I certainly evened out, but I’m going to die weird and I wouldn’t have it any other way

Totally fair. The trick is to meet them where they’re at, and then work from there. The folks you’re thinking about will take a lot of effort, but if union organizers can do it then so can you

There wasn’t enough notice for you to still figure something out, but they explained enough for why they couldn’t cover. Don’t be too mad at them, they clearly also have a need for that time off. This one is a dish best served cold. I’d respond with something like

Damn, that’s too bad. Thanks for considering it!

When they ask you to cover for their shift next, tell them you’re busy

I had a coworker randomly suggest that we needed a union one night while we were shit talking the CEO. It intrigued me, but I didn’t actually think much about it. 3 years later I helped form the largest union in our industry.

If it was less “come on dude you’ve worked here for x years this isn’t hard” and more “you’re a stupid piece of shit that frankly should quit now”, you have a lot of power. Bully managers are real, and always need to be pushed out of their position of power. It’s always hard speaking out in the moment, but you tried and that’s what you should remember. You can’t go back now to reassert yourself, but you could still take action by reporting it to the company, or asking how your coworker felt about the interaction.

At this point I do it just to feel something

Maybe it’s just years of labor organizing, but I’m deeply unsettled by this for some reason. Surrounding the consumers on all sides with crosshairs centered on them gives me a bad vibe.

Socialism is the people. If you are afraid of socialism, you’re afraid of yourself.

• Fred Hampton

My ex fiancee broke up with me and then asked if she could invite a coworker over for a date 2 weeks later. Does that count?

Skill issue, I’ve lived with cats for so long that it became a reflex in my sleep

Aside from solar panels, as others have mentioned, I have a few other suggestions for things to get/do:

• Hydroponic garden
• Sewing machine
• Heat pump water heater
• Heat pump a/c
• Induction stovetop
• Upgrade insulation
• Compost bin
• Tools to repair common items
• Promote the use of libraries and support their growth into other communal resources
• Only buy things when needed

As others have said, there isn’t much that a single individual can do against climate change, but let me explain my suggestions. Some of the most carbon intensive activities include the transportation of items like food, clothes, and other goods. To reduce your impact, you need to reduce your reliance on this carbon intensive logistics network. By growing your own food, learning to repair what you own, and learning to sew, you’re making a large impact on your personal contribution to climate change. By supporting the library, you’re encouraging the use of a shared pool of communal resources, which also reduces your community’s climate impact.

The other items are what you can do to improve the efficiency of your house, if you own it. Induction stoves are incredibly safe and a highly efficient cooking surface. Heat pumps are crazy efficient at both heating and cooling, so slowly replacing old appliances with high efficiency options as they fail will maximize the use of what you own before it gets replaced. Compost bins and insulation certainly aren’t glamorous like the other tech options, but they’ll also go a long way: Landfills create an anaerobic environment, meaning food that gets thrown end up producing methane, and single family homes consume a lot of energy because heat escapes from every wall open to the air.

I’m choosing to ignore that part /s

Animal Farm is a story by George Orwell about the animals of the farm being led by pigs in overthrowing the farmer. The joke seems to be that Orwell both saw and described a literal farm uprising, and that he wrote this book instead because the animals hadn’t risen up

I won’t believe it’s happening until it’s in the orange box.

You’re doing something wrong if this isn’t part of your installation

I personally use Voyager, it shows all embedded links individually

The most believable conspiracies are the ones where it’s full of incompetence. Like ZunZuneo

The government wouldn’t do that!

Oh yes they would

I abandoned my career to do this as a consultant

It makes me feel much better knowing you’re (probably) familiar with my type of questioning, it’s become too ingrained to stop.

Now that I understand how this would differentiate itself from actual orgs, I’m definitely on board. I have some good things worth sharing already for tenant organizing

What are your goals, how will you achieve them, and how will you maintain cohesion? To me, it seems you have an idea and a lot of resistance to joining anything that has existing problems. One of the biggest obstacles facing this idea in the long term is how organizing is usually very specific to local problems, so most information that would be shared is only relevant to a single campaign at a specific point in time. Like for example I created a shortened organizing training for my campaign, we were able to turn a 4 hour, 2 class course into a single 1.5 hour session because we tailored the info specifically to the ongoing campaign. It could be useful for some very limited purposes, but by and large it’s just a relic of my campaign history.

Unions can be slow, but they also move incredibly fast. CWA still has work to be done, but members won’t allow it to be anything other than democratically controlled. The labor activist world is small and full of plagiarism, the conversation is never held to just one group with unique ideas. Conversation about democratization jumps from the 1920s IWW to 2000s Ver Di to 1970s teachers to modern examples that were just implemented.