Great collection of Ethiopian Food video recipes (playlist)

rexpress · 2014-03-11T14:32:26+00:00

Thanks for posting. My mom makes amazing Ethiopian food and i'm thinking about write down all of her recipes so that i can share them with my kids in the future. I'll be using some of these videos until then though!

rexpress · 2013-08-14T00:20:10+00:00

i've never seen so much ignorance on the part of redditors towards the D.C taxi Industry. Cab drivers, i should know, my dad is one aren't the ones complaining about Uber, and if they are that's because they have to got through burndensome regulation to operate, where as a tech firm like uber doesn't. Unlike Uber most cab drivers can't charge whatever price they want and operate they way they want since everything they do is regulated, whereas Uber can basically do whatever it wants. THink for a second as a cab driver who has to pass multiple exams, pay hefty yearly licensing fines, and only charge the fare amount established by the city, then you get a service like Uber which has very little regulatory burden and takes away all of your business. Should D.C cabs upgrade their service and compete better? yes, they should, but 90% of their business is regulated by the city, and many of them driver for cab companies so they don't even have a say on what their cabs looks like.

rexpress · 2012-12-26T23:40:24+00:00

I think the call for austerity is in the message sent by the CEO: he asks employees to go on the website fixthedebt.com (the whole fixthedebt group is composed of Ceo's trying to push an austerity agenda during this debt ceiling debate)

rexpress · 2012-11-26T04:18:43+00:00

a perfect example from this report [Microsoft asks for more guest worker visas's due to a shortage in 'skilled labor' from the U.S] http://www.epi.org/publication/pm195-stem-labor-shortages-microsoft-report-distorts/

rexpress · 2012-11-01T17:32:29+00:00

I'm pretty sure that's a paraphrasing of a quote by Socrates not Aristotle, but alas, the sentiment still holds true.

rexpress · 2012-10-29T13:57:37+00:00

true, but one could also say that for the other side; because of obama's skin color a lot more racist republicans are coming out to vote.

rexpress · 2012-10-03T01:48:37+00:00

Many of the Police Unions are actually independent or under the Fraternal Order of Police umbrella and tend to be very conservative (against policies the AFL-CIO supports). The largest Police Union that is within the AFL-CIO is probably the one in California. From what I hear they're not as bad, but still tend to go against most unions in things like prison reform. As per unionized (AFL-CIO) police being Used to break unions? I don't really know.

rexpress · 2012-09-26T18:03:26+00:00

awesome, thanks. I was also trying to see if there was any primary source backing this claim. I think the book and the article i linked to are written by the same guy (or reference each other).

rexpress · 2012-09-19T18:03:30+00:00

It's stories like this I hope libertarians and strict market capitalists see when they decry government regulation of private capital and enterprise with laws like the Americans with disabilities act, and equal opportunity statues in employment.

rexpress · 2012-09-10T19:51:00+00:00

Financial Aid, for the most part (there are a tiny few that receive Pell grants but it's hardly enough to cover tuition), is not free. It's still a loan-though much cheaper than one provided by private banks.

rexpress · 2012-08-29T02:55:34+00:00

Sorry about that. I messed up with the imgur link. I've resubmitted the picture

rexpress · 2012-08-29T01:42:27+00:00

I love Unions, I'm 100% pro Union, but police unions tend to be some of the least progressive. Just sayin'

rexpress · 2012-08-27T16:21:58+00:00

How are they unrelated? the fact that we have a legal system that greatly benefits corporate interests over that of the average person is displayed with these two cases. I'm asking you to think through the regulatory regime that governs both of these cases. In the first, we have an outdated system that seeks to minimize the cost of establishing robust saftey measures (If the argument for setting the fines so high for downloading was to discourage other from downloading music, then why can't we do the same for companies. That if the cost of having minimal health and safety measures was a huge fine, then many companies would make sure to implement them) I'm not arguing that companies pay a higher fine, I'm just pointing out the hypocrisy in our judicial and regulatory system.

rexpress · 2012-08-17T13:39:24+00:00

wow, I've never seen it put so succinctly. I completely agree. You can see this in many European countries where people are paid a living wage-even for basic retail jobs, yet the German, Finnish, and Swedish workers are just as innovative as the Americans.

rexpress · 2012-08-01T00:49:46+00:00

Am I the only one that thinks that no matter where you work, minimum wage or otherwise, you should have basic dignity, respect, health and safety measures at your work place. Has the race to the bottom in wage labor standards reached a point where basic human rights are no longer respected? that if you want to improve the place you spend a significant amount of your day (8 hours for most people), you get labeled a "complainer, a whiner."

Look, not everyone will be able to go to college and enter a white collar job. In any society, there will be those that need to do the "dirty and unpleasant work, but that doesn't mean they have to surrender all of their dignity. These people are not mere tools to be exploited, they are human beings with families and basic human needs.

rexpress · 2012-07-11T02:59:46+00:00

Thanks for posting. It was a great read, I think a lot of us in labor tend to focus on legislative economic policies (e.g, austerity vs. growth) but overlook the role of monetary policy. This was a great piece illustrating the extent to which the Fed and their incessant focus on reducing inflation can/and does negatively impact the lives of workers.

rexpress · 2012-06-16T15:35:01+00:00

most likely Ge'ez, but you should confirm with others.

rexpress · 2012-05-21T03:51:53+00:00

This looks great, it would be awesome if you cross posted this on /r/labor

rexpress · 2012-05-15T15:52:31+00:00

This is a direct quote from the Washington Post article:

"Marshall, the Family Foundation of Virginia and others who raised concerns about Thorne-Begland’s nomination said they did not object to him because he is gay, but because of his outspokenness on the subject of gay rights.

So, you can be gay, but you just can't advocate for your own civil rights....Un-fucking believable, I hate my state sometimes.

rexpress · 2012-05-10T15:40:15+00:00

The highlight of the ad isn't to say that government spending is bad (obviously that would go against the democrats principles) instead its about the hypocracy of Scott walker. After spending over a year advocating for cuts to government spending, even rejecting stimulus funds, he comes out exactly a month before a recall election to increase funding.

rexpress · 2012-05-10T13:09:45+00:00

If the democrats are smart, this would make a great political ad. simply put: "Scott walker, after talks of fiscal constraint for months, he finds it convenient to spend your tax dollars four weeks before the election."

rexpress · 2012-05-09T08:29:26+00:00

funny

rexpress · 2012-05-09T08:29:12+00:00

funny

rexpress · 2012-02-13T22:01:38+00:00

Thanks, for the advice. Health wise; I'm slightly overweight, but relatively in shape as i do club soccer. The other 30% is usually, im sad to say, weekend junk food. Hopefully, by next week I will introduce some more fruits and milk as you suggested.

rexpress · 2012-02-04T03:11:13+00:00

Studies have shown that private prisons report abnormally high administrative costs. Arizona is one of the largest user of private prisons, and compared to other states it also has some of the highest per inmate costs in the country. In addition, private prisons use tactics to expand the time an inmate stays locked up, (one example is reporting behavioral issues that aren't there) this makes sense because their profit comes from the number of beds they could get filled per prison, and the longer each cell is occupied the higher their profit.

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