LovableSidekick

SF bay area. I remember there being lots of strikes when I was a kid - farm laborers, for example. There was a big deal about boycotting grapes or lettuce or something, In fact there was a strike at the company where my dad worked. Nobody got shot. There are plenty of valid points to make about government serving the rich and not the common people, without resorting to just making shit up (or automatically believing it). Bobbleheads on the side of Goodness and Justice are still bobbleheads.

Fallout from the prosperity included a booming 1950s that spread convenience and luxury items everywhere, spawning a generation that expected them. The boom was possible largely because consumer goods had been rationed during the war or simply not produced because war contracts were more profitable. But the war created nearly 100% employement, and war production jobs paid very well. People had money to spend and no luxuries to spend it on, so there was a huge wave of saving.

Then after the war, once previously scarce consumer goods were being produced again, plus new goodies like televisions and all kinds of convenient home appliances, people spent like crazy, creating more jobs and higher salaries, which multiplied the effect.

By around 1960 the boom was finally losing steam. So the business world, which wanted it to keep going forever, started handing out consumer credit like candy. Likewise the public, who didn’t want their spending spree to end, embraced the idea of credit debt. Once those mechanisms were in place in the culture, it was simply a matter of normalizing higher and higher balances at higher and higher interest rates, and now here we are with lifelong debt being “normal”.

I was born in the 50s and started high school in the 60s, and was aware of news.

Unions were legal.
Strikes were legal.
Some people worked 6 days a week but 5 was more common; you heard “the weekend” more than “my day off”.
Soldiers and police weren’t killing strikers (source) - list of labor dispute deaths going back to 1850s lists none between 1936 and 1979

The part about defending elites instead of common people - yeah probably, I can’t think how to research that. The rest I dunno, this will just get douchevoted anyway, but I mean we should strive for accuracy right? Or maybe we don’t care.

Amazing that 102 million people wouldn’t feel the same way about something!

Yet another thread where there’s no point commenting on anything factual, because it will be taken to imply a rabidly polarized opinion. You can take people out of reddit but you can’t take the reddit out of the people.

I think the original text on this was better.

Maybe you can take comfort from the extremely low incidence of laptop battery fires in spite of millions of people leaving them plugged in all the time.

Okay I’m just gonna call somebody out - Imperious_melange just deleted a thread with over 200 upvotes where a thriving discussion was underway. It was about whether people perceived a pro-China and anti-west sentiment on Lemmy. I tried to post a reply and the site said “deleted by creator”. The thread was just gone. Whoever you are, Imperious_melange, I’m callin’ you out for this dick move. Please cut out that crap.

Reread the headline - Naming it World War 1 was a bad omen. The first of anything is very normally called “the first” because it’s just that. Headline is about actually numbering it with a One.

Source for that?

Wikipedia says Time Magazine coined the term World War 1 in 1939. Relatives of mine, now long dead, who participated in it told me personally that it was called The Great War or the War to End All Wars.

It wasn’t called WWI until there was a second one.

Bingpot! Features trump objections, which is how any industry knows it doesn’t really have to listen to users all that much. Deep down, addicts really don’t care if their heroin is ethically sourced from sustainably managed small-lot producers.

I spent many years as a software dev contractor working through agencies, but I still don’t see the parallel.

Somebody pointed out that the person might be afraid they gave so much info that their post gets de-anonymized - but IMO people afraid of that shouldn’t post on public forums to begin with.

I think a good solution would be to create a community specifically to connect people who don’t want to share their posts and people willing to provide individual help. They could find each other and DM a conversation. Milking a public forum for advice and then vandalizing it by deleting the post is definitely NOT a good solution, and I do not share your sympathy for people who do that. It’s like curtaining off a few back rows of a bus to use all day as an office - although that could have been funny in a Seinfeld episode.

Hadn’t noticed, but wow. I wonder what the motivation is to delete info that would help other people.

1977, editing the Monster Manual first draft: “Gary, the Mimic is Rare? - dude, homebrew DMs are gonna put ‘em all over the place!”

Shrinkflation

I figured it was the Japanese word for high school sophomore lol.

Good luck charm? I would just get a fancy key fob.

Loaded question nowadays.

Boy Meets Future

Reminds me of a play I was in: “The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade,” an early 60s play usually abbreviated Marat/Sade.