Part of the problem here is as unions get larger, their leadership gets more removed from the rank and file members and more integrated into larger political machines, namely the Democrats. So their decisions become more about keeping their place in those machines.
Also cannot be overstated the long-term effects of the purge of the more radical leaders in the labor movement during the early years of the Cold War.
“Disneytendo” adults are the ones who complain the most about this sort of shit from Nintendo. I don’t know where this idea that the Nintendo user base will hear no criticism of the infallible Miyamoto & co comes from.
Looks like they fed the AI generator the prompt “Jonesy from Fortnite but he’s a blond German ideal of an Aryan.”
When white people came to brown people countries, they brought slavery and cultural suppression. When brown people come to white people countries, they bring food that actually has flavor.
At some level, that these anti-“woke” g@mers are effectively apologizing for and distracting from the things that are actually a problem with the industry right now annoys me more than the bigotry. No no, don’t be complaining about microtransactions and live service and season pass models and paint-by-numbers hero shooters, the problem is woman with spunky hair cuts in vidya.
Honestly, I think this is just a personality thing. I knew people back in the 90’s who couldn’t fathom the idea of going out to have fun that didn’t involve doing it with a friend group.
Not to mention all the oversized trucks and SUVs driven by absolute chuds with no regard for pedestrian life.
I was being self-deprecating
Older millennial here: what are these “skills” you speak of?
more Ukrainian focus on mobilizing manpower, expanding its defense industry and building fortifications
Haven’t they been doing that the last two years? Does Booty here think they’ve got some bootstrapping left in them they haven’t tapped yet?
Dude sells EV’s for a living and he’s standing up for the competition…
Donnie junior claims to have found massive amounts of correspondence from Kamala’s DA and AG days proving she discriminated against a large array of ethnicities, but it turns out he just didn’t understand what the phrase “with extreme prejudice” means.
Love the 180 from “the French left did the right thing by voting and strategically dropping out to ensure the far right doesn’t win seats” to “ it’s the left’s fault that macron is a power-hungry reactionary who spits in the face of democracy because of ideology.”
The city’s neighborhoods are run by people who get stuff done, which means that being mayor requires at least the pretense of doing favors for the people who do favors for you
Yeah when shit gets done in this town, when a playground gets renovated, when a new community center gets built, when the roads get repaved, we know who it is making that happen: the Turkish ambassador.
Depends. The police state shit and attacking immigrants? No, they don’t have an issue with that.
The nepotism/spoils stuff? That they probably don’t like, but for the most part can’t do anything about it.
On one hand, true.
On the other hand, getting Al Capone on tax fraud.
https://todon.nl/@MxAlba/112987311774530933
You hate having to deal with an automated voice recognition system when calling customer service? Well we put it in an app and called it AI and now you piggies love it. That’s right, eat your slop.
The case depicted Google as a technological bully that methodically thwarted competition to protect its search engine.
> A judge in the United States has ruled that Google spent billions of dollars to create an illegal monopoly for its search engine, exploiting its dominance to squash competition and stifle innovation.
>Monday’s landmark decision that Google broke antitrust law marks the first major success for US authorities taking on the dominance of Big Tech, which has come under fire from across the political spectrum.
> “The court reaches the following conclusion: Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,” US District Judge Amit Mehta wrote in his 277-page ruling.
>But bosses' resemblance to toddlers doesn't end with their credulity. A toddler's path to getting that eye-height candy-bar goes through their exhausted parents. Your boss's path to realizing the productivity gains promised by an AI salesman runs through you.
>A new research report from the Upwork Research Institute offers a look into the bizarre situation unfolding in workplaces where bosses have been conned into buying AI and now face the challenge of getting it to work as advertised:
>https://www.upwork.com/research/ai-enhanced-work-models
>The headline findings tell the whole story:
>* 96% of bosses expect that AI will make their workers more productive;
> * 85% of companies are either requiring or strongly encouraging workers to use AI;
> * 49% of workers have no idea how AI is supposed to increase their productivity;
> * 77% of workers say using AI decreases their productivity.
Stranded crew say they are confident they will be able to get home safely on troubled spacecraft
> Also docked to the space station is SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule that ferried four astronauts to the ISS in March, and a Russian Soyuz capsule that delivered three others in September. Stich acknowledged that at least one of those vehicles could provide an alternative ride home for Wilmore and Williams.
I always thought the Splatoon community was relatively better when it comes to marginalized people but even it’s not immune to the !freeze-gamer mindset
By channeling the very rhetoric of the toll's car-centric opponents, the governor has undermined her stated goal of improving the city.
Fewer officers left the NYPD in the first quarter this year than the record number of departures clocked in recent years but retirements and resignations remain above recent norms, leaving the …
Economists had to distort economic theory to fashion their merger “efficiency” arguments
T-shirt that say “Jesus is my Girlboss” with a picture of Christ in a business dress.
Long story short, I’ve always been supportive of the trans community and individuals, trans rights are human rights, all that good stuff. However, I’ve never had someone in my personal life transition, until now; my FIL told my wife that they’re now a MIL. So there’s two sides to this request:
First, any general advice, resources, etc., on how to be supportive/helpful for her during the transition, and advice that would be more specific to someone that’s transitioning as a senior and as a trans woman that wouldn’t respond well to overtly left wing resources on the matter. Yep, she’s a lifelong Republican, was optimistic about Trump although I have no clue how she stands on him now (as an aside though, oh boy were the rants about drag queen story times ironic in hindsight).
Which leads into the second side: while she has started on HRT, she’s still not publicly presenting as feminine, and we haven’t told our son/her grandson yet. We’ve discussed the general concept of people who are transgender with him, but that’s not the same thing as him processing grandpa becoming grandma, and he’s at an age where I have no clue how he’s going to take it. So I’m looking for any recommendations as to how to discuss what’s happening with him, maybe some books (like third/fourth grade level) that do a good job of presenting the concept for a younger mind.
PKMKII [none/use name] @hexbear.net Bio? You expect me to fill out a bio? Nice try, FBI.