Isn’t the whole point of being Catholic that it’s not your job or right to debate this stuff? Stop being Protestant! Go to mass! Listen to what you’re told!

That says stuff about you, not 79F

Ok let’s not over exaggerate lol. 79F is not cold weather lol. It’s not even chilly.

That just opens you up to mocking from the other direction.

It might just be another way of entrenching the imperial beachheads. By tying critical infrastructure there, it makes it much more difficult for future government iterations to back out, or change course.

That said, it also opens up that infrastructure to massive risk if a big enough challenge comes, but I doubt the people pushing these things expect that.

It’s a light fabric, it’s not terrible to wear in heat, imo.

Maybe if you get a solid black one that’d be different I guess?

So, UC strike update. The university admin has been working overtime to shut down the strike via legal means, in addition to all their normal intimidation stuff. They filed not one, but two, complaints to PERB, the union regulatory body, and both were struck down. PERB even filed a complaint against the UC after the second one, due to their gross breach of union protections and norms.

So, what did they do? Decide to just strike break like a normal company? No.

They shopped around California to get a judge to rule the strike illegal, outside of the entire legal chain of how this is supposed to go, after the actual regulatory body has declared it legal, twice. And they just succeeded! A restraining order got signed, of some weird legal justification or another. Of course the crank judge signed off on this, and now our collaborator union executive board just signed off an email to pause striking. The order is to pause it until June 27th, which is coincidentally 3 days before the strike is constrained to end at, June 30th, so it’s effectively a full destruction of the strike.

Fucking amazing. There’s a strong wildcat strike supporting contingent already, and I can only imagine it’s going to get bigger in the face of this obviously farcical judicial order. Now we’re going to pressure people to try to stop being pieces of shit at the top end. Because honestly, if they let this slide, what is even the point of a union existing anymore? Like seriously!

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There was a midnight raid on the UCSC Palestine encampment. A lot of arrests. From what I’ve heard though, there’s still people in the encampment holding on. Unsure of the details at moment.

Three more UC campuses are going on strike next week. The Palestinian activists are inspiring. Some of the encampments elsewhere have settled for promises of meetings in the future, which has been noticed and refuted by people on the ground. There’s already been meetings between reps and admin staff where those kinds of offers have been refused. While the Union has had made a colossal fuck up that I can’t mention here for opsec reasons, there’s so much good stuff happening. I’m proud to do my part, however small.

But that would mean… maintaining an inventory!

Line could be less up!

I disagree. Assuming fewer chains and less overall bloat, places where workers can get food on/near on demand seems quite useful. Whether it’s a cafeteria or a stack of food delivered through a window, I don’t see why it’s bad. It’s an economic niche.

I believe he’s still taking his military salary. He’s just not double dipping.

UC Strike update. This week grad students at UC Santa Cruz started striking. As this is organized as a standup strike, campuses are getting called in over time. There was some concern about high leadership excessively slow-rolling it, but they announced that UCLA and UC Davis are going to start striking on Tuesday, as Monday is a holiday.

The UC admin filed an injunction to PERB, the Public Employee Relations Board, which is the regulatory body for our union, saying the strike was illegal and should be shut down. This goes with their letter full of lies claiming the same. This injunction however was denied! Despite their repeated claims, the strike is absolutely not legal, and they can’t use the regulatory body to stop it.

I’m ready to see what’s happening next week. While I won’t full dox myself, I will be striking next week, which I am so ready for. There’s a lot of people trying to push this to something meaningful.

They’re probably trying to make it as cheap as possible, and thus, extra shitty.

It’d be incredibly hard to pull this stuff in Taiwan, simply due to the logistics required. Getting weapons and aid to Ukraine to prop it up is simple compared to the nightmare that getting it to Taiwan in a war would be.

Some great interviews by Brace in the latest True Anon episode. Such a fucked up situation in the Philippines, and such good, truly brave people trying to make things better.

Time to bring freedom to Pennsylvania. Senator Fetterman, your people yearn for liberation!

I mean yeah, obviously, that’s the biggest part of this, I agree. I was just thinking about a side aspect.

In a perfect timeline, increased cooperation would lead to Russia backing off the social reactionary trend they’re diving into. God I hope so.

China is rather hesitant about exerting influence in their partners affairs though, for good and for ill, so I’m unsure if it will. That said stronger economic conditions will hopefully help that front on its own.