theparadox @ theparadox @lemmy.world

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I also haven't seen much coverage of the fact that the other front runner for speaker, Jim Jordan, turned a blind eye to and likely helped cover up the sexual abuse of college athletes.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/06/politics/jordan-osu-wrestlers-strauss-invs/index.html

Fucking hell. Some highlights...

90 labourers removed from site by US federal agencies. In lawsuit, 6 workers alleged they were paid merely 10% of hourly minimum wage, forced to live in gruelling conditions... They allege that they were paid $1 per hour for their work when the minimum wage in New Jersey is $12 per hour... the workers were allegedly brought to the US on R-1 Visas that are applicable for clergy and religious workers like missionaries. The labourers were presented to the US government like volunteers... the workers’ passports had been confiscated, they were given lentils and potatoes for meals and that their pay was cut for the smallest of violations such as being seen without a helmet.

I think they actually want to inspire Fitbit Premium subscriptions with the watch. Not required, but recurrent user spending...

My local public school district takes student privacy seriously. They make an effort to track which students they have consent to feature in any media in order to avoid this and, as a district policy, ask for consent every school year to make sure consent doesn't change.

Assuming you are a minor in the US.I would be very surprised if you or your guardians ask for your photos to be removed and the school didn't cooperate.

I would argue 50% is low-balling the percentage of people they don't give a shit about.

There have been historic instances of corps going against the spirit if not the rule of net neutrality if we have ever really had such a thing in the US

The most open move I recall was made by cell carriers that also owned media companies -AT&T? They would use their cell service to punish or hinder usage of non-owned media. They'd limit the resolution of or throttle the speed of competitors services to their customers. Ex. watch our content at 1080p, but competitors are limited to 480p. That or they would "zero-rate" (not count usage against your data limit) their own services. Ex. watching our content doesn't count against you 1GB limit, but watching our competition's does.

I don't know if it still happens though. I'd be surprised if it wasn't just more subtle now.

It was not advertised as a game-pass like catalog when I was cancelling my preorder. I literally cancelled because it wasn't that. It was Destiny and 4k 60Hz with TBD games coming in later months.

I only had a gaming computer and a Shield TV so Stadia would have been pointless for me unless it was in the living room with a controller and some interesting games.

I wouldn't be surprised if the race of the band director did place a part, but I'm pissed at what happened either way.

By some more nuances definitions I've heard it may be technically true that the black cops weren't racist. However, it is possible to treat someone poorly because of the color of their skin even if it matches your own. Maybe the cops consider themselves "one of the good ones", maybe they just believe that they are able to power trip a little harder against certain races because it's more socially acceptable, or maybe they don't want to stand out against their white peers and just do what they do.

I honestly didn't watch the video either though - maybe a black cop was the first to escalate it so the last hypothetical isn't a strong one. I've just seen enough videos like that this week and don't want to get more upset by watching one more.

After committing to several Google services only to have them shut down I wasn't willing to risk it again.

Did they refund the subscription fee? If I knew they'd refund it all, I might not have cancelled my pro preorder.

I was willing to potentially be let down again but once I heard you had to buy almost all your own games (again, if you already own them) to play them on the service I cancelled. I was aware that they'd give you Destiny (a game I have zero interest in, especially with a controller) for free. I didn't seem worth sinking money into the service.

Or people could just be upset that cops of any color feel justified in using tasers when civilians don't comply with unusual, unnecessary requests. I don't care what color the band director is or what color the cops are. I'm continually disgusted at how many videos there are of cops losing their shit when a civilian doesn't immediately respond "how high?".

A right to repair bill made it just as far in NY and the Governor absolutely sabotaged it.

Apologies, I didn't realize that your goal was to promote capitalism and defeat class solidarity.

The difference between the people you call proletariat and the people you refuse to call proletariat is often luck. Luck is fickle and can swing both ways. A manager at a bank is absolutely proletariat, they've just been given a bit more money and told they're no longer proletariat. This is because it's way easier to keep workers and management at each other's throats than to have everyone target the real source of the "orders from above".

Jesus Christ, I guess the capitalists are still winning. Keep us fighting amongst ourselves so we never unite. What, exactly, would convince you to have solidarity with a person able to save 3k a year? To quit and work for less? To donate all non-living expenses to charity until their QOL is on par with yours?

Seriously though, there is no reason why labor at all levels can't work together to improve the system and demand better treatment across the board.