Knew they were gonna make some intensely stupid business decisions when this was the first big change SAPPORO USA made after buying up the brewery
Almost certainly this change is related to Sapporo USA’s acquisition of Stone Brewing—they seem to be (clumsily) following the AB INBev model sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story…
Outside of guys who do threads about AI on twitter, Anchor is one of SF’s most famous exports. The brewery is the second largest manufacturing facility in the city. Bad call after bad call led Sapporo USA down this road.
The stuff I’m hearing is totally crazy. Automation put in using machines so slow, it significantly dropped production capacity. Tanks of Christmas Ale sitting around. Management with absolutely no game plan for the road ahead.
Somehow Anchor has lost capacity from moving from this to an automated bottle line. Saporro USA put in new equipment; how badly did they fuck that up? (This is the tail end of the bottle line; I took this pic of us packaging Christmas Ale in 2019)
This announcement coincidentally arrives just after a long, tough negotiating period for the unions second contract, but before that contract has been ratified by members.
Anchor so old we actually had an in-house historian
“Future generations will look back on many of the tactics used in the troubled teen industry in the same way we look back on forced lobotomies and ask: How did we allow these practices to pass off as mental health treatment for so long?” nytimes.com/interactive/20…
The truly maddening thing about the restraints and isolation punishments is that these programs are essentially self-regulating. If children witness or are subject to abuse at these schools, there’s no one they can tell. Staff control all lines of communication.
My school, Monarch, owned by Patrick McKenna, didn’t have isolation in the same way others did. Instead, as a 14 year old boy, when I was punished I was not allowed to speak to, interact with, look at, sit near or stand around other kids there.
Jean-Luc Brunel, notorious rapist and modeling agent who was in Epstein’s inner circle, found hanging dead in his cell in Paris 👁 cnn.com/2022/02/19/eur…
Brunel was notorious before his association with Jeffrey Epstein, having been one of the subjects of a 60 Minutes episode centering on rape and exploitation in the modeling world
Even after the damning 60 Minutes episode, he continued to work in the modeling world though his star was fading slightly. He was accused of drugging and raping girls, threatening them with blacklists or deportation.
The last legitimate government of 🇸🇲 San Marino 🇸🇲 was in 1957 when the so-called Provisional Government overthrew the duly-elected Communist-Socialist electoral coalition that had ruled that mighty nation since the end of WW2…
One of the reasons: The Communists had allowed too many citizens of San Marino to become police officers in San Marino
The problem too, was that a pair of moderate socialist councilors had switched to the Opposition
LaRouche's man in Wiesbaden, Herbet Quinde, served as the go-between between LaRouche's euro intelligence agency and the Spanish secret services. Soon after they launched GAL, a death squad aimed at murdering ETA members inside and outside Spain. Quinde offered to provide
the death squads with a dossier on ETA members his group had compiled in exchange for information on Otto Skorzeny's business holdings (!). But Quinde's information was legitimate, and the death squads in Spanish state, managed by the Socialist Party, eventually met with Larouche
They had a series of Spanish handlers---most of them policemen who had been specialists in esoteric torture techniques and extrajudicial killings of left-wingers for decades. Larouchites eventually met with José Barrionuevo, the highest-ranking exposed member of the GAL.
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