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A small voice is fretting about if they got the tranq dosage correct and what if it wakes up. A much, much louder voice is yelling about those big kitty paws and clapping.
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TotalLossBrain posted:Yeah I remember doing this, too - maybe 8th grade chemistry. Just took some bowls with Aluminum and Iron Oxide (?am I getting this right?) and set it off in the school yard. Bowl of molten metal. My wife loves to blow up dead bugs that kids find. They compete all year to find the biggest dead bug then she lets the winner set off the reaction in her fume hood.
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Oct 14, 2021 17:54
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Cojawfee posted:That's not what a scab is. A scab is someone who goes to work for a company while there is a strike. These are current, non-union employees who are being told to do this work. My mom did that while she worked for a pen company. The workers went on strike so she had to go from the office to work in the factory. There are still ways to support the strike by doing the bare minimum and sabotaging the actual scabs. All scabs are strikebreakers but not all strikebreakers are scabs. Depends if they're management or not in this case. You're right, though, allies in labor who do not have union projection can still help support the strike. Slow rolling work doing things to hamper production is cool in good. White collar style workers without a union contract can just be fired if they try to strike. Even worse in right to work states. Answers to unionize all labor of course.
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Oct 14, 2021 17:56
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If you want to get all mad and/or depressed, please read up on the history of labor and unions in the Pacific Northwest like I did! It gets even worse once you realize that the Portland Police Union and others like them are now the only unions remaining with any teeth.
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Oct 14, 2021 18:02
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Here’s context for the John Deere strike. https://twitter.com/GMA/status/1448605991826857984
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TotalLossBrain posted:If you want to get all mad and/or depressed, please read up on the history of labor and unions in the Pacific Northwest like I did! Including stuff like actual wars with the national guard, bombing, etc.
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Oct 14, 2021 18:11
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"Again?! You're such a dingus."
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zegermans posted:I love how he can't resist giving the kitty a pat after getting it situated that sleepy murder machine would be getting a tummy rub if I were nearby #yolo
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Oct 14, 2021 18:20
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Mustached Demon posted:All scabs are strikebreakers but not all strikebreakers are scabs. Depends if they're management or not in this case. Serious question: Why is unionisation such a hot topic in America compared to elsewhere. Or am I just seeing more news from America but it is the same everywhere? I notice in a lot of EU countries unionisation and workers rights doesn't require striking much. Although the French love to strike A LOT and from what I understand their labour laws are better than a lot of others. Does stronger regulation on labour laws protecting workers decrease the need for striking/unionisation?
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Lascivious Sloth posted:Serious question: Why is unionisation such a hot topic in America compared to elsewhere. Or am I just seeing more news from America but it is the same everywhere? I notice in a lot of EU countries unionisation and workers rights doesn't require striking much. Although the French love to strike A LOT and from what I understand their labour laws are better than a lot of others. Does stronger regulation on labour laws protecting workers decrease the need for striking/unionisation? Unions are a slippery slope to full-on red gay communism (ie they cut into profits)
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Lascivious Sloth posted:Serious question: Why is unionisation such a hot topic in America compared to elsewhere. Or am I just seeing more news from America but it is the same everywhere? I notice in a lot of EU countries unionisation and workers rights doesn't require striking much. Although the French love to strike A LOT and from what I understand their labour laws are better than a lot of others. Does stronger regulation on labour laws protecting workers decrease the need for striking/unionisation? A lot of Americans are dumb and susceptible to corporate propaganda and believe in the myth of the rugged individualist. Also something about GM making really lovely cars from the 1970s through 2010s.
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Lascivious Sloth posted:Serious question: Why is unionisation such a hot topic in America compared to elsewhere. Or am I just seeing more news from America but it is the same everywhere? I notice in a lot of EU countries unionisation and workers rights doesn't require striking much. Although the French love to strike A LOT and from what I understand their labour laws are better than a lot of others. Does stronger regulation on labour laws protecting workers decrease the need for striking/unionisation? Unions have a habit of representing minority workers and negotiating to give them more wages and benefits. Support for unions started falling in the 1960s. Maybe you can figure out the connection.
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Deteriorata posted:Unions have a habit of representing minority workers and negotiating to give them more wages and benefits. Support for unions started falling in the 1960s. Maybe you can figure out the connection. Minorities are communists!?!
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tree doge sleepy  A Festivus Miracle posted:I'd also like to point out too that Aerial Saw (which is what a helicopter carrying those blades is called), while cool as gently caress to watch at work, is not nearly as effective in the long term as you'd think. Reason being is that, yes, aerial saws definitely cut back trees and what not but trees growing into power lines is a tiny, tiny proportion of outages. 1%-2% of outages are caused by grow ins. Spoilers for nerd poo poo: As the tips of the shoots near the power line, the power lines induces current flow in the tips of the shoots, killing the meristems. While this is correct, you are forgetting that these are not separate issues: trees growing limbs too close to power lines don't have to touch the lines immediately, they can cause problems later if the tree or branch falls off or snow bends them down in a storm or blizzard. Proactive trimming is the cheaper way of solving this than calling workers in the middle of the night in the middle of a blizzard when fallen trees and snow have blocked all roads. Nenonen fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Oct 14, 2021 |
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Oct 14, 2021 19:12
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Lascivious Sloth posted:Serious question: Why is unionisation such a hot topic in America compared to elsewhere. Or am I just seeing more news from America but it is the same everywhere? I notice in a lot of EU countries unionisation and workers rights doesn't require striking much. Although the French love to strike A LOT and from what I understand their labour laws are better than a lot of others. Does stronger regulation on labour laws protecting workers decrease the need for striking/unionisation? Corporations have been fighting unions for well over a century in the US and they have been very successful. Warfare, murders on a wide scale, intimidation, public relations campaigns. The public perception has been very carefully groomed to what it is now.
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Yeah, in Europe unions have power because (I assume) they have strong legal protections and they use the power to keep the legal protections in place. In the US the feedback loop runs in the opposite direction.
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Oct 14, 2021 19:19
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The strike I'm shocked we haven't seen is stevedores. I can't believe there will ever be a time with more leverage They're probably not allowed to or something
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FogHelmut posted:A lot of Americans are dumb and susceptible to corporate propaganda and believe in the myth of the rugged individualist. When an American sees someone whose job has good benefits / retirement / sane hours, their thought is not "my job should treat me better," it's "that guy should have it as bad as I do."
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Oct 14, 2021 19:34
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There is a 'non-specific threat' against my workplace today and we are allowed to take unpaid leave if we are uncomfortable being at work
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FogHelmut posted:A lot of Americans are dumb and susceptible to corporate propaganda and believe in the myth of the rugged individualist. That could be a confusing to those who don't study these things deeply, but GM still makes lovely cars to this day.
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It reminded me of this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSiplbYDHCU
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FogHelmut posted:Also something about GM making really lovely cars from the 1970s through 2010s. My dad worked for GM in the 80s. FuturePastNow posted:When an American sees someone whose job has good benefits / retirement / sane hours, their thought is not "my job should treat me better," it's "that guy should have it as bad as I do." When there were layoffs (and they had to lay off non union staff first) this was his exact takeaway. Shoulda joined instead of bitching about them taking your money!
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Oct 14, 2021 19:58
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 Does home OSHA count? Went to grab my cup off the blender and my girlfriend never twists the destructive part back on, so that's what is left just sitting there. Is it safe to grab and take off? Maybe. But I'm gonna unplug it first anyway lol
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Oct 14, 2021 20:24
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IDK how to do timestamps but check at 7 minutes in for the improvised lathe that to my untrained eye seems like a really bad idea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My6QD2_eIeQ
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https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_r0uvws78xN1r0uzl6.mp4 https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_r0tuoto66Z1r0uzl6.mp4
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AceClown posted:IDK how to do timestamps but check at 7 minutes in for the improvised lathe that to my untrained eye seems like a really bad idea Nothing really wrong with that, beyond the usual lathe caveats. Using a drill press as a lathe isn't any more unsafe just because it's spinning vertically. You're just really limited in what operations you can do because you don't have a proper tool rest.
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Hokkaido Anxiety posted:My dad worked for GM in the 80s. I'm sorry about his substance addictions.
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FuturePastNow posted:When an American sees someone whose job has good benefits / retirement / sane hours, their thought is not "my job should treat me better," it's "that guy should have it as bad as I do." Some Americans will be happy with a pigeon over a barrel fire under a bridge, as long as the person next to them doesn't have a pigeon.
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Lascivious Sloth posted:Serious question: Why is unionisation such a hot topic in America compared to elsewhere. Or am I just seeing more news from America but it is the same everywhere? I notice in a lot of EU countries unionisation and workers rights doesn't require striking much. Although the French love to strike A LOT and from what I understand their labour laws are better than a lot of others. Does stronger regulation on labour laws protecting workers decrease the need for striking/unionisation? Really weird stat that I don't know how to verify myself but someone here France said that union membership (at least in my company) is only like 10-15% of employees
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TotalLossBrain posted:Yeah I remember doing this, too - maybe 8th grade chemistry. Just took some bowls with Aluminum and Iron Oxide (?am I getting this right?) and set it off in the school yard. Bowl of molten metal. Yup, that's the traditional mix. IIRC thermite reactions are possible when you have a metal, and a metal oxide, and the oxide is the nobler of the two metals. Nobility in this case is defined something like "the less noble a metal is, the more energy is released when it reacts with oxygen, and the tighter it holds on to that oxygen afterwards". Which means that moving the oxygen out of the more noble oxide takes less energy than what's released by oxidizing the less noble metal - so when you get going, the process is overall energy positive. That is: Going from A + BO -> AO + B works as long as A "wants" the oxygen more / B is more noble. The other somewhat common one is copper thermite, Al + CuO -> AlO + Cu + energy (for whatever number of oxygen atoms goes into those oxides). Copper is a nobler metal than iron, so the energy output is higher and the reaction quicker. I've never seen it in person, but I'm tempted to try - from a safe distance. Computer viking fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Oct 14, 2021 |
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Ask Al swearengen what he thinks of those cocksuckers.
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ilmucche posted:Really weird stat that I don't know how to verify myself but someone here France said that union membership (at least in my company) is only like 10-15% of employees That's because in France you're covered by the union agreements even if you're not a member:  French union membership is at about 8 percent in this picture
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Computer viking posted:Yup, that's the traditional mix. It's also scary as gently caress, as you probably know, because you can't put it out; all the oxygen in the reaction is in the reagents, so you can't even smother it. Doesn't it also blow up ice or water or something, or is that just a weird thermal shock thing?
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ekuNNN posted:That's because in France you're covered by the union agreements even if you're not a member: how are the points inverted in JP and NZ? people pay dues but aren't in unionized workplaces?
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Drone_Fragger posted:Reminder John Deere is so bad that they prompted several law changes over vehicle servicability because they were trying to sue people for repairing their own tractors and tried to get people charged with cyber crimes for disabling the tractors drm software (that stops you using aftermarket parts). if you think deere is bad you should see their competition
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Lascivious Sloth posted:Serious question: Why is unionisation such a hot topic in America compared to elsewhere. Or am I just seeing more news from America but it is the same everywhere? I notice in a lot of EU countries unionisation and workers rights doesn't require striking much. Although the French love to strike A LOT and from what I understand their labour laws are better than a lot of others. Does stronger regulation on labour laws protecting workers decrease the need for striking/unionisation? I don't know if it's been looked at in other countries, but there was a study a few years ago that found well over half of people would prefer to make $50k a year with a neighbor who makes $30k than for both to make $100k. AceClown posted:IDK how to do timestamps but check at 7 minutes in for the improvised lathe that to my untrained eye seems like a really bad idea
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