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Ubergeneral3 posted...

yes. People will protest to try to remove him. I think him winning will be the final straw.

Will it be a communist revolution? Meh we aren't there yet.

Will there ever be one in our lifetime?

Protesters need to realize that Democrats like AOC are not their enemy.
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The_Popo posted...

How about this

She supports Biden because the alternative is a fucking danger to democracy in the US.

And yes, Biden is supplying Israel, so she is going to the protests to show I may support Biden over the alternative, but I dont agree with him on everything (which should be clear by now), and me being out here with these people is my way of showing the changes I want to be made.

Everything isnt black and white. Politics and be nuanced. Unlike our 24/7 cable news outlets would suggest, you dont need to agree 100% with everything your party does at all times.

Unfortunately, a lot of younger leftists have a black and white view in regards to morality. There's no such thing as shades of gray for them.

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Unfortunately, a lot of them are doing more than criticizing AOC. They want to kick her out of the movement.
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UnholyMudcrab posted...

It seems to me to be a Marxist defense of the Romantic respect for nature contrasted with the exploitation of natural resources by the industrial societies of the era.

Thanks.

Apparently, this is what metabolic rift means: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic_rift

I'm still unsure what this paragraph actually means.

How would you describe this in layman's terms? Truth be told, I don't know what to make of it other than this dissertation having to do with critiquing capitalism through speculative thinking.

My dissertation is on fantasies of limitless energy in the transatlantic Romantic imagination from 1760-1860. My goal is to write a prehistory of metabolic rift, Marx's term for the disruption of energy circuits caused by industrialization under capitalism. I am particularly interested in theories of the imagination and poetry as interpreted through a Marxian lens in order to update and propose an alternative to historicist ideological critiques of the Romantic imagination.

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GBH713 posted...

The elections tomorrow are just local and mayoral. We'll probably have a general election later this year, but it isn't tomorrow.

True, but every election counts. Local and mayoral races shouldn't be discounted since small ripples can contribute to even bigger waves for positive change.

This topic will be for this year's election in the UK which is going to take place tomorrow. What do you think will happen?

Solar_Crimson posted...

America has always shat on left-wing movements while turning a blind eye to right-wing ones.

It doesn't help that the far right is propped up by the mass media and wealthy elite.

Irony posted...

Biden supports this

Do you see Biden celebrating this like Trump would?

This is really getting out of hand.
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We'll know whether he's ruined his own campaign in the November elections. Also, not all Muslim voters are going to foolishly withhold their votes from him considering the consequences of what happens if he loses.

While this didn't take place in Columbia University, it's still too much: https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1785580718283743567

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-had-different-devices-keep-035245242.html

ooger posted...

I plan on going down with the ship.

You're going to miss this place, huh?

https://twitter.com/BTnewsroom/status/1785402647316513024

https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/1c0nebf/nyc_restaurants_use_zoom_cashiers_from_philippines/
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https://usa.inquirer.net/147939/filipino-virtual-cashiers-taking-orders-at-new-york-restaurants

Your next order of fried chicken at a New York City restaurant may come with a hello from the Philippines.

Virtual assistants based in the Philippines have become a sought-after option for companies who want to do more with less.

Some restaurants in New York City are now exploring this option to keep up with the rising costs of labor, rent and other overhead expenses.

As minimum wages soar $16 in New York City and now $20 for fast food workers in California restaurant owners are feeling the pinch.

Beamed on flat-screen monitors at self-service kiosks, virtual hosts from the Philippines are now taking orders at restaurants, including Yaso Kitchen, Sansan Chicken in Long Island and East Village. They welcome customers with flashing smiles a hospitality trait Filipinos are renowned for.

Behind this concept is Happy Cashier, the brainchild of 34-year-old Chi Zhang. A social media post about these remote workers went viral, bringing this innovative approach into the public eye.

This business approach has attracted business owners, boosting customer service in stores across Manhattan, Queens and Jersey City, including Sansan Ramen, the sister company of Sansan Chicken and Yaso Kitchen, a Chinese restaurant known for soup dumplings.

The program has been quietly experimenting with the concept since October, with their website still in the works.

The New York-based Happy Cashier outsources virtual assistants mostly from the 1.3 million Filipinos working in the business processing industries (BPO) sector, the biggest globally.

The company pays Filipino virtual assistants $3 per hour way less compared to US wages but considered a competitive rate in the Philippines.

Aiming to incorporate fair wages into fiscal accountability, Chi Zhang told Fortune, We pay 150% more than the average cashier job in the Philippines.

In a New York Times report, Will Jang, a Goldman Sachs employee, shared his personal encounter with these Filipino virtual assistants at a Yaso Kitchen branch in Jersey City.

Jang said he completely ignored Amber, the Filipino virtual host assisting him with his order, thinking it was some advertisement similar to pre-recorded videos in taxi cabs.

Its my first time to work in a work-from-home setup, Amber, whose image was displayed onscreen with a cartoon dumpling backdrop, said.

Like all virtual assistants from the Philippines, recognized as one of the largest English-speaking nations, Amber and other Filipinos working for Happy Cashiers speak perfect English.

Customers of Sansan Chicken interact with virtual cashiers who manage their orders a system that Zhang describes as efficient.

The help from Happy Cashier has successfully increased operational efficiencies, he said.

However, Zhangs concept has fueled debate. Critics argue that outsourcing puts pressure on domestic wages and can potentially transform industry standards.

Tefilo Reyes, chief of staff at nonprofit labor organization Restaurant Opportunities United, described the idea as alarming.

The fact that they have found a way to outsource work to another country is extremely troubling, Reyes told The New York Times.

Jonathan Bowles, Center for an Urban Future executive director, said the fast-food workforce is already shrinking and new technology could further transform the industry.

Zhang remains optimistic about his business concepts potential to reshape the food landscape, revealing plans to expand the employment of virtual assistants to over 100 restaurants by the end of the year.

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Elon Musk shocked Tesla fans on Monday after news leaked he was eliminating everyone at Teslas Supercharger operations, starting with his highest-ranking female executive.

According to an email from the entrepreneur obtained by The Information, Teslas senior director for EV charging, Rebecca Tinucci, would be leaving the company with immediate effect. Musk also informed staff he would be dismissing everyone on her Supercharger team, which numbered roughly 500 employees.

Tinucci is also the most senior woman executive at the company, as board chair Robyn Denholm is not involved in the day-to-day operations and only serves in an oversight and governance role.

Gutting core operations like Tinuccis is reminiscent of the mass cullings Musk carried out at Twitter after he took over the company. He even prefaced this months companywide layoffs that got rid of more than every tenth job at Tesla with a similar questionnaire to managers demanding they justify their human resources.

Hopefully these actions are making it clear that we need to be absolutely hard-core about headcount and cost reduction, he wrote in the email seen by The Information, which also announced the end of the public policy team led by departed executive Rohan Patel. While some on exec staff are taking this seriously, most are not yet doing so.

tremain07 posted...

Report. Feeling a lot better now than this morning

What did the doctor say?

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LonelyStoner posted...

Yep. They had sex in Athenas temple (once), and a lot of versions of the story posit that Poseidon actually raped her. Then Athena cursed Medusa for it.

The Greek gods were some assholes.

Except for Hestia.

And the people who refuse to vote Biden will continue to blame him rather than themselves.

Columbia should definitely follow UCLA's hands-off approach to the protests.

bfslick50 posted...

Record low unemployment certainly will help.

That, and some business owners may actually sympathize or empathize with the student protesters more.

WingsOfGood posted...

All says sign in required.

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Now conservatives are calling the whole event an insurrection.

You need to go to the ER at once. Don't risk your health!

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PoIkan posted...

Having gone to Japan last year, I can't in all seriousness say America is top tier. Their transit, their nature, their systems to keeping everything clean despite having practically no trash cans, their IC card system, their popup stores ... everything there is just leagues better. I cannot wait to go back. It was like a whole new world over there.

It's mostly because of their collectivist culture.

SpiritSephiroth posted...

They don't even have cleaners, all the students need to clean up every hall and room in the school. Its a period of cleaning.

I've been to a religious private school in Asia and I can confirm that students are required to clean up their classroom before going home.

SpiritSephiroth posted...

Like I'm sometimes pretty surprised how happy they are welcoming me. Compared to the little shits in London, ugh.

You're a teacher, right? Maybe they're just being polite? After all, students in Asian countries are usually taught to show respect to authority figures.

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Just to be clear, Hamilton Hall has had a history of being taken over by protesters: https://www.wikicu.com/Hamilton_Hall#Takeover_attempts

So in a way, aren't the students simply following tradition?

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Luigi_and_Tails posted...

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I'm not planning on leaving the forums, but I figured it's best to remove my work from a company that doesn't respect it.

Hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions of views over the last 21 years but I'm old enough now not to care. I figured that's not a GameFAQs user, so it's all deleted.

I know nobody really cares about some old FAQs being deleted, but I've had some fun on this site.
I used to be a moderator, tried to be personable and also antagonised a lot of my fellow mods. I still apologise for that fuckup I did when I spoiled something.
I was on the front page as a prolific contributor in the cgi days.
I was one of the first to experience private boards.
I had LUE access until I went to close my account.
I've met a few folks from the site too. I sold a phone to another 313er, I met a young lady, and had a fellow mod stay over. He ate a lot.

What does it mean? Absolutely fuck all. I'll still hang around but it's not quite the same it once was. I hope that the new Fandom team can perhaps do what nobody's ever done and give us old folks a little bit of love.

Rant over.

TC, have you considered submitting your FAQs to this site? It's shaping up to be what GameFAQs used to be in the past: https://strategywiki.org/wiki/Main_Page

Zikten posted...

Those schools are all going to regret this, when fewer new students sign up in coming years. Most young people are pro Palestine, and they won't want to attend these schools

UCLA seems to be doing well with their hands-off approach.

coyot posted...

What does it say? Who cares about the mods.

You can find it on Twitter.

Had to censor this for fear of triggering the mods.
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CassandraCroft posted...

2 1/2 years is a is a fucking terrible sentence. He should have been locked up in the funny farm for life.

This is why I don't fully support prison abolishment.