i’d like to draw everyone’s attention to the fact that mankind has developed computers and algorithms powerful enough to exhibit brain-like behaviors and we’re using this technology to blend pictures of fish with spaghetti hot dogs
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Star Trek craft book, I am begging you to describe this craft project in literally any other combination of words
...UM. :)
(h/t @thistlewhistler)
Worker solidarity is the future.
*chokes on a spit-take*
If the company’s TEAMSTERS strike, the PILOTS will strike??
YESSSS!!!
...Lemme put this in context. Airlines are HURTING FOR PILOTS. Flying is a very expensive hobby, and it’s very expensive to get a pilot’s license.
It used to be just about anybody could do that, but *gestures at minimum wage vs inflation* (federal minimum wage is around $8, yet we now need $28 to survive, folks, it’s gotten that bad) so of COURSE people aren’t able to become pilots!
And the Air Force, et al, aren’t flying as many planes because they’re investing more in drones than in pilots, so you can’t go into the military hoping to become a pilot that way, getting the military to pay for your training... (Plus there are hundreds and hundreds of people serving groundcrew for every single pilot, so the odds were always low to begin with.)
So combine all of that with the fact 3,300 pilots are saying they will also go on strike...
There aren’t enough spare pilots to fully scab their strike.
one time in my last job a woman came up to the register explaining that when she bought stuff a day prior the clerk forgot to scan a pair of socks worth less than €2 and it was only right for her to bring it back to the store and pay for it proper. unfortunately my manager was directly next to me at the time and took over the register to handle this serious issue. the receipt she had brought with her said which register performed the previous transaction that forgot the socks and the manager could find out who was running that till on that day. poor dude had a manager yell at him for a half hour about how much of an incompetent fuck up he was, he left the job immediately after but i couldnt tell you if he quit or was fired
i think about this moment a lot. the customer seemed like a sweet woman with only good intentions and when she paid for the socks she had a look on her face that said "i feel good because i did the right thing". and a guy lost his job because of a pair of socks. if shit like this ever happens to you and a clerk forgets to scan an item just think of it as a small blessing or that you had good luck or something. keep it.