I just bit the bullet and got some from Anker. Gonna have so many fast charging stations, I'll finally stop dragging the one good charger around behind me everywhere I go.
Liberals are very quickly taking a turn into undeniable fascism. I was concerned what might happen when the climate wars truly begin, but now I don't have any concerns, I know.
The owners of capital explicitly believe that they can dictate every aspect of your life: where you live, under what conditions you work, your access to food, how you spend your time outside of work.
They want you to have to spend time in social reproduction, unpaid, to meet their standards and account for their failings.
If you are forced to come in: if you live too far, too bad, sleep less, don't see your family, drive further. Don't get into an accident though, or be late due to traffic. Ensure you have a vehicle and you are keeping it in a state that will enable you to meet our demands of you being present for us to almost entirely ignore.
Oh we don't provide lunch. I hope you brought lunch or are willing to pay for delivery or rush to get food in the half hour we allot for you to eat (unpaid). I also hope you spent time before work prepping that food, as well as your breakfast and dinner.
We expect you to be clean and presentable. Oh, you don't interact with the public, let alone the C Suite? Doesn't matter. Shower, shave/makeup, have a separate set of clothes just for the purpose of being here 5 days a week.
The chair we gave you uncomfortable, the lights too bright, the cubicle too small, the floor too noisy? Sorry, this is what was cheapest.
You want us to improve our ventilation system to account for the pandemic that got us to do remote work full time in the first place? What are you nuts? We don't actually care if you live or die just as long as we can extract the maximum value out of you that we can before you go.
All of this for their ego and to ensure that the real estate market in commercial properties, which is over-leveraged and obviously no longer necessary in the current state of the world, doesn't collapse.
And not lock down random external sites they see a user visiting every day that aren't related to their work functions? Sounds like the SOC needs to get better at their monitoring.
Exactly. The numerous rapes and kidnappings are absolutely not called for, nor justified, ever. These are innocent civilians settlers, many of whom are reservists in the oppressors armed forces, being pulled into a larger ongoing and extremely one-sided conflict. That is the worst part of war - even innocent people suffer, instead of it being a private conflict between whatever groups I am forced to acknowledge the ongoing support the first world has provided to an apartheid state and I don't like being confronted with the consequences of decades of oppression.
Checking facts in a list of curated facts is not fact checking.
Most people do not actively have access to scholarly works, nor the aptitude to review it, nor the time to do so.