Time zones are so confusing.
In Paris it's 12:00 pm
In Toronto it's 6:00 am
In Washington it's 1930's Germany.
Bent Biker
Recumbent bicycle rider based in the Driftless area of the Midwest U.S.A. and an independent craft beer enthusiast.
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"After 51 years of pedaling across Iowa, this year’s RAGBRAI route will bring a new level of adventure as riders cross state lines for fifteen miles into Minnesota on day two of the ride."
https://ragbrai.com/take-flight/
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@gleick Here's @rbreich on the same topic: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/winkler-for-chair
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CEOs were paid 290x their typical worker in 2023.
This isn't because execs are more valuable — they've gamed the system.
Corporations spent $800B on stock buybacks last year, which artificially boost share prices.
Stock-based pay made up ~70% of CEO compensation.
Hello?
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Our stopped clock technology is still in its infancy, but it's already reached an accuracy rate of two or more times per day, and there's no reason for us to believe that won't improve dramatically in the future
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Finding a kind of accidental poetry in this bug report I filed on github yesterday
The Team Good Beer Bar Guide for #RAGBRAI 2024 is live. Download the PDF at https://www.teamgoodbeer.org or check out our interactive map guide at teamgoodbeer.guide
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e3b570ca845905e379e7c00/t/66953aae3493f406c197c88a/1721055918603/2024+Bar+Guide.pdf
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Our phones do know us a little too well.
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The full #RAGBRAI LI route is out. There will be gravel route options every day. The #Karras Loop will be on day 6.
https://ragbrai.com/ragbrai-li-full-route-revealed/
#RAGBRAI2024
#TeamGoodBeer
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Hey, speaking of rich people and complicit corporate media, did you know two of the three richest men on Earth (Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos) and the family that own's Trader Joes, are currently trying to get American courts to declare the core functions of the National Labor Relations Act unconstitutional, and the mainstream media is literally barely reporting it?
Although this story seems complex, the essential point here is that these rich maggots who have both a vested interest in stopping unions, and own companies with a documented history of unionbusting, want to stop the board that rules on NLRA cases, from hearing cases in their administrative courts. This matters because these courts allow in particular, workers who've been fired for organizing unions by big corporations like Amazon, Tesla, and Trader Joe's to quickly get a ruling that stops those companies from union busting by simply axing the organizers. The rich guys, using essentially the same arguments that were refuted by SCOTUS almost 90 years ago, would prefer those cases be heard in federal court, because it would *guarantee* "that by the time they reach the bench, those organizing campaigns will have become a dim memory." Furthermore, it's entirely possible that the richest folks in the oligarch class won't stop there, and might even ask a very anti-union SCOTUS to literally toss the NLRA altogether, leaving workers entirely exposed to whatever predations these rich maggots want to enact upon them.
In other words, and to quote the author of this article:
"in a time of stratospheric economic inequality and overwhelming public support for unions, they want the courts to strike down workers’ right to collective bargaining? One of the fundamental landmarks of the New Deal? Shall we negate all of America’s mid-20th-century social progress? All of Roosevelt’s legacy? How about we revisit World War II and surrender to the Nazis and Japan?"
Naturally, you would assume this might be bigger news than it has been. But the truth is, corporate media in America has a vested class interest in keeping this one on the downlow because they too are owned by rich (mostly) American oligarchs; in the case of a paper like the Washington post, their boss, Jeff Bezos, is literally one of the oligarchs bringing the case before the courts through his EvilCorpTM, the American multinational corporation and technology company Amazon. When the same guys busting the unions, own the papers, it's clearly possible to gut the right to collectively bargain with barely a whisper leaking out into the mainstream discourse. In the immortal words of Frank Zappa, "they just takes care of number one, an' number one ain't you; you ain't even number two..."
#NLRA #Unions #ElonMusk #Amazon #TraderJoes #UnionBusting #Neofeudalism
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Another journey to the light 💡for #stoutThursday
#lefthandBrewing White Russian Nitro Stout
Creamy smooth sweet vanilla with just a hint of coffee. Lefthand does the #nitro right!
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@GottaLaff
Here's a clip of Senator Tammy Baldwin on Lawrence O'Donnell explaining why #Hovde is terrible & she needs the money:
Sen. #TammyBaldwin:
"Eric Hovde supports a national abortion ban. He supports cutting Social Security, and he also wants to overturn or repeal the Affordable Care Act. He is going to self fund. He says he's going to put $20 million of his own money into this race. I cannot self fund. So anyone watching who wants to help us fight back, go to tammybaldwin.com " #uspol
The #RAGBRAI LI (2024) route is out. Hilliest ever with 18,737 feet of climb, but 8th shortest at 424 miles. Overnight towns are #Glenwood #RedOak, #Atlantic, #Winterset, #knoxville #Ottumwa #MountPleasant #Burlington https://ragbrai.com/ragbrai-route-revealed-as-expected-it-will-be-a-southern-iowa-ride-where-will-it-go/
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A photographer's beautiful timelapse showing the onset of winter. It took him five years to shoot. Amazing!
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