In these chaotic years, it's important to defend your economic interests through a centralized clearinghouse. Because otherwise it's just numbers on a computer, right?

This image never gets old. Specially when it comes to millennial stand-up comedians vs the older generations:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DLD7MY9WkAYOGhE.jpg

https://babalublog.com/2019/09/11/photo-of-the-day-new-york-city-september-10-2001/

I got to see the view from the Battery on the other side approximately 8 Dec 2001.

Muller time isn't over just yet.

https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1171878950991204358

Wasp.

Conspiracy.

We're from the government, and we're here to *check notes* help.

https://twitter.com/kmanguward/status/1171843560469086209

Gender pay "gap".

They look at data from the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA). This is a union shop with uniform hourly wages where men and women adhere to the same rules and receive the same benefits. Workers are promoted on the basis of seniority rather than performance, and male and female workers of the same seniority have the same choices for scheduling, routes, vacation, and overtime. There is almost no scope here for a sexist boss to favor men over women.

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They find that male train and bus drivers worked about 83 percent more overtime than their female colleagues and were twice as likely to accept an overtime shift—which pays time-and-a-half—on short notice and that around twice as many women as men never took overtime. The male workers took 48 percent fewer unpaid hours off under the Family Medical Leave Act each year. Female workers were more likely to take less desirable routes if it meant working fewer nights, weekends, and holidays. Parenthood turns out to be an important factor. Fathers were more likely than childless men to want the extra cash from overtime, and mothers were more likely to want time off than childless women.

https://fee.org/articles/harvard-study-gender-pay-gap-explained-entirely-by-work-choices-of-men-and-women/

Summary: Twenty-two major hurricanes have struck the east coast of Florida (including the Keys) since 1871. It is shown that the observed increase in intensity of these storms at landfall due to SST warming over the years has been a statistically insignificant 0.43 knots per decade (0.5 mph per decade). Thus, there has been no observed increase in landfalling east coast Florida major hurricane strength with warming.

http://www.drroyspencer.com/2019/09/florida-major-hurricane-strikes-no-significant-increase-in-intensity-from-sea-surface-warming/

Silly bloggers, everyone knows that the only one who can walk around a shithole country and not get hurt/murdered/imprisoned is Conan O'Brien

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1172089327334985729

Hope I'm not too late to link this set of Tweets about Hasbro's 'Socialism' edition of Monopoly.

Butthurt squared

For the sake of ideology, we are supposed to assume that men and women are identical and neither one cares much about kids. These things are false. Women value schedule flexibility, time off for the kids, less stressful jobs, and fewer hours. This is not a bad thing--it is a reasonable response to having kids. Men also are less bothered by overtime or stressful jobs. Many women leave the workforce at some point for kids and may never return (e.g., some of my neighbors). All these things lead to slightly lower wages.

"Silly bloggers"

How anyone could minimize the horrors of life in Iran is a mystery to me.

Oh, well. They'll get a book deal out of it.

If you head over to Arstechnica or Fark you will find plenty of people doing just that Gog.