Occasional Reader 10/17/2022 5:46:37 AM

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Good morning.

The Liz Truss government is not having a very nice time.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-63285226

JCM 10/17/2022 7:41:37 AM

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China's Communist party says nearly 5 million members probed for graft

Since graft is the sine quo on of the ChiCom system this is a purge. A bunch of party members are questioning the party line, ad Xie is cracking the whip.

Occasional Reader 10/17/2022 7:52:32 AM

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In #2 JCM said: sine quo on

You misspelled "Sino-Quigong".... 

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JCM 10/17/2022 8:58:20 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 3:

I have a stickig key betwee the b ad the m......

If I bang on it hard enough it works.

vxbush 10/17/2022 9:49:01 AM

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In #4 JCM said: If I bang on it hard enough it works.

Clearly you need one of these.

JCM 10/17/2022 10:05:12 AM

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Amazon faces off with union in fight for a second warehouse

I'm agnostic on the unionization for the most part, what I know of work at the Fulfillment Centers (FC), it's a good job, lots of opportunity for growth, good benefits etc... Yeah, it's demanding work. So most of the complaints I question. Have you ever spent a summer roofing? In fact Amazon will train FC workers how to code and they can move into a tech role.

Anyway this paragraph caught my eye.

“There are also a lot of odds against us, but I think there’s definitely a huge possibility we might win,” said Sarah Chaudhry, an 18-year old who’s been organizing workers since joining the company two months ago. “I can’t jinx it.”

2 whole months and a union organizer? Sounds like an agitator to me.

vxbush 10/17/2022 12:26:30 PM

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In #6 JCM said: 2 whole months and a union organizer? Sounds like an agitator to me.

Or a recent college graduate. 

JCM 10/17/2022 12:47:06 PM

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In #7 vxbush said: Or a recent college graduate. 

There is a difference?

Seems to me colleges are just factories for agitators, activists, and revolutioaries.

vxbush 10/17/2022 2:12:41 PM

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In #8 JCM said: There is a difference? Seems to me colleges are just factories for agitators, activists, and revolutioaries.

I would agree with you at least 95% of the time. There are a few who sneak through who do not want to agitate, activate, or revolutionize anything, but they are becoming even more rare of a species. 

JCM 10/17/2022 2:16:59 PM

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Reply to vxbush in 9:

It would be dependent on what they are studying.

It's harder to be those things in the hard sciences. They are trying....

Kosh's Shadow 10/17/2022 7:37:48 PM

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All I will say is it would be very nice if there was some participation when I can actually read and post.

OR, at least you do show up