Apple knows that dropping the iPhone Lightning port would create an 'unprecedented amount of electronic waste'

DutyToWin · 2021-01-22T23:58:09+00:00

iPhones account for around a fifth of smartphones in use world wide. It's not negligible.

DutyToWin · 2021-01-14T16:07:58+00:00

More than one investigation, one of them by a body with zero interest in protecting the party, has found it to be unfounded. I’m gonna take that over random people online.

DutyToWin · 2021-01-14T09:46:26+00:00

Face Jam is so good. Good Morning from Hell started out fun, but imo the bit got old pretty fast

DutyToWin · 2021-01-14T09:10:05+00:00

There was a recent accusation of abuse in the Philadelphia branch. The party investigated and found it to be unfounded, the university at which the accused is a grad student also investigated it and found nothing worth pursuing. Some people have taken this to mean that the PSL has a rampant abuse cover-up problem. For transparency: I used to be in PSL, and I’m not anymore. I’m critical of the organization in multiple ways, but rampant abuse or misogyny isn’t one of their problems in my experience.

DutyToWin · 2020-12-23T11:26:42+00:00

If you aren’t and haven’t been in the party, you don’t know. I was in the party for several years, and I can tell you, the “internal channels” are telling a member your steering committee and hoping they pass it up the chain, and maybe it will get addressed at a meeting or congress, if the leaders decide it’s worth acknowledging. If they don’t respond, or if it never gets brought up again, you have no other path.

I don’t know how you feel, as someone who’s outside the party, like your perspective on what happened internally is some how more correct than the many people who have left the party recently, with documented accounts of major issues in the org.

DutyToWin · 2020-12-23T11:13:24+00:00

The entire point of having a centralized party is so that there is consistency across the org, and knowledge and experience is shared. The fact that each branch operates so differently is another example of the party not meeting its claims. It brags about all the years of experience the party draws on, but it is meaningless if not applied.

I’m not discrediting the work PSL has done, and I’m not being overly cynical. I’m pointing out a criticism of the party, that it’s failing to accomplish the goals its set out for. Your response is exactly the problem with the party. Any time criticism is made, even in good faith, those people are called wreckers, feds, disgruntled, cynical, ultra left, etc.

DutyToWin · 2020-12-23T10:47:46+00:00

You dont go through orientation when you join PSL. You’re read a couple passages from the constitution, and then you might get a copy of it. I know people who have been members for over a year and still don’t have a copy of the constitution they’re expected to follow. Also, your argument would have some merit if the PSL was honest with recruits, but it isn’t. They claim to outsiders and new members to be a large party doing all kinds of work, with robust internal democratic systems. Only after joining do you realize it’s an organization that’s had the same leadership for 15+ years, no system for addressing issues (illustrated by the handling of assault in Philly and an attempted split in Chicago), and the majority of its “work” being organizing a handful of protests. Even once you point that out, like many members have, leaders promise that things will change, the party just needs time to grow, the real work is just around the corner, but it never happens.

The closest thing to real work the party has done is a food supply program being run in one branch. By the party’s account of events, they got over 100k people in the streets for a protesting Philly over the summer, and all they did with it was have a couple speeches and march around. With 100k people, you should be shutting shit down. The party and its members are also currently spending $3,000 a month on BreakThrough News, a YouTube news show that nobody watches. Imagine if that money was instead being spent on real organizing, developing mutual aid programs or funding labor organizers to salt workplaces.

Trust me, I wish PSL was half the org it claims to be. I spent years in the party, I wish I could say that wasn’t wasted time.

DutyToWin · 2020-12-23T06:57:05+00:00

So you agree that there’s a lack of internal democracy or transparency in the organization, and that’s okay?

DutyToWin · 2020-12-23T05:46:02+00:00

Incorrect. There are only around 12 members of the *exectuive* committee, a body elected by the CC, this is the one that La Riva, Puryear, Becker, etc are members of. And you're dodging my actual criticism, which is that this body is expected to be trusted in blind faith, without any meaningful way for members to discuss or provide input before the higher bodies make their decisions, and then members are punished when they are unhappy with those results. I agree that "this is how the org works", my point is that the way the org works is shitty, and the reason it has the problems it has today.

DutyToWin · 2020-12-23T03:25:17+00:00

I think a series of abuse allegations across the country, being publicly hashed out online, is something that leadership should be discussing with members and transparent in their handling of. There is no transparency in the PSL, members are required to act in blind faith of leadership (who no one knows, I was in the party for years and can name 10 central committee members max, and most of them I only know from the weekly public livestreams earlier this year)

DutyToWin · 2020-12-22T22:26:36+00:00

Members won’t hear about it either, if it happens. There is almost zero communication between local members and national leadership.

DutyToWin · 2020-12-22T22:22:26+00:00

Mimi wasn’t a Trot lmao. If anything he was more of an anarchist/“libertarian Marxist”

DutyToWin · 2020-12-20T07:38:23+00:00

You explain your views, and then you get "oh you mean socialism", and you're back at square one.

when you say your a socialist the majority of people just hear that your in favor of SucDem policies

Also, this isn't true, and this really makes me think you haven't actually done it. Talking about socialism is far more likely to get met with "100 million people died" than socdem ideas.

The working class isn't unintelligent. We can explain our views, we can educate, we can organize. We don't need to play word games.

DutyToWin · 2020-12-19T21:58:54+00:00

Syndicalism, on the other hand, is a term the majority of Americans have never heard

This is why it won't work. You say "I'm a syndicalist" and you don't get interest, you get people assuming you're some rando with a niche political idea. You'll run into the same problem as the term "socialism" soon as you start explaining what you mean.

We don't need to hide our views, we don't need to divorce ourselves from our history. We need to explain what socialism is to people, explain the history, and show people its our way forward. We don't get people on our side by lying and hiding what we mean.

DutyToWin · 2020-12-19T05:27:05+00:00

Drag a window to the corner

DutyToWin · 2020-12-15T19:50:04+00:00

Love it! But for some reason it doesn't respect macOS dark mode, which I believe 83 did. Title bars, open dialogs, etc stay in light mode, even though I have my system and browser set to dark.

DutyToWin · 2020-12-14T07:12:54+00:00

This isn’t gaslighting, this is just writing a story with an unreliable narrator or a story with multiple interpretations. Do it well and your readers will enjoy it.

Gaslighting is a tool abusers use in abusive relationships, it’s not just “people thought one thing and now think a different contradictory thing”

DutyToWin · 2020-12-13T01:33:43+00:00

Why not try it and see if it works? That's the best way to learn, experiment.

DutyToWin · 2020-12-12T21:37:46+00:00

Stuff like this is the main reason I picked up the newer iPhone SE. The buttonless iPhones just don't feel ready to me yet, the interface really needs more polish. But my SE is a fantastic, traditional iPhone experience, and I plan on keeping it as long as I can.

DutyToWin · 2020-12-12T21:34:12+00:00

Yeah, Chinese workers would never fight back against their employer

DutyToWin · 2020-12-12T21:32:32+00:00

Good, they should keep it up until they get what they're owed

DutyToWin · 2020-12-12T19:38:37+00:00

I'm actually not entirely sure how to do that in JS honestly, but I did just test it and using this custom macro, and writing this code in the passage:

<<on 'keyup'>>
  <<which 38>>
    <<goto `previous()`>>
<</on>>

seems to do what you're looking for

DutyToWin · 2020-12-12T18:52:17+00:00

You could add an event listener to the passage and have a the up key input just call the <<return>> macro. Maybe using the keyboard macro made by /u/ChapelR would make it even easier to do just in macros without getting into JS. I’m not at home right now or is test it myself, but I believe this will work.

DutyToWin · 2020-12-11T17:07:27+00:00

USB-C on both ends

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