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Domenico Losurdo really explores this contradiction in Liberalism: A Counter-history. All the big liberal thinkers in the 18th and 19th century loved to preach about “freedom” and “liberty” and whatnot, while defending the necessity of chattel slavery.
Really interesting read, would highly recommend.

I can't tell if you're joking but that's much cooler so I'm choosing to believe it's true

If my Sunday school knowledge isn’t failing me, Joshua was leading the Israelite army at the time, and the Lord said Jericho was theirs to conquer. But the Lord made them do this song and dance: “March around the city once with all the armed men. Do this for six days. Have seven priests carry trumpets of rams’ horns in front of the ark. On the seventh day, march around the city seven times, with the priests blowing the trumpets. When you hear them sound a long blast on the trumpets, have the whole army give a loud shout; then the wall of the city will collapse and the army will go up, everyone straight in.”

Long story short, it works, the walls collapse, and Joshua and his army go in and “They devoted the city to the Lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys” (except for one prostitute, Rahab, and her family who helped the Israelite spies). Both of these quotes are from Joshua 6. So essentially 58% of Israelis are saying they favor the total extermination of all life in Gaza.

Fun fact: Rahab is included in Jesus’ genealogy in Matthew 1.

Something I stress a lot when doing walk-arounds at my workplace is that a union, while it has all this formal structure and dues and whatnot, is ultimately you and your coworkers coming together to fight and push for things that make the work environment better. Whether that's preventing outsourcing, a higher minimum wage across the board, or pay raises for particular job classes, it's not some scary outside force fighting on your behalf, it's just you and your coworkers working together.

I'm in a pretty conservative city in a very conservative state, so you might have more luck with the more overtly "combative" language, but I've found making it very concrete and directed at the things you know your coworkers care about (i.e. what they think sucks about working there) is better received than anything with lofty political slogans or anything abstract. Politicization is incredibly important, but it's hard to get people activated politically when they don't even recognize/understand the power that they already possess. Smaller, but more attainable, wins demonstrate this power to people, and that can make it easier to politicize them further.
So I guess I'd emphasize more that you all are the union, and the union does what you all want it to. Whatever you do, best of luck, this is so cool to see! I've done a few years of union work now, so if you have any questions you can shoot me a message and I'll try to reply as best I can!

Had a dream last night that

avoiding the lathe here

Ibrahim Traore had died. I was so distressed I had to check as soon as I woke up.

To compensate, I was going to post this news, but you beat me to it!

Had someone tell me literally a couple weeks ago that China was installing backdoors into surveillance cameras, so they could sneakily surveil us in the West. This person has a PhD

I torrented it, so I know you can find it on sites like that, but it looks like it's streaming on PlutoTV. I've never used that service, but I clicked the "watch now" link from google just now and it started playing right away. That's good to know about Tales from the Crypt, I'll add that to my watchlist!

I mentioned this somewhere else recently, but I've recently gone back and rewatched the first season of the original Twilight Zone, Rod Serling's version, and I'm continually blown away by how good it is. Some episodes are better than others, but they all are solid in their own right. If you haven't watched any of it, I'd definitely recommend it. The camera work is incredible, the pacing always has you just slightly on edge, Rod Serling's narration is magical. The twists still hit hard, even today, over 60 years later.

Markdown + Latex will change the world

I wish I could eyeball measurements this bad. Science would be so easy

I just KNOW he throws down at Giordano's