I live in a former agriculture and mining area. When the railroads finally shut down and tore up the tracks, you'd have thought most folks would've gotten the idea the old economy ain't coming back. It took a while, but now pretty much everyone has embraced the new tourism-based economy. It's been hard, because actually being nice doesn't come naturally to them.
That's no joke: industrial work is sociologically very different from customer-service-based employment. A miner or a machinist doesn't have to smile and say "Welcome to Walmart!" 80 times a day.
I was only a CalTransient for 19 years. Before then I had many other positions, mostly in the construction industry. People tend to leave you the hell alone when you're at the controls of a 110,000 lb piece of equipment.
The picture in the hed is Tommy Lee Jones in "No Country for Old Men," I believe? Fine movie, and also an almost exact transcription of Cormac McCarthy's book, which is good too.
Not to diminish the tragedy, but these county-pleths or whatever you want to call them, are deceptive since they reflect land area rather than population density. Out west the counties are ginormous and often thinly populated.
President Trump can explain it quite well, I'm sure.
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The people that believe mining jobs are coming back are probably the same people that think Bitcoin is a good idea.
I live in a former agriculture and mining area. When the railroads finally shut down and tore up the tracks, you'd have thought most folks would've gotten the idea the old economy ain't coming back. It took a while, but now pretty much everyone has embraced the new tourism-based economy. It's been hard, because actually being nice doesn't come naturally to them.
That's no joke: industrial work is sociologically very different from customer-service-based employment. A miner or a machinist doesn't have to smile and say "Welcome to Walmart!" 80 times a day.
I should have said it doesn't come naturally to "us", not "them". I have to own it, too.
Caltrans is a service business, after all.
I was only a CalTransient for 19 years. Before then I had many other positions, mostly in the construction industry. People tend to leave you the hell alone when you're at the controls of a 110,000 lb piece of equipment.
The picture in the hed is Tommy Lee Jones in "No Country for Old Men," I believe? Fine movie, and also an almost exact transcription of Cormac McCarthy's book, which is good too.
OH, MI, PA, WI…
Wake the fuck up people.
I suppose it's hard to admit you've been swindled.
But it's the right thing to do.
To admit a mistake.
Related, mentioned on some other blog…………but I'll be damned Sessions DOJ got an actual drug dealer.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdpa/pr/mt-carmel-do…
Oh look, Nye County Nevaduh! I'm shocked! Not shocked. Actually mildly surprised, because meth is the drug of choice among my former neighbors.
Not to diminish the tragedy, but these county-pleths or whatever you want to call them, are deceptive since they reflect land area rather than population density. Out west the counties are ginormous and often thinly populated.
President Trump can explain it quite well, I'm sure.
Or, as shown below (see next post):
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Your offspring is a cartographile? You're obviously raising him correctly.
I'm a Purdue Pharma executive. My tax break is gonna be high six figures. Oxy Baby!
BURN IT DOWN