Like I'm glad slavery and wage slavery gets a nod, but I can't help but feel like this is "too little, too late" protectionism.
The west literally pinned up all of this, when around the 50s, executives, shareholders and politicians decided to snub labour negotiations by moving manufacturing and fabrication to communist China so they could cut labour costs. .
But you know, socialists and nationalists like protectionism, for some reason, so ew🤮. Plus it's not very "free market". Therefore, sweatshop go brrrr /s
"Suspected" is American language for no hard evidence. The Americans are so eager to fire sanctions, evidence does not really matter. On the other hand, Israel is either committing mass murder or genocide, whatever you want to call it. What Americans believe is evidence is penal labor, which is a legitimate punishment as much as prisoners making state license plates. Chinese actually punish their criminals and discipline their citizens for bad behavior. Unlike the American justice system that treat their hardened criminals gently and humanely as possible as to not cause duress or discomfort. The stereotypical American criminal has a decade long rap sheet of crimes. American death penalty is so rare, you're more likely going to die from a car crash than being on death row. If they land death row, they spend decades living their lives reflecting on the good times. That is the incompetent American justice system. Their justice system is so bad, they have no idea what to do to lower crime other than don't prosecute crime. Look how El Salvador is made safe by leaps and bounds that the current leader has an 80-90 percent approval. G.I. Joe is lucky if he reaches 45%. That is competent leadership.
The fuck? Sorry your here telling us that the American prison system is too soft? And that the treatment of r Uygher minority is justified actually?
It's actually a bad thing that slavery exists. Letting people use slave labor from the prison population creates an economic incentive to imprison innocent people.
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As cities and states push to restrict the use of facial recognition technologies, some police departments have quietly found a way to keep using the controversial tools: asking for help from other law enforcement agencies that still have access.
Officers in Austin and San Francisco — two of the largest cities where police are banned from using the technology — have repeatedly asked police in neighboring towns to run photos of criminal suspects through their facial recognition programs, according to a Washington Post review of police documents.
Oh no! It's not wage slavery? Listen, we just need you to transfer a symbolic amount between accounts, okay? Like we've been doing for the past 70 years.
Direct slavery is kinda hard to defend, but wage slavery? That makes our shareholders happy, that millions of people get to pull themselves up by their bootstraps the rest of their lives... think of how much character they'll build!
This will certainly gain momentum as awareness of the concept grows. While this is overall great news that we're coming up with repeatable ways to sidestep the usurious real property market, I'm concerned about same. How long is the window until these are made illegal again and then an engineered recession puts all these buildings in the hands of capital?
Precisely why we must make more demonstrations of this, and find ways to codify protections that prevent such negative outcomes. It starts with spreading the word of this success to other potential towns that would benefit from a structure such as this. There are lots of small community land trusts whose basic principle is keeping the land affordable and ensuring it serves the community. There's also a strong movement to have community owned utilities be the norm. Lots of intersections there that we could learn from and that would bring the residents economic prosperity over time.
always fun after the wolf reintroduction vote from a few years back. here's why they're doing this:
Colorado is considered a prime habitat for wolverines, which are listed as a threatened species across the Lower 48 states by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Wolverines were nearly eliminated from much of the United States in the 1930s, experts said, but conservation efforts have helped the animal to make a bit of a comeback. In Colorado, the last confirmed sighting of a wolverine was in 2009, when one traveled down from the Grand Tetons.
Advocates for reintroduction said Colorado is home to the largest block of wolverine-ready habitat in the Lower 48, with about one-fifth of total suitable land. Wolverines are solitary animals that favor high-alpine environments.
ALAMOSA — Over decades starting in 1985, the Colorado Mushroom Farm northeast of Alamosa sold millions of pounds of mushrooms grown and harvested within the building’s dimmed cavern to grocery stores in Colorado. Along the way it offered year-round employment to generations of immigrant workers, many of whom came here from Guatemala fleeing civil war and searching for a better economic future.
But when the farm filed for bankruptcy in December 2022, it owed thousands of dollars in unpaid wages to employees, some of whom had been subjected to unsafe working conditions and were injured on the job.
[...]Now, some of those workers are taking charge of their futures with the help of a powerful coalition of nonprofit and government supporters as well as Minsun Ji at the Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center, which works to dismantle economic systems that benefit a small few at the expense of many, especially working-class communities and communities of color.
It’s an American Dream in the making, but not without funding for an employee-owned mushroom co-op and the workers learning to navigate the hurdles of business ownership in a system that favors wealthy white entrepreneurs.
I'm the latest season of Clarkson's farms he converts some old shelter to grow mushrooms and it looked amazing, definitely made me wonder if I could grow and sell some as a side business. Apparently it also caused a big uptake in people using lions mane as a supplement in the UK.
Massachusetts has collected about $1.8 billion from a voter-approved surtax on the state's highest earners through the first nine months of the fiscal year, the Department of Revenue said Monday in a quarterly report.
That's more than $800 million more than what the Legislature and Gov. Maura Healey planned to spend in surtax revenue for all of fiscal year 2024, raising the possibility of a sizable pot that will land in an Education and Transportation Reserve Fund and the Education and Transportation Innovation and Capital Fund, both surtax-specific accounts, once the books close.
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American Airlines has been accused of blaming a nine-year-old girl for being filmed in the plane's bathrooms by a male flight attendant.
Estes Carter Thompson III, 37, was arrested in January after he allegedly recorded four underaged girls - aged 7, 9, 11 and 14- as they used the bathroom aboard several AA flights.
'It felt like we were living in a nightmare when the FBI showed up on our doorstep to tell us that our daughter had been secretly filmed by an American Airlines flight attendant.
An important part of our family’s healing is making sure that the flight attendant and American Airlines are held accountable for what happened to our daughter.
Investigators said that about midway through the September 2, 2023, flight from Charlotte to Boston, the 14-year-old got up to use the main cabin lavatory nearest to her seat but found it was occupied.
A search of his iCloud account allegedly revealed four additional instances between January and August 2023 in which Thompson recorded a minor using the lavatory on an aircraft.
I haven't had issues with Delta (aside from their website not working at all for me sometimes), but the tickets can be a little expensive compared to alternatives, so always good to shop around.
Zero problems with Delta in many years of international flights with them. The best US based company, IMO.
My only problem is that their partner for Africa is Air France aka Air Chance, a complete shit show of an airline that never runs on time, has quite rude staff, uncomfortable seats, and makes travellers to its West African flights bus out to the tarmac to get on the plane in Paris.
I guess the world is about to find out about the dogshit that is Air France and CDG when the olympics starts in a few weeks.
Okay, nailed it there. That was almost the worst part when flying to Tunis, seconded only by their very strange choice of food... I had a crash course in Muslim bidets after my first Air France trip.
From the photos, it was a very crudely taped iPhone to a toilet seat, maybe enough to fool a 9 year old, but clearly not to fool anyone with more critical thinking, like the 14 year old who reported it.
What you should worry about, are the well disguised hidden cameras installed by professionals...
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