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  • Preface: None of this represents my opinion on whether these realities are just, only that they are realities.

    I only learned very recently that general strikes are illegal in the US because someone pointed it out to me.

    Striking itself isn’t illegal (usually, some jurisdictions have made it illegal for “certain industries” to strike), but labor unions are not allowed to strike in solidarity with another union.

    Anyway, I brought this up as an explanation of why established labor unions aren’t involved in any general strike, and why they will never be.







  • They found that Callisto’s ionosphere alone cannot explain all existing observations, but that a subsurface ocean in combination with the ionosphere can. Further exploring which scenarios best fit the data, the researchers predicted that the ocean is likely at least tens of kilometers thick, as measured from the top of the liquid ocean to its seafloor, and encased beneath a solid ice shell that itself could range from tens to hundreds of kilometers thick.

    Life on Callisto would have a worldview not unlike that of the Krikkiters.


  • As always: all efforts, great and small.

    Other people have pointed out, and I will echo: there are plenty of people who have not yet been moved to take any action, and a “symbolic” action is something as opposed to nothing. People who decide to take this symbolic action are going to be more easily moved to take more directly effective action in the future.

    Building a critical mass takes time. Providing people with easy opportunities to experience involvement now will increase the number of people willing to take on greater risks later.

    This is why we don’t gatekeep resistance.