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HelloThere

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  • Music venues subject to noise complaints to get ‘greater protection’

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  • Great news.

  • OpenAI agreed to pay Oracle $30B a year for data center services | TechCrunch

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  • Anyone can agree to spend money, the real question is does OpenAI have 30bn a year to spend.

    Me thinks not.

  • 'Great British Energy solar panels' for schools were made in China

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  • Well yeah, no shit, it isn't like you can build an entire domestic industry in 12 months (outside of a world war anyway).

  • How To Win - A Solarpunk Flyer for the Nationwide US Protest Tomorrow on July 17th ☀️ (Second Page inside)

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  • Sure, I don't disagree with that.

    What I'm saying is you've structured this like an instruction manual, but have the steps in the wrong order.

    In my experience with local organising (I'm a trustee of the local foodbank) doing the actions in the order you've laid out would cause the vast majority to disengage immediately, and I live in an area with higher than average unionisation and left wing tendencies.

    You know that for a general strike to be successful it has to be massive - 10s of millions of workers - and in effect for a very long time. For that to be possible, people need to be secure in their housing, their access to food, and to heat. If any of those fail, the strike fails.

    For those to be a success, parallel power structures - mutual aid, etc - need to already be in place.

    So, if you want to structure this as a 3 step instruction manual, my recommendation is that it's

    • Create local security for food and housing
    • Join One Big Union
    • Strike until you win

  • How To Win - A Solarpunk Flyer for the Nationwide US Protest Tomorrow on July 17th ☀️ (Second Page inside)

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  • If the intent is to get people started down a good path, then it should focus on first steps, which is community organising.

    The people who are already open to unions are already in them. Because of 50 years of neo-liberal shite people do not understand class consciousness and view themselves simply as isolated, powerless, consumers.

    You can break that view of themselves through community efforts - like gardens, allotments, etc - because they demonstrate their own abilities to themselves, and how working together benefits us all.

    And then, you can start pushing for more official efforts and organisation.

  • How To Win - A Solarpunk Flyer for the Nationwide US Protest Tomorrow on July 17th ☀️ (Second Page inside)

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  • "How to win" is not "Just Do The Thing".

    Building community and local organising is a pre-requisite to any sort of collective action. The idea that that somehow comes after a general strike is mad.

    All resistance starts between people who know each other. Talking to your neighbours, helping each other out, sharing tools and skills, etc, are all required before you can be all "join the one big union and go on perpetual strike".

    If you, as a person, cannot organise a community garden, you cannot organise a general strike.

  • Man told fake Russian spies he had ‘useful’ information on Grant Shapps, jury hears

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  • But what about Michael Green?

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  • I mean, there's a whole bunch of reasons, but I don't think it's simply stupidity.

    Some people didn't learn the critical thinking skills you have, some may well have "lost their job to an immigrant" (and not realise that it was actually their boss that fired them because they can exploit someone more vulnerable than them). Some are scared of change, some are suspicious of "outsiders" and haven't actually met any, and when they do realise everyone is just people.

    And some are just dirty fucking racists, and they are absolutely stupid.

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  • Presuming you're asking in good faith...

    Because working class - read: poor and routinely fucked over - people have been repeatedly lied to that the reason they must remaining living in poverty and dying young is because of people receiving £49.18 per week.

    Not the bosses, landlords, or billionaires, to whom 49 quid is a cheap lunch.

  • I landed a remote job for a European company, and now I'd find it hard to go back to a US-based company — I feel spoiled by the perks

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  • Does anyone else find a bit odd to phrase basic labour rights as 'perks'?

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  • Yeah that's a better way of phrasing it.

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  • It always comes across to me as a very american thing, specifically trying to make something feel older than it actually is.

    I'm something like HelloThere XV because the firstborn son in my family has had the same name since at least the 1700s - even across language when we got forcibly relocated for sheep.

    Would my future son be XVI? Sure - but they won't have the actual numerals.

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  • A - UK uses Trident, an American launch system, so it's likely that any attack against America by the UK would somehow be disabled

    B - that's not how MAD works. If France, or the UK, launched anything nuclear the retaliation would be immediate and immense.

    C - why try to invade 11 million canadians when there are only a few tens of thousands of greenlanders? If an intra-NATO war happens, that's the more likely one imo.

  • EU Plans to ‘Fast Track’ Trade Talks With US Amid Tariff Fight

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  • So, 15 years instead of the usual 20?

  • Fly-tippers’ vehicles to be crushed in bid to save England from ‘avalanche of rubbish’

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  • I mean, this is so over the top, but I kinda love it as an idea.

  • How Pope Francis Helped Inspire the Global Movement Against Climate Change

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  • Yeah. Sure.

  • Elon Musk's zero-tariff proposal with Europe is a sign of weakness and fear, German economy minister says

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  • Super stupid bought a five cent bag...

  • Home Assistant 2025.4 Time to continue the dashboards!

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  • I can finally turn my heating down! I feel like a bag of domesticated coconut.

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    Le Pen Verdict Fuels Claims That Europe’s Elites Are Colluding Against Populists

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  • In my country liberal appointed judge

    In France, like every other sane country, judges are not political appointees.

    The Judiciary has statutory protection from the Executive. This is explained in literally the first sentence on the English-language wiki page:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judiciary_of_France