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rockSlayer

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  • How do you decide on which news sources to read?

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  • 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

  • Some unions have staff which are also unionized and have experienced union-busting by those employing unions.

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

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

  • Taylor Swift Drove Nearly 338K People to Vote.gov With Kamala Harris Endorsement Post

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  • 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

  • Bar Talk [Twistwood Tales]

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  • Hey, I resemble those remarks

  • Missouri High Court Restores Abortion Measure to Ballot

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  • The index looks at how every congressional district voted in the past two presidential elections combined and compares it to the national average.

    Sounds like a poll to me. If you actually look at how the politics play out at the state level, it tells a different story.

  • Missouri High Court Restores Abortion Measure to Ballot

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  • Polls don't matter in this instance. Look at the state record, which shows a modest progressive lean on statewide and municipal politics and a moderate conservative lean on federal politics.

  • Missouri High Court Restores Abortion Measure to Ballot

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  • Missouri is more purple than people realize. They often vote against their own interests nationally, but locally they vote relatively progressive

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  • If you truly want to help him, give him a list of post-carceral support resources, a note stating that you're only willing to help more if he truly wants to change, and a small amount of money to get started.

    Make it clear in the letter that you don't want to see him in prison and that you know he's a better person than that. Do not bring up the falling out just yet in case he's willing to contact you for a real life change.

  • I feel seen...

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  • I'm pretty affordable as a friend, I'll be yours for $5. I'll even use it to share some ramen

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  • I don't know if this was true when they posted it, but conservation efforts are working! They're considered near threatened for their small habitat and endangered to give it protected status

  • What was the path like to your current career, and what parts would you recommend for or against another person following?

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  • This one starts back in high school:

    Have plans to enter West Point, build a military career, retire from the military at 50 and do civilian work for fun to pass the time. Get shot in the eye with a bb gun at 14, which ends all military aspirations. Pick the second choice college because they accepted me first with a scholarship. Go to college for physics, but listen to the guidance counselor about the 7 week intro web programming course. Drop out of physics and change major to computer science at the last possible second in the first semester of the first year. Continue to take various history courses throughout college that don't count to a history degree. Graduate and move back in with mom for the summer. Apply to relevant jobs for over a year without success, pick up some work in grocery stores in the meantime. Quit the hometown grocery store at the end of the summer after publicly confronting the store owner about threatening to illegally deduct from my paycheck. Move in with college roommate and friend in the big city while still applying for relevant work and working at Aldi. Work with a communist store manager and have political discussions with him during the George Floyd protests and COVID. Get hired into QA for a big video game company. Walk out with the others when a major sexual harassment lawsuit is filed against the company. Walk out again when the CEO is discovered to be complicit and enabling the harassers. Walk out and go on strike when workers get laid off. Start organizing a union. Win my union.

    I feel like I should have pursued my first choice college more, because it was a big 10 public college while the second choice was a private liberal arts college (take a guess which one was cheaper). By far the most rewarding thing in my career has been my part in winning the fight to organize my union. I didn't realize it then, but now it seems clear that my interests and actions throughout my life have led me to a career as an activist.

  • Trump and Harris agree on “no tax on tips.” They’re both wrong.

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  • Fuck tips. If you work, you should be getting a living wage, not hoping you score a $100 tip to scrape through the month. Tips are a wage subsidy for corporations.

  • Just got this message/survey from a Democratic PAC, who would you pick?

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  • AOC turns 35 right before the election, she's eligible. I think she'd be incredible. She knows how to energize people

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  • The image is in fact CGI, but yes there are several viruses known as bacteriophages that look like this.

    Trying to find this confirmed electromagnetic scan of this phage led me down a truly fascinating rabbit hole about antibacterial phage therapy, taxonomy, and more. Let your curiosity take the better of you on Wikipedia

  • The Pedants Club

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  • You should start going to meetings

  • Or we could do metric time

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  • It's accounted for just like any other leap year, add it to the end of a month as a universal holiday. Most calendar models make it July 29. It's also worth noting that this is actually 364 days, and a single day at the end of the year is a universal holiday.

    Edit: I think leap years should be at the end of the year too for simplicity.

  • Family Game Time [Field Explores]

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  • Gotta drop the skill level though so they don't get entirely sick of playing. Just enough where you'd never lose but keep them thinking they could win

  • Mozilla just ditched its privacy partner because its CEO is tied to data brokers

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  • People over profit generally seems to be the best business practice anyways