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Large companies paid for the right to stay open, so they got what they paid for. If you don’t want a free market, don’t ask for it.

same with bosses and workers, and nobody seems to mind that.

Taibbi is one of the best journalists in America. Very thankful to have people like him doing this.

Working Americans have no voice.

False. It is no coincidence that as we enter an unprecedented period of economic depression, all the liberal media wants to discuss is racial disparities.

The ruling class is winning the class war, and as long as they can keep the working class fighting the race ware instead, nothing will change.

These protests are being milked for every last drop by the liberal media, in cooperation with liberal activist NGOs on behalf of the Democratic party.

If you don’t comprehend that the protests were a result of the historically unprecedented economic collapse, you don’t have a politically left bone in your body.

>From the patents it looks like I can thank inventors Mr. Krause and Mr. Chernov for their freedom sucking, major appliance disabling, communist, 1984-esque idea.

GE is, historically, among the most anti-communist of all American companies. Its role in breaking and/or corrupting major unions and collective bargaining rights in the post-war era had few equivalents. GE, as well as the US patent system, exists in absolute service of the capitalist system.

I’m not sure if node has something comparable, but python’s splinter feels like the perfect trade-off for me. I don’t like browser tests and splinter lets me spend as little time as possible small tests that I don’t mind deleting later.

Labor rights have a very long history worth learning about. The short of it is that profit from labor is definitional exploitation; the question is how much exploitation we consider economically useful.

Right, and there must be competitors to compare with. This is why a federal job guarantee makes sense.

I have been using scoop for about 1.5 years and it’s wonderful. I contribute to it as well. It’s simple, robust, reliable. I might prefer it over what you’re suggesting for Windows. I just can’t imagine Microsoft getting that right.