New Tarrifs

[Incogneeto]

You're gonna need a new server if we're gonna go through that list son.

Perfect example Fish and Game.

Took the boys fishing all well underage for a license.
Pop!! there's a ranger.
I bought some night crawlers at the nearby bait shop.
Ranger informs me Night Crawlers are not permitted on this river.
meal worms okey dokey , fake worms cool.
$140 ticket. Should have checked the Regs.

True story Montana too.

[Newbeeee™]

That could be its own conversation.

I've always been curious to hear what regulation the "get rid of regulation" crowd thinks we should "get rid of".  I get the California example after listening to a few people tear Newsome a new ass-hole.  

Taxation for a start.
But next....what the issue is, is not the regulation per-se, it's the fact that the so-called "regulators", don't do the job that they *should* do ie hold MomCorp to account (and the goobermnt as required).
But obviously....it can be seen the reality is that's not their job. Their job is enabling without the great unwashed realising....

[neurosis]

I don't know how it works everywhere, so I can only speak for local fishing.  Certain types of bait etc leads to reduced numbers of native fish. There are heated debates over this locally because natives are criticized for netting. Several of the local rivers hatcheries are funded by natives.

I have a relatively easy solution for lowering costs; government needs to fuck off and get out of the abusive regulatory business.  

One of the first shops I worked at used to dump their spent coolant down the toilet. They also let their chip barrels drain in to the storm drains. Can we agree that *some* regulation is good? 

[CNCAppsJames]

...
One of the first shops I worked at used to dump their spent coolant down the toilet. ... Can we agree that *some* regulation is good? 

Maybe. 

Shower at place of business; runoff = Hazardous Waste = Regulated + fines
Shower at residence; runoff = waste water = unregulated

I'm at a customer in the People's Republik of Kommieforniastan this week. The shop guys (hourly workers) start at 5:00am. Per Kommiefornia law, they MUST complete their "lunch" prior to 10:00am or face fines. It does not matter that the shop guys really want their lunch to take place at 11:00am. If the company has more than I think it's 5 employees, they must employ some sort of electronic time management to prove they are taking their breaks at the nanny state's prescribed intervals. It is the voluminous mountains of regs like this that create unnecessary expense. Even if a guy wants to forgo lunch voluntarily, the state will not let that individual do so. 

For every new reg... they need to take 100 off the books. 10 off isn't even in the same galaxy as enough.

[mowens]

I take my lunch at thr end of my shift.

[Del.]

There's a new Tariff in town and his name is Donald J. Trump

[CNCAppsJames]

I take my lunch at thr end of my shift.

I take mine whenever TF I want to. I'm salary exempt so many of the rules for me are much different than they are for hourly employees.

I went to a customer that was a Union Shop some years back. While the guys I was training were taking their break, I was working on something on the machine. Somebody filed a grievance and I got a stern talking to from their Shop Steward Thug. Dude was lucky I was in a good mood (before he came to talk to me anyway). Had I not had my coffee that morning, I likely  would have told him mind his own business. I make my schedule not some if it pleases the crown union turd. I decide when and if I want to take a break, I decide if I want to take a lunch or not, period. I do not need some Union Nanny telling me when it's time for me to wipe my ass. I am perfectly capable of managing my time. 

I loathe unions. 

[mowens]

We don't have a prescribed schedule.  Some of the lab techs come in at 4am and I usually roll in about 9. Lunch, for the most part, can be when ever you want. They generally treat us like adults unless we get a command from on high.

[neurosis]

I take mine whenever TF I want to. I'm salary exempt so many of the rules for me are much different than they are for hourly employees.

I take mine whenever I want as well.

I don't know what the State rules are other than we're supposed to get a 10 minute break every 4 hours and a 30 minute lunch break after 5. I go to work so early that I'm usually eating lunch at 8am.

Shower at place of business; runoff = Hazardous Waste = Regulated + fines
Shower at residence; runoff = waste water = unregulated

We have two showers at our shop that drain in to the city sewer and AFAIK, aren't regulated other than water temp, etc.

I'm sure that we would be fined if the City were to find out we were washing hazardous materials down the drain.

[Newbeeee™]

I loathe unions. 

#MeeToo.
We should be thankful as they initially got the working week down to <40hrs, and ultimately enabled a lot of things which makes working today a lot more palatable than back in the day.
BUTT....as what always happens in life, the power-jerks push further, and further, and further....

[neurosis]

Well shit.

[Jeff]

We take ours from 11:50 until 12:30. I never skip it because I'm usually Starvin Marvin by then coming in at 5:45 every morning.
Some of the younger kids skip it on occasion and work through it.

[Elmer Fudd]

Have you ever worked in a sweat shop? Some bosses need regulation.

[Jeff]

Have you ever worked in a sweat shop? Some bosses need regulation.

Ehh not really. My first job out of high school didn't have A/C but a nice breeze from opposing bay doors made it better.




 

[neurosis]

This one might be good for the children? Go outside! 

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/sony-joins-xbox-and-nintendo-in-hiking-playstation-5-prices-in-the-us/

"All of these increases would have been unthinkable a decade ago, when it was still relatively normal for console makers to cut prices as the hardware aged. Heavy tariffs imposed by the Trump administration are the main culprit here—they make it more expensive to bring consoles into the US, and they also have downstream effects on shipping rates and the cost of manufacturing and assembling hardware with complex global supply chains. Nintendo went as far as to delay Switch 2 pre-orders and raise previously announced accessory prices directly after the administration announced a round of tariffs in April."