Probably unsurprising to everyone here, but this is importantly NOT a severance in most cases. It is a delayed resignation. You submit your resignation but are expected to keep working for the duration of that period and can be fired at any point in that timeframe without any further payment.

Basically they are asking to voluntarily surrender your union protections so you can be shat upon. It is definitely not an offer for 8 month free wages in exchange for resigning

Maybe a helpful starting point, if this is a real question, is for you to define what it is you mean by Marxism and what you find unethical about it more specifically. I’m asking the ideology as a whole, not a specific instance or country that claims to have it. For example I don’t think all marxists would be in agreement about if China’s government is a good representation of marxism (even if they call themselves communists).

I don’t think it makes me feel better to know that our descent into fascism is because gru promised 1MM rizz for it

This is good information, a few follow up questions:

1. what does China gain by influencing the US to elect a fascist? It’s clear what us billionaires gain, less so for China

2. where are the breaks on choo choo train to Nazi America, based on this trend?

To be fair especially on that second accusation it probably depends how old “that girl you like” is

I have only ever had great experiences visiting france, but then again I avoided Paris for the most part

I just want my hypnospace outlaw sequel. It was supposed to come out like a year ago and then never did.

I believed my hair would blow away with sufficient wind. And it basically did, it just took 30 more years

I think it’s a spectrum, some are worse than others. This one is particularly incensing as it drives house prices up for average consumers. Me putting my meager retirement savings in stocks, while still arguably just as much a capitalist behavior, feels a little less negative on the working class. But maybe it is and I just don’t understand economics enough for the nuance

I and I think many in the left would say no to both of those, especially if you lived there yourself in the second case. The abhorrent behavior is buying multiple houses and charging rent that is high enough to not just cover mortgage and maintenance but also turn a large profit, enough to where you can live entirely off of it at the expense of your tenants. And do things like raise the rent every year because “the market allows for it” even though your mortgage cost hasn’t changed.

There is obviously a grey area in between that everyone will have different opinions on. But in my view it is POSSIBLE to rent a property ethically, using lower than industry rents and being generally nice about it rather than viewing it as an opportunity for exploitation

Yeah I mean you are right. I guess I am getting impatient waiting for society to decide this is a big enough problem to need to address it, and crippling the oil industry, while having a LOT of other negative ramifications, would essentially force people to use less oil and find alternatives/do without immediately. Ideally that wouldn’t be a necessary intermediate step to progress but it feels like no progress for so long it starts sounding appealing to force the issue

There have been groups doing this for quite a while in many detrimental industries. There was a documentary a while back about one of them (earth liberation front) that eventually got caught. They did extensive work to ensure workers at those facilities weren’t injured and it was just property destruction.

I have to think if enough property was destroyed the owners would run out of money and investors to build more

I mean it’s definitely an interesting read. I’m just not sure what to actually do with this information. The fundamental problem feels like a generally small bubble, and at times a specific disinterest in venturing outside of it. If anyone’s whole worldview is shaped entirely by their tiny rural hometown, it’s easy to understand why others with radically different backgrounds feel scary.

But at the end of the day, it doesn’t feel like a good enough reason to drag the rest of the country through rigid christofacist moral dogmas and support the industries that prop up those small towns at the expense of the planet as a whole. But as long as those people aren’t interested in venturing outside their communities and meeting other different people, im not sure how to convince them of this.

Maybe if the cost of living becomes too untenable in major cities and work from home continues in certain industries rural areas will see more growth and this will improve somewhat? Idk

I have a potentially really dumb question: how is mastodon different from the assorted lemmys and such? I originally thought mastodon was just another fediverse instance but now that I think about it I don’t think I’ve seen posts and content from others on a mastodon instance, either on .world or where I am now at .ee. is this just due to defederation with mastodon or is mastodon different in some way that I am missing?

Unless they call it a sad robot it is clearly ai. Anyone in mtgzone knows this

This happened for me also when I started but has flat lined since, after about 4 months of gains. I think for me the season is relevant too, easier to maintain high heartrate training in summer when hot out

Probably not but do we really need more of them?

This is amazing. Describing foot pains is always so hard usually

You can just never connect your TV to the Internet or make it forget all networks, that works pretty well if you have a console or PC hooked into it that is doing the actual content for it

I feel like this same subtlety is also what makes it really hard to meaningfully track if an ad is actually effective or not. How do they know if you bought it cause ads or cause you would have anyway? Sometimes I wonder if ads arent way way less effective than companies think they are