You're right, the shaping outcomes part is especially well put. The dispiriting thing is that as long as we're not the ones being fucked over I don't see my colleagues giving much of a shit about organizing. They're generally happy about the company. The problem here is the effect our work has on other people.
I feel this, that's my usual attitude. This time I didn't manage to keep the anger under control I guess.
Unfortunately we're not the highly unionized workforce in question. We're the tech contractor they want to replace said highly unionized workforce with. We're not unionized and I don't see the majority of my colleagues giving a shit except for a couple likeminded people. It's bleak 
I just had to sit through an hour long presentation at my workplace by a top manager at a privatized public utility. This Boston Consulting-bred mf who probably makes six figures was talking about "reshaping the cost base" as a euphemism for major job cuts, while in the same breath bragging about being acquired by a Private Equity firm. He literally had a fucking bullet point about a highly unionized workforce being one of the main challenges facing the company.
I was struggling to even sit still, it was maddening. I made an effort to contain the rage, but even the few angry comments I made about it afterwards with my colleagues seemed to fall on deaf ears. I might have already jeopardized my job if rumor of them reaches the wrong people. Unfortunately my rent doesn't pay itself, and this is a relatively good job as far as they go.
How do you deal with the rage? How do you manage the anger internally when expressing it might genuinely lead to losing your job? I really tried to keep my mouth shut today, and I still kinda failed.
Looking forward to a bountiful slop harvest this season
Critical support to the Amsterdam taxi drivers who made some zionazis take a swim
I love that this joke has been alive since ye olden days of the subreddit, I had a nostalgic moment reading it...
Thought about this exact video as well.
Communism is when indentured servitude.
Was feeling nostalgic for late '00s eurotrash antifa ska-punk, so here you go.
Death to America.
No. As a rule of thumb whenever the EU does something half decent it's either by necessity or accident.
Tech companies are already lobbying hard at both the European and national levels. The recent AI Act looks like it's written more by policy wonks who drank the AI industry's Kool-Aid than by actual experts in the field. On one side they want to cut funding to NGI0, one of the few genuinely good things the EU did in recent memory, which - among other things - funds Lemmy development, and costs pennies at the scale of the EU budgets. On the other they're planning to pump ungodly amounts of money into "the AI industry" - whatever the fuck that is - because they got sold on GenAI being the next big thing and they don't want to be left behind.
In EU policy for every half decent thing like the GDPR the are many ChatControls and similarly terrible ideas.
Happy to be of service. Zhug by itself is a pretty strong sauce so you use small quantities of it, but you can make it into more of a dip by mixing it with about two parts of yoghurt (vegan yoghurt works fine too).
I see your Toum and I raise Yemen's Zhug: another absolutely banging middle eastern condiment. It's easy af to make, you can decide how spicy you want it, and it rips. I put it on basically anything.
The rest of the world should not have to know the name Bari Weiss
As the US elections draw near, I must once again bitch about being subjected to US cultural hegemony.
It's so fucking exhausting folks. Please, God, somebody invent the "Mute America" button. I would genuinely get one of those brain chips implanted in my head if it would allow me to smoothly silence any content about US politics.
As a weakling who only speaks two languages, I am cursed to either suffer my home country's discourse (which, trust me, is just as brainrotten as the US's if not more), or to stay in the anglophone media space where America reigns supreme. Nowhere is safe. There is no dark corner where I can hide from Trump's dementia-ridden quotes, or Gamers4Harris, or whichever way Musk is embarrassing himself this time, or the general attitude of people regularly forgetting that the world - and more specifically their online audience - does not all live in the US.
The world should institute a reverse Great Firewall to contain American discourse within the physical boundaries of the 50 states, like the dangerous infohazard that it is.
Please. I beg for mercy. We have suffered enough.