Roboticide

Was gonna say, the recoil from this position just makes this whole thing a murder/suicide.

Read the article. The UAW has just signed a ~5 year contract, expiring in 2028. He’s calling for other unions, between now and then, to align their contract expirations with the UAW’s. This is not something that’s possible to do in a short period of time, because it relies upon various other union contracts ending, and realistically by the time we get to 2026/2027 no union is going to sign a sub-2 year contract.

It’s kind of dumb, I kind of think they’re doing it for PR, but it also is a reasonable strategy.

No, why would we?

It’s possible to think both the Israeli government and Hamas are trash.

Jezebel is part of the original Gawker Media (now “Go Media”) network, and is a glorified blog. Hardly a “news outlet”.

It’s also not even scab behavior. Scabs are people who take shifts at places where unions are on strike. This is a store with no union, so he’s not doing union work. It’s maybe anti-union, but it’s not scab-y.

And while I’m generally pro-union, my experience with unions is they are very, very against non-union members doing union work. So if Ed Sheeran wanted to pick up a shift at a Starbucks for a promo, I can see why he might have had to pick a non-union location. I’d be curious to find out if he asked or what his agents discussed. Doesn’t seem likely to me that Sheeran himself said “I want to do manual labor for several hours, make sure it’s at a union-busting location.”

This whole story seems overblown.

Uh, huh. So 2009…?

Any reason beyond he was a billionaire and you’re apparently Very Smart?

Lol. This was Season 1, Episode 4.

The problems with their shitty-ass script certainly weren’t budgetary.

It’s a risky idea but it’s a common formula to help ground a sci-fi series.

1. Name a relevant historical figure fans should know.
2. Name a relevant living figure fans may know.
3. Name a relevant fictional figure fans should know.

That’s pretty revisionist. He’s an asshat now but wasn’t always seen that way.

In 2017, Musk was still pretty popular with liberals. He advocated for a carbon taxes, a universal basic income, and AI regulation. Tesla was still leading the game in EV production. SpaceX was re-supplying the ISS and set to free the US from Soyuz. He supported Hillary in 2016 and quit Trump’s advisory council because he withdrew from the Paris Climate Accords.

It was only around and after COVID he took a hard turn and became particularly unpopular with the left. When this episode came out it made sense, and also fit well with Star Trek’s typical formula of “past historical figure, current notable figure, future fictional figure.”