Especially if the ones who will refuse to comply keep quitting

I’m resisting the urge to jump to conclusions, however I can’t help but observe that objectively there seems to be a common denominator in your situation. Either way, it sucks that that’s been your experience and I hope things change for the better for you.

It doesn’t feel unique to Lemmy to me. I’m seeing higher levels of hostility in just about any environment broad enough to include left and right wingers

If society jumped off a bridge, would you also?

I’m committed. I’ve already rehearsed what I would say to my manager/HR and fully accept that it may end my employment with them. But as somebody who’s financially secure, I feel it’s my duty to make that sacrifice should it come to it.

Just wait till No Kings II. We’re going to turn out so peacefully it just might scare him into a coma.

This is partially why I’ve started getting into the hobby of vegetable gardening and forms of food preservation like fermenting, canning and drying in the wake of the pandemic. Not only does it benefit me now by reducing my grocery bill and encouraging me to eat healthier more regularly, but it’s also developing skills that could become critical to survival should things get really bad.

How insurance should work: Disasters are unpredictable, are bound to happen and can be very expensive to resolve. So instead of each individual risking bankruptcy for participating in a system, everybody pools together money at a much lower individual cost. That money goes toward a statistical guarantee that the cost of any disaster will be covered.

How insurance actually works (under capitalism): For-profit companies use every tool at their disposal, regardless of ethics or legality, in order to take as much of your money as they can possibly get away with while simultaneously paying out as little as they can possibly get away with, and then pocket the difference.

I recently started following a guy on YouTube who’s answer to the doubt over whether we’ll be able to vote again is, “I’m not asking. I’m voting”. I’ve decided to adopt that mentality and I encourage others to do the same.

I used to get so much enjoyment out of video games. I could play for entire weekends. Now I sit down and play for an hour or so and start to get bored.

I’m kinda distracted by all the other bad shit happening. My bandwidth for outrage is already reaching maximum capacity.

NoEm DeRaNgEmEnT sYnDrOmE!!

Sign your general strike card! It only takes 3.5% of the population to bring the economy to its knees.

He’s been desperately trying to start a war ever since Zelensky told him Ukraine has suspended election over being at war and he’s failing miserably. What a loser.

Can’t wait for MAHA to ban that too

That sounds like cut and dry wrongful termination. You should have sued, if not for rightful compensation then to make sure that they think again before they pull the same shit with other employees.

Do you see any trees in that drawing? It seems cavemen existed exclusively in barren volcanic wastelands.

Facts are irrelevant to these people. They trust nobody’s word beyond those who affirm what they want to believe.

ICE operates out of a building south of downtown and there have been a handful of protestors camping out and protesting in front of the building 24/7 since June. The protestors have been for the most part peaceful, the ICE agents however have been violent, beating protestors, aiming guns at them, shooting them with pepper balls and gas cannisters, and deploying a variety of unknown chemical gasses.

The grade school next door to the ICE building had to move because of concerns over exposing the kids to those chemicals. The residents of the apartment buildings across the street aren’t so lucky. Portland’s own police department recently testified under oath that ICE has been instigating violence over the protestors.

There’s a movement to evict ICE from the building. Just the other day, ICE was found to have committed over 20 violations of the agreement they had struck with the city in order to operate from that location this year alone. I wouldn’t be surprised if the escalation from Trump is in response to that.

Source: I live in Portland and have been following the situation closely.

There’s an enormous amount of fear mongering around nuclear. A lot of concern is around the waste product despite the fact that far less is generated compared to coal and it is far more easily contained rather than just being dumped into our atmosphere.