Skeptik
@skeptik.bsky.social
Questions are generally a good thing, as is humility.
Union carpenters… yeah that group that stood alone in the trades in pushing yimby legislation across the finish line… why not attack them?
I see parallels in UC professors vs adjunct professors, please, continue with your rationalization.
I see parallels in UC professors vs adjunct professors, please, continue with your rationalization.
January 1, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Union carpenters… yeah that group that stood alone in the trades in pushing yimby legislation across the finish line… why not attack them?
I see parallels in UC professors vs adjunct professors, please, continue with your rationalization.
I see parallels in UC professors vs adjunct professors, please, continue with your rationalization.
@slittlehale.bsky.social Any input on this?
January 1, 2026 at 12:19 AM
@slittlehale.bsky.social Any input on this?
That’s a backwards viewpoint that won’t hold looking forward, and in any case is more about benefits rather than actual wages. Who needs healthcare anyway, right? And credibility of BLS data?
January 1, 2026 at 12:11 AM
That’s a backwards viewpoint that won’t hold looking forward, and in any case is more about benefits rather than actual wages. Who needs healthcare anyway, right? And credibility of BLS data?
Interesting that you frame prevailing wage requirement as:
“requirements that developers pay way-above-market wages”
prevailing wages = defacto market wages and do not require union workers just fair market wages, and the previous immigrant sector of construction workers is now decimated. See Texas
“requirements that developers pay way-above-market wages”
prevailing wages = defacto market wages and do not require union workers just fair market wages, and the previous immigrant sector of construction workers is now decimated. See Texas
December 31, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Interesting that you frame prevailing wage requirement as:
“requirements that developers pay way-above-market wages”
prevailing wages = defacto market wages and do not require union workers just fair market wages, and the previous immigrant sector of construction workers is now decimated. See Texas
“requirements that developers pay way-above-market wages”
prevailing wages = defacto market wages and do not require union workers just fair market wages, and the previous immigrant sector of construction workers is now decimated. See Texas
Please consider emailing those who bought 1st editions and attach additional text now found in 2nd edition. Fair gesture to those who helped you sell out 1st edition.
December 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Please consider emailing those who bought 1st editions and attach additional text now found in 2nd edition. Fair gesture to those who helped you sell out 1st edition.
They could raise a bunch of money if they’d sell sledgehammer/pick-ax/crowbar raffle tickets, and then do the signage removal live on til-tok
December 30, 2025 at 4:11 AM
They could raise a bunch of money if they’d sell sledgehammer/pick-ax/crowbar raffle tickets, and then do the signage removal live on til-tok
In this novel, Miller’s Russian family would have never entered America.
December 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
In this novel, Miller’s Russian family would have never entered America.
California Forever v4: data centers and robot-staffed factories furthering human redundancy
December 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
California Forever v4: data centers and robot-staffed factories furthering human redundancy
“To Catch a Predator President” ??
December 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
“To Catch a Predator President” ??
Nope. If the State wants to help out first gen students there are plenty of paths, but the knee-jerk tendency in CA to tax everything imaginable has contributed to the affordability crisis.
December 22, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Nope. If the State wants to help out first gen students there are plenty of paths, but the knee-jerk tendency in CA to tax everything imaginable has contributed to the affordability crisis.
It’s been reported that viability testing of a portable ketamine production facility has been prioritized. 😂
December 22, 2025 at 1:38 AM
It’s been reported that viability testing of a portable ketamine production facility has been prioritized. 😂
Looks like it might attract red paintballs…
December 20, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Looks like it might attract red paintballs…
Seems to be time for “make-a-wish”
December 17, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Seems to be time for “make-a-wish”
Info on when U.S. sales will be allowed? Please
December 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Info on when U.S. sales will be allowed? Please
Brian Charles Lea - Alliance for Justice
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December 16, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Forever looking for a place to blame for lack of needed housing, and this attempt is misplaced. 3.5 million units needed is orders of magnitude larger than anything attributed to freeways.
December 16, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Forever looking for a place to blame for lack of needed housing, and this attempt is misplaced. 3.5 million units needed is orders of magnitude larger than anything attributed to freeways.
That was before he morphed into an authoritarian chump, and a large percentage of those 2024 veteran voters no longer support the guy.
December 13, 2025 at 11:16 PM
That was before he morphed into an authoritarian chump, and a large percentage of those 2024 veteran voters no longer support the guy.
More than zero chance that he expires from cholesterol-induced something before he gets around to pardoning anyone
December 13, 2025 at 2:13 AM
More than zero chance that he expires from cholesterol-induced something before he gets around to pardoning anyone
“I think the market sees him as a Trump stooge which erodes the Fed’s credibility at the margin.”
December 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
“I think the market sees him as a Trump stooge which erodes the Fed’s credibility at the margin.”
Please clarify, the stay remains in place but the lawsuit filed in Texas will continue, and may result in a win for the plaintiff? Is it just that that lawsuit will not play out until after the Nov 26 mid-terms?
December 4, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Please clarify, the stay remains in place but the lawsuit filed in Texas will continue, and may result in a win for the plaintiff? Is it just that that lawsuit will not play out until after the Nov 26 mid-terms?
The study you linked to generated a lot of scholarly response, and even the author backed down off that claim.
I take it you stand by +33% GDP figure??
I take it you stand by +33% GDP figure??
November 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
The study you linked to generated a lot of scholarly response, and even the author backed down off that claim.
I take it you stand by +33% GDP figure??
I take it you stand by +33% GDP figure??