I agree, but they should be active days, to get people plugged in, motivated, and should not be confused with general strike especially since a bunch of people already mistake general strikes as “boycotting work.” But everything I read says that’s a mistake, because those people end up scabs since they were allowed to think it was another paid holiday.
They shouldn’t call them that. It’s just a walk out. Maybe it’s OK to call it a dress rehearsal or practice run but the point would be to test community support mechanisms and get the word out, not to “put the corpos on notice” or lend virtue to someone’s extra personal day. The truth is it’s not much of a stress test if it’s just 1 day. Also it’s crying wolf. General strikes should damage the economy and an extra snow day just doesn’t. It fails that goal even if it feels nice to say they participated in a “general strike.”
But the more insidious problem is one of logistics, tactics, and reserves.
With protests, there’s often rotating participation so overall support/resource/attention burnout isn’t a brick wall issue. People generally know how many protest days they have to give up front and using them up just means they’ll need to be replaced by another protestor. The point is showing up if you can.
But “1-day general strikes” steal actual person-days from the real general strike (a protracted war of attrition between workers and the economy where the workers hurt themselves to hurt their enemy). Meaning, it actually helps corporations not just by dis-carding useable cards in our deck prematurely_and_ revealing to the opponent our possible hands, it also subtracts drawable cards from our reserves since each of those person-days eventually must be borne by mutual support networks later on.
“1-day General Strikes” are not general strikes!
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Looks like a specialist copay on private health insurance
lol no. Shortage. Can’t be fully asleep or awake.
She was a serial killer when she was alive and a memory feeder in her afterlife.
To stop her, I had to destroy her trophies, but each time I projected to one of her victim’s bodies I had to work quickly, because she would show up immediately when I touched a trophy and begin darting through me repeatedly, erasing parts of me.
At the last body I couldn’t remember my name, or anything at all, just the task. And she was already there, frantic and weeping.
I wasted no time destroying the last of her trophies and made my escape. Bud she grabbed me, somehow, as I vanished. She embraced me, cohabiting my projection, and I instantly knew her story, and understood why she killed all those people.
But I woke myself shouting the deprojection command. My cat, startled, just blinked at me. My body and memories were intact. It was just a weird dream.
My eyes felt hot, though, as if I had been weeping.
This is the we <3 calamari dynasty, where righteous ask why not?
And yet, as with any disease, outlook depends on many factors. The number of cells in the immune system that recognize an infection, for example, can radically alter its progression.
A sudden widespread immune response may be all that can save the organism following an initial exposure, but often a more targeted, adaptive, and coordinated immune response is possible later. It mostly depends on how much of the body recognizes the infection and does its part to block its spread.
This judge had a particularly crucial part and played it to a Th.
It takes a hell of a lot more courage to hold the line with your comrades, like this judge did by laying the groundwork needed for their future victory, than it does to
Oh you mean the two-syllable thing. That was more for the joke lol
I think it works as a rule of thumb: if message is simple enough that context makes it obvious, two blinks will suffice. But no, it wouldn’t be useful as an actual lexical cypher.
LOL. Doesn’t that mean it’s completely ambiguous?
Well granted, it’s high-context communication. But I’m willing to bet you’d know what I meant if you were trying to merge and I double-tapped lights.
Three would make me wonder if it’s an ongoing flashing light.
Yeah IME three is less general, usually reserved for a problem or need for caution, like if someone is driving at night with all their lights out or a visible chassis/drivetrain issue, or there’s a cop/wreck ahead.
I’d certainly interpret it that way if it fit.
The only issue I’d see with that convention is that in many scenarios in which you’d use it — other driver makes room for you to merge, brakes early to let you turn left, and so forth — you (should) already have half of the hazard lights actively repeating, which could muddle the message. But otherwise I like it.
Another random convention I learned early on was rapid triple-tap beams (i.e., like a strobe) = “speed trap ahead”
Rock on. Were there any instances of local parlance you found peculiar or surprising?
(Edit: real answer) For most acknowledgements, I double-tap a light — beams, brakes, or hazards depending on current lighting conditions and relative position of other driver — because most things I would say to them are two beats long:
I think they mean a steel door with a solid wood core. Basically a wooden door clad in sheet steel.
They’re common in the US, especially in denser urban areas.
All air is filled with spores.
Uh huh
This might be true if there is existing live mold somewhere in the toilet (for that, monthly tank bleach tablet) but otherwise a lid prevents spores from settling in the first place.
Humidity reduction by ventilation can slow/delay mold but only eradication stops it.
Every example of human interest profile targeting functionality that humanity has ever invented, even if it begins as a way of legitimately improving the user’s experience, eventually is gutted and retooled to cyberstalk and pimp them out to voyeuristic clients.
The clients? Mostly rich pay-per-view incel corporations that could never hope to reach their desired audience organically, much less hold their interest, so they are absolutely willing to pay for non-consentual attention control.
Once we reach this phase, your pimp has less and less interest in delivering on promises they made to you a long time ago about relevant content. They know you’ll keep giving them juicy data to help pair you with clients that they can prove have the best chance at manipulating you and getting what they want from you.
So yes, you’ll probably find that the convenience you could once purchase by giving them more of your data will slow. Ultimately, all it will purchase is more intrusive advertisers stalking you everywhere you go.
Your idea of sticking to DDG sounds like a better option
Sounds right. Some say education is what’s left once you’ve forgotten all you learned.
Is it? There seems to be widespread agreement on that point, here on Lemmy, that expecting the worst of everyone is critical to motivate the Americans to go out and vote.
It’s a strong enough consensus, reinforced with absolute certainty over and over in our political communities, that I’ve been forced to ponder it myself many times. Because I also have an instinct that it’s quite possible to demotivate and even deactivate would-be voters by making them feel that theirs is a lone flame in the wind, or that the insurmountable forces of evil will make their efforts inconsequential.
As a counter example, here in New York, that wasn’t what brought people out to knock on doors and vote for the new progressive mayor. People participated because they had hope for change, or maybe just to be a part of a something new. They weren’t voting against Cuomo as much as they were voting for Mamdani, if that makes sense.
Are we confident that our all-in commitment to motivating people through fear of their neighbors’ inaction is a winning strategy?
Yeah those old heads are the ones whose stuff I’ve been reading. But general strike vets are not the ones spinning up these 1-day strikes AFAIK. Feel free to share though.
Most I’ve seen are college students sharing motivational posters Grok made them for the 1-day general strike they wanted to have the Friday before spring break. They’re hyper localized and largely meaningless campus-level social events, not adding stable nodes to the resistance network. (But I’m sure there are others more mindful than that.)
My complaint is simply that my peers don’t try harder to understand the fucking assignment, or ask the experienced, before they Leroy Jenkins.