im sorry. im exhausted with conversations over just how radical we should be acting. and im so tired of forgiving selfish people who marched us into this mess for paychecks. literally physically and mentally exhausted with trying not to be so fucking pissed at how surprised everyone seems at how decades of complicit behavior has led to such dire circumstances
yup sorry Im all for building communities, but I have no sympathy for anyone working for google. this didnt happen overnight, add now theyre actively helping the sad excuse for trumps secret police to kidnap people.
i guess you draw the line somewhere else. does blowing up babies do it for you? helping kidnap people off the street with no due process sure, lets think of the poor, bedraggled tech bro- but surely if google starts blowing up babies am I allowed then to start calling the employees selfish and complicit, and call for radical action?
you just let me know where the line is. because apparently actively supporting an out of control police force terrorizing the country isnt far enough
:/
sounds like its time to make google employees a “vulnerable group” who fear being outed publicly for their fascist shit, too
it’s food.
Food!
FOOOOOOD!!!
it’s FUCKING FOOD you SPOILED FUCKING BRAT - in a normal community, in a compassionate society, and to ANYONE WHO ISNT A SELFISH EMBARASSMENT TO SENTIENCE, food isn’t something you lock behind any paywall, work restriction, qualification or barrier or any kind! you, as a rule, make enough for everyone, and see that anyone who needs it, gets it
why? because that’s the right thing to do, what other reason is necessary to treat the worst off among us the best we possibly can?
the alternative is needless, selfish greed. shut the fuck up, selfish, greedy jon husted- you likely have nothing of value to say that bears repeating. make way for those who havent given up on basic human decency.
lol “work ethic” they shipped all the fucking union factory production industry jobs overseas, you twatwaffle- you want me to raise a fucking family working a starbucks and moonlighting with uber? what fucking JOBS do you expect us to go get? lolol in ohio no less this guy is like “our generation dismantled your industrial base and left you with the shell of a nation- now go get a service industry job with no pension and absolutely no job security and like it, or i guess you can starve idk”
shut the fuck up, you distasteful joke of a human being
Now make the executives pay back every bit of money they stole from their employees
Gig economy was our justice system asleep at the wheel while fatcats created a way to work around all our hard won labor protections
The people in charge and the investors will never be made to give back what they stole from the people who actually did the work. Uber, doordash, instacart, theyll all fail, thousands will lose a source of (illegally low) income, and the ones who made it happen and profitted the most will happily move onto the next clearly illegal venture until the court catches up with them again.
I say we hunt them all down and make a nice stew. They know what they did, and Im fresh out of compassion for the rich- the rest of us are trying our best not to be complete assholes and theyre just laughing like “you idiots could have a yacht!”
But, hey, enjoy your gig economy stuff, dear reader. Youre totally not condoning their behavior by continuing to order thru amazon or riding with uber. Enjoy those sweet, sweet savings youre making off the backs the would be union employees, who instead get to work as contractors with less than minimum wage and no unemployment, no disability, no medical or dental or vision insurances. No raises. I mean people made good money doing USPS, UPS, FedEx hell even domino’s pizza, and now we’ve whittled away those careers - and people have the balls to complain about missing packages? youre the one who only wants to hire somone willing to work for a pittance to deliver your stuff
Theyve been employees the whole time and there will be NO recourse for those who knowingly and willingly stole from these workers for years. Years! As we all looked on and bought stock in their illegal companies because the giant corporation we work for doesnt have pensions anymore
Yeah this is all a wonderful system working perfectly, no notes
…im gonna go have a good cry
If they don’t have to explain themselves, then they shouldn’t expect one when the angry mob shows up at their door 🤷
I admit unexpected downtime sometimes frustrates me, too, but SDF is community funded and volunteer operated. I always assume there is someone working to fix things (as soon as they actually know something is down), but I also know crashes, upgrade woes, hardware failures and the like will happen. Have you asked the SDF community if there is anything you can do to contribute to better uptimes?
Putting out there that if you’re waiting for the next outage of a few days to move servers, it’s more than likely going to continue to happen 🤷
citing an executive order
An EO!? It doesnt fucking matter what any despot wannabe in office says- we have a constitution. It states you havr freedom of speech. As long as they were on their off time, someone should lose their job for this firing.
She says ‘it was clear’ the airline and the union ‘needed another tool’ to continue negotiations after the union went on strike.
Arbitration isn’t a fucking “tool” that somehow magically facilitates negotiation; it’s a weapon used to bypass the legal system and force parties to agree to a resolution. Take your fucking doublespeak and shove it. If parties can’t reach a resolution within the legal framework, it’s not the damned government’s job to step in and force one- that totally negates the power labor has to refuse to work.
This Jobs Minister clearly cares more about perception and finding a resolution ASAP than she cares about labor and our rights as workers. Never forget who actively works against us as workers.
“Someone should tell the rich that workers banding together to present formal address of grievances is the alternative that we worked out a long ago to breaking down the factory owner’s door and beating them to death in front of their family. I feel like they forgot.”
Why do we strain so hard to find hidden messages when the truth is staring us in the face- it looks like a bunch of white folks following some supposedly divine decree to drive natives off their homeland, selfishly displacing and decimating the bison population while theyre at it, claiming that’s some sort of heritage to be proud of. I dont need to count words or notice weird capitalization to know some twatwaffle who celebrates the absolute worst and overtly racist parts of colonizing north america posted this
I started paying for kagi when I learned it works more like classic (vintage?) search engines. More focused on accurate results, which may be a few or nil, instead of mangling your terms into something they can sell & insert the highest paying advert that matches something close.
I have not been disappointed. They also do AI stuff, if youre into that. Or you can toggle it off, and never use their assistant.
If there arent enough people to sign up, the settlement wont be large enough for the law firm to bother pursuing a small settlement. If enough people only signed up for these if the firm was willing to seek actual punitive damages, theyd have to do that if they wanted the case at all.
If the firm is only going to get 100 people to sign on, ATT wouldnt agree to a $177m settlement in the first place. “So a mass movement to force a fundamental shift in this system? that’ll never happen” - Im trying to point out that we’re the ones enabling the system to fail us as consumers, and we collectively have the power to force law firms to seek higher settlements (or actually try to win cases), which would deter companies from cutting so many corners when it comes to our private data.
Im saying legitimizing the behavior that leads to these class action lawsuits is the downside to joining them. Companies do not see them as any more than the cost of doing business since the settlements are insignificant. With no real consequences for the behavior, and both sides considering the matter settled, joining them is an endorsement of the whole, corrupted process. We’re the ones enabling law firms by signing up to have then “represent our interests,” when really no class member ever gets anything anywhere near compensation, companies aren’t deterred from their actions, and the only people who profit are the company that gets away with bad behavior and the lawfirm which continues to look for more lousy settlements for income. We should be demanding more, or refusing to join.
“Compensation” you mean probably a pittance of maybe an hour’s wage and some “identity theft protection” from a credit rating company that’s also suffered data breaches?
these class action lawsuits are nothing but performances that line the pockets of law firms (and the lawyers at the companies) while allowing investors, c-suite executives and board members to direct employees to penny pinch when it comes to keeping private data safe, respecting existing laws and regulations or really caring at all about anything but maximizing quarterly profits.
no one should be initiating or joining any of these class action suits- firms always settle, don’t give two shits about the size of the settlement (so they are never large enough to actually discourage companies, nor compensate those affected), only caring about getting a company to pay their salaries and bonuses while denying theyve ever done anything wrong.
If you qualify, maybe take a moment to contact the law firm and tell them to either actually try to win these cases - seeking penalties that actually deter behavior - or be labeled as obviously complicit in the shitty behavior of the breached company by accepting a settlement that does nothing but pay the law firm and allow ATT to continue to do more of the same. don’t be a willing participant in their sad grift passed off as justice
In florida years ago, when e-verify was being pushed, and tomato farm operations had to verify social security numbers for their employees, they didnt start paying legal/competitive wages- they just left tomatoes on the vines to rot - and then took subsidies and tax breaks for operating those farms at a loss. some agriculture companies just got out of the tomato business altogether.
employers at the largest levels don’t care about construction, or farming or whatever- they care about profit. the investors don’t care about the work their companies perform- if a sector becomes significantly less profitable because of a lack of immigrant workers, they don’t just take a hit to their profits and move on, they pull their investments and find another business to invest in. there will plainly be less construction firms, less farms, less local restaurants able to compete with the chains.
the money in this economy is hoarded by the upper class- they can control how businesses operate, and because the rest of us have limited buying power, our choices are dictated more by what we can afford than what we need or want. demand in this economy has power, but it is easily overwhelmed by control of the supply by purely profit motivated investors.
they dont want to make less money selling higher priced tomatoes, and at the same time, we dont have the available income to budget for higher priced tomatoes, from the largest or smaller farms, and will just shift spending to other cheap food we can afford in our budgets. lots of businesses will close but the investors- who most elected officials serve- will just invest elsewhere, which is why they don’t care about the impact on the rest of us. large operations will gobble up the failing smaller ones, consumer options will continue to shrink, and the people we’ve been exploiting for their labor will lose their source of income.
there will be no industry-wide rise in low wages, just diminishing supply. eventually the tariffs will go, and then supply will be replaced by (even cheaper) foreign production.
“… and as a devout christian - a follower of the teachings of jesus and the bible - it’s good that we’re providing for the sick and the poor, especially since these people are our neighbors and fellow community members, nevermind just other human beings that we should indiscriminately treat with boundless love and compassion.”
oh, whoops he meant “… and fuck that- the benefits of my labor only go to my tribe, and those other people can suck it” because that’s what the super wealthy pay him to say to keep all of the poor folk divided and fighting amongst ourselves
I just gave up
at some point, I realized I don’t ever want to be their idea of a perfect person to loan money to (read: perfect person to drown in debt and make as much money as possible from), and I wear that “unworthiness” as a badge of honor
only there to disadvantage poor people
it’s awesome how much money I’m paying various apartment management contractors to pull exactly the same data from exactly the same government agencies and credit bureaus. sometimes multiple apartments use the same application/screening contractor, but they wont re-use the data they pulled without charging me again - it’s not even a week old! some of these are public records they’re pulling! and I already have a current copy of my credit report I could provide them! they tried to legislate a ‘comprehensive reusable tenant screening report’ here (washington state USA), but it’s not mandatory to accept it 🤦the whole thing is scam after scam, double- and triple- dipping
how much do you want to bet some people own apt management companies AND application/screening companies? if my finances were tight, applying for multiple places would be out of the question
no. those federal agents murdering people are our employees. we pay them, those that can handle violence and those that cant. everyone needs to own what people are doing IN THE NAME OF AMERICA, in our name, with our money, and with our blessing if we dont stop them, all of us
watching people you employ kill someone makes you uncomfotable?