Jayjader

joined 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Some choice excerpts:

Problems arose immediately for the A-TEAM nationwide. In California's Salinas Valley, 200 teenagers from New Mexico, Kansas and Wyoming quit after just two weeks on the job. "We worked three days and all of us are broke," the Associated Press quoted one teen as saying. Students elsewhere staged strikes. At the end, the A-TEAM was considered a giant failure and was never tried again.

"These [high school students] had the words and whiteness to say what they were feeling and could act out in a way that Mexican-Americans who had been living this way for decades simply didn't have the power or space for the American public to listen to them," [Stony Brook University history professor Lori A. Flores] says. "The students dropped out because the conditions were so atrocious, and the growers weren't able to mask that up."

She says the A-TEAM "reveals a very important reality: It's not about work ethic [for undocumented workers]. It's about [the fact] that this labor is not meant to be done under such bad conditions and bad wages."

And what one dude who went through the program as a 17 year old has to say about it now:

But he says the experience also taught them empathy toward immigrant workers that Carter says the rest of the country should learn, especially during these times.

"There's nothing you can say to us that [migrant laborers] are rapists or they're lazy," he says. "We know the work they do. And they do it all their lives, not just one summer for a couple of months. And they raise their families on it. Anyone ever talks bad on them, I always think, 'Keep talking, buddy, because I know what the real deal is.' "

My reading is that it failed because there was no political will to actually provide for local-born farmers any more than immigrants. And as such, it was doomed to fail from the start.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Call me naive, but it seems to me that if everyone was pitching in for a season of farm work, less people overall would be doing 8/15/etc consecutive years and getting their bodies destroyed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In my ideal world, the population would be sufficiently educated about nutrition in fruit and vegetables that picture-perfect tomatoes that are picked unripe so that they survive long distance hauling would simply never sell.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

the police say they are targeting the criminals responsible but cannot "arrest their way out of the problem". They also say manufacturers and tech firms have a bigger role to play.

Even though I fully expect the police here aren't doing as much as they could (I mean come on, are they expecting phones to come with wiimote hand straps?) , I'm at least glad their public rhetoric is that they can't "arrest their way out of the problem".

I imagine that's poor compensation when you've just had your phone snatched, however.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

As we have seen in months past when Linux takes a sizable dip, it’s correlated to a rise in the Simplified Chinese use. In August the Simplified Chinese use further grew and helping out Windows at the cost to the Linux percentage.

So, the solution is clear: get all Simplified Chinese users to switch from Windows to Linux :D

 

cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/10083697

Haven't bought the game yet, but these instructions seem legit. I found this link in a ProtonDB comment who claims to be its author/hoster: https://www.protondb.com/app/1934680#WRxwBwtv-Y.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

We also added the ability to pin the resource patch, and the count of remaining ore will update as the patch is mined. You can use this to keep an eye on how things are going, and be aware when a patch is running dry.

Yet another great mod transcending its mod status to be assimilated into the base game!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

1950

Given they were still serving wine in school cafeterias until 1956 (and in highschool until 1981) I'm not surprised this man was not prepared for the taste of Coca-Cola ™ !

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

making sure everyone is okay.

Given the current state of the world, that would be progress.

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

Get off of .world if you want to see a difference.

The size of that instance almost guarantees these kinds of dynamics will emerge, especially on a website run by volunteers and paid for by donations.

Stop complaining to other users; go be the change you wish to see.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Silence is nice.

It also allows e2e encryption with other Silence users by exchanging keys via SMS.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Comme by [email protected] !

Je pense qu'on est moins nombreux mais on s'y amuse quand même.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

You're right, thanks for the correction

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