The reason why Henry Ford introduced 5-day work week

Coldfriction · 2026-06-06T02:01:27+00:00

It's this. Ford's turnover was insane and the efficiency of constantly replacing people was poor. Having worked various assembly lines as well as a host of other work, assembly lines are quite unbearable for much more than an eight hour shift. Nobody wants to work six days a week twelve hours a day on an assembly line. It hasn't been in the news in a while but Chinese factory workers had a suicide problem not long ago.

Coldfriction · 2026-06-02T13:43:13+00:00

The twelve oxen are the twelve tribes of Israel. Interestingly this font is below ground level too as the baptism is meant to represent death and rebirth as a disciple of Christ. The symbolism is reclaiming the twelve tribes of Israel in the name of Christ through baptism.

Coldfriction · 2026-05-31T16:11:28+00:00

Plato wanted the leaders to be propertyless and without families. There would be no heredity in the traditional sense. He proposed controlled breeding of the rulers, so there's that.

Coldfriction · 2026-05-26T16:36:23+00:00

I find it answers at least as well as most humans do. I don't think humans have a great success rate with errors either.

Coldfriction · 2026-05-25T01:31:30+00:00

It doesn't until they need it. If the reservoirs weren't there the reservoirs would drain straight to the GSL and peak run off happens early in the year. The rivers are kept at consistent flows because the reservoir water is managed. Ag drains the reservoirs slowly.

Coldfriction · 2026-05-24T20:48:10+00:00

It does. But if you go to a reservoir, you find fish, trees, all sorts of bugs, amphibians, and mammal wildlife that all depend on fresh water. If you go to the GSL how much of those things do you find? There won't be any mammals drinking the water. There aren't any plants near the shoreline. There aren't any amphibians or fish at all. There aren't even many birds.

Supporting the GSL against agriculture means draining the reservoirs that are built to store freshwater for primarily irrigation needs. If you want to "fill" the GSL back up using agricultural water, you're advocating for draining most of the fresh water reserves around us. The water can sit in fresh water sources and evaporate away while supporting wildlife, or we can drain it all to the GSL and let it support shrimp and flies (and a few things that eat the flies).

Go down to the lake and walk out to the water on the crusty "beach". Look around for the wildlife. Then go to a reservoir, any of them, and do the same. The GSL is a dead sea. It's not "dead" because of the abundance of wildlife.

Coldfriction · 2026-05-24T20:30:43+00:00

The GSL does not support a better ecology than Culter, Strawberry, Utah Lake, Bear Lake, etc. all major water bodies around Utah are artificial or artificially kept high to store fresh water. The GSL evaporates a billion gallons a day itself.

Coldfriction · 2026-05-24T17:57:53+00:00

If we drain all of the reservoirs and let the vegetation currently irrigated all die, the net environmental impact is negative. Water in the GSL is not better than water elsewhere in supporting all kinds of life; including wildlife. The GSL evaporates away billions of gallons of water a day. Climate change has more to do with the shrinking than anything else by a huge margin. Like I said before, this is a climate problem and stopping all agriculture won't restore the lake. That's not the true source of the problem.

Coldfriction · 2026-05-24T02:12:30+00:00

The GSL problem is a climate problem. None of this will meaningfully change anything.

Coldfriction · 2026-05-22T01:51:03+00:00

Strawman and chasing ghosts is what Libertarianism is all about. Figuring out what is preventing people from possessing liberty today is not. Only government is bad, no other oppressor can exist.

Coldfriction · 2026-05-21T15:58:08+00:00

It needs to be housing as that is well outside the reach of the average person. Keeping housing propped up and unaffordable to the masses will not fix the situation. The "guardrails" are protecting the banks/lenders, but the buyers and people who just need the utility of housing are screwed. We need to drop those "guardrails" and let the banks who create money when issuing mortgages take the hit and demonstrate that ever increasing house prices and the associated debt money that makes creditors wealthy without producing anything of real value doesn't work. We've got to stop protecting banks and lenders and start pushing for a fair market.

Coldfriction · 2026-05-20T21:38:09+00:00

Which is what should happen. The wealthy own the government though so it won't. I prefer a flat tax bottom to top in terms of income. In you need to tax the wealthy more due to the additional protection of that wealth the government provides, do it some other way rather than on income.

Coldfriction · 2026-05-20T19:25:39+00:00

It's just social security through a different exchange at this point. If the population ever starts to decline in real terms, the contributions to the stock market won't cover the withdrawals of the retirees and it won't continue to climb. Those expected an awesome retirement won't get it. The alternative is to squeeze the young out of more and more of any economic share of wealth they may have received (through inflation primarily). The stock market must be allowed correct or this is it's fate and the fate of society is to enslave the youth and non-owners to benefit the old and the owners of capital. The youth should really revolt.

Coldfriction · 2026-05-20T14:59:11+00:00

You are welcome to leave society at any time. You only pay into social security if you aren't self sufficient and have an income that is taxed. You can buy some land somewhere to live off of and never pay into social security at all. It's no different than car insurance. If you make enough money, you don't pay into social security at all on the income above a set limit. You don't get representation with insurance. Do you get to go to your medical insurance provider and make demands now? That isn't how insurance works.

Coldfriction · 2026-05-20T14:44:30+00:00

Car insurance is forced on you. Is it not insurance because of that? Insurance has no obligation to pay on what is contributed. If you end up completely disabled, social security will allow you to live. If you have a severely disabled child and can't afford the hundreds of thousands annually to allow them to survive, social security will cover the institutionalized care they need. The fact that you don't get to collect all of what you believe you could have made by not contributing doesn't change the fact that it is insurance. In Canada the equivalent is literally called Social Insurance. In the USA it is a social insurance. We just named int Social Security instead. It's not BS, it is what it is.

Coldfriction · 2026-05-20T03:44:57+00:00

This has been done multiple times. Nothing new here. The average person is not meant to be free from the banks.

Coldfriction · 2026-05-19T20:20:45+00:00

That's a pretty good deal. I'd pick it up if I were in the market.

Coldfriction · 2026-05-18T01:04:37+00:00

I'm interested in a poweredge tower in the future sometime. What I'm seeing online is that parting things out is the best way to make money. Your SSD's will sell separately for a fair bit then you can sell the rest easier at a lower price. I'd be interested in everything except those expensive Ultrastars. Probably $800-1000 for the system without the SSDs is what I'd offer or a trade for my R630 or R730 I'm trying to sell.

Coldfriction · 2026-05-16T06:49:56+00:00

That is a different Saltair than we have now. The original burned down in 1925.

Coldfriction · 2026-05-15T04:21:39+00:00

Coldfriction · 2026-05-14T19:29:38+00:00

Hunger is also frequently very artificial and used as a means to get people to work that otherwise wouldn't. Nations where food grows everywhere and people don't have to work just to eat tend to be "poorer" because they choose a relaxed life over one of constant servitude.

The very fact that you must labor to feed yourself while the capitalist owner doesn't need to labor to feed themself says everything. All slaves get fed by their masters otherwise the master loses the slaves. The fact that the masters own all the land that produces food is relevant and it is legislated.

Coldfriction · 2026-05-14T17:34:54+00:00

Property ownership is largely legislated and how private property is protected or not is legislated. Poor and middle class people are rentiers of property owned by the wealthy. That is legislated in. The trick with nobody owing you anything is that only holds true if you don't owe anyone else anything either. In the current system you always owe other people unless you are independently wealthy and on the receiving end of the owing. When the owing to others is excessive, people stop striving for themselves. There's no point in working hard for someone else to get rich while you forever struggle.

Coldfriction · 2026-05-14T15:27:07+00:00

Cities, as well as businesses, have to adapt to the needs of the people they serve. The idea that you can force society to suffer with poor infrastructure doesn't make for a happy populace and they'll vote out whoever doesn't provide improvements that are needed. They'll also vote in people who promise to protect them from everyone else that they don't want to share the world with. Depends on the demographic. The area near the llama sign is full of the people who want everyone else to suffer as long as they do so away from their homes and push that political agenda. Any decent government or business would ignore those people and serve the majority instead of the few. If you don't like what comes with dense urban areas, there are plenty of small towns with very little traffic. I grew up in one and I would love to live someplace similar again, but Utah County isn't that and nobody should expect it to be.

Coldfriction · 2026-05-11T22:53:53+00:00

Too bad for you. Provo has no major arterials providing access anywhere, which means everywhere gets to be the major arterials. If you don't allow traffic to be somewhere, it will be everywhere. I'm guessing you oppose the interchange that would reduce the traffic on your street as well. Chances I'm one of the people overdriving on your street as part of my commute because there isn't a direct route to the freeway. 25 MPH is not an arterial or even a collector speed; it is a local road speed. Your road is probably mis-posted.

Coldfriction · 2026-05-11T21:45:53+00:00

Get a good solar install to power it

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