Starve the Beast. The conservatives use it for everything. Run on government not working, and then working to dismantle government to prove it.

Because actually, the biggest change came on May 9th, 2013…

If I recall my understanding correctly, it’s 1) because there hasn’t been consistently this much CO2 in the atmosphere since an era when the planet whose climate was fundamentally different and 2) that this is an escape velocity type thing, where it becomes harder and harder for us to get back under 400ppm CO2 in the atmosphere, because of how long it takes for CO2 to be absorbed. Thus, climate change will spin out of control far faster in this new, different environment.

So literally, yes, we were climate changing, but post 2013 things are indeed a lot more grim and the outlook less clear.

These people are fools who are making a conscious choice to ingest information that would challenge their worldview.

UK is fucked, too. During/post COVID the Tories were doing messed up shit like setting up appointments for disabled people recieving benefits to prove they were disabled and still needed benefits. They would purposefully set the approval appointments somewhere physically difficult to access for a disabled person. If you showed up, you obviously weren’t disabled, because you managed to arrive despite obstacles, and you would be denied benefits. If you failed to show up, you were also denied benefits. It was built to just kick people off the fucking system en masse.

Which isn’t even as bad as that they tried to argue during the height of COVID that it was a waste of resources to save the lives of the developmentally disabled. Essentially, they just wanted to pull the plug on those people and give the ventilators to more “suitable” candidates. Fucking sickening.

Yet, somehow, (from what I understand, anyway) you’re allowed to make money from investments and other type of “non-worked” income while on SSDI. I’m pretty damn sure that $1500 limit is only for worked income. It’s almost like it’s tailor-made for rich people to be able to function on it (because they already had investments when they became disabled) and to just screw the living hell out of everyone else.

Now that’s a Frankenstein cast I can get behind.

The entire disability system in the USA is built to hurt people, top to bottom. It forces people to live in perpetual poverty and often struggle to afford the help they need for their disabilities. They can’t get married without their benefits being cut, because now they have family who is expected to care for them.

This is just another symptom of a system designed to prevent as many people from collecting benefits as possible. If someone dies while waiting, that’s no money that needs to be paid out. It’s a “win” in terms of the budget, because it’s reducing costs by denying benefits.

The USA is truly run by fucking vultures, and while the Republican party is responsible for most of the horrific messes, there are a not-insignificant number of congresspeople who are “Democrats” but may as well be Republican, like Joe Manchin.

Feet are the back-killer. Back pain is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my feet. I permit them to pass under me. And when they have gone past I will turn the inner eye to see their path. Where the feet have gone there will be nothing. Only my back will remain.

I mean, I’m good with “Handsome.”

Let’s hope Ea-nāṣir’s code is better than his copper.

Like my life has been stolen from me. I am left with nothing.

Isn’t having cancer alone bad enough?

Older and even more broken than all that.

Don’t cut yourself on that edge.

Uhhh. I still think that was US learning from Israel… Israel doing this shit ain’t new. Ask Rachel Corrie.

Well it’s a lot like all the ISPs taking fucktons of money over 25 years to “roll out fiber” and then just basically pocketing the money.

Corporations are the real welfare queens.

Fuck yes. It is not enough to boycott companies with your money. You must also do so with your labor. Thank you for making a carve out exception for the little people in the picture. It would be better if they could withhold their labor as well, but many of the lowest in companies simply cannot afford to work somewhere else for less pay. As you pointed out, the engineers truly can take a pay cut and survive. Thank you for sharing your likely-to-be unpopular opinion.

Best answer here. The wide use of open source software inside other software leads to precisely such a situation.

Getting fired felt like a possibility but never a reality

…tech people never fail to amaze me in their misty-eyed views of the companies they work for.

It’s still disgusting and obviously an attempt to stifle dissent in the ranks, but like, firing someone for stuff like this is so common in the world that you have to be pretty naive to think it wasn’t a reality and to prepare for it accordingly when you planned your sit-in.

Tech workers need unions so badly for reasons exactly like this.

I always forget it’s a remake and I was unaware Jack Nicholson was in the original. When you said “original” I thought you meant original cut. Anyway, neat!