Notices by somercet (somercet@shitposter.club)
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somercet (somercet@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 31-Mar-2017 03:03:23 UTC 
somercet
Well, that screenshot shrieks, "Journalistic integrity!"
@neimzr4luzerz @moonman @ajr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUZn1Rh0HO8 -
somercet (somercet@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Mar-2017 23:53:23 UTC
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>If there are job opportunities that are not being fulfilled, it is in any country's interest to remedy that.
Simplistic yet wrong. No one is arguing that jobs must go unfilled. I am arguing *how* they are filled.
America in the 1910s: formally trained people are a small core. (Small enough that the two military academies are significant sources of civil engineers.) Lots of people have technical experience but no formal qualifications. A minority, but still a large number (skills are a power law distribution) are "unskilled" workers.
Business A's response: the trained core is put in charge. They surround themselves with the experienced-but-uncredentialed, who act as foremen for the large group of technically unskilled people. Eventually, the business starts aptitude-testing workers and providing formal training ("hiring from within"). The unskilled force is able to make things they would be unable to alone. By and large, they show up, they don't complain, they get the job done, they refer corner cases to the foreman: all "negative virtues," yes, but even the absence of vice can be a virtue.
America in the 2010s: Skills are still power law distributed. Business aptitude-testing was outlawed by the US Supreme court (Griggs v. Duke Power Co., 1971). Expensive, land-grant (i.e., oligopoly), 85% public universities provide the "skills," but many of these are useless and entirely unrelated to actual jobs (e.g., waiters with English majors).
Business B's response: the trained core is put in charge. No pyramidal company structure is created. Instead, H-1Bs are now used to bring in workers from overseas, who live in the US entirely at the pleasure of the corporate "sponsor." Human Resources now exists to eliminate "mediocrity."
http://hrdusa.com/As_hire_As.html
Production is farmed out to third world countries. The culture barrier and lack of infrastructure is costly, but the business frees itself from the over-extended "job protections" in the U.S. put in place by unions (1870-1970):
http://cesspoolofhumanity.blogspot.com/2010/08/proud-racist-history-of-labor-unions.html
The "unskilled" pool is put on "social services," or "welfare" or "the dole" for those of us not addicted to "euphemisms." The ruling class tells them welfare is just as good as work. But welfare provides no sense of productivity or mastery (however low the job), just a constant awareness that your father or grandfather was a citizen, a worker and an asset, but you are merely a burden.
The world from 1910 is a healthy, organic society, *and* part of world trade. The society from 2010 is a dystopian hell hole, all thanks to your policies.
Point 2: I'm sorry you missed it entirely. It seems very simple to me. @clacke @dtluna -
somercet (somercet@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Mar-2017 21:55:23 UTC
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These may be good points for Sweden, but I only have two: U.S. labor force participation is at record lows, wages are down, debt is up, and things like Social Security, employer health insurance and bank bailouts have gone from iffy to dangerous. Even more strange, with H-1Bs we're importing people specifically to fill the one job market actually experiencing job market share growth and rising wages (gotta stop that). With even MORE insane irony, the H-1Bs allow businesses to employ "non-whites" (as legally required) while the African-American population "enjoys" record unemployment and labor participation collapse.
Point 1: The U.S. job market is entirely broken, and we're importing more people.
Point 2: Neither Libertarian nor Anarchist thought supports enforcement of one-way "crime." Now, at some point, the U.S. government decided that borders are evil. Not my choice at this time, but if you believe this.... then U.S. billionaires and corporations can buy up Central and South American property and companies and start strip-mining them, right? No limits on our domination of their markets, right? No matter what their laws say... right? @clacke @dtluna -
somercet (somercet@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Mar-2017 12:11:48 UTC
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@clacke The reviewer only mentioned Jones and Busey.
Must be gay. (Or terrified of PC judgement day.) -
somercet (somercet@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Mar-2017 11:53:04 UTC
somercet
I still haven't seen "Under Siege," just the sequel.
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somercet (somercet@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 27-Mar-2017 00:07:04 UTC
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This one? @lambadalambda http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-42-blitz-logical-insanity/ -
somercet (somercet@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 26-Mar-2017 18:28:43 UTC
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Most sex education could be profitably replaced by "How to recognize and avoid the death grip of a sociopath" classes. @roka @mangeurdenuage @nepfag @dolus @dtluna -
somercet (somercet@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 26-Mar-2017 18:03:29 UTC
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Wrong. American Airlines 77 struck the Pentagon, a military installation. United 93 was headed for Washington, D.C. to strike the White House (Executive) or Capitol Hill (Legislature) before the passengers stormed the cockpit. The only reason the WTC planes hit first is because Boston is closer to NYC than D.C., and was the starting point for all the planes used. Try to not rewrite reality in public fora.
ISIL is the end state that al Qaeda was aiming for: a terror state in the Middle East. The strike on the U.S. was a strike to gain legitimacy, and it worked: AQ has had high numbers in the ME where ever they don't actually have control.
ISIL would be further along is Russia was not pounding ISIL (and especially client Assad's enemies). The U.S. is also backing anti-Assad, anti-ISIL forces. Syria, under Iranian direction, poured jihadis into Iraq, and is now eating the blowback. @hardbass2k8 @cyberpotato -
somercet (somercet@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 26-Mar-2017 17:09:08 UTC
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1. The threat is entirely real and dangerous.
2. The death toll was equal to Pearl Harbor.
@hardbass2k8 @cyberpotato -
somercet (somercet@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 26-Mar-2017 16:56:27 UTC
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@cyberpotato A police response to a military threat always appears overbearing and oppressive. Since the police are enjoined from naked force, the powers of surveillance, investigation and arrest are expanded and abused to take its place. -
somercet (somercet@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 23-Mar-2017 05:55:13 UTC
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No, feudalism lasted as long as land was wealth, and all wealth was land. Industrialism killed feudalism and its nobility. There is a reason why Napoleon's Grande Armée was the first mass army of citizen soldiers with a meritocratic officer corps. @moonman @ghostdancer @augustus -
somercet (somercet@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 20-Mar-2017 22:40:43 UTC
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NO SHIT: "It's very, very rare for a USAF aircraft to do a fly-by below the flight deck of a carrier."
https://www.strategypage.com/military_photos/military_photos_2006632950.aspx http://www.strategypage.com/gallery/images/b-52flyby.jpg -
somercet (somercet@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 20-Mar-2017 19:20:13 UTC
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Rockefeller. How does this matter? @dogjaw @rw @augustus -
somercet (somercet@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 18-Mar-2017 22:13:39 UTC
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I counter: you're being selfish. How many actual orphans exist these days? We don't die from compound fractures or typhus. That kid's parents were unable to hack it because of the manifold failures of "the elites." They could have kept it had they been able to. Helping that kid's parents would make three people happy, but then you'd be down a kid and have to make your own. @hckr @augustus -
somercet (somercet@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 16-Mar-2017 21:27:12 UTC
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>Yes, I actually counted—and I did so out loud, so my daughters were quite aware of how often they beckoned me. The next day, I announced that I would no longer answer to “mom” or “mommy,” but was to be addressed as “Queen of the Schoonveld Household, Mother of Heathens.”
http://thefederalist.com/2017/03/16/half-fun-parent-trolling-children/ -
somercet (somercet@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Mar-2017 06:54:03 UTC
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@moonman "a corrupt untouchable"? Ummm... does he know what "untouchable" means? -
somercet (somercet@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Mar-2017 06:50:38 UTC
somercet
Famed gunblogger Kim du Toit is an Oglaf fan: "funnier than Hillary Clinton getting her tits caught in a blender. I love it."
http://www.kimdutoit.com/2017/03/13/oglaf/ -
somercet (somercet@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Mar-2017 17:39:48 UTC
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This strip is odd, since the "punch line" is all in the poem's build-up; the rest is denouement. @clacke @nerthos @lambadalambda @zine https://shitposter.club/attachment/492163 -
somercet (somercet@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Mar-2017 17:32:03 UTC
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Like the time he told Calvin he was purchased at Kmart and Calvin freaked? Or told him they were just going to leave the Christmas, undecorated, in the garage? https://shitposter.club/attachment/492147 @clacke @nerthos @lambadalambda @zine -
somercet (somercet@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Mar-2017 17:16:39 UTC
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Simple? The sample I linked above shows Calvin's dad running a bizarre lie on his own son. It's not the only time he's done it and his pleasure is blatantly tinged with sadism. Do people actually read these things before judging them? @zine @nerthos @lambadalambda
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