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Shout-out to @stefan for reposting @SmallTownUSA. My OpenStreetMap addiction has been revived.
Really hope y'all are paying attention to the Kaiser Permanente strike starting tomorrow!!
https://jacobin.com/2023/10/health-care-workers-strike-kaiser-permanente-short-staffing-crisis
#KaiserPermanente #KaiserCoalitionOfUnions #Nurses #Healthcare #Strike #Labor
Tomorrow, 75,000 health care workers are set to strike at hundreds of Kaiser facilities across several states in the largest such strike in US history. Their primary grievance is low staffing levels, which unions say are hurting patients and workers alike.
@futurebird This is why i found @TechConnectify's videos on capacitance electronic discs (basically video on vinyl discs) so interesting.
Really makes you wonder how much cool tech could we come up with if we revisited some of these abandoned tech trees.
Another perfect opportunity to cancel your Disney+ subscription.
What *I* find "very disturbing" is Disney's unwillingness to treat the workers who keep them in business fairly.
> Bob Iger, has said writers and actors preparing to picket are not being “realistic” with their expectations, and that the threat of a strike is “disturbing”
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jul/13/disney-bob-iger-actors-writers-strike
CONSERVATIVES HATE HIM!
He secured Wisconsin school funding for 402 years using this one weird trick.
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers’ partial veto that attempts to lock in a school funding increase for 400 years drew outrage and surprise from his political opponents. But it’s just the latest creative cut in a state that once had the “Vanna White” and “Frankenstein” vetoes. Wisconsin governors have the most powerful partial veto power in the country because, unlike in other states, they can strike nearly any part of a budget bill. That’s exactly what the Democratic Evers did on Wednesday with a two-year state budget passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature. The move is expected to be challenged in court.
While I really want to go "I told you so" to all the people who held out on Twitter and are just now moving over to the Fediverse, I will resist the urge and offer a more productive and welcoming "Welcome to the Fediverse!" instead