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« Reply #1980 on: December 03, 2019, 06:49:11 PM »
https://twitter.com/mattdpearce/status/1201986311432765440
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But the money-saving recommendations the consultants came up with made some career ICE workers uncomfortable. They proposed cuts in spending on food for migrants, as well as on medical care and supervision of detainees, according to interviews with people who worked on the project for both ICE and McKinsey and 1,500 pages of documents obtained from the agency after ProPublica filed a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act.

McKinsey’s team also looked for ways to accelerate the deportation process, provoking worries among some ICE staff members that the recommendations risked short-circuiting due-process protections for migrants fighting removal from the United States. The consultants, three people who worked on the project said, seemed focused solely on cutting costs and speeding up deportations — actions whose success could be measured in numbers — with little acknowledgment that these policies affected thousands of human beings.
This is peak corporate fuckery  :doge
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“Well it obviously isn’t ideal to have a contractor tell us what we want to ask them to do,” the contracting officer replied. But unless someone from the government could articulate the agency’s objectives, the officer added, “what other option is there?” ICE extended the contract.
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« Reply #1981 on: December 04, 2019, 11:45:07 PM »


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« Reply #1983 on: December 05, 2019, 03:29:51 PM »

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« Reply #1984 on: December 05, 2019, 03:38:14 PM »
Capitalism without theft would rule
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« Reply #1985 on: December 05, 2019, 03:45:30 PM »
Capitalism without theft would rule

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« Reply #1989 on: December 06, 2019, 12:35:50 PM »
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« Reply #1991 on: December 06, 2019, 08:58:49 PM »
How do we refute these free-market fanboys when they bring up Norway, Sweden, and all those regions? They're technically capitalist and have rather free markets.

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« Reply #1993 on: December 07, 2019, 10:22:48 AM »

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« Reply #1994 on: December 07, 2019, 10:56:10 AM »
How do we refute these free-market fanboys when they bring up Norway, Sweden, and all those regions? They're technically capitalist and have rather free markets.

remove "technically" and "rather" and your sentence is  spot on

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« Reply #1995 on: December 07, 2019, 11:16:24 AM »
just tell them social democracy is government regulated capitalism with

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« Reply #1996 on: December 07, 2019, 11:23:50 AM »
I guess my response is if that person asking the question thinks that countries like Norway, Sweden, the Nordic Countries in general are well run and if they want the U.S. or whatever country they're from to be run more like the Nordic countries. And then go from there.


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« Reply #1997 on: December 07, 2019, 01:50:09 PM »
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« Reply #1998 on: December 07, 2019, 01:59:11 PM »
I guess my response is if that person asking the question thinks that countries like Norway, Sweden, the Nordic Countries in general are well run and if they want the U.S. or whatever country they're from to be run more like the Nordic countries. And then go from there.
Predictable responses of why the US can't have what they do:
"The US is a big country"
"The nordics are more homogenous, ethnically"

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« Reply #2000 on: December 07, 2019, 08:18:54 PM »


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« Reply #2004 on: December 08, 2019, 01:17:31 AM »


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« Reply #2006 on: December 08, 2019, 04:11:44 PM »
https://www.npr.org/2019/12/04/784702588/the-best-thing-you-can-do-is-not-buy-more-stuff-says-secondhand-expert

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The volume of stuff is increasing, but the volume of good stuff among the stuff, if you will, is declining.

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« Reply #2008 on: December 09, 2019, 04:50:47 PM »
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« Reply #2011 on: December 10, 2019, 02:14:54 PM »
Who can afford to buy a goldfish in this economy? Just rent one.
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« Reply #2012 on: December 11, 2019, 12:40:44 PM »
Who can afford to buy a goldfish in this economy? Just rent one.
Gotta downsize to a Silverfish, or even a humble Copperhead.

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« Reply #2013 on: December 11, 2019, 01:31:08 PM »
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« Reply #2015 on: December 11, 2019, 04:10:45 PM »
Daily Mail not a banned sauce on the bire?  :lawd
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« Reply #2016 on: December 11, 2019, 04:33:59 PM »
"Medicare For All? We don't need any of that commie garbage! Now where did I put my fish antibiotics?"
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« Reply #2019 on: December 12, 2019, 02:40:11 AM »
What makes this late stage capitalism?
By the way, Red Pandas aren't actually Pandas, they are unrelated.
I saw one in a zoo a while ago and looked it up.
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« Reply #2020 on: December 12, 2019, 02:43:16 AM »
just use your imagination

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« Reply #2022 on: December 12, 2019, 03:06:15 PM »
What makes this late stage capitalism?
By the way, Red Pandas aren't actually Pandas, they are unrelated.
I saw one in a zoo a while ago and looked it up.
Next you'll tell me American Indians aren't from India.

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« Reply #2023 on: December 12, 2019, 08:01:23 PM »
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While business investment has historically climbed when borrowing rose, companies now are increasingly using that credit to return money to investors.

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« Reply #2024 on: December 13, 2019, 12:39:59 PM »
Got this add (on adblocking browser) while reading the guardian


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« Reply #2025 on: December 13, 2019, 12:45:16 PM »
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« Reply #2027 on: December 13, 2019, 02:31:21 PM »
Thank goodness, imagine if such a company used its mass to do inconvenient things like wage war on universal attachments in favour of endless proprietary bits that are intended to be lost and re-bought at a boosted margin? That'd suck.

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« Reply #2028 on: December 13, 2019, 02:44:42 PM »
Imagine what kind of world it would be if you couldn't install an alternative web browser

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« Reply #2029 on: December 14, 2019, 02:31:19 PM »
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« Reply #2031 on: December 14, 2019, 11:18:17 PM »
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/faa-administration-chief-meeting-boeing-172112484.html

Because Boeing had to sell safety measures as DLC.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Boeing Co <BA.N> on Thursday abandoned its goal of winning approval this month from the Federal Aviation Administration to unground the 737 MAX after Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg met with senior U.S. aviation officials.

The announcement came after a congressional hearing on Wednesday in which numerous lawmakers prodded the FAA to take a tougher line with Boeing as it continues to review the plane that has been grounded since March after two fatal crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia that killed 346 people.

FAA Administrator Steve Dickson said on Wednesday he would not clear the plane to fly before 2020 and disclosed the agency has an ongoing investigation into 737 production issues in Renton, Washington. He added there are nearly a dozen milestones that must be completed before the MAX returns to service. Approval is not likely until at least February and could be delayed until March, U.S. officials told Reuters.

Muilenburg and Boeing's commercial airplanes chief, Stan Deal, met with Dickson and "committed to addressing all of the FAA’s questions," the company said, adding it will work to support the agency's "requirements and their timeline as we work to safely return the Max to service in 2020."

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« Reply #2032 on: December 14, 2019, 11:30:29 PM »
At least in California, the state can define homeless as living with relatives. That can still means multiple families sharing a 1 bedroom apartment. It's cruel and inhuman how we treat some of the most vulnerable members of society, especially in areas where there's actual vacancies but landlords and large housing companies refuse to drop their rental rates because they want to keep it high because tech bros can afford it and nobody else.
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« Reply #2034 on: December 15, 2019, 08:57:47 PM »
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-12-15/retirement-suspend-social-security

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« Reply #2037 on: December 16, 2019, 02:11:57 PM »
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« Reply #2039 on: December 17, 2019, 03:03:33 PM »
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