Lurker123 [he/him] @ Lurker123 @hexbear.net

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It is interesting to think about. What, actually, would happen if they did this? Would there be an uptick in protestors? Or would people be cowed? This isn’t France, part of me thinks people would just roll over.

Yeah absolutely.

Excited to see the woke or not game decider weigh in on this.

I remember hearing a speaker talk about the cultural divide a few years ago. Apparently game of thrones was super lib team and the walking dead was super conservative team. For whatever reason that one I found very fascinating.

Fosho - but you do know them best, so can probably gauge what’ll work. But then again, if you have an open line of communication, you can always keep the wordier/technical bits to conversations rather than writing.

For starters, you definitely know your coworkers better than us, so the approach you think is best is probably right.

That said, if I were to create something for my checked out coworkers at previous jobs I would have probably be a lot more direct and less wordy with the first page.

E.g., the first page would really just be - “why unionize” and then in big red text the three bullets you have - higher wages, paid sick leave, job security. And then under it, just some quick stats - union employees on average earn 18% more than non-union employees in the same field, etc.

Then on subsequent pages you can get into the nitty gritty of how the union operates, stop the war on workers, stand together, etc.

Ultimately, you want to nail them with - you will make more money with the union, and then if they check out after that, that’s all they need to know to vote in favor. Your boss might subject them to anti union presentations where he’ll say stuff like “you lose money because you have to pay union dues” or “it’s going to create a bunch of administrative paperwork and hassle for you to be in a union”

But if you can reach them first, in an easy to digest 1 sentence - union employees make more - then you will have already prophylactically guarded them against this.

Think of the CA proposition that classified gig workers as independent contractors. Gig workers were fucked by this. And yet, a large amount of them voted for it, because they had been convinced by their company’s ad campaigns and push messages that they would all be out of work if it didn’t pass. They voted based on the information they had - it was just misinformation. So too here - you need to give something extremely fast and easy to digest - more pay - front and center, and then if they don’t end up reading all the other text, so it goes, they have what they need.

Wow that’s a cute dog! Anyone know the breed? Looks like a golden mixed with a shepherd of some type

If I laugh at loud at this, is it bad posting?

Hahaha that’s amazing

Yo wtf, did the bot start going off about seth efrika out of nowhere?

I just hate how contrived her sad ending is.

Spoilers for BG3 ahead:

The game goes out of its way to introduce a blacksmith who can temporarily fix karlach’s engine and then he’s like “sorry this won’t be a permanent fix. I would need a demon forge and better infernal iron to get a permanent fix.” And then, if you play the game such that he’s alive in act 3, lo and behold, he’s set up in a legit shop with a demon forge, and you get improved infernal iron from killing the mech guards.

But nope, no repair for you, sorry.

And speaking of the mech guards, the first one you encounter goes out of its way to tell you “hey karlach, you’ve got a defective engine. Come the foundry and we’ll give you a new one that should fix you right up.” And then you’re given the option to ally with the guy who runs the factory, or free the factory’s engineers and save their families - but either way, again despite being explicitly told the factory can fix her, nope, no option to do so.

It’s just so bad narratively. You want an ending where you can’t save her. Fine. But don’t go out of your way to introduce various ways she can be saved just to not even address them.

Critical support for comrade trump’s war on cars

The Oscar short about this was my favorite this year

Yes we’ve had first Suez crisis, but what about second Suez?

Bro, when the army of the dead told you to be anti-vaccine it’s because they were trying to grow their numbers.

3500%? No, no - that’s not enough. 3521%? Now we’re talking.

Out of curiosity, I googled China’s system. It appears that for serious criminal trials, they bring in people called “assessors” who form a panel with the judge. If the panel is a panel of 7, then the assessors are the finders of fact, whereas the judge is the finder of law. The assessors are randomly selected (although there is a final appointment process once the random list has been generated) and the criteria for selection explicitly excludes lawyers.

So, these assessors effectively are just jurors like we have in a US court system.

Holy shit so good

I think you hit the nail on the head with the last point. They’ll blame somebody else for bad stuff that happens, and people will just eat it up.