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Comment Re: more jobs need the union apprenticeship system (Score 1) 122

I"m in a union, and I am a white collar employees. COMputer programmer and data analysis. Our organization also has a union for business analyst.
There have been teacher unions for decades.

A union is jsut a group of people with a contract around working right, policy, and wages. Can be any group.

Comment meritocracy is a myth. There is no such thing (Score 1) 122

In order to have a meritocracy, all people must have the same start. SOme oney, same education opportunities.
Of course, there is no real definition to meritocracy either.

Remember, the term 'meritocracy' was created as a pejoratively.

IT also relies on whos merit? Bezos is a billionaire, but it was from him, it was his workers. Should the people who created his site, the engineers the built it for him have the real merit?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Some people hear a word and then jsut assume it's good without actually reading up, and that needs to stop.

Comment Re:And Shortened Length of More Deadly Cold Waves (Score 1) 67

" Fewer people die of heat than die of cold. "
More people will die from the heat. See: dew Point.

"Longer growing season."
lol, excessive heat is bad for crops. And some areas of the earth are already losing farming capacity, not higher yields. major commodity crops like corn, rice, and oats are starting to experience reduced yields due to heat stress and changes in water availability.

" Bring on the CO2."
We produce more CO2 then the plants can handle. BTW, too much CO2 is bad for plants. Just like to much O2 is bad for people.

"We can handle the heat. We will be fine."
Why can't you people grasp the simple fact that as we keep producing more greenhouse gasses, the heat will keep going up? WHy are you so ignorant you think civilization can stand that level of heat growth?

Comment Re:Toughts and Prayers (Re:Sure it has) (Score 1) 67

Corporations are doing it to power AI.
Nuclear is alway used to attack green energy.

I love that you have such faith in corporations dealing with nuclear waste, in spite of decades of improper stores and illegal waste dumping.
What CEO would cut corners that can lead to catastrophe a decade from now for a bonus today, amirite?

Comment Discourse (Score 2) 187

Well said.

I would also add: if I have something to say about an an issue, I (try to) directly address the issue, not the person. Even when I find them aggravating. What little power we do have relates to discussion and sharing ideas about the issues at hand, and what charities we do — or don't — thoughtfully engage with.

While many are locked to one side or the other in our highly polarized political climate, some people can be moved by reasoned discussion. I even try to be one of those people. Mostly. :)

Comment Re:I see ... (Score 1) 166

... scrolls past giant banner ads, to find the (already checked) "Ads Disabled Thanks again for helping make Slashdot great!"

To your point, it's ccertainly perfect for this story.

But you know, they have to do something to increase revenue, since they've been entirely unable to update the site's code... you know, like supporting Unicode, which was introduced in 1991. Not to mention a bunch of useful HTML and trivial convenience features like markdown. Or making the firehose useful, or coming up with a modern user-moderation system.

I don't visit https://soylentnews.org any longer — not my cup of tea, community-wise — but it's worth noting they fixed the slashdot codebase years ago.

I still chuckle when Slashdot fronts me with an ad telling me I should put my code on their archive; they can't even manage this place worth a damn, and they want me to trust them with my code? That's a solid LOL. Also, No.

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