“socialism with Chinese characteristics” (the “Chinese characteristics” are capitalism)

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This wouldn’t even be dumb if it weren’t for the fact that diamonds have practically no significant resale value.

At least if you buy something like a gold ring, you’ll know that it will be worth at least the melt value of the gold later on.

I have a script running that uses the Namecheap API to automatically get wildcard certs from Let’s Encrypt. I didn’t pay a dime for this. Did something change?

Why doesn’t the council, instead of hiring private security guards, instead hire… the police, whose job it literally is to do this??

Nothing wrong with Boost Mobile, or any other discount telecom provider either. It’s not like the phone signals taste different lmao

It goes without saying that it’s reasonable to expect a company you work for to provide a company computer for work purposes.

But if a cheque from the company pays for the food on my table and the roof over my head, if they say “dance” during work hours, I’m gonna dance.

It’s just a hallmark of “I bought the cheapest domain name TLD available”.

That’s not necessarily bad if all you need is something to get the job done, but there is a stereotype associated with it.

That’s a nice speech but if your boss tells you to use Premier Pro and you don’t, you get fired. If the assignment says to use Premier Pro and you turn in a Davinci Resolve project, you get a zero.

I don’t disagree that the status quo is bad, but you can’t pretend that the standards as they are don’t exist just because you don’t agree with them.

Industry standards and class requirements say “hi”.

There are legitimate reasons to buy a Mac. For example I knew a guy in university who, in addition to being a computer science major, was an avid amateur filmmaker and frequently took filmmaking classes as electives. For that, he needed Premier Pro which doesn’t run on Linux, but does run on Mac. So he bought a used MacBook Pro.

Whatever you do, do NOT buy a gaming laptop. They usually have utterly terrible battery life and are very noisy.

If you are planning to code then for your own sanity, install Linux or get a Mac.

I’m not a European (I’m American) but I honestly thought von der Leyen was a pinnacle of competence compared to our leaders when she was in office.

Yes, the next level of appeal would be to the Supreme Court.

Octopus: shoots twice from each gun

Has anyone mentioned the word “union” in these communications yet? It needs to be gotten across that without a formal union, your bosses can just crush your little organisation with very few realistic legal consequences. They can make up bullshit reasons to fire you or reduce your hours as punishment. What is happening is just collective bargaining but without the legal protection of being a union.

Unions rarely strike. The threat of Industrial action (which is not just limited to striking) is usually an effective enough bargaining chip that in most cases, bosses offer concessions in negotiations without needing to resort to it.

There are limited forms of Industrial action as well. For example, the union can say that everyone should refuse overtime or that they should reduce their work to only the bare minimum required of them (which is called “work-to-order” or “work-to-rule”). Other tactics involve a large number of employees calling in sick on the same day. All of these allow workers to show their power without needing to sacrifice their paycheque.

If you contact the local chapter of a larger union organisation, they can provide resources to help organise your workplace. Google Search “Chicago restaurant workers union” and find the one that matches you and your colleagues’ values most, then reach out for help organising.

Employer intimidation is forbidden during the process of formally organising a union and will be prosecuted by the National Labour Relations Board.

Then you can get permanent access for 165 USD (one-off payment)

Unless that dictionary is Wiktionary.

Wiktionary is part of the same project as Wikipedia. It provides dictionary-style definitions for basically all slang terms whereas Urban Dictionary is actually terrible if you want to find the meaning of words because half the definitions are jokes while the other half define slang in terms of other slang.

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