Having worked at Google there wasn't any anti-unuon propaganda or anything: it was just genuinely the best work environment I'd ever experienced... Right up until they laid me off.

So while I was there the thought of joining a union would have been "meh - what can they realistically get me?" and after the layoff was "oh yeah right they could've gotten me protection"

This is a good thing why you trying to spin it as bad?

Arbitration has always favored companies.

The shifting of the Overton window is real and an important part of the American Republican playbook.

However the above commenter is not talking about American Republicans, they're talking about the purity culture among leftists that prevents them from voting for left leaning liberals.

In the current election the choices are 1 step to the left or 50 yards to the right, and because it's not 2 steps to the left they refuse to vote.

Ahhh pre-fent cops were still blaming drugs for their unseemly public panic attacks

Call me crazy but I don't think traditional Kazakh diets were part of the study of 3000 pregnant mothers in New Hampshire.

Coffee, eggs, white rice

Selection bias much?

If you don't consume any of those 3 you're probably ridiculously wealthy on some freaky diet.

All this says to me is "The food of the masses is contaminated" which yeah - we already knew the rich pay a premium to get less contaminated food.

You're missing the whole "growth starts to plateau so management looks for ways to cut costs"

And

"Product comparatively stable so it gets hired out to contractors who inevitably fuck it up because they're cheap and there was 0 knowledge transfer but it's too late you laid off the entire original team"

Driverless transport is a huge boon to a transit system.

"more people are poor than rich"

Staggering results, I'm floored, who knew??

Don't be a Luddite: be a socialist.

Because the entire problem with luddites is blaming the wrong cause.

Automation of menial labor is the best possible thing that can happen to humanity, and to the humans working those jobs.

Except our system is so fucked that "no job" = "go die on the streets you worthless layabout"

Every job lost to automation should be celebrated by a socialist society, as it means more of us are moving up Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

"they"

Ain't exactly a representative democracy.

Doesn't mean Moscow should be spared, just that the majority of the citizens didn't have any say.

The ones loudly protesting are probably culpable though.

As a very left leaning individual who does not like California my reasons basically come down to all the benign neglect of the homeless (leaving people to rot in the streets with their fentanyl addictions isn't progressive, assholes) the militant oppositions to building housing anywhere (progress is being made but it's like pulling teeth) and the huge focus on performative laws that effect 0 actual change.

... Notably these are all problems in other states too. Most of them just use police to lock them up instead. Not better.

But California rubs me the wrong way because they act smug about it.