FedPosterman5000

Haha this reminded me I was going to see what the local even-toed ungulate was - peccary! “Peccary poop balls” has an excellent ring to it as a pass phrase

The only appropriate response to bad faith negotiation is worse faith negotiation 🤷‍♂️ - hope they can hold the line as long as they need to. Or remind “leadership” of the alternative to striking?

Hypothetically- should we make a plan to meet up? Or have a cool handshake so we can recognize each other? This just might be the first opportunity we have to all be in the same place at once!

Fuckin Indiana lol. My father in law has used that same excuse after accidentally taking a knife into Purdue games - twice lol. And the one time he crashed his bike, dropped his gun (which he was carrying presumably for protection in the middle of bumfuck nowhere), and had to go back and search for a few hours before finding it lmao. There’s a reason there’s a billboard that says “Hell is Real” when you enter Indiana.

lol what do you expect them to say? “Golly thanks for destroying the biosphere. Im so glad the ocean is spanned with floating garbage and commercial nets, there used to be pesky fish everywhere!”

I feel like the average American’s perception of line work is Laverne and Shirley lol. Kinda like when my parents would talk about how bagging groceries looked more fun than their office jobs - not wrong, but they perceive it that way because they don’t treat people like shit, most people (management or customers) treat the grocery bagger like shit, so it really takes the shine off. But yeah I think it depends on how separated one is from doing actual labor. Like I really like landscaping and construction, and think we should have those jobs, but my body still hurts from when I had to drag my carcass to them daily. Same with much of my family as we’ve made the shift over generations from farmers>coal miners>mechanics>machinists>engineers. AND THEY WERE ALL EXTREMELY PRO-UNION. People don’t miss manual labor, they maybe miss some romanticized notion of “8-hrs hard days work, for 8-hrs hard days pay”, but guess what fucko, people stopped militantly organizing and now it’s “12-hrs hard days work, for “6-hrs hard days pay- oh and we need you in on Saturday”. Anyway my carpal tunnel is flaring up so I should wrap up this tangent.

They should really own us all and stop worldwide extractive industries - I’d be soooo owned

PianoRatHouse

Umm if amerikkkans want to blow up dams effectively they should start practicing at home - maybe start with your local low-head dam and go from there? Who’s got the money to fix them if they were to be damaged irreparably? 🤷‍♂️

Private engineering firms are just there to eat the blame when making “tough decisions”, since they have neither ties to the community nor an obligation to its members. Federal engineering studies are obligated to consider a range of decisions and utilize standards, private studies just need to say what you want them to and then provide enough backing to justify it in permitting. Therefore our system of austerity and kickbacks greatly favors one over the other.

For sure. New Orleans is a privatized nightmare in terms of engineering and construction - cranking out dogshit studies with no correction since the CPRA is just as useless, and everything in the pockets of the local levee districts, glorified chambers of commerce but with the authority to define which communities get levees.

At the end of the day, it’s not about protecting any communities (otherwise you wouldn’t build them below sea level….) but rather about protecting oil infrastructure. Hence you see lots of studies that aren’t fiscally justified go forward with poorly defined benefit-cost analyses, and then hardly hold up to scrutiny, except that the local levee districts then rile up their local slop farmer (e g. Sen. Graves (R)-LA) who leans on the federal government to approve it.

I don’t think there have ever been any consequences to this sort of action? But if there are, we’ll all certainly learn from them…

That could also be due to the ocean and atmosphere being a concern for NOAA, and the navy and air force also having people who study ocean and atmosphere, and the us federal government programs which make it easier for former military to enter civil service.

But yes though, anything the US has done in terms of understanding natural processes is invariably linked to using that knowledge to spread violence globally. US develops research to understand littoral drift and beachhead dynamics? Better believe that’s to support beach invasions. US develops underwater drones capable of surveying bathymetry quickly and cheaply? Better believe that’s not going to be used for good.

But yeah NOAA has a commissioned officer section - which admittedly has really cool boats and planes (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOAA_Commissioned_Officer_Corps), as does the US Public Health Service (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Public_Health_Service_Commissioned_Corps).

Frankly if you can grift money from the military to support climate research and public health you have my full support, but remember the piper gets paid in the end…