What is the most effective way to let the DNC know that I hate them?

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Being intelligent in the US is a frustrating existence.

Great piece, my only disagreement is that I think Harvard should pay 15x more in taxes.

And REI is following in their footsteps.

Not that I support it, but that seems like gang warfare. Eye for an eye regardless.

It is garbage compared to what it once was. Once they stopped acting like an actual co-op, it was the end.

I ended up buying a cheap controller that clamps to my phone and run emulators. It works way better than I ever expected.

I was guessing that E621 was MSG, and I was correct. Monosodium glutamate is great, I keep a shaker of it on my spice rack.

Right?! It feels slimy, I’m only a casual Minecraft player, but I don’t think “diamond tier” is even a thing.

“See the movie over 10 times and you can become Obsidian Tier!”*

• Obsidian Tier comes with nothing but bragging rights.

"Now it’s time to get loose, laugh out loud and belt out those lyrics like a true diamond-tier fan.” Please, come spend more money on a movie you’ve already seen!

So far I’m loving it, and I say this as someone that has played Oblivion every few months since release. I had to move the original to my external drive to make room for the remaster. Still just getting, started but so far it’s a very faithful upgrade.

I’m playing it on the Series X and it runs smoother than the OG while looking like a modern AAA game.

Dang, I’m playing it on a Series X and it looks and runs great.

“I’d rather die than meet JD Vance” says man with direct line to God

I think there are a few things happening.

More and more individuals are contributing to the Internet through social media rather than simply consuming. They are bringing their (lack of) spelling and grammar with them, resulting in the variety of mistakes you’ve noticed.

At the same time I have noticed more and more mistakes appearing in “professional” publications. I don’t ever recall seeing a typo on an NPR website up until the past 1-2 years. Now I see grammatical and spelling mistakes almost everywhere.

I’m guessing it’s a combination of laying off editors and using AI.

But at the end of the day, if a language isn’t evolving, it’s dead.

Haha, I always felt scummy selling the credit cards, but that and the number of memberships you sold determined your hours.

Sounds like freshman year of art school!

Nice job getting the membership cancelled.

I worked there for the better part of a decade, but got out when I saw the writing on the wall. Unfortunately, I still have friends working there.

REI was already fully transitioned from a co-op to another big box store well before that.

REI has consistently hired executives and board members with backgrounds in traditional retail and other for-profit ventures since 2010.

They have chosen to run REI like their prior companies, focusing on margins and profitability rather than its primary responsibility, the members.

They have continued to open new stores and over extend themselves because profit must go up, though the main revenue generator for them is the membership fee. And because it is a one time fee, rather than recurring, they have to continue to open new stores to stay profitable.

On top of no longer acting like a co-op, REI has decided to fight its employees unionization efforts. Numerous REI stores have voted to unionize, and REI has refused to recognize the unions, in some cases for years at this point. REI has also hired notorious union- busting lawyers, removed PPE from repair shops, and illegally laid off dozens of individuals.

REI is now clearing house; laying off long term staff and replacing them with new, less expensive, and less knowledgeable employees. In 2010 the average camping department employee got 15+ hours of training; whereas by 2018 it was less than 4 hours.

REI is following exactly in the footsteps of Mountain Equipment Co-Op in Canada. Once on par with REI, MEC is just another shell of a company raped by private equity. And unfortunately for a lot of good people, I think REI will suffer a similar fate.

https://vote.escvote.com/REI/

But they changed the terms so you must now be an “active” member in order to vote. I found out I hadn’t spent enough money recently that I had been disenfranchised.