Catoblepas

Sometimes I see those little “self driving” (usually remote driven IIRC) delivery robots and it’s usually a bit of a jump scare, because you don’t hear them coming up behind you or around a corner over the street noise.

The rest of the time it’s funny, because they’re stuck or because someone just never came to get the delivery and it’s just standing there uselessly.

I have terrible allergies, who can say when a terrific sneeze will come upon me? Who can say.

This is the absolute biggest downside for me when I cross the 8 lane highway to walk in and enjoy the rich people neighborhood near me. Either literally no sidewalks on some streets, or the fucking land boats blocking the entire sidewalk.

The knowledge of widespread Ring cameras is the only thing that keeps some people's trucks from getting keyed to shit, is all I'm saying.

I like how you scrolled past a comment with a huge list of worker co-ops just in the US (there are also multinational ones) to tell someone else that it sounded too theoretical and complicated to work, lmao.

That’s a fair concern, but if you keep it in a sealed plastic bin (a 5 qt is enough for 2 people for 1-2 weeks in my experience) you shouldn’t have any odor issues. We store ours in the fridge because there’s not enough room in the freezer, but if you have more freezer space than fridge this should be doubly true since all the food scraps will be frozen until you drop them off.

I only have to carry mine to the bins provided by the city outside my apartment, but shoving it in a bag or backpack would be doable if it's worth it to you.

Big deal, I could sleep like that too if my bones were made out of rubber 🥲

Now this is how I imagine The Eyrie in ASOIAF.

I want to see him fly!

Me: I won’t vote for all the owls

Also me: [votes for all the owls]

You think there are no large worker co-ops in the US? Embarrassing. You’ve never heard of Bob’s Red Mill or Publix?

And because I’m sure you aren’t happy with two examples, here’s an incomplete list of notable worker co-ops in the US from Wikipedia:

But yeah, dawg, worker co-ops are fake news.

PS: is there some reason you omitted the two sentences before that which make it clear this is one method of organizing worker’s co-ops?

If exercised directly, all members meet regularly to make—and vote on—decisions on how the co-operative is run. Direct workers' cooperatives sometimes use consensus decision-making to make decisions

I decided my resting heart rate wasn’t high enough from stress and decided to get my COVID and flu vaccines this weekend. I feel tired and icky, but it’ll be worth it.

Everyone take care of yourselves, you are important 🫶🩷🩵🤍

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