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Tuxedo Gin posted:Who knows what terminal internet brain will do to most of us in the end.  (Ha, as if any of us will have actual humans caring for us in our nursing homes.)
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Sundae posted:
homes, you say ??!!??
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Cactus Ghost posted:freebasing mayonnaise likely
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Sundae posted:
i'll consider myself lucky if nursing homes still exist
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Cactus Ghost posted:i'll consider myself lucky if nursing homes still exist nursing tents, maybe or a nursing capsule where they just stick me in a tube and jiggle my body around to prevent bedsores I guess it'll be whatever that comes closest to matrix-style, I guess. Instead of computers and robots ruling the world and putting me in a virtual retirement universe, it'll be whatever generation (likely containing some form of artificial human) coming after generation Z and it'll always be sometime in the 1990s except more equality (which would be easy enough) and more advertising (which would be a stretch).
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lol if you expect they'll let us live. It's fascism and barbarism for the USA, not revolution.
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I'll be cared for by an import Japanese hospice robot.
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First of May posted:I'll be cared for by an import Japanese hospice robot. Only if you can afford it yourself. Government programs will be required to use Made in USA hospice bots, made with 100% US steel, plastic, etc.
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Bald Stalin posted:lol if you expect they'll let us live. It's fascism and barbarism for the USA, not revolution. This country is too big and too decentralized for a fascist takeover to effectively control the whole country. If fascism or a dictatorship was gonna take over it would have been near the beginning of the country, like when John Adams almost went dictator, when the country was still small. Now it's too big and too many people have been infected with the individual freedom and liberty mind virus. Instead we get Trump doing a big fat grift and what would be best described as lifestyle fascism of dudes really into memes, bitching about pop culture and shooting up schools. If the concern is having a stable society that will take care of you when you're old, that's the job of the socialist to imagine it and make it and not mope about an already forsaken future.
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:in minor state news, the rank and file of the state scientist union have voted to authorize a strike if current negotiations with the state come to an impasse. probably will come to nothing, but the current contract lapsed three years ago and there's a big gap between the union demands and the states counteroffer, so not completely impossible. we'll see if the state makes an uninspiring offer similar to what seiu 1000 is voting on right now CAPS just sent an update saying the State didn't attempt to discuss pay, and the legislative deadline has expired so there won't be any hint of a contract until January at the earliest. CAPS doesn't have any sort of strike or benefits fund so... yeah time to save up if you're under them.
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Tayter Swift posted:CAPS doesn't have any sort of strike or benefits fund so... yeah time to save up if you're under them. Seems like a pretty important tool to have to perform any kind of effective strike
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Thinking it through I don't think a strike could happen until 2025. There's a bill in the legislature (AB 1677) requiring a study into what the gently caress is going on with stat scientists' salary over the years. It's gone through the Assembly, but I don't know if Newsom intends to sign it. Authorizing a strike without getting everyone fired requires the Public Employee Relations Board to declare an impasse. I doubt they would do so before that report comes out, by which time next year's negotiations with the state will be in session. Assuming the state tells CAPS to gfy again CAPS would ask for an impasse, which I'm sure would take a while, during which the Leg (who would approve any tentative agreement) would be done with their 2024 session and nothing would happen anyway. It's hosed.
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meanwhile there is mysteriously money for meaningful raises for the prison guard union sacramento bee editorial quote:California’s front-line soldiers in the fight against climate change, drought, wildfire and exposure to toxic chemicals are the 4,000-some scientists who work at state agencies. But now, after working without a contract for three years, the union representing these workers has overwhelmingly voted to strike. Meanwhile, more than 25,000 correctional officers in California have reached an agreement with the administration of Gov. Gavin Newsom for a new contract with pay raises, a one-time contribution to a retirement shelter fund and a $10,000 bonus for employees in higher-cost communities such as Folsom. A state offer rejected by scientists last year amounted to an additional $8,260 a year based on the state’s three-year calculation (total costs divided by full-time equivalent employees). The contract for the correctional officers was 66% richer, with $13,248 more state costs annually per officer. newsom is very ready to speechify about how much the state values science though, so there's that
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ill ask my friend who works with mountain lions about this "wild cat strike" thing. seems like a bunch of cats in the galley should put the fear in the legislature
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If the state scientists do a wildcat, water sampling of SF Bay won't occur as planned If state prison guards go on strike that's front page news and maybe a prison riot or three, plus a major strike against any politician who campaigns on "tough on crime"
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Hadlock posted:If the state scientists do a wildcat, water sampling of SF Bay won't occur as planned You have a fundamental misunderstanding of both the worth state scientists and the worth of prison guards.
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i mean, for the kind of "worth" that matters to politicians, he's probably right
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My cousin is a state scientist for Oregon, he's part of a team of like, probably way too few people, under 10, who are in charge of dealing with invasive pests (insects) that will destroy crops. Running/managing the programs, doing outreach to extremely distrustful farmers, working on studies and actively eliminating invasive crop pests. Literally makes sure there's food on your plate, but also,Cactus Ghost posted:i mean, for the kind of "worth" that matters to politicians, he's probably right Yeah I support the scientists but invasive crop bugs don't buy votes unless it's a dust bowl scenario
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Hadlock posted:My cousin is a state scientist for Oregon, he's part of a team of like, probably way too few people, under 10, who are in charge of dealing with invasive pests (insects) that will destroy crops. Running/managing the programs, doing outreach to extremely distrustful farmers, working on studies and actively eliminating invasive crop pests. Literally makes sure there's food on your plate I know they're common on my grandparents farm since they adopted Integrated Pest Management early.
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Tuxedo Gin posted:Who knows what terminal internet brain will do to most of us in the end. Got you a forum where you can watch this happening in real time
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https://www.berkeleyside.org/2023/09/12/berkeley-eviction-moratorium-landlords-plan-party Berkely councilmen denounce all violence (except evictions and homelessness, that kind is cool) https://twitter.com/TaplinTerry/status/1702084102894276613 Thought the Berkely rent board reps comments were interesting too. Apparently the data contradicts landlords claims that there were mountains of unpaid rent.
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BeAuMaN posted:Out of curiosity: distrustful on what level, apart from farmers being generally distrustful? Like not letting them put pest traps on their property to collect and study? Or...? Distrustful on a "this is my loving property, I pay my loving taxes, now stay out of my loving business" level Having someone from the literal government show up at your house and tell you to do things on your land or maybe even Daddy's land, differently for a lot of people is a blind rage "Becky, get my gun" moment for a lot of people, even if it's a voluntary, opt in situation (although even a single opt out means that years campaign will be a failure) Specifically they wanted to spray the land with a particular chemical tailored for a specific non native, invasive pest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCedOQJ0ZEA Obviously this is not the first time they've done this, they send out mailers, attend city/county planning meetings, farmers association meetings etc the job is actually 90% community outreach, 10% actual science/trying not to get shot at Hadlock fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Sep 15, 2023 |
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yeah oregon is probably second only to idaho for ruby ridge wannabes
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Madame senator, this is a morgue.
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So who is Newsome gonna appoint?
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I thought she was senile, not dying.
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Welcome Senator Newsom.
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Vegetable posted:I thought she was senile, not dying. Username/post combo
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The Glumslinger posted:So who is Newsome gonna appoint? Gonna tell him I often forget what year it is and see if I can get in
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The Glumslinger posted:So who is Newsome gonna appoint? Smart electoral politics play is to appoint Boxer as a caretaker and let the primary candidates keep fighting it out. He’ll probably choose to play queenmaker tho. yronic heroism fucked around with this message at 16:37 on Sep 29, 2023 |
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yronic heroism posted:Smart electoral politics play is to appoint Boxer as a caretaker and let the primary candidates keep fighting it out. oh yeah, I guess boxer would have no issue just riding it out
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yronic heroism posted:Smart electoral politics play is to appoint Boxer as a caretaker and let the primary candidates keep fighting it out. He’s pretty definitively said he won’t pick someone involved in the race.
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Rest in piss you old loving shriv
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Fork of Unknown Origins posted:He’s pretty definitively said he won’t pick someone involved in the race. Kevin de Leon finally gets his senate seat!
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I think Newsom promised to appoint a black woman, and someone not involved in the race, so Maxine Waters seems like a good guess.
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is there an opposite of half mast we can do for this one? or do we just put a confederate flag at half?
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Maxine Walters is 85 though? Hopefully they assign someone under the age of 70 at least, although I'm not holding my breath. Average age in California is ~36-37 would be great to see someone under 50
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mikeycp posted:is there an opposite of half mast we can do for this one? or do we just put a confederate flag at half? I would say the latter, but I don’t think she would like the old stars and bars to not be at the tippy top of the pole.
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Hadlock posted:Maxine Walters is 85 though? Hopefully they assign someone under the age of 70 at least, although I'm not holding my breath. Average age in California is ~36-37 would be great to see someone under 50 Yeah, that's kind of the point. There's very slim chance that she would decide to run for the seat, so she would just hold it for the end of Feinstein's term through 2024.
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