tripartitegraph
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This guys is based out of Hunstville, Alabama, and if you do anything STEM-adjacent there it’s for the military in some capacity. I’ve been around those types and the Sinophobia runs deep. It’s lame though, his videos could be a lot better if his worldview didn’t come through as much.
“Fun” fact: the civic center in Huntsville is (still) named after Nazi scientist Wernher von Braun.
Tallahassee, Florida. That's also what "Tally" is referring to.
After I posted this, I realized you're probably making a joke here, either way 
Even just hearing the air brakes from semi-trucks on the interstate, a mere 300 feet from where I live, drives me nuts. Hearing sonic booms with any regularity would tip me over the edge
Domenico Losurdo really explores this contradiction in Liberalism: A Counter-history. All the big liberal thinkers in the 18th and 19th century loved to preach about “freedom” and “liberty” and whatnot, while defending the necessity of chattel slavery.
Really interesting read, would highly recommend.
If my Sunday school knowledge isn’t failing me, Joshua was leading the Israelite army at the time, and the Lord said Jericho was theirs to conquer. But the Lord made them do this song and dance: “March around the city once with all the armed men. Do this for six days. Have seven priests carry trumpets of rams’ horns in front of the ark. On the seventh day, march around the city seven times, with the priests blowing the trumpets. When you hear them sound a long blast on the trumpets, have the whole army give a loud shout; then the wall of the city will collapse and the army will go up, everyone straight in.”
Long story short, it works, the walls collapse, and Joshua and his army go in and “They devoted the city to the Lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys” (except for one prostitute, Rahab, and her family who helped the Israelite spies). Both of these quotes are from Joshua 6. So essentially 58% of Israelis are saying they favor the total extermination of all life in Gaza.
Fun fact: Rahab is included in Jesus’ genealogy in Matthew 1.
Something I stress a lot when doing walk-arounds at my workplace is that a union, while it has all this formal structure and dues and whatnot, is ultimately you and your coworkers coming together to fight and push for things that make the work environment better. Whether that's preventing outsourcing, a higher minimum wage across the board, or pay raises for particular job classes, it's not some scary outside force fighting on your behalf, it's just you and your coworkers working together.
I'm in a pretty conservative city in a very conservative state, so you might have more luck with the more overtly "combative" language, but I've found making it very concrete and directed at the things you know your coworkers care about (i.e. what they think sucks about working there) is better received than anything with lofty political slogans or anything abstract. Politicization is incredibly important, but it's hard to get people activated politically when they don't even recognize/understand the power that they already possess. Smaller, but more attainable, wins demonstrate this power to people, and that can make it easier to politicize them further.
So I guess I'd emphasize more that you all are the union, and the union does what you all want it to. Whatever you do, best of luck, this is so cool to see! I've done a few years of union work now, so if you have any questions you can shoot me a message and I'll try to reply as best I can!
Had a dream last night that
To compensate, I was going to post this news, but you beat me to it!avoiding the lathe here
Ibrahim Traore had died. I was so distressed I had to check as soon as I woke up.
Had someone tell me literally a couple weeks ago that China was installing backdoors into surveillance cameras, so they could sneakily surveil us in the West. This person has a PhD
I torrented it, so I know you can find it on sites like that, but it looks like it's streaming on PlutoTV. I've never used that service, but I clicked the "watch now" link from google just now and it started playing right away. That's good to know about Tales from the Crypt, I'll add that to my watchlist!