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rockSlayer ,

Instead, we spend a lot of time in high school biology on hydras … maybe that time would have been better spent on some history of plagues

I think there’s a different class that might be better suited to discussing past plagues lol

On a serious note, I get what you mean. I think classes need to be more integrated on their lessons, so like the science class is discussing the mechanics of how diseases reproduce at the same time history class is covering past epidemics, while the social studies class covers how systemic injustice worsened epidemics for the poor and minorities.

rockSlayer ,

I hope we preserve all our robot heroes like this when we have settlements on Mars

rockSlayer ,

https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/036/994/He's_Out_of_line_but_he's_right.jpg

rockSlayer ,

Well the real answer is that they should ensure only people actively helping are next to the person until paramedics arrive.

More often they’re causing a bigger scene

rockSlayer ,

https://i.imgflip.com/8tncgg.jpg

rockSlayer ,

Very nice. If anyone here works at IKEA, just know that unless you unionize those things can disappear just as easily.

rockSlayer ,

Believe it or not, but I’m an organizer. I believe that too many people think unionizing just happens to workers, rather than workers forcing it to appear to protect themselves. IKEA is international. Swedish coworkers can’t defend workers in the US, US workers have to demand they’re treated the same as their Swedish coworkers.

rockSlayer ,

That’s awesome! I’d be curious to know which industrial union they’re a part of, I love learning about labor movements in other countries. I’m from the US so when I say unionize, it’s more comparable to a worker council. But the crazy shit you might have heard about like captive audience meetings, firing organizers, and anti-union onboarding absolutely happen. It’s an uphill battle for sure.

rockSlayer ,

It did, but not because the workers in Sweden pulled Norway along. The workers in Norway knew that if they didn’t stand in solidarity with their fellow workers then, then Tesla would try the same shit with them. In the US, those strikes are technically illegal (not criminal) but still happen anyway. I helped organize a walkout for CWA, and by getting the word out the teamsters showed up with equipment and we had 2 other local presidents come join us on the picket line.

rockSlayer ,

But then they might have to see the poors. That’s only ok when they’re under the spotlight.

rockSlayer ,

There are some, but as mentioned several times, the traditional car is too heavy for solar panels to be effective. There are some vehicles that are essentially enclosed motorcycles like the Aptera where it can be effectively used, though. Aptera can use solar panels effectively because even at their largest battery capacity, it’s still significantly lighter than an EV sedan.

rockSlayer ,

The study doesn’t count because it’s hamas

rockSlayer ,

RSUs are kinda shit too though. According to coworkers at my company that are actually valued enough to receive them, they’re pretty difficult to sell

rockSlayer ,

I think QA engineering needs to become more widespread. The “extra pair of eyes” can’t compare to a department of people dedicated to code review and testing.

rockSlayer ,

That’s what QA engineering is for. They are integrated into the dev team and they pull double duty with QA and code review.

rockSlayer ,

I’m thinking of it not as a title, but a role. Often times the 2 are not related

rockSlayer ,

A title is just something a company calls a particular job. A role is what that job actually is. So a lot of jobs might be called “QA engineer”, but not fitting the intended role

rockSlayer ,

I haven’t had these bars, but I’ve had many similar “shroom” products. A lot of the time they’ll use real mushrooms like lion’s mane for the flavor and weak “it’s healthy” claims. While I don’t know what the psychoactive plants they use, they’re typically legal plant sources of DMT. One of the products I buy even lists a couple plants from their proprietary blend, and includes roots from a cousin of ayahuasca. Well, other plants in that same genus are poisonous.

rockSlayer ,

Some of them are legal plant sources of DMT, and those ones are good. Of course they still advertise themselves as shroom bullshit though

rockSlayer ,

And what’s sad are the number of people that act like credit scores are a force of nature we just have to accept

rockSlayer ,

So does Clarence

rockSlayer ,

it only gets better if you make it better. Organize a union at your workplace

rockSlayer ,

I like giving real solutions to these kinds of problems :)

rockSlayer ,

I definitely misread the title as IKEA for a moment. Imagine if corporations helped fix the problem they helped cause.

Wisconsin warden and 8 staff members charged following probes into inmate deaths (apnews.com)

Guards at Wisconsin’s oldest maximum-security prison failed to provide basic care for inmates who died on their watch, including one who died of dehydration and another who wasn’t found for at least 12 hours after he died of a stroke, authorities said Wednesday in announcing charges against the warden and eight members of...

rockSlayer ,

I hope he is offered the decency he deprived of the inmates under his care.

Don't you all get tired of the constant negativity?

Despite not subscribing to political communities and having a large number of content filters based on keywords, my feed here is still for a large part all negative articles and ragebait. Elon Musk this and Israel that. Microsoft ruining windows, AI ruining internet, right wingers and capitalism ruining the world, police being...

rockSlayer ,

The horrible things we see on the news, whether through traditional or Internet consumption, are being experienced by real people. The kids starving in Gaza aren’t ai generated.

rockSlayer ,

I hope it inspires them to document their oral traditions in some way on the Internet. Most likely it would be a blog, but video documentation would be invaluable preservation

rockSlayer ,

Wow, that’s some damn good insurance if it’s only $60

rockSlayer ,

Capitalism operated almost exclusively as monarchies for the first 200 years. Hundreds of capitalist countries have failed, but why are only the failed communist states counted against the ideology? Vietnam, Cuba, and China certainly haven’t failed. Now I don’t consider those to be socialist or communist projects, but they’re undeniably different from the capitalist status quo. What specifically do you mean when you say a country fails in the first place?

rockSlayer ,

I don’t consider myself a tankie, because I’m an anarcho-syndicalist.

I’ve been called a tankie for suggesting that workers should organize tenant unions to kill the apartment bidding wars in NYC. I’ve been called a tankie for pointing out that their image of a tankie needs to almost have power to be any kind of threat worth warning against, and there are no tankies anywhere near power with the global rise of fascism. I’ve been called a tankie for asking someone to clarify what they meant by tankie. I’ve been told that scientific socialism both is and is not tankie behavior. The term is utterly meaningless. I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s part of a 3rd red scare in an effort to sow division amongst the anticapitalist left.

rockSlayer ,

No, we tried that. The rich black people aren’t allowed to be concerned about black issues, otherwise they stop being one of the “good ones”

rockSlayer ,

She’s a billionaire. She’s used to killing people for selfish interests.

rockSlayer , (edited )

“in Hamas custody”, or killed by Israeli strikes? So far all the hostages have died from actions by Israel. The difference is extremely important in this case and the weasel word title doesn’t help with giving accurate info.

Edit: it’s worth pointing out that this is not OPs fault, but the fault of the news org

rockSlayer ,

What you see is a dystopian view of the direction we’re headed with AI due to capitalism. What I see is another way to keep 3 bullshit jobs without being able to wfh

rockSlayer ,

ICE is controlled by the department of Homeland Security, which is under the executive branch. As we remember from civics class, the president is directly responsible for the executive branch. The president is responsible for the atrocities at the border.

rockSlayer ,

Yes. Who else?

rockSlayer ,

Biden placed Mayorkas in that position, and is his boss.

rockSlayer ,

The cop will get off and slither to the department 2 towns over.

rockSlayer ,

I’m adamant that we should mandate a 4 year law enforcement degree and a certification, issued by an independent community police board.

rockSlayer ,

I never said anything about giving more money to police departments.

rockSlayer ,

I wasn’t expecting you to revive this discussion, but I’ll still talk about it. I was suggesting that the independent oversight board is funded by diverting police funds. For it to be independent, we’d have to prevent former cops and their families from being on the board. Since the independent board is responsible for issuing the police licenses, that would be pretty easy to track.

For the record, I’m not saying that this is the only solution either. To me, this is a large part of the overall solution for ending police violence. There are a lot of police reforms I want to see, but we have to start somewhere.

rockSlayer ,

I recommend Pride at Work, an organization within the AFL-CIO to help organize LGBT+ workers and advise unions and locals on being more representative for their queer comrades

rockSlayer ,

The image is in fact CGI, but yes there are several viruses known as bacteriophages that look like this.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/T4_phage_EM.jpg

Trying to find this confirmed electromagnetic scan of this phage led me down a truly fascinating rabbit hole about antibacterial phage therapy, taxonomy, and more. Let your curiosity take the better of you on Wikipedia

rockSlayer ,

I just use the latest version of Firefox. You can edit PDFs easier than anything else I’ve tried in the past

rockSlayer ,

There’s a Hamas headquarters under the IRS

rockSlayer ,

Don’t worry friend, there has never once been a unique idea. On the other hand though, there are millions at any given time that have not heard about something major. You made people’s day a little better, even if you didn’t wholly invent the thought

Two more US officials resign over Biden administration’s position on Gaza war (www.theguardian.com)

Alexander Smith, a contractor for the US Agency for International Development (USAID), said he was given a choice between resignation and dismissal after preparing a presentation on maternal and child mortality among Palestinians, which was cancelled at the last minute by USAID leadership last week....

rockSlayer ,

Gentle reminder that USAID is essentially another branch of the CIA.

rockSlayer ,

Can we start developing the mrna vaccine for this now before it becomes a problem?

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