NY labor board has decided Uber Drivers are employees when it comes to collecting unemployment. This is a big deal because what companies pay in u employment tax is based on how many claims they have had.

So drivers can collect unemployment and Uber has to pay for a decent chunk of it.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...or-board-says/

Wouldn’t you be better off just leaving your wallet at home all the time?

This is prettay good

It really is becoming obvious what an oversight it was for the APA to neglect including 'conservative affiliation' as a formal disorder in DSM 5.

ClickHole = Skavid Dlansky gimmick account

In completely unsurprising news, our allies are running torture facilities in Yemen.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.alj...082543379.html

We can't really comment on our involvement in raping people, filming it, and using the film for blackmail because...

Of course it doesn't say in what context Republicans/Democrats are being quoted. It's still interesting though

There's not a comparison to when Democrats held power so it's hard to tell if it's just the fact that Republicans are in power and that leads to more quotes or anything else

https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/20...overage/220738

That ratio seems entirely reasonable.

There are way more Republicans of consequence.

There are no true Democratic counterparts to Sarah Sanders or John Kelly or Rod Rosenstein, for example.

Plus you're much less likely to get an astronomically stupid headline-inducing blurb from Dems than GOP

this. absolutely infuriating.

I enjoyed that.

Of course Devin Nunes is the guy who grew up a Celtics fan in Tulare, CA

Nunes spent campaign funds on Celtics tickets, winery tours, Las Vegas trips

Chaser:

On the subject of "fundraising":

https://twitter.com/dineshdsouza/sta...53011375312896

if you don’t like my movie, you’re gay

https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/19/new...ian/index.html

Employees are so much more productive than they used to be. At a ton of jobs there's at least a day's worth of doing nothing except occupying space in the office. Most office jobs no one would even notice a productivity drop.

Blue collar workers are the ones who really deserve the extra day off. But of course then we erode even more competitiveness. So I dunno.

Just imagine 3-day weekends becoming the norm. There's really no reason this can't happen.

Home Depot fires 60 year old black man after being verbally assaulted by a customer.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/hom...ist-abuse/amp/

I don’t fault Home Depot’s policy, I fault their execution. This was a teachable moment for all their employees and they punted the ball. Not having your employees backs is a really bad place to go for any business and has real consequences for the entire business.

They could have given the employee a warning or even a short suspension and leveraged the whole event into something beneficial to the whole company. Instead they just reinforce the standard narrative that they do not care at all about their employees AND ramp tensions up even higher for minority employees.

Between Nunes and Kavanaugh, I'm becoming increasingly convinced the sports/event tickets industry are becoming the home for some petty money laundering schemes.

I've been in almost the exact same situation Home Depot was in there with a customer and similar situations with a Subway employee and another with the police and I unequivocally had my employee's back.

HD reversed course on firing the employee.

****tiest part of that story is probably that he's making $13/hr. My 18yo makes more than that.

The version I heard was that he is in fact getting $13/hr, after 8-10 years.

Can’t lose a wallet if you don’t carry one.

Legitimately can’t remember the last time I needed anything besides a drivers license and credit card that would require the use of a wallet. At least 10 years ago, maybe 15.

Now they unfired him.

I'm sure Republicans holding power has a lot to do with this - but so does the weekly trip to flyover country to talk to four "average" Trump supporters (of course 90% of them just so happen to be GOP operatives), compared to 0 trips to Berkeley, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, etc, etc, to see how average Trump haters are feeling.

Regardless, Democrats are missing a golden opportunity to combat the narrative that the NYT and Washington Post are part of the liberal elitist media.

They should be hammering this. "Liberal media??? They quote Republicans 2.5 times as often as Democrats! If they're biased, they're the conservative media!"

One of the problems with not fighting the "liberal media" attack is that a huge chunk of the public just assumes the truth is halfway between what the Dems and Reps are saying. So when the GOP says the media is liberal, and Democrats don't fight back - or just say it's not biased - they assume it's somewhat biased or totally biased in favor of liberals.

I would guess that about 60-70% of Americans probably believe it's agreed upon fact that the mainstream media has a significant liberal bias. Meanwhile, they know it's hotly contested whether Fox News is left or right leaning, so it's probably only a little right leaning.

Democrats have done a horrible job fighting the narrative on some key issues over the last 15-20 years, and it's part of the puzzle.

Remind me when the National Review took trips to Berkeley or Brooklyn in 2008. Lol what would that article even look like?

It's the same thing with chiefsplanet vs. here. I've told them how we watch them like lab rats numerous times. They don't care and they aren't the tiniest bit curious what we talk about over here.

Another public figure brought down by ill-advised old tweets. Sad.