#firstTimeUnvervolting
#expectedSystemInstabilityToBeMuchMoreObvious
(Also TIL the live desktops include D-I, did not know that, I usually carry around several install images because I thought calamares was the only option)
Why do women wear flowers in their hair to work in the hell of a Tamil Nadu garment factory?
Why do unions know to check on a woman who stops wearing flowers?
You don't get to write this kind of piece (or even know it needs writing) without doing the long, hard work of grassroots union solidarity, so thank you Nandita and Nikita for such an insightful article.
https://tansyhoskins.org/factory-flowers-beauty-and-survival-in-indias-garment-factories/
I wonder where all these people are harvesting people's emails from :0
grown into sped up punk activism music at 0100
oh also for the public transit nerds who are on xmpp, I now technically administer a MUC:
xmpp:public-transit@muc.xmpp.earth?join
aren’t on XMPP? https://contrapunctus.codeberg.page/the-quick-and-easy-guide-to-xmpp.html a good guide i’d like to say by @contrapunctus
having to choose my electives for next sem, worst part is the hell of navigating the uni website to find the syllabuses, why are unis like this
tw: death, auditory hallucinations
Friend: So the movie ends by midnight, probably. So you’ll have to get a cab or something-
me: oh so no bus I believe, let me see if I can walk home from there
Friend: you realise it’s in Noida (scary place) yeah?
Me: oh, it’s an hour-long walk, OH! I can skateboard back home
Friend: okay, there is an earlier show we can go to
LET ME LIVE MY DREAMS OF SKATEBOARDING PAST MIDNIGHT THROUGH “SCARY” PARTS OF THE CITY!mfw I dont know half the spaces mentioned :-/
@princeofhyrule https://www.brookings.edu/articles/retail-theft-in-us-cities-separating-fact-from-fiction/https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/17/business/shoplifting-retail-crime-stores/index.html CNN and Brookings saying its made up.
https://fee.org/articles/is-the-shoplifting-epidemic-fake-bad-news-yes-and-no/ here is even the Foundation of Economic Education (a right wing “free market”) article saying that and then in the last paragraph worrying on theoretical.
@princeofhyrule they would want to, they would also want to explain to their stakeholders why it is that they are loosing revenue and not say that people are moving to online shopping and that the industry overexpanded and some stores became unprofitable.