macerated_baby_presidents

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They're still in Kurian's office, still streaming, and starting to get major media coverage: WaPo Wired

In my opinion this is one of the most important labor developments in the US in a while. Internationally politicized worker organization in the belly of the beast by traditionally un-unionizable PMCs.

e: finally arrested after 10 hours

 

from today's protest against Project Nimbus

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

they should make an imitation human baby called "humane baby"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

reddit is truly incredible they're telling OP to vote for Genocide Joe in the comments

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I just want something chewy and savory with protein that I can dunk in sauces

imitation baby, tastes just like the real thing

????

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

they added it !!!!! uncritical support to peoples revolutionary site tagline mods

[–] [email protected] 45 points 9 months ago

not a bike lane in sight. I now recognize my mistakes and condemn this Stalinist revisionist authoritarian autocratic regime

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

You're right about Barbie (I haven't seen Oppenheimer). The jokes were good but even an uncritical reading of its message fails. It needed to articulate a real theory of change through collective action, not vague "trick the men somehow", but it couldn't be revolutionary because it was at its core an ad for Mattel toys (and GM electric vehicles lol). I was honestly amazed to hear arguments about how it's impossible for women to meet the contradictory feminine ideal applied in genuine defense of a DOLL. Extremely clever, pernicious co-optation. Punching left with the wokescold caricature girl to attack radical feminism seals the deal for me. Pink bloc and Hi Barbies! are important; the movie intends to bring "feminism" to everyone by having it mean nothing (and by enormous advertising spend).

However we need to put this in the site header carousel messages right away:

I probably am in the top 20% of grass touchers on this site

[–] [email protected] 72 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

"people are less likely to read the original stuff, and it becomes clear that part of the original work is simply wrong"

(a) hexbear is running a Capital book club at this very moment (b) Marx was right.

Mighty Weinersmith, from a liberal perspective, deals a killing stroke to DSA's North Star caucus and possibly Pete Buttigieg types. I'm quaking in my boots

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

They're still pushed for the reasons you mentioned, but I think an experiential or specialty shop gift card - ideally something that the person would consider an indulgence and wouldn't go to on their own - can be a fine gift. The recipient "gets" the experience of shopping without guilt/thriftiness, and they pick something they like within the bounds of the gift. E.g. you could give somebody a certificate to a small Etsy seller and they can pick jewelry that matches their outfits, or to a fancy truffle shop and they will avoid buying flavors they don't particularly like. Coupon for glassblowing or cooking class? Cool gift. But it's got to demonstrate thought, a Target gift card sucks and multi-store gift cards like the picture are just money with extra steps

 

Where do I find cheap firm tofu online? Costco used to be $1.25 a block for the good stuff but now is like $1.60 for less than a pound of "firm" that crumbles if you look at it funny. Every other local store has even worse prices, even Chinatown. I am ready to just give up and buy 40 pounds online or something. I eat a block of tofu for dinner most days (or I would, if it was cheap and good again).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

endless and expensive wilderness therapy programs for troubled teens in Utah

oh jeez.

also please note that My Old School is actually about Bard College, where both Chambers and Steely Dan went to school. That's a "neat, alma mater mentioned" kind of remark not a "music is secretly talking about me" kind of remark. Weiss L

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

honestly nobody knows or cares how public transport works. every once in a while car guys blow their minds by learning that normal city buses have turbos. doesn't matter as long as it conveniently gets you from A to B

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Lmao, no my dudes, it's pretty well understood that you need to keep the battery warm enough to be able to charge. This is not some fucking unexplored field of science!

Anybody who owns a phone knows that charging a lipo heats it up; it's natural - and mostly correct! - to assume that charging when cold works. What these people don't know is that charging far below freezing damages the battery, which is why the firmware presumably is disabling charging altogether in such cold temperatures. If your EV is at 30% in the extreme cold, use some battery energy to warm it up a little (e.g. by driving) and then charge. If it's at 0%, you're stuck until you get it warm somehow.

instead some system that "runs the motor inefficiently to heat up the battery". Doesn't sound like this can work when the car is stationary

why not? isn't an electric motor just a big resistor? Give it less than the inrush current, so there's power spent but not enough to move. Obviously it'd be better to have the waste heat generated at the battery instead of at the motor, but discharge heating is better than nothing and battery resistance looks similar to phase resistance so it won't be too lopsided.

Teslas are some of the worst EVs out there but my ICE is also eating shit right now without a block heater (which are usually aftermarket and require an outlet to plug into). The engineering omission was not including a battery heater with external power - perhaps they assumed that if you were able to drive to a charging station you'd have enough power to warm the battery.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Your comment denigrates veganism as an individual action, which communists rightly view as useless. People who are opposed to the goal don't get to criticize tactics; you're a liberal telling protesters not to block bridges.

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Posting here instead of /c/chicago since it's pretty dead. They've introduced an ordinance that would ban sales of new fur (not leather, not thrifting, but still):

https://chicago.councilmatic.org/legislation/o2023-0002983/

Apparently Gardiner said today he's going to co-sponsor this, along with some others not yet listed. Why the FUCK are Raylo and Gardiner suddenly champions of animal rights? It seems like it should be easier to get the succdems and progressives on board; I'm gonna ask mine tomorrow.

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