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- utopian2
The Second-Largest Bank Collapse In U.S. History...and yet once again another good oldé Yankee Doodle Dandy bank bailout that heavily favors the American banking oligarchy.
American tax payers get to share in all of the loses...but JP Morgan Chase gets to privatize all of the benefits and upside of the bailout...must be fucking nice to be a banker in Americon!
- but the economy would collapse without these fine gentleman!doesnotexist
- utopian5
- Hang on, Hotroddy has kids?fadein11
- To me as a parent of 2 sons, this is exciting albeit illegal. I have a 13 year old nephew who refused to work and get anything he wants between his mom / dad...ideaist
- ...NOW divorced.
I worked summers in the fields here in Ontario, ON a touch older than this.ideaist - lol @ f11!formed
- ^^^MrT
- Dayuuummaquito
- @ideaist lol...you too? lol.. thought it was just me. I grew up in Peterborough, out in the country, spent my childhood working on a local farm. Think i was 9..exador1
- started when i was in about grade 4, so probably 9 years old... most of the kids in my area did that starting at the same age...exador1
- it was something to do, and you got a few bucks etc...at that age it seemed like a gold-mine lol... pretty hard labour for a 9 yr old, but we did it anyway...exador1
- one of those ai things:
Q: What do you call a group of young kids working at McDonalds?
A: A Happy Meal of Small Fries!Squiddy - the dif bw US and Canada is children of all classes work in Canada (at least during summer). Very rarely do families have a 'cleaning lady'.hotroddy
- Canada was not the two-class system that US is/was afforded by slave labor (historically) and now w cheap immigrant laborhotroddy
- I think the work ethos of Canadians is why their socialist programs are able to work for the most part.hotroddy
- So you’re saying slavery — racism — is to blame for how awful American economy is. ;) finallymonospaced
- hotroddy throwing out the systemic racism that pervades American society even today. welcome to the left, bitchmonospaced
- not sure the Canadian economy is any better off than the American. The American is stronger dollar. I think the job market is better in the US.hotroddy
- *has a stronger dollar.hotroddy
- if you want to race-bait the 'minority-soon-to-be... by correcting historical wrong-doings then I suggest you read up on Latin American socialismhotroddy
- *corrupt regimesfadein11
- The culture perpetuates corruption. Bureaucrats use the justification of rectifying past injustices to rationalize their corrupt actions.hotroddy
- And USA currently has one foot in the tropics. Soon to be two feet.hotroddy
- Look no further to BLM movement. 100 million in free money. Who did they actually help?hotroddy
- I grew up in the restaurant business. I was washing dishes as soon as I could reach the machineGnash
- Retail for me. First full day shifts on weekends or holidays either in warehouse or at cash register at age 11. Paid for a truly enormous CD collection!BuddhaHat
- shapesalad2
EV's I still don't see how they are good for the environment. We all should be like Cuba used to be - repairing the cars we do have.
The energy and resources already used to manufacture all the cars now on the road - is wasted if we trash our cars to replace them with EVs. To build the EV's we need extra minerals and resources, non of which are great for the environment in extraction and refining.
Then the power for EV's comes from? Electricity is not 100% from renewables. Renewable infrastructure is not a clean industry. Only nuclear is the most 'clean' source we currently have.
Batteries last for a while, then what? Currently not recyclable. There's some ex-tesla guy trying to build a recycling plant for car batteries but it still has a long way to go before he figures out how to do it without the energy in being greater than the output.
We need to repair what we have built and find ways to design out our reliance on cars to conduct life.
- Also worth watching:
Surviving Progress
https://www.youtube.…instrmntl - Wow that video is hard to watch.instrmntl
- in that its awful. I feel terrible for that community.instrmntl
- manufacturers really should have an option to "modernize" older cars at a lower price-point than a new one. but updated safety features and all.doesnotexist
- There's no way to 'modernize' old cars that would be economically or environmentally viable. That's ridiculous.formed
- Renewables will be 'clean' as long as we keep moving forward (and there's not selfish morons in power, a la Texas).formed
- Also worth watching:
- utopian1
A growing number of sports bras, shirts and leggings brands found with high levels of toxic chemical, watchdog warns.
New testing on a variety of popular branded sports bras and athletic wear has revealed high levels of BPA, a chemical compound that's used to make certain types of plastic and can lead to harmful health effects such as asthma, cardiovascular disease and obesity.
Sports bras sold by Athleta, PINK, Asics, The North Face, Brooks, All in Motion, Nike, and FILA were all tested for BPA in the past six months, and the results showed the clothing could expose wearers to up to 22 times the safe limit of BPA, based on standards set in California, according to the Center for Environmental Health. The CEH, which conducted the testing, is a non-profit consumer advocacy group focused on exposing the presence of toxic chemicals in consumer products.
- All those ‘made with ocean plastic’ sneakers and clothes... are being made with toxic plastics.shapesalad
- Especially if those ocean plastics are from a few years ago when BPA was still in use.shapesalad
- Why is now 'a thing' to have to wear polyester to do sports? Yes, it dries quicker, but it STINKS far quicker than cotton.shapesalad
- ^ not the clothing I have, they never smell, ever, and I workout 2 hours per day.formed
- It must be my racist sweat glands.shapesalad
- it is no surprise to us that you think everything stinks shapekingsteven
- utopian3
Murica #1 Go USA Go!!!
- shapesalad-2
Brominated vegetable oil
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br…
"...a man who consumed two to four liters of a soda containing BVO on a daily basis experienced memory loss, tremors, fatigue, loss of muscle coordination, headache, and ptosis of the right eyelid, as well as elevated serum chloride.[25] In the two months it took to correctly diagnose the problem, the patient also lost the ability to walk."
"BVO is used in Sun Drop, made by the Dr Pepper Snapple Group.[14] Numerous generic citrus sodas also use it, including; "Mountain Lightning"/Walmart sodas, "Clover Valley"/Dollar General sodas, "Orangette" and Stars & Stripes.[15] BVO is much less frequently used as an emulsifier in non-carbonated drinks, such as flavoring syrups for caffeinated beverages[16] and specialty juices."
- utopian2
- US has nothing in cash, its a shitload in depth.milfhunter
