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Lisa Gets Politik<p>Contractors need to be held accountable for mindless cutting of trees. </p><p>Contact SKANSKA and tell them that you are outraged that they cut a grove trees without permission, causing erosion and flooding. </p><p>Contractors need to be held accountable and heavily fined. </p><p>Boston, MA<br>+1 617 574 1400<br>101 Seaport Blvd<br>Boston, Massachusetts 02210</p><p>You can also contact RIDOT to see if they will fine them Phone: (401) 222-2450</p><p><a href="https://www.abc6.com/ridot-says-contractors-cut-down-grove-of-trees-in-providence-without-permission/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc6.com/ridot-says-contractor</span><span class="invisible">s-cut-down-grove-of-trees-in-providence-without-permission/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://union.place/tags/Erosion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Erosion</span></a> <br><a href="https://union.place/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <br><a href="https://union.place/tags/Contractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Contractors</span></a></p>
beSpacific<p>Janis Kluge, German Institute for Int'l &amp; Security Affairs - American <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/defense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>defense</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/contractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contractors</span></a> are about to lose <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/billions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>billions</span></a> in business from <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> after US disabled jamming equipment in F-16s, withholding maintenance and parts for systems already purchased:“US weapons are toxic, just as Europeans are making plans to spend hundreds of billions on arms procurement. This is against US interests on so many levels. But for <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>, the end of US supremacy just can't come soon enough.” <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economics</span></a></p>
Zhi Zhu 🕸️<p>"reducing staff is a bad way to save money... Unlike a private company, the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a> is required to carry out certain functions by law... the govt wound up merely handing over more jobs to private-sector contractors. “Replacing govt workers to do these <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/jobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jobs</span></a> tended not to save money, and, of course, hiring the same employees back tended to cost govt even more, because govt paid twice—once for the buyout, once for hiring them as <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/contractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contractors</span></a>”"<br><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/elon-musk-doge-democrats/681829/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theatlantic.com/politics/archi</span><span class="invisible">ve/2025/02/elon-musk-doge-democrats/681829/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Doge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Doge</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a></p>
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p>BE AFRAID. BE VERY AFRAID. 🤔 </p><p>One of the top officials at the Treasury Dept QUIT over a dispute re: the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElongatedMuskrat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElongatedMuskrat</span></a> demanding access to "The Government Payment System" that disperses money to every person receiving a check from the government (from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialSecurity</span></a> payments to Federal Employees to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GovernmentContractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GovernmentContractors</span></a>.) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MafiaDon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MafiaDon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DonTheCon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonTheCon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ConvictedFelon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConvictedFelon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Crypto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Crypto</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CryptoBros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CryptoBros</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpaceX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceX</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Contractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Contractors</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fraud</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DisasterPresidency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisasterPresidency</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LordHelpUs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LordHelpUs</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/top-treasury-official-exits-as-musk-makes-grab-for-federal-payment-system-230849605588" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/</span><span class="invisible">top-treasury-official-exits-as-musk-makes-grab-for-federal-payment-system-230849605588</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Typically only a small number of career ofcls control <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Treasury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Treasury</span></a>’s payment systems. Run by the Bureau of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Fiscal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fiscal</span></a> Service, the sensitive systems control the flow of &gt;$6T annually to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/households" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>households</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/businesses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>businesses</span></a> &amp; more nationwide. …Hundreds of millions of people across the country rely on the systems, which…distribute <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialSecurity</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Medicare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Medicare</span></a> benefits, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/salaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>salaries</span></a> for federal personnel, payments to govt <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/contractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contractors</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/grant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grant</span></a> recipients &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TaxRefunds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TaxRefunds</span></a>, among tens of thousands of other functions.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></p>
earthling<p>US-based security firm UG Solutions is specifically targeting the recruitment of US special forces veterans to work as armed security guards at the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Netzarim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Netzarim</span></a> Corridor checkpoint, located just south of Gaza City.</p><p>US contractors will be paid a daily rate starting at $1,100, with a $10,000 advance, and will be armed with M4 assault rifles and Glock pistols. </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/contractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contractors</span></a></p>
Zhi Zhu 🕸️<p>"the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration never realized how much money the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/OMB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OMB</span></a> memo would hold up... the number of civil servants working in the administrative state today is about the same as it was in the 1950s &amp; 1960s... Federal spending has grown tremendously... but that growth has been managed not by federal <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/bureaucrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bureaucrats</span></a> but by federal <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/contractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contractors</span></a>, who outnumber federal employees more than two to one... we need more civil servants... not fewer."<br><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/190838/trump-funding-crisis-chaos-shutdown" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newrepublic.com/article/190838</span><span class="invisible">/trump-funding-crisis-chaos-shutdown</span></a></p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a></p>
Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WhiteSupremacist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteSupremacist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/President" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>President</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Revokes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Revokes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Workplace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Workplace</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Discrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discrimination</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Rules" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rules</span></a> Enacted By <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LBJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LBJ</span></a> In #1965 </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ExecutiveOrder11246" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveOrder11246</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/forbade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>forbade</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/federal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>federal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/contractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contractors</span></a> from <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/discriminating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>discriminating</span></a> on the basis of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/race" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>race</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/color" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>color</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>religion</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/nationalorigin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nationalorigin</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/sex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sex</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/sexualorientation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sexualorientation</span></a> or <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/genderidentity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genderidentity</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-revokes-workplace-discrimination-rules-203613947.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-revoke</span><span class="invisible">s-workplace-discrimination-rules-203613947.html</span></a></p>
beSpacific<p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Palantir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palantir</span></a>, <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Anduril" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anduril</span></a> 2 of largest US <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/defense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>defense</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> companies in talks w competitors 2 form consortium jointly bid for US govt work in effort 2 disrupt <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/replace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>replace</span></a> US <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/oligopoly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligopoly</span></a> of “prime” contractors. Includes <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/SpaceX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceX</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChatGPT</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAI</span></a> autonomous <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/shipbuilder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shipbuilder</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Saronic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Saronic</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ScaleAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScaleAI</span></a> “We are working together to provide a new generation of defense <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/contractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contractors</span></a>,” said one person involved in developing the group. <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/legalresearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>legalresearch</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economy</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/financialsystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>financialsystem</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>billionaires</span></a> <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/6cfdfe2b-6872-4963-bde8-dc6c43be5093" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ft.com/content/6cfdfe2b-6872-4</span><span class="invisible">963-bde8-dc6c43be5093</span></a></p>
Feral_NOLA<p>Having someone work on your house's foundation is weirdly stressful. With all the banging going on under there, I half expect fall through the floor any minute. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/homerepair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>homerepair</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/contractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contractors</span></a></p>
Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:<p>This is the most helpful article I’ve read on drawer slides. I’ve been battling ours for years, and have needed to replace some of them more than once. I didn’t realize how many factors determine if you’re using the right ones. Turns out our contractors installed ones that weren’t right for us.</p><p>Sigh.</p><p>If I had known all of this, it would have alleviated a lot of frustration for me.</p><p><a href="https://www.woodmagazine.com/woodworking-how-to/doors-drawers/drawer-slides-demystified" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">woodmagazine.com/woodworking-h</span><span class="invisible">ow-to/doors-drawers/drawer-slides-demystified</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/HomeRepair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HomeRepair</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/DYI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DYI</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Kitchen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kitchen</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Contractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Contractors</span></a></p>
Lee from Philly 🇺🇦<p>Some facts that just can’t be repeated enough about <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a>. This is a man known for stiffing contractors just because he knew he could. He knew the amount of money it would take to sue him was beyond what most contractors had. So any young guys out there working as <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/contractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contractors</span></a> (he’s hoping it’s young white guys that he can get to vote for him.), please keep that in mind. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> never honors his word, as evidenced by the fact he did not bring down the national debt nor your taxes.</p>
VeganPizza69 ⓋⒶ<p>25/🧵</p><p>Child Labor in the Meat Industry: "Conditions Are Dickensian"</p><p><a href="https://vegnews.com/child-labor-meat-industry-conditions" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">vegnews.com/child-labor-meat-i</span><span class="invisible">ndustry-conditions</span></a></p><p>&lt;💬&gt;<br>It’s hard to say exactly how many children are working in dangerous meatpacking plants right now, but Reid Maki of the Stop Child Labor Coalition estimates it’s a heck of a lot. “The US Department of Labor found earlier this year over 100 children, including some as young as 13, working in meatpacking plants in 13 facilities in eight states,” he told VegNews in 2023. “This might be the tip of the iceberg.”<br>&lt;/💬&gt;</p><p>For those unfamiliar with migrant labor schemes, the entrepreneurial trick here is to externalize to contractors. Then those contractors externalize to other contractors. This labor ponzi scheme achieves a type of laundering of responsibility until you get to the bottom where the conditions are edging toward slavery. But lots of entrepreneurs make money at each level, of course.</p><p>In the end, the giant corporation, can claim plausible deniability because "it's not their fault, it's those sneaky contractors". </p><p>Opaqueness and transparency can both exist in this sector. I've mentioned in previous toots that child labor is feature of animal farming and pastoralism, it's an age old tradition. Even in richer places, the oh so precious "family farm" regularly tasks children with work, especially tasks around the care of domestic animals: cleaning up stables, delivering food, and going out with the animals on the grassland range. This last part, the herding part, is still famous now for slavery and it's a unique type of abuse as the young slave shepherds are coerced (usually with violence) into isolation; as they grow up, they remain deeply and profoundly ignorant and immature, as expected from being isolated and exposed to the elements for years with nothing but non-human animals to talk to (or worse). This is... *traditional family values*, something that's being promoted all over the world, including in the Global North. Of course, the rich family farms are the ones hiring illegal or underpaid workers. The hard work is beneath the young lords and ladies of the land. </p><p>The meat processing industry is an interesting coincidence in this context.</p><p>&lt;💬&gt;<br>When it comes to issues with meat production, much attention is rightly given to the environmental and welfare issues associated with the industry. But it’s important to highlight that human rights abuses are also seemingly rife. Last year, it was reported that Tyson Foods and Perdue Farms, two of the biggest meat producers in the US, were under federal investigation for alleged child labor violations.<br>&lt;/💬&gt;</p><p>Upton Sinclair made this industry famous a century ago when it was less intensive, more extensive. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/140" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">gutenberg.org/ebooks/140</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> I won't attach photos, you can find them online. The animal murder yards and the slaughtering and packing facilities are obviously horrors at any scale, but this industry is much more murderous now. </p><p>So why are there children there? Well, the obvious answer is that it's because they can put children there. Like Oompa-Loompas. The slaughter and meat processing technology is so advanced that a child can operate it. There's no more need for muscly adults wielding large knives and axes like an indoor ancient war against fresh cadavers. </p><p>The people who've worked in these horror facilities do get paid enough. It's not enough to attract local "middle class" types, but it's enough to attract poorer workers. It's likely that these poorer workers, who usually have rural experience with animal farming when they're migrants, see it as acceptable to send their kids to the meat factories to work, just like sending them to work outside with animals is acceptable. And the factories comply with the usual "don't ask, don't tell" which we now see in action tied to the avian influenza outbreaks in cow farms. If we do see a wider epidemic of HPAI in humans, it will probably break out from these workers, thanks to the business of animal farming.</p><p>&lt;💬&gt;<br>According to Maki, while it is illegal for children to work in meat plants, there aren’t enough inspectors to crack down on the problem. “Wage and Hour has about 800 inspectors for 11 million workplaces,” he says. “That means each inspector is trying to safeguard about 200,000 workers. It’s just not possible.”<br>&lt;/💬&gt;</p><p>To me, these examples and many others are a signal that the decriminalization of child labor is coming in the next years. The business owner class would rather see children work than pay adults properly, while they complain on Facebook "nobody wants to work anymore".</p><p><a href="https://veganism.social/tags/childLabor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>childLabor</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/meatIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>meatIndustry</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/meatFactory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>meatFactory</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/bigMeat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bigMeat</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/bigDairy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bigDairy</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/HPAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HPAI</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/slaughter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slaughter</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/avianInfluenza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>avianInfluenza</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>business</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/theJungle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>theJungle</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/contractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contractors</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/OompaLoompas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OompaLoompas</span></a></p>
kurtsh<p>I never post, reply, comment or even 'like' anything on Twitter but damn, some of the shit on there makes me double over with laughter.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/contractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contractors</span></a></p>
Zhi Zhu 🕸️<p>"Consider these alarms: In an uncommonly public report in April, Carlos Del Toro, the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Navy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Navy</span></a> secretary, announced that nine Navy ship programs were between one &amp; three years behind schedule...</p><p>Del Toro called out dilatory <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/contractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contractors</span></a> by name — <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/GeneralDynamics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeneralDynamics</span></a> Electric Boat, <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/HuntingtonIngalls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HuntingtonIngalls</span></a> Industries and <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/FincantieriMarinette" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FincantieriMarinette</span></a> Marine — and went so far as to suggest that the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> should consider building some of its <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/warships" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>warships</span></a> overseas."<br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/24/pentagon-delays-navy-doomsday/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/opinions/20</span><span class="invisible">24/06/24/pentagon-delays-navy-doomsday/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Military</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a></p>
Houston Public Media<p>Does your roof need repairs? Texas law doesn't currently require roofing contractors to have a license</p><p><a href="https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/infrastructure/2024/06/03/489446/does-your-roof-need-repairs-texas-law-doesnt-currently-require-roofing-contractors-to-have-a-license/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">houstonpublicmedia.org/article</span><span class="invisible">s/infrastructure/2024/06/03/489446/does-your-roof-need-repairs-texas-law-doesnt-currently-require-roofing-contractors-to-have-a-license/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Infrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Infrastructure</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Weather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Weather</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Contractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Contractors</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScamsAfterStorms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScamsAfterStorms</span></a></p>
Judy L Mohr<p>Surely, "communication" is the key to running a successful business. It can't be just me thinking this. <a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/contractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contractors</span></a> <a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/frustrated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>frustrated</span></a></p><p><a href="https://judylmohr.com/2024/05/24/what-happened-to-communication/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">judylmohr.com/2024/05/24/what-</span><span class="invisible">happened-to-communication/</span></a></p>
Xucaen ☮️💚🌿<p>Hey <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/plumbers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plumbers</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/contractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contractors</span></a> </p><p>I have a clawfoot tub and I want to install a shower faucet. I'm having difficulty finding one suitable on Amazon. I bought one only to find out that it is a wall-mounted shower not made to install on a tub. Could anyone point me in the right direction?</p>
AI6YR Ben<p>A+++ contracting and painting work! <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/contractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contractors</span></a></p>
AI6YR Ben<p>Have two guys here replacing the final two windows/sliding glass door (which I should have replaced when they were here last time), and they appear to have been raptured... Stopped work, stuff all here, but they disappeared, LOL <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/mystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mystery</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/contractors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contractors</span></a></p>