Some printers can cause hazardous fumes (ABS, Resin, etc.), but PLA printing produces negligible VOCs.

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gen z had like 14% turnout, this election doesn’t really tell us anything about their political views.

Recruitment is up this week, by about 1.5-2x the usual amount. I hope the Trump Bump continues.

just a thing I found

Looking at the current results, all the Stein votes going to Harris wouldn’t change the results.

I’ll plug the IWW, I guess. Landback is a little out of scope, but we do try to address settler colonial issues, we’ve made some resolutions on that, and we have the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee which ends up doing a lot of work with empoc people (given the nature of the American prison system and all).

The IWW won’t endorse lib politicians or campaign for them, which can be a concern for other socialist orgs. We have quite a few union shops, and even recently we’ve won actual material benefits for workers. And, of course, the IWW makes an explicit rejection of “a fair days wage for a fair days work”, and calls for the abolition of the wage system (and capitalism).

The IWW doesn’t have any issue with dual-carding or being a member of other socialist organizations (if I remember right, DSA doesn’t allow PSL members, or something), it isn’t trying to be a political party, but instead a labor union.

It’s not without issues, of course, but those are mostly at the national level (and should hopefully be less of an issue next year). Major conduct violations (harassment, SA, etc.) pretty quickly lead to expulsion, but such violations aren’t that frequent. There isn’t screening to become a member, but joining an organizing unit (GMB, IU, etc.) generally requires an interview.

Soon-Shiong was born in South Africa, and under apartheid was considered “colored”. Basically everyone that wasn’t white was discriminated against, Chinese were legally second-class citizens.

It was only well into the 70’s, more than 20 years after his birth, that some Asians started getting “honorary white” status.

That’s because it’s never the same stuff in “pink cocaine”. There is no real recipe, there are many manufacturers (it’s literally no effort, lol).

I really wasn’t expecting what I found when I looked at https://darkrenaissance.github.io/darkfi/philosophy/philosophy.html

Citing the PKK and Baudrillard to justify a crypto project? Saying the fall of the Soviet Union was bad? Opposing anarch-capitalism?

Kinda weird, and it doesn’t seem like the philosophy has that much to do with the actual code.

restic to a local server and to cloud storage. it varies by device, but usually just everything in /home/. The rest of the operating system should be reproducible, whether through images, ansible, nix, or guix, given the information in /home/.

scheduling is done through systemd, usually (or the non-systemd equivalent). I use BackBlaze now, but I switch around occasionally. restic has policy based snapshot removal, and a prune option.

You’re jinxing it, he’ll last until January 2nd or something

we should try to find theory taglines that sound like internet drama taglines, to keep people guessing

I mean, misandry does exist in so far as an individuals prejudice, but not exactly systemically.

A lot of what could be perceived as systemic misandry is really just the more toxic aspects of patriarchy and masculinity. In controlling society, masculinity claimed violence as it’s own. So when men are much less likely to be taken seriously in SA cases, or when they get longer sentences than women for the same crime, it’s the flip side of what benefits men. The power imbalance is overall in men’s favor, which is why it’s not really misandry, but it’s not like it doesn’t harm men in some ways (and I think most feminists would agree with that).

imo misogyny should also just be used for personal prejudice, because it doesn’t really encompass all that makes up patriarchy.

This particular case is a bit interesting, the tweet is a bit misleading. The “banter” was calling the dude a “bald c***”", and the sex-related harassment is just one part, on a whole it was a wrongful dismissal suit. But basically harassment by British law is unwanted conduct related to a protected characteristic, that violates dignity and creates a hostile environment. Sex is a protected characteristic, and all of the parties agreed that baldness was much more common among the male sex, and that bald insults were more likely to be directed at men. The lower court ruled in favor of the dude (after all, it met the criteria usually used), so the defendant appealed, arguing that a sex-related trait has to be exclusive. The judge thought that reasoning was silly, it would mean that “Hiya Big Tits” isn’t sex-related because men can have “tits” too. Y’all can read of the thing if you want: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/66fe7b96e84ae1fd8592ed89/British_Bung_Manufacturing_Company_Ltd_v_Mr_A_Finn__2023__EAT_165.pdf.

lmao

I can’t wait!

The IWW isn’t exactly an ML org, but maybe give them a shot?

If you’re somewhere without a branch, it might be a lot of work for little gain, but if you’re near an active branch there could be as many as a dozen active campaigns.

The Fable just finished airing, and I enjoyed it quite a bit.

I took a peek at r/combatfootage, to look at some of the Iran strike videos, and Reddit is just miserable.

There were posts with more than a thousand comments, and only like one mention of Lebanon, or Tel Nof, or Nevatim. Just tons and tons of people talking about how they didn’t kill any civilians (and as such, are weak).