Bartsbigbugbag

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I lost my paid sick leave in one of these mandated sick time states, and because I had PTO that was deemed acceptable. I lost dozens of hours worth of paid time off, and now have to make up missed shifts on the weekend or risk getting written up. Oh, and now we can’t request time off without being physically in the building, so even if I wanted to use my limited PTO for sick time, I literally can’t unless I plan ahead my sickness.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Maybe don’t gaslight people and they wouldn’t respond by assuming everything is more gaslighting.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It doesn’t work, and it’s not different than those posts you would see on Facebook back in the day “I don’t give Facebook permission to use my photos.”

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Cruise ships are so gross, and so are people who go on them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

No but they’re taking it to repair shops who then find that they can’t recover their customers data because it’s encrypted and then they lose al their photos and data they never backed up, because they’re not tech-savvy.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Launch was scrubbed. Again. This time two hours before launch. Privatization of space travel is working out of so well.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Obligatory Library Socialism Link: https://librarysocialism.org/

In the simplest terms, the right of usufruct means you can use things, but you cannot deny them to others when you're not using them, and you do not have the right to destroy them to prevent others from using them. So, for example, the farmer is welcome to grow crops on a given plot of land - but if they choose not to, somebody else can use the land.

Given this, it's easy to see that this principle already exists in public libraries. You can borrow a book to help you start a business, but you can't prevent others from reading it after you - or threaten to destroy the book unless you receive the profits of the next reader's business. You can hold the book exclusively (of other library patrons), but only temporarily.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Libraries of things should be state run and free at point of use. They should also be integrated into communities in a way that makes them easy to access. Instead of everyone having a lawn mower, you check out an electric mower once a week, on a date that you’ve reserved it, and the entire community uses it, or if in a large community, your immediate neighbors use it, and then it’s returned for the next people to use it.

Libraries of things should not only be for things you use once a year. They should be for just about everything that you don’t use every day.

Usafruct >>>>>> UsusFructisAbusus.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Nationalize all major industries and confiscate all wealth of billionaires. rewrite the US constitution to guarantee adequate food, water, shelter, and medical care to all citizens and to guarantee the right to high speed rail and electrified public transport to all citizens, codify a progressive tax system right into it, remove the ability for any private money in elections, establish mandatory workplace democracy in all public and private companies, and require that no more than 2% of gdp can go to the military, also include an usafrucfian property rights system in it with mechanisms for confiscation of land not being used for the public good. arrest all those who have publicly stated they want to privatize any public service including schools, those who have ever fought the unionization of their workers, and sentence them to 20 years of re-education and labor. Dismantle the Supreme Court and replace it with an elected body of officials subject to recall by the public. Hopefully I’d have some time before the 24 hours to prepare.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Not with bullets, but they’ve been shot in the head with rubber bullets.

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