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   casey is remote (realcaseyrollins@noauthority.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2024 14:19:26 JST casey is remote

   "Never surrender" is pretty stupid messaging to put out when you're ostensibly going to be sentenced to jail time.

   In any case, #Trump is going to have a press conference soon:

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h87kx-t4vvw

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   AnthonyJK-Admin (anthonyjk@mastodon.redgarterclub.com)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 09:43:24 JST AnthonyJK-Admin

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   It looks better for me getting my benefits restored than it ever did inm a very long time.

   In the meantime, though, I still have no income and lots of bills and expenses, my rent which comes due next Tuesday, a myriad of bills, and the major critical utility bills that come in the final week of May.

   I still would like to raise $2,000 total by next week to have enough to clear all these expenses.

   You have been so helpful to me throughout this time. Please, keep the intensity! Thank you!!

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   Jacek Wesołowski (jzillw@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 20:51:32 JST Jacek Wesołowski

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   @cstross I remember around 1991 I had this recurring thought that in the year 2020 I was going to be 40 years old. It scared the hell out of me at the time.

   In retrospect, I was right, but then also I wouldn't want to be 11 again either.

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   carl marks (tillshadeisgone@blackqueer.life)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 20:43:06 JST carl marks

   I still remember the moment I realized how many adults are gainfully employed specifically to lie. At the time, we were doing a sit-in at my college to protest their handling of sexual misconduct and the college president was not handling it well.

   In the big policy shift that followed, I realized that the college president's job was not actually running the college, it was largely a PR position. Furthermore, as I watched the president and the college administration spin the whole situation to minimize damage to the college's reputation while also trying to reduce student voice in school policy as much as possible while pretending they were doing the opposite, something clicked for me.

   Their jobs were to make the college look good, and to do whatever was necessary to accomplish that goal. Not to take care of the students, not to provide as good of an education as possible, but to protect the institution at all costs. In retrospect it seems obvious, but it was a big shift in thinking for me at the time.

   In this specific example, that looked like making a bunch of policy changes that looked good on paper but were mostly temporary ("subject to further review" is the operative phrase) and then wait for the students who organized the protest to graduate and then roll things back, gradually removing student voice from the policy work and firing the staff they had hired to placate said students. Some vestiges remain of our work, but much has been lost in the years since.

   It was a dramatic reveal for me personally, and I'll never forget that moment of realization. Nowadays I am fully aware that anyone whose job position includes PR (spokespeople, folks with media training, CEOs, etc) is someone who is paid to lie. That's literally their job. Accuracy/truth doesn't factor into it.

   The recent blatant lies of the Google spokespeople about collaboration with the Israel Defense Ministry reminded me of this. It's wild to me how many people will take these liars at their word as if their entire role isn't premised on distorting the truth and protecting the powerful. I think it's important to keep this in mind.

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   HeavenlyPossum (heavenlypossum@kolektiva.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 00:06:27 JST HeavenlyPossum

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   One major difference between these two labor markets that could explain this discrepancy is in their differing levels of labor organization. In Denmark, about 70% of workers belong to labor unions, which are so large that they can bargain not just with individual firms but *sectorally,* setting wages and working conditions for entire sectors of the economy at a time.

   In contrast, only about 11% of US workers are unionized—and only about 6% of private sector workers, down from about 35% during the 1930s. As I discussed last time, divided and atomized workers, forced to bargain one-by-one, lack the power to negotiate for wages that their unionized peers do.

   We could imagine US workers unionized at the same rate as their Danish counterparts and collectively bargaining for an *effective* minimum wage that is dramatically higher than their *statutory* minimum wage. Maybe the lowest collectively bargained wage would be $16 or $18 or even higher.

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   🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Thursday, 12-Oct-2023 12:13:54 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

   Another interesting fact about #Israel ... There is no historical evidence that a kingdom of Israel in anctient times **ever** actually existed. In fact most non-religious scholars feel that it either didnt exist or at the very least the writings about it were first written long long after it may have existed. This is evident because of countless anachronisms that we know couldnt be historically accurate (as they didnt exist yet for the time period)... so scholars have been able to reasonably conclude the account in the bible was in all likelihood made up at a later time.

   In short, #Israel 's entire claim of it being an "ancient ancestral land" is based entirely on the bible and not accepted as historical fact by historians...

   Yet again people kill for their gods, gods who tell them the first rule is not to kill.
   QT: https://qoto.org/@freemo/111211544809488960