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DAMN....... He should know better.....
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Today, we went to visit my grandparents grave site, I always find it humbling to see a flag on every veteran's grave, over 1100.
Yep you have to watch this..... But I honestly don't feel sorry for these people... They elected her as their mayor..
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Port Townsend Mayor Amy Howard in Support of TRANS-PRIDE Crosswalks on the $4 Million Dollar New Crosswalk on Lawrence Street. Deep Fake AI Art by “the Rev”. Bringing Public Records and Flat Out Hypocrisy to Life with AI Art.
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Port Townsend Mayor Amy Howard in Support of TRANS-PRIDE Crosswalks on the $4 Million Dollar New Crosswalk on Lawrence Street. Deep Fake AI Art by “the Rev”. Bringing Public Records and Flat Out Hypocrisy to Life with AI Art.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/dem-l...ng-paid-stay-home-from-work-when-menstruating
Democratic lawmakers complained in late May about employers not providing paid leave for painful menstruation cycles, calling it "economic violence."
"Forcing a worker to choose between paying her rent or losing a day's pay to recover from a grueling gynecological procedure is not a choice. It’s economic violence," Rep. Adelita Grijalva, D-Ariz., said during a press conference on May 21.
Grijalva was joined by Reps. Yassamin Ansari, D-Ariz., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., who are backing Ansari's Reproductive Healthcare Leave Act, which is a part of her "H.E.R." (Healthy, Equity, Rights) Agenda.
The Reproductive Healthcare Leave Act (H.R. 8158) — the flagship bill — would provide up to 12 days of paid leave per year for reproductive health needs, including severe menstrual pain, abortions, menopause symptoms, miscarriages, biopsies, vasectomies and more. The "H.E.R." Agenda also includes studies regarding gynecological pain management and Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder awareness.
"No one should have to choose between their paycheck and their health to be able to manage that kind of incredible pain," Tlaib said during the press conference.
Ansari, the youngest woman in Congress, ties the bill to her own period pain, telling TIME in an article published on Sunday that she once woke up the floor of her "local bodega, drenched in sweat, being dragged into an ambulance" and said she has days every month when she feels "barbed wire" inside of her.
The bill, introduced Saturday with 28 Democratic cosponsors and zero Republican sponsors, has already received backlash.
"Ladies, you can’t keep saying men can be women, but then also say that women are a special category. You’ve got to pick a lane. You’re very confusing to the rest of us." Rhode Island state Rep. Marie Hopkins, R., posted on X.
Some social media users also questioned whether the bill could more easily allow employees to discriminate against hiring women and shared concerns that despite it covering vasectomies, men wouldn't receive paid days for prostate issues and testosterone-related conditions.
Other users also questioned if the bill could force employers to pay workers for time off to recover from abortions.
The bill is endorsed by Planned Parenthood, the National Organization for Women (NOW) and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Democratic lawmakers complained in late May about employers not providing paid leave for painful menstruation cycles, calling it "economic violence."
"Forcing a worker to choose between paying her rent or losing a day's pay to recover from a grueling gynecological procedure is not a choice. It’s economic violence," Rep. Adelita Grijalva, D-Ariz., said during a press conference on May 21.
Grijalva was joined by Reps. Yassamin Ansari, D-Ariz., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., who are backing Ansari's Reproductive Healthcare Leave Act, which is a part of her "H.E.R." (Healthy, Equity, Rights) Agenda.
The Reproductive Healthcare Leave Act (H.R. 8158) — the flagship bill — would provide up to 12 days of paid leave per year for reproductive health needs, including severe menstrual pain, abortions, menopause symptoms, miscarriages, biopsies, vasectomies and more. The "H.E.R." Agenda also includes studies regarding gynecological pain management and Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder awareness.
"No one should have to choose between their paycheck and their health to be able to manage that kind of incredible pain," Tlaib said during the press conference.
Ansari, the youngest woman in Congress, ties the bill to her own period pain, telling TIME in an article published on Sunday that she once woke up the floor of her "local bodega, drenched in sweat, being dragged into an ambulance" and said she has days every month when she feels "barbed wire" inside of her.
The bill, introduced Saturday with 28 Democratic cosponsors and zero Republican sponsors, has already received backlash.
"Ladies, you can’t keep saying men can be women, but then also say that women are a special category. You’ve got to pick a lane. You’re very confusing to the rest of us." Rhode Island state Rep. Marie Hopkins, R., posted on X.
Some social media users also questioned whether the bill could more easily allow employees to discriminate against hiring women and shared concerns that despite it covering vasectomies, men wouldn't receive paid days for prostate issues and testosterone-related conditions.
Other users also questioned if the bill could force employers to pay workers for time off to recover from abortions.
The bill is endorsed by Planned Parenthood, the National Organization for Women (NOW) and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
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Take 4 ibuprofin like the hung over guy next to you trying not to puke or shit his pants.
I work with "craft labor" welders. Half ,or more, of them look hung over or high as fuck.
There's a piece of data that almost nobody is paying attention to that is, right now, telling a story about the United States that most people on the coasts simply cannot feel.
It starts with a weird question: why is it nearly impossible to book a flatbed truck?
Not a refrigerated truck. Not a standard dry van. The flatbed specifically. No walls, no roof, cargo sitting in the open air getting rained on. The kind that only makes sense when your cargo physically cannot go inside a box — steel coils, heavy equipment, lumber. The workhorse of industrial America.
When the price to hire one doubles and companies pay it anyway, that's not a complaint. That's a choice. And choices like that don't lie.
We pulled the thread on this with Craig Fuller, founder of FreightWaves, who runs what is arguably the best real-time freight intelligence platform in the country.
What he laid out completely reframed how we were looking at the US economy.
For thirty years, the freight heat map of this country looked the same: hot at the coasts where the ports are, quiet in the middle. Today that map is almost inverted. The I-35 corridor, the old Rust Belt, the industrial spine of the country is running at a pace it hasn't hit in two decades. And it has nothing to do with the ports.
This video traces what that signal actually means — and connects it to black swans, penicillin, a $150 billion data center arms race, and a productivity chart that should probably be getting more attention than it is.
By the end of it, you'll understand why I said something I've never said before.
Topics covered:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCd9ctg1sO4
It starts with a weird question: why is it nearly impossible to book a flatbed truck?
Not a refrigerated truck. Not a standard dry van. The flatbed specifically. No walls, no roof, cargo sitting in the open air getting rained on. The kind that only makes sense when your cargo physically cannot go inside a box — steel coils, heavy equipment, lumber. The workhorse of industrial America.
When the price to hire one doubles and companies pay it anyway, that's not a complaint. That's a choice. And choices like that don't lie.
We pulled the thread on this with Craig Fuller, founder of FreightWaves, who runs what is arguably the best real-time freight intelligence platform in the country.
What he laid out completely reframed how we were looking at the US economy.
For thirty years, the freight heat map of this country looked the same: hot at the coasts where the ports are, quiet in the middle. Today that map is almost inverted. The I-35 corridor, the old Rust Belt, the industrial spine of the country is running at a pace it hasn't hit in two decades. And it has nothing to do with the ports.
This video traces what that signal actually means — and connects it to black swans, penicillin, a $150 billion data center arms race, and a productivity chart that should probably be getting more attention than it is.
By the end of it, you'll understand why I said something I've never said before.
Topics covered:
- Why freight data is one of the few economic signals that genuinely cannot be faked
- The I-35 corridor and the inversion of thirty years of US freight patterns
- Why flatbed rejection rates specifically point to industrial activity, not consumer demand
- Black swans: the ones that make headlines, and the more powerful ones that don't
- AI productivity vs internet productivity, and what the gap between them might mean
- Why Big Tech spending $150B+ a year racing each other might be the most accidental stimulus in American history
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCd9ctg1sO4
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/mone...alary-unemployment-job-market-ai/90280770007/
So I can go to college for 4 years, be 100k in debt, and start out making 56k a year... Or, I can skip college, have no debt, and make 70k a year in the trades... that's a really hard decision
So I can go to college for 4 years, be 100k in debt, and start out making 56k a year... Or, I can skip college, have no debt, and make 70k a year in the trades... that's a really hard decision
As a data point, in 2022 or 2023, I was making offers to fresh civil engineering graduates to start at $100k, and more than half "took better offers." So, if you go to college, be sure to pick a degree that ROIs for you...
That said, I'm happy that the trades are coming back. The death of the trades has seriously hurt the USA's competitiveness in the world. There's absolutely nothing wrong with picking a career in the trades. Some of the smartest people I know work in the trades.
I did the whole college thing, debt free, paid as I went. It was sold to me/us as something we had to do. I chose a generic/logical/useful major and minor, and my current career field requires a 4-year, plus additional specialty classes. A lot of guys I went to high school with dropped out or never attempted college, and started working toward their current careers while I was in school. In the end, as we currently stand, we're making about the same financially, but they had to start working sooner, and they have to work physically harder for their pay. I now advise kids to avoid college until they have a basic career path that requires it, and they have some reasonable way to pay for it without using debt, which can be done.
Rock-solid advice, there, BlueC!
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