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    Extremist Sect Is Accused of Using Forced Labor to Build N.J. Temple

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    Hindu Sect Known as BAPS is Accused of Using Forced Labor to Build New Jersey Temple - The New York Times

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    Federal agents descended on the massive temple in Robbinsville, N.J., as a lawsuit charged that low-caste men had been lured from India to work for about $1 an hour.
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    Lawyers for the workers said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha, a Hindu sect known as BAPS that has close ties to India’s ruling party and has built temples around the world, had exploited possibly hundreds of low-caste men in the yearslong construction project.

     

    OMG INFLATION

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    2 hours ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

    So I went looking to see what food prices have gone up, and found this for chicken:

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    Chicken Shortage Sends Prices Soaring, and Restaurants Can’t Keep Up

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    Spicy chicken sandwiches, hot wings and a labor crunch push poultry prices to records. Some restaurants are running out of or limiting sales of tenders, filets and wings, cutting into...

    basically, there is a worker shortage in poultry processing plants so supply can't keep up. If you happen to recall, poultry processing plants are some of the places with some of the absolute worst concentrated covid outbreaks. So it shouldn't come as any surprise that I'm sure many people who used to work in these jobs have gone elsewhere. UI and stimulus have little to do with the fact that these jobs sucked before covid and covid only made them worse.

     

    Yes I'm not confused about why it's happening, just adding in what I've noticed.

    OMG INFLATION

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    1 minute ago, osxmatt said:

    This article is from April .... of 2020.

     

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/05/12/april-saw-sharpest-increase-grocery-store-prices-nearly-50-years/

     

    I don't pay a ton of attention to prices while grocery shopping but I have a general sense if what things cost and it definitely feels like a lot has gone up. Also been consistently not seeing certain things, like the packages if chicken thighs I was typically buying, they seemed to disappear a couple of months ago. 

    The Official Thread of GOP Election Rigging

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    1 hour ago, Kal-El814 said:

    It's been posted elsewhere that voter suppression laws don't seem to have as much of an impact as people might suspect, and people are correct in that these are nothing new.

     

    Every restriction is going to have a marginal effect. It's hard to believe you don't lose ANYONE from these restrictions. Look at how razor-thin a lot of our elections are. Do enough restrictions and those margins are going to add up eventually.

     

    Plus eventually you're going to run out of voters to animate via them getting pissed off about the restrictions to offset the ones who were successfully suppressed.

    ~*Official #COVID-19 Thread of Doom*~ Revenge of Omicron Prime

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    6 hours ago, ManUtdRedDevils said:

     

     

    Good news given all the unvaccinated dipshits you're going to encounter in the subway system.

     

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    Less than half of NYPD cops have received at least one COVID-19...

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    Less than half of NYPD officers have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccination — as police departments across the country lag in getting their forces inoculated, according to a report.
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    MTA Struggling to Get Majority of Workers on Vaccination Train

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    Transit employees have absorbed some of the worst of the pandemic while keeping the city running. But a sizable percentage of the workforce is in no rush to get the COVID vaccine as the city begins to reopen.

     

    Be careful refilling your vehicle tires!

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    5 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

    One thing that can help is getting a ~$20 air pump from Amazon. The one I have isn't fancy or quick to inflate but I'm able to avoid waiting until I can make it to Wawa or something to inflate my tires the second I get a low pressure warning, avoiding damage to the tires in the meantime.

     

    Yep. The only tricky part can be that the pressure meters on the $20 air pumps tend to be shit so it can be hard to be sure how long to keep it going if your car's tire pressure sensors won't update without the car moving--my Fiat gave a live (albeit slightly laggy) update but my Elantra just won't udpate at all until it's rolled along a bit.

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