The same thing happened here in Alberta, the brief interlude of a centrist government a few years back, made it so farm hands had to be covered by basic safety codes all other workers are allowed and they freaked out and threw a hissy fit. They even got an exemption so their family farm hands would remain exempt from basic safety protections.

Oh and the starting inspecting the housing offered for the farm hands and told them no you cannot shove 16 workers into a tiny work shed, with threats of deporting then if they talk.

I don't know the actual name, but in my history class (the great patriotic war) we watched a soviet era law film about a defence lawyer being chosen for a show trial, I think set during the 30's) and how he tries to treat it seriously and defends his client and does everything right and gets evidence his client is innocent (obvious given it's a show trial) and runs smack into the authorities who, I can't remember the ending, I don't think he dies or gets punished for trying too hard, but his client definitely gets the wall.

I want to say the name was something like "defence lawyer 'insert Russian name here'".

I can't even remember if it was good, but it didn't seem actively bad. If anyone can figure out the title that'd be cool, it was over 15 years ago when I got my degree and it was just like a soft class the professor gave us during term paper round up so I have such vague memories of it.

Edit: I looked myself and it appears to be "My Friend Ivan Lapshin". Edit edit: it may not be this, it seems vaguely possible but it's too hard to identify as this doesn't have anything to do with the lawyer angle, but is set in time period I recall.

Work has completely drained me the past few weeks so I'm lucky if I have the energy to put like thirty minutes into ZZZ.

Then I usually zone out and try to watch a let's play of the nonary games (virtues last reward currently) and fall asleep about twenty minutes in and have to spend ten minutes finding what I remember before I passed out.

I'm trying to finish dragons dogma 2, basically still enjoying randomly wandering and leveling and killing monsters and such.

I'm trying to start persona 5 since I got it for free ages ago and I'd like to play through one of them.

I did manage to to finally finish tears of the kingdom after like 400 hours. Pretty good final boss and such. The ending was typical Zelda shit but it is expected.

I wish I wasn't falling asleep by like 7pm but I just can't seem to maintain my energy past that point anymore.

Frum, presumably is a millionaire several times over at this point. When his daughter revealed she was struggling to get adequate treatment, you'd think he'd rush in and be a good dad, promising to pay for her to get the best treatment no matter the cost to him. What's the point in being a ghoul for the monsters in the world if you can't even use that misbegotten wealth to save those around you?

There is after all stories by the hundreds of parents mortgaging their houses, selling off heirlooms or retirement accounts to try and save loved ones when the health crisis hits. I guess Frum is made of tougher stuff he's not downgrading the lifestyle he has come to know and love just to save his flesh and blood.

Or his daughter knew he was a giant piece of shit who worked for some of humanity's worst monsters and has been refusing to talk to him because of the obvious reason.

Regardless Frum comes off terrible. I wish him a miserable torment for the rest of his days. May a bird shit in his eye each morning and a fire consume him before the end. May he receive no pleasure from his actions and only pain. May he see his western civilization crumble before his eyes and only then be granted a release from existence.

Ahhh true yes

Alternatively, he's waspinator and he never fucking goes away, he just continually becomes a third tier right hand man to those in power but is so ineffective at any job he's given he probably should have been killed off immediately, if he wasn't just a walking punchline and scapegoat for those in power.

I can't wait until his son's begin an arms manufacturing company and get hundreds of billions in defense contracts and then entire companies of troops get owned in war when their guns spontaneously explode in their face and the tanks rounds detonates prior to firing. Capitalist efficiency!

I for one am aghast that the corporate world is such cowards. It's almost like they don't operate on normal principals that a sane person would and rather only pursue the accumulation of capital above all mother concerns.

I'll definitely look into compression socks yeah I need anything I can get to help me out.

I absolutely feel you.

I've been working nearly 10 days in a row as well, yet I'm only a part time employee because they can manipulate the schedule so I end a week with 30 hours between Thursday to Saturday then work another 30 hours Sunday to Monday and then it's like you get two days to try to recover from the overworking they do to our bodies. And it doesn't really happen because pending shit gets in the way of recovery.

I've started just leaving my shifts an hour or so early because the extra money isn't worth it..my legs had a dull ache in them just from walking around. My shoulders ache, and I'm falling asleep within an hour of getting home and unable to function. All to wake up at 5am and do it again.

It leaves me miserable and angry at everyone around me.

Wage growth is a wildly difficult thing to categorize and analyze as a result. The largest percentage points gained came from the working class wages getting several dollars an hour more, but typically from the 9 bucks an hour range into 12 or 13 an hour, because employers literally were unable to get people working in grocery stores. So big percent gain but I'm real dollars and when coupled with inflation of rent and food it basically meant they were and are still falling behind.

Of course you have the "middle class" as well which saw moderate wage gains as well, but most of these people are more likely to swap jobs for raises rather than beg for raises from a current employer. Those who didn't job hop were seeing 4% gains iirc? Which when you roll together with the 12% of working class increases, does indeed paint a picture of "wow lol at all these gains were seeing the economy is doing great!"

But again the "middle class" is probably more upper class than actually middle, which has basically shrunk to such a small piece of the pie that it's like the top 60-80% (so only 20% of the people) of families and so I don't think they're actually hurting at all, compared to the bottom 60% of working class folks who are balanced on a knife's edge and it literally doesn't matter to them who is in power, life sucks, it's hard and they are just trying to last as long as possible before a health care issue knocks them out.

That's my take on it, I get most of my numbers from what sam seder talks about on his show, but I have the complete opposite take from him. The economy is a shambling zombie that doesn't know it's dead and is just waiting to collapse.

But inflation has gone down! And the wage growth has never been higher. The economy is actually booming and you stupid plebs don't even know it!

Star wars movies, especially 4 and 6 (this was before the prequels) 6 more because my sister loved seeing Jabba die (she associated him to my father which is probably something) and the ewoks.

And Disney movies, especially little mermaid, and Bambi, and Aladdin. Edit, and the original TMNT movie which I missed all dark overtones and just liked the turtles being bros and didn't get the second movie but I did totally get the third and it was radical. Also I may have a profound attraction to women in yellow jumpsuits holding microphones... Do not look into this.

Counter point, they have in the past tried to kill me, and perhaps one day they will succeed. I mean I still don't know what they taste like.

X goes bankrupt.

Government buys it and hands it back to Elon for like 50 billion dollars

Begins to make steps to make an x account a form of USA ID

America does the actual social credit scores they accuse china of

Liberal celebrities need to stop acting holier than thou and just become politicians. They can't do or be any worse the actual politicians the Dems are creating in their factories.

Some of them might have a tiny amount of rizz to actually get people excited about stuff like trump does.

I think they actually unironically worship Leto 2 god emperor of dune. Theyre obsessed with leaders who make the hard choices that nobody wants to make. Convenient who those hard choices always seem to benefit though.

I can't stop myself from reading their shit. So you get some more as well:

"Obviously its still very early in the counting and we won't have final numbers for a couple weeks.

But seriously what's the post-mortem here?

She ran a very strong campaign in my opinion. Her and Walz were all over the swing states. They hit new media outlets frequently to connect with younger voters.

The economy is strong, we stuck the soft landing, and inflation is actually decreasing.

Sure we could have had an open primary, but Bidens decline wasn't really that apparent until the debate. He did well in the SoTU in January.

I don't have the answer, and I don't think any of us do st this point.

But I wanted to get you all's thoughts as fellow Neoliberals and Sandworm-worshippers."

Worshiping the worm but not realizing it has eaten all your brains, poor neolibs, I'd feel bad but they're just so ghoulish.

Do not worry I have visited the geniuses of specifically neoliberal, and bring you their wisdom on what the election means.

"Dem state and local level governance has been bad. SF, Chicago, etc haven’t been good at delivering for their residents or spending efficiently, and voters nationwide punished Dems for their regional failures.

Dems have spent/prioritized groups without a worthwhile payoff. There’s been hundreds of billions spent bailing out union pensions, primarily benefiting old white retired former union workers- often ones with rich pensions. These voters have taken Dem money and shifted to Trump.

Dem policy for decades seemed to be built around “let’s do ____ good thing in a way that creates lots of jobs”. This isn’t a fit for 2024- and left behind a cancer of inefficiencies. Dems need to reinvent to “let’s do ____ good thing in an efficient low cost way- so we can get the most bang for our buck”. This is in conflict with unions/local non for profits- but it’s a big reason why it’s so much more expensive to live in Dem states.

It hurts me deeply- but the Biden plan to lift up the bottom quadrant of wages through full employment failed. It led to inflation- which is politically toxic. Next time in a crisis - the horrible choice has to be mass unemployment and limited stimulus.

Dems screwed up by having so much of the infrastructure projects get bogged down in years of environmental review and paperwork. Now- Republicans will get credit for the work.

Dems failed to limit the flow of asylum seekers- and it was an unpopular disaster. This was made worse by Dem states and cities not having the capability to handle migrant influx without grifting/super inefficient spending.

Biden’s late exit put Kamala in a tough position.

Millennial generation seemed to have the 2007 crash as their formative political moment- and blames Republicans for it. Gen Z is different, and seems much more open to Republicans.

Abortion referendums ran ahead of Dems pretty universally. Dems didn’t seem to be able to tie Trump or other Republicans candidates to abortion policy.

Some of the story is just a global anti-incumbent wave…. But Trump was the opponent. It goes beyond that.

The old media is dead. Trump and Musk figured out how to connect with voters through new media. Kamala didn’t.

This might be me being petty/angry- but I think a lot of left-ish influencers had the best years of their life 2016-2020 when “resistance” money was flowing in for podcasts/donations. I think this made them less urgent to oppose Trump- which hurt on the margins."

Definitely smart takes there and not just revealing how the libs have got.