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For me, the answer is dispiriting: Photoshop and Illustrator.
There is no other way to have a standard Linux distro and Photoshop on the same workstation without some far out hacks.
I used to think the same. Good article here with a bit more detail!
https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2020/03/23/how-to-think...
Why do some societies have the problem and others do not?
Capitalism !== markets. Markets are much older than capitalism and will be around long after capitalism has come and went.
Capitalism is merely a mode of production based on exploitation by control of capital.
There is a article about that here:
https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2020/03/23/how-to-think...
Bless this comment. I think this is a succinct representation of the struggles we are facing as a society.
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10% would be overkill. I don’t think we should be aiming to sacrifice our livelihoods to be concrete block stacking addicted energy horarders, but I’m not entirely against that either. It’s hard to look at a solution so tangible and transparent as concrete block stacking before ducking my head into this mangled half-commented test suite.
Thanks for sharing. This is helpful info.
If a tower crane did not need to be transported, how much would the design change? I’m guessing not much, but curious.
I was imagining there would be no counterweight but just opposing loads, then I realized that might be a safety hazard. But, I really don’t know about these things.
I just love the elegance of this solution and immediately obsessed. I think it just ruined my productivity for the day.
That’s not right.
Aspergers is not associated with “not feeling fear.”
If you’re just assuming this from your experiences with these individuals, you’re just assuming this, and might do well to expand your considerations of what different people find fearful.
I’m sure you would find many of them fear people who jump to conclusions before thinking through the various possibilities; or the outcomes of hasty judgements.
And, I recommend you read about it.
The drop of meeting “through friends” is the most interesting part of this cart.
I’m surprised FastMail hasn’t made it.
Not all. 70% of those ants are gonna go broke and get their homes foreclosed if they don’t get off their ass and get a job.
The author is confused.
He says he is a liberal “in the enlightenment sense.” He cites John Locke and John Stuart Mill.
But then he makes a “contrast”:
In contrast, today’s so-called progressive liberals are often intolerant, calling for official censure against anyone perceived as uttering non-progressive views.
What the author fails to reconcile is that this “progressive liberal” target of his is all but the product of John Stuart Mill’s brand of liberalism that includes many wonderful things but has a certain clause that makes all the difference. Mill’s liberalism defended democratic ideals predominantly in cultural terms. That is, democracy to the extent that it does not interfere with free market capitalism.
Fast forward 150+ years through 2 world wars, the Great Depression, the federal reserve Vietnam, globalization, corporate takeover, etc., etc. and old Mill’s ideas are not looking so spiffy. The instability is anything but defensible, so what can the ole’ liberals do now but hunker down on the culturalism? There you have it.
There is nothing new or complicated about this. Mill and Marx defined the terms way back when.
The youngsters in the US are having trouble working through it because their parents skipped the conversation entirely, but they’ll figure it out. Fool them once.
So, this is not about free speech. The only problem here is this author’s insistence that it’s a contention between old and new. It’s not, of course. It’s a contention between capitalism, it’s glories, and messes it makes.
I think that’s close, but until a technical solution to this comes around, we’ve got to look elsewhere.
An easy target is saying the government is too powerful. That would be a mistake. If Facebook were more powerful than the government, we would no be in any better hands.
The problems with the US government are that it does not work for the people.
It would be painfully short-sighted to say this debacle goes to show the gov and private companies are not too involved with one another. This will be handled with some deal that will deepen the coupling and citizens will not have a say. That’s how most things in our lives get handles. Without regard for us, that is.
Private interests have eroded our state of civility. Citizens voices mean nothing and that is all that’s going on here.
We need our government back. Nothing else is going to solve this, unless of course we can actually address the technical issue that you raised. That would be nice.
A government that was our government would simply not step over this line. It’s possible; not easy, but possible.
Never seen somebody younger than me working at a Dollar General.
My point is that something is definitely wrong.
But to blame this on the workers is immoral, heartless, definitely a sign you have something wrong with yourself.
So I’m assuming that isn’t your point.
They are doing the work. They paying is someone else’s job.
Who said this is a “high school job”? What’s that?
Since when was “cashier” a manual labor position? “Stocking staff” might be, and is consistently paid a higher wage because of that. These people are hired as cashiers. The “additional job duties” are where the manual labor comes in.
We are literally talking $8.00/hr. before taxes. This looks inhumane to me.
This was not an act of nature. It was the manager cutting the costs. 80 degrees is not a normal accepted indoor temperature. This is unusual punishment given the context and norms.
Expecting something different from a job outdoors or in a kitchen would, I agree, be a little ridiculous. The wage should of course be adjusted accordingly, but this is just disrespectful.
Middle of the road? Try $8.00/hr.
Very upsetting.
Also, the delivery and form was so simplified. I feel like what we were taught in school had one of 2 forms:
1) Bite size good/bad characterizations of involved nuanced processes.
2) Objectifying factoids on the material day-to-day of shallow characterizations, like the practice of associating Native American tribes primarily by the shape of their houses.
By jumping back and forth between the two, it did accomplish a surface appearance of depth, but ignored the spectrum as a whole that makes up humanity. (1) usually skipped over relational values and (2) failed to deliver on meaning.
The few times this done a little bit less had enormous impact, like black history month, trail of tears, stories like Huck Finn. But comparatively, these leaped over massively critical nuances. Of course, we were just all-out denied anything about the French Revolution. There is no question this is why America is contending with such a problematic political arena. We are learning everything the hard way.
The things that stir the pot are what make us human and understanding them are what allow us to progress. Being denied that is uncivilized.
These places are just awful. I went in one last summer and the girls working there were drenched in sweat. The management refused to set the thermostat below 80 degrees! And the cashiers had to stock shelves when there are no customers at the cash register so of course they were sweating. Usually when you go in one, the only employees will be somewhere deep in the store and you have to wait a long time until they check the register for a line.
The idea is to have no stock room so they don’t have to hire stocking staff, and make the cashiers do it when they aren’t actively checking people out. The trucks unload everything right in the store so aisles are always blocked with giant piles of boxes. It’s gotta be a nightmare for someone in a wheelchair.
But the worst part is of course the way they treat employees.
Ugh. Yeah that might even be the worst part. It’s far from obvious because it’s so far out of eyesight.
Agreed. Anyone reading Vox would do themselves a favor to replace it with Jacobinmag.com
This is so refreshing to read! I was smh while reading the whole thread, got to your comment and was reminded there is some sanity left in the world after all.
WTF is “culture fit”??!
Wow I never thought of it like that!
If you have any pride in what you’re doing, I see that as a problem. Maybe you’re helping, but we will never be sure if you’re making things worse.
This sounds like a misunderstanding.
‘Consumer activism’ is, in so many words, not activism. It describes the effort of working towards greater change through purchasing decisions. It’s a liberal rationalization common in capitalist societies that fails to account for the systemic limitations of the consumer voice. The issues with it are many, but I’ll list a few:
- It’s dependent on a person’s spending power, which is dependent on their capital wealth, which is dependent on their endorsement of the system as a whole.
- It shames those in poverty who cannot afford to participate and generates greater class divide.
- It relies on the transparency of the business entities to definite itself. If Google doesn’t tell us how evil it is, we cannot know the importance of avoiding their services.
- It relies on the media to expose misgivings, but the media relies on the misgivers to pay their bills. You get the point.
- It places a burden on the well-meaning by insisting they deny opportunities available to their competitors.
- It pits individuals against one another, undermining the solidarity needed for lasting change.
That’s an important point that not many people realize about unions.
Unions are great, when they are great.
The West Virginia teacher strikes were wildcat strikes, meaning they did not have the support of their union. The union was against the strikes but the teachers had the support of their community, which is far more important.
In short, and due to the recent Janus Act, unions in the US are not going to be very helpful for a while. But, more important is building a popular consciousness ready to articulate these struggles within a capitalist system.
DSA has a few very positive tech-focused organizing efforts underway in SF and NYC. I recommend starting at http://dsausa.org
Exactly.
Consumer activism and job shaming is a moot effort. Useless.
What have they ever accomplished?
The only way to make a difference here is by standing together.
Does the public care about privacy?
The answer is certainly “yes”. There’s a difference between caring and having any power to do anything about it.
It’s time to move on from Consumer activism. This nonsense of blaming people for their purchasing decisions is so rotten and useless. Judging others this way requires vain assumptions and we can do so much better.
Sounds like smart thinking to me. I do similar rationalizing myself, and I wouldn’t worry too much what others think.
These things are tough to reconcile but we are all wrestling with them, and we have to keep our heads healthy to contend.
The only mistake I’d warn against is letting this influence your judgement of others, or your prescription for future generations. They are counting on us and we are counting on them. The point about the military speaks to the reality that you are not alone, but the bottom line is we have been dealt an injustice. We must not pass this nonsense on to those depending on us to make it right. We’ve got to stand together against the agregious opportunism undermining the livelihoods of Americans.
If nothing else, I don’t want to bare this weight through my middle age and still have the kids speaking of me in the way they speak of baby-boomers today. This isn’t to say the baby-boomers are to blame, but it is tough to feel sorry for them given the opportunities they had.
I’d much rather get the praise the Great Generation gets. Let’s work for it.
Love yourself, and all the moreso by loving others as well.
Depends on your standards for “problem”, which is conceptually a statement I myself find frustrating, so i can see where you’re coming from.
But, we should try and be considerate when we define “problem”. LA has no shortage of serious transportation problems. This solves exactly none of them. Outside of Startupland, a problem is usually something that gets acknowledged before you find it.