OwenEverbinde Now • 100%
And then proceed to fill these echo chambers with [insert local conservative] has betrayed Trump and (by extension) the country!
OwenEverbinde Now • 90%
I see the question differently.
Tl;Dr:
I think OP is hoping to read the 21st century equivalent to Muck Rakers.
Long version:
A whole lot of improvement in American quality of life came about as a result of publications and journalists called Muck Rakers in the 19th and 20th centuries.
They didn't cover false stories. They simply covered stories that newspapers owned by capitalists tried to cover up. Things like, "physical abuse inside of Factory A" or, "employees at factory B reject union contract."
It's similar with r/antiwork. Most of America never realized why PopTarts were shipped with serious defects for a few months in late 2021. To most people, the quality declined out of nowhere, with no explanation.
And I don't think most people realized the real reason California's ports got congested. (It was a bill designed to protect gig workers -- it required shipping companies to pay truck drivers for the time they spent waiting for their trucks to be loaded (instead of just the time they spent driving)).
People didn't know because, even if current events directly impact everyone's lives, all it takes is a few corporations deciding, "you don't need to know about that" and access to the information through mainstream channels is shut off.
Everyone using r/antiwork knew though. They knew why there was a shipping crisis, and they knew why the glue that was supposed to seal the outside of the box of Cheez-its was now instead gluing the individual Cheez-its together.
News that wasn't considered, "newsworthy" outside of r/antiwork got intense coverage on that subreddit.
And yeah, the subreddit was certainly biased against those corporations. But biased or not, its users were more up-to-date on those events than anyone outside of the sub.
I don't think OP is asking for a leftist perspective on the same current events everyone else is covering. I think OP is asking for true, well-investigated stories that capitalists simply won't air on the major networks.
You know: Muck raking.
OwenEverbinde Now • 100%
I actually found that part clever. Things do actually get declared "woke" and then become popular enough that the grifters declare it unwoke.
OwenEverbinde Now • 100%
Could it be the case that the folks who told you Marxists were the postmodern, post-truth folks... were about as convinced of that claim as they are of conservatives' other claims?
OwenEverbinde Now • 100%
She's a character from a comedy movie I saw as a kid! Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
OwenEverbinde Now • 100%
Grif:
It's one of life's great mysteries isn't it? Why are we here? I mean, are we the product of some cosmic coincidence, or is there really a God watching everything? You know, with a plan for us and stuff. I don't know, man, but it keeps me up at night.
Simmons:
...What?! I mean why are we out here, in this canyon?
OwenEverbinde Now • 100%
Oh, I love this one!
🎵Eeooh eeoh eeeeeeee! cghghcghcghrshhhhhh!🎶
For me it was a bit different though, because the song was kept alive in rural areas until the horrors of Hugh's Net (and Wild-Blue-Exeed-ViaSat)
OwenEverbinde Now • 100%
Ah, the same way Linux was able to thwart hackers for as long as it did.
OwenEverbinde Now • 100%
Women are not good for the press in England under martial law...
... and the hacker was just posting spam on the receiving end from neurodivergent overexplaining.
OwenEverbinde Now • 100%
I love that movie! It got bad ratings?
OwenEverbinde Now • 100%
Technically still a touch!
OwenEverbinde Now • 95%
You succeeded at XKCD 2184
Edit: wait, it has to have come out after 2000. You almost succeeded at XKCD 2184.
OwenEverbinde Now • 100%
I also get annoyed at lightning fast responses. And I agree 100%
It takes no time or energy to come up with one answer to a question. I'm fact, I think most humans' brains are built for snap decisions like that.
But to weigh multiple answers against each other, poking holes in the answers you are most inclined to believe? That takes thought. And if someone is not doing that for you, then odds are, their brain is simply letting them take the discussion less seriously than your brain (or your morality) allows.
So I think you have every right to feel frustrated at such behavior.
OwenEverbinde Now • 100%
I think if you're a right winger in the stock market who still has money (hasn't lost it all yet), you've proven yourself capable of at least enough double-think for your WORDS to say "the market is in shambles! The economy is trash! Biden is destroying America!" while your ACTIONS express confidence in all of the things supposedly doomed by our supposed dictator Biden.
OwenEverbinde Now • 100%
Dragged, kicking and screaming, to unprecedented wealth.
What a strange world we live in.
OwenEverbinde Now • 100%
Well that's an awful trend.
OwenEverbinde Now • 100%
I would have expected the reported sexual abuse cases to be lower in conservative states. You know, because victims would feel more shame and danger so fewer of them would come forward and fewer would file police reports? Is the first graph measuring estimated abuse or reported abuse?
OwenEverbinde Now • 100%
I feel like if I ran a company, I would have folded my hand after Kellogg's and the Big Three automakers lost their respective labor disputes.
"Oh, these are your demands? Done. Better than selling my customers the media equivalent to glue-frosted pop tarts for the next two months because I can't admit I need my own workers."
I know there wouldn't be any billionaires if people thought that way. It just seems so much more sane and well adjusted.
From an AskLemmy question by @SVcross@lemmy.world [Link to Lemmy World Post](https://lemmy.world/post/9685527)
# EDIT: Submarine power transportation is indeed on the list Not transoceanic, but there are two projects currently proposed that will -- when constructed -- break the current record for the "longest undersea power transmission cable" (a record currently held by the North Sea Link at 720 km, or 450 miles.) One of these projects is [the Xlinks Morocco-UK Power Project](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xlinks_Morocco%E2%80%93UK_Power_Project) which aims to lay 3,800 km (2,400 miles) of cable and sell Morocco's solar power to England. There is, as of yet, not enough cable in the world to even begin this project. The company proposing the project is building factories to produce this cable. The other is the [Australia-Asia Power Link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia-Asia_Power_Link), which aims to provide Australian solar power to Singapore using a 4,500 km (2,800 miles) undersea cable. Where the Xlinks project ran into a "not enough cable in the world" problem, Sun Cable's AAPL has apparently been running into a "not enough money in the world" problem, as it has repeatedly gotten into trouble with its investors. # EDIT: But also, storage is scaling up @ProfessorGumby@midwest.social provided a fantastic link to a lot of energy storage mediums that are already in use in various grids across the world. These include (and [the link the professor provided](https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-tech/sustainable/grid-energy-storage.htm) gives an excellent short summary on each) * Pumped hydroelectric * Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) * Flywheels * Supercapacitors * And just plain batteries Also, this wasn't in the Gumby's answer, but [Finland's Vatajankoski power plant uses a hot sand battery](https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221102-how-a-sand-battery-could-transform-clean-energy) during its high-demand, low-production hours. # Hydrogen is projected to grow @Hypx@kbin.social noted that hydrogen has advantages no other energy storage medium possesses: duration of storage and ease of piping/shipping. This is probably why numerous governments are investing in hydrogen production, and why [Wood Mackenzie projects](https://www.woodmac.com/news/the-edge/hydrogens-critical-role-in-the-energy-transition/) what looks like a 200-fold increase in production by the year 2050. (It's a graph. I'm looking at a graph, so I am only estimating.)
I have questions about this event. First of all, # Democratically Elected > As the first-ever democratically elected leader of the UAW, Fain, a long-time union member himself, has taken a more confrontational approach to negotiations than his predecessors — including filming himself throwing Big Three automaker proposals in the trash. What was the process before? Was it worse? Has UAW been a sleeping giant this whole time on account of its leadership selection process? # Stand Up Strikes > But the strike won't involve all of the nearly 150,000 union members who work at the three automakers walking off their jobs en masse. > Instead, workers at three Midwest auto plants — a General Motors assembly plant in Wentzville, Missouri, a Stellantis assembly plant in Toledo, Ohio, and part of a Ford plant in Wayne, Mich. -- were the first to walk off the job under UAW president Shawn Fain's "stand up strike" strategy. Are stand up strikes common? Do they win concessions?
I want get myself an official diagnosis on ADHD and an answer regarding whether I'm autistic. Typically, a "10 minute test" takes me several hours. I spend a great deal of time contemplating the questions, filled with indecision. So I want to fill out the test before I even get to the psychologist's office. Which is why I plugged "official ADHD test" into a search engine, and got overwhelmed by the choices. And my main questions are: * do some websites offer a test they inaccurately describe as the official test? (If so, do those show up high on search results?) * do some websites offer the official test... and also augment the test with extra resources that help a cripplingly indecisive person answer more efficiently? (That would save me time.)
From an AskLemmy post \[[link here](https://lemmy.world/post/4505019)\] by [@TehBamski@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/u/TehBamski)
Another prompt from the [reedsy list](https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/). From September 21st, 2018.
One of the prompts on this list [here](https://www.writersdigest.com/be-inspired/creative-writing-prompts-for-writers) is > "Describe an everyday item as if it's magic." is vaguely similar to my cyberpunk prompt. Which makes me feel like I'm kinda reinventing the wheel here. Plus, the lists I am talking about are enormous! It would take years for us to run out of prompts from them. Definitely a good way to keep the community's pulse going until the prompt posting process starts to happen more organically. * [100 Creative Writing Prompts for Writers - Writer's Digest](https://www.writersdigest.com/be-inspired/creative-writing-prompts-for-writers) * [reedsyprompt's weekly writing prompts \(1800+ prompts available!\)](https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/) I'll be sure to hyperlink the source of the prompt in the body, (or in the case of reedsy, possibly the URL field.) So what do you say? Shall we borrow prompts until we've gathered some steam?
Example: > Darren operated the mouse and keyboard, aware of them only as mundane extensions of himself, told his computer's web browser to establish a connection with the address called "Amazon." As if an online "marketplace" (powered by an ever evolving, manipulative artificial intelligence) bore any resemblance to the wilderness that used to cover the earth. > > Especially when said stretch of wilderness was already a fraction of itself, eaten up for strip farming or land speculation by dozens of corporations driven by the same profit-seeking mindset that motivated Amazon itself: infinite growth. > > Millions of microscopic lights flashed to show images of "products you might be interested in." Darren, like any other person, had to constantly relearn how to push past and ignore the suggestions. A subtle arms race between humans and the AI built by the rich to control the poor.
Image Transcription: An 8-panel Phoebe Teaching Joey meme. The first panel is Phoebe from Friends saying "Russia". The second panel is Joey from the same show replying with "Russia". The third panel is Phoebe saying "has invaded". The fourth panel is Joey repeating back "has invaded". The fifth panel is Phoebe saying "Ukraine". The sixth panel is Joey repeating back "Ukraine". The seventh panel is Phoebe saying the completed phrase "Russia has invaded Ukraine". The final panel shows Joey proudly proclaiming "NATO just started a proxy war".
I derive a lot of benefit from mind-mapping in the style shown below. I usually do this in .txt files. But is there some generally accepted text file extension specifically for monospace art? ``` ┌──────────────────┐ ┌┤ Current Projects ├─────────┐ ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │└──────────────────┘ ├─┘ ┌──────────────────┐ │ │ │ │ Possessions List │────────────┐ │ │ □ Forever Park │ └──────────────────┘ │ ┌──────────────┐ │ │ └────────────── │ │ │ ┌┤ Forever Park ├────────────┐ │ │ │ │ ░ Some reboxing would be │ │└──────────────┘ │ │ │ □ Possessions List │ │ ░ nice │ │ │ │ │ └─────────────────── │ │ │ │ ░ Not much. Just keep │ │ │ │ └──────────────────────────────┘ │ ░ plugging away at that │ │ │ □ Healthcare Application │ ┌────────────────────────┐ │ ░ outline. │ │ │ └───────────────────────── │ │ Healthcare Application │───────┐ │ │ │ │ │ └────────────────────────┘ │ └────────────────────────────┘ │ │ □ Tapstry Map │ │ │ │ │ └────────────── │ │ ░ Previous healthcare expires │ │ │ │ │ ░ Sunday, April 30th │ │ └┬────────────────────────────┘ │ │ │ ┌┘ └───────────────────────────────┘ │ │ │ │ ┌─────────────┐ │ │ ┌┤ Tapstry Map ├─────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ │ │└─────────────┘ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Explore: │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ░ line endpoints │ │ │ │ ░ text box wrapping │ │ │ │ ░ google sheets and csv files with real datasets │ │ │ │ ░ d3 pointer events so I can see mouse coordinates │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │ │ │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ```
From the article: [When Marguerite Duras Got Kicked Out of the Communist Party](https://lithub.com/when-marguerite-duras-got-kicked-out-of-the-communist-party/) This was part of their justification. Technically speaking, it was probably happening sooner than 1950, since Trotsky arrived in Turkey in 1929.
I want to respond to writing prompts, but from a separate account. That way, if someone enjoys a story, they can scroll through my (alt account's) history for more writing without needing to dig through all of the dramatic, vitriolic, shit-stirring my main account will be regularly diving into. I was wondering if one of you wonderful people was familiar with some corner of the Fediverse perfect for this sort of use? Or would you recommend I create the account here on Lemmy? * If I do go outside of Lemmy, I want to go somewhere capable of commenting on lemmy.ml and lemmy.world posts (in particular, commenting in the WritingPrompts communities on those servers). * I would *prefer* to join a public instance, like I did when I signed up for Mastodon and Lemmy. * Note: as mentioned above I have used Lemmy and Mastodon so far. So: is there a part of the Fediverse I ought to be examining for this? WriteFreely, for example? Micro.blog perhaps?