S’about time. I am sick of 100 degree (F) days while living in Oregon… I can always put more clothes on, but only so much I can take off. /s

Probably simpler, you just want to keep track of what your customers prefer. That’s just good customer service.

Hot dang, I read a cbs news article and it didn’t mention that. I even went back to check. Isn’t cbs under new ownership or something?

Didn’t they already get the letters or something? But I would assume they pay for the month up front, so that is a great point.

I didn’t see anything about securing snap benefits or anything. Is that a side effect kind of thing?

In fairness, it was only 8 democrates. But yeah, I am not sure why the Republicans would give in in January if they wouldn’t now.

Schumer voted no. I’m looking for real reasons that won’t get me laughed out of the room for being uninformed.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/government-shutdown-senate-deal/

Some year long funding for the VA, reversal of any federal job cuts from october 1st on. And blocking further job cuts for a little while. Nothing massive, but not small either. And it only ends the shut down for about 2.5 months. I still don’t like it, but I can’t argue that it is nothing either.

I need the latest covid, but got all the others, and this years flu shot. They just didn’t have the covid one at the time. My kids the same.

Yeah, the commenter suggested the “retired” atc unionize and offer to return for a while to help out. The next commentor said that didn’t go so well during the Regan year, but that was the active ATC. The retired atc can’t strike… they are retired.

Yeah, I meant the image has a light at the end. The real situation doesn’t

I mean they did get some things in other areas. The argument I am hearing is that the deal won’t get better. And I find it hard to counter that myself.

I’ve heard this argument that the deal they got wasn’t going to get any better in a few places. What are the counter arguments to that?
Because it was working, trumps numbers are down a bit, the election losses. But those didn’t phase the Republicans at all seemingly. I personally think they still should have held out, but I don’t have any logic for my stance. Is there any?

Nah, there’s a light at the end if that “cave”, but not the real one.

They already have been. They shot a christian pastor in the face with a pepper ball.

While I agree, and have said similar. Someone pointed out to me that at least in oregon, the guard troops that showed up were from a pool of guard members that volunteered for this specific duty. So it could be they wanted the money, or it could be that they share the opinion of the administration. Oregon is considered a very blue state because of portland. But by area, it’s a very red state. I don’t think there is any real way to know the opinions of those guard troops. But I think it doesn’t hurt to try.

What about what I just said would make you think that?

I would not be surprised at all. Throwing a sandwich for example. And you misread the intent of my username. It means that medicine is still in the dark ages despite what media would have you believe, and we should be funding reasearch at a much higher level to truly understand. Right now most of medicine is based on trial and error. They often don’t really know why one thing works and another doesn’t. They also often have no idea what the root cause of may issues is… autism is a popular example. IBS is another. Mental illness is also not truly understood by medicine. Just categorized by its effects, and what treatments seem to help.

Do explain how the active ATC employees trying to unionize is the same as retired ATC employees unionizing and offering thier services is not different?

But needed for what. If it’s the same thing I have seen before, it covers what is what is needed to disrupt the economy enough to matter. But to get that 3% to actually do it, you need a lot more in reality. The people will need to feel like everyone is doing it in order to take the chance. This is more about perception than reality when it comes to if a person will strike or not.