chuckie512
chuckie512 t1_ixfwo6c wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Seasons Greetings from our friends at US Steel. by Tomofpittsburgh
Electric arc furnaces at least can be fully turned off during idle periods, and during inversions. The current furnaces have to hot idle.
chuckie512 t1_ixfnjdq wrote
Reply to comment by Kelbsnotawesome in Seasons Greetings from our friends at US Steel. by Tomofpittsburgh
Capitalism also isn't supposed to include us subsidizing producers with children's lives.
chuckie512 t1_ixfl4g7 wrote
Reply to comment by Ordinary_Pain1848 in Seasons Greetings from our friends at US Steel. by Tomofpittsburgh
>The reality is that these 3 Mon Valley plants are US Steel’s cheapest cost per ton producer of steel in the company’s portfolio
Because we're subsidizing them with our lives.
Is a couple dozen jobs worth giving children decades long health issues? If we paid them out to retire, they'd still be in the tax base.
chuckie512 t1_ixfitwy wrote
Reply to comment by Kelbsnotawesome in Seasons Greetings from our friends at US Steel. by Tomofpittsburgh
We've shut down our coal powerplant even. Hell, Pittsburgh gets the majority of it's power today from the Beaver nuclear plant.
chuckie512 t1_ixfinqx wrote
Reply to comment by Ordinary_Pain1848 in Seasons Greetings from our friends at US Steel. by Tomofpittsburgh
Yeah, my suggestion is for us steel to move into the 21 century and use electric arc mills, or shut down.
We pay more in excess healthcare than USS provides to the community. We could save money as a community paying all the steel workers to retire.
chuckie512 t1_ixffgra wrote
Reply to comment by Ordinary_Pain1848 in Seasons Greetings from our friends at US Steel. by Tomofpittsburgh
Very successful plan given how the air is still painful to breathe during these events.
chuckie512 t1_ixff7s8 wrote
Reply to comment by Phobophilic in Seasons Greetings from our friends at US Steel. by Tomofpittsburgh
The weather implies that the pollutants will stay close to the ground, and the polluting companies won't do anything about it.
chuckie512 t1_ixff0cl wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Seasons Greetings from our friends at US Steel. by Tomofpittsburgh
Electric arc is the way of the future for steel. It's well understand and there's many designs already in use for it.
Except, the cost of conversion is less than the cost of just continuing to pollute, so US steel's board would literally be able to be held personally liable to the shareholders to change.
This is the current US system.
chuckie512 t1_ixfelnm wrote
Reply to comment by Early_Platypus_8855 in Seasons Greetings from our friends at US Steel. by Tomofpittsburgh
Except that they still frequently get fined for violating it.
chuckie512 t1_ix49fd9 wrote
Reply to comment by Swill_srna in Fun times: AGC (Allegheny County Airport, West Mifflin) is currently shut down due to having zero snow equipment. by samosamancer
It's all unencrypted, there's consumer-grade radio scanners that can pick up the frequencies.
chuckie512 t1_iwy3pie wrote
Reply to comment by dockows412 in Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh urges supporters to take their demands to John Block's wedding reception by Jazzlike_Breadfruit9
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike
We have a strong history here.
chuckie512 t1_iwy1fpy wrote
Reply to Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh urges supporters to take their demands to John Block's wedding reception by Jazzlike_Breadfruit9
Is there an alley they might be using over the front door? Maybe some people should be on that side too
chuckie512 t1_iwwzilk wrote
Reply to comment by ventorun in Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh urges supporters to take their demands to John Block's wedding reception by Jazzlike_Breadfruit9
"learn to code!"
chuckie512 t1_iww2acz wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh urges supporters to take their demands to John Block's wedding reception by Jazzlike_Breadfruit9
Is it?
chuckie512 t1_iww1t4h wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh urges supporters to take their demands to John Block's wedding reception by Jazzlike_Breadfruit9
By taking away their insurance their boss is saying "I don't care if you live or die"
By bringing pots and pans to his reception the employees are saying "I don't care if you have a good evening"
I personally don't think they're going far enough.
chuckie512 t1_iwvvx0z wrote
Reply to comment by jafomofo in Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh urges supporters to take their demands to John Block's wedding reception by Jazzlike_Breadfruit9
You have to be a pretty big asshole to cut someone's health insurance too.
chuckie512 t1_iwvvtr9 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh urges supporters to take their demands to John Block's wedding reception by Jazzlike_Breadfruit9
Cutting the health insurance of your printers is pretty lame too.
chuckie512 t1_iwm4asa wrote
Reply to comment by vinnie5451 in Pennsylvania opens lottery for nearly 1,600 bottles of rare whiskey, including Van Winkle by oldschoolskater
Some of this whiskey is old enough to buy it's own whiskey.
chuckie512 t1_iuuseea wrote
Reply to comment by IrrumaboMalum in For those worried about the PA Supreme Court’s ruling on undated ballots, it may be of some relief to you that this year’s ballot envelope is VERY unambiguous. While I personally find the ruling utterly preposterous I’d also say that the ballot itself is competently designed to compensate for it. by Trapezoidoid
What materially stops a vote from being validated if it doesn't have a have written date on it?
They're already banned from even accepting votes that arrive after election day.
chuckie512 t1_iue5z8z wrote
Reply to What’s the best neighborhood sign? by SqHill
I'm a big fan of the deutschtown sign
Edit: streetview: https://maps.app.goo.gl/DDMojueCBYtxPKAC8
chuckie512 t1_iud550m wrote
The local tax here is pretty simple. It's a flat %. You'll get a letter in the mail with all the instructions art the start of the year, and can fill it out with just your W2 and phone calculator.
Since it's so simple, it's pretty uncommon for your with to withhold the wrong amount as well, so you probably won't owe/get back anything.
chuckie512 t1_iu9hj09 wrote
Reply to comment by thunderGunXprezz in Accessibility by balou918
Well it's bad elsewhere, so it should be bad here too.
chuckie512 t1_iu8n775 wrote
Reply to comment by mizmoose in Accessibility by balou918
Parking on the sidewalk happens everywhere in the city. It's crazy.
There's even a downtown surface lot that uses the sidewalk on Penn when their lot is full, with no enforcement from the city stopping them.
chuckie512 t1_iu8mwwp wrote
Reply to comment by Otter592 in Accessibility by balou918
Or someone is parked on the cutout...
chuckie512 t1_ixh75au wrote
Reply to Seasons Greetings from our friends at US Steel. by Tomofpittsburgh
"unhealthy for a all groups" AGI is over 160 as of this morning.
Yeah, great mitigation plans US Steel. Really helping your community.