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Re:Amazon raises overtime pay for warehouse workers by jacobwilliamroy on Saturday March 21, 2020 @01:57PM (#22648353)
Based on downvotes I'm gonna go ahead and guess that there is no war (aside from the wars that are already going) and this use of the word "war" was referring to something else. Still I would like someone to please confirm that there is not a real war coming.
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Re:Amazon raises overtime pay for warehouse workers by abnercoimbre on Saturday March 21, 2020 @02:13PM (#22648486)
I heard this was about France declaring war on the virus. I assume if they're officially declaring war (again, against the virus), certain government powers / resources are immediately available.
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Re:Amazon raises overtime pay for warehouse workers by jacobwilliamroy on Saturday March 21, 2020 @02:17PM (#22648527)
I suppose that could be the case. I don't know how power is distributed throughout the French government. Thanks for clarifying. I live in the Pacific, so I don't follow much European news.
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Re:Amazon raises overtime pay for warehouse workers by Dylan16807 on Saturday March 21, 2020 @04:13PM (#22649622)
> I'm gonna go ahead and guess that there is no war

That's not really right, because that implies that other people are using the word wrong. It's more that it's a word with a lot of uses, and you got stuck on one of them.

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Re:Amazon raises overtime pay for warehouse workers by jacobwilliamroy on Sunday March 22, 2020 @12:33AM (#22652752)
They are using it wrong. I think when op said "war" op meant "public health policy" which is really far away from war. It's actually the complete opposite thing.
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Re:Amazon raises overtime pay for warehouse workers by Dylan16807 on Sunday March 22, 2020 @01:50AM (#22653031)
They're not using it wrong.

Merriam-Webster, definition 2:

  2a: a state of hostility, conflict, or antagonism
  b: a struggle or competition between opposing forces or for a 
  particular end
  a class war
  a war against disease
Note that last line. The use here is so extremely valid that it's an example in the dictionary!
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