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by rexpop 3y ago
No, instead they sound gaslighty, dishonest, and manipulative. Is that less damaging to morale? Perhaps their employees are gullible or desperate enough to take these saccharine euphemisms at face value.
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by rexpop 3y ago
No, that's not the only alternative. Where did you come by this defeatist perspective? Another alternative is union representation to confront the firing before it happens.
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by rexpop 3y ago
Well, yes, and we can take this further to paying no one especially for his being in the right place and the right time to take credit for his community's investment in him.
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by rexpop 3y ago
Skill level? It's the same opportunity cost as any career.
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by rexpop 3y ago
Casual.
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by rexpop 3y ago
No point in giving cash to exploitative bosses who are burning you out. Just take yourselves next door and hang a new shingle.
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by rexpop 3y ago
But we haven't "digitized and automated blue collar work." Not by the a long shot. We've still got vast billions toiling in our service.
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by rexpop 3y ago
Unsustainable working conditions and compensation is already tanking the economy. I agree with you that work stoppages carry negative externalities, but we're not comparing it to a vacuum, we are comparing it to the, again, unsustainab
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by rexpop 3y ago
I don't understand this person's expectations: are their text groups gruff, pugnacious, sluggish, and terse?? What is even the point, then?
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by rexpop 3y ago
Nobody knows the value of AI.
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by rexpop 3y ago
> forces more than men were dictating things > one general smashed his telephone so that it could not be rescinded Seems like your "forces more than men" are actually just "more men." Arguably, though, you're
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by rexpop 3y ago
The author, Cory Doctorow, is 52 years old and when he italicizes "a new vibe " it's an understated "(sic)" analog, which is to say that he's consciously introducing the reader to a colloquialism of the pertin
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by rexpop 3y ago
"Islands of tyranny," was Chomsky's retort. He and Coase are both cited in Verso's 2019 People's Republic of Walmart which I haven't read, but is now pulling ahead of Stafford Beer on my nightstand.
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by rexpop 3y ago
Ah, of course. I always feel a bit stupid when I read assertions like "Henry Ford could run a socialistic enterprise" as though that weren't a contradiction in terms. The man was violently anti-worker. He publicly opposed the
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by rexpop 3y ago
> we have a basal ganglia which evolved from reptiles And do living reptiles, today, not also "have a basal ganglia which evolved from reptiles?" seems we've a name collision, here. Perhaps we should refer to our ancestors
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by rexpop 3y ago
Tossing a million such nets is a more fair comparison.
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by rexpop 3y ago
This is confusing because Ford was a fascist autocrat.
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by rexpop 3y ago
It's not non-violent if it's causing harm.
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by rexpop 3y ago
There are many social aspects to the "male" and "female" experience in society, it helps to separate those out from congenital physiology. For example, living as a woman often entails responsibilities of caregiving, hous
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by rexpop 3y ago
Many people have had bad trips on MDMA. I don't know where this reputation comes from, but it's common to have extremely intense and unpleasant emotions, sensations, or thoughts. Anxiety, agitation, muscle tension, sweating, and&#
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by rexpop 3y ago
It sounds like you're wielding "job marketplace bargaining power" and/or "structural strategic bargaining power" to pursue the same goals that unionized workers without those assets to leverage pursue via &quot
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by rexpop 3y ago
It's not lipids you should be worried about, it's emulsifiers: > celluloses, mono and diglycerides of fatty acids, modified starches, lecithins, carrageenans, phosphates, gums, and pectins. Some recent studies have indicated th
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by rexpop 3y ago
What claimed worldview?
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by rexpop 3y ago
The best and most helpful thing you could actually do would be to unionize, yourself, and engage in illegal sympathy strikes.
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by rexpop 3y ago
> One of the first things we discover in these [peer support] groups is that personal problems are political problems. There are no personal solutions at this time. There is only collective action for a collective solution. -- Carol Hani
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by rexpop 3y ago
Fine, "Infiniminer's revolutionary voxel engine."
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by rexpop 3y ago
> He’s like, ‘There’s a bug.’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah, we’ll fix it, but we’ve got other stuff going on.’ He’s like, ‘We have to call a red alert.’ So, jidoka[0]? 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomation
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by rexpop 3y ago
> One of the first things we discover in these [peer support] groups is that personal problems are political problems. There are no personal solutions at this time. There is only collective action for a collective solution. -- Carol Hani
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by rexpop 3y ago
Not to trivialize or dismiss the undeniable tragedy of your lived experience, but--yes, there is a neurological, and therefore chemical, component to trauma-induced depression. > If you get exposed to a lot of glucocorticoids, you'
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by rexpop 3y ago
What an absurdly facile perspective. While it's true that developers like Valve develop games only to take advantage of or exhibit new engine developments and Minecraft's revolutionary voxel engine likewise enabled a game that cou

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