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@peterbrown @QasimRashid Fuck off. I'm not american.

@peterbrown @QasimRashid Grow up. There were 18 other workers in the warehouse when he set fire to it. He deserves to go to jail for a long time for reckless endangerment. He's a crook, and of story. Unskilled labour doesn't command a premium when it can be replaced with anyone walking in off the street. Want more, get skills that pay better. Lots of people do this. But it takes work.

@technicaladept @peterbrown @QasimRashid Once the place was burned down, no union would have had ANY ppower. The jobs are gone, and will never come back. The company has contracts with their supplies they have to respect. They can't wait 3 years for the warehouse to be rebuilt. They have clients they will lose it they don't supply them in a timely manner. They will move operations elsewhere. The people who used to work there, and the local suppliers who depended on that warehouse, are out of luck. The ONLY person who comes out ahead is the asshole who started the fire - he'll have free housing, food, and medical for years.

@h2onolan @QasimRashid How does pointing out that this asshole cost his co-workers their jobs make me a "collaborator?" And this doesn't count the other jobs lost from suppliers, big and small, in the community.

@technicaladept @peterbrown @QasimRashid His co-workers COULD have done those things, but once he burned down the place, their jobs are permanently gone. The warehouse was owned by a 3rd party, so this is an opportunity for Kimberly -Clark to get rid of the hub-and-spoke distribution model, and drop-ship to their largest customers, so those warehouse jobs are gone forever. Any future warehouses will be much smaller, and may even be "dark", only requiring a couple of rent-a-cops and one afternoon a week for scheduled inspection and maintenance. But the asshole who set the fire doesn't have to worry about a job for at least 5 years. He's got his, selfish bastard.

@richlv @peterbrown @QasimRashid I'm well aware of Amazon's anti-union tactics. One warehouse here unionized, they closed them all down. That doesn't mean that unions aren't viable - just that stronger legislation is needed to level the playing field. In other words, change politicians.

@theorangetheme @QasimRashid I proposed constructive solutions. Union action wouldn't have left his co-workers and their families out on the street. And sharing expenses with ONE (not 7) other person is what plenty of working families do. Ask his now-unemployed co-workers how they feel about him. Good thing he's in jail - they'd probably beat the crap out of him because unlike him, who gets all his housing a And medical covered for the next 5-10 years, they're jobless and facing being out on the street and no medical. If they were precarious before, they're facing destitution now. Why not spare a thought for them instead of white-knighting this asshole?

@peterbrown @QasimRashid

Don’t put words in my mouth.

I have 3 courses of active n which are legal, honourable, and don’t result in their co-workers losing their jobs:

1. Union action;
2. Change jobs to a lower-cost area. Plenty of workers won’t take a job in SillyValley because, even with a 6-figure income, they would have a lower standard of living than making half as much elsewhere;
3. Finding someone else to share expenses with.

So instead the asshole put all his co-workers out on the street. I’m sure they just LOVE him for that.

But HE has no problem - he’ll get free room and board and medical care, he’s got his, Fuck his co-workers.

@QasimRashid The economic argument in the video is bs. First, two people at that stage would have a comfortable living, so if you're single, double up with someone else. Two income households is the norm nowadays. Second, if you can't make a living there on your wage, either change jobs or move somewhere cheaper - you've got the whole country. Third, no union? Form a union. Union is ineffective? Work to change it. People pull up stakes all the time. Just burning down the place is cowardly.

@StarkRG Poor management, funding issues, shifting priorities, and organisational restructuring are ALL management failures. This has always been the case. Just look at the failure of the Denver baggage handling system, originally budgeted at under $200 million and time-compressed from 4 years to less than half, then delayed the opening of the airport by 16 months before being abandoned when it threatened the credit rating of the city of Denver. Boeing had plenty of cost-plus contracts that didn't deliver anywhere :ear on time of budget, ditto Lockheed-Martin, the F35 is way slower than a 50-year-old F16. Not for lack of funding. So double estimates, double again, and you MIGHT be safe. Both in time and budget.

@StarkRG And yet, look at how many 2-year projects never get finished after half a decade or more. Always double the time estimate, then double again. Helps to get rid of the non-essential "nice to haves" that people keep trying to add "because it won't take that much longer" . Because EVERYONE keeps trying to bargain down how long something should take, even though THEY CAN NOT DO IT THEMSELVES. Trying to meet unreasonable deadlines, even if you succeed, just adds technical debt. Glad I'm retired, because if there's one thing I've learned, it's that management can't even manage themselves effectively. That's why they went into management. Because only those who can do, do. Those who can't go into management.

@david_chisnall Two reasons why not: Road vehicles can't share the same rail track as cars; Double-tracking to allow trains to go in both directions at once gets really expensive.

@aral It runs on a modified version of linux, doing things like monotonic updates. Ask for the source 🙂 These are the same dicks who brought us systemd. Which is why my local server is being converted to FreeBSD.

@jik or just get a burner plone. A cheap second hand phone without a sim. Say you use it to make videos of cops breaking the law. Wi-Fi is a thing.

@TrimTab @jik

@QasimRashid Don't forget that on December 14 2025 Canada changed its citizenship laws. Anyone with a Canadian citizen as a parent is automatically a citizen, and can file the paperwork to prove they have a Canadian parent and get their Canadian passport. Anyone who has a Canadian ancestor who has not renounced their Canadian citizenship can apply for Canadian citizenship as well. Canada is the land of the free.

@transworld Solution is very simple - if you take any public funding, you serve everyone. Money talks.