The Factory Floor

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Gryphon

00:28

@Halfthawed That whole scene is full of wonderful lines. The whole movie is, of course, but that scene is especially full of them

Secret

01:18

@Halfthawed @Separatix Ah I see, thanks

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Gryphon

18:22

Apparently 3 million people in the States have lost their jobs over the last week. That's horrifying.

AndyD273

18:48

@Gryphon Yeah. Hopefully once things get started again stuff will spring back. I think that's the point of this stimulus thing that they are working on, to keep things semi-stable for a bit.

Gryphon

19:34

@AndyD273 It'd be nice if the <s>morons</s> politicians could manage to actually agree on what's supposed to be in the thing, but I believe that is the general point of it, yeah.

Gah, how does one do strikethrough in chat?

It'd be nice if the m̶o̶r̶o̶n̶s̶ politicians could manage to actually agree on what's supposed to be in the thing, but I believe that is the general point of it, yeah.

There, that sorta works.

But back to the point I'm complaining about, I'm mildly confused as to why Arts endowments and airplane emission standards 5 years from now are in a bill about "let's not have a Great Depression because of a pandemic."

Halfthawed

19:54

I believe the term is 'pork-barreling'. Or 'I'm going to stick this in the bill to please my constituents and you can't do jack about it without screwing up this whole process at which point the public will blame you, not me, so nyeh-nyeh-nyeh'

Gryphon

20:08

And then you multiply that by hundreds of senators and congresspeople, and we get a trillion dollars of random stuff stuck into a bill that has nothing to do with any of it.

I hate politics sometimes.

There should be some kind of rule where bills can't be more than like 10 pages long or something. This one is 1400 freaking pages!

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