Lol I have so many conversations like this. Someone was saying a bunch of people got laid off at their job during covid and they almost lost their house. I said something like “it’s a shame that they didn’t just temporarily decrease everyone’s hours so you all still had work. I mean, the work was going to come back eventually”.

And they of course agreed

I think many will obey the decision, just not the USA, Canada, terf island, the E.U., you know the usual culprits for not following international law.

Within at least physics, there is still a lot of importance placed on “prestigious” journals like Phys Rev. So it’s not so simple. Why would authors trust something published in the “Journal for Comradely Science”? It makes it very difficult to start something just due to the scientific cultural inertia.

Realistically it is 100% possible. But it’s the same issue the rest of the working class runs into: insufficient organization. The push for open source in its current form is just a way to make science open without affecting the profits of these huge journals. It costs the author to publish in a journal (which usually means the government allocates x-dollars within grants to pay for publishing). So it’s a farce tbh.

If there are education and experience requirements imposed on judicial candidates, and then they are elected, this is not an issue. Because those who are elected are accountable to those who elected them

(provided they can be removed from.power by the same people, which is one of those “checks and balances” Western "democracies " have imposed so we can’t remove them).

That way you have professionals/experts who are accountable to the people. Obviously elections can always be tampered with and influenced by powerful and moneyed interests, but by assuming this is true and then making it the default is a bit daft tbh.

That’s like… 4 or 5 times the speed of sound at sea level so… There would be a bit of a boom.

The real question is if you slapped hard enough to raise the temperature to 74C (undergrad clearly doesn’t cook), what would the temperature of your hand be? And for the engineers: how far up your arm would you have to measure before the temperature returned to normal body temperature? And for the bio/kin/nursing/premed students: how much would need to be amputated?

I mean, private ownership by those who don’t do the work or consume the product, yet get to make the decisions is to blame, yes. And that is capitalism by definition so… Capitalism is to blame…

The only identity politics I want to see is us against the ruling elite. Everything else is sparkling fascism.

Or better yet, invite them over and challenge them to holmgang.

If you want I can try and help with at least a starting plan. You can message me if that’s something you’re interested in.

Fyi: I’m a reasonably strong weight-class competitor in strongman/powerlifting. I have worked as a personal trainer in the past, and I’d like a little more experience helping folks so that I can hopefully make some income instead of being unemployed lol. So my help would be free

Are you talking about deadlift bars?

Pants (especially leggings), long socks, or just accepting scrapped up legs all work well.

This is great! I don’t know if you record your sets to watch your technique, but it helps immensely.

I have some thoughts about why you may be hitting your knees/shins on the way down. If you want to send a couple videos I can help you out. Or I can just give you my 2 cents without them.

That’s too bad tbh. It seems like a trend following “good times” under capitalism

I know it’s not your point, but learning about the Nordics way of doing things was an entry point for me to actually learn about alternatives to capitalism. All I’m saying is it’s likely a great entry point of discussion with well meaning liberals, especially where they are rolling back safety nets.

Yeah maybe, they do have the fastest gaming processors, and most efficient workstation processors if you use the x3d for workstations.

I hope not. I’ll likely be buying a bit of an upgrade in the next 6 months…

I was thinking this too. However, Amd still has a much lower market share than Intel so I suspect they will use this to claw back as much as they can. If they manage to get into the 40-60% range, then I would expect them to start playing with raising prices.

Alternatively they may release certain models at inflated prices to test the waters with increased pricing.

This is an armchair analysis of course so take it with a grain of salt

Within any job, there is what your role is on paper, and what you actually do over the course of a work day. Often times what you actually do is much more than “expected”. Work to rule means that you stick explicitly to what your role is, and the way the company expects you to perform your duties. Or rather, what they expect on paper.

An example: Unionized employees will often “work to rule” as one of the first steps aimed at putting pressure on an employer to negotiate. It’s an entirely legal thing to do, and serves to exemplify the disconnect between on paper job expectations (what you are paid for), and real expectations.

Thus, working as per your contract/job description with minimal deviation, will minimize how much you are exploited by ensuring you only do the work out are paid for.

The undiagnosed mental condition could be it tbh. I found it hard to learn anything I didn’t find really interesting (among other things). Boom, ADHD diagnosis in my thirties

Yeah, operating dangerously close to “work to rule” most days is a great way to minimize exploitation.