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Amazon union workers and the Teamsters have inked a deal
www.theverge.com Amazon union workers and the Teamsters ink a deal

It’s a potentially powerful alliance with one of the biggest unions in the US.

Amazon union workers and the Teamsters ink a deal

From the article: Amazon Labor Union workers have joined forces with one of biggest unions in the US, hoping to get Amazon to the bargaining table.

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What would happen if everyone moved there money from traditional private banks to credit unions/ coop banks
  • Thanks for your answer. You're right, I was hoping to get more answers on the bigger picture change that would happen to society. Particularly since coops and credit unions are more democratic in nature, I wonder how different society would be with more direct control of how they money is managed.

  • What would happen if everyone moved there money from traditional private banks to credit unions/ coop banks

    Can credit union and coop banks replace traditional banks completely?

    Edit (adding additional question): Has there been an attempt to do this on a national or societal level?

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    Two lifeforms merge in once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event (Last time this happened, Earth got plants)

    From the article:

    Scientists have caught a once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event in progress, as two lifeforms have merged into one organism that boasts abilities its peers would envy. Last time this happened (1.6 billion years ago), certain advanced cells absorbed a type of bacteria that could harvest energy from sunlight. These became organelles called chloroplasts, which gave sunlight-harvesting abilities, as well as a fetching green color, to a group of lifeforms you might have heard of – plants.

    And now, scientists have discovered that it’s happening again. A species of algae called Braarudosphaera bigelowii was found to have engulfed a cyanobacterium that lets them do something that algae, and plants in general, can’t normally do – "fixing" nitrogen straight from the air, and combining it with other elements to create more useful compounds.

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    What FOSS text to speech software do you use?

    Some novels that I want to read don't have audiobooks so I'm looking for a foss text to speech software that help with this.

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    Fairphone wants to expand to 23 new markets and reach the €400 price point
  • This awesome if its possible. The article said they would try reduce costs by closer partnerships with Google and Qualcomm but I don't think hat will get them to reduce their prices that drastically. I hope I'm wrong though!

  • Patience
  • Thanks for sharing. Do you know if this is a permanent thing or if the Lemmy team is working on it? If they are working on it, how can non technical people like myself help?

  • Patience

    If you want to follow the creator: https://mastodon.social/@MissingThePt/112085685533356958

    Side question: Is there a way way to share from Mastadon to Lemmy directly?

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    Avatar is cursed for remakes like Fantastic Four
  • I agree with you on all of this except the point on Bumi. I think the change to his character is great and makes him feel more realistic! It felt like the live action Bumi was trying to be as fun loving as animation Bumi but can't hide how deeply the war has changed him for the worst, which makes sense since he is probably the only one (or only handful of people) to have lived and fought through a hundred years of war. He's also trying to be a good friend to Aang but can't help but feel resentful towards him for abandoning his role as the avatar.

  • Avatar is cursed for remakes like Fantastic Four
  • I like that in the netflix version they added scenes that weren't in the original. My favorite is the scene of Lu Ten's funeral. Iroh is just sitting there silent but you can see on his face that is he is broken inside but everyone comes up to him and congratulates him that his son died a hero. No one says it but for me it felt like in the fire nation culture you're not allowed to mourn the death of those who died in battle, which is a crazy concepts but fits with the Fire Nations fascist ideology.

    I couldn't find the whole scene, but here is the last part of it (https://yewtu.be/watch?v=hwPn2gJ1B_U). For context, Zuko has gone up to Iroh and said that Lu Ten's death is great honor. But when he was about to leave he comes back and thats when the above video starts.

    These scenes add so much to the character of Iroh, Zuko, Lu Ten (whose character we did know anything about in the original) and to war-time Fire Nation culture. It's amazing!

  • Starbucks Just Saw the Largest Single-Day Union Drive in the Company's History

    Employees at 21 Starbucks stores across the United States informed the global coffee giant’s CEO on Tuesday that they are launching the largest single-day unionization in company history.

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    Cooperative ownership as the next step of free open source software

    Link to original post: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/111932214690841585

    Link to news link shown in the photo: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/mozilla-lays-off-60-people-wants-to-build-ai-into-firefox/

    Cooperative ownership for all businesses too!

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    It begins: Ethiopia set to become first country to ban internal combustion cars
  • Ethiopian here. The government has already banned import of combustion cars a few months ago. I think it was a great move both environmental reasons and for saving money by reducing oil imports as more and more people switch to electric cars.

  • Math question: how do we get an irrational number pi from the ratio of circumference and the diameter of a circle?
  • Thanks for the answer. I'm confident you're correct but I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around drawing a line with an irrational length. If we did draw a right angled triangle with two sides equal to 1cm and we measured the hypotenuse physically with a ruler, how would we measure a never ending number? How would we able to keep measuring as the numbers after the decimal point keep going forever but the physical line itself is finite?

  • Are there any good free alternatives to brilliant.org?

    I've seen brilliant's website and I like the fact that they make have alot of interactive visually engaging content but I don't know if it's worth the price or if there is any free possibly non profit version available that is just as interactive and visually engaging way to learn different math and science topics that you would recommend. Thanks for reading

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    Is there a free tool that connects people who want to carpool on their commutes?

    I drive on my commute to work. I wouldn't mind offering a free ride to people who are going the same direction as I am. The public transportation system is not very good where I live, so I would guess a lot people would be interested. Is there some kind website or app where I can write where and when I'm going, so people who are going the same direction and time can connect with me? There would be no payment involved at all. It would be a rewarding social thing do as a driver and if a lot of people started doing it, I would go as a rider once in a while as well.

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