Firefly7

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[–] Firefly7@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

I thought it was Arizona that the Taiwanese company was building in.

It’s actually interesting as a sort of exception-proving-the-rule because with the chip factory they discovered they simply couldn’t run its creation without having a bunch of skilled workers come over from Taiwan. which in turn caused culture shock/clash issues between the Taiwanese and American workers.

[–] Firefly7@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Theyre broadly supportive of worker rights, trans rights, etc, and so they’re on the left of the political spectrum, but many are also fairly close to the Democratic Party, and they are a mixed bag when it comes to Israel, alongside being reformist rather than revolutionary, which places them in the center-left imo. Out of the organizations listed on the Hands Off website, the DSA was the furthest-left one I saw, and the DSA is itself a big-tent socialist organization that includes reformists and Democratic Party supporters. The Hands Off rally in my area had milquetoast Democratic congresspeople as speakers.

There’s a stark contrast between the sort of rhetoric and political position you’ll see at Hands Off versus at a pro-Palestine protest or a socialist reading group.

[–] Firefly7@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 months ago (8 children)

50501 is one group in the coalition running Hands Off. Hands Off is primarily run by a center-left group called Indivisible, but is endorsed/supported by a lot of other center-left to left organizations like the AFL-CIO, ACLU, HRC, DSA.

[–] Firefly7@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago

The math is not right. Percentages don’t multiply like that.

A change from 0.25 to 7.25 over 71 years means an annual increase of about 5%. That 5% annual change, starting with $7.25 15 years ago, would take us to around $15 today.

[–] Firefly7@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago

I think “convinced of” is more correct, but both phrases work. Could also say “convinced on”.

[–] Firefly7@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 10 months ago

Most fascist dictatorships have had large privatizations and all have favored corporations in economic policy. You act like business-state collaboration under fascism was unique to the nazis, but it was also central to fascist Italy, Francoist Spain, and right-wing dictatorships like those of Pinochet or the military in Brazil.

Fascism happens when capitalism is in crisis because it’s better for the corporations than socialism would be. Both Italy and Germany had strong socialist movements in the years before fascists came to power, and fascists are consistently funded by a business community that fears losing everything it has. The fascist emphasis on the state, nationalism, and war, is only because it’s required to suppress organized labor.

[–] Firefly7@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

“Poor Mexico, So far from God, so close to the United States.”

[–] Firefly7@lemmy.blahaj.zone 62 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is where it’s important to remember who exactly is writing the laws for union recognition. Many countries have laws that nominally support the formation of unions but moreso exist to reduce union support or funnel unions into polite, legal activity.

[–] Firefly7@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

I don’t understand this political strategy in the long-run. If the left always unflinchingly votes for the leftmost candidate then the optimal strategy for the DNC is always to choose someone just 1% to the left of whoever the Republicans are running.

The trumpers aren’t strong because they always vote. They’re strong because everyone knows that, if Trump isn’t on the ballot, they won’t turn out to vote nearly as strongly.

Combine this with the fact that basically every business interest wants right-wing politics and you get the perpetual rightwards slide of the Democratic Party.

[–] Firefly7@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago

The second wave of arrests was almost entirely students, because Columbia has been on lockdown and it’s been increasingly difficult for non-students to get in in the first place. The “outside agitators were at fault” narrative that Columbia is pushing is at odds with this.

[–] Firefly7@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

To be clear, this tumblr account is in no way associated with the actual Amtrak company

 

I'm envisioning a hypothetical future where, alongside competing with platforms like Reddit/Twitter/Instagram/etc, federated platforms compete with retail or service-providing platforms like Amazon, Uber, Fiverr, Airbnb, etc, platforms that primarily just serve to connect users to other users and handle transactions between them. Is this future possible or desirable?

 

Title text: FYI: The 'drop, cover, and hold on' advice only applies to earthquakes. If you encounter a mountain lion, you should absolutely not drop to the ground, crawl under it, and hold on to one of its legs.

Transcript [The comic is laid out like a grid, with situations down the left-hand side (mountain lion / lightning / fire alarm / bleeding) and the solutions across the top (stand up straight, speak firmly, and slowly back away / run toward a building or hard-topped vehicle / calmly exit the building / apply firm pressure ). The grid illustrates the "match-ups", with a green square denoting a "correct" match-up and a red square denoting a bad idea.][From the top left corner, going from left to right, top to bottom, with each first item being on its own line in the grid, the squares are as follows:] [Green square, a mountain lion (drawn as a large cat) sits on the left, on a perch. Cueball and Megan have their arms raised and are speaking to it. Lines in front of them indicate they are backing up.] Cueball: HEY. STOP. Megan: SHOO. stand up straight, speak firmly, and slowly back away -> mountain lion [Red square, Cueball and Megan are being chased by a mountain lion, and are running towards a building to their right.] run toward a building or hard-topped vehicle -> mountain lion [Red square, Cueball and Megan exit a building and approach a mountain lion.] Megan: Hello. calmly exit the building -> mountain lion [Red square, Cueball is putting his hands firmly on a mountain lion.] apply firm pressure -> mountain lion [Red square, lightning strikes a tree. Cueball is standing outside, with his arms raised, yelling at the lightning. Lines in front of him indicate he is backing up.] BOOM Cueball: NO! stand up straight, speak firmly, and slowly back away -> lightning [Green square, lightning strikes a tree. Cueball and Megan run toward a building to their right.] BOOM run toward a building or hard-topped vehicle -> lightning [Red square, lightning strikes a tree. Cueball and Megan exit a building and approach the lightning-struck tree.] BOOM calmly exit the building -> lightning [Red square, lightning strikes a tree. Cueball pushes on the lightning-struck tree.] BOOM apply firm pressure -> lightning [Red square, a fire alarm is beeping. Cueball yells at the alarm, with his arms raised. Lines in front of him indicates he is backing up.] BEEP BEEP BEEP Cueball: HEY. stand up straight, speak firmly, and slowly back away -> fire alarm [Red square, a fire alarm is beeping next to a building with flames on its roof. Cueball and Megan run toward the burning building.] BEEP BEEP BEEP run toward a building or hard-topped vehicle -> fire alarm [Green square, a fire alarm is beeping next to a house with flames on its roof. Cueball and Megan are exiting the burning building.] BEEP BEEP BEEP calmly exit the building -> fire alarm [Red square, a fire alarm is beeping, and Cueball is trying to "suppress" the beeping sound. Behind him are flames.] BEEP BEEP BE-eep eep eep eep eep apply firm pressure -> fire alarm [Red square, Cueball is bleeding from his right arm, and holds it. Megan to his right yells at him with her arms raised. Lines in front of her indicates she is backing up.] Megan: HEY! Megan: STOP IT! stand up straight, speak firmly, and slowly back away -> bleeding [Red square, Megan, holding a first aid kit in one hand and a bandage in the other, runs with a bleeding Cueball towards a building to their right.] run toward a building or hard-topped vehicle -> bleeding [Red square, Megan holds a bandage, and to the ground in front of her is a first aid kit. Cueball is walking to the right of the panel, with an injured and bloody left arm raised.] Cueball: Bye! calmly exit the building -> bleeding [Green square, Cueball sits in a chair and Megan is treating him by putting her hands on his injured limb. Behind her on the ground is a first aid kit.] apply firm pressure -> bleeding

 

Thank you to everyone!!

Link to canvas: https://canvas.toast.ooo

 

Thank you to everyone who has helped!

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over at https://canvas.toast.ooo there's a weekend event for Lemmy users. It's similar to r/place, each user can place one pixel every 30 seconds. Come help add our logo!

Template: https://i.imgur.com/evRnFGN.png at location (259, 786). You can add the template for yourself by clicking the gear in the top right.

 

Episode in The War On Cars podcast talking about the book Traffication: How Cars Destroy Nature and What We Can Do About It with its author, Paul Donald.

Donald coins the term "Traffication" to describe the car-centric mode of development, and goes over various problems that cars cause for wildlife. The danger posed by the car to nature, he suggests, is existential.

 

I’m quite young, but personally—I spent most of my childhood thinking a crush was just “friendship I’m embarrassed to want to continue,” so I avoided befriending girls I had “crushes” on just because I thought me doing so would be creepy or clingy. Later on, in high school, I didn’t like that I hardly had friends who weren’t guys, so I was happy to befriend someone who wasn’t, who I’ll call Z, even though being around them made me generally anxious.

When I found out about myself being aro (and ace), it lead to me gaining a furthered interest in LGBTQ politics and being less ashamed in trying to advocate for myself in platonic relationships.

Z also figured out that they were aroace, and we quickly and mostly-accidentally entered an intimate platonic relationship. Which… was a big mistake! I was under the impression that our aroace compatibility made us immune to having a bad relationship, but I ended up really liking their touch and acceptance, and not really liking being around them otherwise. Z wasn’t a bad person, so I didn’t really have a reason to be anxious around them, so I thought it might just go away if I tried hard enough. It didn’t. Just a pretty big personality conflict. Cue several months of feeling bad whenever we did anything non-cuddling, and feeling guilty that I felt bad during those times—which ended up being a lot, because Z stopped enjoying cuddling. I’m grateful to them, though, for being willing to talk to me about it, even if it took us a while to figure out what was wrong.

Since then, I’ve found other cuddle buddies that I feel much more secure around. And it’s still weird and surreal to see people in my friend groups having romantic desires, and dating people. Every time it happens I want to quiz them and be like “are you sure you’re not secretly aromantic and you just haven’t realized??” :P

It’s also probably why I like Lemon Demon and Tally Hall and Will Wood instead of, like, normal music that normal people listen to.

 

I’ve noticed that most people here are ex-redditors, migrating due to the API changes and u/spez’s problematic leadership. I’m wondering, though, how many people here use Lemmy despite never using Reddit?

Personally, I only ever interacted with r/place, and lurked a few times, but I kept up with the protests and I liked the idea of building up Lemmy as a Fediverse alternative for Redditors to migrate to. So I’m not sure if I count.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/286631

Was wondering what urbanism-related books people might have read or heard about. I've personally read Walkable City by Jeff Speck, which I found enjoyable and informative. I've also heard of the books written by Charles Marohn (Confessions of a Recovering Engineer and Strong Towns). What others are notable?

You can read Walkable City for free here: http://www.petkovstudio.com/bg/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Walkable-City.pdf , though it's missing anniversary edition content. Don't be scared by the page count, it's only actually like 200.

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