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There was a pseudo documentary I vaguely remember… along this premise… but I don’t know if it used a cyclist metaphor anywhere... “What the BLEEP do we know?!” (2004)

Codifying mandatory breaks for adults is great. But also non-existent in my state (unless again you’re a minor which many of those rules they’re working on repealing). I imagine it does only exist in Union-strong states that lobbied heavily for the right. Or non-union states with tight knit unions that still believe in solidarity.

One of the truest brothers I ever met was out of TN. He walked off our site day one because of water conditions and our foreman’s shit attitude. I was a baby apprentice then but the harassment I got and the treatment I witnessed my elderly coworkers receive on that job, I wish I’d have taken them to hell and back. Back then I was just trying to survive and shelter the owner because small town bullshit. That traveller was also a flea though. I’m sure. Shame they’re a bunch a racists and bigots. Daddy flea won’t let women or minorities rank. Iykyk.

But—different union but, my stepdad salted for years all over the country. If you don’t know what salting is these are the tactics we need to bring back if we hope to survive. If I ever go back to the states I’m finding a salt friendly union (my intl is too sold down the road) to offer my services. If I’m not flipping companies I’m bankrupting them. Only noble pursuit left in the shithole country.

Absolutely agree it’s a public health disaster. People will also “save” their sick days and show up sick instead of take them, even when they have them available. We have a very toxic work ethic. Also, our schooling preps us for never missing a day. We’re praised and rewarded from childhood for not missing a single school day. And kids who have health problems or miss school regularly are scorned. I wish I was kidding. Hoping this has changed at least since Covid. But I doubt it.

Once communities realize scarcity isn’t an issue, the initial rush tends to subside and it becomes sustainable. That’s generally just the initial capitalist trauma panic. People become way more relaxed and selective and in turn start to donate and engage when they can.

Our womens committee for our local started a Tool Library for apprentices. Everything from our required tool list items to boots to PPE. It’s been very successful. As apprentices “grow up” they tend to become contributors themselves. It’s been great to watch in action. It’s also become a sort of central hub for our retirees and other committees as well as the general membership. It may not be an economy, but it’s definitely a very doable and positive community building endeavor.

So very close to identifying the patriarchy and that men are victims of it too, and then wild miss at the end. sigh so, so close.

It was always crazy to me how many of my coworkers thought their breaks were legally protected by law. Spoiler. They’re not. That’s for child labor not adults. Only protection we had was our union and they crapped on it all the time claiming they had a federal right to breaks anyway… can’t fix stupid.

Who names these people? I feel like I’m stuck in a bad sitcom and all the writers are on strike. Let me out of this b list movie.

I mean we have to think of the robots. Cutting off the water to their data centers would be catastrophic for them. Think of the robots people!!

Consenting adults at that

Judea was also tiny, it didn’t come even close to encompassing Palestine. Palestine was Palestine or some similar variation before the brief blip that was the Kingdom of Judea and after. And be wary, there’s a ton of Zionist rewrites of history to justify their own claims. They’re also constantly digging stuff up and claiming it’s “Jewish relics” or “biblical relics” even when it had zero to do with Judaism or the history of Judaism in the region. And don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying Judaism doesn’t have roots and history in the region, I’m just saying be wary of the grasping at straws to justify bible stuff (remember many, many Zionists are Christian Zealots and obsessed with Old Testament (ie Jewish) stuff) and they’re constantly over embellishing to justify their ethos. The region is more notable for its nomadic trading and shepherd culture than for its singular “Jewish” identity. Many tribes were Jewish. Many were not. And during some periods those Jewish tribesman were more dominate than during others. The Levant has always been a multiethnic crossroads, not a one shoe fits all sort of place. Edit: [image link changed]

Anyone else catch his lawyers name… oh the irony.