I have so many questions. Like, for instance, do you think being in debt to a money lender means you're not poor or something?
the threat of poverty from nature itself
The threat of poverty comes from society. Or are you under the impression that fucking bears are the ones who will be beating your ass for failing to make rent, or for camping in a city park.
The credentialism is overwhelmingly about classism, so if you make university free, that part becomes a totally different beast. That BSc is no longer a sign that you come from wealth (or are willing to indenture yourself to employers to LARP it), so it becomes less of an issue.
It also addresses the "one or two classes" issue.
The scheduling thing can be fixed by restructuring work. There's no good reason work needs to take up a contiguous block of time each day nor why it needs to take up 1/2 of the waking day.
Chips (or crisps) don’t seem to exist anywhere but grocery/convenience stores.
That... that's normal, right? That's where chips are supposed to come from.
Like, I have been to a restaurant or two that had "chips" on the menu, usually as "fish and chips" or some other battered and fried stick of meat "and chips" where, to my supreme bewilderment, the side was a pile of Lays, but, like, those restaurants were universally run by geriatrics in the middle of nowhere, served food on paper plates, and where wrong.
A man who grabbed our concept of a centralized internet by the balls and squeezed it so hard that the Lemmy’s user count 65xed in a 3 months period. Thank you for your service
President Joe Biden on Tuesday joined a picket line with striking autoworkers in Michigan, supporting their call for a 40% pay raise and saying they deserve a “lot more” than they are getting....
It would, absolutely, but it still means a whole lot.
It's a recognition by a slick, seasoned, career politician in the highest office in his country that the winds are shifting with respect to the labour movement.
Don't think of this as Biden expressing any deeply held belief. Don't think of anything he does in those terms. The Democrats in general, and Biden especially, are a mirror that reflects something meaningful about the socio-political environment. Just as Trump and the Republicans are.
He and his team believe that something in that environment has shifted, and that labour is poised to be ok the winning side of that shift.
Farmers should have known it was a scam when the board wasn't broken up, just privatized. "Oh yes, you can now sell to anyone! But the market is now dominated by this private quasi-monopoly..."
I mean, they also should have known that competition wasn't going to meaningfully increase the prices they were getting, since grain buyers are middle-men, but people in general have a hard time learning from outside contexts.
Two thumbs up dev(s), hope you’re doing okay and getting some sleep in between. Had some rough production upgrades in my life, and this sounds like a pretty bad one. 😖
That's a shame. As an end user, it's a really nice experience, but running my own private instance I kept running into issues that just made it really difficult to keep it online, especially once life started to put a lot of pressure on my time and mental health.
One thing I've noticed about a lot of small FOSS projects is that they do very little to actually educate potential users on how to use their stuff. The underlying motivator is often to provide alternatives to existing products, but they fall down entirely when it comes to actually making those alternatives usable for the users of the things they're trying to provide alternatives for.
The big ones get big by creating their audience. The small ones look for the small intersection of people who use the mainstream product, care about open source, and also are fluent enough in that world that they already know what to do to make things work, and that pool of users often doesn't reach any kind of critical mass.
A lot of new Fediverse projects, too, misidentify who their audience is. Calckey has a really good UX (most of the time), and I had zero issues as just an account user on Calc's server, but the support for would-be admins is... A chat room, and documentation that is half so far out of date that some of it is in Japanese.
That's not going to grow the presence. That doesn't get new instances online. That doesn't get an ecosystem with good moderators and admins. That doesn't get the infrastructure in place - technical and social - to truly take off.
President Joe Biden is set to join members of the United Auto Workers union Tuesday in Wayne County, Michigan, walking the picket line on the eve of a visit from former President Donald Trump....
They need to be won back over, and the way you do that is basically the same way Trump did in the first place: by making them feel seen, supported, and important.
VR continues to make more sense as an arcade-like attraction than as a consumer product.
Except for the part where I would have to wear a headset that 5000 other people have also worn. (And except for the VR sickness that, it turns out, I'm very sensitive to).
CD Projekt Red reveals that all Cyberpunk 2077 mods have now been disabled with the release of both 2.0 and Phantom Liberty, leaving many split on the decision.
Meanwhile, capitalism not only reliably devolves into dictatorships of the wealthy, but also dictatorships of whichever caste or ethnic group manages to rise to political dominance.
Or do you think the consistent and aggressive disenfranchisement of people of colour is just democracy in action or something?
“If you want me back, you value me,” Sucher told Insider.
Wow, I know business schools are filled with out of touch simps for the ownership class, but I still wasn't prepared for this line.
Like, what was the message that was sent with the layoff? And how does it colour the interpretation of everything else? What good is being "valued" by the ownership class today when it means absolutely nothing for you tomorrow?
It speaks volumes, really, that she thinks being valued by a business - whose goals are explicitly to siphon wealth that workers create into the hands of owners - is something we should feel good about.
“Laid off” has always been a euphemism for “fired.”
Not in communities where seasonal labour is a significant part of the local economy. There, 'laid off' often comes with the implicit "temporary" modifier, while 'fired' does not. And while tech work is not usually seasonal employment, if you grew up in an area where seasonal employment is common, the distinction kind of stick with you.
So ultimately, it's about the union, and the celebrities are a key way the union leverages its members to get game studios to sign union contracts.
If studios want the big celebrity actor to say 5 or 6 lines in its game, then they need to sign with SAG-AFTRA, and that means accepting some rather strict restrictions on hiring on-union VAs for the other rolls.
Not my OC but what I’ve believed for years: there’s no conflict between reducing your own environmental impact and holding corporations responsible. We hold corps responsible for the environment by creating a societal ethos of environmental responsibility that forces corporations to serve the people’s needs or go bankrupt...
The flip side of this, is, of course, that voting with your wallet means that people with bigger wallets get more votes, and that results in the rich always getting their way.
The All-Feed is very important to increase the content-quality of the threadiverse and therefore, ensure its existense. However, for smaller instances, there is only limited reason to put the All-Feed prominent in their UI, because their posts will never be present there. However, if they push people toward their the Local-Feed...
Honestly, the problem with discovery is not that there are not enough posts in a single timeline. Merging local and global feeds makes discoverability worse on Lemmy and kbin, not better, because the timelines display posts, while the space is organized by communities. This means that smaller or niche communities just drown seas of posts from large or highly active ones.
If you want a real "exploration" timeline, you need one that limits the number of posts from any given community. And that still seems like it's well served by local/global splits, because the website you join should be meaningful.
We do not need, nor should we want, a network of "dumb terminal" Fediverse sites. We should be aiming for the local stream to be the big selling point for any given instance, with the ability to interact with remote communities being a value-add. A merged timeline kills local identity, and tells users that their hosting website is a 2nd class citizen in the Fediverse.
Raspberry Pi - Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5 (www.raspberrypi.com)
Jeff Geerling: "Raspberry Pi 5: Everything you need to know" (www.youtube.com)
Philosophy Cop (existentialcomics.com)
existentialcomics.com/comic/513
New rule will cut federal money to college programs that leave grads with high debt, low pay (apnews.com)
A rage comic poking fun at the Aussies. Does it still hold up? (startrek.website)
A moment of appreciation for a man who is undoubtedly the world's most successful promoter of Lemmy and the fediverse (lemmy.ml)
A man who grabbed our concept of a centralized internet by the balls and squeezed it so hard that the Lemmy’s user count 65xed in a 3 months period. Thank you for your service
Racism from Tankie Admin and future Lemmy Developer about how the opinion of certain ethnicities in China doesn't matter (sh.itjust.works)
Biden says UAW should fight for 40% pay raise in Michigan strike visit (www.reuters.com)
President Joe Biden on Tuesday joined a picket line with striking autoworkers in Michigan, supporting their call for a 40% pay raise and saying they deserve a “lot more” than they are getting....
Government to review $8B takeover of Canadian-based grain-handling firm Viterra (www.cbc.ca)
The federal government says it plans to review the $8-billion sale of Canadian-based grain-handling firm Viterra to a European-based conglomerate.
As of right now, firefish.social has been down for nearly 2 days upgrading and changing databases, as their data migration is taking longer than expected. 🤞 (lemmy.world)
Two thumbs up dev(s), hope you’re doing okay and getting some sleep in between. Had some rough production upgrades in my life, and this sounds like a pretty bad one. 😖
We all look great now. Very uniform-ready. (startrek.website)
Biden makes a historic trip to Michigan to walk the picket line to show solidarity with striking UAW -- and counter Trump (www.cnn.com)
President Joe Biden is set to join members of the United Auto Workers union Tuesday in Wayne County, Michigan, walking the picket line on the eve of a visit from former President Donald Trump....
VR still makes 40-70% of players want to throw up, and that's a huge problem for the companies behind it (www.pcgamer.com)
Why virtual reality makes a lot of us sick, and what we can do about it.
All your favorite Cyberpunk 2077 mods are disabled in Phantom Liberty, CDPR says (www.pcgamesn.com)
CD Projekt Red reveals that all Cyberpunk 2077 mods have now been disabled with the release of both 2.0 and Phantom Liberty, leaving many split on the decision.
Not sure how the girl's skin tone is relevant, but apart from that... (lemmy.ml)
Meta and Salesforce are looking to rehire some workers they just laid off. It's putting those people in an awkward spot. (www.businessinsider.com)
It’s not the call you’d expect to get: The company that laid you off wants you back....
SAG-AFTRA Pushes For Another Video Game Strike (insider-gaming.com)
SAG-AFTRA is now targeting the gaming industry, pushing for strike action in a bid to secure better compensation for 'gaming performers'.
we shouldn't promote individual responsibility *instead* of corporate accountability. we should promote individual responsibility *because it leads to* corporate accountability (slrpnk.net)
Not my OC but what I’ve believed for years: there’s no conflict between reducing your own environmental impact and holding corporations responsible. We hold corps responsible for the environment by creating a societal ethos of environmental responsibility that forces corporations to serve the people’s needs or go bankrupt...
It would be less dramatic though (startrek.website)
We need a new Explore-Feed (similar to Mastodon), which consolidates the All- and Local-Feed (lemmy.world)
The All-Feed is very important to increase the content-quality of the threadiverse and therefore, ensure its existense. However, for smaller instances, there is only limited reason to put the All-Feed prominent in their UI, because their posts will never be present there. However, if they push people toward their the Local-Feed...