Not often enough. I need to remind myself that reddit is a ridiculously ⬜ space that is so far from being genuinely understanding of the shit POCs deal with. I actually feel bad for not going on Lemmy as much-- I just wish the site was more popping.
It's kind of sad that someone that rich and powerful isn't immune to the addictive nature of Twitter. Like does he not realize how much of a loser he looks like for being so obsessed with what people online think of him?
Love this.
I think you're better off playing it by ear for the time being, and sort of adjusting the rules accordingly as this space grows.
Personally, I'd really like this place to foster serious discussions more than image/meme posts.
I've considered the trades but part of why I chose to get into research science was because although there's racism in science, I've found it less taxing to manage compared to racism in the trades. Trades i.e. carpentry, welding, etc... is just rife with racism. My brother's first day on a construction site, some asshole write "this is where [N-words] are born" on the toilet seat of a portapotty. The foreman was furious and called a meeting, but all the white workers seemed to think it was just a hilarious joke and refused to name the guy who did it. Plenty more racist garbage ensued after that too.
Experiences like that... I don't think I've ever experienced something like that in science. My brother thankfully decided to quit the trades after a while and now works in healthcare. Still deals with racism but nothing even remotely close to what he dealt with in the trades.
Laying flat is more effective, IMO. For those of us who are BIPOC, I wish I could explain to my white leftist allies just how much more difficult it is for us to get good paying jobs with decent job security.
I think telling largely poor people that the best thing they can do to destroy this system is to embrace it enough until they get a good income.
Personally, I truly believe money to be a drug and that no one is truly immune to the powers of corruption that money holds. I've seen far too many good people get corrupted by the power that money offers.
Edit: My brother and I were talking about this thread and he raised a good point. For every dollar you make as a worker, your work contributes to your employer making considerably more money in profit. This is why laying flat or at the very least living a life that requires as little money/reliance as possible is the way to go, I think. It's like fighting a war where for every bullet you produce, you inadvertently produce 10 more for the enemy and still expect to win the fight.
No, and I really do not at all understand how you and so many other people inexplicably believe that Omicron is the last variant of concern when the overwhelming majority of scientists and medical researchers continuously warn of new variants emerging, as they have throughout the last two years.
How can you say Omicron is not dangerous enough for restrictions to make sense anymore when the variant's high level of infection translated to more people dying?
I don’t think a new more dangerous variant will emerge. If it did, I’d think that to be rather suspicious.
What on earth are you basing this off of? I'm a research scientist and while my field isn't related to medical sciences, I know enough to learn from research scientists in the medical field who have been repeatedly saying that new variants will inevitably emerge. This is basic biology and it's mind blowing how COVID exhaustion has lead people to conveniently downplay how serious COVID is and will continue to be in the future.
At the very least, mask wearing in buildings needs to continue to be normalized. N95 masks clearly offer protection for the wearer and more so for anyone around the wearer, as it significantly limits spread of COVID. Why or how could you possibly think that a new, more dangerous variant of COVID would be "suspicious" when basic biology tells us that this virus, just like any other similar virus, will always have new variants? Do you have any educational background in science or medicine that you're basing your opinion off of?
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Evidently not :(