By the way, which one’s Pink?

No war but class war. If they can automate their way out of paying workers, they’ll try their damnedest

I don’t know how they did it, but the channel has managed to create a very wholesome community for deprogramming people on the far right. I highly recommend them!

This is my favorite video to help deprogram these people

Homie is going through it

I consider it to be the defining quote on how I choose to act as a person. If my words or actions aren’t aligned with the goal of total liberation, then I immediately reassess my position.

First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

- Martin Luther King Jr, Letter from the Birmingham Jail

Shoddy is a hell of an understatement

I checked out from all LMG videos after I found out about the treatment of Madison during the huge controversy. WTF is going on over there? I thought Linus and Steve were friends at one point, did Linus forget that Steve remembers everything?

If your power goes out for more than a couple hours in the winter, bring everyone in the house to a medium sized room and build a pillow fort. Hang up blankets over all the entryways and windows in that room, and get comfortable. It might sound silly, but it’s a lot easier to keep a single room warm than the entire house and it could save the life of you or someone you care about.

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

Because it’s one of the most vulnerable situations we can be in, so we constantly joke about it but never address it as an important educational topic

Socialism is the people. If you are afraid of socialism, you’re afraid of yourself.

• Fred Hampton

fuck you pa, I know

All this talk about being goth, but no one is suggesting we sack Rome. My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined

That sounds like a disaster. All it will take is finding a single cool looking doodad and the entire cleaning crew will be occupied for hours

Yea for sure! We were organizing around performance metrics, quotas, discipline, etc for quite a while. My work is in QA, where quotas are actually really bad for software development. We had been trying to get management to research and implement modern QA practices that would reduce/eliminate quotas, without much success. We also wanted progressive discipline with real guidance, because if you don’t meet metrics then the performance improvement plan (pip) was really just a do-or-die meet the metrics for 10 days or get fired.

In the previous meeting, it wasn’t a take over but coworkers and I relentlessly asked about pips, metrics, etc. We were very clearly getting under their skin, to the point where he asked me how I felt pips should work. He was probably thinking I never planned that far ahead and would discredit myself, but I had done significant research on modern QA management techniques and gave an overview of my minimum for a 3 step pip. Right before he ended the meeting, he essentially “confirmed” that we do it exactly like that, no sword of Damocles or anything.

Of course having done the legwork to actually talk to employees that had gone through the process, we knew that it was total horseshit. Just to be sure, we talked to a few more people to confirm that pips were still being used to cut people for cause instead of improving their metrics before planning the takeover. To open the meeting, I asked this to the COO:

I’d like to preface my question by saying thank you for hosting these sessions again, and preemptively note that a lot of us are here to discuss PIPs. In the last Q&A session I attended, I was told by you that PIPs follow a progressive discipline model. However, we’re aware that most if not all employees that fail a PIP are terminated immediately, and multiple employees have been fired shortly after passing a PIP for failing to meet productivity expectations. Why did you lie to me?

His face went beet red and you could see the anger build in his eyes. After about a minute, he responds with “I don’t appreciate being called a liar. You’re hostility isn’t welcome and I reject the question”. After that, you could cut the tension with a knife. I reiterated my question that pips don’t work the way he said they do, but he continued to refuse it until I moved on to the many other “hostile” questions I had.

For the aftermath, he lied to us again in that meeting when someone uninvolved with the take over asked about remote work, and said there’s no plans to change anything for the foreseeable future, before RTO was announced a week later. There was another meeting about RTO with him that I attended, and he made a vague threat about “respectability” and ending the meeting if he felt disrespected after looking at the attendees. I wanted to ask a legit question over mic, and he ignored me until it was becoming obvious to others in the meeting. He stopped doing all q&a stuff after this for some reason.

I’m a union organizer, so I got to see some truly golden moments. My favorite was during a campaign, we took over a Q&A session with a member of the C-suite present. In a previous meeting he tried to convince me of some bs, so I asked him directly “why did you lie to me?” during this take over. The look on his face was priceless, and it took him over a minute to respond pathetically with “I don’t appreciate being called a liar”

I noticed that finding a statistical breakdown is really difficult, so I went with a source I knew was reliable and still gave a number. Thank you for finding something more specific.