shenanigans, so I can only imagine what the UAW people are doing.
Ha! Just wait until you turn 50! That's when the real fun starts. Ask me how I know.
On the flipside, while it's true that I fucked myself up trying (and failing) to be a pro snowboarder in my 20s, it really is possibly to bounce back from injuries --so long as they aren't too bad-- and have a good and active life in spite of them.
Sure, I'll never be the same person I was before I trashed my body doing stupid shit when I was young reckless and stupid, but I've made a pretty good comeback over the years just by eating right, always exercising and staying physically fit by keeping myself in the game.
Now I'm old, in my 50s, but I'm still physically fit and in general my teenage daughter and 20-something-year-old nephews struggle to keep up with me on our hikes and backpacking and/or climbing trips.
Granted, some of it's purely psychological, but there's no question in my mind that some of it is also simply about having spent years as a very physically active and physically fit person.
Yeah, the "ease of use" one is complete bullshit. It's "easy to use" if you're accustomed to their "walled garden" model and don't mind everything being automated so as to deepen your dependency on their larger ecosystem.
It's all bullshit.
So in other words you are unwilling to answer the question.
Got it.
This is precisely why I say that you aren't intellectually serious people.
At this point they've basically turned themselves into a public nuisance. It's the same bullshit every time; all noise and no signal which in turn means that they are very boring and predictable.
Tom Waits said much the same thing about his cover of "Down There by the Train."
I believe that mainstream country turned to shit in the 80s, not sure why. My theory is that it's down to the money men in Nashville turning out an increasingly phony product for commercial reasons, but I don't actually know enough about that aspect of the business to have an informed opinion.
Fortunately there's always been legit musicians turning out excellent alt-country or Americana, or whatever we want to call it. Also a lot of the older country musicians never completely sold out either.
I'm on board with defederating with them. They are basically a public nuisance at this point, filling any even remotely political post with a lot of noise in the form of memes and a toolbox of trite talking points. They downvote everyone else and upvote themselves and basically drown out any valid discussion that doesn't toe their childish line.
Then they claim that it's us liberals who can't abide opposing viewpoints while simultaneously openly admitting that purging Lemmy of "right wing" opinions is the entire point of their trolling project.
I was originally inclined to be patient with them, but at this point nothing about hexbear seems like it's done in good faith. It's all just noise for its own sake.
I guess I will have to figure out how to block them.
Old English used to have feminine, masculine and neuter like most of the other Germanic languages, but we lost it for various historical reasons.