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davel, 27 days ago

No, it’s just about 4,700 km.

davel, 27 days ago

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, 27 days ago

This isn’t really anything new given that all commonly-used OSes will do IP over Thunderbolt.

davel, 27 days ago

It’s a pun: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism#Etymology

davel, 27 days ago (edited 23 days ago)

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, 28 days ago (edited 24 days ago)

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

davel, 28 days ago

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?