The concentration camps are not years old. They’re 2 years old top.

Embargo work when they’re applied by a big economy over a small one, like the US over Cuba or North Korea. But they’re not effective when the difference on its size isn’t that big, like in the case of Russia, that found alternative markets on China, India and could keep moving their gas and oil to Europe with intermediaries. Now, the US trying to play that game with China is absurd. Maybe in the 90s could have worked, but nowadays almost every country in the world have bigger financial ties with China that with the US.

That was what the finance minister of China said. After 125% of tariff on American imports, any additional tariff isn’t not going to have any effect so they’re going to stop playing the game

I saw an exposition of him and is pretty cool seeing him reaching and exploring until finding out that style.

“‘Right-to-work’ means freedom and choice,” a Boston Globe op-ed explains. “As housing costs rise, some people are choosing to live on the road instead,” a Fox Business headline states. “If your insurance company isn’t doing right by you, you should have another, better choice,” reads Joe Biden’s campaign platform. We’re told repeatedly that “freedom of choice” is essential to a robust economy and human happiness. Economists, executives, politicians, and pundits insist that, the same way consumers shop for TVs, workers can choose their healthcare plan, parents can choose their kids’ school, and gig-economy workers can choose their own schedules and benefits.

While this language is superficially appealing, it’s also profoundly deceitful. The notion of “choice” as a gateway to freedom and a sign of societal success isn’t a neutral call for people to exercise some abstract civic power; it’s free-market capitalist ideology manufactured by libertarian and neoliberal think tanks and their mercenary economists and media messaging nodes. Its purpose: to convince people that they have a choice while obscuring the economic factors that ensure they really don’t: People can’t “choose” to keep their employer-provided insurance if they’re fired from their jobs or “choose” to enroll their kids in private school if they can’t afford the tuition.

In this episode, we examine the rise of “choice” rhetoric, how it cravenly appeals to our vanity, and how US media has uncritically adopted the framing–helping the right erode social services while atomizing us all into independent, self-interested collections of “choices.”

We are joined by Jessica Stites, executive editor of In These Times.

https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/citationsneeded/CN95_20191205_choice_Stites_v2.mp3?dest-id=542191

I just don’t go the meetings, if they actually need me my boss send me a DM asking me to enter, otherwise she just tell me what I need to know. Only when she can’t participate on the meetings she ask me to enter and told her if they talked about something relevant for us.

My wife just learned that the motive the seus chef on her restaurant is going out and back from work is because he’s dealing with drug problems. The surprising thing is not the drugs, because they practically standard use in kitchen staff, but that is so bad he can’t work while high.

Thanks, in actuarial sciences. I already have a degree in it but the last year and half of college were during the pandemic and I felt there were some things I didn’t properly learned.

I was about to ask OP how they commute. I have 3/5 home office, but I go to the office practically every day because I commute by bike, so going to the office is an excuse to ride my bike.

I finished classes from my master’s, and presented the last test. Still have a final homework to do and prepare my graduation paper. But at last my Sundays are free again.

QRAlarm on the F-Droid or PlayStore. You need to have some QR to scan already or print one.

QRAlarm on the F-Droid or play store.

The alarm only go off after reading a QRcode that you can put on your bathroom or other place and ensure that you walk away from bed before turning it off.

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I have one that can only be turn off by reading a QRCode that I printed and put in the bathroom.

They would be amazed on how we were able to survive for so long with our balls full of microplastics.

In my pass job I was a business intelligence analysist in an insurance company, and my boss came to me and told me to take my computer and go to some conference room. There was one of the managers of legal affairs and she ask me to do look up something on the database, pretty regular job that is usually a ticket but ok, so I did her queries when suddenly they went a direction they don’t normally go and asked me to join the table with the employees database and do a pivot table for employee and count of lines and there was this lady with like 95% of the count, the manager asked me to send her that table and told me that she already knew it was her, but needed the evidence to HR. One week later the lady was fired and I still feel uncomfortable about that. Later I read some essay about abstraction, and how upper you go on the corporate chain, people gradually stop being humans to be just numbers, but for me, that day, my work had a name and a direct consequence that I can’t abstract from.

The Big Lewosky

If you have an android phone, the settings icon is a cog.

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I had to teach my zoomer intern how to use alt+tab and that you can just keep ctrl pressed and then just press the other key, they didn’t need to be pressed on the exact instant to work.