There has rarely been a military campaign like this

But for professional kitchens or other kinds of cooking that billions of people use open flames for? Get outta here. You’re going to tell the south American grandma who hasn’t left her town and has cooked with gas her whole life that she’s been brainwashed by the American oil and gas industry?

You know, a pretty decent cause of mortality in poor countries is women cooking over wood fires in confined spaces. Combustion is just not good for you, there’s really no way around it.

Also the idea that most people in the north can’t cook well enough for their tools to matter is laughable. That’s just your vulgar reaction to fetishism of high-class French cooking. What evidence could possibly support it? We can joke about the Brits eating like the Blitz is still going on but you can’t set up an objective ranking of cuisines.

I have a CO₂ monitor (which is probably picking up NO_x too, it’s not expensive enough to be selective) and can literally watch the air quality get worse as I use the gas stove or range. I’ve never lived in an apartment with a functioning range hood. I’d like to try induction. I watched a Technology Connections video saying that raw power delivery, e.g. boiling water, is faster.

Also, a quirk of how gas works in Chicago is that you pay a flat hookup fee of ~$30 a month, and a fee per therm for consumption. Cooking uses so little gas that the consumption part of my bill is pennies. If I had an induction stove, and if I had an inefficient electric furnace instead of gas, I’d probably still save $25 a month.

imagine getting life in prison because you wrote for the fucking Roman Polanski socialists

wtf

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I have heard people say they were shot “by” quadcopters or drones but don’t fully understand. Are these quadcopter the scouts for Israeli snipers, or has the Zionist entity actually put guns on quadcopters?

I have heard people say they were shot “by” quadcopters or drones but don’t fully understand. Are these quadcopter the scouts for Israeli snipers, or has the Zionist entity actually put guns on quadcopters?

WSB will now be supported by “Revolutionary Workers”, which has less money and people than mainline SAlt, so we’ll see if it survives. RW is mostly from the Seattle SAlt chapter. Luckily I didn’t make any real friends in the org - I was “all business” - so I don’t know about getting cut off or whatever. Thanks for supporting KCVG.

WSB split off from Socialist Alternative; I did not follow and later left Socialist Alternative (which I wrote about here). Unfortunately I think that new WSB’s central idea - that the moment is ripe for a cross-union mass membership organization of workers that’s not a communist party - is incorrect. They are currently campaigning for Jill Stein and Kshama says that a successful “spoiler” vote for Stein that resulted in a Trump win would lead to the creation of a major third party, which would be great if it were true but it’s not. Unfortunately their deviation from SAlt has only made them worse; they still share SAlt’s bad theory on Israel and presumably some of the leadership culture.

But it was a nice moment and although we made some mistakes with the unionization work at Amazon KCVG it was still a good thing overall.

when I met my girlfriend my profile had a picture of me tabling for Workers Strike Back (rip). Put it out there it’s hot

it’s a resolution. those don’t mean anything anyway

wtf I thought he was a Marxist this sucks

idk about state support. but yeah without bringing socialism in, there’s nothing that makes unions directly fight for the working class as a whole, just for the interests of that segment of it. This strike could have had wider political implications, e.g. Maersk was one of the employers. The most extreme example is cop “unions” that actively fuck over the working class, but lots of unions sacrifice the rest of the class a little bit. For instance working people need public transit, Chicago’s transit system has had a big operator shortage for several years, but the union made it really difficult to get a job as an operator (have to first do 1 year in an essentially unrelated menial role with few openings). Or you get Hoffa teamsters

4% yearly raise after inflation. It’s better than nothing, but I think the right thing to do is strike until you win a contract with all your demands. Helps prevent union leadership from becoming collaborationist. I don’t know ILA internal politics

so they’ve stopped the strike in exchange for a promise of a contract next year? and the promised contract is an 8% yearly raise? idk about this one

about $75k of mining rigs actually. 66kW is a lot of heat to dissipate

nobody who’d want to put 551 amps through jumper wire has access to a 551 amp source