shiftenter

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[–] shiftenter@lemmy.world 43 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It Could Happen Here recently published a podcast episode about how this would work. Some people are upset with how far out the date it set, but it's a smart approach and provides the runway necessary for other industries/unions to sign new contracts.

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/general-strike-with-kim-kelly-127675688/

[–] shiftenter@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Assuming you aren’t petrified, we’ve got some incredible new views we bet you thought were previously impossible!

[–] shiftenter@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

100%.

Several people have jumped into them. Some have been rescued from there, but “a handful” had “jumped into the net and then jumped to their death,” Mulligan said.

He declined to say how many. It will take a year or two of data to fully understand the system’s effectiveness, he said.

In the decade beginning in 2011, bridge officials said, there were 335 confirmed suicides, or an average of 33.5 per year. In 2022, as the first nets were being strung, there were 22. Through October this year, as more nets have been added, there were 13.

“If we save 30 lives a year, and not 31, it’s worth it for those 30 people who we saved,” Mulligan said. “And that’s every year. To greatly reduce the number of people dying in the community is a worthy goal. And to achieve that is success.”

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[–] shiftenter@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] shiftenter@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"You can be unethical and still be legal; that's the way I live my life haha" - Mark Zuckerberg

[–] shiftenter@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yet despite that...

Tuesday’s statement from the House Freedom Caucus included the line: “… we remain committed to working with Speaker Johnson”.

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[–] shiftenter@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's still in place: https://www.axios.com/2023/10/29/johnson-gop-house-speaker-rule

The far righters weren't happy and voted against this. But they said they weren't going to kick him out because of it.

[–] shiftenter@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

A further update from The Guardian's live blog:

The ousted Republican delivered more than one “shoulder charge” on another rebel who displeased him, the former Illinois congressman Adam Kinzinger, according to a book Kinzinger released last month.

In it, he calls the California lawmaker “notably juvenile” for his treatment of Liz Cheney, the former Wyoming congresswoman who like Kinzinger served on the 6 January House committee investigating Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat.

And he detailed two times he says McCarthy physically “checked” him, “as soon as I started speaking the truth about the president who would be king,” Kinzinger wrote.

“Once, I was standing in the aisle that runs from the floor to the back of the [House] chamber. As he passed, with his security man and some of his boys, he veered towards me, hit me with his shoulder and then kept going.

“Another time, I was standing at the rail that curves around the back of the last row of seats in the chamber. As he shoulder-checked me again, I thought to myself, ‘What a child.’”

 

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) on Tuesday accused former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) of elbowing him as he passed in a Capitol hallway and chased after the former House leader.

 

The government is days away from a Nov. 18 shutdown, which could force Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees and federal air traffic controllers to work without pay just as the busy Thanksgiving travel season begins.

[–] shiftenter@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Is that eagle... shooting a machine gun?

[–] shiftenter@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Never threaten to endanger a Republican’s weekend off.

[–] shiftenter@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That means ever more people are forgoing coverage, leaving them vulnerable and driving prices even higher as the number of people paying premiums and sharing risk shrinks.

I agree with your sentiment. But this is point to focus on. Average people are getting priced out.

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