ILoveUnions

@ILoveUnions@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X (formerly Twitter) has been experiencing international outages for a second time in a week.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Good thing blue sky isn’t a good platform, it’s just anti musk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why 3D-Printing an Untraceable Ghost Gun Is Easier Than Ever (Podcast 18mins)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Rich Republicans tbh. For the poor ones it’s when race or “the gays” gets involved,.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  American exceptionalism is the belief that word special, for good or bad. It’s just pouring on a different kind of Americans exceptionalists, the one who think our trajectory is something new.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After a lengthy legal battle and billion-dollar loss, 'Fortnite' is back on iOS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fortnite is completely free to play friendly. There is no pay to win.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  At a minimum you need to say how low % your cap is for the other section of each

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A standard issue laptop would be around 500 for mid range. Maybe prices have changed recently idk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airlines Are Selling Your Data to ICE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Related to crimes, they kinda really can

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Chromebooks that schools use don’t have any computing power to speak of. There’s none to lose

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A Chromebook for school kids costs around $200 when I was in school 5 years ago… A normal computer would cost closer to 500

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not cheap. Schools can’t afford that. The kids know better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airlines Are Selling Your Data to ICE⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that’s one of the things that stood out as what the hell… the companies already have the data, if ICE wanted it legally they shouldn’t need to pay… Really shows how shady they’re being.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the low skill manufacturing jobs they took were going to leave the US anyway.

  … Yes and no. A lot of junk, sure. But there was no necessity to move much of large scale manufacturing over—the primary reason it happened was rampant consumerism desiring the cheapness that lower standards brought, without regard to workers or the ability of the national economy to have a modern strength against foreign influence.

  Production is fully capable to have been kept in the usa for a lot of products, as long as people were willing to buy less. It’d have been a greater benefit to our economy and the environment overall.

  But tariffs aren’t the answer here - instead, the answer is to support local industries by giving them government contracts to produce their goods, which the government can then use and/or stockpile when we aren’t in a time of crisis.

  Tariffs are an important tool. They should never be the only tool used from the tool box. But nonetheless, they’re important to disincentive the moving away manufacturing based just on wages. They make products more expensive, allowing local products to survive more easily —but if you rely on them too heavily, your local industries become stagnant.

  Most goods are not reasonable to spend government money on as well. That works great for medical goods and food, but not much else.

  That’s just the forward march of technological progress.

  When companies like Amazon use that logic to cut wages to half of competition… I got a problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  America gave china the manufacturing jobs by failing to block slave labor imports and failing to put proper tariffs to account for differences in cost of living to a reasonable extent. I say this at risk of sounding like a trumpy…

  This is to be clear that while I advocate for some level of global inter investment, having capacity in your home country is ever very important. Usa could’ve kept the jobs if they were smart back then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GlobalX, Airline for Trump’s Deportations, Hacked⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The vast majority of parachutes are not

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta AI will soon train on EU users’ data.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or consider they might find 4% worth it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As ‘Bot’ Students Continue to Flood In, Community Colleges Struggle to Respond.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Community colleges function differently

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump administration backs off Nvidia's 'H20' chip crackdown after Mar-a-Lago dinner⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s unlawful. The president is not following the law

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No silly, not after they input race.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework Laptop 12 is now available for pre-order for €569 and up (but not in the US)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I just think they’re neat