everythingeverywhereallatonce:

“We’ve Changed the Game”: Teamsters Win Historic UPS Contract
(WASHINGTON) – Today, the Teamsters reached the most historic tentative agreement for workers in the history of UPS, protecting and rewardin
International Brotherhood of Teamsters

Today, the Teamsters reached the most historic tentative agreement for workers in the history of UPS, protecting and rewarding more than 340,000 UPS Teamsters nationwide. The overwhelmingly lucrative contract raises wages for all workers, creates more full-time jobs, and includes dozens of workplace protections and improvements. The UPS Teamsters National Negotiating Committee unanimously endorsed the five-year tentative agreement.

“Rank-and-file UPS Teamsters sacrificed everything to get this country through a pandemic and enabled UPS to reap record-setting profits. Teamster labor moves America. The union went into this fight committed to winning for our members. We demanded the best contract in the history of UPS, and we got it,” said Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien. “UPS has put $30 billion in new money on the table as a direct result of these negotiations. We’ve changed the game, battling it out day and night to make sure our members won an agreement that pays strong wages, rewards their labor, and doesn’t require a single concession. This contract sets a new standard in the labor movement and raises the bar for all workers.”

“UPS came dangerously close to putting itself on strike, but we kept firm on our demands. In my more than 40 years in Louisville representing members at Worldport — the largest UPS hub in the country — I have never seen a national contract that levels the playing field for workers so dramatically as this one. The agreement puts more money in our members’ pockets and establishes a full range of new protections for them on the job,” said Teamsters General Secretary-Treasurer Fred Zuckerman. “We stayed focused on our members and fought like hell to get everything that full-time and part-time UPS Teamsters deserve.”

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bloodybellycomb:

man, the way some of the reddit refugees talk about moving to tumblr is kinda depressing; they’re saying stuff like “No one has belittled me on tumblr yet” and “people actually talk to me here.”

We’ve got to rehabilitate these users so that they can see what it’s like to have a non-hostile internet experience.

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friendshapedhole:

Today (June 26, 2023) is the 20th anniversary of Lawrence v. Texas, the most important Supreme Court case in gay history. It finally ruled that consensual sodomy cannot be a crime and all state laws criminalizing it are invalid.

People don’t realize how recent it was that cops could arrest you solely for having gay sex, in the privacy of your own bedroom. It was slowly decriminalized state by state, but like 1/3 of all states still had those laws in place until 2003.

It didn’t get nearly as much fanfare and recognition at the time as the 2015 decision that legalized gay marriage. But I think it established a far more crucial right.

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belovedghast-deactivated2023101:

literally if I could pick one thing to do to unfuck the world id make all forms of advertising illegal on the internet and in all visible public spaces. like threaten businesses with complete dissolution as consequence for violations. Make sure there is no incentive to sell ad space at any time for any reason and see what happens

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kawaiimunism:

tanadrin:

we should globally ban the introduction of more powerful computer hardware for 10-20 years, not as an AI safety thing (though we could frame it as that), but to force programmers to optimize their shit better

I reblogged this like 9 times kinda jokingly, but software should be able to run on older and less powerful hardware, and consume less power on newer hardware. Like, this is a real problem imo

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dark-magician-girl-meets-world:

karpad:

vague-humanoid:

There needs to be a name for the cognitive distortion for remembering conservatives as better than they were. Fifteen years ago, conservatives were justifying torture of detainees. Thirty years ago, they were laughing about the AIDS crisis. Your parents sucked. https://t.co/fMZP724TWp — Qualia (MK) (@these_qualia) June 1, 2023ALT

15 years ago, a “conservative” position that was widely popular was “we need to nuke Mecca, invade the Muslim world and forcefully convert them to Christianity”

Like this was the rhetoric used by people on the editorial pages of the New York Times, and people in Congress. The restrained position was we need to wage a forever war to prop up dictators who support our hegemony.

Before that, we had “Superpredators” and arguments about “preventing poor people from breeding”

And then the AIDS crisis

and Nuking Russia and forcefully converting them to Christianity (slavs are Godless Communists, you see. Orthodox isn’t real.)

There’s an aesthetic difference between the most powerful of older conservatives, who used to be more interested in sounding professional when they said horrible things, and today’s most powerful conservatives, who are often more vulgar, but they’re playing to the same audiences and for the same reasons

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40ouncesandamule:

Workers Are Dying in the EV Industry’s ‘Tainted’ City
In Indonesia, sickness and pollution plague a sprawling factory complex that supplies the world with crucial battery materials.
WIRED

Electric vehicles will not, can not, and are not designed to “save” the planet. Electric vehicles are designed to save the automotive industry. The automotive industry can not survive in a world that doesn’t enforce the supremacy of the automobile. Which is to say, electric vehicles are designed to save the consortium of industries that fight the most effectively against mass transit and walkable urban environments.

And like the environmental destruction of the fossil fuel era, the environmental destruction of the electric era will disproportionately fall on innocent victims in the global south who have the least blame in all of this

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