There are other things you can do individually as well, like try using the car and AC less, and generally live more frugally.
But remember that 100 companies make up 71% of all human made carbon emissions. It's good to act locally, but we need global action to stop these companies and their supporters, that means voting for competent government.
When the options are between having the choice or not, voting Republican is clearly being complicit.
The other side isn't forcing abortions, it's giving the possibility.
Oh no, with Amazon only having a 3,5 % margin (after fines), it would take them all of 48 hours to make up the losses.
The point still stands: the fines are ridiculously low for these companies, and they have no incentive to change based on current fines.
The whole reason that it works is because the company can't afford to lose everyone who's not complying.
But promotion blocking seems like a weak move. If returning to office is enough of a workplace issue to be a deal breaker, threatening people with not taking extra responsibilities or challenges seems like a losing proposition. They're already willing to lose their job over the issue, and you've shown that you can't lose them, so now you're gonna make it shittier to remain at the company?
And even besides the perspective that promotions are a benefit, many roles are in place for the company's sake, to stay organised, are they now gonna not fill those? Or only fill them with external applicants?
Or is the idea to only promote the compliant ones? That would make some sense, at least.
Oh, that's easy, for Russia it's crucial for reasons... it was something about de-nazification, or was it to stop NATO expanding? No, no, it's to defend against the aggression of The West!
That's why Russia has to occupy Ukraine!
For Ukraine, they mostly seem to have a bee up their butt about Russian troops occupying, torturing, kidnapping, displacing and murdering Ukrainians on Ukrainian soil.
It already has?
Functioning AI voice assist, foldable, better peripherals, better input systems, better data transfer between systems, more durable, better battery life, repairable, more sustainable, better UI, decentralised communication options, meshnet options, etc.
There's plenty to do about smartphones that needs innovating...
Yeah, Amazon has a pretty long track record of burning through employees at all levels. From the outside it looks like it's very much to their detriment, but I guess they feel differently since they still do it.
Sorry it's happening to you though. Hope you find a less sociopathic employer!
I can't find direct data on how many illegal immigrations are happening in Texas every year, but the undocumented population is estimated to be about 1,5 million, and stable. [source]
Between 2022 and 2023, the legal migrant population increased by 10k, and eligible migrants decreased by 50k. If we assume that the whole difference is only due to illegal immigrants naturalizing, that would mean that the Texas yearly influx of immigrants is 60k. [source]
That would mean that the "invasion" requiring armed self defence/martial law is for 60k civilians.
About 10 million Texans yearly travel over 50 miles, [source], does that mean Texas is invading most of the US annually?
(also, it's ridiculous that you don't have clear data and statistics on this exact question. Sometimes I love living in the EU)
After the climate mass deaths, migrations and/or wars, there should be plenty of land.
Although it might not be habitable.
How is it in their best interest not to consume porn?
I would have guessed that's where the religious oppression was targeted, whatwith being overly obsessed about peoples' sexualities.
There are many issues with ICE cars, and it wouldn't surprise if one of the main motivations behind the ban is to lessen dependence on fossil fuels.
This is a fairly low risk step to see if deliveries and short range transport will switch into EV. It also lowers a lot of air pollution and noise, it looks suitably progressive and is easily reversible if shit goes wrong.
From the video it seems they were spotted by drones on the way to the deployment site and were under drone surveillance during setup, during which artillery hit.
I have a hard time imagining that the observation drones are that sneaky, so I'd guess it's another issue of poor battlefield command structure forcing the compromised position
As a non USAmerican, this seems only partly true. The media does indeed benefit from the partisanship hype, but it is also (often) accurately reporting politicking made to exploit the same emotional response.
For example, there is little good statesmanship in the North Carolina Republicans founding their own extrajudicial secret police, but it triggers a lot of emotional response even before them actually using it as a fascist tool.
This isn't blown out of proportion by the media, it is an actual thing that the party officially proposed, and it is outright disregarding both rule of law and democratic principles. Even if they have no hope of enacting it, the proposal is made to evoke emotions and sow chaos.
The French would have striked until these people resigned.
Now we only have to elect decision makers that make policy on facts and not feelings.
ITT: potential life is more important than real life.
Have you seen the numbers? Could you link them?
The only thing I've been able to find is 2,2 million "encounters" in a high year, over the whole country.
Germany takes in a million immigrants per year by itself, and has at least a handful of encounters per immigrant to process them. Also has a bunch of encounters with illegal immigrants.
Germany is smaller than Texas.
Progress is always incremental, except in hindsight
As real as math
Harambe was the Time Lord keeping this timeline stable
Believe it or not, he made his name as a wry liberalist, antagonising established conservatives (and Democrats).
I've only watched some Real Time, in the early days it was kind of interesting, but it quickly becomes clear he holds conservative ideals. Nowadays he's mostly a talking puppet for the conservatives. He strikes me as one or two rungs below Sean Hannity.
You should probably widen your media diet, there's active information warfare going on from both sides and their allies, a lot of misinformation and propaganda abound.
Besides, Ukraine not long ago did promise to remove their nukes in exchange for not guarantees of not being invaded by Russia.
Promises made by the same sitting head of state.
Makes it hard to trust any deal that isn't surrendering the country.
Terror
I'm starting to think that the correct way to address these types of things is with a simple, possibly even loving, "that's the dumbest thing I've heard".
A lot of poorly reasoned opinions and ideas come from socially validated sources, they parrot the opinions of people they identify with. Showing that you won't agree to get along, might work as a counter both to their spewing the shit as well as maybe letting them question why they hold that belief.
Might also make them stop coming to you with these types of opinions, which may or may not be what you want.
It's hard to gauge the veracity of this during the ongoing information warfare, but one detail struck me as funny:
Around 20 million people in Russia — or 14% of the population — are on the brink of poverty or already in poverty, said Lipsits.
This is supposedly after two years of wars and sanctions.
Official US gov statistics puts the US peacetime number at 11,5 - 12,4 %
The official poverty rate in 2022 was 11.5 percent, with 37.9 million people in poverty. ... The Supplemental Poverty Measure in 2022 was 12.4 percent.
I wonder if this is meant as a disinformation piece?
True, but how did they get those?
By collective action.
(and a lot of blood)
The square-cube law is also why we don't have giant spiders, so it's not all bad.
(a cow sized spider would have legs as thick as matchsticks, and as intuition would suggest, collapse hilariously on itself.)
Good thing this is for a dozen city blocks at the center of an organically grown city then.
Walkable in about 15 minutes, and no highways.
Fruit yoghurt is nice, soda is nice.
Mixing them is abomination.
That's not entirely true, attacks on Planned Parenthood around the nation have led to several of them being closed, and both staff and patients being too afraid to go there.
Even though jailing the domestic terrorists is a good step to keep them from continuing it, it's not necessarily enough to stave off the terror.
Perhaps, but what is ownership without a state to enforce it? Companies/landlords would need to occupy and defend it themselves.
Question, if one wants to learn of effective means to organise resistance, how could this be done?
I'm currently not in an occupied country, but Russia has been threatening many of its neighbours.
Enough to cover my living expenses, working expenses, retirement fund, savings, etc. at about 8-12 hours of work/week.
Lol, this article has so many weirdly bad takes, the "facts" are only true for specific quarters, some are outright lies.
They conveniently ignore that US real salaries dipped a lot more than EU at the start of the pandemic, mostly due to the business directed loans.
Also, soo much AI-generated padding.
There are standards for such ratings, and several countries have mandated minimums, which lead to longer and healthier lives.
I'm guessing because a lot of them aren't clearly marked "Russian state war chest part 12", but rather things like "Gazprom reserve fund" or "Oligarchs discretionary fund" which would muddy the border between state and private assets.
State assets might be fine to seize to cover state costs, but the legality of seizing the others' might by grayer.
This sounds an awful lot like confirmation bias to me, so I went to Google Scholar for about 15 minutes.
A quick scan of meta-studies seem to indicate that teenagers watching pornography mostly leads to them having slightly more sex, which is well known to be healthy.
For certain vulnerable groups of individuals (poor social integration, weak familial bonds, high risk seeking, and high aggression) porn seems to exacerbate their traits a bit.
There's also very tenuous results pointing to porn in pre-teens, as well as teens with low self esteem and poor social collection getting a skewed perception of sexuality. These are the only groups who have ever been shown to be affected negatively, and only in a single study each, without reproduction. And for the teens it reversed when they gained self esteem.
Seems we should actually have better sex education for teens so they have the support to talk and explore sexuality in a healthy manner with their peers.
I'll add a variant on 1 & 2, to distract yourself from the suicidal ideation. Sometimes when you really want to unalive yourself, a little self harm scratches the itch without most of the consequences.
If they are to take it, they need to take it before winter.
Taking it before winter means they can consolidate in the area over the winter, prepare a defensive position that will similarily bog down Ukraine in spring, and have an uncontested springboard for bombing and other civilian harassment all winter.
If Ukraine holds it, they will reinforce it for spring, and use it to harass the much worse Russian positions supporting the front.
Due to information operations leading to low morale/desertion in Russian troops.
#savedyouaclick