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  • How is having one attendant pumping gas for six vehicles faster than me pumping my own?

    Answer; it's not. Source; I live in Oregon. Fun fact; due in part to this law, Oregon has relatively far fewer gas stations than other states, so picking another station often is not a viable option.

  • The polls are only showing that because he hasn't clinched the nomination yet so the huge number of people who dislike both candidates don't feel like they have to make a decision yet. Once that happens, I think we'll see a big drop in his numbers. I could be wrong, but I'm usually not, at least when it comes to politics.

  • Man, a lot of you Americans need to unionize. None of this happens at my work and it's precisely because we're unionized and have a contract that specifically says that our employer is bound by strict rules. Granted, we don't get a month paid vacation, but we can't be denied time off, can't be compelled to be on call, can't be forced to work overtime and we have PTO accounts, healthcare and a pension that get paid into on a weekly basis.

  • It's the same in the US if you're unionized. My union operates in Canada too and from what I've been told our contracts are pretty similar, apart from pay scale varying by district council and currency.

  • Either the government does it or you join a union. I am a member of a large construction trade union and it's written into our contract that we cannot be denied time off and can't be forced to be available during off hours or made to work overtime.

    The catch is that if you want to advance in the company it really helps if you can make a little extra effort. You absolutely will never be penalized for sticking to the minimum requirements, but you also will never move up into management, which is perfectly fine with a lot of people.

  • Hard disagree. Far more than anything else, this is about audience capture and the failure of Burke's "fourth estate." What it shows is the efficacy of segregated information ecosystems that have near total audience capture. None of this would be even remotely possible if all Americans lived and swam in the same information ecosystem.

    But we don't, and we are seeing what this means for the health of democracy and the rule of law.

    Conservatives, having the luxury of an unquestioning audience that's fully captured by an information ecosystem that's fully on-board with anything they say, are not constrained in any way by the truth.

    The Press, with a capital P, no longer serves as a check against conservative lies because, due to the nearly complete segregation of information ecosystems, any facts that run count er to the conservative agenda can simply be ignored or twisted, and will accordingly never be seen by a conservative audience at all.

    All of which is just to say that while our justice system is imperfect, the real problem is the corruption of Burke's fourth estate which was always conceived of as necessarily existing in opposition to, or at least as a check against, governmental and private commercial power.

  • It's called the clinch and is a huge part of the sport. There can be a lot happening in the clinch that casual observers won't necessarily see or appreciate. Some of the all-time greats were masters at working the clinch.