walnutwalrus

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Pope says 'backward' US conservatives replaced faith with ideology in c/news@lemmy.world
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Super Blue Moon (August 30th 2023) (earthsky.org)
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Super Blue Moon (August 30th 2023) (earthsky.org)
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Super Blue Moon (August 30th 2023) (earthsky.org)
Ex-Tesla employee reveals shocking details on worker conditions: 'You get fired on the spot.' in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] walnutwalrus@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

> I don't want to work at this company anymore so I quit, I just don't feel like working here anymore

Seems ok for the employee to quit "at will" so why not for the employer?

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Thematic Book Series: How to Build a Low-tech Internet? | Low Tech Magazine (lemmy.world)
 

(posted for discussion, not necessarily in agreement with author)

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2023/08/thematic-books-series/

Links to articles used in book (not linked on the site, presumably this is the book's contents):

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Why we need a speed limit for the internet

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/10/why-we-need-a-speed-limit-for-the-internet/

Email in the 18th century: the optical telegraph

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2007/12/email-in-the-18.html

How to build a low-tech internet?

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/10/how-to-build-a-low-tech-internet

How to build a low-tech website?

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/09/how-to-build-a-low-tech-website/

How sustainable is a solar powered website?

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/01/how-sustainable-is-a-solar-powered-website.html

How and why I stopped buying laptops

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/12/how-and-why-i-stopped-buying-new-laptops

Why the office needs a typewriter revolution

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2016/11/why-the-office-needs-a-typewriter-revolution.html

Ex-Tesla employee reveals shocking details on worker conditions: 'You get fired on the spot.' in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] walnutwalrus@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's sincere, I don't think people are thinking through what they're asking for

Ex-Tesla employee reveals shocking details on worker conditions: 'You get fired on the spot.' in c/technology@lemmy.world
Ex-Tesla employee reveals shocking details on worker conditions: 'You get fired on the spot.' in c/technology@lemmy.world
Economics: The Family Wage in c/workreform@lemmy.world
[–] walnutwalrus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah I often see people discussing minimum wages and living wages, this was a different concept I stumbled upon for people to think about, which makes sense for society to consider because if workers have families they're not simply trying to earn a "living wage" (enough for them) but also enough for kids and/or spouse, etc.

family wage: enough to support a whole family by one breadwinner (traditionally thought of as an individual male; even with dual breadwinners you could still have an idea of how much a "family wage" would be that pays for the costs of the whole family)

living wage: enough to support an individual

minimum legal wage: legally allowed minimum to pay per hour (I don't know how common it has been for a minimum wage to be enough to raise a family)

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Economics: The Family Wage (infogalactic.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3624236

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3624234

A family wage is a wage that is sufficient to raise a family. This contrasts with a living wage, which is generally taken to mean a wage sufficient for a single individual to live on, but not necessarily sufficient to also support a family. As a stronger form of living wage, a family wage is likewise advocated by proponents of social justice. Family wage campaign was aiming to maintain the traditional family structure, as a concept connecting economics and family structure it is one of the examples of how economic structure of family, which is a subject of the field family economics, affects overall economy beyond the family.

The term "family wage jobs" has occasional contemporary use in American political rhetoric and is most associated with Catholic intellectuals, in the Catholic social teaching tradition

The debate about "living wages" vs. minimum wages ignores structuring jobs for the needs of the family and (traditionally male) breadwinners

Ex-Tesla employee reveals shocking details on worker conditions: 'You get fired on the spot.' in c/technology@lemmy.world
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August Update: Kept You Waiting, Huh? | PINE64 (www.pine64.org)
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The Mother of All Demos (Computer History) (infogalactic.com)
Girl, 13, gives birth after she was raped and denied abortion in Mississippi in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] walnutwalrus@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

> you deserve to die because of bad things (a) parent(s) do(es)

"...is not supported in this browser", fuck you Discord in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] walnutwalrus@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

element / matrix instead

[meme] Walk out your front door, take a gander, and tell me this isn't true in c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
[–] walnutwalrus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what about the direction of making cars better?

> biodegradable / resuable components

> carpooling

> more efficient energy usage

add more? cars are here,so can we make better use of them?

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"Blackberry Pi" DIY Build ("Pocket Linux") (zxmake.dev)
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'Micro New Moon' Will Rise On ~~Tuesday~~ (Edit: Wednesday) (www.dailymail.co.uk)
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edit: OP link is old but should be informative about micromoons, check this instead: https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/moon/micro-moon.html

There's a steep decline in pay compared to the value workers add to the economy, closely tracking the fall in union membership. in c/workreform@lemmy.world
[–] walnutwalrus@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

union membership has declined just because they were bad

kind of, they can be coercive and also can be taken over and not represent what people want, and also haven't certain laws neutralized them a bit?

I mean some alternatives that come to mind are people just switch jobs, or create businesses I guess

People could organize without it having to be a "union", and I guess some have

There's a steep decline in pay compared to the value workers add to the economy, closely tracking the fall in union membership. in c/workreform@lemmy.world
[–] walnutwalrus@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

what alternatives to unions exist that might be better in the modern day

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Perseid Meteor Shower 2023 Is This Weekend (earthsky.org)
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Perseid Meteor Shower 2023 Is This Weekend (earthsky.org)
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Open Steno Project (Plover): Typing At 300 WPM? (www.openstenoproject.org)
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Court reporters have used stenography for over a century to write at over 200 words per minute, faster than most people speak

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Shorthand is an abbreviated symbolic writing method that increases speed and brevity of writing as compared to a normal method of writing a language. The process of writing in shorthand is called stenography, from the Greek stenos (narrow) and graphē or graphie (writing).

via OP link and Wiki on "Shorthand"

edit: There's also another project called the "Charachorder" for example: https://www.charachorder.com/

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