Video game companies. I don’t feel like I need to explain this one, but some extra shittyness to digest: less than a year after forming, the Activision QA union has filed at least 1 ULP for illegal termination

You kinda just explained modern monetary theory. The US, UK, Canada, and a few other countries don’t get money from taxes, they owe debt to themselves and earn it back through the next printing. There is a budgetary limit though, which is the amount of labor and resources available to the government

Nuclear proliferation is always bad. I don’t give a damn about the second cold war.

I cannot stress enough how bad of an idea it would be to allow nuclear proliferation at this point

My neighbor’s cat gets the night zoomies. I actually don’t care about it, I’m just annoyed that I can’t play with a cat

Celebrate with cat wine!

60 psi is definitely in the “rip your dick off” range

In a general sense, the difference between a regular workplace with a union and a worker co-op is that the company is, in part, managed and/or owned by the workers themselves. There’s varying degrees of this, but the best (and unfortunately least common) co-ops elect their managers. It’s my opinion that electing managers is a crucial part of a worker owned economy, but a union is still needed to represent the workers.

The hair gremlins wake us up if they try to pluck our facial hair

Well clearly he’s only half as high as you might think

Well duh, why else were we island hopping?

We don’t need to go all in on 1 specific strategy. A diversity of tactics will always be best. From the sounds of it, activists are also trying to ban yachts.

Overtourism is an ecology problem in and of itself. They specifically want less people to visit to protect their local environment.

I hate it when there’s a continuity error while I’m ordering coffee too

You’ve abandoned your post, and therefore also abandoned cuddle time

I only contact the police when it’s absolutely necessary, which is to say I’ve never contacted the police. Cops are only capable of making a situation worse.

If my apartment had a break in, the only reason to call them is to file an insurance claim, which only matters if they walk off with 1 of 4 items worth more than $500. If I were mugged or had my ass beaten, there’s a nonzero chance that I wouldn’t even bother with a hospital let alone cops.

be nice to the class traitors, they might betray us less

This got me thinking about an actual modified chess game. The location of a capture becomes difficult terrain that prevents normal movement for most pieces, but for pawns it creates high ground that prevents capture. En passant can only be done from these spaces

The bait at the end is truly a masterclass lesson

I’ve found my people