You’re right, the shaping outcomes part is especially well put. The dispiriting thing is that as long as we’re not the ones being fucked over I don’t see my colleagues giving much of a shit about organizing. They’re generally happy about the company. The problem here is the effect our work has on other people.

I feel this, that’s my usual attitude. This time I didn’t manage to keep the anger under control I guess.

Unfortunately we’re not the highly unionized workforce in question. We’re the tech contractor they want to replace said highly unionized workforce with. We’re not unionized and I don’t see the majority of my colleagues giving a shit except for a couple likeminded people. It’s bleak

Make some tea, roll a joint and donate to orgs trying to undo the bastard’s damage: https://www.uxolao.org/ https://www.maginternational.org/what-we-do/where-we-work/laos/

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https://yewtu.be/watch?v=oid6NdE85YI

Looking forward to a bountiful slop harvest this season

That looks absolutely delicious I’m hungry now

aww, thank you

Critical support to the Amsterdam taxi drivers who made some zionazis take a swim

I love that this joke has been alive since ye olden days of the subreddit, I had a nostalgic moment reading it…

No. As a rule of thumb whenever the EU does something half decent it’s either by necessity or accident.

Tech companies are already lobbying hard at both the European and national levels. The recent AI Act looks like it’s written more by policy wonks who drank the AI industry’s Kool-Aid than by actual experts in the field. On one side they want to cut funding to NGI0, one of the few genuinely good things the EU did in recent memory, which - among other things - funds Lemmy development, and costs pennies at the scale of the EU budgets. On the other they’re planning to pump ungodly amounts of money into “the AI industry” - whatever the fuck that is - because they got sold on GenAI being the next big thing and they don’t want to be left behind.

In EU policy for every half decent thing like the GDPR the are many ChatControls and similarly terrible ideas.

Happy to be of service. Zhug by itself is a pretty strong sauce so you use small quantities of it, but you can make it into more of a dip by mixing it with about two parts of yoghurt (vegan yoghurt works fine too).

I see your Toum and I raise Yemen’s Zhug: another absolutely banging middle eastern condiment. It’s easy af to make, you can decide how spicy you want it, and it rips. I put it on basically anything.

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