I feel very conflicted about unions every time they come up, because it seems they should be dead-simply beneficial to workers. To me, that is the sole reason for their existence. But when I talk to people in unions in person and when I hear so many interviews, it doesn’t seem to be so.

With the end of the recent JBS strike, I’ve seen a number of outlets talk about how the union itself brought in scabs. The deal they struck doesn’t sound any better than the one they had that led to them striking.

How do unions end up so conflicted? Doesn’t their funding come from membership? I’ve never had a union job, and being in a place where you can get fired for any reason, such as organizing, it seems to make it a very risk thing with a less than certain payoff. Can anyone with better insight share their experience?

I think of Old Money in the sense of stuff that isn’t showy, but when you handle the items or see them up close, you know instantly they are premium items.

Clothes are the classic example. They don’t have gaudy logos or anything like that to call attention to them. But they’re stuff that you could hand down. Real quality wool, cashmere, the buttons themselves are premium, that kind of thing.

Cars again are more upscale touring types, not sports cars. The richest guy I’ve known drove a Hyundai Santa Fe. He spent his money on houses and fancy travel and his car was just for getting around.

New money is the showy and usually overpriced stuff covered in logos.

Simplest way to think of it is New Money is for newly rich people that feel the need to wave it around they’ve made it big. Old Money knows blowing it to impress people is stupid. You buy stuff that enhances your life and pampers you.

We live in a relatively low cost of living area and make decent money. We could pull off New Money if either of us cared about that. We cannot afford anything I’d consider Old Money. That’s a whole different world.

Sounds delicious! I like things with the rose or orange water, they’re so unique.

I don’t have any cool Iranian music or recipes, but I shared some cute Iranian owls recently!

Wow, this had me reading a lot more and thinking about this in many more ways than I originally expected.

To be up front, I’m not Australian, so I don’t know how things work there, legally speaking, or who exactly a lot of these people are. From reading the original article from the post, and then the article linked from that post, I’m a lot more neutral about the result of this.

There doesn’t seem to be any disagreements between any parties on what the content of the video is. Game Meats and the inspectors seem to say, some of what is in the footage isn’t great, but it’s some of the unfortunate things that are an inherent part of commercial animal processing. They’re just upset that Farm Transparency Project people are breaking into their facilities, and from their perspective, misrepresenting what is going on.

If that is indeed the case, which given I haven’t come across anyone who’s legally reviewed this footage seems to disagree, seems fairly conclusive is that the recorded slaughter is in compliance with regulation. Animals don’t want to die, obviously, and if people want commercial meat production, this is sadly something that is going to occur with incidents. I’ve had many family members work in slaughterhouses, and I hunt deer for food, and not all animals die the same. You can do everything right as the person with the job, but every animal is a bit different and stuff can go wrong.

I don’t know if FTP is a legitimate media resource or not. From what they’re doing, it seems like they want to protect animals, which is fine. But they don’t seem to be using legal channels to get evidence. While someone catching someone doing something illegal while doing something illegal themselves doesn’t absolve the other party, I don’t know how much we can condone illegally obtained evidence.

In the US, the last few years we have had a number of citizen “auditors” that usually just go and harass government employees at post offices or what have you, and I’m not sure how much BS places or people should have to put up with by random people trying to “expose them.” They don’t seem to be a big issue in Australia from some quick searching, though I did find a few people mentioning you do have a few notable people with media presence doing similar things.

Again, if anyone in charge of overseeing the slaughterhouse operations had reservations about what was in the footage, I’d be mad at Game Meats. I’m all about animal protections. But if we as humans are going to have meat production, this is part of the price for that. Most people today have probably never had to see where meat truly comes from. I get that it is upsetting. I’m not mad at FTP, I’m just not sure about how they are doing their investigation. If nobody else is finding the cruelty they are alleging, they might be wrong, legally speaking. To vegans, Game Meats (and also myself and any non-vegan) is wrong morally, but that isn’t what the law typically decides.

I had also never heard of Peter Greste, so I looked up who he is, and I see why he would have a negative view of this case. But he seems more of a mainstream person that no one can really question the legitimacy of his journalism, other than the Egyptian government, of course. Again, I have no idea the legitimacy of FTP, but there is no shortage of people with less than good intentions where I am familiar with that do more harm than good to their causes.

If I’ve gotten anything sorely wrong, please let me know.

I’m not super in the know about how all this stuff works, but it’s the result of how federation works.

You made your post on feddit, hit send, and then it flows out to every Lemmy host federated with feddit. So once you toss a post out there, it’s now out there in (insert number of federated servers) different copies stored individually on those hosts.

Now you decide to delete. That can be prioritized or handled differently based on the version of Lemmy each host is running.

I got a reply notification saying you replied to one of my comments, but when I clicked the notification, it said you deleted it.

I am even less clear about how deletes are handled, but it’s saved my butt before when I’ve accidentally deleted one of my own posts. There must be some type of buffer time between when a delete request is received and when it is actually purged.

If you hit the reply button on a deleted post, you will sometimes get to read the stored post! I can’t see your deleted comment now, so that’s what makes me think there’s a built in delay, but I obviously could read it fine yesterday to reply to what you said.

You can do it on any deleted comment. I like finding deleted down voted comments and trying this “trick” to see what things people try to hide from the record.

I’m sure I’ve if the instance communities or maybe one of the privacy ones could give you much better details, but this is my for dummies like me version.

If you’re unaware, people can also look who upvotes/downvotes. It’s not available to most people in Lemmy itself, but there’s an online tool that posts the info since it’s technically public, just obscured by the UI.

So a lot of Lemmy falls under the old “once something is on the Internet, it always is” thing. Once you post or vote, it doesn’t always just go poof when you ask the computer to make it go away.

Aww, you didn’t have to delete that. I believe you’re technically correct, since proper spaghetti is an extruded pasta.

I like all noodles, so I ignored the technicality.

Lol I did think of that, but I still thought most people’s mouths would need a break, and the second that noodle stops moving and trips the gag reflex, all chaos could break loose! That’s potentially a lot of night to have change course on you! 😧

I always thought it stood out when flipping through the channels that Larry King was on the left of the screen. Can’t say I ever thought of him being on the other side until reading your question here, but that was the first thing that popped in my head.

I don’t even think you’d need a special pot. A fresh noodle into enough water you can provide gentle agitation without whacking the noodle excessively, slide it out the pot into a colander, and then again gently slide onto plate. If you want more even saucing, I’d go from colander back into a pot with some sauce on bottom, then pour more sauce over top, and out to plate to get a more even coating without having to pull the noodle through sauce. You could even hand form the noodle with a bit of work. Roll noodle dough into a sheet and make alternating cuts like this and then smooth out the bends.

To me, the real trouble with a long noodle is: then what? Would you slurp a 100 ft noodle in one go, stopping for breaths?

I love SeriesGuide for tv and movies. It shows upcoming episodes, so when a series comes back after a long break, I know a few weeks in advanced it’s coming back. Has some good categories for finding new movies as well. Being linked to trakt and IMDB to get reviews or actor info is helpful as well. Great frontend for trakt.

For anime and manga I use MyAnimeList and Anilist through Aniyomi. It auto updates the episode/chapter as you go now.

I’m glad! I used to wish the name would have been left behind with Reddit, but I can’t say it hasn’t helped the community grow here and it still makes people happy to see the joke, so that makes me happy. I feel we are our own distinct group here, we just happen to share a name.

Usefulness is no fun. Those 80s and 90s attitudes wouldn’t worry about something like that. We’d have done it just show off and/or to keep the Soviets from doing it first. Don’t tell us we have rocks at home, I want space rocks. I want a bucket full of ice from the rings of Saturn. I want a slab of something that got melted by Venus. That stuff is cool.

I hope they do something fun with Artemis. It doesn’t feel like most people are excited for space anymore and that bums me out.

For All Mankind is coming back in a few days, so that will have to do for now.

Hah, don’t worry, it’s not a contest 😉

Lemmy is the thing I didn’t realize I’ve missed so much since the pre-Myspace days. I’m so happy to have something like this again after so long, I just don’t want to waste the opportunity.

It’s a fairly clean slate. We’re establishing a new place for people but interested in corporate social media.

When people settle new territory, there’s nothing there. Everything you want, you either need to build it yourself or wait for someone else to get around to it when they have a chance. If you aren’t going to be a producer, you’re going to find slim pickings.

I came here expecting a little more than what is even here 3 years later. But I liked the tightness of the community and that when I posted something, it wasn’t instantly drowned out by a hundred other comments.

Superbowl was dead after the first couple of months, and I had really enjoyed it on Reddit and didn’t want it to die here. I started posting what photos I had from previous travels, and when I ran out, I looked for places in all 50 states where people could see owls in person. Then I started doing daily research. Eventually that wasn’t enough, and now I volunteer working with wild animals, including my beloved raptors.

Every day I enjoy talking to my fellow lemmings. I get enough comments and do enough posts to keep me occupied. There are some users I really love and I can remember personal details about them, and I notice when they aren’t around for a bit or I think about them if they’re going through personal stuff. I enjoy working at the animal rehab where I get hands on with amazing animals and work with some of the best folks anywhere.

If I would have sat there and let everyone else do the work, I would have given up here long ago. But I looked for a niche to make my own, and now people look forward to my posts and I look forward to their reactions. And developing that relationship helped me find something in my office life that I love and enjoy more than anything I’ve ever done before.

You’re barely a number at Reddit. Here you can be anything, it’s not like there’s much competition.

When I was a kid in the 80s I thought we’d absolutely have some kind of moon base by now. More space stuff in general. What is more “future” than space?

Green energy is maybe 10 years behind where younger me would have wished it to be, it feels we’re close to some big breakthroughs. I’m still hopefully to see some game changing things in my lifetime.

Is America fundamentally different today than in the past? Like others have pointed out, it’s not like we’ve got no skeletons in our collective past. Ask any indigenous person, a large percentage of black folk, or anyone who’s ever been considered “a foreigner.” The only major difference is that the same people who have always been assholes are feeling like they can operate out in the open.

But at the same time, the good that has always been true is still here. We’re a beautiful country, with so many ecosystems and climates, two beautiful oceans, amazing natural resources, and we’ve been pretty safe from wars due to our geography and having two pretty good neighbors.

Those being selfishly rich or power hungry have very loud voices these days instead of doing the same things while acting like so-called gentlemen, but they’re still a minority. Most people are just keeping their heads down and earning an honest living. Many are still doing great things like working on medicine, trying to repair our environment, raising and teaching our children, helping those in need, whatever you can name.

Maybe those that want to do evil in America want honest people to feel hopeless and to abandon holding on to what we have. That will leave it all to them after all. But I still love my home and my friends. I love our mountains, beaches, and wildlife. I love my America as much as ever, since I want this country to be the best it can be. But those who go around doing wrong in the name of this country, I want them to see justice more than ever too. We’ve survived the tyrants of America’s past for over 400 years, and one way or another, we can only move forward and hopefully learn from our mistakes.

We can be embarrassed or angry for how our country is being represented and managed, but barring a literal apocalypse, there’s still a ton of good left to find here between the land and the actual people who live here and cash this place home.

Nice! Glad I was able to help.

I’m not gay myself, so I wasn’t quite sure of some of your descriptors, but for a gay-bro music video night, I felt this would have to at least check some of the boxes.

My best friend’s ex-bf was Ukrainian and he showed me music videos for Kazaky. Seemed very gay and the music was cool (synthpop/EDM) and the videos, outfits and dancing seemed really good to me. It made me think of if Lady Gaga did a collar with Rammstein.

Who let a sensible reply in here? 🤪

Before I got my depression treated, I was angry all the time, and like you said, it was physically and mentally taxing to be angry all the time.

I wish a lot of folks here would take the doomscrolling energy and devote it to some direct action. You will actually help those in need, work out a good chunk of your frustration, and you’ll meet awesome, like-minded people. Best thing I’ve ever done in my life.

Most likely that will have been one of mine. The Blakistons Fish Owl. It lives in Siberia and Hokkaido.

I just found a book of Ainu folk tales called The Song the Owl God Sang and the first story is about the god that inhabits that owl in their beliefs. They have quite the pantheon, but their 3 main gods are the bear, the wolf, and that big chonky owl. Neat stuff!

That fish owl is difficult to find photos of, so it’s always extra special when I come across them. I need to get the book Owls of the Eastern Ice next. It is all about a guy’s 5 year adventure with them.

I’m glad you found something you enjoyed. I try to find things that should impress anyone, and the owls always deliver!