McDonald’s USA
— Employee: $15/hr, no benefits
— Big Mac: $5.90
McDonald’s Denmark
— Employee: $22/hr, 6 weeks vacation, 1 year paid maternity leave, life insurance, pension
— Big Mac: $5.66
Tell us more about how raising the minimum wage would affect the cost of hamburgers.
New Ukraine Update at Uncharted Blue.
https://www.unchartedblue.com/ukraine-update-north-korean-troops-are-just-another-purchase/
Tech billionaires have glimpsed the face of a deity they are still creating. They’ve become the cultist of LLM. They think to both make a God and bind Him in their service — and if you need to be sacrificed on that altar, they’re okay with that.
https://www.businessinsider.com/eric-schmidt-google-ai-data-centers-energy-climate-goals-2024-10
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that AI is advancing so fast, and requires so much energy, that there is no way to keep up with climate goals.
The latest Ukraine Update is up at Uncharted Blue.
https://www.unchartedblue.com/ukraine-update-time-is-running-out-to-win-the-war-for-the-future/
"Many of them will be out there tomorrow finding fault with how the government is responding to this disaster. Most of them will pretend to be outraged about the efforts being made to rescue people from floods and take care of those displaced. None of them will step up to admitting their role."
https://www.unchartedblue.com/120-people-are-dead-because-of-hurricane-helene-jim-inhofe-and-me/
For over a decade, I was an exploration geologist. I traveled all over the United States, from Appalachia to Alaska, drilling holes into the ground, making maps, performing analyses, and developing plans. Much of the work took place in an area of Wyoming and Montana called the Powder River Basin.
A new "Ukraine Update" is up. Trying to catch up on three extremely active months in Ukraine and setting the stage for a return to more regular updates.
https://www.unchartedblue.com/ukraine-update-zelenskyy-putin-pokrovsk-and-kursk/
After several years and over 8,000(!) articles, I've just turned in my last post as a staff writer for Daily Kos.
It's been a trip. Thanks for all the views, comments, and feedback.
Donald Trump and JD Vance are sources of hate and destruction
In case you missed it, what Vance is saying here is that all Black people are dangerous savages. He doesn’t care where they came from, or where they live, or when something happened. He thinks they’re all the same.
And really, that’s what this has been about all along.
Andrea Junker 
