The US made a lot of its own sugar in the past either though sugar beets, or by growing cane in the extreme south, but that era is largely over (ignoring corn syrup): it’s cheaper to import it from places where imperialism keeps wages low.

Most US food is not local, unless you go to a farm share or market.

The petition is being organized by Alphabet Workers Union, the minority union trying to organize Google, its sister companies, and contractors.

https://www.alphabetworkersunion.org/campaigns/job-security

This is literally a product of their minority union

I love that I can easily correct and annotate bike lanes

At least in my faang office, there’s essentially zero ports to plug into. If you have a desktop, there’s a port, but that’s the exception. I’ve never seen anyone plug a laptop in.

They mostly don’t even give out desktops to devs these days, everything is in the cloud.

It’s mostly software engineers, and distributed across almost every team.

A lemming that has taken off is https://startrek.website/c/risa !

I love my stream of Star Trek shitpost.

It’s all bullshit, and you’ve hit the nail on the head.

The only way out is through each other: change your workplace to be less bullshit. Demand dignity. Maybe bring your friends and make a co-op.

“well actually” room temperature superconductors do exist, quite definitely! … But only at 100 gigapascals of pressure. https://uspex-team.org/static/file/Troyan2022_ufn227g_High-temperature superconductivity in hydrides.pdf

Still really cool, but not useful for engineering.

I agree that this paper needs to be replicated before we get excited.