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Have we told them about it in Spanish?

Lots of Spanish speakers also speak some English but also lots of them don't. Some outreach in different languages might be a good idea.

I've seen more competent cabinets in an ikea

When there's an easy, widely available solution to ensure the safety of yourself and those around you, which you loudly refuse?

Yeah that's on you bud

I don't know if you've ever read the short story "The Egg" by Andy Wier, but if not, I think you'd like it.

https://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

This is the only part of this set that I actually want

It is clear that your parents are concerned for your safety and well being and I don't think that is an unreasonable position to have. Nobody wants to learn that their child was arrested or killed at a protest.

However. Great change does not come from folks staying safe and quiet at home.

I think many parents are struggling with this right now. On one hand it is our duty as citizens to do something about the world around us and not sit in complacency. On the other hand that's extremely dangerous to do in the current environment. I doubly respect this concern coming from Chinese folks who may have experience with having their speech suppressed in the past.

I support you being out in the streets and making a big noise with the rest of us. But I am not your family. If you were to die, or be taken prisoner, at a protest I would never know your name, only that you were my brother who gave his life for our cause. You would have my unending respect but in the end what I think of you shouldn't matter for you and yours.

Protesting is dangerous. More so now than ever before. Things worth doing are never easy but this, especially, is something that has a serious chance of ending or ruining your life. Make your peace with that, or avoid it if you can't. The world needs dissenters right now, but it needs ones that are well seated in their confidence.

At the end of the day though, no matter what happens, I can't be mad at anyone for prioritizing their personal safety. A revolution will require sacrifice but that isn't something that can be asked of someone. It is given freely or not at all. Your parents are asking you not to make a sacrifice.

Who tf do you think Samael was? God kicked him out of the farm because he was making the bees crazy.

Yeah he also spent all of 2024 offloading his shares into cash money so maybe don't trust that this time.

Oh man, this brings me back. I remember passing notes in middle school in bootleg Elian script - I'm in my 30s now.

It's by far my favorite cipher because it's easy to read, it's easy to modify if someone else learns to read it, and you get a ton of artistic license with the way your letters look so long as they adhere to the basic framework. Really well formed Elian is unrecognizable as script to someone who isn't looking for it.

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I'm not smart enough to come up with a way to attack the profits made by exploiting cheap labor in other markets, but maybe something like a global minimum wage that lifts up workers in other countries while not giving CEOs as much incentive to do it.

I haven't heard this idea before and I really like it. You want to have your product manufactured by minimum wage workers in Cambodia? Sure, go ahead. But you'll be paying them the minimum wage from your business' home country, not theirs, and then paying shipping afterward to move your items to the sale location so it doesn't actually benefit the business to abuse sweatshop labor rates.

They can't, that's part of why the stock market is in free fall.