No actually. My job doesn’t offer one. Many people either are in the same position where their job doesn’t offer retirement benefits or they’re not paying into it because they need every last cent they can spare.

Awful nice automotive industry you got here. Be a damn shame if a training accident dropped some bombs on your factory. A real shame, it’d be.

Reminder that West Virginia exists exclusively because of slavery. Especially that part of Appalachia was a HUGE haven for self emancipated people and free black people alike, because if you get deep enough into the mountains, you basically cease to exist as a legal entity unless people want to put a significant amount of effort into reaching you and the same amount in extricating you.

Somehow one of them still invents Tombstone.

Also where a lot of washouts from the military wind up, often for the same reasons.

OSHA has been pretty toothless for a long time at the federal and state levels both. It takes months, years sometimes to take enforcement actions because a single regulator might have ten or more cases working at any one time, and the courts that are supposed to handle enforcement are deliberately understaffed and overworked.

A TOASTER IS JUST A DEATH RAY WITH A SMALLER POWER SUPPLY!

They do, though. Tons of flood insurers and fire insurance companies mysteriously pulled out over hurricane and fire season in Florida and across the West Coast last year. It was a huge thing.

Mostly because all of that is a highly-confusing tangle. Food stamps are hilariously limited in most states, same with Medicaid. Section 8/HUD will almost always make sure you wind up living in the most run-down tenement your town has, run by the shittiest landlord, who will almost always be looking for a reason to evict you - and that even assumes you don’t have to wait literal years. The current wait time for Section 8 housing in my city is something like a year and a half.

The job market isn’t really geared to handle hundreds of thousands of people needing new work all at once. Even without any other resultant cuts, a huge amount of unemployed people is going to be incredibly bad for the economy, and for social stability as a whole.

Nah, what he promised him is exactly what we see: $500B in rare earths, every year. Trump’s always been a terrible dealer, and this is no exception: he doesn’t do back-and-forth, he just tosses his entire hand on the table and says “here’s what I want”, then bullies you into accepting. If you don’t, he’ll either harass you, or back out saying YOU sabotaged the deal because you didn’t give him what he wanted immediately.

If you JUST get measles, you should be fine. The issue is the potential for immune amnesia - meaning the potential for opportunistic infection is incredibly high, as is the potential for that infection to become serious.

The issue is that controlled burns require a large amount of manpower to make sure it STAYS controlled. You don’t simply toss a match into that part of the forest, there’s a lot of firebreak work and very careful observation that goes in to making sure a burn doesn’t turn into something bigger and harder to control.

This is pretty much the story of the entire Land Warrior program. Nobody ever expected it to be a Real Thing, it was always a pie-in-the-sky boondoggle to make a shitload of money for the MIC.

Nah, this isn’t even about data control. This is about selling off the data, the forecasting infrastructure, the hardware, models, and most important, SATELLITE NETWORK that allow accurate forecasting. Commercial launches of scientific instruments are very very expensive with very little immediate ROI. It’s much cheaper to simply buy an existing entity out that HAS THAT and then piggyback their data - which is effectively what this is. AccuWeather has been wanting this for almost 20 years.

Pretty much this. Even with modern equipment, it would be a huge feat of engineering to fix the locks in a short enough timeframe to not have a huge effect on the world economy. Without the Panama Canal, cargo ships are gonna be burning WEEKS navigating around the Cape or coming around through the Arctic.

Keep in mind that the American side of the Catholic Church is almost at right angles to the RCC nowadays, to the point where some in the Church hierarchy are starting to see it as a schism.

See, this is part of why I agree with things like the corporate death penalty. A company will not care how much it is fined, unless that fine forces it to close. Our justice structure when it comes to actually dealing with corporate entities is WOEFULLY behind the times, and has been artificially kept so for decades. Besides, fining a company that was scheming to keep rents artificially high brings no benefits, nor relief to the actual tenants who were forced out because of high rents.

Could also simply be a false flag. Far-right accelerationists LOVE the idea of going out in such a way as to ignite an enormous, world changing war.

Even domestically, you’ll always find some dumbasses willing to sell their entire lives to make ends meet. I know after my layoff from an environmental monitoring company, all the work my region was doing got shifted to a single team down in Kentucky who was already doing 12hr days. They’re now doing 16-18hrs last I heard, 6 days a week because they’re covering 3 separate states with 4 people, for 2/3 of the hourly pay I was making.

This is a worker exploitation problem compounded by a short-term vs long-term thought process.