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'Ain't that ur job': Instacart shopper complains about person with '115 item' order in viral TikTok, sparking debate

'Ain't that ur job': Instacart shopper complains about person with '115 item' order in viral TikTok, sparking debate

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  13 Comments  •  5 years ago

Anyone can be a victim, it seems.  What struck me as very odd was the claim that working for Instacart isn't a job, it's a side hustle.  
Feehery: Why Democrats are now historically unpopular

Feehery: Why Democrats are now historically unpopular

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  44 Comments  •  4 years ago

The so-called conservative politics of the Obama era, led by neoliberals and libertarians, has become passé.  The promises are empty, the polemics are pointless, and the political message has...
Is an acceptance that politics is a game feeding a weary cynicism about the whole exercise of democracy?

Is an acceptance that politics is a game feeding a weary cynicism about the whole exercise of democracy?

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  1 Comments  •  5 years ago

All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; ...  (As You Like It) Western democracy is under threat of being trivialized by political actors reading the script and playing a...
What Is The Coffin Corner In Aviation?

What Is The Coffin Corner In Aviation?

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  17 Comments  •  5 years ago

A geeky bit of trivia that has absolutely nothing to do with politics.  
Minneapolis' School Plan Asks White Families to Help Integrate

Minneapolis' School Plan Asks White Families to Help Integrate

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  1 Comments  •  5 years ago

The expectation that simply mixing Black and white kids in the classroom will solve problems with education is always interesting.  The unilateral and undemocratic plans by education boards to...
China blowback looms for Schumer's Innovation and Competition Act

China blowback looms for Schumer's Innovation and Competition Act

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  4 Comments  •  5 years ago

Democrats go MAGA with a neoliberal twist.  Innovation doesn't have much value without the ability to produce.  Depending on China to produce those innovations is how we got into this mess.  The...
Opinion | Here's a Fact: We're Routinely Asked to Use Leftist Fictions

Opinion | Here's a Fact: We're Routinely Asked to Use Leftist Fictions

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  4 Comments  •  5 years ago

There are lies, damned lies, and then there is political correctness.  When socially enforced fictions become oppressive then what progress has been made?
EXPLAINER: What happened to the Afghanistan evacuation?

EXPLAINER: What happened to the Afghanistan evacuation?

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  1 Comments  •  5 years ago

What happened 500 years ago is fresh news but what happened three months ago is old news.  The relocation and resettlement of Afghan refugees progresses in the shadows of a liberal government...
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