***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[mplsdunk]

Bro, look who is investing in driverless trucks and look what they pay and some employee reviews of the company. “I’m not gonna do your research for you.”

The average is high becasue for every driver making 38k at that company there is another making 120k.

“But 38k isn’t THAT bad”.

They work 80 hours a week...

 

[Belgium]

 

[RustyShackleford]

Sir boomhauer, you sound like a lot of people who aren’t in the industry but did a little reading.

Rule number one of driving. Work for a company that has trucks, not a trucking company.

Trucking companies are already bottom of the barrel jobs. Do some research on swift of knight. They are awful companies that will do anything to screw you out of your pay. There is more to trucking than freight.

Their wages are already so low that you lost already working for one of them...

I work for a billion dollar concrete company that doesn’t invest in robot trucks... I do most my driving off road, auto pilot trucks aren’t going there. That’s not even most of it I’m checking the quality and adjusting it as needed and finally placing it whenever it goes. I’ll be dead by the time a robot can do my job.

It’s hard to give examples because me and you have a different idea of what goes into driving but even if dock bumping freight drivers get replaced there is a million more hands on jobs that won’t be.

City route driving, snow plows, all construction cdl jobs, trash trucks, roll off dumpster trucks, booze delivery, food delivery, I could go on forever.

Wages for freight drivers are already in the toilet, they aren’t gonna have anyone to man the auto pilot truck for even less pay. Why would someone take that job to do all the “hard” driving while the robot does the rest for even less pay?

People have been trying to get driverless trucks going forever. The latest one I heard of got bullied into not moving because cars kept cutting it off in a traffic jam.

I’m sure some trucking will get automated. It already has in a lot of way but all it really has done is saved the driver from wear and tear on their body.

I will answer this when I get home because it has been a while since someone tried to used so much anecdotal evidence to hand wave away macroeconomics and ignore the argument actually being made. So I want to explain my point in detail.

In fact Ninja, who was also a truck driver was famous for doing so.

 

[blastercombo]

You guys better echo or I’m bout to take y’all 5 dolla asses and make change

 

[boris]

Ok, so I have personal experience on the subject we’re debating and you’re using that against me? get real man.

If anyone can speak on the subject it’s me.

I know all about the automated trucks, show me one that can replace a person.

To be honest, I'd trust the engineers working at the companies trying to make autonomous vehicles a reality.

 

[gry60]

 

[mplsdunk]

I will answer this when I get home because it has been a while since someone tried to used so much anecdotal evidence to hand wave away macroeconomics and ignore the argument actually being made. So I want to explain my point in detail.

In fact Ninja, who was also a truck driver was famous for doing so.

here we go.

 

[blastercombo]

here we go.

Da best negotiator, just peep da taxes....

 

[mplsdunk]

Da best negotiator, just peep da taxes....

he lives for it. I like ol rustbelt but he better stop comparing me to ninja hood.

But calling me a coal miner is a compliment.

 

[blastercombo]

Time for MAGA math again. Should fix these numbers

 

[elpablo21]

Clarify, bet his *** wont be so smug next time

 

[RustyShackleford]

he lives for it. I like ol rustbelt but he better stop comparing me to ninja hood.

But calling me a coal miner is a compliment.

You do it to yourself when you called me Boomhauer, put some respect on my stolen alias, b.

And I try to not get into the drawn out back and forths but the rhetorical jost in like crack to me. I be tryna not respond but..

 

[mplsdunk]

I was wondering if anyone was gonna call me out on calling you boomhauer.

I know you’re dale, man.

Going back and forth is fine as long as people don’t get butthurt. I get to hear someone else’s point of view that isn’t a construction worker, gym bro or cook.

 

[deleted]

I know all about the automated trucks, show me one that can replace a person.

Boom

Checkmate libs

 

[mplsdunk]

Optimus was a union driver

 

[aepps20]

Boom

Checkmate libs

LIBS WILL NEVA RECOVER FROM THIS POST.

 

[rexanglorum]

I was wondering if anyone was gonna call me out on calling you boomhauer.

I know you’re dale, man.

Going back and forth is fine as long as people don’t get butthurt. I get to hear someone else’s point of view that isn’t a construction worker, gym bro or cook.

It’ll be quite a while until all trucking gets replaced by technology.

First the technology has to come into existence and it has to become cheap enough to be worth using on a large scale. The big wildcard will be jurisprudence around the accidents that will happen.
If courts decide that any time a driverless truck crashes, the company is liable, it would be a long time until it became economically feasible to replace human driven vehicles with driverless vehicles.

 

[nawghtyhare]

Boom

Checkmate libs

Hit the *****es when I commit the crime
And when it's on we transform like Optimus Prime
I'll form the head,
roll out,
let's make it happen

 

[IATT]

 

[nawghtyhare]

didnt need some report to know this

 

[dragicon]

Although I don’t doubt the story, I thought you couldn’t sign up for the military until you were 18? Wouldn’t this guy only be 17 years and a few months old?

 

[whywesteppin]

It’ll be quite a while until all trucking gets replaced by technology.

First the technology has to come into existence and it has to become cheap enough to be worth using on a large scale. The big wildcard will be jurisprudence around the accidents that will happen.
If courts decide that any time a driverless truck crashes, the company is liable, it would be a long time until it became economically feasible to replace human driven vehicles with driverless vehicles.

Yeah. unlike passenger cars, which can be sold on the novelty of the technology to the public, driverless trucks only have an appeal if they help the bottom line.

They will, eventually. The question is how long it will take.

 

[biggie62]

didnt need some report to know this

And when they don’t white people like my mom send the kids to private school anyway. Either way we have a step ahead as immigrants even. Can’t lie. I honestly never thought this way before i got in the professional world as much, but when I see it first hand during on campus hiring meetings when we have a consensus you can’t deny it anymore.

 

[Sharpshoeter13]

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/26/michael-cohen-testimony-congress-1186702
Cohen will present document to criminally implicate Trump
The president's former lawyer will publicly accuse Donald Trump of a crime over three days of Capitol Hill testimony this week.

Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, plans to offer up a document to lawmakers that he claims will show the president engaged in criminal conduct related to a hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels, according to a person familiar with his planned congressional testimony.

The person said the document will refute a claim by Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s attorney, that Cohen used a $35,000 a month retainer from Trump as reimbursement for paying off Daniels. Cohen — who will soon report to prison for a three-year sentence tied to a litany of tax fraud and lying charges — is scheduled to appear Wednesday in a public House hearing, and will also testify privately on Tuesday and Thursday before Senate and House investigators.

During his testimony, Cohen also plans to address a much-discussed BuzzFeed report that the president ordered him to lie to Congress about business dealings in Russia during the campaign. The story initially sparked impeachment speculation, but was later thrown into question when special counsel Robert Mueller’s office took the rare step of issuing a carefully worded denial of certain elements of the piece.

“He’ll explain exactly why he lied and how he came to lie,” said the person familiar with Cohen’s testimony.

Cohen BETTER deliver

 

[whywesteppin]

he lives for it. I like ol rustbelt but he better stop comparing me to ninja hood.

But calling me a coal miner is a compliment.

Ever since we went into war against misc side-by-side, I knew you would be a reliable coalrade to the end. You showed up to the fight wearing the shirt below and with coal dust coming out your nostrils. I know you're going to destroy Rusty just as bad s Tomi did when she dumped him at Thanksgiving dinner.