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by marcod 5y ago
Also, in "right-to-work" states, you do not HAVE to pay union dues, i.e. Alabama.
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by marcod 6y ago
Mirror https://web.archive.org/web/20210401101221/https://www.nntp.... (getting a 503 from the original)
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by marcod 6y ago
I'd like to point out that there are plenty of workers who don't believe Unions would be good for them... or they were "convinced" in some form. While it's obvious that the accounts were created by corporate you don
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by marcod 6y ago
I don't think it's a cult. (I've been out for 5 years) But if you want to keep your job, you don't speak out publicly ( https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/05/18/Fired-Amazon-Designer-Pun...
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by marcod 6y ago
If you tell your pediatrician you don't want to vaccinate your kids they might kick you out too. I don't think this is unique about Amazon's offering.
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by marcod 6y ago
https://amazon.care/ works fine for me.
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by marcod 6y ago
Also, look at that image https://storage.googleapis.com/afs-prod/media/1aad669348cc4c...
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by marcod 6y ago
"But now this has changed, so laws come." A few dozen women in a country of 8.5 million do not need a law, especially one that doesn't really do anything for the victims, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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by marcod 6y ago
My bad, I thought the anti electronic ID vote was also a referendum. Populist ideas, can easily thrive in a direct democracy.
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by marcod 6y ago
Well, that same system also voted on banning Muslim face coverings ("Experts estimate that at most a few dozen Muslim women wear full-face coverings in the country of 8.5 million people."), while a pandemic is going on and face co
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by marcod 6y ago
It's ok to take a walk with headphones.
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by marcod 6y ago
It's prefaced by Opinion, so I am assuming it's not really science-based :p
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by marcod 6y ago
This has a good breakdown of how it works https://redcanary.com/blog/clipping-silver-sparrows-wings/
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by marcod 6y ago
They should just relaunch it as ÜberCheats!
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by marcod 6y ago
I could totally see news orgs come crawling back to FB and ask them to put all the traffic back.
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by marcod 6y ago
You're first point is well taken looking back now. That being said, I didn't wait until my exit interview to raise hell, I mean, the alarm. I also put clear criticism into his upward manager review. I later found quotes from that
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by marcod 6y ago
Agreed, yes, conditions for workers have improved over the years. Being a good boss has become harder as the bar has been raised. Good.
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by marcod 6y ago
At one point I stopped being able to sleep on Sunday nights, dreading the work on Monday so much. Still took me way too long to put 2 and 2 together and leave...
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by marcod 6y ago
http://www.redstrategygroup.com/insights/2016/2/26/why-zappo...
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by marcod 6y ago
So true! I also lost about 2 years and my physical and mental health really deteriorated and 5 years later I'm still dealing with fallout. I was a manager under a toxic director, so I had the added pressure of making sure my team was a
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by marcod 6y ago
Q: What if you find yourself in a truly toxic work environment? A: My advice is to get out if you can. Toxic situations make you emotionally and physically sick. It can take years to recover. Have a good support network in place, li
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by marcod 6y ago
LOL https://www.americanforests.org/magazine/article/close-up-wi... I guess they have a few more pixels, so they can claim the "title" :p Also, don't shoot in yellow snow!
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by marcod 6y ago
FTFY: The moment the media makes a headline out of scientific research > Heavy social media use is associated with worse scores on all outcomes in girls age 14 and 17, but only worse wellbeing for boys at age 14. In a model controlling f
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by marcod 6y ago
Android version planned? love the idea!
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by marcod 6y ago
Wasn't there also a system developed that was really good at flagging radical content and proceeded to flag all the conservative posts? :p
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by marcod 6y ago
Parler was kicked out for refusing to take down violence inciting posts... Facebook on the other hand is doing the bare minimum :p
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by marcod 6y ago
They had 50+ concrete examples of calls for violence on parler that were reported to AWS. > AWS has rules. Also, "we're trying to have a f'ing society here"
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by marcod 6y ago
Yeah, I installed the wrong package initially ;)
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by marcod 6y ago
I'm sorry, but the intro of the article is wrong. Not anyone could edit the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Ford was researching earth for 15 years and an editor cut his submission down to "mostly harmless"... > ht
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by marcod 6y ago
Pinterest is web cancer. They steal pictures from other sites and then don't let you get back to the source.

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