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Amazon worker on strike to unionise for better pay and conditions, police assaulting legally protesting workers and busting picket lines, camping out at warehouses to prevent the strike....like, WTF, shouldn't the police be out there catching the bad guys?

At the DBK4 delivery station in Queens, New York, cops swarmed and arrested an Amazon driver who stopped his van in support of the strike. Then they forcibly broke the picket line. In anticipation of a possible strike at JFK8, police had camped out by the facility in advance.

Camped out, I mean really? Sitting there doing nothing in case oppressed workers protest?

https://labornotes.org/2024/12/cops-bus ... warehouses

Ex-President Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... -president

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... al-content

In other news, car manufacturers recommend getting rid of windscreen wipers, seat belts and brakes.

pipbarber wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 6:40 am https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... al-content

In other news, car manufacturers recommend getting rid of windscreen wipers, seat belts and brakes.

Zuckerberg said explicitly it's because of Trump winning the election. I heard an analyst on the radio this morning saying it is a direct copy of Musk's twitter action, also noting Zuckerberg's donation to Trump's inauguration fund.

Then I heard Trump saying he won't rule out using the military to take Greenland and the Panama canal, and threatening fire and fury in the whole middle east. Whatever happened to the isolationist? I don't recall any of this in his election promises. Dystopia is really ramping up today.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ire-memory

Rebecca Solnit is good on this sort of stuff.

Current death toll stands at 10. That will certainly rise. The life shortening impact of smoke and trauma can't be measured. The impact on wildlife won't be measured, or if is it won't be prominent. Also, it is fucking WINTER! But don't mention climate change.

I find all the hand ringing media coverage over this to be entirely putrid, when compared to Palestine or Ukraine or Sudan or the DRC. However, it is a tragedy unfolding real and terrible for those involved.

I don't give two fucks for the heavily insured celebrities and millionaires who have just jetted off somewhere, but i hope at least some of them come to the realisation that it really don't matter, bro, how much fucking money you have - you can't escape the impact of hothouse earth.

pipbarber wrote: ↑Fri Jan 10, 2025 7:37 pm https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ire-memory

Rebecca Solnit is good on this sort of stuff.

Current death toll stands at 10. That will certainly rise. The life shortening impact of smoke and trauma can't be measured. The impact on wildlife won't be measured, or if is it won't be prominent. Also, it is fucking WINTER! But don't mention climate change.

I find all the hand ringing media coverage over this to be entirely putrid, when compared to Palestine or Ukraine or Sudan or the DRC. However, it is a tragedy unfolding real and terrible for those involved.

I don't give two fucks for the heavily insured celebrities and millionaires who have just jetted off somewhere, but i hope at least some of them come to the realisation that it really don't matter, bro, how much fucking money you have - you can't escape the impact of hothouse earth.

It's going to be interesting to see how the insurance industry fares. We always think of how vulnerable the environment is, but the house of cards of international finance is, perversely, a potential canary in a coal mine. It could be the first thing to go in a climate collapse. I heard this warning a while ago from the International Actuarial Association, representing the world's number crunchers, hired as mathematical oracles for the finance industry. You wouldn't normally look to a bunch of theoretical accountants for environmental assessment, but that's where we are.

I assume that on its own the California disaster probably won't break the industry. But if there are a couple of other major disasters in the coming months and years, it will add to the strain. The big insurers are interlinked, we could soon have a climate-induced GFC causing more widespread chaos than the direct impacts of weather disasters.

Or maybe we won't. But it's one more thing to think about: climate finance adaptation, are you ready for chaos?

Can Pell's defenders just shut up now please?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-31/ ... /104863920

With Trump's putrescence and Mariannr Faithfull dying, weird and notable are plentiful today.