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Whistleblower book about the culty Tesla workplace.

This is an eye opening interview with financial journalist Sönke Iwersen that includes lots of creepy deets about Tesla workplaces in Europe.

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Banning noncompetes: Good for workers, businesses, and the economy The FTC estimates that banning noncompetes will mean More innovation: an average of 17,000-29,000 more patents each year More startups: a 2.7% increase in new firm formation - that's 8,500+ new businesses per year Higher earnings: typical workers earn $524 more per year Who's affected? An estimated 18% of U.S. workers are covered by noncompetes. That's 30 million people. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION

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Noncompetes have harmed healthcare too.

2024-04-24

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Partial front page story from a December 1918 Daily Telegram: RIGID QUARANTINE ORDERED IN ADRIAN - Board of Health Says All Influenza Cases Must Be Segregated. SMALLPOX UNDER CONTROL Vaccination Continues; Cooperation of Public Is Urged by Members of Health Department Here. Rigid quarantine of influenza cases was established in Adrian yesterday by the board of health, and the same regulations now apply to those homes in which there is influenza as to those in which there are cases of smallpox.

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Everything is political.

2024-03-18

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The image is 2 photos, one is of a man in a baseball cap, black leather jacket and tan cargo pants standing in a museum among life size statues of people including a shabbily dressed man with a duffle bag, trench coat and golf cap looking tired, another statue of a man in light blue overalls and a red scarf and train conductor hat standing straight back against a wall, and the third statue is of a businessman leaning back against a wall all in a black top hat, black long coat, black pants, black boots, a white shirt with a black tie, wearing white gloves and holding a black cane, and looking downward. Next to the top hat man is a yellow sign the image includes a closeup of the yellow sign which has a one line quote from J.P. Morgan saying I owe the public nothing. The caption on the image says Steamtown National Historic Site Scranton Pennsylvania USA. November 10, 2013. Photo by Chloe Kaczenski Humbert.

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Christmas movie propaganda, job creator myths, and “sides” in perpendicular axis

2023-12-25

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