Except Walmart and similar big corpos are very frequently fucking over workers and not paying their worked hours. To take Walmart as an example, they only recently settled a 2.5 million dollar lawsuit for doing exactly that.
Claiming that big companies aren’t regularly and openly doing wage theft is quite a wild claim to see here.
Dare I ask why it didn’t turn out so well? It was one system I just never got around to looking at, I was busy being late to learning btrfs at the time.
The temptation for delicious America hate is strong, but yeah this is absolutely fair. Units are pretty much always assumed everywhere.
Is this an America thing? Or like a big city thing maybe? A good majority my local businesses are run by very caring people who really give a shit. Yeah they’re out to make money. And as always, there’s a range of types, but overall they are way better.
The cafe owner down the road literally opens once a month just to give free food and coffee to people who want to be warm and eat stuff but can’t afford it. (In fact, two local cafes do this). The convenience store round the corner is run by a workers’ cooperative, it donates a good percentage of their stuff to an open food larder so that anyone can come and get free food without even having to ask. The restaurant gives out their car park so the town can do a bonfire there and the local school can use their land for events. A tourist driving through town crashed their car, and the mechanics on the other side of town came over, fixed him up, and sent him on his way, all for free. Many local places know the local people, and give them discounts or free goods solely on the knowledge that said people are hard up for cash. These places pay decent wages, have flexible working, whatever the fuck basic concessions.
Yeah, materially, the petit bourgeois have conflicting interests, and I’m never going to support them over the workers themselves. But I will quite happily make effort to support my local businesses over the large ones, because they do indeed give a shit, extract less surplus value (though absolutely, still extract it), help local communities and provide for people in need, while the large companies do none of those things.
I’m guessing other people here have had a very different experience, but in my life, my locals will absolutely get my ‘critical support’.
Big businesses don’t try in super petty ways to break the law to steal my money
Because that level of precision is… entirely unnecessary anyway. Say 21C vs 15C and everybody understands the same thing.
The UK tabloids don’t ever use Fahrenheit anymore either and haven’t for at least two decades. We should be straight blue.
Why would I listen to someone speaking in absolute nonsense units? I only care about it by 26 burgerdegrees.
Refusing service to the point of being jailed for it in Israel is literally a 1 in 100,000 thing, I think we can fairly say there’s a lot of factors here. I will in fact praise someone for doing the bare fucking minimum and being better than literally 99.99% of their cohorts.
Yeah they should do more, critical support, whatever. But I will in fact say that if you resist enormous pressure to be genocider and in fact choose not to be one, that is a good thing.
Water demand is expected to outpace supply by as much as 40%
And what’s causing that massive unsustainable water demand 
What’s causing it motherfucker because maybe we should stop the thing causing that huh 
The past, it turns out, was different. It’s not that millions of angsty teens were all able to the really difficult task of starting a rockband. It’s that the environment made starting a rockband easy. An environment that no longer exists.
I mean, that presentation is far from universal to ADHD. It’s not called “Trouble Sitting Still Disorder”, it’s got a name that succinctly references the most common symptoms, like… deficit in attention, and hyperactivity. Is that universal to and a full description of all presentations? No, but this is true of basically all complex disorders.
For a community that prides ourselves on seeing past propaganda and libshit, we would do well to hold our own information sharing to higher standards
It’s a funny rule but I get sad seeing lots of people still post no link and instead just write “am lib”
Europe already is. Most countries are unwilling to even consider reciprocal tariffs and continue to call for nobody doing anything at all. Completely unwilling to oppose the US in any capacity.
To be honest, you’re both right. It is a natural impulse to be greedy and selfish sometimes.
But it is not natural to anywhere near the levels that we exhibit (and are taught / encouraged / forced to exhibit) now.
I need a China version of 
. It’s just too evergreen.
Nobody claims Tiananmen protests / deaths never happened (though none happened in the square itself), and people in China have democratic control over their officials at every level, at least as much as in the EU. There’s a fair bit of strawman and lack of research here. I’d suggest genuinely researching it instead of taking the ‘common knowledge’ at face value.
Oh yeah, 100% agreed, not all of 'em are worthy of support.