mohKohn

in the bay? you're hilarious.

kinda doubt it, unless you specifically mean the professionals.

UAW wasa fucking shitshow of corruption until a couple of years ago. looks like its back on its feet!

the assassination of Alexander the second backfired completely.

many other places bury their wires and or do proper maintenance

my bike.

I would check in with another local Union. UC grad students are organized under UAW, which was nominally united auto workers.

why would you expect it to get better if Google is broken up?
Google has a massive conflict of interest; it both sells ads to SEO'ed websites, and ranks searches. Their incentive is for you to go to the pages with the most of their ads possible. Even a company with revenue purely from ads on the search page has less terrible incentives.

found the astronomer

weird grammar to say someone made it up?

I'm sorry Russian cat girls? Wat?

There's a distinction to be made between things that "look" dystopian, and actual dystopias. I think a lot of our current visual language of dystopia was taken from fascist/communist design choices which were in many respects independent of all the oppression they perpetrated. this example really drove that home for me, since the media it inspired came to mind before the reality.