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davel , 2 months ago to memes in Hey girl

No, it’s just about 4,700 km.

davel , 2 months ago to worldnews in Crew stuck on Baltimore ship, seven weeks after bridge collapse

The crew, made up of 20 Indians and a Sri Lankan national, has been unable to disembark because of visa restrictions, a lack of required shore passes and parallel ongoing investigations by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and FBI.

Red tape and racism. I suspect that if they were say Dutch, accommodations would be made somehow.

davel , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to memes in Major USA political affiliations explained

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains. — Rosa Luxemburg

There’s the ongoing nationwide persecution of college students protesting genocide, for one.

How US gov’t prosecution of Uhuru activists threatens a ‘First Amendment exception’

Then there’s Julian Assange, who the US has been persecuting from afar for the last 13 years despite 1) breaking no US laws, 2) not being a US resident or citizen and 3) not having been on US soil. It does this to threaten journalists not just at home but everywhere.

davel , 2 months ago to technology in Firefox to collect your (anonymized) search data

Same. If It’s to exist at all, it should be opt-in and explicit about what it’s doing.

davel , 2 months ago to memes in Zionism is a terrorist ideology

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/4fe3fddc-31ff-4373-a172-79ccdabaf431.jpeg

davel , 2 months ago to news in Small, well-built Chinese EV called the Seagull poses a big threat to the US auto industry

and they don’t get maimed by robots much

???

• Is there evidence that Chinese workers have high high rates of this?
• People are getting maimed at Tesla plants all the time.
• The US created the neoliberal WTO to crush labor rights worldwide, worker safety among them. The only reason the US is sabotaging the WTO now is because that system no longer favors it.

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Honda and Toyota posed the same problem and they were forced to create factories here in order to eliminate the labor cost disparity that would have destroyed the lives of UAW members.

I don’t understand. Were Honda & Toyota forced to, or did they do it out of the kindness of their hearts?

davel , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to news in Small, well-built Chinese EV called the Seagull poses a big threat to the US auto industry

I’m of the opinion that we can’t expect any improvements from the political class before we take more of the profits so we can buy those politicians like corporations have.

The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. — Audre Lorde

I don’t think we should try to play the game by the capitalist class’ own rules, which they created for themselves. We’re never going to be able buy the political system by outspending the capitalist class: they own the means of production and it’s their political system.

Right now labor is very divided, shattered. It was significantly more organized a hundred years ago, though still divided along racial lines, a mistake we mustn’t repeat. People don’t seem to remember now how many socialists existed back then and were deeply involved in that organizing, before they were crushed by red scares and other skulduggery. And unfortunately almost all of our surviving unions came from explicitly anti-socialist roots, the others having been purged. Socialists are still extremely few in the US.

We can’t buy government, and we know our vote alone has very little power. What we need is a resurgent, re-organized labor movement, and new labor media (we used to have our own newspapers!) to counteract corporate media, and we need new mass industrial actions that fit today’s material conditions*. That’s how we forced the state to make concessions in the past.

*Simply organizing “blue collar” workers again won’t cut it, because many of us are not that now.

davel , 2 months ago to asklemmy in Why is there no global language that at least nearly half the world speaks (3.5 billion, I'm talkin', including non-native speakers)

We have NTT DoCoMo to thank for that.

davel , 2 months ago to music in Love Me, I'm A Liberal - Palestine Edition

gold-antifa

davel , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to technology in BBC World Service - lite

On first impression I think I might ideally have used a query parameter instead, leaving the URL path unmodified. I think that might work better for search engines, archivers, and link aggregators like Lemmy. But no one seems to do it that way, and front-end isn’t my bag, so what do I know.

davel , 2 months ago to gaming in Fallout 4 Fans Are Begging Bethesda To Stop Updating The Game

It’s an old South Park meme www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH3K2rkkU7g

davel , 2 months ago to asklemmy in Why is there no global language that at least nearly half the world speaks (3.5 billion, I'm talkin', including non-native speakers)

It is a somewhat naïvely-framed question, but also you could have just clicked downvote and moved on with your day.

davel , 2 months ago to asklemmy in Why is there no global language that at least nearly half the world speaks (3.5 billion, I'm talkin', including non-native speakers)

Even the Tower of Babel cannot take this from us.

davel , 2 months ago to asklemmy in Why is there no global language that at least nearly half the world speaks (3.5 billion, I'm talkin', including non-native speakers)

Yeah I feel that for better or worse Esperanto hasn’t reached a large enough mass to justify accepting its quirks and indo-eurocentrism, when we know we can do better now.

davel , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to asklemmy in Why is there no global language that at least nearly half the world speaks (3.5 billion, I'm talkin', including non-native speakers)

I suppose, though very poorly in comparison to what we usually mean by language.

This sparks an interesting question though: can two human strangers communicate with each other better than any other animals can, even when those two people have no language in common? I don’t think it’s so easy a question to answer. Probably they can in many cases but not in some others, depending on what is to be communicated. Whether there’s a bear nearby? How to coordinate an attack on tasty prey?

Edit to add: Unlocking secrets of the honeybee dance language – bees learn and culturally transmit their communication skills

Astonishingly, honeybees possess one of the most complicated examples of nonhuman communication. They can tell each other where to find resources such as food, water, or nest sites with a physical “waggle dance.” This dance conveys the direction, distance and quality of a resource to the bee’s nestmates.