He was a cool guy. He used to come to my workplace more than a decade ago when I worked there and was always pleasant. He would always talk to a few of us (mostly my boss) and joke around. Sad to see him go
The postal service is a complete failure. As bad as some 3rd world countries. I get the wrong mail all the time and other people get my mail. Not just at home, but at my po box as well. I've complained several times and nothing has changed for more than a month. Neighbors have the same problem. They're so stupid that they give my building the mail for the building next door.
Lets also factor in that they're spending more, but delivering way less mail. Its a joke.
We don't need it to be privatized, we just need all the management to be replaced and same with MOST the employees which are actually not fit to work at any real job and that's why the government hires them.
> I get the wrong mail all the time and other people get my mail.
I talked with my local postmaster about this. They do care about misdelivered mail and will correct an employee/contractor quickly if you let them know.
The problem is that the Post Office is now heavily relying on temp workers to fill delivery positions, but they do not pay enough to keep the positions filled, so there’s a lot of churn.
Your feedback won’t have much effect until your route is staffed consistently by the same worker.
Its nothing but a scam and anyone that supports it is completely heartless. It makes people poorer and nothing else. NYC has the national guard at its subways because its so dangerous. Its beyond dangerous still during many times. It is also always fucked up and is late or it breaks or other issues. Its not that reliable.
Its just a scam to grab money from already broke people that are suffering and only awful people support this because they can't think for themselves and are followers.
Did the subway get drastically worse in the last few years or something? Last time I was in NYC I stayed in Harlem and either biked or took the subway everywhere I needed to go. It was.. fine?
No, but the media coverage surrounding cities has decayed to an absolutely abysmal level, so every single issue on the subway gets 48 hours of coverage or more, and the current governor is awful, so she thinks things like sending in the national guard to stand around will help
The subway was in a "crisis" operating mode from 2017 to 2021[1]. I've lived in the city for my entire life, and subjectively the "crisis" label was accurate for that period (in terms of timeliness, breakdowns, station decay, overcrowding pre-COVID, etc.).
That ended, in part, because the MTA received a huge operating boost from federal COVID funds, which are now (4 years later) running dry. So we haven't seen the return to the 2017 subway yet, but we almost certainly will if essential maintenance and system improvements are once again deferred to keep the lights on. As with everything about public infrastructure: the best and cheapest time to fund infrastructure is before it breaks. If the subway is allowed to continue to fall into disrepair, it'll only cost us more down the road.
The NYC metro is a far, far safer way to travel than driving. 121 people die in traffic yearly in New York City. In the highest-crime year in recent memory (2022) there were 10 deaths in the metro. Generally it's 2 or 3 yearly.
Fwiw I can't find any data to back up your claim. Looks like in 2023 numerous models outsold Tesla Y and 3 (CRV/Rav4/Ram/Silverado). While Ford doesn't seem to release individual F-150/250/350/450 data, given the huge lead I'd bet the F-150 would still beat model Y even if split out.
These are federal charges, not state. In the federal prison system, you do almost all your time, with just a small percentage knocked off the end of your sentence if you maintain consistent good behavior. State justice systems do have a tendency to let prisoners out early for various different reasons but when you get a federal sentence, you're serving almost all of it.
Things actually changed in 2018 with some implementation details of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Step_Act. Parole is not given, true; but you can earn a bunch of credit days for participating in non-recidivism activities, which - when combined with good behavior - can amount to leaving prison 30-40% early. Not sure about the details after (house arrest or halfway-house may be somewhere in that mix), but not as grim at that point.
Win? Embarrassing himself and not being professional and not being able to keep his cool is not a win, its embarrassment which he has always been.
He lost a big deal because he wanted to be hostile and argumentative and against the truth (when Elon told him people will show whos right/wrong, he said that doesn't mean anything even if there is a study attached)
You're just saying this nonsense because you hate Musk because he's not a democrat anymore. That's where all the hate you have stems from.
With that said, he was given the same opportunity to other democratic leaders and they are on the platform with no issues.
Don was being a complete jerk and wasn't being genuine. Don has always been disingenuous and full of it. Plus everyone thats worked with him at CNN hated him
You should be taking a stance. Screw them and trying to rip us off even more. This kind of shit should be illegal. No mergers no matter what unless the other company is closing its doors. Probably every single merger has screwed Americans
Stupid people don't understand it will make all costs rise and we won't end up in the same situation, but a worse situation because there will be higher markups as well (just about every business did this after the covid shutdowns)
People are stupid and I'm convinced these people want to destroy the country. When you raise wages, things like automation will happen much faster and people will have to do more work and there will be a ton of layoffs
Minimum wage was touted as a way to push out blacks, immigrants, and other undesirables with asymmetric access to education and capital when it was introduced in the US in the wake of the great depression. They wanted a floor high enough that only a nice white boy would earn and thus outlaw the lesser paid workers to the fringes where they can be further exploited.
Minimum wage still has this function today, a policy for smug elite to smash down the least fortunate while doing double speak to pretend like they are doing the poor a favor.
Maybe that’s what they want? Yes, a $50 min wage isn’t viable for many jobs, but those jobs could be automated anyways, especially with the wage pressure of employing real people making the capital investments work out. It would have to be coupled with some UBI, though, since a lot of people aren’t going to be able to provide labor that passes that threshold.
