I avoid them if I can. If the store wants me to work for them, they can pay me. If they don’t have any available human checkers, I will pay myself by accidentally not charging some of the items. I have left stores and attempt to tell store managers why.

If we had a sane economic system where jobless folks still got their needs met, I’d be all for automation. But we don’t. So every time we allow the corporations to profit with less human workers, we are fucking over our fellow humans.

"One of the employees at Spirit AeroSystems, which reportedly manufactured the door plug that blew out of an Alaska Airlines flight over Portland, Oregon, allegedly told company officials about an “excessive amount of defects,” according to the federal complaint and corresponding internal corporate documents reviewed by us.

According to the court documents, the employee told a colleague that “he believed it was just a matter of time until a major defect escaped to a customer."

https://jacobin.com/2024/01/alaska-airlines-boeing-parts-malfunction-workers-spirit-aerosystems

You paid money for something and then you find you can’t use it again. You seriously think that isn’t fucked up?

Before the Zionist movement, Palestine was ruled first by the Ottomans and then the British. Prior to Zionism, the land held Christians (the latest bombardment destroyed the 3rd oldest Christian Church in the world), Muslims, and Jews. In fact the early Palestinian national movement considered Jewish Palestinians to be Palestinian and their demands them full rights in a secular state of Palestine.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Jews

Genetics, if that matters, shows that the pre-zionist natives of Palestine are closely related to European (Sepahrdic and Ashkenazi) Jews. Basically some people left centuries ago, but some people stayed.

Now since 1948 those that left want to kick out those that stayed, or kill them if they don’t leave.

There are covenants all through Israel that forbid travel and residency by “full citizens” Palestinians of Israeli citizenship. There are separate schools. Do we not remember “separate is not equal”?

I actually like my Motorola Razor. First, it fits in girl pockets when folded! Second, the smaller screen on the outside is actually useful for checking a notification or an alarm without opening the whole phone and being tempted to keep using it. So that’s all good. The hinge seems really well designed and, after two years of using it seems fine. I’m a little miffed about what I would guess is a smaller antenna and battery life.

Plus on the rare occasion I take a voice call it is REALLY satisfying to close the phone to hang up.

There’s homophobic remarks and there are songs that are nothing but homophobia from start to end.

Quoting from the song, “LGBTQ, Let God Burn Them Quickly” Does that qualify?

Quoting from the song, “LGBTQ, Let God Burn Them Quickly” Is that not hate speech?

We should all keep calling it Twitter and let Elon get pissed at getting dead-named.

My experience says that they’d point at non union competition as an excuse to say no to union demands in negotiations.

It depends on the kind of strike. Workers that strike over a company’s unfair labor practice are protected from permanent replacements. This is not that tho. While they are far apart, I don’t think they can accuse the companies of refusing to negotiate.

Of course if the union wins the strike then no replacement.

You are comparing the work of a mass of people to fight back against hate with the actions of authorities and institutions.

Can you see how the work of masses of people is more democratic?

I use those events in the US (and many more) to condem capitalism. I also use Tianamen (and others) to condem state capitalism.

Please show me where I made any accusations to you. I think you doth protest too much.

Being color blind (or which ever) won’t fight racism. If we don’t acknowledge the difference we end up ignoring the problem. And yes, who they are matters because their experience isn’t something you or I could provide. It isn’t necessarily a fault of ours that we can never know thier experience; we just aren’t treated like they are.

Yes, fuck the rich. But the working class that must fight the rich is a diverse working class.

You mean the women whose degrees and careers were working on AI and who published informed critiques and who were fired for not retracting their criticism?

Here’s hard data to match your experience:

“This paper presents the largest study to date on gender bias, where we compare acceptance rates of contributions from men versus women in an open source software community. Surprisingly, our results show that women’s contributions tend to be accepted more often than men’s. However, women’s acceptance rates are higher only when they are not identifiable as women. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless.”

https://peerj.com/preprints/1733/

Here’s some data to demonstrate the existence of gender bias in coding:

“This paper presents the largest study to date on gender bias, where we compare acceptance rates of contributions from men versus women in an open source software community. Surprisingly, our results show that women’s contributions tend to be accepted more often than men’s. However, women’s acceptance rates are higher only when they are not identifiable as women. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists” nonetheless.https://peerj.com/preprints/1733/

“This paper presents the largest study to date on gender bias, where we compare acceptance rates of contributions from men versus women in an open source software community. Surprisingly, our results show that women’s contributions tend to be accepted more often than men’s. However, women’s acceptance rates are higher only when they are not identifiable as women. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists” nonetheless.https://peerj.com/preprints/1733/

That was due to mismanagement by Sapporo