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would have to be fixed in the driver, or at least ALSA or PipeWire

coppwr

Set up a dummy device whose input is a monitor of the HDMI out, and make the dummy device’s output the headphones.

Used to use pactl for pulse, but coppwr makes pipe wire configs very visually accessible.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/2/14/2303889/-Nope-There-are-no-150-year-olds-on-Social-Security-It-s-COBOL

If they can still clap when the plane lands, they will.

Guess and check and guess and check and check the guessing by guessing a new way and checking out what happens.

There is precedent for this: a contract for the sale of real estate in the state of NY requires a lawyer with a license to make sure that the deal is fair after some unfortunate abuses of the past.

Why can’t a contract for the sale of labor require a representative? And an organizing body? That’s elected from a given worker pool? Paid via taxes (dues)?

Kinda my point, right?

Make the government represent the people in bargaining contracts.

Local governments.

They then manage the labor market to make it easy for people to get jobs.

Make labor representatives funded by taxes an elected position to bargain for you against an employer.

Like a public defender.

In a court, if necessary.

Where our constitutional rights apply.

To bring this more in-line with OP’s question:

What if we had a general union that represented all workers generally and could provide support for things like general strikes?

Maybe make it a parent body made up of unionized/federated unions specific to each trade/discipline.

Something like the IWW or the AFL-CIO, but that represents all people by default. I’d argue that such a body could/should replace most of what the government does, and then membership is just citizenship. This could guarantee several worker’s rights within the union and enshrine democratic principles/practices.

Good thing that 15F is still pretty warm!

Ah yes, the toot flute.

I am going to have to appeal this decision.

I don’t have to imagine it. Part of why I’m grumpy and bitching on the internet is that I’ve found myself unemployed with a deleted career and an almost-finished phd. I’m kind of at a loss for what to do or what comes next or how I’ll pay rent in two weeks. I’m scared and I was victim blaming myself. Thanks for helping to contextualize my pain and pull me back to reality. I’m doing a lot better now after talking to people on lemmy than I was last night or even this morning.

Thank you so much for your work on this.

My post that you are replying to is mostly a tongue-in-cheek commentary on how programs that have existed for decades self-labeled as something that the right was able to rally against, thereby making themselves a single large target instead of a decentralized force distributed across agencies.

I just know that I first started seeing “DEI” as a label pop up in the first Trump admin. Frankly, in 2018, it was called “Climate and Diversity” in my local environment. Shortly thereafter it got relabeled.

DEI has been around since the 60s, in principle.

Yup! Remember how I said that before it was labeled there was a complex network of programs doing this job? DEI is more of a label than a program. I fully agree.

So, what constitutes DEI?
What the right is defining it as? What it has been since the 60s? What Biden enacted? What the government bodies enacted during sleepy trump?

It’s not well defined! It’s a scare word. It’s a label that we lined up behind that unintentionally made it easy for antiracist programs to be identified and targeted.

Being against DEI is like being against Antifa, or declaring Antifa a terrorist organisation. It’s not really a thing.
DEI is the awareness that previous centuries of discrimination no longer applies.
DEI isn’t a tangible thing. It’s humanity.
It didn’t happen during trump’s first term. But it did progress.
It didn’t happen during Bidens term. But it did progress.
That is humanity. Humanity progresses. Humanity is love, equity and freedom for all.

I can’t agree more! The label of DEI just makes these programs easier to find. This us true both for people seeking assistance from these programs and for people seeking to dismantle them. Such identification is a double-edged sword, and that’s what my depressed brain was trying to communicate.

Progress in the next 4 years is gonna be slow.
But everyone has worked on this before. It’s a hiatus. It will come back, and will be easier and more streamlined than before. Loads of people are backing up data, so it can be (relatively) easily restored. None of this has to be worked out again, nothing shared on the internet can truly die, ideas can’t be killed.
It’s gonna be 4 years of shit.
Hopefully Americans learn, and don’t vote in more conservatives.
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Hopefully Americans get a chance to vote in another party.

I love you. Thank you for this message of hope. I’m sorry to qualify it by saying: just because data can be restored, doesn’t mean that people or careers can be.

Thank you.

I also still value those ideals. I wish that we as a society could do a better job of embodying them.

No, it’s not incel mentality.

It’s the mentality of addressing structural issues and inequities instead of symptomatic bad actors.

It’s the mentality of trying to fix broken systems that wronged me.

Inequality is structural and needs to be addressed structurally if we want to solve it.

Blaming people and trying to get revenge by punishing them is the mentality that created the problematic structures that I’m trying to address.

Lol, we are playing tag.

A particular group of people… who ran the program and used it as a tool of oppression.

Because of this, I think that it’s valid that I direct my criticisms towards the program. Would you rather I start rattling off names? Or should I focus on the structural inequities that enabled and rewarded these bad actors?

I suspect that these overreaches of power contributed to the rampant public animosity towards these programs and enabled fascism.

I hope that someone learns from my criticisms so that we can prevent what happened last year from happening again.

Thank you. I wish that the world had more people with compassion like you.

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Well, that’s been my life for the past seven years.

I really wish it weren’t true.

I went all-in on a reboot and second chance only to get shat on again.

I really don’t have anything else to live for at this point and I don’t know what to do other than to speak my truth and hope that the next attempts at something like DEI can learn from it.

That’s what it claims to mean, but that’s frankly not how it was implemented.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are fabulous ideals that result in better science that improves the lives of more people. If properly implemented, they create a better workplace ecosystem that better serves its employees and our nation/planet/community.

I wish that DEI programs didn’t stand for Demonization, Exclusion, and Inequity.