FWIW the game hates StalinWasALib87 and is not particularly subtle about it.

I want recognition for things I did myself, so I don't go in for birthday celebration at all. I'm a summer birthday in academia, so work is either pretty chill that day anyway, or an emergency where being gone would just make it harder for me to get up to speed when I'm back.

faux liberalism (ezra klein) vs actual liberalism (mill)

@helldude.bsky.social @fleerultra.bsky.social At last, a worthy successor to the most informative ALAB episode to ever air!

I don't think she thinks Disco is a cRPG. I'm more surprised that she reviewed Tyranny but not the Pillars of Eternity games - you'd think Obsidian is blacklisted for making Oblivion With Guns, or that she'd review all three.

I cannot stress enough that finding BG3 unexceptional is the most normal position I can find on the entire website, and it's not particularly close. Even the Fallout 3 take is such an exaggerated version of a somewhat common view that it becomes fringe. Everything past that is just mad genius.

PSL, SAlt, and 5-person DSA caucuses everywhere take note: *this* is how you write bonkers off-base polemic that still somehow forces people to read it.

I dont think I have many transferable skills until I try to arrange a meeting with people who dont communicate about things like "what time should the meeting be" and "who's gonna send the link"

Further proof that union organizing is also the best job/life skills training available.

I hope this is it. I fear that it's purely because a certain somebody spends too much time on Twitter.

As always, the question to unlock this apparent paradox is "what color are the pregnant teenagers?"

It's amazing how well this passage captures exactly how I feel about Death Stranding, so I 1000% believe this is possible. OTOH, TLD has never once induced any emotion in me other than "Ope, died on Day 2 doing what I was told again" every few years, so IDK how to get this feeling from this game.

Not only do you get extra points for clicking the center, you can get a lower score for being too far from the center, even if the point is within Iran's borders. Yes, I'm mad about this. So I know what the Strait of Hormuz looks like, why is that a geography crime?

Group B are the ones who have ever been in actual contact with a labor union and/or can read basic statistics on who is actually in unions in 2026.

Thesis: A Catholic can't be President because they have to do what the Pope says.
Antithesis: An American can't be Pope because they have to do what the President says.
Synthesis: God is obviously American anyway, so the President should just also be Pope.

I just hope that if it's B we find out when Usha gets "caught" skydiving by a TMZ photographer 4 days after the divorce

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Ifthisdiscussioncouldinamywayleadto mybeingdisciplinedterminatedorcauseaneffectonmyworkingconditions Irespectfullyrequestthatmyunionrepresentativebepresentatthistime.

Just need some breath control!

a group of skeletons are dancing together in a cemetery . Alt: a group of skeletons are dancing together in a cemetery

These guys at it in the back yard again?

A photo of the Pike Place starbucks in Seattle Washington

We, the partners at Pike Place #301, are excited to announce our intent to unionize with Starbucks Workers United. As partners of the first Starbucks, we’ve decided to form a union to uphold the core values of our company and the Pike Place Market: fair and equal treatment, respect, and dignity for every single partner who makes this store so special. Thousands of partners around the country are working together to fight for a better workplace, and we look forward to joining them. Starbucks as a company was built on the core pillars of belonging, courage, and joy. Sadly, under your leadership – in our store and so many others – Starbucks has lost its way and veered from the core values that defined us. Store partners are the most important part of the Starbucks experience. We open the stores every morning and close them every night. We greet customers, make the coffee, clean up the spills, and remember our regulars’ names and favorite orders. But beneath the veneer of the excellent experience we craft for visitors every day, partners do not feel a sense of belonging and joy – unequal treatment is the norm, not the exception. When we speak up, that courage is punished, not rewarded. That has been most evident with Starbucks dispatching two national labor relations personnel to our store to surveil partners after the company heard we were discussing unionization, raising tension in the store that can be felt by both workers and customers. The market's founding gave us clear directions: "It is for you to defend, to protect and to uphold, and it is for you to see that those who occupy it treat you fairly; that no extortion be permitted and that the purpose for which it was created be religiously adhered to." The path to our union may be challenging, but we know this: We are better working together as a team, we have each others’ backs, and we respect everyone’s right to make their own choice. We call on Starbucks to live up to the core values of courage, joy, and be…

Today, the "original" Starbucks at Pike Place Market in Seattle, is announcing they're organizing their union. ✊

Read the letter workers addressed to CEO Brian Niccol about why they're joining thousands of workers nationwide fighting for a better Starbucks:

nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early

astronaut: Office365 in spaceship

nasa employee: what?

astronaut: *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* Office365 in spaceship

This is so, so well-articulated.

I mean yes, you should be posting your LLM slop on the LLM-slop-posting website instead of where humans might see it

Any U.S. city with councilmember privilege works as a case study. Bunch of things not worth doing in Philly happen because somebody paid off a council member, but lots of things *worth* doing in Philly also happen because somebody paid off a council member.

This aligns hilariously with the image of Luigi hitting Bryan Danielson's finisher

Does your state even have excess demand for B-school graduates? Is the business school revenue-positive? Do the answers to these questions even matter?

Union dues mainly go to staff salaries and that's good actually.

I feel bad just saying it. Most staff/leaders are self-selecting "good unionists" who see everything else we could do with the money. But none of those things will happen unless people can make doing them a full time job.

Anyone looking to avoid this fate and stay line staff forever, just focus on bargaining and enforcement. Advancement requires a law degree you won't have time to get, so you're permanently safe from managing people!

My politics, including Aftermath, all come downwind from Union organizing. Nothing is immediately clarifying as being underpaid for years only to get a sudden 12k pay bump and realizing they could have done that shit any time.

The PR trigger for Shapiro was likely "signed a bipartisan bill" and not anything to do with the content. He still thinks he has a chance in 28 and he thinks signing bipartisan bills for the sake of it is important for that.