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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66429342
The economic damage caused has been estimated at €7m (£6m).
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The Antifada Episode 17: The Working Class Goes to Hell w/ Matt Christman and Virgil Texas
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Posting this episode because the plot of "Gung Ho" (1986) is basically happening all over again, with the US TSMC plant. The Taiwanese company is treating American workers they way they treat their Taiwanese workers (terribly), the company only wants to import Taiwanese construction workers because they don't trust the Americans, and now Arizona may ban TSMC from importing more workers because this whole thing was pitched as a jobs program.
Some Arizonans who applied to work on this fab have indicated that TSMC is so distrustful of the local labor force that they are requiring some roles to relocate to Taiwan for 6-12 months for on the ground training, and offering below market rates for the privilege.
So if you haven't heard it, here's The Antifada episode where 
and 
talk about Gung Ho.
In this very special Antifada offering, Andy, Jamie and Sean are joined by your favorite sons: Matt Christman and Virgil Texas of Chapo Trap House.
Gang begins by addressing the central questions of our hyper-digital age: what if God friended you on Facebook? Is QAnon just a benign hobby for bored Boomers? And, holy shit, what if GOD WAS QANON?
Matt, Virgil and Jamie reveal - for the very first time - their respective political tendencies. Everyone marvels at how high-T Jeb(!) managed to lose the primary despite the PR coup of offering a poorly branded guaca bowle.
Crew get knee-deep into Paul Schrader's 1978 classic "Blue Collar" starring Richard Pryor, Yaphet Kotto and Harvey Keitel's genitalia. How does this movie about struggling union autoworkers help us understand the 70s as more than just bad hair and bell bottoms? (C.f. Jefferson Cowie's "Stayin' Alive" and the upcoming "Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts and Reason")
How did the "Golden Age" of US capitalism break down? How the hell did we end up in neoliberal hellworld when the 70s saw the most massive wildcat strike wave since the 30s? Why can't we return to decadent late social-democracy complete with coke benders, shag carpets to bang across, crushed velvet noodie posters and modernist chairs made to look like cocks'n'balls? Ugh.
After the depressing grind of Blue Collar, Matt suggests we lighten the mood with "Gung Ho" (1986) starring Michael Keaton. What's more uplifting after watching a film about declining racial solidarity among the US working class than one that uses stereotypes about the Japanese for cheap yuks? What's more laughable than watching a town full of autoworker rubes look to a washed up high school jock to solve their employment crisis?
In a startling twist, the entire crew turns on the American working class as the indolent, entitled chuds they are: you will all wear Ribbons of Shame in the highly disciplined and sadistic Japanese-dominated future!
Luckily, this week's viral wildcat video by a Hero of Socialist Labor saves us from going full MAGA. Spoiler: in the end our various tendencies are synthesized into Antoine Dangerfield Thought.
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why are we always stealing twitter content, tumblr has much better stuff
user hope-for-the-planet
This is another one of those situations where we are just now seeing the noticeable, dramatic payoff of years and years of quiet, unnoticed environmental work. “Experts say years of conservation efforts have resulted in some of the healthiest waters in generations, with booming fish populations, clearer ocean waves and more chances to interact with our urban aquarium.”
This quote also really got me: “‘It never gets old, it’s always thrilling,’ said Celia Ackerman, a naturalist with American Princess Cruises who captured the images. As a child growing up in Brooklyn, Ackerman couldn’t wait to move out of the city so she could study marine animals. 'I would have never imagined I could enjoy them here right in my backyard.’”
user tofixtheshadows
Not only that, but they’ve recently introduced millions of baby oysters into the waters to continue the clean up process!
[quote from article: https://gothamist.com/news/thousands-of-baby-oysters-get-a-new-briny-home-off-the-shores-of-hudson-river-park ]
These efforts, along with improvements to wastewater treatment, have gotten New York’s waters to their cleanest since pre-industrial times. There’s some evidence whales and dolphins are returning — and the harbor’s oyster residents are thriving, according to Roble. In one example she offered, a few years ago an oyster was found latched onto Pier 40 — the largest seen in New York Harbor in a century. It was 8 inches long and estimated to be 15 years old.
“We call the oyster ‘Big,’” Roble said. “Big’s still doing well.”
(photo not from article, not sure where it came from? Regardless, big oyster)
user headspace-hotel
I would die for Big
user vehan-tikkun-olam-and-stuff
I was in… I think 6th grade when we went on a school field trip on the Hudson. Part of the trip involved briefly dredging the river and ‘helping’ the naturalists leading the trip identify the different species.
I will never forget how excited they got when they identified the small (1-2ft) sturgeon. We nad no clue what the big deal was with a big (to us) greyish fish.
It was the first time they had seen a sturgeon that far down the Hudson.
That was nearly 30 years ago.
About 15 years ago, a friend who lived near the Hudson told me they they didn’t see a point in trying to ‘save the world’ because everything was screwed already and it was only a matter of how long until the end.
Which is to say that the Hudson and nearby ocean have been healing a bit at a time for decades and often the healing is invisible to everyone but the experts.
That working to fix things matters, even when you can’t see the progress.
That this absolutely amazing milestone is the result of thousands, perhaps millions, of people working in science, in industry, in education, in civil engineering, to make hundreds or thousands of seemingly ‘little’ changes.
Our actions matter. Work for structural change. Believe in the change you can’t yet see.
user onetwothreemany
I was part of the team that discovered the first evidence of blue whales returning to New York Harbor. Blue whales. The biggest animals ever to grace the planet, right there next to the city. Know what hearing those calls for the first time sounded like? It sounded like hope.
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It's nearly real. Somebody slightly changed the text to include "But..."
I don't think it works at archive.today but if you scroll down you get to a header with...
YES, GREENLAND’S ICE IS MELTING
And if you scroll more you get to
But we need to recognize clean energy’s limitations.
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Every star in the sky, every grain of sand on a beach, every past lover, every future child. Everything was me. I had become the universe and I was the only thing in it.
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Certified Hexbear Response to a Mod deleting dumb federated replies so that I can't see what everyone is dunking on:
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They wear this when they post on hexbear.net
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live footage of me greeting the liberals who stumble into here (fact-checked by real patriots: True)
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Federation has unintentionally given us a pass-time from the subreddit and that wasn't even a goal or a thing I thought I wanted anymore. Mods take this down if this is against the rules but here is the comment for dog-piling purposes: https://hexbear.net/comment/3677651
edit: thank you for your hard work mods but I wish you let it stay up a bit longer so they could get more bullied
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