You're right, the shaping outcomes part is especially well put. The dispiriting thing is that as long as we're not the ones being fucked over I don't see my colleagues giving much of a shit about organizing. They're generally happy about the company. The problem here is the effect our work has on other people.
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I feel this, that's my usual attitude. This time I didn't manage to keep the anger under control I guess.
Unfortunately we're not the highly unionized workforce in question. We're the tech contractor they want to replace said highly unionized workforce with. We're not unionized and I don't see the majority of my colleagues giving a shit except for a couple likeminded people. It's bleak 
We all cope in different ways, don't stress 
Looking forward to a bountiful slop harvest this season
That looks absolutely delicious I'm hungry now
Critical support to the Amsterdam taxi drivers who made some zionazis take a swim
I love that this joke has been alive since ye olden days of the subreddit, I had a nostalgic moment reading it...
Thought about this exact video as well.
Communism is when indentured servitude.
No. As a rule of thumb whenever the EU does something half decent it's either by necessity or accident.
Tech companies are already lobbying hard at both the European and national levels. The recent AI Act looks like it's written more by policy wonks who drank the AI industry's Kool-Aid than by actual experts in the field. On one side they want to cut funding to NGI0, one of the few genuinely good things the EU did in recent memory, which - among other things - funds Lemmy development, and costs pennies at the scale of the EU budgets. On the other they're planning to pump ungodly amounts of money into "the AI industry" - whatever the fuck that is - because they got sold on GenAI being the next big thing and they don't want to be left behind.
In EU policy for every half decent thing like the GDPR the are many ChatControls and similarly terrible ideas.
Happy to be of service. Zhug by itself is a pretty strong sauce so you use small quantities of it, but you can make it into more of a dip by mixing it with about two parts of yoghurt (vegan yoghurt works fine too).
It's a glorious day. Henry Kissinger, former thief of oxygen and current polluter of soil, is dead. Unfortunately, death won't stop him from claiming more victims.
During the Vietnam war, Laos was officially neutral and engaged in its own civil war between the monarchic Royal Lao Government and the communist Pathet Lao forces. Its territory also hosted parts of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, a crucial supply route for the North Vietnamese army. The US, in order to both combat the spread of communism and stop the flow of weapons into South Vietnam, started the so-called "Secret War": a years-long bombing campaign in which they dropped more ordnance by weight than in the entirety of the second world war. A planeload of bombs was dropped on Laos every eight minutes for nearly a decade. It's called the "Secret War" because it was largely kept secret from the US public. While Kissinger didn't himself start the Secret War, he vastly expanded its scope, to the point of personally picking or approving targets for bombing runs.
If the title of "World's Most Bombed Country" wasn't enough of a burden to bear, the sheer amount of ordnance dropped means that to this day, half a century later, the Lao PDR still has a massive problem with UXO. People still die today from bombs dropped by US planes 50 years ago. A large portion of the bombs dropped were cluster munitions, each of which could contain hundreds of bomblets (called "bombies" here in the Lao PDR). Between 10 and 30% of bombies used in those years failed to detonate on impact even in ideal conditions. They are the size of a tennis ball, if children find them they will often pick them up and play with them. Thousands of kids have died or been maimed this way since the war. Once again, to drive the point home: Kissinger is responsible for these deaths.
If you feel like celebrating the old bastard kicking the bucket by doing a good thing, there are organizations you can donate to that are working to undo the damage done by him in Laos. UXO Lao and MAG International are running projects to either directly clear the land from UXO, or support affected communities.
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Apparently the government is using the excuse of the current emergency situation to ban a much larger protest scheduled in Utrecht against cuts to university funding. I think the fascist hooligans were too macho to get their asses beat intentionally, but stirring shit up sure was convenient.