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05-23-2022, 11:04 AM #15976
After spending a summer goofing off between Monterey and Santa Cruz like a goof off, I will never forget riding my bike to yoga and watching the workers bent over handpicking my strawberries (and yours). Every single strawberry judged and plucked by hand. Now here I am 10,000 feet eating 2 lbs of strawberries for $4. Gorging on strawberries basically for free.
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
Henry David Thoreau
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05-23-2022, 11:33 AM #15977
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05-23-2022, 11:35 AM #15978
yup
So personally, I think it's fine if they put their kids in school and those kids can go to US college and get a green card and all that. What is that, dreamers? I think everything we can do to promote good relations with the Mexican people is in all our favor.
Sorry, this is politics right? Sorry.Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
Henry David Thoreau
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05-23-2022, 11:46 AM #15979
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05-23-2022, 01:11 PM #15980
Especially since we are largely responsible for destroying their country. First by the War on Drugs creating a hugely lucrative black market which led to the rise of the cartels, which now operate with impunity in what is essentially a Narco state, corrupt from the very bottom to the very top and ripped apart by violence that affects all aspects of life for Mexicans now. And second by manufacturing most the guns and other weapons that the cartels need, and not taking responsibility for stopping the smuggling of guns across the border. I'd like to see the gun manufacturers held accountable since they know where their guns end up, but yeah that'll never happen in 'Merica.
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05-23-2022, 01:17 PM #15981
Yeah, um, I was just thinking it would be good to have free trade and open borders and a laissez faire approach, not a wall. And promote manufacturing in Mexico and all that good stuff. Mexico used to have the biggest middle class in Latin America, maybe that's not true anymore...
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
Henry David Thoreau
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05-23-2022, 01:42 PM #15982
I spent several years working with an extended group of family/friends from Ecuador in a restaurant setting. At least a third of them had to leave during the pandemic because they were all here on overstayed visas and could not financially ride out lockdowns.
They all worked 2, 3+ jobs, the men all working blue color jobs during the day and then were food runners/porters at night supporting large, extended families back home that they hadn't seen in years. I know this isn't new information but I try to say it every time the topic of immigrants is brought up. These people had great values, worked harder and faster than anyone I've ever met, and our government was actively trying to remove them from the country. Unbelievable. The locals that have replace this workforce in restaurants are not an improvement, I would imagine it is similar in the manual labor jobs they worked as well. We did ourselves no favor by not supporting our brothers from the south.
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05-23-2022, 02:30 PM #15983
Layoff tracker getting busier but nothing big yet
https://layoffs.fyi/
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05-23-2022, 02:45 PM #15984Registered User
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05-23-2022, 06:09 PM #15985
Umm. Tell that to the UK immigration police. I only watch the show.
Reading is hard for you.
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05-23-2022, 06:35 PM #15986
It is, and this is too, but you'll appreciate it (hard to believe the change in a few decades):
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YsmgPp_nlok
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05-23-2022, 07:07 PM #15987
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05-23-2022, 08:09 PM #15988
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05-23-2022, 08:26 PM #15989
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05-23-2022, 08:32 PM #15990
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05-23-2022, 09:03 PM #15991Registered User
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05-23-2022, 09:03 PM #15992
Gasoline futures are down 5% tonight. June delivery. Demand not there with refineries geared up for driving season. If oil breaks gasoline prices can fall quite a bit.
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05-23-2022, 09:29 PM #15993
Sold a June 10 $97 XOM call for $107 first thing this morning, set it to buy back at $95 for my free lunch. Ballooned immediately, went up to $187 at one point. Hoping I get my free lunch tomorrow…
If it moons I’ll be fine with a $98.06 out. I may move some of it into BTI or MO, strong yields with a different exposure than energy or REITs. The world is addicted to energy and tobacco, don’t see that changing for a while.
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05-23-2022, 11:21 PM #15994
Last edited by shera; 05-23-2022 at 11:57 PM.
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
Henry David Thoreau
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05-23-2022, 11:46 PM #15995
Some remote workers will end up getting canned but most won't so the trend will remain.
I'm sure you'll be excited to hear that Montana is trying to lure me back. I received a pretty slick brochure in the mail a few weeks ago extolling the virtues of living in Montana juxtaposed with remote working. They must have got my address from msu. Honestly I was a bit surprised as it seems they're getting plenty of new arrivals in already.
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05-24-2022, 07:36 AM #15996Registered User
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lets see who can we blame
remote workers assholes pricks with big paychecks who like to recreate and buy shit
retirees boomer dooshbags who pulled themselves up by the bootstraps to make millions and retire and tell everyone how to live in a mtn town or anywhere for that fact
short term rentals they gobble up all the affordable housing and rent it to gapers and make tons of money
investors who care nothing about the mountain town they invest in other than making money off it
trust funders who pretend to be cool and down to earth normal
Make Mountain Towns Great Again kick everyone out and you have to prove your dirt bag worthiness once you fill out all the paper work have multiple interviews with old timers and are accepted you will be given affordable housing and the keys to the kingdom to be the badass you think you are all others will be admited for short five day stay to live the life then you have to leave thats all you get man
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05-24-2022, 07:56 AM #15997
No they aren't?
I work in a F100 and >90% of our technical staff primarily works remote now. Work still gets done and they're a lot happier not having open office bullshit to deal with so they can focus on code or time shift for folks in Europe or apac.
If that's your take on remote work - just retire already as you're a dinosaur.
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05-24-2022, 07:59 AM #15998
That's the governor's Come Home to Montana initiative (or something like that). Launched a couple years ago before shit hit the fan. He is getting a ton of heat about it now due to lack of affordable housing, and the fact that he stupidly vetoed a BIPARTISAN housing bill in the last legislative session. Aside from newspaper articles about how inappropriate the push is right now, Habitat for Humanity has been taking out full page ads in the paper decrying the fact that he is still trying to bring people back and attract new ones to "grow the economy" when in fact that is the opposite of what we need now. So he is two years behind and apparently not aware of what's going on. Of course he's a tech bro at heart, New Jersey billionnaire and all that, so he may be happy with working class people being forced out of the state. Oh and did you know birds have only existed for six thousand years? According to our brilliant gov.
In 2020 a teacher firefighter etc. could buy a house in Helena for a payment of about 30 percent of their income, which is considered affordable. No longer, prices are up 60 percent since then. So he needs to put the brakes on his pet program and get with reality.
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05-24-2022, 08:00 AM #15999
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05-24-2022, 08:04 AM #16000
New home sales collapse. 9 month supply.
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