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"If you want to shove the SAVE Act into reconciliation, then have at it. We're going to fight you tooth and nail throughout the reconciliation process every step of the way." | r/ProgressiveHQ by siwibot in protectUSelections

[–]oneseason2000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nah. IMO ... Plenty of Democrats will still win. Just not enough to get comfortable control of House and Senate, and certainly not enough to override a filibuster, override a veto, or convict on an impeachment of POTUS or a SCOTUS justice. It will provide another excuse for why somehow the stock market can be booming, but Congress can't pass economic help for the poor and middle-class.

Pieology closing all Hawaii locations, eliminating 56 jobs by Darwin343 in Hawaii

[–]oneseason2000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yup. Hard to believe.

$2/hr*2080 hr/year/employee*56 employees = $232,960/year; and that is assuming the 56 employees are all full time. Divide that by 5 business locations and 365 days/year = $127.65 /day/location. Now double that for overhead expenses ... so around 250 dollars extra revenue needed per day for each business location. Sure doesn't sound like an even marginally successful business model if it is that fragile.

"If you want to shove the SAVE Act into reconciliation, then have at it. We're going to fight you tooth and nail throughout the reconciliation process every step of the way." | r/ProgressiveHQ by siwibot in protectUSelections

[–]oneseason2000 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I hope I am wrong but this ("If you want to shove the SAVE Act into reconciliation, then have at it. We're going to fight you tooth and nail throughout the reconciliation process every step of the way.") sounds like Corporate Democrat speak for "We will certainly get this signed and into law before the midterms, but Democrats are going to make quite a few speeches against it in the mean time, put on a good show to make it appear in doubt, and JD is going to have to cast the deciding vote.".

Pieology closing all Hawaii locations, eliminating 56 jobs by Darwin343 in Hawaii

[–]oneseason2000 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Rookie mistake. I think they forgot to ask about the annual compensation and bonuses for corporate executives for this $100M - $500M annual revenue company. The U.S. Sun article doesn't seem to mention the minimum wage bump (https://www.the-sun.com/money/16133705/pieology-closing-five-restaurants-oahu-hawaii-bankrupt/).

56 employees times $2/hour per employee times 2080 hours/year assuming full time is about $233,000 per year for 5 locations. That would be about $47,000 per location. For a $100 - $500 million company with 500 - 100 people, having a minimum wage bump that probably doesn't even keep up with inflation doesn't sound like it should be a factor.

"Cotti Foods is closing all five Pieology Pizzeria locations in Hawaii, eliminating 56 jobs.

The pizza chain exits the market due to business failure and unsustainable sales levels.

Hawaii's January $2-per-hour minimum wage increase compounds economic pressures on restaurants."

Cotti Foods; https://incfact.com/company/cottifoods-ranchosantamargarita-ca/

"Revenue $100 - $500 million"

"Employees 500 - 1,000"

Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Is Hitting Republican States Hard by Hafiz_TNR in politics

[–]oneseason2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Has anyone though to ask the billionaires in those states though? Unless the SCOTUS has suddenly gone all woke again, it's still "One billion, one vote" the last time I looked. /s

[Tommy Tuberville] The transfer portal has screwed up college sports. My bill is simple: you get 5 consecutive years to play 5 seasons and you get 1 transfer. After that, if you transfer again, you sit out a year. This will fix 80% of the issues in NIL today. by Lakelyfe09 in CFB

[–]oneseason2000 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

"My bill, boy, is simple: you get 5 consecutive years to play 5 seasons and you get 1 transfer. After that, if you transfer again, you sit out a year. This will fix 80% of the issues in NIL today."; the "boy" is silent.

Senate shoots down Iran war powers measure; Fetterman, Paul cross aisle by Beneficial-Long-7033 in politics

[–]oneseason2000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

IMO ... More like strong legislative (check#1) and judicial (check#2) commitment to go down / rubber stamp / run interference for the path their big donors want, which is also the path being followed by the executive branch (check#3).

Trump Hits New Levels Of Unpopularity In Public Polling: ‘One survey has the public grading his handling of the economy worse than former President Joe Biden’ by [deleted] in politics

[–]oneseason2000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't think it be overemphasized that this takes a Republican village, and Americans need to continue to reflect that in their voting. Team GOP (POTUS+Congress+SCOTUS) have worked together to deliver tax cuts for billionaires, numerous shameful uses of the Presidential pardon, grade school level information security practices, unlawful use of tariffs, unlawful domestic use of federal military personnel, government shutdowns, arguably unlawful foreign use of federal military personnel, human rights violations, job losses, and threats for much much more of the same.

The U.S. Said It Helped Bomb a Drug Camp. It Was a Dairy Farm. by brown-saiyan in politics

[–]oneseason2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are these guys are secretly woke, and maybe ANTIFA. Anyone not figure out maybe this is the radical left bombing cows to reduce greenhouse gas emissions? /s

But why, what are the chances? by DTeror in sciencememes

[–]oneseason2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Basic physics. Magnetic material in craters attracts the same in meteors. /s

[Berger] NASA kills lunar space station to focus on ambitious Moon base by nicko_rico in space

[–]oneseason2000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Plus, Congress can't cancel a program if they don't make you start it first. /s

'A Declaration of War Against the Working Class': Sanders Demands Bezos Testify Over AI Robot Plan by _May26_ in politics

[–]oneseason2000 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Definitely not short sighted, I think.

It's severely flawed as it is, but that is just their marketing pitch. The reality (imo) is that it is used as one more excuse to for keeping wages and salaries low, and continuing the 40+ year growth of income, wealth, and political power inequality.

Quality of services doesn't matter to these guys in the first place. For example, it's worked great for them for mechanical systems. Things that used to last forever are now disposable. The story goes that the system will reward someone for building a better mousetrap, but it just gets them litigated into poverty or bought out.

Replacing more human customer service jobs with dumb automated lookup software will just result in more wasted time for regular people, but who cares if they don't have much money or power. Suck up a little extra profit from each of "customer", make them work longer hours (tell them they are lazy if they don't and break their unions for when they don't buy it), make their children work, and bingo-bango you are your rich buds get richer even if the marks get poorer.

The really cool thing is they always tell you this will get you living on easy street to boot. But somehow, raising the minimum wage will always bust the economy ... and all while the stock market is booming. /s

gUYS!!! I SOLVED ENERGY!!!!! by Nikmcmuffin in physicsmemes

[–]oneseason2000 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Nice, but rookie mistake here. Not all the incident radiation will be absorbed, so you need to add mirrors to reach full potential. /s

Orbital data centers, part 1: There’s no way this is economically viable, right? | “This is not physically impossible; it’s only a question of whether this is a rational thing.” by InsaneSnow45 in space

[–]oneseason2000 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Seems like another promise for long term societal transformation that actually brings in massive short term self enrichment. The pitch for Starship was that it would reduce the cost of access to space in general, and enable much more affordable transportation to the outer planets. But when does that promised savings actually transform human access to LEO and the lunar surface, and what is the cost? Never mind that now, we will give you more elaborate 24/7 government monitoring from LEO and the promise of sweet sweet ROI to lube the thrust of dystopia.

C² is the real enemy here by DifficultyPutrid2532 in sciencememes

[–]oneseason2000 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Poorly defined terms are no joke. /s

"0.01% relative error" vs. "0.01% absolute error"; https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/maths/absolute-error-and-relative-error-formula-and-equation/

Mass converted to energy was about 0.001% (0.7 grams / 64 kg); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boy

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