who ya got?

[Deleted User 89]

I picked up on the pun. Was impressed. (smiled bigly) Trying to post between installation of a number of 5" x 19" x 44' glue lams. I should pay more attention to my work.

Wikipedia . . . meh

Installed a 31 1/2" glulam yesterday. Damn monster for 3 guys and a forklift. Interesting times. Went in like butter though. Proper preparation and all that.

measure twice, cut once

[Shirley]

https://patch.com/indiana/south-bend/so ... tudy-finds

It has been for decades.
I guess it's all Pete's fault?

Uhhh...actually it's gotten much worse over the last few years.

Some people say: PETE BUTTIGIEG REVIVED SOUTH BEND WITH TECH. UP NEXT: AMERICA

[DCHawk1]

https://patch.com/indiana/south-bend/so ... tudy-finds

It has been for decades.
I guess it's all Pete's fault?

Uhhh...actually it's gotten much worse over the last few years.

Some people say: PETE BUTTIGIEG REVIVED SOUTH BEND WITH TECH. UP NEXT: AMERICA

How perfectly Democratic. High-tech is gonna save us all!

Well, all of us, that is, except you serfs...

From your link:

About 25 percent of South Bend’s population is African American, and 40 percent live under the poverty line. “The reality is, there’s a colossal [economic] gap that tracks along racial lines,” Buttigieg said, worrying that without favorable educational and employment opportunity, lower-income people of color will be trapped in de facto segregated schools and housing across generations.

That is a huge problem Buttigieg has not solved with data or technological innovation.

Weird. Just like California, the state with the highest poverty, the greatest income disparity and a booming economy.

Go figure.

[Shirley]

"How perfectly Democratic. High-tech is gonna save us all!"


Excellent point DC, WTF was Buttigieg thinking?

JAN 24, 2019 Trump administration has a new plan to prop up dying coal industry

[DCHawk1]

No. You're right. The new feudalism sounds much better.

[Deleted User 89]

um...free community college or trade school education might help solve that problem

just maybe...

[Mjl]

No. You're right. The new feudalism sounds much better.

Um, yes? Go with what moves our entire society forward instead of trying to hold onto industries that are slowly being deprecated.

High tech still has a need for workers with limitted natural abilities. Not everyone can be an engineer. But they can learn to manage the facilities, do manual testing, provide customer service, etc, etc.

There's need-based programs that can teach people basic skills. At some point it comes down to personal responsibility to take advantage of all the government programs that already exist.

[Deleted User 62]

um...free community college or trade school education might help solve that problem

just maybe...

Hold on there Chief. Where will that money come from?

We got walls to build and thousands of para-military border patrol to hire.

[DCHawk1]

um...free community college or trade school education might help solve that problem

just maybe...

No.

[DCHawk1]

No. You're right. The new feudalism sounds much better.

Um, yes? Go with what moves our entire society forward instead of trying to hold onto industries that are slowly being deprecated.

High tech still has a need for workers with limitted natural abilities. Not everyone can be an engineer. But they can learn to manage the facilities, do manual testing, provide customer service, etc, etc.

There's need-based programs that can teach people basic skills. At some point it comes down to personal responsibility to take advantage of all the government programs that already exist.

And yet those jobs haven't materialized or done much with respect to living conditions of the poorest -- in South Bend or California.

Hey. I'm all for high-tech investment and jobs. Just understand where that goes and what problems it does and does alleviate. As with Medicare for All and free tuition, it's a use of government to transfer wealth largely TO, rather than FROM society's "winners."

[RussianHawk]

Yeah wealth transfer is only cool when it's taken from poor and given to the rich.

[DCHawk1]

Well...it's not that far off, particularly with respect to tuition.

[DCHawk1]

Oh noes! Who could have seen this coming?

[Deleted User 89]

does anyone here support biden as the nominee?

[Geezer]

I'd vote for DC if he ran against Trump.

[Mjl]

does anyone here support biden as the nominee?

Versus the rest of the current field? Yeah, me. Although I'm not aware of any non-Dems except Trump. This board is about the extent of my time allotted to politics.

[TDub]

I truly believe if more people knew about it (Democrats and Republicans- except the hard rights and the crazy socialists) and our system wasnt so decisively 2 party the libertarians would have a real shot. Too bad it will never happen.

[Mjl]

I truly believe if more people knew about it (Democrats and Republicans- except the hard rights and the crazy socialists) and our system wasnt so decisively 2 party the libertarians would have a real shot. Too bad it will never happen.

Debates should be open to anyone polling at better than 5%. Johnson, flawed as he was (I still voted for him), would have at least had a chance to make some noise then. I forget what the threshold is and am too lazy to look it up, but it's too high and is damaging to our country.

[Shirley]

Damn, Pete:

[seahawk]

Jeez, someone actually admits that they voted for Gary Johnson? Mr. rip off the taxpayers by growing the private prison system for the benefit of one's friends?

Seriously?