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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Unfortunately for Americans too, solidarity striking (the main premise behind being able to perform a General Strike), is also illegal (most citations I could find cite 29 U.S.C. § 158(b)(4) though I couldn't work out specifically what verbage outlawed it). Keep in mind to that this specific labor law only applies to private labor unions that are administered by the NLRB, federal unions have a different agency.

I know a few people, including a family member, that work for the federal government, and I think they want to try to weather the storm, but it's hard. Trump wasn't a fluke in 2016 and he certainly isn't one now. Just because he and his party might be out of power in 4 years doesn't mean much. Half the country still thinks their jobs and livelihood are superfluous at best and harmful at worst. And with four more years of the hack and slash mentality going, it may take a while to rebuild all of this. To get from the precursors to the New Deal through to the EPA was almost 50 years of slow progress.

One thing that I think doesn't get pointed out enough is that for the United States, the number of federal employees (pre-Musk) is basically the same as it was in the early 60s. The actual size of the federal government hasn't changed in 60 years by any appreciable amount. All that extra revenue and debt in the budget has gone to federal contractors.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

There's a lot of risk to striking for a federal worker. First of all, it's against the law for any employee of the US Federal Government to do so according to 5 USC §7311

An individual may not accept or hold a position in the Government of the United States or the government of the District of Columbia if he-

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(3) participates in a strike, or asserts the right to strike, against the Government of the United States or the government of the District of Columbia; or

(4) is a member of an organization of employees of the Government of the United States or of individuals employed by the government of the District of Columbia that he knows asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United States or the government of the District of Columbia.

There exists federal employee unions, but they don't have as much power because they can't strike. Additionally, there's another US code (18 U.S.C. §1918) that reinforces this idea, also noting that it's a felony that can carry the charge of a fine or jail time up to 1 year and prevents you from being employed by the Federal Government (using the exact same language).

Additionally, the Office of Management & Budget can name you "unsuitable" for Federal employment if you participate in a strike even without the felony conviction.

This happened in the 80s when a bunch of Air Traffic Controllers went on strike for higher wages and the President at the time (Ronald Reagan) just fired them all and hired new controllers at lower wages who wouldn't strike. There was no recourse for those fired workers.

Given all of this, I wouldn't even risk it with DOGE to strike right now. Under a more labor friendly administration, you might be able to get away with it. But with Musk running the country, the most likely outcome would be that they'd fire them all for striking, the courts wouldn't restore them like they have with others because they did actually violate the law, and Musk would spin it as locating and eliminating the "corruption"

P.S. - For those keeping score at home, both of the aforementioned US codes are the same codes that bar someone for working for the Federal Government for advocating for the overthrow of the government (that's what subsections (1) and (2) state). Yes that means the Federal Government, at least as far as its own employees are concerned, equate striking with revolution

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

A Theory of Justice by John Rawles

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

You know it. I’ve found that most of the news sites still do RSS feeds for their stuff

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

Some other good ones are Semafor and 404Media

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

NPR, BBC, and RTÉ primarily. Subscribed through RSS

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s funny because back in the day before Elon lost his marbles, I first heard of Signal from Musk on twitter as he was promoting it as a better alternative to WhatsApp

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Seems like they don’t have federation turned on either, unfortunately

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

This is what happens when you don’t pay your tickets kids, the sheriff hunts you down

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Slide me one of those jobs with a work visa and I’ll be on the first train out. Got like 6 months of Duolingo French if that helps

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Unless you take the “i” in Alien to be the imaginary number, then it’s -Alien

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The main crux of the “Biden is too old” criticism though wasn’t the actual age number, it was that he wasn’t mentally all there, which was on display constantly. Bernie always comes off as put together and his speeches are well executed. Biden’s issue was that he sounded less put together than Trump which was impressive in its own way

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Thorium Browser? (thorium.rocks)
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Curious on how good this fork of chromium is for privacy. Same person does the Mercury browser too I think

 

Designed by deafblind artist Arnaud Balard in 2013, it was adopted by the National Federation of the Deaf of France (Fédération nationale des sourds de France) in 2014 and by the Word Federation of the Deaf in 2023. It's official symbolism is:

  • Hand: The signing deaf community and sign languages

  • Fingers: Use of sign languages around the world (over 200 languages) and the 5 continents (in order from top to bottom Europe, the Americas, Asia, Oceania and Africa)

  • Turquoise: World color of sign language, deaf culture, and the signing deaf community

  • Yellow: Light, life, the awakened mind, and coexistence

  • Navy Blue: Planet Earth, humanity, and the color adopted to represent deafness

 

Anyone know where the setting is to do this? I prefer having the message preview next to the inbox list (as shown on the website, see the picture), but the default appears to have it along the bottom of the screen. Thanks

 

Bats were hot tonight. Still managed to give up 9 runs, but I’ll take the W where I can

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