Thanks for the well-written explanation, stranger.

Who knew a company with an unhealthy obsession with harvesting every screen tap of data from every person using their services… would chicken out from connecting their servers to a bunch of clients they couldn’t monitor.

… That said, I actually didn’t see this coming. It baffles me that I didn’t, but I didn’t.

Yeah… It’s a tiny sliver of the species.

Oh. Just over the median income in America. So literally half the population of the most powerful country in the world is insulated from the problem.

EDIT: okay, looks like I was looking at median household income and not median personal income. Meaning my math is off.

Excellent response. Thank you.

So the most ethical diet choice is then “buy your meat local and make sure you know your butcher is not 13” ?

Are they exploited on farms that grow feed for chickens and cattle? Because if so, I could imagine someone making an argument for “lessening” child labor with their economic choices by simply eating the grains directly.

Even the babies have evil in their hearts.

But I do believe GDP includes government spending.

It sounds like you were distressed and left because you didn’t know what to do or how to help.

That’s empathy. Feeling uncomfortable when you see people in pain is empathy. And it’s normal. It’s normal for you to feel distressed around her as you hear her account. It’s normal to want to leave. It’s normal to feel guilty about leaving. It’s normal to wonder if you could have done more to help catch the bastard.

This is awful. What you just saw is awful. What you just experienced is legitimately uncomfortable.

And it’s hard for people to wrap their heads around, because how could your pain be valid when it’s a response to seeing someone in “real” pain? How could your pain be important when it’s nothing more than the faint echo of the pain you’re witnessing someone else go through?

But it hurts. As selfish as it feels to hurt at a time like this, it still hurts.

Wow. That’s Linus Torvalds levels of screaming, “ARE YOU FUCKING STUPID?!”

People got really worked up back in 2008.

Yeah, but Fain is the first democratically elected UAW leader (prior leadership was chosen by delegations and was fraught with racketeering and embezzlement) and it shows.

Oh no, if I think someone’s name is Joe and it turns out being Jeff, I feel atrocious.

Have you tried punching “batch recipes kale” into a search engine? (but instead of kale, put whichever vegetable you want to eat more of)

“Batch recipes” are basically like meal prep. And they often taste amazing.

My reasoning is: if you have leftovers in your fridge that are veggie-laden, tasty, and convenient, odds are you’ll be getting your veggies without even trying.

But now I live in Nevada. I will be voting for Biden because

• the CHIPS Act is going to put chip manufacturing at the mercy of union labor
  • and with the solidarity whipped up by places like Antiwork? It’s going to be a bloodbath.
• his bans on slave labor solar panel imports will do the same thing. Union laborers won’t need to compete with slave owners.
• he halted ICE worksite immigration raids, which were basically used to terrorize migrant workers and keep them complacent (hence lowering their wages, and by extension, lowering the market price of labor)
• he “played the long game” and helped win rail workers those sick days they were fighting for.
• he kept student loan payments paused for the first 33 months of his term and tried to get a decent chunk forgiven
• he appointed trust-busting advocate Lina Kahn to the FTC, where she is now a chairwoman
• he appointed pro-labor lawyer Jennifer Abruzzo to the NLRB, where she recently set an anti-union-busting precedent that, according to Harold Meyerson at Prospect.org, “makes union organizing possible again”

He’s silently, steadily, baby-stepping us in the right direction. And that’s worth a vote of support, not just a vote for a lesser evil.

I didn’t. I was in California, so my vote was irrelevant anyways. I’ve been living with my mom, so I decided to use it to make a point.

I was like, “look Mom! I don’t approve of Biden’s hair sniffing, so I’m voting for Jorgenson! You can do the same! That’s an option!”

It didn’t work. She voted for Trump. (Don’t worry. She was also in California so her vote was also irrelevant). You’d think with her personal history, she’d have been AGAINST serial sexual predators… but I guess his cult of personality was just too strong. She still genuinely believes he “stood up to the globalists.”

Do you think it’s possible for a Twitter version of this drowning-out siren to exist? What would it look like?

Thank you so much for all the information!

Damn. The old leadership – on top of being subservient – sounds like a bunch of crooks. I’m happy the UAW has its new process.

When I went to community college, I’d arrive early to one theater class, and sitting there already (from a previous class, I believe) were two girls/women who somehow managed to fill 75% of their conversation, every time, with “Eragon was such a bad movie adaptation.”

Which taught me that the movie was so bad they it genuinely hurt fans of the novel.

Damn it, it’s now GNL and we have to rewrite all the textbooks!

Duly noted. I’ve subscribed to the writing prompts community.