There were multiple medical emergencies on-campus that paramedics couldn't respond to because the protesters blocked their entrance. If you were a "good cop" you'd be damn proud to get this rabble out of the street.
Droves of police officers descended on UC Santa Cruz early Friday morning, initiating a standoff with pro-Palestinian supporters, who have blocked off the campus' main entrance since Tuesday.
Droves of police officers descended on UC Santa Cruz early Friday morning, initiating a standoff with pro-Palestinian supporters, who have blocked off the campus' main entrance since Tuesday.
The prevailing attitude on Lemmy seems to be that Israel should be wiped from the face of the earth. Comments that don't support the protesters are quite rare.
I think I might still have some of these laying around somewhere. Good times.
Marx Financial Freedom Steps
- Buy a gun and ammo
- Revolt against your oppressors
- Don't profit because profit is bad
It's good that you are willing to acknowledge that. A lot of people on here truly reject the concept that the situation is more complicated than "stop supporting Israel". People are quick to spout that without thinking about the knock-on effects.
There are even people on here who are outright in support of Hamas, an oppressive Islamist group that has a far worse human rights record than Israel.
Lemmy users don't understand nuance. "Israel bad" is all they understand.
There is one significant difference: Hamas does not, as far as I know, have any nuclear weapons.
I'll believe it when I stop getting only rejection letters for entry level jobs.
The solution is to stop bailing out mismanaged companies. Crony capitalism/corporate socialism are scams.
When people of good conscience are forced to support a literal genocide because of how broken our system is…
When people are incapable of understanding nuance...
I pity the rest of you who would choose complacency and the path of least resistance over doing what’s right.
This is some extremist cool-aid stuff right here. I hope you find the care you need.
Associating Joe Biden so closely with genocide demonstrates a lack of capacity for understanding nuance. Supporting Israel doesn't automatically equate to supporting Netanyahu's genocide in Gaza, but it does indicate support for the Israeli (and by extension, Jewish) right to exist. One can simultaneously protest the genocide in Gaza and support a friendly, cooperative Israel.
Sounds like you got your daily dopamine hit. You should probably take a break from social media until you've calmed down.
Let me rewrite this headline:
"Democrats would rather elect a literal Nazi than Joe Biden"
Which is bull, but essentially what the article is saying.
If you won't vote for Biden because of Gaza, you are an ignorant, narrow-minded idiot and you are handing Trump the presidency.
Great step for the Palestinians. If they can expel Hamas and institute a legitimate government, they could have a real shot at independence.
Unfortunately, there will be no real Palestinian state as long as Hamas maintains its influence.
Yeah, UCSC feels like an odd choice. Maybe it's because they've had a lot of union activity there over the past few years.
Yeah, it's not like they need more excuses than they already have to drop insurance plans.
Why does Linux need to be more popular? This isn't some NRM with a proselytizing mandate. Use whichever OS you prefer and let others do the same.
This is an extremely sheltered view. Most people don't even know what an operating system is, and they assume that it is an unalterable component of the computer they purchased at Best Buy. They don't have a last straw because as far as they're concerned there isn't anything they can do about it other than perhaps switching to a Mac.
Yeah, Microsoft is always trying to monetize things that shouldn't be monetized. Linux won't necessarily be easier, but it definitely won't force you to watch ads in your application menu.
The UC strike starting today isn’t about pay, but instead over how UC deployed police to clear pro-Palestinian encampments.
> > > More than 1,500 graduate students, teaching assistants and researchers are expected to walk off the job at UC Santa Cruz today, launching the first labor strike over the University of California’s response to pro-Palestinian protests in the past month. > >
> > > Workers will picket from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the two main roads leading into campus, disrupting package deliveries and transit into the university that’s become a hotbed for labor activity in the past few years. > >
> > > The union, UAW 4811, won approval from its members last week to call for strikes at select campuses throughout the UC. > >
> > > While many work stoppages are over pay and benefits, this one is in response to the union’s anger over the UC’s use of police to clear overnight encampments in support of Palestinians that propped up at multiple campuses. Some union members took part in those protests. The largely peaceful demonstrations sought to put pressure on the university to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, divest from weapons companies and cut various other economic ties to Israel. After Hamas, which governs Gaza, killed an estimated 1,200 people in Israel on Oct. 7, the country waged a military campaign in Gaza that has killed an estimated 35,000 Palestinians. > >
> > > Days after police swept the encampments at UCLA and arrested scores of protesters, the union filed an unfair labor practice violation with a state labor relations agency. The union filed similar violations after police cleared encampments at UC San Diego and UC Irvine that also led to arrests of protesters. > >
Hey guys, I'm toying with the idea of deploying a personal kbin instance in Azure. Has anyone done this and have any tips to share? What kind of costs am I looking at?
Why work feels so broken right now — and how it can be repaired
> > > In the two years I've been writing about Americans' changing relationship to work, there's one theme that's come up over and over again: loyalty. Whether my stories are about quiet quitting, or job-hopping, or leveraging a job offer from a competitor to force your boss to give you a raise, readers seem to divide into two groups. On one side are the bosses and tenured employees, the boomers and Gen Xers. Kids these days, they gripe. Do they have no loyalty? On the other side are the younger rank-and-file employees, the millennials and Gen Zers, who feel equally aggrieved. Why should I be loyal to my company when my company isn't loyal to me? > >
> > > I knew it would happen again the other month, when I was reporting on white-collar workers who secretly juggle multiple full-time jobs. Overemployment, as the phenomenon is known, violates society's implicit norms of loyalty to one's employer more flagrantly than anything else I've encountered. But when I asked these overemployed professionals whether they felt bad that they were essentially cheating on their bosses, they were unapologetic. "My parents told me, 'Don't switch companies, grow in one company, be loyal to one company, and they'll be loyal to you,'" one guy told me. "That may have been true in their days, but it definitely isn't today anymore." > >
On Windows 10, I often have a problem where the laptop will charge and then stop charging and then charge again with one second intervals. I've updated the firmware to the latest version and the issue persists. I'm not sure if this is caused by the charger, internal hardware, or is a Windows bug.
Anyone else experience this?