Ahh yes, the mighty Toyota, dropping DEI to pander to people that already buy their trucks, by copying the Tesla tactic of politically alienating the other half of your customers. That makes way more sense than their just not being an ROI for the outlays that DEI consumes.

Toyota is doing it because the massive profits DEI was supposed to bring were a false promise based on a study that doesn't survive peer review.

"He went home"

The slaves weren't going to rape and torture themselves.

The inherent inefficiency and institutional incompetence in FEMA coupled with the lack of disaster experience by the locals that don't have their own version of a Cajun navy that's integrated with rescue services and regionalized to have bridging ops, feeds confirmation biases.

#4 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-10-09 07:15 AM | Reply | Flag:

A quick query with ChatGPT about those wages, because no way would people dishonestly cherry pick 2 stats and compare the situation to America, right?

No Official Minimum Wage in Switzerland: Switzerland doesn't have a nationwide minimum wage. Minimum wage laws exist only in some cantons, and even these are often higher than in most countries. Comparing Swiss wages to countries with a nationwide minimum wage without considering the cantonal differences creates an incomplete picture.

High Cost of Living: While wages in Switzerland tend to be higher, so is the cost of living. Comparing wages without factoring in living expenses like housing, food, transportation, and healthcare makes the wage seem much larger than it might effectively be when considering day-to-day life.

Social Insurance and Benefits: Swiss wages typically include comprehensive social contributions. Switzerland has a robust social security system, which includes pension schemes (like the AHV/AVS), unemployment insurance, and accident insurance. Additionally, Swiss employers and employees often contribute to private health insurance plans, as healthcare is mandatory but not government-funded directly. This means that total compensation might appear higher, but a portion of that goes toward these mandatory insurances.

Do we have to news articles with headlines written in valley girl dialect?

Too strong. Wtf happened to only getting a little high?

We had it until she started talking.

Students, generally, are poor. With colleges and cities/counties creating such massive price disparities, migration is inevitable.

Well, the choices in the northeast

#6 | Posted by jpw at 2024-10-08 01:14 AM | Reply

NY, Boston, Philly vs Houston.

Mean tuition in the NE is $14k, UH is $10k.
Mean housings costs in the NE are $39k, Houston is $19.2k.

UH is a tier 1 research university, adjacent to a world leading medical center, in the "Energy Capitol of the World" with Exxon, Chevron, Shell, Aramco, etc, a Data Science institute partnered with HP, Microsoft, and IBM, etc. It's hard to make an argument for paying double annually for a BS degree. Contrary to what Republicans think is happening, it's mostly STEM and biz students.

Not that people should really go straight to 4 year. Assuming you didn't get your AS already in high school because that's a thing now, you go to the Lone Star College community system, get an AS or AA, then receive an automatic approval of your major choice and transfer into the UH college of your choice (Business, NSM, Engineering, etc).

So done in 4 total? $76.8k in housing, $26k in tuition.

Assuming you only do 2 at the NE schools, not including the 2 year CC sost, you're already at $28k tuition and $156k in housing.

"Donald Trump has the most working-class support of any GOP candidate in 40 years"

If you can't figure it out...

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-07 12:45 PM | Reply

Garage your vehicle and no pictures of your yard political signs, like it's magic.

Can't garage? Your fault, get less poor.

Gary Indiana is the most bleak place I have seen in my life. Google map routes are not gentrified.

Appalachian culture -------.

That didn't occur to you either, so cultural sensitivity training for you too.

Parts of Chicago are awesome. I have also been on a numbered street on the Southside at night. Not good.

Autocorrect gets gentlemen out of fent... wtf.

Parts of California are cesspool of homeless blight and gentlemen. The rest is pretty decent.

Cultural sensitivity training time for Hans.

You are as bad as the other shht spreaders. Just STFU already.

#24 | Posted by YAV at 2024-10-07 07:35 AM | Reply

Grow up.

Reminds me a bit of Joel Olsteen during Harvey. People still ---- on him and say oh he just did not want people to make his new carpet muddy.

Except they were told by City County State and feds to not do that and to direct people to Red Cross shelters.

Straight from the National Guard troops on the ground that are local to the area, FEMA workers from very liberal states are scared of locals that are casually armed because they are completely alien to the local culture.

FEMA employees sensitivity training and cultural awareness training.

I realize there's probably multiple factors that play into that. Doesn't change the fact, though, that the derided blue areas are almost always the primary economic engines states.

#6 | Posted by jpw at 2024-10-05 06:08 PM | Reply

Is it in the blue area? or is it in the red suburbs? IF it's in the blue area, where do the workers live?

It's not what anyone's talking about. It's what interested party partisans are talking about. Viewership down, victory polling strictly on partisan lines, and most people don't watch to the end.

I don't know what some of you were watching, but JD showed up with the Jackie Moon Smokey Eye offense, and Walz had a few Slack Jaw Biden moments. Not good.

Very powerful eyeliner on JD Vance.