The new bill primarily clarifies rules that were a bit vague, but it also has new changes that will substantially improve life-work balance.

• ESST can be used in at least 15 minute increments and cannot be required to use more than four-hour increments
• Qualifying workers were expanded to people hired with an expectation of working 80 hours in a year, rather than actual hours worked. Some jobs still exempted
• ESST usage has expanded to bereavement
• ESST rules for use are expanded to all paid time off
• Employers that do not provide ESST must pay the worker for twice the amount they were supposed to get in ESST

Liberalism has failed. While it tried to somewhat remedy today's problems, it clearly wasn't enough. Especially with how much our corporate overlords outgrew even the past robber barons. The corporate social media, that were often used by anti-establishment activists, are often became extremely hostile to those, and instead boosted those that does take down the more liberal parts of the status quo. Liberals became more and more incompetent about trying to speak to the common people who do not understand economics to the same degree as they think.

Even we had our own issues. The former big names of "breadtube" often have had disappeared to Nebula and other platforms, where their videos are paywalled, thus reach a much smaller audience. While others do exist, they have been buried under the algorithm so far, and the far-right likes to antagonize politics in entertainment media, but only if that entrails leftist politics, thus some of us are holding back on it.

First if you haven't ditched Twitter yet, then what are you waiting for? Go get a Mastodon account, go to Bluesky (even if they're still corporate) instead, even if your VTuber oshi or favorite singer still haven't go any of there or got bored of them after a few days due to being way less addictive.

Secondly, unless you really live in a very isolated place, go outside, talk to people! Make real-life friends! You have been living in long time isolation that you have issues with opening up yet again? Seek help, either professionally or some other way if it's not available to you.

Third, take care of your body, don't let it go to waste. You might need it, if things go to south.

And lastly, we must stop taking the "moral high ground" every time. The right does not care. The right just uses it to gaslight us to hold certain positions, often to make us look worse, or to compromise our positions. Do not "cancel" your fellow comrades just to show "yeah, we are holding people accountable for their actions", just for that to be something said years ago or something similarly small stuff; this is both being used to hurt our movement by inciting infights, but to also show those wanting to leave the alt-right "why would you, they'll eventually backstab you", maybe instead we want to rehabilitate people as we always dreamed what justice should be. But also do not concede your positions on minorities: the "ineffective" liberal party that preceded Fidesz tried to slowly concede on Roma issues due to the damage the far-right did between 2006 and 2010 to anti-racism, then Ferenc Gyurcsány's (Hungarian prime minister between 2004 and 2008) current party doubled down on slowly abandoning some LGBTQ+ issues, while being barely more than a shitty social democrat party. Meanwhile Szikra, an unashamedly populist and libertarian-leftist party, is unstoppable.

Take your time to rest. Whether you expected or not, a punch still hurts. But we can't rest forever.

It seems like now is a good time to have a conversation about finding common ground between the various factions of left/progressive folks. I know this isn't a new topic but maybe it's worth revisiting.

What are the sticking points and what can we all agree on in the context of current-day politics?

Adding some things I think any leftist should be able to agree on:

• Capitalism has been a strong negative influence on human existence

• People who look, act and live differently from you deserve exactly the same human rights as you, even if they make you uncomfortable

• Health care, food, water, and housing are human rights

She makes a lot of great points.

Her statement:

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The liberal tries to become an arbitrator, but he is incapable of solving the problems.

Banned from a politics sub for not accepting that killing innocent people is reasonable. Fuck this shitty place.

I asked them to clarify what Dems were conserving.

Wikipedia: Right-wing politics is the range of political ideologies that view certain social orders and hierarchies as inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable…

They didn't confirm that Dems are conserving 'certain social orders and hierarchies'. Did they not confirm that because they'd immediately show themselves to be wrong? Or am I just so clueless about what right wing politics is that I am not worth educating?

The tyranny of the cloud: how we became serfs to big tech

https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2024/10/the-tyranny-of-the-cloud-how-we-became-serfs-to-big-tech/

@leftism

Long but so many great points!

alt-text for thumbnail embed: text saying “law is harm” and then a smaller “fuck cops & judges”, next to a trans flag with half of it covered by the black anarchist triangle. This is all over a 2d digital art wooden background.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20641619

> [Excerpt on #Gaza: "If you really care about Gaza, vote to have a voice, so you can do something about it. And then, be ready to turn out into the streets, in the millions, and fight for it."] > > Mark Hertsgaard > Mon 23 Sep 2024 06.00 EDT

Looking to compile a list of good leftist news sites and sources. Thank you.

Just a warning: if you're not used to TMR, you will have to deal with Sam interrupting the video multiple times to give commentary.