Why would anyone do this apart from hating prunes and needing a constipation remedy?

His physical appearance suggests alcohol.

My dearly departed gramps would agree. Man was on the ground walking across France and Germany on a mission to free concentration camps. He wouldn’t describe it in any further detail than that, ever, but he would shut down any murmur of racism. Silence a room shut down.

We lack that now which is why hx is coming back around again.

Feel like we need present day German advice rn.

Let’s be real, the best part of Bush Junior was Sam Rockwell playing him in Vice.

And this entire work day could’ve been more focused and less interrupted (by meetings) than at home.

Strikes work, when honored, because you’re withholding a valuable resource. In fact you’re withholding the capacity for corporate to make money. It’s a bad look for something like a hospital because people are now keenly aware of how staffing impacts the emergency room and their elective surgery post op care. Unfortunately, this act is strangled by COL and non-livable wages.

That said, the landscape has changed. The recent Utah legislation aside, look at Amazon in December. Strikes happened because corporate refused to acknowledge the union’s existence. You can vote to enter a union, which is a beautiful thing, the solidarity required alone is admirable, but if everyone ignores your existence you get Amazon in December 2024. Idk how that one ended. Probably attrition and nothing good.

Providence Health System of Oregon did the same. They technically acknowledged the nurse’s union, came to the table each negation session, but did nothing, ignored the nurses and their negotiators and left them without a contract for a year. So, all of Providence went on strike. The doctors agreed that this was egregious behavior on the part of Providence Health System, and cannot do much at work without their nurses anyway, so they added impact by joining the nurse’s strike. Simultaneous, state wide. Not as little coverage as Luigi, but not much coverage news wise. Why? This scares corporate. (Wage wise, west coast COL i is s higher and nurses wages are higher there, starting at $1650/wk days and $1900/wk nocs for a no experience nurse. This cost jumps to $7k/wk per nurse for union busting contracts. A hospital will pay this difference rather than agree to a 6-10% raise or the reintroduction of a separate sick time bank in addition to vacation time. Never underestimate the power of corporate spite.) Last check after a month of mutual attrition things aren’t great.

All of that novel aside, its incredibly naive to think it can be as simple and easy as standing in a street on your day off. For ONE day. If it were, that action would be completed already.

Providence stood spitefully by and watched for 30 days, 30days of what had to be well over a thousand contract nurses at $7k/wk each, loss off their millions on hospital and surgery money, loss of the lodestone worker that both they and doctors can do little without, 30 days of this before acknowledging a crappy negotiation they refused to acknowledge for over a year.

And that is ONE corporate entity in ONE state.

This administration is way worse. And what are you withholding from them by standing in a street for one day on your day off?

Think bigger and better or nothing will happen.

We went to one. About a thousand people stood around not talking to each other and left. It was fascinating. And disheartening.

You read anxiety where it doesn’t exist, not in the way you think it does.

Standing in a street isn’t going to cut it. You can stand anywhere. That is not the motion that is required.

And if you think the landscape hasn’t changed this go: oh you sweet summer child.

Inertia is a human force of behavior, I get that. But the landscape has changed. The methods of pre-2024 will NOT work, they will be summarily ignored. Standing in a street will now be summarily ignored.

Or forcefully dispersed. Remember, in his prior admin, he wanted to know why we didn’t just send the national guard out to kneecap people.

Standing in a street? No one cares.

The 1776 energy died with the people who made it happen.

They don’t. These rags are just headlining what you hope to hear right now.

Money and 1/2 of Economics is based on magic and “religious” belief.

Linux isn’t terrible.

There’s hiccups though. Example. Partner recently redid his chrome book. Wiped it, added some bits, added a Linux setup specific to chromebook hardware.

Earbud pairing: inconsistent.

Little things like that which are normally automatic often require some troubleshooting with Linux. Also Linux: there’s always a patch or fix somewhere.

Mostly though, it’s pretty good. And your machines run better because all the home phone bloat and trash is removed.

And Cuban is fond of saying that anyone building wealth from nothing who tells you luck wasn’t involved is lying.

Well. Thank god for that, now nothing is wrong.

/s