… really? They’re still being fought in the courts. Like, what the fuck commentary is this? “What about the thing you’ve been trying to do this whole time?” Yeah, they’re still doing that.

Did you consider that Microsoft lawyers said prices wouldn’t go up? Cause they did, they did say that, which is why the merger was approved. Do you think lawyers can just lie? Don’t you think it’s much more fair now that companies can make pinky promises that prices won’t go up before they become more monopolistic. That’s just good business for both customers and businesses /s

Hey. You’re the one shoveling disheartening shit, not me. Pretending a general strike would be easy here in the states is one of the other reasons why it’s so fucking hard to do. Every time someone half-asses one, people buy into the hype, and then nothing happens makes it less likely for an actual general strike to happen. It’s a logistical nightmare that could only work if you got unions to buy-in, and that would require coordinating contract expirations to coincide around the time you want the strike to happen, since unions in the states can’t legally go on a solidarity strike. I’m definitely not saying it’s impossible, but crying that it’s actually really easy and the fact that America hasn’t done it is because we all actually like the taste of boot is the actual demotivating opinion to shovel.

Refuse? This was called by unions. In the US, that kind of union activity is illegal. What system do you think we can use in the US to call for a general strike that enough people would 1) be aware of the strike 2) agree with the need for a strike and 3) be able to participate without harming their livelihoods? Cause in Greece, the answer for all three was unions. Here in the states… I don’t know if anything is setup for that. Even reaching enough people to begin with would be tough.

Like, be rightly angry at the laws in the US that make this nigh impossible, maybe raise awareness, but don’t blame the damn victims.

… if your mouth is healthy, neither of these things hurt or bleed. The “shiv” is used to measure the pull away happening between your gums and teeth. If you brush/floss regularly, that gap will be small and not inflamed so it won’t hurt or bleed. Likewise with flossing, your mouth is bleeding because it’s fighting off an active infection in the gum tissue. If you flossed enough, there wouldn’t be an infection there to fight and no bleeding would occur.

Betraying my country? I’m saving it from this woke mind virus trying to overthrow the people’s will! /s

Democrats don’t run progressives because progressives are bad for fundraising. The powers that be (the wealth elite) like to be able to rob our coffers at their leisure, so they won’t give money to candidates that might turn off (or even slow down) the tap of our resources.

It’s so fucking stupid that Jan 6 was a cut-and-dried insurrection, that the 14th amendment should obviously bar Trump from office, and yet it might be better, politically speaking, to let him run anyway. All because there’s a giant segment of the population that receives all their news information from sources that scrub it for anything politically detrimental to their party/ point of view.

I fucking hate it here. Fuck Nixon and Reagan, giant pieces of shit, for bringing this horrible reality to us.

I see Merlin, I upvote Merlin

Hold a stamp in an AI generated hellscape?

Unus Annus

I mean, that’s my experience but I’m neurodivergent. My understanding is that that isn’t the norm for the allistic crowd.

I love the optimism. I can muster it sometimes. But it really does feel like they’re not playing by the rules anymore. They’d just make it not work for anyone outside their team. Anyone can logic their way to any conclusion, honestly, if they’re clever enough. And that’s, like, a job requirement. I think, we’ve already seen it a few times now.

“Well, actually, an ‘Officer’ in this context is an unelected representative. And since there’s no direct line for the President, they must’ve meant to exempt that office implicitly (even though that would really need an explicit exemption) so we’re going to side with Trump”

Danny Devito on a Giant* Burrito

Yeah, it won’t. It’ll be during one of the Artemis missions, which is a NASA run mission.

Those rule changes were made AFTER a lot of growing union attempts started growing. It’s mostly labor wins, with Biden Admin making those wins easier to protect/achieve.

Alternative title: American Corporations rail that they can’t rampage, unchecked, across the entire globe like they can in America. They whine about this publicly to their paid lackeys the government.

Since earlier than that. According to my notes it’s… well… okay, I’ll admit that this book is just nothing but “Fuck Thatcher and Reagan” over and over again, but we’ve been on this particular ride since the 80s. I would really like it to stop.