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| CRANKY OLD FART’S BROWSER HISTORY #380 [archive] NOV. 9, 2023 |
“If you’ve got a boss, join a union. If you’re a student, start an underground paper. If you’re an anarchist, throw a brick. If you’re a soldier or a cop, follow your conscience, not your orders.”
—Tom Morello’s brilliant speech at Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame induction for Rage Against the Machine
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Just Stop Oil protesters smash glass on painting at National Gallery
Working within the system doesn’t work. Period. Billionaires own the world’s governments, and won’t allow any action that might slow the climate catastrophe. illegal stunts like this won’t work, either, but it’s more fun than writing another damned letter to my damned Congressman.
Or, we could keep ‘working within the system’, which works like this:
EU poised to water down new car pollution rules after industry lobbying
9/30/23: NLRB judge: Starbucks violated labor law in offering pay raises, benefits to nonunion workers
11/6/23: Starbucks increases US hourly wages and adds other benefits for non-union workers
So Starbucks announces (again) that it’s evil. It’s barely been a month since the NLRB said it’s illegal to do what Starbucks is now doing again.
SAG-AFTRA won’t budge as studios push to own actors’ likenesses in perpetuity
Stuff like like this makes me proud to pirate every film and TV show I watch. It’s not simply cheapskatery — it’s a political statement. How big a threat does misinformation pose to democracy?
Big, that’s how big.
New York Times and Washington Post yawn at American dictatorship
Nothing to see here.
Move along, move along…
Justices Alito and Thomas stand by the right of domestic abusers to bear arms After wrongful conviction as a teenager and seven years in prison, Yusef Salaam wins election to New York City Council
Singing by boys’ choir ‘sounds more brilliant’ when girls in audience Margaret Mead explains: Where civilization begins Lessons from America’s response to crack resonate in the opioid era Dangerous playgrounds
The making of A Gnome Named Gnorm Oneida silverware’s religious past Study finds nation’s poverty growing faster than officials can build prisons [Onion]• Amusing, Interesting, Outrageous, or Profound
AIOP is my Lemmy page, for anything that’s (in my opinion) amusing, interesting, outrageous, or profound. It’s mostly a rough draft of this page, but you’re invited to stop by.
♫♬ MUSIC ♫ Aquarius — Renn Woods Dark Side of the Moon — Pink Floyd Lawnmower — Sparks The Prisoner — Ron Granier The Tide is Turning — Roger Waters
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⚰️ OBITUARIES ⚰️
Dick Drago
MLB pitcher, for the Boston Red SoxYing Ki Fung
Paralympic fencing champion Pat E Johnson
fight choreographer, The Karate Kid Donald Shebib
film director, Goin’ Down the Road Christopher Tapp
lost 20 years to a wrongful conviction
11/9/2023
Cranky Old Fart is annoyed and complains and very occasionally
offers a kindness, along with anything off the internet that’s made me
smile or snarl. All opinions fresh from my ass. Top illustration by Jeff Meyer. Click any image to enlarge. Comments & conversations invited.
Joey Jo Jo emeritus, Jeff Meyer, John the Basket, Dave S, Name Withheld, and always extra
special thanks to my lovely late Stephanie, who gave me 21 years and
proved that the world isn’t always shitty.
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