The petition is being organized by Alphabet Workers Union, the minority union trying to organize Google, its sister companies, and contractors.

https://www.alphabetworkersunion.org/campaigns/job-security

This is literally a product of their minority union

And at least I’m North America there’s another Maté relative, Yaupon. Both are holly species.

In this case the bond is because he’s appealing a civil judgement that’s been reached. This is different from a bail bond. He’s not at risk of jail over this unless he gets in contempt of court.

At least in my faang office, there’s essentially zero ports to plug into. If you have a desktop, there’s a port, but that’s the exception. I’ve never seen anyone plug a laptop in.

They mostly don’t even give out desktops to devs these days, everything is in the cloud.

A lot of us in the US still pay rent in checks. I get them from my bank in books of a hundred, and there’s no upper limit on how big they can be.

Anything that risks bouncing requires getting a fancy check (certified) where they take the money out before issuing the check.

It’s mostly software engineers, and distributed across almost every team.

My dad died from this. It’s a horrible way to go. I’m sorry to hear anyone else has to deal with this condition.

“well actually” room temperature superconductors do exist, quite definitely! … But only at 100 gigapascals of pressure. https://uspex-team.org/static/file/Troyan2022_ufn227g_High-temperature superconductivity in hydrides.pdf

Still really cool, but not useful for engineering.

I agree that this paper needs to be replicated before we get excited.

You’re gonna have to explain a little more about this because on its face I don’t see why I should read what a specialist in the philosophy of science has to say about an ideology based on a historical and sociological analysis of the world. They’re totally different spheres.

Plus, Marxism is not the entire left, and there’s a whole world of thought out there that very likely covers whatever issues you’re thinking of.

What’s the cross posting implementation? I’m not sure I’m getting what it is.

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I’d rather learn from Angela Davis, Marsha P Johnson, Judith Butler, and their peers than from whatever “radical centrism” is.