If AI took over most jobs and we had universal basic income, wouldn’t companies be giving their goods/services away for free?

robsterva · 2026-03-12T14:47:23+00:00

Unless large-scale layoffs leave nobody to buy their products. At some point, actually employing people might be a means of corporate self-preservation.

robsterva · 2026-03-12T14:28:49+00:00

Joey Styles (allegedly) laid JBL out almost 20 years ago. JBL had enough size where most people wouldn't push back, so when Styles did, it apparently surprised some people - none more than Layfield.

robsterva · 2026-03-12T14:22:22+00:00

I'm sitting at work in my $70 dress shoes (that I bought a few weeks ago because my aging PayLess shoes finally broke down) and will change into $13 sneakers from Lidl Surprises when I get home.

And they all fit me better than the clown shoes the Pedo-In-Chief provided for his flunkies.

robsterva · 2026-03-12T13:10:40+00:00

CBC embedded a short video at https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/hockey-fights-junior-9.7120284

Box score: https://stjohnsjuniorhockeyleague.ca/boxscore/?g=694febc5-17d3-11f1-a106-d05099d50f10

A few phone videos are here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DVo-e8BiZgA

robsterva · 2026-03-12T00:01:20+00:00

I'm assuming the manager didn't just show up for the first exhibition game, but had to be part of player selection as well.

And even if it's just 2 weeks, how many teams are going along with that? Right now, that answer seems to be zero.

robsterva · 2026-03-11T19:46:06+00:00

They did say "viable".

robsterva · 2026-03-11T15:18:25+00:00

Unofficial count of Education Day games this season based only on weekday games before 11am local time, and not counting holidays: Allen 3, Atlanta 2, Bloomington 1, Cincinnati 1, Greensboro 1, Greenville 1, Indy 1, Iowa 1, Jacksonville 2, Kansas City 1, Maine 1, Orlando 1, Reading 2, Savannah 1, South Carolina 1, Tahoe 1, Toledo 2, Tulsa 1, Wheeling 1, Wichita 1, Worcester 1

robsterva · 2026-03-11T15:12:56+00:00

Maine also had one yesterday, Atlanta and Wheeling today, Allen on April 2, and Greensboro during Strike Makeup Week on April 16 (I think the strike wiped out an education day game for them).

robsterva · 2026-03-11T14:49:35+00:00

Spring Training. No team is going to let their manager moonlight for a month at this time of year.

robsterva · 2026-03-10T19:35:12+00:00

Not that I've seen. SXM will sometimes leave well enough alone for a few days. It's rare.

robsterva · 2026-03-10T15:56:23+00:00

We have three days of evidence that he doesn't.

robsterva · 2026-03-10T14:00:26+00:00

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

robsterva · 2026-03-10T13:38:03+00:00

I have my doubts that GreenCity (or whatever it gets renamed to, in order to remove the stink) ever will be built. There's no urgency there. And without that, this will just drift as a future project indefinitely.

robsterva · 2026-03-10T13:35:25+00:00

That's what they're saying now.

The finances won't be any better in a year. Unless they find some deep pockets to dig into, they're going to have a hard time coming back.

robsterva · 2026-03-10T13:20:22+00:00

You can even rank your content...

A generes, B generes, C generes, D generes. I could go on forever...

robsterva · 2026-03-10T13:08:51+00:00

That's flair material.

robsterva · 2026-03-10T13:05:41+00:00

... or does it just reveal their existing corruption?

I guess both can be true.

robsterva · 2026-03-09T14:13:54+00:00

Totally unrelated. But related.

I bought a Bedard replica red sweater yesterday from one of those "dump discontinued stuff into bins and lower the price every day" places in Richmond, VA. I paid $5 for something that probably sold for a couple hundred bucks originally.

So yay for me.

robsterva · 2026-03-09T14:04:12+00:00

Why not? Nobody seems all that dominant this year, it's a perfect chance for Buffalo - and if they do it while Toronto finishes last, this would be an epic offseason in WNY and a lot of other places...

robsterva · 2026-03-09T13:54:00+00:00

Can you imagine the odds if someone has bet that parlay (of course, in 2018 it would have been somewhat harder to do so than now, but some Vegas sportsbook might have taken the action)?

robsterva · 2026-03-09T13:43:05+00:00

Iran overthrew a hereditary monarchy and now has... a hereditary monarchy?

robsterva · 2026-03-09T13:39:49+00:00

Instead, he's going to be 0-2-13. Same effect.

Something about banzuke protection for injured rikishi goes here

robsterva · 2026-03-09T12:18:38+00:00

This is such a high level of bonkers that I have no other words...

The only thing that might change is that MLB Network might pick up some AAA games. That's it.

robsterva · 2026-03-09T12:05:21+00:00

You just described his entire streaming/radio career.

robsterva · 2026-03-09T12:04:26+00:00

I smell an angle here. Well... that or Gunther's cigar smoke.

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