> According to Reporters Without Borders' tally, at least 105 [journalists] have so far [since October 7th] been killed by Israeli airstrikes, rockets and gunfire, including at least 22 in the course of their work.
It is beyond me how this snail pace of changing the economy to be more sustainable can be interpreted as break neck speed. What was break neck speed was maybe the corona response, which was a good thing and could be happening on climate front more…
Besides this being an extremely utilitarian way to view of humans that obfuscates inherent value of human beings, it is a general problem with wage labour under capitalism, where only capital earns proportional to its “value”.
I think we should focus our energy more on the question how we can provide everyone according to their needs than how utilizable they are, if we want to live in a more healthy and thriving society than we currently do! At the end there is really no need to give some people 10 times more just because they are productive in a certain way. And this calculation already fails as soon as we add more dimension to it, e.g. someone might not be producing 10 times more productive code but maybe they do offer a lot of social skills that make everyone in the team have a better time during work hours.
So that they will turn into a mega company with nothing but PR, capital and marketing? I think the fact that they are so focused on medicine and science should rather be the norm in medicine.
The fact that Pfizer can spin this story on their name is disturbing and dangeruous behaviour that should not be the norm.
> Customers buying multiple flavours of a product with the same price but different UPCs, which the cashier rings up by scanning the first product then hitting "times 10"
I worked at retail (Uniqlo to be specific) and it was definetely a rule to not do this. They wanted us to scan everything one by one even if they were the same color and size. This allowed for a pretty accurate information on stock, e.g. we could see how many of a given sweater in given size and color is still in storage etc.
Probably this is too tedius for some retail (groceries with very small unit price) but very smart rule in general.
I am not a native English speaker, but queer is repurposed by the LGBT community to include everyone, under a single name [1]. It can even include heterosexuality [2]. I definitely do not read it in any derogatory way, and would identify myself as queer.
Well you can’t assume a fair playing field between USA and any other country, let alone a developing one. They needed protectionist measures to be able to industrialize as well as they did.
True, but if we continue on our current trajectory (climate change, social inequality), we won’t make it to that future. While I understand, we have enough curious people to invest many long-term possibilities and theories, I do think we should focus more on current pressing concerns when we decide on such a costly project. I can’t help but think of the possibilities of building renewable energy, sanitization for the parts of the world that has been historically and systematically left behind.
As the looks of it, US is pretty non-free when it comes to peacefully protesting. So I guess this feature is very timely and directed towards users there ;)
There are people committing suicide, being harassed and not being accepted as they are so using wrong gender is pretty fucked up thing to do especially because it is so easy to do right.
You can’t refuse to use someone’s preferred pronoun just because you want to. If someone wants to be called he, using them is insulting and demeaning. You would be literally not accepting how he is. Obviously this is not the case in generic writing. But I don’t think that is how 2 people want to communicate.
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