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>I have a feeling with how so many companies operate on the premise of if you don't spend a million dollars a year on a budget next year they'll let their budget slashed, not future proofing their business, refusing to change with the times chances are we're going to see another decade of this economic funk before things get better.

Not just companies. This is actually the biggest problem that affects public-services sector efficiency. One of the major reasons why public services are so slow to update themselves technologically (just a quick look into how long it takes state-and-local .govs to actually utilize new innovation in tech and websites), is because any increase in efficiency means ultimately: less people, smaller budgets. I'm not sure how DMVs operate outside of California, but the vast majority of DMV related services can be done remotely, online. Yet only a small few are actually allowable on line, and still frequently require caveats that force you to show up to the DMV offices.

Ultimately, it comes down to this: Justify your position. Justify why you should need this money.

The main difference is that companies calculate earnings 4 times a year, and if there is a shrinkage of earnings, cuts to departments are made. And those cuts are deep, and instantaneous becuse you have literally 3 months to show a turn around.

This is not so with public-money which is generated through taxes, and is always guaranteed. Since public-services do not have a profit-motive to increase efficiency or work-production, there is no incentives to really make any substantial or meaningful cuts…until it becomes so overwhelming that local municipalities have to go bankrupt because they can no longer sustain the expenses.

@Black Graphic T
>Investigate clinton and launch an investigation into Trump's finances.

They wouldn't dare.
I strongly suspect that the major reason why Pelosi won't impeach Trump over financial crimes is because so much of the political establishment is directly and indirectly tied to Trump. In fact, the Democrats owe much to Trump's major contributions to the Democrats in 2006 election. And with Trump's financial empire, how many of these Democrats have ties – especially in New York – to Trump's real estate machinations?

They created an environment where any ties to Trump makes you a heretic to the Democrats and the Left. If this was an impeachment about collusion – there was nothing to tie them to Trump…but financials? Oof.

Manafort got sentenced to 3.5 more years in prison.

A no deal Brexit vote also got shot down.

China has no clue how to fix declining birth rates. Oh wow it's almost as if killing a entire generation of girls meant nobody to give birth.

Manafort just got indicted on 15 additional charges by the Manhattan District Attorney's office.

Also, the judge overseeing his case, was rebuking his attorney's claims that there was "no collusion", because the issue wasn't brought up during the trial.
Then his attorneys made the same claim again anyways.

The big problem is that the man in charge of these is Cyrus Vance, the guy that got extra friendly with Ivanka and Jared, and also Harvey Weinstein.

Wow ok, they rejected a no-deal Brexit twice in one night.

Adegeneratefurry said:

I defended him and didn't back down.

You shouldn't really be surprised, then. To be honest, an HVAC argument doesn't seem like the best hill to die on, especially if you're not involved in HVAC in the first place.

Why? Cause fuck you that's why.

A bowling alley wouldn't make a good hypermarket. There's not enough square footage, no loading bays for the trucks, not enough electrical or water facilities for the fridges/deli/freezer/meat sections. They'd basically have to bulldoze it and build a new building and why do that when they can just buy land and build a building.

I can't think of too many things you can easily turn a bowling alley into. They're very specifically built and it would cost a ton to renovate one--which is probably why they almost always get torn down if they go under and something else built on the land. (My local bowling alley was torn down and a Fresh Thyme market was built in its place.)

Amazon likely bought an actual warehouse. Warehouses are pretty generalized so they likely didn't need to dump a ton of money into it to make it fit their needs.

You can turn that bowling alley into a "Comically Sized Skeet Ball" alley instead. But really, outside of that and maybe a Homeless Shelter, there's not a lot to be done with it.

As someone who spent more time in Real Estate, building construction and renovations than degenerate has been alive, turning a bowling ally into a homeless shelter is never going to fly. For one thing, it lacks the plumbing and electrical systems to handle such a conversion. The requirements for human use while a bowling ally is MUCH different than a homeless shelter. The other is that it is likely local zoning ordnance will prohibit such a change.

The bottom line is that a purpose built building (bowling ally) is not cost effective to renovate into a completely different use building (homeless shelter). That and the age of the building is also a factor. The older the building, the less likely they will have up to date energy saving measures and harder to install them.

The courts have ruled the Sandy Hook survivors can sure the gunmakers. This is something I genuinely didn't expect to happen, because with this ruling future gun violence the companies that make the guns can get sued.

Roger Stone had his court date set to November.

So, the Boeing 737 Max-8 jets that were grounded?
The government shutdown might have affected that.

The house voted 420 – 0 to make the Mueller report public.

The Senate passed a resolution Thursday to overturn President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border, with 12 Republicans joining all Democrats to deliver a bipartisan rebuke to the president.

That's gotta hurt Trump's ego.

Hardly, it's so big, it didn't even scratch it. Besides, President Trump will veto it and still get more wall put up. Now THAT has to hurt the Left's ego in knowing They can't stop him from getting the wall built.

That and now this, Rosanne Barr is painfully pointing out that the Dem's open boarder stance is basically endorsing women and children forced into sex trafficking and slavery.

Donald Trump threatens to use the military, police, and his biker fan-club against Americans.

Ah yes, might makes right.

Israeli military has bombed seven sites in Gaza

After rockets were launched from Gaza towards Tel Aviv

@Team Arkos
When was it that democrats stated "we want open borders"? I can't recall that. Oh…wait now I remember.
You made that up.

Nope, Beto said so himself, in fact he wants to tear down existing walls.

Beto is the first to openly admit it and now Gillibrand too, , but the Democrat's stated policy to not stop boarder crosser at all. They want to abolish ICE and create sanctuary cities and even states.

Enough said.

Mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand attacked by gunman.
And someone who is (supposed to be) irrelevant is really pissed.

I am trying to keep track of this. The bastard live streamed him killing the people. at least count 40 dead. I don't know if they caught him our not.

Adegeneratefurry said:

The courts have ruled the Sandy Hook survivors can sure the gunmakers.

It'll be appealed to SCOTUS, given the Connecticut Supreme Court has flagrantly violated the supremacy clause.

Team Arkos said:

I don't know if they caught him our not.

They have. Death toll's now at 49. His manifesto can basically be described as "I want to stir up as much shit as possible." I will give credit for the media not actually naming him yet, but it appears he's still been fairly successful in his manifesto.

Donald Trump doesn't want Mueller's report released.

Bernie received a sizable head wound requiring 7 stitches. He claimed he hit the glass shower door. And here I am and thinking who the hell still uses glass doors in a shower? Those things are just accidents just waiting to happen.

I have a glass door in my shower.

Missouri bill would require state residents to own an AR-15.

Why, though?

1/6 jews are republican

LOL
Had to re-read that several times, can't believe this isn't the onion.

Oooohhhh doctors aren't going to like this one. Apparently ai healthcare industry is growing at a rate of about 50% compound annual growth rate. For those of you that aren't Chewybunny: it's growing at a exponential curve, not a linear curve.

Everyone who isn't a doctor in 2030, "Woohoo! Cheap health care!"
Doctors in 2030, "They took muh job!"

Most realistically in a decade we'll have super monopolies controlling the healthcare industry, cheap health care, but super monopolies though.

Well this is interesting: a new application for 3d printing was found: construction. More specifically using things you wouldn't normally use in construction for construction. Using stuff like plastic bags, coffee beans, feathers, grass clippings, etc. The process is basically taking trash, compressing it and applying heat until the item is both sterilized and compressed into a tile then fill in the gaps of the small tiles with other trash, compress it under heat and you have a wall.

It's not necessarily pretty but eh it works and it's cheap. You might want to paint over it though.
Visitor to your company, "Your walls look like shit"
"That's cause it is shit, shit that is compressed under immense pressure and immense heat into tiles, but still human excrement"

I know it's not a popular idea here but to me it's clear a sizable portion of the democrats by this point are outright socialists that want hate speech laws, gun control, statization of everything, shutting down Fox News, maybe changing the flag a little, and of course open borders because immigrants will vote blue without thinking why the democrats want them inside.

In other words, 21th century socialists who think they can do anything once they have absolute power. After all, America is great and nobody can ruin it, specially us, right?

There has always been a significant portion of the USA that identifies as socialist. In 1914 14% of the USA had favorable views of socialism.

Can you explain why you don't like those ideas?

Witness to Silvio Berlusconi's 'bunga-bunga' parties dies from radiation poisoning.

That seems…familiar.

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Tldr; Republicans are gonna get their asses kicked in 2020

@Arkos
>Tldr; I use my girlfriends account to mass downvote everyone who doesn't agree with me so I can downvote everything twice.

You can't refute my points and you can't accept that people don't like you and your shit posts here.

In other news.

The Bexit mess in the UK is getting worse by the day. I could see a massive revolt happening over there about it. Their parliament is worthless.

@Arkos
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Unpopular opinion: I think sex work should be legal. The reason being is it would be easier to prevent sex trafficking if sex work was legal but regulated. If it was legal and patrons were required to show identification to go into legal brothels it would make it a lot harder to kidnap someone than say off the street.

absolutely agree. There is no reason to criminalize sex work. Republicans just gotta virtue signal and keep it illegal though.
I don't see how sex work is any different than any other work.

in other news
Washington Senate passes bill that would keep Trump off 2020 ballot unless he releases tax returns
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"Delaware moves to give its Electoral College votes to the popular vote winner ":https://www.phillytrib.com/news/state_and_region/delaware-moves-to-give-its-electoral-college-votes-to-the/article_177382c2-1c85-5f12-b313-6d786b926dff.html

today is a good day

@Poochy
There's now eleven states that are a part of that pact; accounting for 181 electoral votes. There's a workaround to the electoral college in that the electoral college doesn't say HOW states are supposed to levy the electoral votes.

Tldr; there's a workaround to the electoral college where if enough states agree to levy electoral votes in accordance to the popular vote it doesn't really matter if the remaining states still follow the electoral college.

@Poochy
@degenerate

So you two are completely fine with with voter fraud, ballot box stuffing, and tyranny of the mobs as long as you get what you want then? End run around the electoral collage will bring the end of this nation! The hell is wrong with you? Oh yea, that's right, you guys are all into the end justify the means then. You really have no idea what a disaster it'll be if the electoral collage is up ended then.

Team Arkos said:

who the hell still uses glass doors in a shower?

Showers that aren't in bathtubs almost always use them, since a curtain isn't as fancy or nice looking.

BrentD15 said:

Why, though?

It's a troll bill. Designed to either make a useless political point, or score points with some demographic the rep wants the backing of. There's a ton of them in state legislatures all the time, like the one in Georgia that would require men to wait 24 hours before getting Viagra and make it a felony to have sex without a condom.

All that uselessness is why I hope every state legislature is part-time. We shouldn't reward people for wasting time shitposting. Both those bills probably cost taxpayers several thousand dollars to write, print out, file with the clerks, etc.

Adegeneratefurry said:

Using stuff like plastic bags, coffee beans, feathers, grass clippings, etc.

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>record high
>52% disapproval
Yikes.

where if enough states agree

And there lies the problem.

No State shall, without the Consent of Congress… enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State.

Can't wait for the constitutional crisis if they ever try to enforce it. They even called it an Interstate Compact, as if inviting a crisis. And the 14 Amendment lawsuits ("No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States") from people who had their votes disregarded because people in California or New York voted differently.

You mean like how Republicans want to end the 14th amendment? Or requiring the census bureau to ask if someone is a citizen so that states like California will have less electoral votes?

Of course the census bureau needs to ask if someone is a citizen. That is what a census IS! An illegal alien should not be counted for the purposes of electoral votes. THEY ARE NOT U.S. CITIZENS. If they go though the legal process or are underway of become a citizen then that is fine with me and then they can be counted. Other wise they can flood the state with illegals and get way too representatives then they deserve to have and command more power then they should have.

And you must have made a mistake there, it's not the 14th, but the 16th that Republicans want to end. That and the 17th later too.

@Team Arkos
>So you two are completely fine with with voter fraud, ballot box stuffing, and tyranny of the mobs as long as you get what you want then?

no

>You really have no idea what a disaster it'll be if the electoral collage is up ended then.

There won't be a disaster.

>Of course the census bureau needs to ask if someone is a citizen. That is what a census IS!

a census counts the number of residents, not just legal citizens.

> An illegal alien should not be counted for the purposes of electoral votes.

We shouldn't have the EC to begin with. Just another reason to get rid of it.

You do realize removing birth citizenship has pretty much a snowball's chance in hell of happening right?

You know considering how Republicans consider popular vote mob rule and how Republicans also call Democrats a liberal mob it's pretty obvious what they actually mean.

Where are you getting that non sequitur from? Do you even know what those amendments ARE?