… The woman, who was a foreign correspondent living in the U.S. to cover baseball, told Kimes and Passan that Porter’s abusive actions were a “tipping point” in her decision to leave the industry. “I started to ask myself, ‘Why do I have to put myself through these situations to earn a living?’” she said.
Porter…[was] named Mets general manager earlier this offseason. …
… [Mets owner Steve] Cohen was recently accused of using vulgar language toward female employees and fostering a culture of sexism at his hedge fund in a gender discrimination complaint obtained by the New York Times. Cohen’s investment firm was also accused of hostility toward women in 2018.
On this day, 20 January 1934, Nazi Germany introduced a decree “regulating national labour” which according to the US government “introduced the fuhrer-principle into industrial relations”.
The owner was deemed the fuhrer of an enterprise, who was responsible for making all “decisions for the employees and labourers in all matters concerning the enterprise"… “The employees and labourers owe him faithfulness”.
Robert Ley, head of the German Labour Front, which was set up by the state after all trade unions were banned, told a meeting of Siemens workers in Berlin, some of whom were enslaved labourers: “We are all soldiers of labour, amongst whom some command and the others obey. Obedience and responsibility have to count amongst us again… We can’t all be on the captain’s bridge, because then there would be nobody to raise the sails and pull the ropes. No, we can’t all do that, we’ve got to grasp the fact.”
Along with other measures against radical workers, Nazi policies led Ley to declare in 1935 that Germany was the first European country to end the class struggle. They also helped reduce the share of national income going to workers: which fell from 56.9% in 1932 to 53.6% in 1938, while the share going to big business soared from 17.4% up to 26.6%.
Pictured: Nazis seizing a trade union office
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Eraserhead is well known for being enigmatic and creepy. It’s a story of a loser everyman in a bizarre setting who experiences strange visions while fathering an even stranger child that doesn’t look remotely human. But it’s what you might expect from David Lynch if you’ve heard anything about him and much milder than you’d expect after you hear the sorts of things he was up to behind the scenes.
For example, he refused to talk about how the effect of the baby was done decades afterward, nor did he allow others to talk about it. Given the appearance of the object, the budget, the skin textures, and the fact it’s so articulated that its eyes will close vertically, the leading theory is that it’s a preserved calf fetus. (Source)
Eraserhead is well known for being enigmatic and creepy. It’s a story of a loser everyman in a bizarre setting who experiences strange visions while fathering an even stranger child that doesn’t look remotely human. But it’s what you might expect from David Lynch if you’ve heard anything about him and much milder than you’d expect after you hear the sorts of things he was up to behind the scenes.
For example, he refused to talk about how the effect of the baby was done decades afterward, nor did he allow others to talk about it. Given the appearance of the object, the budget, the skin textures, and the fact it’s so articulated that its eyes will close vertically, the leading theory is that it’s a preserved calf fetus. (Source)
