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The 2024 Presidential Election

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by adoo, Jul 15, 2024.

  1. Salvy

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    More advanced or less?
     
  2. Os Trigonum

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    no comment at this time
     
  3. Salvy

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    Very smart
     
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    the smartest
     
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  5. Nook

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    His hardcore supporters will always support him - but a lot of people that don’t really like him, voted for him and those people will move on if they see someone better.
     
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  6. Space Ghost

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    Elections has consequences. Google FAFO, unlike Meta and Amazon. Vote Harris and now you lost Chrome. Youtube might be next. Waymo dead on delivery

     
  7. FranchiseBlade

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    How is this legal decision related to an election where the victor has appointed no new judges, and has no control over the active DOJ?
     
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    A federal judge in Texas has blocked a new rule from the Biden administration that would have expanded access to overtime pay to millions more salaried workers across the U.S.

    On Friday, U.S. District Judge Sean Jordan sided with the state of Texas and a group of business organizations that argued the Labor Department exceeded its authority when it finalized a rule earlier this year to significantly expand overtime pay for salaried workers—ruling that the department could not prioritize employee wages over job duties when determining eligibility.

    Under the federal law, nearly all hourly workers in the U.S. are entitled to overtime pay after 40 hours a week. But many salaried workers are exempt from that requirement—unless they earn below a certain level.

    The Labor Department’s now-scuttled rule would have marked the biggest increase to that cap in decades. Employers were required pay overtime to salaried workers who make less than $43,888 a year in certain executive, administrative and professional roles as of July 1—and that was set to rise to $58,656 next year.

    The Labor Department estimated that an additional four million lower-paid salary workers would become eligible for overtime protections in the first year under the new rule. An additional 292,900 higher-compensated workers were also expected to get overtime entitlements through separate threshold increases.


    the worthless Democrats and MSM won’t say anything about this and no one will ever know that this happened

    Joe Rogan will never bring this up…u damn sure won’t hear about it on Fox News

    all this will get is an article or 2 and a few tweets

    in reality, u should have all these affected workers out protesting this decision, but none of them will even know
     
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  9. Invisible Fan

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    If you use adblock, you should be cheering for a breakup from Google. Chromium is the dominant standard used by every major browser except firefox. It will be fine.

    Google shouldn't need a backdoor funnel to retain search traffic or pry on users browsing habits with a downlow trojan horse.

    Maybe their search results will suck a little less without the reddit trick if they have to double up on quality.
     
  10. Sajan

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    Is there a better visualization of the 2024 election results than just show which states are red are blue?
    Something based on population density..
     
  11. JuanValdez

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    Am I supposed to be sad about that? I'm hoping they prevail and I'm disappointed that antitrust action likely won't be taken by a Trump DOJ against Amazon.
     
  12. Space Ghost

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    I dont think anyone is going to be sad except Google. Break out Youtube while they are at it.

    What do you feel like needs to happen with Amazon?
     
  13. mtbrays

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    The case against Amazon feels similar to the one against Google: they've used their size to engage in anti-competitive practices like copying successful third-party products, selling their own private label versions at a discount and "ranking" their own products ahead of others in their search results. You could argue that's their right and it's no different than HEB selling their own version of ice cream next to Blue Bell.

    But online user behavior is different than the grocery store: companies know that users are lazy and rarely click past the first few results, especially on mobile. That's what Google knew and exploited to "rank" their own products well above anyone else in their search results. Amazon, like Google, built a great product that most users eventually preferred. But they leveraged that preference to entrench themselves at the expense of other companies.

    I don't know what needs to happen to Amazon. AWS controls the web.
     
  14. JuanValdez

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    I don't know how you solve it, but they have market power from owning the digital marketplace for all things retail. It will hurt consumers in the long run if we let it alone.
     
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    trump already seems to dislike Bezos and now that musk is his defacto VP, he will do anything he can to bring down amazon and his space company
     
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    Ultimately what this leads to is less talented people working for the government since they aren't incentivized to do more than the minimum requirements of their jobs. I'm sure for the companies that fought this, they likely see more turnover on their end. Jobs need to be filled no matter what, so you get the less talented workers filling positions that likely need more skilled workers, but there are no incentives to even take the job. For that matter, you then have people that rather not be promoted and be in a position where they are eligible for overtime.

    It's pretty crappy. I would hate a job where I'm not well compensated. I remember when I use to work for City government and no matter how much harder I worked than my neighbor, we still made the same amount of money at the end. After a few years, I decided to take my talents to private consulting where I could be properly compensated for my hard work.
     
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  17. Sajan

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    Are they still eating the pets?
    Haven't heard anything recently.
     
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    This isn’t isolated to government. And people in decent salaried positions are used to being exempt. Market forces will dictate pay. If you’re a highly sought after SME you can command a better paycheck and overtime potential has nothing to do with it.
     
  19. Xopher

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    I'm told those strays are cheaper than eggs.
     
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    On another note, If Musk is given carte blanche to eliminate government positions, what’s to stop him from firing the regulators who keep his and Trump's businesses, and all their investments in check?
     
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