#2 2017-09-15 08:32:21
Welcome to your new home: 
and your life in it...
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#3 2017-09-15 08:53:17
They still use people to do this work? I thought all the craptastik stuff that miraculously appears on my doorstep was unsullied by human hands. Where are these robots I hear so much about?
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#4 2017-09-15 09:43:12
Cheaper to hire meatbags than maintain robots. Amazon hired about 76,000 new hires in 2016 and installed about 10,000 robots. They focus on robots because it lets them fit more products per square foot, so anywhere the real estate is cheap they still use people.
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#5 2017-09-20 02:10:06
Nomad Land
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/19/book … ruder.html
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#6 2017-09-20 06:33:21
Fuckhead journalist bring race in to someone else's fucked up nightmare.
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#7 2017-09-20 13:38:25
It's race related in that a lot of us white people live in neighborhoods we can afford while we are working, but can't when we retire and don't want to live in the ghetto.
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#8 2017-09-20 15:06:13
Baywolfe wrote:
It's race related in that a lot of us white people live in neighborhoods we can afford while we are working, but can't when we retire and don't want to live in the ghetto.
I've maxxed out my SS but still the travelers lifestyle has some appeals; but then again I'm part of a generation who has migrated far more than is historically reasonable. The odd part is we make good money but still travel the land; I've been reading some studies but still not sure what to make of this. It could be related to the divorce culture of the 70's but that is an unfounded conclusion.
(Edit: So then YES it is Choad's fault)
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#9 2017-09-20 15:50:38
Baywolfe wrote:
It's race related in that a lot of us white people live in neighborhoods we can afford while we are working, but can't when we retire and don't want to live in the ghetto.
Certainly not the ghetto it inevitably turns into after living there for 30 years.
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#10 2017-09-20 21:52:45
GooberMcNutly wrote:
Baywolfe wrote:
It's race related in that a lot of us white people live in neighborhoods we can afford while we are working, but can't when we retire and don't want to live in the ghetto.
Certainly not the ghetto it inevitably turns into after living there for 30 years.
That too, although we're lucky in that respect. We're experiencing a lot of owners dying and young marrieds buying and moving in. Lots of strollers and dog walking to go with our old asses. But, we live in a pretty mixed culture suburb anyway. Not like my folks old neighborhood in Cleveland. I don't know about ghetto, but it went from 100% white to probably 10%.
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#11 2017-09-20 22:26:17
Baywolfe wrote:
I don't know about ghetto, but it went from 100% white to probably 10%.
Been around enough "White Trash" to know that color is no indicator at all. Neighborhood voice volume is probably the best indicator of all....
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#12 2017-09-20 23:00:29
Emmeran wrote:
Baywolfe wrote:
I don't know about ghetto, but it went from 100% white to probably 10%.
Been around enough "White Trash" to know that color is no indicator at all. Neighborhood voice volume is probably the best indicator of all....
I've had the best luck, here and elsewhere, in thoroughly mixed race neighborhoods. People behave better because they hear about it immediately if they don't.
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#13 2017-09-20 23:12:02
choad wrote:
I've had the best luck, here and elsewhere, in thoroughly mixed race neighborhoods. People behave better because they hear about it immediately if they don't.
Ditto.
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