Michael J Renner

@michaeljrenner
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Dad, grandfather, husband, wanderer, scientist, teacher... fighting cynicism in a world that demands it. Comforting the afflicted, afflicting the comfortable.

Business leaders: We can't find enough workers!

Workers: You could pay more.

Business: Nope.

Workers: Better benefits?

Business: No.

Workers: More flexible hours?

Business: No way.

Workers: Treat your current employees better to build your employer brand?

Business: Never.

Workers: Well, what's left?!

Business: Child labor!

https://apnews.com/article/iowa-governor-child-labor-laws-e8cb29e2a45b956489c4a192b7ddeba5

Iowa governor signs bill loosening child labor laws

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa teenagers could work more jobs and for longer hours under a bill signed into law Friday by Gov. Kim Reynolds. The Republican governor signed the law after it was approved by the Legislature earlier in May with only Republican support.

Associated Press
The thing about this corruption and criminality—George Santos, Clarence Thomas, Rudy Giuliani, Trump—is that it’s so obvious. So brazen. As if there’s no need to hide it.
The guy who wants to put neurolinks in our heads worries about people knowing where he is.
In the Netherlands there is a company called Yonega. There are 100 employees.
The boss of the company gave them a present of a shopping bag and a gold envelope.
For the whole of December, the employees were to put all their supermarket receipts in the envelope to be reimbursed.
I keep thinking about this 1995 passage from “The Demon-Haunted World” by Carl Sagan.
Bob McGrath, ‘Sesame Street’ Star, Dies at 90

Bob McGrath, an actor and recording artist who became a generational icon as one of the original human stars of “Sesame Street,” died Sunday. He was 90. McGrath’s death was confir…

Variety
@ct_bergstrom Maybe we need to start setting exams where we tell students to use the cheat-bots and paste in the answers, but then the actual exam is to GRADE THE BOT’S ANSWERS and explain which answers are wrong and why 🤣
Every GOP official, especially party leaders like Kevin McCarthy, should be asked, wherever they go, whenever they appear, whether they condemn Trump’s call for termination of “all rules, regulations and articles, even those found in the Constitution” so that Trump can now be declared the winner.
They must utterly reject and walk away from this seditious, authoritarian madman. Now.