Ashelyn
@Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Wow, this is so much faster 1 week ago:
Bro really called “just a guy shooting terrorists” apolitical
- Comment on just say no!! 3 weeks ago:
Also check out hyperrogue if you get the chance. It’s a turn based top down game with a non-euclidean, procedural game board
- Comment on Continental D r i f t s 3 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure the magma would have to be considerably hotter to actually be boiling.
- Comment on Google fires 28 workers for protesting $1.2 billion Israel contract 4 weeks ago:
Imo their issue was in not forming a broader union coalition before picking their workplace
- Comment on A wonderful day begins 4 weeks ago:
Alcohol is also a known carcinogen and cause of numerous health issues. Probably worse than the aspartame
Plus all the extra sodium will give you kidney stones
- Comment on Reddit is taking over Google 4 weeks ago:
Maybe it’s just me but I also feel like the reddit results that show up also seem to be getting worse. Used to be the case that I could input a query, add “Reddit” to the end, and immediately get one or two concise, helpful answers, but I’m very frequently getting fluff and having to check 5 or 6 down these days for similar questions.
- Comment on Dr 4Chan's Medical Advice 1 month ago:
I mean, there is the argument that if they bioaccumulate in the blood, it’s worth removing periodically even if it doesn’t stop new intake
- Comment on [OC] Painting of my Water Bottle 1 month ago:
MUADE C@LT O☆^☆ AIRT^^•
- Comment on 💊💊💊 1 month ago:
So that means that if someone doesn’t believe a medicine will work when it actually does, the effect is still present but not as great?
- Comment on Malaria 2 months ago:
On the education thing, this AP article doesn’t go too heavily into policy details but does cover the extent of Gates’ influence on the American education system.
Or were you talking about the controversies surrounding the Foundation’s handling of certain diseases? Here’s one from PBS that’s arguably the most neutral I could find outlining criticisms regarding joint efforts between the Gates Foundation, WHO, and various governments/orgs on eradicating polio and issues with their strategies.
- Comment on Uber, Lyft, DoorDash drivers in the U.S. to strike on Valentine’s Day for fair pay 2 months ago:
If the companies know that a strike will only last for a day/short time it’s kind of doomed from the start to achieve little to nothing. If workers are looking for concessions, that requires prolonged effort and solidarity fundraising/organizing 99 times out of 100.
Gig economy companies know this, which is why they structure their product experience both for consumers and workers to be as alienated and atomized as possible. They also run specials all the time such as “complete 10 drives in the next 48 hours for a $50 bonus” which can be a pretty effective picket line-crossing incentive for those who need the money. People from this group will likely be much harder to reach because of their financial situation demanding so much of their attention. It’s so easy for the companies to just turn up the compensation dial temporarily, and if they know it’s coming they can just weather the 24 hours with generous offers to potential scabs and then go back to business as usual when it’s over.
Organizing despite the difficulties is the only way, but it’s definitely a stacked deck.
- Comment on The absurdity of the return-to-office movement 3 months ago:
No, I work an office job.
- Comment on The absurdity of the return-to-office movement 3 months ago:
It’s actually some people from the older more entitled generation feel that their employees that had schedules adjusted to allow work from home during covid, feel that since the pandemic has ended employees must come back to office and work under direct supervision in their pretty fiefdom, AND be entitled to their employees’ unpaid time commuting even though WFH is more efficient and better for most employees. Sounds reasonable 🤣
One of the reasons companies are pushing for return to office is simply because WFH scares middle managers because they can’t keep constant watch over everyone and see the faces of subordinates at all times. It puts them in a very precarious position to learn that most people are still productive even without their constant breathing down everyone’s necks. They want to return to a worse past because it was a setup they were just personally more comfortable with even though it comes at the expense of workers’ well-being both mental and physical.
Also, consider the commercial real estate market! If people work from home then just think of how all those property investment portfolios will suffer; the absolute horror of it all!
- Comment on Shitty railing 3 months ago:
idk it kind of looks like he hit himself in the head with it pretty good during the fall. It’s obscured behind one of the housing posts but you can still kind of see based on how the railing and his head/upper body moves.
- Comment on Just a single one, please! 4 months ago:
New diy orchi procedure just dropped??
- Comment on have you been doing crime? 4 months ago:
Twecond
- Comment on Sigma college loans 4 months ago:
That’s good! I remember hearing about it being a possibility but never the follow up. It really did seem just pointlessly cruel
- Comment on Sigma college loans 4 months ago:
And you owe back payments from when we paused it!
- Comment on Wolves or something idk 5 months ago:
Your left or my left?
- Comment on They now put ads in cigarettes 5 months ago:
I don’t understand this take. You can enjoy a product but still understand that it brings more harm than good to society as a whole. I’m guessing tobacco is something you “need to function” because of the very fact that you regularly used it in the first place, probably at least partially due to the industry’s predatory practices.
Don’t get me wrong, withdrawal is an absolute nightmare I am blessed to never have experienced firsthand, but cases of lifelong dependence are why those companies should burn in the first place. If there were a way to get you and others like you what you need while wiping the rest of the industry off the face of this planet, I’d do it in a heartbeat.
If you genuinely enjoy smoking and believe tobacco has enriched your life, more power to you. Perhaps someone selling tobacco to people in your situation doesn’t bring harm, but selling that same product to someone who’s never smoked before and might potentially become hooked for life? Yeah, straight to hell. Fuck them.
- Comment on Don't forget to tip your gas station 6 months ago:
I try to keep track of ones that can’t be turned off so I know to never visit that gas station ever again