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  • shut it down. ignore the epa. fuck the national government, act in open revolt. its over, stop listening to them out of some sort of misguided sense of "well if we just go along with it now, later we can deal with the consequences" OR we can stop.

    its our government. we made the rules. we can break them in times of need. this is that time. close the fucking coal power plant as planned, fuck what these people who EVERYONE KNOWS has bullshit intentions says. just ignore them. they have no power if we all stop listening

    "but they have guns"

    they cant kill us all. and if you think itll get to that point, then youre to blame for letting it get this bad in the first place. the time to sit the fuck around and watch football and wait for the midterms nd hope it doesnt get too much worse is long past- by a few decades at least

    stop listening to the stupid bullshit the administration says. states, gang together, fuck the national govt until it gets its shit together

    why is this so hard- this is what we get for voting career politicans into office. theyre all too scared to do something that could get them primaried- not by the will of the people, but of their party overlords- and so this is what we get, because we were too lazy to participate ourselves. in true american fashion, instead of taking turns in the government before returning to our nornal lives, as was the plan and makes sense, we outsourced the running of our communities to career politicians who we vote into office time and time again, politicians backed by the factory owners we've been fighting since factories came about

    not with a bang, but with a pathetic, lazy, spoiled whimper

  • 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 🤷

  • 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."

  • 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

  • I love the pi zero version- it's a great toy and occasionally a useful tool. was hoping the CM5 version would use 18650, but Ill still buy this with the flat battery.

  • FYI they sell one that can be reprogrammed. It's still USB PD, but that covers most use cases.

    They also sell a kit of compatable barrel jack plug adapters of many shapes and sizes.

  • FYI it does work, but be aware youll need (sandboxed) google play services installed on at least one profile of your phone to connect a wearOS device

  • in some places, funds are used so people on food assistance can double their produce purchasing power at farmers markets, which increases the percentage of already allocated food subsidy spending towards fresh fruits and vegetables. Ive also seen low income subsidized community garden plots (where individual plot fees go towards the water bill, bulk fertilizer etc)

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  • i love noticing the little details

    the "22" on the bag

  • FYI there is a message on the bboard about webmail login auth changes. (was looking yesterday for anything about the image upload issues)

  • jerboa app gives me a Request timeout has expired [url=https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image, request_timeout=20000 ms] popup attaching an image to this comment. Im jealous you get an actual error msg

  • Have you ever worked at a small bakery or cafe? It's basically impossible to know exactly how many customers youre going to have on any given day.

    They could always underproduce, sure, but my guess is that then businesses that care about cutting down on waste would lose business to places that regularly overproduce, when customers started choosing the place that was never out of stock of their favorites, or was always offering a wider selection. Underproduction by companies trying to responsibly reduce waste would probably benefit the largest corporations, with their better magins due to economy of scale, who are also more able to lose money in some areas just to drive business to other departments. Maybe that's partially on the customers and their choices, but I think the idea behind this app is a good way to encourage competition, and benefits smaller, more local businesses.

    Also this allows places to experiment more. Not sure everyone will enjoy your new recipe? Here's an established way to recoup costs at the end of the day, to at least break even. Bakeries for as long as I can remember have been discounting "day old" product - this app creates a handy centralized maketplace for it. While I'm all for more responsible consumption, what you're advocating for requires not just more responsible businesses, but more responsible consumers to make sacrifices to support them, enough to make up the difference in potential lost business. How many people are going to add an extra stop in their errands to visit a business they know is often or even occassionally out of the product they want, when they know another, more wasteful business always has it available?

    I guess I disagree that this app helps businesses "do nothing" about food waste- I see it as a way to help (especially small) businesses throw away less food. Can it be abused; can businesses still wildly overproduce? sure, but many were already doing so before this, and will continue to do so as a matter of caring about maximizing profit. that doesn't take away from the waste the app does help reduce, and the help driving customers to, and breaking even on unsold product it provides small businesses - businesses who are imho more likely than large conglomorates and chains to care about being socially and enviornmentally responsible in other ways, too, not just reducing food waste.

  • TIL people still run eggdrop bots. I don't think Ive touched one since maybe 2003. was probably the last time I messed with tcl

  • had youtube open in a new private window on a vpn connection the other day after clicking a link to a video about the new raspberry pi compute module

    was scrolling down thru one of the top comment threads and noticed, sandwiched between relevant tech videos on the right? some talking head, designed to enrage (as opposed to inform) fox news video about nothing related.

    I think Im just done with youtube for the forseeable future. if your profit model requires inducing engagement like that, your product isnt good enough to stand on its own, and/or you're ok with being shitty to make more money. either way, I want nothing to do with you at that point.

  • there is shelter and food, plenty to go around- it's being locked behind an amoral paywall.

    do the moral things at your job and get fired over it. make it clear when you apply elsewhere why you were fired.

    if we're being forced to choose between doing the right thing and surviving, the system is broken AND those hoarding obscene amounts, living in luxury, making the decisions to further screw customers and employees in the name of investors and executives need to be addressed, one way or another.

    ...Im not saying any of this is easy, but the other option seems to be just try to be happy with the scraps they let us fight over? no thank you.