{"id":381,"date":"2008-06-13T23:59:59","date_gmt":"2008-06-14T07:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2008\/06\/13\/twittering-on-2008-06-13\/"},"modified":"2008-06-13T23:59:59","modified_gmt":"2008-06-14T07:59:59","slug":"twittering-on-2008-06-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2008\/06\/13\/twittering-on-2008-06-13\/","title":{"rendered":"twittering on 2008-06-13"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Done #drunkgeeking. Headed home <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/selenamarie\/statuses\/833635767\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>@mhalligan i owe a lot to unions. my family wouldn&#8217;t have owned a home, my brother wouldn&#8217;t be able to support his family, etc. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/selenamarie\/statuses\/833673573\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>@mhalligan unions are a defense against exploitation of the working class &#8211; people who pick and slaughter our food, and dig our trenches. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/selenamarie\/statuses\/833674807\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>@mhalligan they aren&#8217;t perfect, but neither is capitalism or management. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/selenamarie\/statuses\/833675145\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>@mhalligan i guarantee you that without a union, my father would not have made a mortgage-paying wage digging trenches and laying pipe. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/selenamarie\/statuses\/833677251\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>@mhalligan he also would not have had a retirement plan and pension that followed him through 30 years of hard, physical labor in 10 states <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/selenamarie\/statuses\/833677596\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>@mhalligan i mean, lets give the same level of scruitiny to capitalism and the excesses of *that* as you&#8217;re applying to unions. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/selenamarie\/statuses\/833678021\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>@mhalligan poverty? homelessness?  business-caused environmental disasters that supposedly our gov&#8217;t cleans up? inflation? <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/selenamarie\/statuses\/833678931\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>@mhalligan i don&#8217;t mean to pick on you &#8211; lots of people say this type of thing about unions. i just want to point out that real people&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/selenamarie\/statuses\/833679195\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>@mhalligan benefit in life-changing, but on a $$ scale &#8211; very small ways &#8211; compared to the insanity of management compensation. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/selenamarie\/statuses\/833679784\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>@xolotl probably would not have turned out *exactly* like this \ud83d\ude42 <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/selenamarie\/statuses\/833680167\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>@mhalligan it&#8217;s a two way street. unions can be bad, but management practices contribute. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/selenamarie\/statuses\/833680435\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>@mhalligan \ud83d\ude42 and i just think that the &#8220;cost to others&#8221; is far less than the total cost of capitalism on society.. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/selenamarie\/statuses\/833682646\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>@mhalligan i don&#8217;t know about unions creating world peace, solving israeli\/pal. cnfct &#8211; just describing some costs of business. \ud83d\ude42 <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/selenamarie\/statuses\/833683052\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>@roberte3 good stewards exist! just not rewarded by society in the ways that most people are trained to want\/expect. so not as common. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/selenamarie\/statuses\/833683671\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>i have to go to bed, or i would now explain why i think &#8216;opting-out&#8217; is BS \ud83d\ude00  but thx for listening @mhalligan. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/selenamarie\/statuses\/833684575\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>oh, and R ROCKS! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.r-project.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.r-project.org\/<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/selenamarie\/statuses\/833684860\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>signing up for boxing class. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/selenamarie\/statuses\/834111004\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>cranking out some work before the downtime. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/selenamarie\/statuses\/834222942\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>@ryanwi have you tried skitch? <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/selenamarie\/statuses\/834267907\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>@garethgreenaway i lost 5 followers yesterday after my union tirade \ud83d\ude00 <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/selenamarie\/statuses\/834272896\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>@garethgreenaway is was a *pro* union tirade \ud83d\ude42 <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/selenamarie\/statuses\/834275906\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Done #drunkgeeking. Headed home # @mhalligan i owe a lot to unions. my family wouldn&#8217;t have owned a home, my brother wouldn&#8217;t be able to support his family, etc. # @mhalligan unions are a defense against exploitation of the working &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2008\/06\/13\/twittering-on-2008-06-13\/\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}