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rockSlayer ,

I need my union contract before I can afford donating 😭

rockSlayer ,

People over profit generally seems to be the best business practice anyways

'Everyone in the World Needs to See This': Footage Shows IDF Drone Killing Gazans (www.commondreams.org)

Adding to the mountain of evidence that Israel is engaged in a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera on Thursday aired footage of what the news outlet reported was an Israeli drone targeting four Palestinians in Khan Younis last month....

rockSlayer ,

Jesus Christ. The last kid had nothing left to censor. If this doesn’t create action against Israel, every politician in the world is complicit.

rockSlayer ,

He feels entitled to their labor for free, simply because he thinks he deserves free labor.

rockSlayer ,

No one is entitled to free labor. We settled this issue 161 years ago.

rockSlayer ,

Are there any plans to modernize the plant? It will probably take billions to meet modern standards, but I’d imagine that it would be cheaper than building a new plant

rockSlayer ,

On the other hand though, the industry is rapidly unionizing to stop the problems you’re talking about

rockSlayer ,

Children are not receiving gender affirming surgery. That is a flat out lie. Hormone blockers are not irreversible, it’s literally in the name.

rockSlayer ,

Delayed puberty is still puberty. It’s not going to adversely affect a person’s life. However, going through the wrong puberty will irreversibly and greatly harm the health of a trans teen.

rockSlayer ,

Banning them only prevents children from receiving life saving care, like mastectomies to remove cancer.

rockSlayer ,

Dysphoria is not a universal trans experience, and dysphoria will go away when people can express the gender they identify as.

rockSlayer ,

Depending on the circumstances, surgery to excise cancer can be elective. Don’t even fight me on this one, my family has a history of elective surgery to remove cancer.

rockSlayer ,

Again, my family has had elective mastectomies to excise cancer. This is relevant, because these laws are in the same vein as “abortion is banned, except to save the life of a mother”. We’ve seen how that turns out.

rockSlayer ,

Dale Earnhardt has been co-opted into a leftwing figurehead, mostly just to piss off people on the right

rockSlayer ,

Cool, we can get even more screwed by groceries.

rockSlayer ,

I did read the article. You’re kidding yourself if you don’t think they’re immediately going to screw us over with this the moment they think they can get away with it.

rockSlayer ,

Oh look, another war crime. How many is that now?

rockSlayer ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8417a320-ef60-4ff0-aa57-4c6bb5052b58.png

rockSlayer ,

So we’re just going to believe the Israeli “this calendar is a Hamas names list” Defense force?

Lyft and Uber say they will leave Minneapolis after city council forces them to pay drivers more (apnews.com)

Lyft and Uber said they will cease operations in Minneapolis after the city’s council voted Thursday to override a mayoral veto and require that ride-hailing services increase driver wages to the equivalent of the local minimum wage of $15.57 an hour....

rockSlayer ,

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

Lyft and Uber say they will leave Minneapolis after city council forces them to pay drivers more (apnews.com)

Lyft and Uber said they will cease operations in Minneapolis after the city’s council voted Thursday to override a mayoral veto and require that ride-hailing services increase driver wages to the equivalent of the local minimum wage of $15.57 an hour....

rockSlayer ,

Well the living wage in the twin cities is roughly $23/hr while living alone with no kids, so it’s still a ways off. However, I actually hope they leave. Then metro transit has good reason to greatly expand the lightrail lines

rockSlayer ,

I’m an organizer, I’d gladly help gig drivers form a worker cooperative

rockSlayer ,

Yep, I know the CWAer that helped form the coop in Denver! Driver co-ops will become very popular as people realize they’re getting screwed by these companies

rockSlayer ,

Based on the edge of that cushion, I have some good news for you

rockSlayer ,

it actually requires years of extremism within a government for people to support things like this.

Florida teachers can discuss sexual orientation and gender ID under 'Don't Say Gay' bill settlement (apnews.com)

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Students and teachers will be able to speak freely about sexual orientation and gender identity in Florida classrooms, provided it’s not part of instruction, under a settlement reached Monday between Florida education officials and civil rights attorneys who had challenged a state law which critics...

rockSlayer ,

It’s going to be a wild ride for sex ed teachers. I imagine them seeding affirmations to lgbt students before they “officially start” their classes

rockSlayer ,

Lmao

rockSlayer ,

Only after they lay off the subcontracted QA department

rockSlayer , (edited )

I have a few personal reasons why we should be opposed to Tesla, and I’m almost certain that most of my reasons don’t overlap with justifications used by the radical activists.

  1. Tesla is gatekeeping their battery tech, which is objectively better than existing lithium battery cells. This means that everyone else is consuming more electricity than necessary simply so Tesla can make more profit.
  2. Lithium and cobalt are all but guaranteed to leech into the water during mining, recycling, and manufacturing. This will cause higher cancer rates and harm the surrounding environment.
  3. Lithium and cobalt are highly sought after metals, so our existing economic systems lead to extreme forms of exploitation and oppression in areas with a high amount of the mineral.
  4. Individual transportation does reduce emissions when it’s entirely electric, but it’s not the whole picture. Car-centric infrastructure is extremely inefficient for transporting people. The amounts of concrete, metal rebar, and plastic that goes into traveling by car will still be necessary if we just switch to EVs.

Edit: I fixed a couple points to be more accurate.

rockSlayer ,

Panasonic is being encouraged by Tesla to work with them to develop a proprietary lithium battery cell that has significant advantages over the 1865 cell. Not to mention the tech surrounding the cell, like thermal management and bms.

rockSlayer ,

You’re right. I was thinking of cobalt, a different essential element in battery production. However that doesn’t negate the facts on those points.

rockSlayer ,

Why is facebook’s grimace so horrifying?

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During a presentation by an executive with Google’s Israel branch on Monday, a Google Cloud engineer stood up and shouted, “I refuse to build technology that powers genocide or surveillance.” They were later fired.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/8/24094687/google-israel-project-nimbus-employee-fired

@news

rockSlayer ,

I have exactly 1 trick to get away with letting out your righteous anger at executives: become such a visible figure in collective action that there is no way the company could ever fire you without it being illegal retaliation. The trick is to become that visible while having plausible deniability about organizing

Michael Gove Suggests Pro-Palestinian Marchers to Scrutinize for Extremist Group Involvement (www.infoterkiniviral.com)

In a statement that has sparked debate and controversy, Michael Gove, a prominent British politician, has called on pro-Palestinian marchers to question the presence and influence of extremist groups within their protests. Gove’s remarks come amid heightened tensions and increased scrutiny surrounding demonstrations in support...

rockSlayer ,

The fascists scattered when they realized we just want Israel to stop their genocide, instead of flipping it around.

rockSlayer ,

Makes sense. If this were some kind of socialist revolution the US would have already intervened

rockSlayer ,

Yes, I definitely volunteered to get an interest free loan on my groceries. It absolutely had nothing to do with my inability to pay in full immediately

rockSlayer , (edited )

Personally, I think it would be easier for all involved to just fine based on a percentage of global annual revenue from the date of the violation to present. If they want personhood so bad, then they can have this too.

Edit for an example: let’s say Intel does anticompetitive behavior 15 years ago and a court case finds them liable for damages today. Add up the last 15 years worth of global revenue, and take a percentage of that.

rockSlayer ,

I get what you mean, but I prefer massive fines due immediately vs expensive and drawn out processes. Using my example, the very absolute bottom of the barrel Intel’s fine could be is a percentage of over $500B (Intel’s revenue in 2009 was $35B, multiplied by 15). Even at 1% based on this floor, the fine would be over $5B.

rockSlayer ,

This isn’t clickbait, this is a video version of a question posed in Randall Munroe’s book What If?: Scientific Answers to Absurd Questions

rockSlayer ,

This is more of a snapshot from what the US government would have done while settling land during manifest destiny if they had tanks.

rockSlayer ,

The settler-colonial hypothetical is more comparable to this atrocity than the Tiananmen Square massacre. Did you associate this with Tiananmen Square simply because of tanks?

rockSlayer ,

Between all the different conflicts since tanks were invented during WW1, it’s a more common occurrence than either of us know.

rockSlayer ,

Lebensraum was directly taken from the manifest destiny, and is clearly the idea behind the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank

rockSlayer ,

That bastard owes me $3.50 he’s hiding from me

rockSlayer ,

I have 3/7 and I hate it. I wish signal never removed the ability to function as sms

rockSlayer ,

That’s because Google is gatekeeping the android API for RCS

rockSlayer ,

Her plan is to be there as soon as Trump goes to prison to say “I’m here, not in prison, and I’m ready to run the country”.

Don’t mind the fact that project 2025 will be implemented with any Republican candidate.

rockSlayer ,

Wait what?

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