I love how basically every study shows that students do better with less homework and workers perform better with more vacation days and shorter shifts, yet we do the exact opposite because of outdated, guilt-driven "work is suffering" values and toxic hustle culture.
A city in Oregon was forced to permanently remove its Flock cameras after an audit found that federal agencies had access to the system.
The audit revealed that two federal agencies could access the data, including the ability to search the broader network of license plate records for up to six months.
Flock cameras are used as a mass surveillance tool under the guise of public safety.
Here's a thought experiment they don't teach in American schools.
Imagine a foreign power, significantly stronger than the United States, decided after a disputed intelligence assessment that the American government posed a threat.
It assembled a coalition, invaded, removed the government, disbanded the military, releasing hundreds of thousands of armed men into unemployment, and installed a transitional authority composed largely of exiles who had been living in the foreign power’s country for twenty years.
It then spent the next decade conducting night raids on American homes.
It ran detention facilities where Americans were held without charge and in some cases tortured.
It operated checkpoints in American cities where American citizens were stopped, searched, and sometimes killed by foreign soldiers who did not speak English and could not distinguish a civilian from a combatant and in many cases did not particularly try.
A generation of American children grew up in this environment.
Would you describe those children's resulting hostility to the foreign power as:
(A) A rational response to their lived experience
or
(B) Evidence of a cultural pathology that requires theological and anthropological analysis?
You already know the answer.
You knew it before I finished the sentence.
The exercise is only necessary because the question is never asked the right way around.
After federal agents shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a Rochester resident sent ICE's director an email in January comparing him to a Nazi.
This week, DHS agents stalked him across New York. His home. A hotel.
They gave his wife a letter warning of criminal prosecution.
@EWErickson Friendly reminder that most Nazis were German citizens, not some foreign operation.
This post is about you, Erik. You're a modern-day nazi.
@matt_kercher Exactly. This insanity of treating essential needs (housing, foodstuffs, utlities, etc.) as economic assets and investment opportunities, i.e. capitalism, has to stop.
@KawasakiRoo Son, there's but an ass-hair's width of difference between capitalists and demsocs.
If you aren't anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist, you aren't my ally. Hope that clears it up for ya.
What s#cks is that life could be so easy, so f#cking easy. There is so much stuff rotting in storage units, in garages, nearly half of all food goes to waste, there's enough clothing for the next 3-4 generations! We don't even need to be working as hard as we do, our ancestors broke down their bodies to build all this sh#t, the least we could do is slow down to actually utilize and fairly distribute it all. Instead, we all suffer endlessly while 8-10 men control half the world's wealth.
@Chinchillazllla Right?
Yeah, there's still a bullet lodged in there that will need to come out; but for right now, maybe let's stop the fucking hemorrhage?!?
@catladyactivist I completely understand. For a while now, being on this platform has felt like a Lovecraftian blend of preaching to a choir and screaming into the void.
Your voice will surely be missed.
“Can we have a 4-day workweek?”
“Well, it's complicated. On the one hand, it would be tremendously good for everyone. Psychologically, physically, we would be happier and healthier for it. On the other hand, there are like 8 dudes against it who own everything. So...no.”