NostraDavid

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A trash container? I’m neither Bri’ish, or 'Murican, so I have no idea 😂

I think I’ve seen a video showcasing this tactic. Dude with a Syringe just running around, picking up his teammates as soon as they downed. It was great :D

Dialectical Materialism

How about “a tug-of-war between owners and workers for jobs, resources, and technology”

Three examples:

Factory Work and Labour Unions

Early 20th-century factory jobs involved long hours, low pay, and unsafe working conditions. When workers tried to unionize, factory owners often resisted, viewing unionized labour as a threat to profits. This created a direct conflict: owners wanting to keep costs low vs. workers demanding better wages and safer workplaces.

Automation in Warehouses

Warehouses (e.g., Amazon fulfilment centres) are increasingly adopting robotic systems to speed up sorting and packing. Employees might feel pressure to meet higher performance metrics set by a partly automated workflow, while also fearing that further automation will reduce human jobs. Here, the “tug-of-war” is between technological efficiency (and profit) vs. workers’ job security and well-being.

Tech Industry Outsourcing

Companies sometimes outsource tech-related jobs to countries with cheaper labour costs. This lowers expenses for the company but can lead to local layoffs and economic hardship for employees in higher-wage regions. The conflict revolves around the benefit of increased profit margins for the company vs. the material needs of domestic workers who lose their livelihoods.

The USA actually spends several billions, if not trillions on Medicare (meant for the old) and Medicaid (meant for the poor, and single mothers, and young children) combined.

In 2023, the federal government spent about $848.2 billion on Medicare, accounting for 14% of total federal spending.

source - and that’s just Medicare.

I agree with you that it’s weird that corporations get a bailout, instead of selling the company to competitors, but no need to act like the USA doesn’t spend a TON of money on its citizens, keeping their head above water :)

Aight, that’s fair.

Let me tell you that it has been socially unacceptable to make apologies for anyone who flew the Nazi flag ever since 1945.

Yes, I understand you’re trying to take a nuanced approach to the Nazis who had been drafted since being kids, etc, but just don’t.

History already happened, and the last of the original Nazis are slowly dieing out (youngest Nazis tended to be 16 years old, so 1945-16 = born in 1929, so they’d be about 96 years old). They don’t need a random stranger to try to defend them.

Nazism is a failed ideology that abused large parts of the world. It doesn’t need defending.

NPM

Nginx-Proxy-Manager. Got it.

I didn’t read the parent comment well enough and was wondering what the Node Package Manager had to do with anything 😂

“Stuff” should be translated as “tool”, IMO.

BlueSky actually is federated, AFAIK: https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/federation-architecture

It does use its own protocol (AT instead of ActivityPub)

This video always made me giggle a bit: Students vs. Mexicans: Cultural Appropriation | Man on the Street

We live in a patriarchy

I don’t even know what this means anymore.

Oh hell yeah, Category Theory! LET’S GOOOOO!

LineageOS, maybe? Still Android, but (AFAIK) more open to change than standard Android.

So sad when it happens…

I don’t follow - do people still seriously use SMS? I for one try to use it as little as possible.

Oh man, I remember this from years ago when the only 1-up on Minecraft it had, was that I could run it at 60 FPS, infinite chunks in all directions, no extreme lag spikes while generating the map, and further view distance.

Zero mods back then, so I’m happy to see the mod support!

The amount of boomer bait on Facebook is staggering. The amount of Boomers falling for obviously AI-generated shite even moreso.

DROL: Dicht Rechts, Open Links.

I think I just prefer Links Los, which implies that the other way tightens.

Dutch, BTW.

Oh, I also really like Mammonism: “the greedy pursuit of riches”, from the Biblical “Mammon”.

I’ve got six of them:

• Tittynope: “A small amount left over; a modicum.”
• Cacography: “bad handwriting or spelling.”
• Epeolatry: “the worship of words.”
• Kakistocracy: “a state or society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens.”
• Oikophilia: “love of home”
• Tenebrous: “dark; shadowy or obscure”

I was referring to Borderlands: The Movie, not Mario.

And I’m blaming him a little as he still took the bag.