No, because the US federal government has monetary sovereignty using a Fiat currency, meaning the US can pay for it without extracting it from taxes.

Banks are insured, along with all accounts under $250k. I don’t know about you, but I’ve never had to worry about going over the FDIC limit.

It sounds like you loved your brother very much. What’s your favorite memory of him?

Lol I totally made it up on the spot. My thought process being:

• It at least has to not taste awful
• Vermouth is a fortified wine and vodka is a common fortifier
• Screenshots are digital images of digital imagery

Sweet vermouth and vodka. Chilled and neat

Edit: Screenshot JPEG version - add crushed ice

Yea, the joke “Waffle House Index” is horrifying from a worker’s perspective.

Are you fucking stupid, or did you just wake up from a 100 year nap?

The Prime Minister is selected by the majority party within the House of Commons, kinda like an “elect the party” type deal. The election cycle is roughly every 4 years, the last election was in 2021 and next election has to occur before Oct 20th

It’s fine that you’re stepping in to help people dealing with kbin ui bugs, but I don’t understand where the hostility towards lemmy is coming from.

Kbin is federated with several lemmy instances and it’s the source of most content with community focused microblogging in the fediverse. The post you’re commenting on was posted directly to LW.

Play games and pretend to make mental notes for that game you want to make

Honestly, it’s hard to say. I think it’s quite possible, however there’s a surprising twist with the upcoming admin: the nominee to chair the NLRB isn’t shit and has an outstandingly ok labor record as a Republican.

Edit: fwiw I know exactly how much that actually means. It just means we might get some weak pushback against the destruction of the NLRB, but the labor movement has worked with less.

I’m a union organizer, and by coincidence I live in MN, so this is my bread and butter.

You pretty much nailed it, with the only exception that right-to-work laws allow everyone in the workplace, even members, to avoid paying dues entirely. As the map shows, MN is not one of those states though. We have different terms in organizing circles. We call states with right-to-work “free rider” states, and those without are called “fair share” states.

Every union decides how they want to handle nonmembers outside of their legal obligations. My union is CWA, we don’t allow nonmembers to have any say at all on union matters. This means no input on the bargaining survey, no bargaining update emails, no electing the executive board, no voting on the contract, no participation in committees, no admittance to most meetings, etc.

one obvious thing - what if they voted to go on strike

In both cases, regardless of free rider laws, nonmembers are not entitled to the strike fund. The dues equivalency your grandpa paid excluded the few cents for the strike fund and a few other union governance things like that. However, they can still participate in the strike.

I’m an amateur web dev, is that really all it takes with HTML?

Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, Bush, Bush

Just my guess though.

Even if there was, I’m much happier being autistic than I would be dead.

It works as intended because you haven’t integrated yet

The civil unrest of the 60s worked because the black panthers were presenting the path to real change, so the establishment compromised by giving rights to people without threatening their power.

Are you expecting someone to provide you with all the answers?

Organize literally anything; a labor union, tenant union, alternatives to capital, a community garden, etc. Getting involved means doing whatever you have the capacity to do. Sometimes organizing is long and challenging, sometimes it’s short and sweet. The thing is, there’s different recommendations for different types of organizing. A post like this really can’t get any more specific, because organizing is actually that broad of a topic.

Arm yourself to defend yourself and others from random acts of political violence. Use the arms to defend drag time story hour. Use the arms to protect the people you care about. Use the arms to watch cops. Get a gun, learn how to use it, and then only use it in emergency self defense. Having a substantial presence of guns at a protest against capital is already self defense, because cops know they can’t push the crowd too much. That’s why you shouldn’t wait for tanks to be rolling through before you arm yourself.

Mutual aid is part of organizing, and will become incredibly important over the next few years. If you want more insight then I recommend reading Kropotkin’s book on the matter.

If you’re looking for someone to follow, I recommend following yourself and your ideals. It’s very obvious that the point of the post is to take action, not to follow OP.

It’s still a mathematic operator. There’s an entire field of math dedicated to comparisons, and it’s featured heavily in most programming languages. Computer science is a field dedicated to the application of math