Zimbabwe has banned all lithium exports.
The government said it was losing $1.7 billion from exporting it as a raw mineral and not processing it into batteries in-country.
Instead of exporting raw materials, Zimbabwe hopes to develop its own industry
https://t.co/P2ifP5iDiG
Consider the possibility that the reason @SecretaryPete refused to listen to Dem AGs is because Pete wants to raise lots of presidential campaign cash from airline execs who are enriching themselves while he refuses to force them to stop abusing customers. https://t.co/sUAe4EIkCE
Streaming is a fundamentally broken business model. Preventing people from caching content they like is not a value add. And the more successful you are, the more you spend on bandwidth that you receive a flat fee for.
The only people who still support AOC and the Squad are privileged mfs who run only on vibes. They dont care about their votes, they dont care that they are ineffective. They just like their tweets
Thats it
For the first time in History a Federal Judge ruled that @amazon Cease and Desist all illegal Union Busting. This ruling is being enforced by the NLRB. Thanks to our historical victory at JFK8 Staten Island Amazon management has to read the 30 page ruling to all 8,300 members.
Here's a "sick system" of having employees work for you, "forever":
Keep them too busy to think.
Keep the crises rolling.
Keep everything on the edge.
If you are stressed at work, check if this might apply to you. If so: perhaps time to change? https://t.co/XUdoZUFBAj
Police handcuffed the man who stopped the Colorado Springs shooter and locked him up for more than an hour, while he was unsure if his family had survived.
Despicable.
The 48,000 worker strike @ the University of Calif continues today
-yesterday negotiations last 2 hrs
-U.C. asked the union to go to 3rd party mediation
-Union has rejected mediation—asking for "round the clock bargaining"
-some profs cancelling class
https://t.co/RVI7e1xchT
Over 1 million people have joined Mastodon since October 27. Between that and those who returned to their old accounts, the number of active users has risen to over 1.6 million today, which, for context, is over 3 times what it was just about two weeks ago!