20% of any population is not very smart and susceptible to emotional manipulation, schools don’t teach critical thinking very well, and 10% of a population is dark triad (‘evil’) or adjacent.
It should be pointed out that the last provincial election in BC came down to just a handful of voters in a couple of ridings. A few butterfly wingflaps and we could have had that mouth-breather Rustad as premier.
The rabid right feeds off of fear. Stop that shit when you see it.
Hostile, anti-democratic work environment with indentured overtones: next-level strategies required.
cf. the CIA/OST manual from mid-20th C on sabotage and resistance under the risk of death.
Innocent seeming tactics like work-to-rule or demanding policy adherence whenever possible can slow foolish management. Talk to coworkers carefully. Document spectacular failures of management directives but innocently, as if you don’t know whose fault it is. Set things up so they will break later, when you are not around and without a trace.
Ask for reasons; the last paragraph of the article sums up that asking them to explain the insanity is effective. Remember: it is slow and cumulative effort required to change things, be patient and persistent and alert for opportunities and risks.
Great article full of interviews with workers sharing their plight and solutions.
Black Press Media is a near-monopoly in small-town BC.
BC newspapers are primarily owned by USA oligarchs. No foreign influence here to worry about, nope.
I support your right to declare ignorance! Your defence of it is incorrect.
There is not “literally nothing” you can do to resist genocide in another part of the world.
In this case, there’s the opportunity to pressure your legislators into international action. There is the individual personal responsibility to avoid funding the genocide through purchases, and in business as well. Then there are activists who can help one be more effective.
The implication that none of this works is fatalism that is blind to the push and pull of history. Get out and push, if you can. If you can’t, then at least learn what you can about why others care so much–before joining the conversation about it.
Oh, just the one time this week, but fortunately Voyager app has a nice tagging feature, so it doesn’t happen much and I don’t have to worry about blocking.
Hope that helps!
URL structure is a clue, and of course a Shop Pay icon.
cf. “Gilead”
It really is a matter of degree, though. Even fancy perfume has horse piss in it. It doesn’t mean you might as well wallow in the pigpen.
Read more product reviews from more varied publications. You will see that there is a range of accountability in the sourcing of the product. Not all of it is direct marketing.
However, you can expect all of it to be ideologically consumerist.
That definitely happens some of the time, in some places. Journalism still exists, however.
Product reviews require more than a ‘test drive’.
Rhymes with Sunday and pronounce the first Y.
A lot of our life has been trending solarpunk for decades; we just finished processing the early crop of cooking apples, from two trees, and gave away the surplus, for instance.
But notably utopian design stuff: we’re building a bathroom with a composting toilet and greywater drainage.
Heating in the bathroom will be by on-demand infrared panel, and the small multipurpose building with the bathroom is getting a heat pump. Construction is mostly new materials but we did manage to reuse a lot of salvage.
Well it’s a fairly common discussion on Lemmy, Reddit, microblogging, etc., that “America” as the USA doesn’t float well outside of the USA.
The minds of the sea of semi-anonymous lemmings is likely hard to understand due to endemic parochialism in the USA.
I think it’s just annoyance at the idiomatic use of “America” when the discussion is about the Americas.
Hm, what country has the longest coastline in the world? Bordered by adversaries and target of smugglers and scammers corporations.
What country has recently been the target of threats and undermining by superpowers?
Honestly, a stronger Coast Guard needs to happen as well.
When I was young and A.I. was a science fiction topic, I was convinced that increasing efficiency in code and design would be a major benefit, doing more with less, the everyday magic of software disappearing into the walls and devices like magic gnomes.
I forgot about the ads.