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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UAW preparing the US for a general strike in 2028⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Read the article. The UAW has just signed a ~5 year contract, expiring in 2028. He’s calling for other unions, between now and then, to align their contract expirations with the UAW’s. This is not something that’s possible to do in a short period of time, because it relies upon various other union contracts ending, and realistically by the time we get to 2026/2027 no union is going to sign a sub-2 year contract.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bye biiiittttchhhh⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There are absolutely incentives - tax credits and rebates - for buying electric bikes in some areas. My state is offering $500 off any ebike purchase.

  The auto industry is not being subsidized by consumer incentives. The auto industry is being subsidized by tax credits whenever they build a new facility, which is still arguably dumb. Consumer incentives are designed to get the average citizen to buy an EV over an ICE vehicle. The consumer is gonna buy a car anyway - someone in the market for a car isn’t going to buy a bike, even an ebike, based off of price. They’re buying a mode of transportation based off of lifestyle. Many simply can’t commute to work via bike or public transportation, and if a credit gets them to buy an EV over an ICE vehicle, this is a net benefit.

  The solution to public transportation is not to attempt to disincentivize or punish car drivers, then build mass transit. Gotta build the mass transit first. The financial incentives for people taking mass transit are the fact that the most expensive mass transit in the US costs ~$1,500/year. The cost of owning an operating the average car in the US is ~$10,700/year. Yes, build more mass transit to free us from being slaved to expensive automobiles! But until then, preventing incentives for greener vehicles that would be purchased by those who have no choice is just shooting yourself in the foot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everything to keep disguise⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I wanna know if they all applied those sentiments to all pets.

  There isn’t a single domesticated animal that isn’t “gross” and has to be cleaned up after constantly. Dogs will shit on the floor when you don’t let them outside to shit in nature, but a cat doing what it’s supposed to do will shit in a box you have to empty regularly and shreds your furniture for fun. At least dogs only lick their balls, cats have the flexibility to straight up lick their assholes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨England’s concrete crisis could extend to hospitals and courts, experts say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No, they also used a lot of wood.

  But doesn’t change the fact the concrete is good concrete. Better much of ours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨England’s concrete crisis could extend to hospitals and courts, experts say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Source for 30 year rating? I’m not aware of such in either Europe or North America. I found a few sites reporting that number but couldn’t find an actual authority giving that rating.

  Also, there’s a difference between a wood (or stick) frame and a timber frame, at least if you’re including North America in context. In our terminology, a timber frame has large timber beams and columns supporting the load, and dividing walls are put in between. A stick frame house uses smaller lumber studs, and most of the internal and external walls are supporting the floors or roof above.

  American houses are stick frame, and with proper maintenance a stick frame house can last easily over 100 years. Wood doesn’t rot if treated and maintained properly. Settling of the foundation is a bigger problem, and simply subject to ground conditions which would impact even a steel frame house.

  Timber frame is becoming more popular again for large buildings though, since ~12"/30cm timber columns have pretty good fire ratings, can support 3-4 stories, and are good carbon sinks for more environmentally friendly construction versus concrete or steel. My city is putting up some 3 story timber apartment buildings that look pretty awesome.

  Long story short, wood is a great, renewable construction material if you’re smart about how you build with it and how you treat it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨England’s concrete crisis could extend to hospitals and courts, experts say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is true, but it’s also more expensive, which means the owners now don’t want to spend the extra 25% to make sure their building lasts 500 years instead of 50.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨England’s concrete crisis could extend to hospitals and courts, experts say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but Roman concrete was also actually really good due to the ingredients used. They had self-healing concrete millennia before we came up with the idea.

  A fair critique is the Romans built their shit to last and didn’t have advanced computers to calculate loads to just ~10% of failure, like we do now. We’ll use cheaper, local materials if it’s good enough. The Romans shipped ash and concrete ingredients halfway across Europe to make sure they were using the good stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FYI: Ed Sheeran is a scab.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Jezebel is part of the original Gawker Media (now “Go Media”) network, and is a glorified blog. Hardly a “news outlet”.

  It’s also not even scab behavior. Scabs are people who take shifts at places where unions are on strike. This is a store with no union, so he’s not doing union work. It’s maybe anti-union, but it’s not scab-y.

  And while I’m generally pro-union, my experience with unions is they are very, very against non-union members doing union work. So if Ed Sheeran wanted to pick up a shift at a Starbucks for a promo, I can see why he might have had to pick a non-union location. I’d be curious to find out if he asked or what his agents discussed. Doesn’t seem likely to me that Sheeran himself said “I want to do manual labor for several hours, make sure it’s at a union-busting location.”

  This whole story seems overblown.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researching alcohol interventions for a friend. I’ve seen more ads for alcohol than ever in my life⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, his purchases of alcohol may have made it to an advertiser. He may simply not have noticed he was getting ads until his wife talked to him about drinking too much.

  The whole “phones are listening all the time” thing could be true, and wouldn’t surprise me, but to my knowledge no hacker or privacy monitor has ever found evidence that they do. Always just seemed more likely to me that people just expose information without realizing these systems are much more ubiquitous and complex than just microphones illegally listening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shrinkflation is out of control⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thinner people are healthier in that they won’t suffer from the same medical issues that plague the obese. A thin person might have high cholesterol, but they’re not going to also have the same increase chance of heart disease an obese person will see. No individual who’s 300lbs is healthy, obesity in and of itself is the disease. The fact thin people suffer from other, non-weight related diseases doesn’t mean there is not point in not maintaining a healthy weight.

  Food insecurity is not a solution to the obesity epidemic, but eating a couple hundred calories per day less than maintenance is also not starvation. And ensuring healthy foods and produce are more affordable than unhealthy and high-processed alternatives is a great way to kill two birds with one stone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tick tock 🕚⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume it’s just the pace, but overall there’s plenty of reasons to be frustrated.

  There’s already talk about how some of these cases might not be resolved until after the election, at which point, depending on how it goes, could be extremely problematic.

  It feels frustrating because it’s mid-2023, and we may “run out of time” by end of 2024. People ask what the fuck was happening for 2.5 years? The reality of course is justice is not always, nor necessarily should be swift, and getting these investigations even started takes time to say nothing of collecting evidence and putting together a case. But also, 20 years ago even a single criminal indictment probably would have spelled the end of a Presidential campaign, and instead, Trump is successfully fundraising off of these charges and leading the polls.

  It’s all just bonkers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨higher wages for the servers... by the customers. Fnbs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The difference is “We don’t want to raise the listed prices on our menu.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s going good so far 🤞🤞⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The gatekeeping is especially ironic because they didn’t use this meme template properly, lol. You know, like a “normie”.