fracture [he/him] @ fracture @beehaw.org

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thank you, i appreciate that. i'm one of those people trying to make it happen

it's not a controversial take to say a message's tone affects how it's taken. could you explain why it's so difficult for you to hear the request "could you be nice"?

or do you genuinely believe a message's tone doesn't affect how it's received? because if so, i've been wasting a lot of effort on being nice to you, myself :p (that's a joking tone, because it's almost certainly not going to be obvious)

you can explain all of that and be nice about it, you don't need to assume that people's motivation is to "get theirs". like you say, most people have grown up with several decades of propaganda, it's not their fault they see unions as bad. it takes time to undo that stuff and it's hard enough as it is without assuming their motivations or blaming them for something they had no control over

you're not wrong, but you are being unnecessarily antagonistic, and i would appreciate it if you didn't push people against unionizing by being antagonistic about it. it's hard enough to get a union going without shaming people for not doing it sooner

people are already suffering at the hands of capitalism. you don't need to throw it in their face. and, y'know, maybe some people from the game industry browse lemmy. it's almost like they're probably just people like the rest of us

based

also i'm sorry, having done a similar journey

what a great article, i went in to learn about plastics, and learned about myself instead

me too, thanks for writing this so i didn't have to

does it still happen when you moderate your intake? it's probably worth checking, if you haven't tried it

we need unions and unions need better protections than "can't prevent layoffs". unions need to make these painful for the company too

shouldn't give you the shits, though, should it? the worst you should get is the jitters and then a sugar crash

oh this is acc really interesting. try picking up some (pill form) lactaid / lactase and take it with the eggnog. you might be more lactose intolerant than they expect

if that doesn't work, you might be having a reaction to something else in it. do you have this issue with eggs in general?

hell yeah, love to see a leftist org actually FIGHTING for something it wants, and winning!

original i think https://www.deviantart.com/ptimm/art/A-New-Link-to-the-Past-551041132

at least explains why three inches seem to be cut off the bottom

do you have a better alternative than rumble? i'm assuming, from context, it's worse than youtube

this is a pretty good article covering the contract and noting that it's only an agreement with WGA (not SAG-AFTA) but i want to correct one point they make:

No. TV and film production doesn’t happen overnight, and while it will likely ramp up rapidly once the actors come back to work, the lengthy strike has caused inevitable delays and hiccups.

the delays have been caused by greedy execs who were literally hoping to starve their writers out instead of granting them contractual protections and paying them fairly

the execs have caused these delays and ultimately cost their corporations far more than what they'd have lost just agreeing to this contract in the first place

don't forget that point. everything sucks because of shitty execs. nothing but greed and reluctance to acknowledge worker power was stopping them from coming to the table four months ago

fr, you could nab a shitty used car for that much

i'm not sure there's a lot of value in arguing that, since we have a fiat currency, the government can just make new money and no one has to pay for it. the argument will simply change from "people who need welfare are mooching on taxpayers" to "people who need welfare are causing inflation". it's not really changing anything

the argument we should be making, as progressives, is that it's fucking inhumane to let people die on the streets. we're wealthy enough as a country that we can afford the taxes to ensure that never needs to happen. of course, if we implement universal healthcare, then you'll be paying for your own healthcare, as well as others', and we'll all benefit from it being cheaper

the same goes for housing, etc. but arguing from a position of strength (i.e. we live in a country wealthy enough to do this) feels a lot more persuasive, to me, at least for an argument in the abstract - something you'd see on television, for example. it's less persuasive for individuals who are obviously struggling, but for them, the argument is simply the fact that the system isn't really working for them. and what would universal healthcare, etc, do...?

lmaooo anything for science

ack, shit, i can't believe i didn't know this was happening. I hope i can get in on the next one