Far too many Americans don’t even get sick leave at their jobs.

Saturday one off protests do jack shit.

It’s a start.

But you are right that there needs to be ongoing and growing protests before anything will change.

The author also said its a rule of thumb and not any sort of magic number that automatically triggers change.

The 3.5% participation metric may be useful as a rule of thumb in most cases; however, other factors—momentum, organization, strategic leadership, and sustainability—are likely as important

Another factor is how deeply entrenched the fascists you are trying to dislodge are.

The more levers of power they control (and the longer they control them), the stronger and more sustained the pressure against them needs to be.

The “left wing media” is only as left as their right wing owners will allow them to be.

My penguin doesn’t listen to what Microsoft wants.

I know that if AI knows about this stuff it must have been produced by a human.

For now. Maybe.

It won’t be long before these LLMs will start ingesting the output from other LLMs, biases, confidently wrong answers, hallucinations and all.

all websites should block ai and bot traffic on principle.

Increasing numbers do.

But there is no proof that the LLM trawling bots are willing to respect those blocks.

We should come up with a gang sign then.

I vote for 🖕

But ICE can’t find many violent criminals

Maybe they should look in the mirror.

Only to be replaced by an even more extreme version of American Superiority Complex.

He’s a capitalist.

He’s an American politician. Of course he is.

How are we the best country again?

It’s a lie that Americans have been telling themselves for a few centuries.

hurting for qualified people.

I’m sure having a completely unqualified commander in chief and secretary of defense will totally help recruiting…

/s, if it wasn’t obvious

The large retailers were trying to hide the price increases initially.

The recruiting crisis in the US military is pretty bad.

The largest standing military (outside of an active war) in the world has a recruiting crisis?

I’ll call it backfiring when anyone does anything effective to stop them.

America hasn’t won a war in almost a century

The last war America won without help was a war against itself.

I know Americans like to claim they personally won WW2, but they only joined the fight in the 11th hour after everyone else had been fighting for 4 years.

Because firing the controllers worked so amazingly well when Regan did it…