WashedAnus [he/him]

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Awww the poor widdle spies! They were just innocently torturing innocent people at bwack sites, then destroying all evidence of torture! How dare they sacrifice these benevolent angels to save some RuZZian orc!

I mean, what else would you do when you found out your mom was doing over-the-pants stuff at Beetlejuice and people were calling that a handjob???

If your local is anything like mine, they won’t respond to the Google forms application anyway and you’ll just get the newsletter for six months.

The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) does external organizing, but it’s not quite what you’re talking about, I think.

The structure of it is that there is a branch in the local area (in Wisconsin, there are branches in Milwaukee and Madison, although I don’t know how active they are) which workers trying to organize their workplace reach out to, and they provide External Organizers (EO’s) to coach the workers on how to systematically organize their workplace. They meet up, talk about the structure of the workplace, set goals, and then meet regularly to help push the organizing along.

There is another tactic called salting, where a union will get some of their members hired at an employer they are targeting to start the process.

Other unions use these tactics as well, I’m just less familiar with them as they’re less radical. To be an EO, you have to go through some training and gain some experience at your own workplace or shadowing other EO’s.

If you’re kinda very much a communist, the IWW can be a good organization to be a part of. It very much attracts anarchists and syndicalists more than Marxists, but we’re here too, and it’s generally not a big deal if you don’t make it a big deal. Other organizations also do workplace organizing. I am aware of workplace organizing campaigns by CPUSA and even DSA.

Hope this helps!

Okay, get in.

In the 10s, that number dramatically increased to 918 days.

This is what I was told by a coworker who had been in the semiconductor industry for decades (can’t ask him for sources now because he’s dead):
During the Obama administration, they set up a tax cut to incentivize companies to build more factories, where you would get a tax break if you filed plans within a certain time frame, but you only needed to build one building to take advantage of it on the planned future construction. As an example, Intel slowly built a new fab in Arizona, and, once it was completed, they left it empty for years, only starting to install equipment in 2019. This facility was also built with the move to 450mm wafers in mind, so it was much larger than previous fabs. The move to 450mm wafers never happened, and probably never will.

A big part of the speed is the extremely poor mid to long term planning. Constant rework because of constantly changing demands, slashing workforces during slow periods and then struggling to fill positions long after they should have been filled, and more bullshit as you can imagine.

supported a worker-led campaign which would ultimately become the first ever federally-recognized union in the U.S. fast food industry.

Ah, the Burgerville drama.

This decision upended a perceived tradition within the IWW of not pursuing contracts with employers

That’s a bit of a misrepresentation, as what I remember “traditionalists” got up in arms about was a tradition of not pursuing contracts containing no-strike clauses, which undermines the IWW’s direct action approach as opposed to business unions who are all too happy to support no-strike clauses.

I generally ignore GEB drama and was unaware of the rest of the situation, so it’s an interesting read.

I’m much more concerned about the very real and confirmed ties (see:) Zoom, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google, my ISP, my cell phone service provider, etc have to the security apparatus of the country I actually live in who have actual power and authority over me and a long history of murdering left wing activists.

I’m assuming this is a minesweeper. Fiberglass and wood are used to build minesweepers, as a steel hull will set off magnetically-fused naval mines. You still have the issue of the engines, shafts, and propellers, but those have much lower magnetic effect than an entire vessel made of ferrous metal.

If you want your sticker to stay, spray the sticky side with a spray adhesive like E6000 prior to sticking it. That adhesive is stronger than any sticker.

Also, CrimeThinc’s Recipes for Disaster has some pretty good ideas in it.

I like to go all the way back to Pints of Guinness Make You Strong sometimes. The line

• If I would have known
• Just how things would have ended up
• I just would have let myself die

Always gets me

Might as well just ask what my Recap is:

• All We Ever Wanted Was Everything - Bauhaus
• New Dawn Fades - Joy Division
• The Last Thing - Lebanon Hanover
• Autonomy - Boy Harsher
• Ghosts Again - Depeche Mode
• Anhedonia - Chelsea Wolfe & Emma Ruth Rundle
• Various Methods of Escape - Nine Inch Nails
• Turn Those Clapping Hands into Angry Fists - Against Me!
• Lost in the Supermarket - The Clash
• 6:45 - Firewater
• The Man on the Burning Tightrope - Firewater (the whole album, not just the song)

Fred Flinstone about to flip his shit

As someone going through TOS currently, I highly recommend using a fan watching list for it rather than just watching every episode. I’ve been watching every episode and most of them really suck, with a lot of misogyny.

The car’s on fire and there’s no driver at the wheel And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides And a dark wind blows

The government is corrupt And we’re on so many drugs With the radio on and the curtains drawn

We’re trapped in the belly of this horrible machine And the machine is bleeding to death