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[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I like to find news sources that analyze the story as well as explains where it fits into the ongoing situation, why it's relevant, and has a reasonably accurate history of predictions based on their analysis. Since this is rare, I try to find a source that has 3 of the 4 to make it part of my news consumption. So this tends to include Democracy Now!, Some More News, Last Week Tonight, Beau of the Fifth Column, AP, and the like. A lot of the sources shared on lemmy, bar the NYT, are in that category

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

The NEA is peak business union. There are movements to democratize the union though. It's happening in most unions lately

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

This is a good basic starter, but there's so much more that can be done for efficiency and further reducing your impact while owning a house. These are a few off the top of my head:

  • Installing high efficiency windows and doors
  • Keep/add the mud room
  • Add better insulation
  • If you're in the middle of a remodel, check for water distribution efficiency
  • Grow a small hydroponic garden for your most commonly eaten veggies
  • They're currently pretty rare, but adding a recycling water shower
  • Battery assisted fridges and stoves (there's a healthy dose of nuance between this and home battery backups)
  • Form a community microgrid
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They have a debian based version, it's pretty awesome. It's still a beta fork atm, but it's rock solid so far

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 days ago

Factory farming should be banned. Food is not worth that cruelty, even if the fires have nothing to do with the farm itself.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Having lived in a house with radiators, bleeding registers is like a once every 5 years type of task. There's a much larger leak in the system, you should talk to your apartment manager.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (7 children)

I have a friend that likes it well done. I cook it to medium well because I love them

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago

That's a hell of a way to learn you have crabs

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

Still a drop in the bucket, but these are fine numbers I can get behind

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I know some of the union leaders at UPW, including one of the Paizo writers that may have worked on the starter adventure (I don't know for certain). They're incredibly passionate about their work, and honestly would understand your frustrations about capitalism. They likely pushed to make as much as possible free, so folks in your position would still be able to share the joy of their work even if they can't afford the starter adventure.

I know none of this will make your frustration go away, but I hope you know that they didn't do it out of malice.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 6 days ago (3 children)

It's not so much a special capacity of swifties, but that they're probably the only large unified bloc anywhere on the electoral left. I like them because they're a large enough group of progressive liberals to prove that a unified front is absolutely effective

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago

Hey, I resemble those remarks

 

We all know that the Communists Have the Music, but there's a problem that I don't believe is talked about enough. It's an unfortunate reality that music meant to carry leftist messages are not mainstream and therefore hard to find if you don't know where to look. I also have a vast collection of music I think should be shared far and wide. This has led me to create [email protected] so these songs can be more readily found and shared. Come by and share some songs you know!

 

Ok so I got this idea not while showering, but because I'm very high. The story does come from my bathroom though! I have a night light in my bathroom, and I was looking at the night light as I turned off the bathroom light. I'm a big nerd so I remembered that the things that detect light levels are actually diodes wired in reverse. I thought it would be funny to make it flicker by reflecting the light back on the diode, but it didn't work. That's when I had this realization

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Hmmm (lemmy.world)
 
 

It's still Black History Month, so I wanted to share this older video from SMN. MLK was a black christian socialist, and this video covers how and why Martin Luther King JR has been whitewashed of his radical messaging.

 

To kick off Black History Month, I wanted to share my favorite interview of Prof. Davis about her activism in the Black Panthers and at college, being a political prisoner, and why she joined CPUSA. My all-time favorite quote from her is in this interview:

It was important at that time that we recognize that we could be victorious. We were not simply targets of repression, but that we were active historical agents that could set an agenda, fight for that agenda, and win.

 

Dr. Wolff gives a historical analysis of the different political choices when workers had a lot power due to different crises caused by Capitalism.

 

Have you been wanting to unionize at work? Are you concerned about union busting disrupting your organizing efforts? Well then this website will be invaluable to you. CWA is a bottom-up, worker led union. Ever since the PATCO strike made unions afraid of striking, CWA alone has basically kept the idea of striking alive in the US. As an effort to modernize their definition of communication, CWA has created this playbook to prepare you and your coworkers against the insidious and misleading language union busters use to destroy your campaign.

It wasn't until 2020 came around and we regained our voice before things changed in favor of organized labor. Even with companies violently affecting workers with layoffs, now's the time to organize. As the saying goes, the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time is now. As a tech worker myself, the knowledge that there wasn't a single union member laid off at Activision Blizzard should be sign enough that unions provide job security.

 

I refuse to link to that hellsite, so I did folks a favor and took a screenshot.

For those that don't know, CODE-CWA is the Campaign to Organize Digital Employees, ran by the bottom-up international union Communication Workers of America. Microsoft had previously signed a card-check labor neutrality agreement with CWA, as the ABK Workers Alliance is actively coordinating with CODE

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Anarchy - Errico Malatesta (theanarchistlibrary.org)
 

There weren't any videos today that I found especially interesting, so here's the full text of the public domain book "Anarchy", distributed by the Anarchist Library. It's not especially long, I'd say it's about an hour long read at most. Give it a read and feel free to discuss!

 
 

It's ok to laugh at ourselves here and there.

explaining the joke

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