A general strike is a mass work stoppage in which a substantial proportion of workers across multiple industries collectively cease https://museumofprotest.org/methods/general-strike/

Are we agreed? Fucken great.

I remember reading about a japanese bus strike where the bus drivers kept doing their job, but stopped collecting the money.

There are also examples from around the world where healthcare workers go to quite serious lengths to ensure delivery of service is maintained while a nurses/doctora strike is taken.

So a general strike could be an option, but isn’t necessary to send a message. In fact more targetted strikes that leave dialogue and service on the table shows the protestors acting in good faith, potentially opening different avenues to bridge the divide between childish-oligarchic-cunts (management/upper class), and the workers.

All i’m saying is theres more options than blowing up the system, and staged, measured, predictable responses to the others actions can be extrememely effective in showing the often ridiculous demands of the other side’s position.

Someone should run with their platform as, ‘Make Dog Rock Great Again!!’

They’d be named emperor of the Great Southern within weeks!

If CPUs go, things could get dark…

My bad, thats if we lose STCs.

Oh cool, reminds me of the C&C underground missions in Red Alert, taking Tanya through the base. I always took so long with those missions, but i’m a natural turtler.

What are the two communities?

I only ask out of general interest as its such a specific number, if you’re not comfortable sharing, don’t feel obliged.

I get that with some people to, happily i get it in the other direction as well, i tend to enjoy Macklemore even more when i hear his lyrics or consider some of his career choices.

Oh yeah, my bad. I’s on the Jerboa app. I think the video functionality was just added in this last update.

Edit: Actually, cheers, this was maybe more of a question for the Jerboa community.

This auto plays, and opens the video when tapped instead of pausing.

Had a quick look on settings and there wasn’t a switch to have autoplay turned off.

Does anyone know where an autoplay or a pause switch is?

I like Crooked Media’s Pod Save the World.

Sometimes Pod Save America, but thats probably more interesting for someone living in the US. I can’t listen to it more than maybe once a month.

Ha, cheese addiction has gotta be a thing with dogs.

My dog knows the sound the cheese container makes very well. That fuckers come in from outside when we’ve got that container out in the past.

I’ve stopped giving him cheese now, (i think i read its toxic for dogs), so he doesn’t care so much about when we get it out. I wonder if the sound gives him happy reminiscences though?

Its gettin put through the crusher as soon as posession is taken.

Earth Abides

Its mostly slow. Apocalypse genre, without the insanely selfish caricature of the personal relationships between people.

Is it a book about how Russia becomes the world’s hegemon, or how it beats the US/West/Atlanticists?

What does it say in relation to East Asia?

Most interestingly China, considering today’s context, but thinking about the time it was written Japan might’ve been more pertinent in their thinking.

Only a communist deals in absolutes! … wait… thats not it…

Yeah, but they need to be sneakier as they steal away through the grocery store doors. Those doors are a funnel for awkward moments.

What i hate is when someone gets offended i don’t initially recognise them when they’ve got half their face covered.

Take the fucken glasses off and say hi properly you awkward ass bastards! I got shit to do, and i don’t need to feel bad for the next half hour because you made me squint to recognise who the fuck you are!

What matters for an economy, and therefore the value of its currency, is the value they create–simply put, how much resources they exploit and how efficiently

Yeah, thats the way it ought to be, its actually slightly different, and is very important in the context of what a country does to undermine it’s own currency, or even a companies director does to the value of their company.

Value is a question of perception. How much are people/investors willing to tolerate and still perceive the value in a good or service or currency.

Its the reason the massive quantitative easing ended up spreading so widely as a tool in the last 15 years. In the beginning it was assumed that the massive ‘money printing’ would lead to massive devaluations, which didn’t really happen as expected. Thats because the reaction in value percieptions in those currencies ended being more flexible than central bankers and economists initially feared.

The perception of value played a role in how long it took for people in the US to recognise the real estate bubble exploding in 07-08. It plays a role in really any bubble, and is why prices drastically plummet instead of taper. The value perception changes en masse, and bang, everybody runs for the door.

One more interesting example is the value perception comparison of essential workers in the COVID19 Pandemic compared to normal times.

What will they do!? Cross the Rubicon?!

Lot of good advice here about curation, thats definitely an option to leverage your subscribed feed.

Another option, is to remove yourself from the largest server (lemmy world), look at your options on other instances, theres hundreds. The label to the right of usernames should denote what instance people are connecting from.

Some examples are blahaj, midwest.social, sopuli, feddit…

The links below have lists of a lot of the available instances,

Lemmyverse.net

Fedidb

Advantages of Choosing a Smaller Server

The experience of the ‘Local’ tab seems to be genuinely different from Lemmy World.

Lemmy World probably doesn’t look too different whether you sort by the ‘all’ tab or ‘local’ tab, so you really only have the ‘subscribe’ tab to find and hone your niche on the network.

Going for a smaller, but active in its own right, instance means you suddenly have a ‘local’ tab that is highly differentiated from the wider lemmy network, andgoing along with that its often a bit less political.

I’d use my own as an example here, but we’ve just had a major election in Australia, so its been pretty political lately, i’m expecting that to subside now that the chooks are counted.