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  • I see the question differently.

    Tl;Dr:

    I think OP is hoping to read the 21st century equivalent to Muck Rakers.

    Long version:

    A whole lot of improvement in American quality of life came about as a result of publications and journalists called Muck Rakers in the 19th and 20th centuries.

    They didn't cover false stories. They simply covered stories that newspapers owned by capitalists tried to cover up. Things like, "physical abuse inside of Factory A" or, "employees at factory B reject union contract."

    It's similar with r/antiwork. Most of America never realized why PopTarts were shipped with serious defects for a few months in late 2021. To most people, the quality declined out of nowhere, with no explanation.

    And I don't think most people realized the real reason California's ports got congested. (It was a bill designed to protect gig workers -- it required shipping companies to pay truck drivers for the time they spent waiting for their trucks to be loaded (instead of just the time they spent driving)).

    People didn't know because, even if current events directly impact everyone's lives, all it takes is a few corporations deciding, "you don't need to know about that" and access to the information through mainstream channels is shut off.

    Everyone using r/antiwork knew though. They knew why there was a shipping crisis, and they knew why the glue that was supposed to seal the outside of the box of Cheez-its was now instead gluing the individual Cheez-its together.

    News that wasn't considered, "newsworthy" outside of r/antiwork got intense coverage on that subreddit.

    And yeah, the subreddit was certainly biased against those corporations. But biased or not, its users were more up-to-date on those events than anyone outside of the sub.

    I don't think OP is asking for a leftist perspective on the same current events everyone else is covering. I think OP is asking for true, well-investigated stories that capitalists simply won't air on the major networks.

    You know: Muck raking.

  • The rule of the anti-woke grift
  • I actually found that part clever. Things do actually get declared "woke" and then become popular enough that the grifters declare it unwoke.

  • Modern Conservativism Rule
  • Could it be the case that the folks who told you Marxists were the postmodern, post-truth folks... were about as convinced of that claim as they are of conservatives' other claims?

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  • She's a character from a comedy movie I saw as a kid! Kung Pow: Enter the Fist

  • without saying how old you are, how old are you?
  • Grif:

    It's one of life's great mysteries isn't it? Why are we here? I mean, are we the product of some cosmic coincidence, or is there really a God watching everything? You know, with a plan for us and stuff. I don't know, man, but it keeps me up at night.

    Simmons:

    ...What?! I mean why are we out here, in this canyon?

  • without saying how old you are, how old are you?
  • Oh, I love this one!

    🎵Eeooh eeoh eeeeeeee! cghghcghcghrshhhhhh!🎶

    For me it was a bit different though, because the song was kept alive in rural areas until the horrors of Hugh's Net (and Wild-Blue-Exeed-ViaSat)

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  • Ah, the same way Linux was able to thwart hackers for as long as it did.

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  • Women are not good for the press in England under martial law...

    ... and the hacker was just posting spam on the receiving end from neurodivergent overexplaining.

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  • That's a lot of lightning symbols

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  • I love that movie! It got bad ratings?

  • The secret to good writing
  • You succeeded at XKCD 2184

    Edit: wait, it has to have come out after 2000. You almost succeeded at XKCD 2184.

  • Are there any "famous" Lemmy users?
  • I also get annoyed at lightning fast responses. And I agree 100%

    It takes no time or energy to come up with one answer to a question. I'm fact, I think most humans' brains are built for snap decisions like that.

    But to weigh multiple answers against each other, poking holes in the answers you are most inclined to believe? That takes thought. And if someone is not doing that for you, then odds are, their brain is simply letting them take the discussion less seriously than your brain (or your morality) allows.

    So I think you have every right to feel frustrated at such behavior.

  • Did conservative folks just liquidate a bunch of their holdings?
  • I think if you're a right winger in the stock market who still has money (hasn't lost it all yet), you've proven yourself capable of at least enough double-think for your WORDS to say "the market is in shambles! The economy is trash! Biden is destroying America!" while your ACTIONS express confidence in all of the things supposedly doomed by our supposed dictator Biden.

  • The Crooked Media Union Walked Off the Job in Strike for Fair Contract
  • Dragged, kicking and screaming, to unprecedented wealth.

    What a strange world we live in.

  • Remind me again which party wants to protect the children?
  • I would have expected the reported sexual abuse cases to be lower in conservative states. You know, because victims would feel more shame and danger so fewer of them would come forward and fewer would file police reports? Is the first graph measuring estimated abuse or reported abuse?

  • The Crooked Media Union Walked Off the Job in Strike for Fair Contract
  • I feel like if I ran a company, I would have folded my hand after Kellogg's and the Big Three automakers lost their respective labor disputes.

    "Oh, these are your demands? Done. Better than selling my customers the media equivalent to glue-frosted pop tarts for the next two months because I can't admit I need my own workers."

    I know there wouldn't be any billionaires if people thought that way. It just seems so much more sane and well adjusted.

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  • A lot of people are offering explanations, but I think I'm going to give one too.

    Think of recoil in a gun. If you don't have a mental image of it, watch a few youtube videos of people firing handguns. Look for videos of big, high-recoil handguns, like the Desert Eagle or the Magnum (or the Super Ruger Redhawk according to chat-GPT).

    You need to get a good look at handguns pushed backwards as they are fired.

    Now think about this: those bullets aren't pushing against an atmosphere. They are pushing only against the inside of a gun.

    But when this tiny, tiny bullet pushes super-fast against the gun, using the gun to accelerate to incredibly high speeds very quickly... it pushes the gun really hard in the other direction.

    Get that mental image into your head. Small object can push large object with a lot of force by kicking off of large object with insane speed.

    Now: Take away the person holding the gun. Take away the planet. Take away the atmosphere. Put that gun in space and pull the trigger again. (Just make sure to use a gun that has modern ammunition that doesn't require oxygen to fire).

    What happens to all that recoil? What does the recoil do to the gun now? The bullet still goes flying out of the chamber. Still does this by pushing against the gun.

    Hopefully it should now be easy to imagine that the gun will start moving.

    Rocket fuel is basically a tank full of bullets.

    The main function of rocket fuel is "heavy stuff that is shoved out of the spaceship to make it move."

    The reason we use highly explosive fuel is because "shoving heavy stuff away from you at the speed of a bullet" is going to move you more than "shoving heavy stuff away from you at normal speed."

    Does this make any sense?

  • What are some promising solutions to solar power's lack of night time availability? Is "transoceanic power transportation" on the list?

    EDIT: Submarine power transportation is indeed on the list

    Not transoceanic, but there are two projects currently proposed that will -- when constructed -- break the current record for the "longest undersea power transmission cable" (a record currently held by the North Sea Link at 720 km, or 450 miles.)

    One of these projects is the Xlinks Morocco-UK Power Project which aims to lay 3,800 km (2,400 miles) of cable and sell Morocco's solar power to England.

    There is, as of yet, not enough cable in the world to even begin this project. The company proposing the project is building factories to produce this cable.

    The other is the Australia-Asia Power Link, which aims to provide Australian solar power to Singapore using a 4,500 km (2,800 miles) undersea cable.

    Where the Xlinks project ran into a "not enough cable in the world" problem, Sun Cable's AAPL has apparently been running into a "not enough money in the world" problem, as it has repeatedly gotten into trouble with its investors.

    EDIT: But also, storage is scaling up

    @ProfessorGumby@midwest.social provided a fantastic link to a lot of energy storage mediums that are already in use in various grids across the world. These include (and the link the professor provided gives an excellent short summary on each)

    • Pumped hydroelectric
    • Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES)
    • Flywheels
    • Supercapacitors
    • And just plain batteries

    Also, this wasn't in the Gumby's answer, but Finland's Vatajankoski power plant uses a hot sand battery during its high-demand, low-production hours.

    Hydrogen is projected to grow

    @Hypx@kbin.social noted that hydrogen has advantages no other energy storage medium possesses: duration of storage and ease of piping/shipping. This is probably why numerous governments are investing in hydrogen production, and why Wood Mackenzie projects what looks like a 200-fold increase in production by the year 2050. (It's a graph. I'm looking at a graph, so I am only estimating.)

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    Is this significant?

    I have questions about this event.

    First of all,

    Democratically Elected

    > As the first-ever democratically elected leader of the UAW, Fain, a long-time union member himself, has taken a more confrontational approach to negotiations than his predecessors — including filming himself throwing Big Three automaker proposals in the trash.

    What was the process before? Was it worse?

    Has UAW been a sleeping giant this whole time on account of its leadership selection process?

    Stand Up Strikes

    > But the strike won't involve all of the nearly 150,000 union members who work at the three automakers walking off their jobs en masse.

    > Instead, workers at three Midwest auto plants — a General Motors assembly plant in Wentzville, Missouri, a Stellantis assembly plant in Toledo, Ohio, and part of a Ford plant in Wayne, Mich. -- were the first to walk off the job under UAW president Shawn Fain's "stand up strike" strategy.

    Are stand up strikes common? Do they win concessions?

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    Official diagnostic tests?

    I want get myself an official diagnosis on ADHD and an answer regarding whether I'm autistic.

    Typically, a "10 minute test" takes me several hours. I spend a great deal of time contemplating the questions, filled with indecision. So I want to fill out the test before I even get to the psychologist's office.

    Which is why I plugged "official ADHD test" into a search engine, and got overwhelmed by the choices. And my main questions are:

    • do some websites offer a test they inaccurately describe as the official test? (If so, do those show up high on search results?)
    • do some websites offer the official test... and also augment the test with extra resources that help a cripplingly indecisive person answer more efficiently? (That would save me time.)
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    Fringe right and fringe left both make this conversation difficult

    Image Transcription:

    An 8-panel Phoebe Teaching Joey meme.

    The first panel is Phoebe from Friends saying "Russia".

    The second panel is Joey from the same show replying with "Russia".

    The third panel is Phoebe saying "has invaded".

    The fourth panel is Joey repeating back "has invaded".

    The fifth panel is Phoebe saying "Ukraine".

    The sixth panel is Joey repeating back "Ukraine".

    The seventh panel is Phoebe saying the completed phrase "Russia has invaded Ukraine".

    The final panel shows Joey proudly proclaiming "NATO just started a proxy war".

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    Tankies - pushing reasonable people out of the Communist Party since 1950!

    From the article: When Marguerite Duras Got Kicked Out of the Communist Party

    This was part of their justification.

    Technically speaking, it was probably happening sooner than 1950, since Trotsky arrived in Turkey in 1929.

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    I want an alt account for writing. Is there a corner of the Fediverse you recommend?

    I want to respond to writing prompts, but from a separate account. That way, if someone enjoys a story, they can scroll through my (alt account's) history for more writing without needing to dig through all of the dramatic, vitriolic, shit-stirring my main account will be regularly diving into.

    I was wondering if one of you wonderful people was familiar with some corner of the Fediverse perfect for this sort of use? Or would you recommend I create the account here on Lemmy?

    • If I do go outside of Lemmy, I want to go somewhere capable of commenting on lemmy.ml and lemmy.world posts (in particular, commenting in the WritingPrompts communities on those servers).
    • I would prefer to join a public instance, like I did when I signed up for Mastodon and Lemmy.
    • Note: as mentioned above I have used Lemmy and Mastodon so far.

    So: is there a part of the Fediverse I ought to be examining for this? WriteFreely, for example? Micro.blog perhaps?

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