In modern American usage, more or less. “Libertarian” used to be much broader - ancaps cleaved it off of libertarian socialism in the 20th c.

Meanwhile in America, my old ll tried to tell me I couldn’t have my deposit back because “it’s summer and the bank is on vacation”

The US made a lot of its own sugar in the past either though sugar beets, or by growing cane in the extreme south, but that era is largely over (ignoring corn syrup): it’s cheaper to import it from places where imperialism keeps wages low.

Most US food is not local, unless you go to a farm share or market.

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

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.

My experience with it on Android had several weird bugs

• Consumed a lot of battery
• Crashed on swapping focus to another app
• Opening the app would get stuck connecting to the game state server (even though the app works fine offline) so I had to use airplane mode to launch the app

These seem resolved now

This is a game I keep coming back to. I love it, and it’s got great replayability. I’m glad the phone version works well now.

Typical dues are 1-2% of pay

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

These layoffs didn’t happen because Google is out of money. It’s insanely profitable.

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I’m an anarchist, and my take is that anarchism isn’t pacifism, and “no coercion” is a bad summary. It’s more about the absence of hierarchical coercion and instead distribution of power to all people and communities.

If you’re going around burning down houses, your anarchist neighbors are going to use force to take away your matches and gasoline if you don’t stop.

A lemming that has taken off is https://startrek.website/c/risa !

I love my stream of Star Trek shitpost.

Left libertarianism was first… But nowadays it only exists to “well actually” people with, at least in the US.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/loss explains it

其實這個美國人還會漢語

It’s all bullshit, and you’ve hit the nail on the head.

The only way out is through each other: change your workplace to be less bullshit. Demand dignity. Maybe bring your friends and make a co-op.

Ironically, as I’ve become more senior (11+ years at a faang company) I’ve had to do less and less of that “look around and understand everything” work because of time pressure. But I rely on my experience to be more confident that I can ignore the details and focus on the reason I’m in this file.

Well, that, and if it gets too messy I give up and call in a junior engineer…