Saurok

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Genuinely curious, what service are you comparing this to that makes it sound quite expensive? Asking for my wallet

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago

Xcrete was right there, just saying

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

I didn't know, so thanks for explaining all that!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Start a social media account for pics of the pothole. Keep tagging city officials in it. Call or email someone every time you're reminded that the pothole exists so they will be too. Make the city rue the day they gave Cave Johnson lem... Potholes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Yes, 100% agree. Thanks for the additional insight.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It would be very good and cool under a socialist state, but not in the US currently and I'll explain my reasoning. In the US, nationalization represents the transfer of an enterprise from a single capitalist firm to the capitalist class as a whole via the state. Nationalization can bring benefits to both the working and capitalist classes, but ultimately the workers are still being exploited by the state for private profits instead of social ends. When an enterprise is nationalized by a capitalist state, the former owners are usually generously compensated with state bonds bearing a fixed rate of interest; this enables them to continue to exploit the workers involved at a rate of profit now guaranteed by the state. The class struggle continues, but but it is now necessary for the workers to struggle not against a single private management but against the capitalist state in its entirety. This is one of the reasons why Mussolini and Hitler heaped praise on FDR for his New Deal policies. They did a lot of good for people during the depression, but they also were market interventionist in a way that put a lot of corporate control in the hands of the capitalist state.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Option #4: Organize with your coworkers and form a union and collectively bargain for higher wages and better benefits.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Just to piggyback on this comment... If you have a dope library like mine, you don't even have to go in person to get your library card and do all of the above. I signed up for a card online, downloaded Libby, got everything set up and had an ebook checked out that same day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

You could always sell it at a low enough price to break even and just refuse to sell it to anyone besides someone who plans on actually living in it. You're allowed to do that. Real estate agent might look at you like you're crazy, but fuck em. It's your house right now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Not sure about DuckDuckGo, but for Google you just search something (only desktop version has the option when I do it on mobile), then click the three little dots next to whatever URL you want in the results. It'll pop up a little "more options" window. From there you have to click the little down arrow in the top right of that window and it will reveal a "cached" button to click. There might be an easier way (and it used to not be as "hidden" as it is now beneath the menus) but this is how I know to do it.