LOCKED: Disgusted with progressives, part 2...


iclfan2 Reppin' the 330/216/843
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Fri, Jul 27, 2018 9:29 AM

Why would you let them even set camp up there? FFS, grow up and clear out these losers with no jobs. Abolish Ice is the dumbest fucking thing to protest I have ever heard of (probably not but it's up there. Protesting people DESERVEDLY shot by police is up there too)

like_that 1st Team All-PWN
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Fri, Jul 27, 2018 9:32 AM

How about SF looking into banning companies from providing free lunches?  LOL.   If this legislation passes, I would just charge a penny if I were these companies.  Also, I thought liberals and leftists wanted Government to force private businesses to expand their benefits?  Make up your mind. 

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/07/26/san-francisco-has-news-future-techies-your-days-free-lunch-may-numbered/842681002/

justincredible Honorable Admin
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Fri, Jul 27, 2018 9:36 AM
posted by like_that

How about SF looking into banning companies from providing free lunches?  LOL.   If this legislation passes, I would just charge a penny if I were these companies.  Also, I thought liberals and leftists wanted Government to force private businesses to expand their benefits?  Make up your mind. 

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/07/26/san-francisco-has-news-future-techies-your-days-free-lunch-may-numbered/842681002/

Yeah, I was going to post about this the other day but got sidetracked and forgot. This is an absurd idea, hopefully better sense will prevail and it will not pass. It also doesn't apply to companies that currently offer the perk, so of course it's only going to hurt newcomers to the market while leaving the established players sitting pretty with a nice perk they can offer that the new company cannot. 

iclfan2 Reppin' the 330/216/843
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Fri, Jul 27, 2018 12:01 PM

There is the whole banning straws dumbass law in some cities in Cali lol. That'll solve anything.

Automatik Senior Member
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Fri, Jul 27, 2018 12:07 PM

.03% of total plastic waste.

I used two straws before noon today!

justincredible Honorable Admin
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Fri, Jul 27, 2018 12:29 PM

Indeed. The US is a minor contributor to overall plastic waste and straws make up such a small portion of that it's hilarious watching cities race to ban them as if they are doing anything but virtue signaling.

wkfan Senior Member
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Mon, Jul 30, 2018 9:04 AM

This is much like the climate change issue.....

Let's look to the countries that really contribute heavily to greenhouse gases, O2, etc being released to come to the table to discuss meaningful reductions.  If the U.S. is the only country on Earth trying to deal with it, it amounts to peeing in an ocean.

jmog Senior Member
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Mon, Jul 30, 2018 11:41 AM

My favorite effect of the outlawing straws in parts of California is that the new Starbucks lid takes more plastic to make than the old lid/straw combined...yup, not kidding...

queencitybuckeye Senior Member
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Mon, Jul 30, 2018 12:02 PM
posted by jmog

My favorite effect of the outlawing straws in parts of California is that the new Starbucks lid takes more plastic to make than the old lid/straw combined...yup, not kidding...

Light the virtue signal!

justincredible Honorable Admin
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Mon, Jul 30, 2018 12:29 PM
posted by jmog

My favorite effect of the outlawing straws in parts of California is that the new Starbucks lid takes more plastic to make than the old lid/straw combined...yup, not kidding...

I think the reason it is "better" is that the lid can be recycled, while the straw cannot. I'd be curious the percentage of waste generated by Starbucks that actually gets recycled, though.

jmog Senior Member
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Mon, Jul 30, 2018 12:59 PM
posted by justincredible

I think the reason it is "better" is that the lid can be recycled, while the straw cannot. I'd be curious the percentage of waste generated by Starbucks that actually gets recycled, though.

Near 0%.

justincredible Honorable Admin
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Thu, Aug 2, 2018 9:50 AM

Meet the newest member of the NYT editorial board:

like_that 1st Team All-PWN
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Thu, Aug 2, 2018 9:59 AM
posted by justincredible

Meet the newest member of the NYT editorial board:

I thought you were joking.  The NYT actually hired her LOL.

Automatik Senior Member
15,737 posts 98 reps Joined Nov 2009
Thu, Aug 2, 2018 10:08 AM

Oh fucking great. I gaurantee she also constantly complains about gentrification in NYC while reeping the benefits of it. 

iclfan2 Reppin' the 330/216/843
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Thu, Aug 2, 2018 10:10 AM
posted by Automatik

Oh fucking great. I gaurantee she also constantly complains about gentrification in NYC while reeping the benefits of it. 

I'd almost say that Asians are the most privileged race in America. 

like_that 1st Team All-PWN
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Thu, Aug 2, 2018 10:25 AM
posted by Automatik

Oh fucking great. I gaurantee she also constantly complains about gentrification in NYC while reeping the benefits of it. 

That sums up the majority of people who cry about gentrification.

Automatik Senior Member
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Thu, Aug 2, 2018 10:33 AM

That was my point. I hear it all the time, from all minorities.

"Ohh great, more gentrification in Brooklyn!" - as they sip their Starbucks coffee from their Bushwick rooftop.

gut Senior Member
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Thu, Aug 2, 2018 11:17 AM
posted by justincredible

Meet the newest member of the NYT editorial board:

I would think that disqualifies someone from being on the editorial board (hell, most professional jobs).  People are entitled to their opinions....doesn't mean they can't be objective, but the amount of vitriol and bias there says she's probably not capable of objectivity.

Will be interesting to see what happens, as those tweets appear to have been scrubbed?  (they all say "archive")

justincredible Honorable Admin
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Thu, Aug 2, 2018 11:20 AM

Nope, still out there (I checked the first one):

https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/538553252514525184

Heretic Son of the Sun
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Thu, Aug 2, 2018 11:28 AM
posted by gut

I would think that disqualifies someone from being on the editorial board (hell, most professional jobs).  People are entitled to their opinions....doesn't mean they can't be objective, but the amount of vitriol and bias there says she's probably not capable of objectivity.

Will be interesting to see what happens, as those tweets appear to have been scrubbed?  (they all say "archive")

At the very least, the same sensitivity training that it seems a new baseball player has to take on a daily basis because some dipshit dragged up their 7-year-old high school tweets.

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