Greetings, I am Robbie Norlyn. I’m a science fiction author and writer of a great many topics. #Author#Writer#UWAlumni
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@Adam_Cadmon1 It is more expensive as many have mentioned but there is reason for that. In order to install lines underground one needs to consider the heat generated by those lines. There should be sufficient circulation and protection for underground lines (not typically a large city concern). Also, it is easier for the company to fix hanging lines than underground ones in rural areas.
It’s far more common for data lines to be run underground.
“Independent contractors” have been used as a dodge for some employers for decades. It’s uncertain hours, no health insurance, no benefits, and the off chance they will be terminated for a little or no reason.
If you think society can be cohesive on gig working then you're living in the wrong century, as well as the wrong millennium.
@TonyStark I had what I thought was a great job working on VPS systems back in 2006. I was hired as a contractor. Man was that a mistake. And a great many jobs that would otherwise be awesome tend to be.
@TonyStark Absolutely, they get double slammed with costs to do their job and aren’t even afforded benefits! It’s madness. I have had some interesting conversations with people where those are their career paths. Drivers get screwed with vehicle costs and laborers’ health needs are scoffed at by their employers. In some cases it really bites because they offer joke insurance a lot of the time.
@dukepaaron I’m pretty sure it’s ignorant antisemitism.
They keep acting like the Arab population has more rights to lands that they violently conquered, literally colonization, and controlled before it became posh to just randomly call any European originated population that.
I truly wonder if they understand indigenous communities at all. It’s like if Americans, that didn’t accept indigenous peoples, were being kicked out by the indigenous population they would have the same problem.
If you’re on team “we’re defeated, we already lost”, please just stay away from me.
I work really hard at change and I just don’t have time for defeatism. Reality is fine. Defeatism is not fine and there’s been a lot of it today.
It’s January 6th. Yes. The insurrection, which I’ve already posted about today, was a dark day. Incredibly dark. But they did not win and they still haven’t. No defeatist ideology. Zip.
@dannotdaniel The attitude that the candidates are the same is such an outdated and apathetic position that it indicates an unhealthy level of ignorance. It is a deeply flawed and dangerous way to think about politics.
@TonyStark It’s crazy that it works too! They just say crimes aren’t being addressed or reporting isn’t happening. It’s kind of maddening talking with a republican about crime. It’s like talking to someone with Stockholm syndrome.
@azphilosopher@TonyStark The U.S. has always relied on an influx of migrant workers. Particularly, after spreading from “sea to shining sea.”
These “republicans” just seem determined to undermine and destroy everything that interferes with what ever improves lives around them.