Again, AOC never said that the world would end in a few years. She was talking about the attitudes of millennials who understand that if we don't change our ways in the next 10 to 12 years it will be catastrophic.
And AOC is right about that. There is a very real chance that what we do about climate in the next 10 years will determine if humanity survives into the next century.
good news on organized labor right now - amazon and starbucks have had unions form among their workers. great stuff. not a coincidence that when the Rs were kicked out of DC and Dems took charge, labor started collecting its power.
More unions, please.
(private unions, not public sector unions)
In the past, I have usually been anti-union. But I am gradually changing my views. Bezos and Amazon have treated their employees like indentured slaves. Bezos just doesn't seem to care about his employees. I have never had this much disrespect for any businessman. His employees can't take a shi&t without being on the clock. The guy is the biggest prick ever in business. Keep on unionizing Amazoners!
good news on organized labor right now - amazon and starbucks have had unions form among their workers. great stuff. not a coincidence that when the Rs were kicked out of DC and Dems took charge, labor started collecting its power.
More unions, please.
(private unions, not public sector unions)
In the past, I have usually been anti-union. But I am gradually changing my views. Bezos and Amazon have treated their employees like indentured slaves. Bezos just doesn't seem to care about his employees. I have never had this much disrespect for any businessman. His employees can't take a shi&t without being on the clock. The guy is the biggest prick ever in business. Keep on unionizing Amazoners!
No one is forced to work there.
Once the union gets involved same day shipping is gone and probably next and 2 day shipping as well along with price increases on everything.
Unions are in it for the unions more than their for the workers just as much as the companies are in it for the profit more than in it for the workers.
Unions were absolutely necessary when they started and now they just kill industries.
In the past, I have usually been anti-union. But I am gradually changing my views. Bezos and Amazon have treated their employees like indentured slaves. Bezos just doesn't seem to care about his employees. I have never had this much disrespect for any businessman. His employees can't take a shi&t without being on the clock. The guy is the biggest prick ever in business. Keep on unionizing Amazoners!
No one is forced to work there.
Once the union gets involved same day shipping is gone and probably next and 2 day shipping as well along with price increases on everything.
Unions are in it for the unions more than their for the workers just as much as the companies are in it for the profit more than in it for the workers.
Unions were absolutely necessary when they started and now they just kill industries.
I have very mixed feelings on unions. Unions pretty much destroyed Detroit and the automakers. At one time every $2500 of every car went to health insurance of union car members. Bezos and y Amazon are just terrible human beings. Bezos is worth $250 billion and can't even treat his employees like how any decent person would treat them? Bezos is worth Hundreds of billions how many more billions does he need?
It will be kind of like what happened when 200 million air conditioners hit the grid. Nothing.
You obviously know nothing about the grid.
If you were more clever you'd realize that all of those air conditioners are still on the grid and the grid hasn't got much better. Power outages in summer time are a common occurrence even now. Surely adding 200 million cars to the grid will have zero impact.
Much like every other idea liberals have ever had... none of them have thought cancelling oil as fast as possible through.
Wow. You know even less about the grid than I imagined. Time for school.
Those air conditioners gained widespread popularity in the 1940's and 1950's. They were added over time and the grid evolved to provide the extra power. And that was with very old technology. The grid survived the transition just fine and EVs will be no different.
The reason we have more outages today is because we haven't upgraded our infrastructure like other developed nations. But that is changing as a large chunk of the recent infrastructure bill addressed modernization of the grid.
Air conditioners are worse for the grid than electric cars because all the A/C kicks in at once during the heat of the day, which brings with it a heavy load at exactly the time when everyone is awake, and while factories and offices are using a lot of power.
But an EV is typically charged at night when everyone is sleeping and A/C units don't need as much power. So there is plenty of spare capacity to charge EVs at night.
Lastly, EVs can actually be healthy for the grid because they can help with peak shaving and frequency deviations. This will become practical once we have enough EVs that include V2G capability. Some EVs can already do this.
Once the union gets involved same day shipping is gone and probably next and 2 day shipping as well along with price increases on everything.
Unions are in it for the unions more than their for the workers just as much as the companies are in it for the profit more than in it for the workers.
Unions were absolutely necessary when they started and now they just kill industries.
I have very mixed feelings on unions. Unions pretty much destroyed Detroit and the automakers. At one time every $2500 of every car went to health insurance of union car members. Bezos and y Amazon are just terrible human beings. Bezos is worth $250 billion and can't even treat his employees like how any decent person would treat them? Bezos is worth Hundreds of billions how many more billions does he need?
This is true and I also have mixed feelings.
Contrast with Tesla which is non-union but provides full benefits plus stock options. There are line employees at Tesla who have become millionaires from the stock.
Elon is a better boss than most. He gives Silicon Valley benefits to blue collar workers. That is rare though. Most blue collar workers are better off in a union.
Once the union gets involved same day shipping is gone and probably next and 2 day shipping as well along with price increases on everything.
Unions are in it for the unions more than their for the workers just as much as the companies are in it for the profit more than in it for the workers.
Unions were absolutely necessary when they started and now they just kill industries.
I have very mixed feelings on unions. Unions pretty much destroyed Detroit and the automakers. At one time every $2500 of every car went to health insurance of union car members. Bezos and y Amazon are just terrible human beings. Bezos is worth $250 billion and can't even treat his employees like how any decent person would treat them? Bezos is worth Hundreds of billions how many more billions does he need?
I don't know what the answer is, I just know it isn't unions.
It might be taxed someday. Maybe. There are ways to deal with that.
But until then, the super-rich is able to gain more wealth and power tax-free.
Your 401k isn't taxed until you retire. That's BS. Every time your 401k appreciates it should be taxed and the tax given to the homeless.
You're a selfish monster.
I'd be fine if the same rules applied to me and my 401k. If you look at the proposal you see that it would make almost no difference in the amount that I eventually get when I retire. It's just a prepayment of tax on unrealized gains. And you get to take advantage of unrealized losses as well.
The difference is that billionaires have enormous unrealized gains that will probably never be cashed in to create a taxable event. Meanwhile, the billionaire has control over enormous wealth and power.
If you were more clever you'd realize that all of those air conditioners are still on the grid and the grid hasn't got much better. Power outages in summer time are a common occurrence even now. Surely adding 200 million cars to the grid will have zero impact.
Much like every other idea liberals have ever had... none of them have thought cancelling oil as fast as possible through.
Wow. You know even less about the grid than I imagined. Time for school.
Those air conditioners gained widespread popularity in the 1940's and 1950's. They were added over time and the grid evolved to provide the extra power. And that was with very old technology. The grid survived the transition just fine and EVs will be no different.
The reason we have more outages today is because we haven't upgraded our infrastructure like other developed nations. But that is changing as a large chunk of the recent infrastructure bill addressed modernization of the grid.
Air conditioners are worse for the grid than electric cars because all the A/C kicks in at once during the heat of the day, which brings with it a heavy load at exactly the time when everyone is awake, and while factories and offices are using a lot of power.
But an EV is typically charged at night when everyone is sleeping and A/C units don't need as much power. So there is plenty of spare capacity to charge EVs at night.
Lastly, EVs can actually be healthy for the grid because they can help with peak shaving and frequency deviations. This will become practical once we have enough EVs that include V2G capability. Some EVs can already do this.
The recent infrastructure bill had very little to do with infrastructure and the tiny portion allocated to the grid will have little impact.
We still have blackouts during the summer all over the country because the grid can't handle peak loads of existing demand.
Adding 200 million electric cars will require a major overhaul of the grid and pretending otherwise serves no useful purpose.
V2G is promising seeing as green energy is currently hamstrung by our inability to store any of the energy.
Sounds good on paper but as with most things it will be a very long time before reality matches the promise on paper.
Your 401k isn't taxed until you retire. That's BS. Every time your 401k appreciates it should be taxed and the tax given to the homeless.
You're a selfish monster.
I'd be fine if the same rules applied to me and my 401k. If you look at the proposal you see that it would make almost no difference in the amount that I eventually get when I retire. It's just a prepayment of tax on unrealized gains. And you get to take advantage of unrealized losses as well.
The difference is that billionaires have enormous unrealized gains that will probably never be cashed in to create a taxable event. Meanwhile, the billionaire has control over enormous wealth and power.
Billionaires don't become billionaires without adding value to society. With the possible exception of social media billionaires and the Warren Buffet types.
At the end of the day I think punishing the people that make the world go round will be a net negative on society. Particularly when the tax dollars go straight to a government that steals or wastes all the money.
I'd rather have same day delivery on any item in the world from Amazon than another couple hundred billion for the government to spend on missiles for foreign toddlers or Pakistani gender studies programs.
Again, AOC never said that the world would end in a few years. She was talking about the attitudes of millennials who understand that if we don't change our ways in the next 10 to 12 years it will be catastrophic.
And AOC is right about that. There is a very real chance that what we do about climate in the next 10 years will determine if humanity survives into the next century.
She said the world will end in 12 years and she included herself in the category of people saying it. There's no non-stupid way to spin it.
In the past, I have usually been anti-union. But I am gradually changing my views. Bezos and Amazon have treated their employees like indentured slaves. Bezos just doesn't seem to care about his employees. I have never had this much disrespect for any businessman. His employees can't take a shi&t without being on the clock. The guy is the biggest prick ever in business. Keep on unionizing Amazoners!
No one is forced to work there.
Once the union gets involved same day shipping is gone and probably next and 2 day shipping as well along with price increases on everything.
Unions are in it for the unions more than their for the workers just as much as the companies are in it for the profit more than in it for the workers.
Unions were absolutely necessary when they started and now they just kill industries.
Again, AOC never said that the world would end in a few years. She was talking about the attitudes of millennials who understand that if we don't change our ways in the next 10 to 12 years it will be catastrophic.
And AOC is right about that. There is a very real chance that what we do about climate in the next 10 years will determine if humanity survives into the next century.
She said the world will end in 12 years and she included herself in the category of people saying it. There's no non-stupid way to spin it.
Fat Hurts - she DID say the world would end in 12 years. Come clean and admit this or your credibility is gone. Come on dude.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Monday said she thinks that there is an urgency needed in addressing man-made climate change, warning that it will “destroy the planet” in…
Wow. You know even less about the grid than I imagined. Time for school.
Those air conditioners gained widespread popularity in the 1940's and 1950's. They were added over time and the grid evolved to provide the extra power. And that was with very old technology. The grid survived the transition just fine and EVs will be no different.
The reason we have more outages today is because we haven't upgraded our infrastructure like other developed nations. But that is changing as a large chunk of the recent infrastructure bill addressed modernization of the grid.
Air conditioners are worse for the grid than electric cars because all the A/C kicks in at once during the heat of the day, which brings with it a heavy load at exactly the time when everyone is awake, and while factories and offices are using a lot of power.
But an EV is typically charged at night when everyone is sleeping and A/C units don't need as much power. So there is plenty of spare capacity to charge EVs at night.
Lastly, EVs can actually be healthy for the grid because they can help with peak shaving and frequency deviations. This will become practical once we have enough EVs that include V2G capability. Some EVs can already do this.
The recent infrastructure bill had very little to do with infrastructure and the tiny portion allocated to the grid will have little impact.
We still have blackouts during the summer all over the country because the grid can't handle peak loads of existing demand.
Adding 200 million electric cars will require a major overhaul of the grid and pretending otherwise serves no useful purpose.
V2G is promising seeing as green energy is currently hamstrung by our inability to store any of the energy.
Sounds good on paper but as with most things it will be a very long time before reality matches the promise on paper.
Yes, of course this will take a long time. The transition will happen over the next 20 years.
She did not say the world would end in 12 years. You can only make it sound that way if you take what she said out of context. When it comes to climate, AOC knows what she is talking about and she is right.
She did not say the world would end in 12 years. You can only make it sound that way if you take what she said out of context. When it comes to climate, AOC knows what she is talking about and she is right.
This is what exactly she said" Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democrat from New York, called climate change "our World War II" and warned that the world will end in 12 years if we don't address global warming on Monday"
She did not say the world would end in 12 years. You can only make it sound that way if you take what she said out of context. When it comes to climate, AOC knows what she is talking about and she is right.
This is what exactly she said" Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democrat from New York, called climate change "our World War II" and warned that the world will end in 12 years if we don't address global warming on Monday"
Quit lying Fat. .
That is not the quote at all. It just takes some words out of context.
