catsrockSlayer 8 hours ago • 100%
I wish I could be as high as motorboat
Programming
Book recommendations to learn programming fundamentals
rockSlayer 13 hours ago • 100%
I highly recommend the online book How to Think Like a Computer Scientist.
Fun fact, the person maintaining this book is professor emeritus from my college and received multiple awards of recognition from the IEEE
Ask LemmyrockSlayer 1 day ago • 100%
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
rockSlayer 2 days ago • 95%
Once again the Israeli army attacks a school in Gaza. 18 dead from refugees and UNRWA officials. Murderers,” said Boric on X. “There is no justification for this barbarity. From Chile, we support UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in his call for a ceasefire.
Chile president attacked by Jewish community zionists for calling Israeli army ‘murderers’
Bay ArearockSlayer 3 days ago • 100%
I bet someone will still try to walk through
grimdankrockSlayer 3 days ago • 100%
I get it, capitalism fucking sucks. We're talking coping mechanisms for taking breaks from the struggle though, and I'm just describing what works for me. There's no guarantee that the things that work for me will work for everyone. I just think people work too much and should take breaks whenever they're able.
Today I Learned
Some unions have staff which are also unionized and have experienced union-busting by those employing unions.
rockSlayer 3 days ago • 100%
The NEA is peak business union. There are movements to democratize the union though. It's happening in most unions lately
rockSlayer 3 days ago • 100%
One of my tricks to extend vacation time on a PTO budget is to alternate the days between paid and unpaid, usually 3 days a week instead of the typical 5. 2 weeks can get extended to at least 3 by alternating. My approach is a hold over from working retail, where we had no PTO. The idea is that I wouldn't be getting paid anyways, so I shore up the budget before vacation so the shortfall payday doesn't create too much disruption
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How to Decarbonize Your Entire Home | A guide to electrifying your residence, from heat pumps to solar panels and more
rockSlayer 3 days ago • 100%
This is a good basic starter, but there's so much more that can be done for efficiency and further reducing your impact while owning a house. These are a few off the top of my head:
- Installing high efficiency windows and doors
- Keep/add the mud room
- Add better insulation
- If you're in the middle of a remodel, check for water distribution efficiency
- Grow a small hydroponic garden for your most commonly eaten veggies
- They're currently pretty rare, but adding a recycling water shower
- Battery assisted fridges and stoves (there's a healthy dose of nuance between this and home battery backups)
- Form a community microgrid
rockSlayer 3 days ago • 50%
To me, that sounds like you need to take the time to do your home projects first and then take the vacation. I don't know what would work best for you, but for me it would be taking another 6 week break. I'd spend the first 3 weeks doing the home tasks, and the next 3 on the vacation
rockSlayer 3 days ago • 100%
You should try it, long vacations are awesome
rockSlayer 3 days ago • 78%
That means your vacations aren't long enough. I tend to start getting the feeling of wanting to be productive about 2.5 weeks into any long vacation. Start with 3 weeks and then take off even more next time if it didn't work
linuxmemes
One big happy family.
rockSlayer 3 days ago • 100%
They have a debian based version, it's pretty awesome. It's still a beta fork atm, but it's rock solid so far
NewsrockSlayer 3 days ago • 97%
Factory farming should be banned. Food is not worth that cruelty, even if the fires have nothing to do with the farm itself.
No Stupid Questions
can you ELI5 the physics of bleeding radiators on an apartment building?
rockSlayer 3 days ago • 100%
Having lived in a house with radiators, bleeding registers is like a once every 5 years type of task. There's a much larger leak in the system, you should talk to your apartment manager.
Star Wars Memes
Steak
rockSlayer 4 days ago • 93%
I have a friend that likes it well done. I cook it to medium well because I love them
You can't park there, mate
Nice elevation, you legend
rockSlayer 4 days ago • 100%
Nice, corner office with a parking spot
Progressive Politics
I'm tired, Boss
rockSlayer 4 days ago • 100%
They won't realize it unless someone helps them understand. Start with organizing a union
Terrible Estate Agent Photos
Quite an unusual interior
rockSlayer 5 days ago • 100%
Linux Questions
Anyone successfully run a desktop inside of a container?
rockSlayer 5 days ago • 100%
You might be interested in Qubes
rockSlayer 5 days ago • 100%
That's a hell of a way to learn you have crabs
196rockSlayer 6 days ago • 100%
They should absolutely stick to their plan to vote in 2025
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rockSlayer 6 days ago • 100%
It's where you put your new blahajs
Technology
Top EU court rules Apple owes Ireland over $14B in back taxes.
rockSlayer 6 days ago • 100%
Still a drop in the bucket, but these are fine numbers I can get behind
RPGMemes rockSlayer 1 week ago • 100%
I know some of the union leaders at UPW, including one of the Paizo writers that may have worked on the starter adventure (I don't know for certain). They're incredibly passionate about their work, and honestly would understand your frustrations about capitalism. They likely pushed to make as much as possible free, so folks in your position would still be able to share the joy of their work even if they can't afford the starter adventure.
I know none of this will make your frustration go away, but I hope you know that they didn't do it out of malice.
politics rockSlayer 1 week ago • 95%
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
PocketKNIFE
Weird Knife Wednesday: Treszen EDC Pocket Knife
rockSlayer 1 week ago • 100%
The action is pretty neat I suppose, but it looks like it could get messy if you have to cut anything pressurized
Comic Strips
Bar Talk [Twistwood Tales]
rockSlayer 1 week ago • 100%
Hey, I resemble those remarks
MemesrockSlayer 1 week ago • 100%
Because I don't have the capital, and jumping into forming a large worker cooperative is incredibly risky. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to, but I've found my niche and it's organizing unions within the tech industry.
rockSlayer 1 week ago • 100%
I'm trying to reframe the point of the discussion, which is about IP. Nitpicking the example is counterproductive, because it's absurd to assume that no one would ever pay for a piece of software.
rockSlayer 1 week ago • 86%
If game companies stood to make no money, why would they bother with such a large production?
I'm a games industry professional. I would continue to do this work as an unpaid job if my basic needs were met on a societal level.
You think you're asking a neutral question, but you're not. Companies operating within capitalism will behave in the interests of capitalists. IP laws aren't required for the AAA studios other than to domineer control over an idea. A game like Call of Duty is a titan made by 1000s of professionals. One of those games gets launched every year. By shear force of momentum, there are very few companies that could ever replicate it in any fashion.
Now imagine if COD was made by a company in which IP didn't exist, all the profits went to the workers rather than shareholders, and that the workers have a say in the launch schedule. Would you be willing to pay for a game in that instance?
rockSlayer 1 week ago • 100%
People are hoping, almost unconsciously, that hypocrisy still matters
rockSlayer 1 week ago • 100%
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.
You can't park there, mate
High wire act
rockSlayer 1 week ago • 100%
How do you even do that?
Trippin' Through Time
Pizza Delivery: Level Knight.
rockSlayer 1 week ago • 100%
Excellent. Have you procured the green herb from the merchant hailing from Ur?
rockSlayer 1 week ago • 100%
It's illegal in the US too. That doesn't stop them from calling me and everyone I know.
rockSlayer 1 week ago • 100%
The restaurant is called Big Al's Bar and Grill outside of Emily and not far from Aitkin or Hill City, in case people want to make sure their money doesn't go to this jackass.
rockSlayer 1 week ago • 80%
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.
rockSlayer 1 week ago • 84%
Missouri is more purple than people realize. They often vote against their own interests nationally, but locally they vote relatively progressive
rockSlayer 1 week ago • 77%
It's not a failure of anything. Billionaires are an inevitably of capitalism.
Some of the more avid history fans might be thinking, "Casey Jones saved several lives, why is he being portrayed as a scab?" The intro that Utah gives for this song doesn't explain it enough in my opinion. It's a fictitious and comedy song that uses the name recognition of Casey, simply because there weren't really any well known railroad scabs and Joe Hill was basing this song on the Ballad of Casey Jones in honor of a rail strike.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17394988 > *Company could endure biggest US strike of 2024 as unions accuse it of intimidation during contract negotiations* > > Disney could face the largest strike in the US this year after it was announced that thousands of theme park and hotel workers in California will vote on whether to stage a walkout. > > Three trade unions representing 14,000 “cast members” at Disneyland, Disney California Adventure, Downtown Disney and the Disney hotels announced an unfair labor practice strike vote would be held next week amid negotiations over a new union contract. > > In a critical statement, **union leaders accused Disney of “unlawful discipline and intimidation and surveillance” of union members**. The entertainment giant did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
www.usatoday.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17163486
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truthout.org
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17163552
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/13847307 > Taken from a [Press Release by the group](https://transkidsdeservebetter.org/support-grows-as-teenage-trans-activists-enter-their-third-day-of-protest-at-nhs-englands-headquarters): > > LONDON, 1 July 2024—Two young trans activists scaled the NHS England’s London headquarters at 133–135 Waterloo Road in London on Friday to stage a protest and have remained there ever since. The group, now made up of seven young protesters, all 18 or under, has one simple message: Trans Kids Deserve Better: we are not pawns for your politics. > > The powerful direct action has been organised by the “[Trans Kids Deserve Better](https://transkidsdeservebetter.org/about)” network, which is calling for: access to gender affirming healthcare for trans children and young people, protection from discrimination and disrespect in their daily lives and the right to be heard in all decisions that affect them. > > Their protest comes in the wake of the government using emergency powers to ban all access to puberty blockers in the UK, a move that was supported by Labour’s Wes Streeting, likely to be the next Secretary of State for Health. It also comes in the context of a General Election campaign where trans people and trans youth have been used as ‘culture war’ talking points, but not allowed to speak for themselves. > > “We are staging this protest to remind politicians and voters that we’re real kids, not just political talking points. We may not have a vote, but it is our lives that are at stake,” said one of the activists staging the protest. “Gender-affirming healthcare is a matter of life and death for us, and we hope that our actions will bring awareness to this fact and encourage others to fight for the healthcare and dignity that we are so shamefully denied.”
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16997964 > [PSA] Minnesota workers: there have been worker-friendly updates to Earned Sick and Safe Time > > 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
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
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jacobin.com
Classic Jacobin, several months late on important news /s Seriously though, while the article primarily focuses on the rule change from last year, the backdrop is necessary to cover what seems to be the first case since the rule was established. It can never be understated how important this NLRB ruling actually is. The laws still need to be updated to reflect modern union busting tactics, but this ruling is still crucial. The Cemex ruling restores part of what's known as "Joy Silk" doctrine, which was a major factor in the huge boom of unions from the 1940's through 1968. The casino is "considering it's options". I hope that means they cement the rule.
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I don't think this is actually about needing to pay wages, I believe that the real target is the fast food worker council that was created to make these changes. I think they're going for a tried and true method to gain conservative sympathy, but Republicans are self-segregating away from California and their political influence is waning in the state.
To start for anyone that may be concerned by the title, I've always considered myself an ally and I've supported both family and friends when they came out to me. I've always known that it takes a lot of trust for someone to come out like that, and I want to be the friend that they feel safe to talk with about that stuff. I'm autistic, and I've recently started my journey of understanding that, my gender, and my sexuality. I've suspected since college that I was ace, and finally understood that about myself in the last few months. I made the first public message ever referring to myself as queer in a casual setting as a passing comment today which honestly felt a little strange, but already feels natural. What I need help with understanding, is why should I actively tell my friends and family about it? The way I see it, I've always been this way and nothing will change in me between now and 10 seconds after I say something. I don't think of it as hiding anything either, I think of it as me being me. Why do others feel the need to share with people close to them?
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Bella Ciao has a long history with leftists, but this is likely the original! Rather than being about partisans fighting against fascists, this version is about the brutal working conditions laboring women faced in the Italian rice paddies.
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This song is about how workers have been injured, maimed, and died on the job for capitalists. This song highlights how there's already violence inherent to the system of capitalism, though I feel it's impossible to see that message without also realizing that we should not be afraid of violence when opposing the capitalist class in strikes, protests, and other direct action.
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This song is by the band Los Lobos, and actually comes from the album used as our community art! The band wanted to commemorate the 1965 Delano Grape Strike by the UFW. The phrase "viva la huelga en general!" means "long live the general strike!" Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta were the leaders of this strike, with Dolores also coordinating the wine and grape boycott with the International Longshoremen union and community supporters.