https://www.europesays.com/1955106/ Authorities determine cause of deadly home explosion in Waterloo, Iowa #cause #corner #DeadlyHomeExplosion #EarlyWednesdayMorning #Friday #GasPrice #house #LiquefiedNaturalGas #lng #LNGPrice #NaturalGas #NaturalGasLeak #person #PreviousCoverage #SagerAvenue #SheererStreet #video #waterloo #WaterlootheExplosion #YoutubePage
#SCOTUS ruled in 1935 to uphold a #law that allows #FTC commissioners to be fired ONLY for good #cause, such as neglecting their duties. The ruling shields a number of #independent, bipartisan multi-member agencies from direct control by the #WhiteHouse.
#NorthCarolina Amazon Workers Lose Union Vote
from #WorldOutlook
By Mark Satinoff
March 6, 2025
“The election results today are a result of Amazon’s willingness to break the law and use its enormous wealth to try and break our movement,” said a statement by the #CAUSE leadership following the vote. “We will continue organizing. This is only the beginning.”
“In the weeks leading up to the vote #Amazon threw its full weight and power into its union-busting arsenal of intimidation and lies,” Mary Hill, known affectionately by many workers as Ma Mary, told World-Outlook in a phone interview. Hill is a co-founder and vice president of CAUSE. “Amazon flew in union busters from all over the country, at least 30 of them. They were all over the place, like roaches. They get paid $3,000/day plus expenses.”
https://world-outlook.com/2025/03/06/north-carolina-amazon-workers-lose-union-vote/
#WorkersRights #Workers #Unions #Labor #LaborMovement #LaborUnions #USA #US #USPolitics #sindicatos
#TradeUnions #news #politics
When one reads any strongly individual piece of writing, one has the impression of seeing a face somewhere behind the page […] Well, in the case of Dickens I see a face that is not quite the face of Dickens’s photographs, though it resembles it. It is the face of a man of about forty, with a small beard and a high colour. He is laughing, with a touch of anger in his laughter, but no triumph, no malignity. It is the face of a man who is always fighting against something, but who fights in the open and is not frightened, the face of a man who is generously angry — in other words, of a nineteenth-century liberal, a free intelligence, a type hated with equal hatred by all the smelly little orthodoxies which are now contending for our souls.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1939), “Charles Dickens,” sec. 6, Inside the Whale (1940-03-11)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/75631/
#cause : any legal process by which a party endeavors to obtain his claim, or what he regards as his right
- French: cause
- German: die Ursache
- Italian: causa
- Portuguese: causa
- Spanish: causa
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The True Difficulty of Meditation
The true difficulty of meditation is not how to do it but why to do it.
Quality Humor - Correlation and Cause; two elements to be on the lookout in the workplace when issues arise. Just don't mix them up. #quality #humor #cause #correlation #issue
A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong stumbled or where the doer of the deed could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes up short again and again. Who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumphs of high achievement; and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
Speech (1910-04-23), “Citizenship in a Republic [The Man in the Arena],” Sorbonne, Paris
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/3…
Feb 2025. 4,000 #warehouseworkers at #Amazon in #NorthCarolina vote on a union. Bosses “mobilized an army” ahead of the election, siccing local police on organizers and trying to pit black and Hispanic workers against each other.
https://jacobin.com/2025/02/amazon-union-north-carolina-racism
‘Fighting Goliath’: #Amazon workers to hold #union election at #NorthCarolina warehouse
From #TheGuardian #Guardian
Thu 23 Jan 2025 07.00 EST
"The election to represent 4,300 workers at the 700,000 sq foot warehouse in the suburbs of Raleigh is scheduled to be held from 10 to 15 February."
"The union has been organizing since early 2022 at the warehouse, pushing for better pay, improved paid time off, better scheduling, improved accommodations for workers with injuries or disabilities, and respect on the job."
Union Election Set at #NorthCarolina #Amazon Warehouse
‘An Historic Moment in South’: Interview with #CAUSE President
from #WorldOutlook
By Mark Satinoff
January 15, 2025
https://world-outlook.com/2025/01/15/union-election-set-at-north-carolina-amazon-warehouse/
#WorkersRights #Workers #Unions #Labor #LaborMovement #LaborUnions #USA #US #USPolitics #sindicatos
#AmazonLaborUnion #ALU #Teamsters
On the U.S. Supreme Court
—Chief Justice John Roberts and his Republican majority have spent decades systematically dismantling the guardrails of American democracy.
Itself the product of unprecedented norm-breaking
—encouraged by a fifty-year special interest campaign designed to weaponize the judicial branch
—it is the Roberts majority that has hastened our endemic institutional collapse.
We can draw a straight line, for example,
from the Roberts Court’s 2010 #Citizens #United decision, which invalidated Congress’s bipartisan campaign finance limits on the farcical premise that independent expenditures could not be corrupting,
to the imminent shadow presidency of erratic mega-billionaire Elon Musk, Trump’s biggest outside spender.
Citizens United set the stage for the proliferation of political nonprofits and the establishment of #Super #PACs,
giving oligarchs like Musk a megaphone loud enough to drown out ordinary voters.
The decision turbocharged Trump’s rise, allowing his allies to flood the airwaves with disinformation and propaganda,
meanwhile trapping Democrats in a system of corporate-funded campaigns that has eroded their ability to represent the working class.
Three years later, in #Shelby #County v.#Holder, John Roberts completed his career-long vision quest to dismantle the Voting Rights Act,
invalidating its preclearance requirement for states with a history of racial discrimination.
Erasing the national consensus first achieved in the bloody crucible of the Civil Rights Era
and repeatedly reaffirmed by near-unanimous bipartisan Congresses, Roberts deemed racial discrimination a relic of ancient history,
declaring that “nearly 50 years later, things have changed dramatically.”
A flood of Republican state voter suppression laws followed, funded, and orchestrated by the same interests to which Roberts owed his majority.
“Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet,”
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg warned in her searing Shelby County dissent.
But soaking us was the whole point.
The downpour continues.
Final results for the 2024 House elections were tallied recently, and Republicans will owe a razor-thin 220-215 majority to the three seats the GOP flipped thanks to the North Carolina legislature’s brazenly partisan gerrymander,
a move blessed by the Supreme Court’s Republican justices’ 2018 decision in #Rucho v. #Common #Cause.
In that case, the Roberts Court
—so power-hungry that leading legal scholars have dubbed it the “Imperial Court”
—conveniently found that #partisan #gerrymandering,
-- a practice dominated by norms-be-damned Republican state legislatures,
-- presented a “political question” that was outside their purview to resolve.
North Carolina Amazon Workers File for Union Election
In this December 23 news release, #CarolinaAmazoniansUnitedForSolidarityAndEmpowerment (#CAUSE) announced that it filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board requesting an election at Amazon’s RDU1 giant fulfillment center in Garner, #NorthCarolina, “to become the first unionized #Amazon facility in the South, and only the second in the United States.”
By world-outlook.com on December 24, 2024
https://world-outlook.com/2024/12/24/north-carolina-amazon-workers-file-for-union-election/
#WorkersRights #Workers #Unions #Labor #LaborMovement #LaborUnions #USA #US #USPolitics #sindicatos
#AmazonLaborUnion #ALU #Teamsters
A quotation from Martin, George R. R.:
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World War I is much more typical of the wars of history than World War II — the kind of war you look back afterward and say, “What the hell were we fighting for? Why did all these millions of people have to die? Was it really worth it to get rid of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, that we wiped out an entire generation, and tore up hal…
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/martin-george-r-r/73558/
So this has been very frustrating. Apparently there's a known #issue with the #NTFS #drivers on #Linux (Linux #Mint) which #cause your entire #computer to #lock-up and #freeze when you are #copying a lot of #files to/from an NTFS #volume.
And what am I doing? I'm trying to copy all my data OFF my old NTFS volumes so I can re-format them as ext3+luks.
This is going to kill me. I've got a LOT of data to copy and I'm literally having to ^Z the terminal window every few seconds and pause the operation so my computer won't lock up.
Because I'm serious y'all, say what you want about #Windows but #Windows11Pro never locked up and froze on me just because I was #copying some damn #files! 
Edit: I even niced the shit out of this too.
Process priority of 19. (nice)
IO Nice class "best effort"
IO Nice priority of "7"
Shit is still locking the fuck up.
New entry of AI-generated #comics and #jokes added to our #website:
Why did #Mark #Zuckerberg's #donation go to a #questionable #cause?
comics.lucentinian.com/2110
#Jokes #NewsLaughs #AIHumor #AIComedy #DailyComedy
Unique charity supporting vending machines returns to Southcentre Mall
A unique vending machine aimed at helping to support charities both locally and globally has returned to Calgary's Southcentre Mall and it's all for a good cause.
#charity #support #cause #Calgary #SouthcentreMall #Canada #givingmachines
https://globalnews.ca/news/10907323/unique-charity-supporting-vending-machines-returns-to-southcentre-mall/
New entry of AI-generated #comics and #jokes added to our #website:
#iPhone #Hacking #Warning: A #Root #Cause for #Therapy
comics.lucentinian.com/1842
#DailyLaughs #LaughWithAI #VisitUsNow #AIGeneratedJokes #NewsJokes
