minimuffins

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by minimuffins 5y ago
> As well as any nation who's best and brightest minds refuse to contribute Sickening pro robo war jingoism!
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by minimuffins 5y ago
Going to the wreckage is a reasonable idea. There will be an ELT in there which is what a rescue crew will come looking for. Plus it's easier to spot from the air than a lone person. And maybe something useful survived the crash. That
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by minimuffins 5y ago
Eh yeah, you're right. I was really thinking about white collar vs blue collar unions.
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by minimuffins 5y ago
Yes! I keep seeing these idealistic responses about negotiation. When you negotiate a higher salary, you are saying to your boss, look, I know I am creating more value for you than I'm getting as a wage, and I know you can't just
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by minimuffins 5y ago
I think you'll have a hard time sourcing that claim.
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by minimuffins 5y ago
The games industry is notorious for crunch hiring and firing, low wages and exhausting work regimes. When work conditions like that prevail, people unionize (good for them imo). If there's anything surprising about it, it's that p
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by minimuffins 5y ago
You think that's enough? I guess we'll find out.
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by minimuffins 5y ago
> increasing reliability and resilience I'm far from well versed in this area but I was under the impression that renewables really suffer in this department. The lifespan of a wind turbine is about 20 years. We don't know exac
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by minimuffins 5y ago
> and we do need to fix that I can't see any way of fixing it that doesn't entail interfering with the (supposedly) natural operations of profit seeking in the market. At some point we need a state (or somebody or something tha
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by minimuffins 5y ago
> No HR person would allow unpaid intern positions in 2021. It's very clearly illegal in the United States. Unless this claim is scoped to the tech industry, it's absolutely wrong. Frankly I don't know the actual legal sta
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by minimuffins 5y ago
We = everyone who has to work to earn a living. And as I say, most especially people who can afford to take a pass on bullshit no-pay work and try to establish a culture where such exploitation is impermissible (like it used to be). > yo
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by minimuffins 5y ago
We ought to establish norms that discredit this kind of nonsense. Those of us who could afford to take on this kind of unpaid work for exposure ought to object sternly and without any particular regard for professional decorum (just like th
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by minimuffins 5y ago
> Just-in-time works really well when it works really well. But the ripple effect of a global pandemic upon every sector of the globe...causes a lot of companies to feel the immobilizing weight of the ball attached to the supply chain. W
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by minimuffins 5y ago
I honestly thought this was going to be about alternatives to less and more.
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by minimuffins 5y ago
I think there's actually a case to be made that there is widespread soft corporate censorship enforcing a new orthodoxy on race discourse (and other things), I'm just waiting on somebody to make it rather than just firing another
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by minimuffins 5y ago
Maybe so but could you say why?
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by minimuffins 5y ago
I feel similarly, but I think a big part of that is that my schooling was so bad. Ideally I'd have not had to work and actually been learning something (and that's the goal I have for everyone, as a collective political desire). O
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by minimuffins 5y ago
When an objectively flimsy discourse like that circulates widely you have to ask yourself what its actual function is. Its apparent function of describing the world accurately is not being fulfilled, but the discourse persists, so what is i
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by minimuffins 5y ago
This is a discussion about whether gig economy workers ought to be classed as employees by the government. The reason that is a salient question is because a lot of these workers can't make ends meet under the current structure. The cu
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by minimuffins 5y ago
You are setting up a scenario where we have to choose between: A) teens and retirees having access to low paying scut work jobs B) eradicating wage slavery for non-teen, non-retirees by making it illegal for employers to pay poverty wages I
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by minimuffins 5y ago
Unions are good inasmuch they allow labor to bargain with capital by underwriting demands for better pay and conditions with the threat of work stoppage. If unions aren't doing that because they are compromised or sclerotic or whatever
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by minimuffins 5y ago
Yes or no. Take your pick. It's not such a hard question that there's no answer. You can make a policy on this stuff. We solve harder problems all the time.
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by minimuffins 5y ago
> even people spending their own money on their own housing often can't define their own parameters I can't believe I'm spelling this out. A person picking out their ideal home has trouble figuring out exactly what they wa
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by minimuffins 5y ago
> Being an independent contractor does not mean being independent of rules Surely it at least means being independent from some of the rules that you have to follow if you have a full time job, or why do it? If it doesn't at least m
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by minimuffins 5y ago
> US Labor Secretary is a product of union politics The man heading state labor policy is a "product" of the labor movement. Is that supposed to be a scandal? > easier for the AFL/CIO and Teamsters to unionize them Good
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by minimuffins 5y ago
Yeah, any of those would be acceptable. What would be unacceptable is when somebody has none of them.
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by minimuffins 5y ago
There is enough space to move around in the dwelling. It is not falling apart. It is not infested with rats. There is clean running water. Come on. Stop pretending this is a hard question.
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by minimuffins 5y ago
A business that pays poverty wages is insufficiently socially useful imo. We do too much for it; it does too little for us. > some government idea of enough pay Misleading. There is an objective amount of pay that is or is not enough to
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by minimuffins 5y ago
Since I'm in the employee class and not the employing class, I would like to see the opposite.
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by minimuffins 5y ago
There are certain things that aren't in question about this. Enough income to afford decent housing and food, healthcare, etc. It's not so mysterious.

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