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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Ah perhaps I'm not used too that where I am. I appreciate unions truly, and belive we need more. But the ones I've been in have been nearly as corrupt as the politicians. Often run by the retired and wealthy making decisions on behalf of those still working. Often bad ones.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 week ago (8 children)

That whould typically involve unions. No need for them here though.

Unions are great for a lot of things but they'd be less inclined to help on this as they, don't all support the same parties, and probably dont want their workers to violate any contracts as it would damage future negotiations.

I think isn't a matter of labour and would be stonger without unions. It needs to be from the people.

 

This is a Canadian asking about the US. Though given that crappy state of things here we could consider it as well.

If the next president isn't picked as a result of the popular vote but as a result of the system being terrible then a majority of the people of the country will have been wronged.

Instead of doing civil war about it, what if there was a mass movement to just do nothing. Everyone just grabs a chair and sits on their lawn or in a park all day and just chills out instead of working, attending events, or really participating in the economy in any significant way. Take a sick day or somthing if it helps. But anybody can do nothing.

In only a few days, maybe less, the economy whould take a massive hit. Just everyone sits around untill a fair election is called without any electoral college or first past the post nonsense.

Obviously there's huge challenges to this. Like finding an end condition everyone can agree on. Also getting a representative to ensure the demands had been met. the huge wave of firing, threats, and violence from the other side whould probably have some effect. But the other side is a minority, and could be overwhelmed.

So if big enough, could it work?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Can't wait from Doug Ford to become PM, and start a space program to add some car lanes on the moon.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I hope he's taking care of himself. Guys been burning on all cylinders since the Homestuck days.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm aware of this organization but other than raising awareness what does the organization do with the money donated to it and how open is it with its spending?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

So by giving that 200 check to the NPD. I'd be forcing the Ford government to also give money to the NPD?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (10 children)

What's the biggest FU to Ford we can spend that money on? Should we just toss it to the NDP?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I've done that part for what it's worth.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I agree with the need to end Fords madness, but why does a petition need my phone number? It's a required field? No thanks.

Anyway you could could petition to for with every signature in Ontario on it and it'll still get ignored. Fords getting kick backs from road construction contracts. He knows ripping out bike lanes means there's just going to be more contracts when sensible leaders take over to put them all back in. Even if he loses the next election he's going to make a killing on this.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

Though it's certainly effective. Unless somone very influential happens to be on lemmy looking at comments on memes I don't think that idea is going to get to them.

What I've seen is letter writing campaigns. The idea of getting a large volume of people tonwrite their MPs all at once makes it harder for them to just ignore everyone. Somone whould provide a template with not only the nature of our request but things the mp can actually do to advance the idea. They sometimes actually want to help but don't know how. This is why you need somone with some degree of knowledge to write the template.

A flyer/poster campaign can help as well. This is good for raising general awareness. Though its more effective if done during a specific time prior to an action like the letter writing campaign or a protest march. Even those who can't partake in the event can then at least promote it. Though I suggest providing guidelines around ethical flyer distribution. The advantage is that you can get your message to places like libraries and community centers where more civic minded people will see it.

Also there is protests, marches ect. But there are so many of those happening that I feel they often get ignored. The logistics are a pain, amd if not done right they can go bad.

Also is there a place organizing these things? Do they need donations or volunteers?

So with that in mind if anything like that is happening, link your memes to it in some way. It will turn a complaint into action.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

What's the call to action here? When I see content like this I think it's not enough to just say. "Fist past the post bad ranked voting good." Many of us agree already. Tell us what to do about it.

At very least toss us a website, but there's better we can do.

You need us to email someone? Who? What am I saying to them?

Need us to go somewhere? tell us when, where and what to bring

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I dont really get the effort to pursue this. Won't he just pay off doctors, or make up fake reports? Hasnt he already done that in the past?

 

Renting a room in an old house. The landlady is one of the rare good ones and cooks for me somtimes so I'm trying to be handy where I can.

This light in my office died, and a few others in the house are in dire need of replacing. Rusted and covered in decades of caked on dust, probably hazardous.

I keep seeing units like this. https://a.co/d/iU3hAd3

But I'm wondering if I should get a few of those or get another bulb style ceiling lamps and just use LED bulbs?

 

If you've ever had a landlord try this rennoviction nonsense on you then you may want to express some opinions in the survey. Or better yet, if you can, attend the virtual meeting.

 

nearly 16 are now "infected" I've been studying this thing for like 2 years, my scientist mentioned they could "solve" it some time ago. But now even they have been adding to the garden. I'm wondering if my curiosity has doomed them all.

 

Sorry for another "Is this autism or normal human behavior?" Post.

There's a long story as to why I am experiencing this again but it's not really any more relevant then the title of this post.

For older folk it's like that episode of the Simpsons where Lisa, out of pity, give Ralf Wiggim a valentines day card and he immediately starts invisioning a future with her as his romantic parter.

I've identified I have this same trait and I hate it. Looking back I've totally made people who had been nothing but kind to me uncomfortable and shut me out because of this.

Now knowing that I am doing this is at least making me a little more in control and hopfully less weird. But now I need to stop and asses every interaction I have which is itself awkward.

 

I made a deal with my employers, they'd provide me time and funding and I'd pass some project management training to help with task related to that role.

I've been doing project managment for years already and it's a subject I am confident in. The course was easy for me since I found one geared towards my learning style.

But I got too confident and suggested I could pass the certification exam. I havnt had an exam since high-school and I did pretty badly at those.

The problem is that the questions are mostly scenerio based and I am taking things too literally, focusing on the wrong detials, or considering things from the wrong perspectives. It's driving me crazy because I know what I am doing and I have a lot of pressure to succeed, but this poorly written exam could prevent me from achieving it.

Does anyone else have this issue or know any preparation resources I could use to help me intrupet these things better?

 

I can't get ahold of support but it's down for ne in Toronto and my family out in Waterloo. Seems to be another big one. I can't get any info on what's going on.

 

It's a typical video game peasant looking npc lamenting at no on in particular that's there's a very solvible problem. Oh is only somone could solve this for them! While a very strong capible looking player character is right next to them.

I'm reading somthing about emotional blackmail. Apprently this meme describes one form of it perfectly. Though I havnt seen it in years and I can't find it via searches.

 

I'm going to horribly oversimply this. For example. Say I am wearing a shirt a cheap one for Wal-Mart.

This shirt was produced in a sweat shop. That sweat shop has .0005 deaths per day. Thus by wearing this shirt and supporting the mechanisms that brought it to me. I have a killcount for today a number substantially smaller then .0005 and obviously there's a tonne of subjectivity on what that number might be.

Now include the dye factory that made the shirt green, the shoes I am wearing, the bus I am riding in, the coffee I drink. All these luxuries and that number may go up a little.

I am wondering if this is somthing that is being considered anywhere is somone building a calculation to determine our daily kill counts.

I'm sure most of us probably don't what to know what ours might be, but knowing what parts of our daily lives have the highest values we might work harder to change for the better.

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