jaygee
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Post by jaygee on Nov 29, 2022 14:37:50 GMT -6
The top headline on sfgate today is that Twitter is not paying some of its employees.
Yikes.
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jaygee
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Post by jaygee on Nov 29, 2022 14:38:45 GMT -6
Couldn’t we just take afternoon naps and a Mediterranean diet and leave the rest. Lol.
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Post by blurnette989 on Nov 29, 2022 15:05:40 GMT -6
I made it onto post.news i am the same handle there if you want to find me!
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Post by mrsweasley on Nov 29, 2022 16:11:24 GMT -6
The verdict is in for the Oath Keepers accused of seditious conspiracy...waiting for the verdicts to be read
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Post by mrsweasley on Nov 29, 2022 16:14:46 GMT -6
Stu.art Rho.des GUILTY
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Post by mrsweasley on Nov 29, 2022 16:20:09 GMT -6
All Oath Keepers GUILTY of obstructing an official proceeding and aiding and abetting
Ke.lly Me.ggs GUILTY of seditious conspiracy, the other 3 not guilty of seditious conspiracy
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Post by mrsweasley on Nov 29, 2022 16:25:46 GMT -6
Apparently this is Rhodes' son
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sifl
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Post by sifl on Nov 29, 2022 16:39:14 GMT -6
Awesome. I wonder their sentences might be?
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trueblue
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Post by trueblue on Nov 29, 2022 17:06:33 GMT -6
I didn’t realize that SC’s Gerrymandered redistricting had been challenged. It will be an interesting special election if the redistricting is found to be racially motivated (spoiler alert: it was) and a special election called since it would put a large amount of democratic voters back into the 1st district for the house.
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Sundae
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Post by Sundae on Nov 29, 2022 17:24:12 GMT -6
Couldn’t we just take afternoon naps and a Mediterranean diet and leave the rest. Lol. And like get some healthcare. And maternity leave.
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clucky
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Post by clucky on Nov 29, 2022 17:30:44 GMT -6
Couldn’t we just take afternoon naps and a Mediterranean diet and leave the rest. Lol. Would also appreciate a walkable city and a complete rail system-though I know mine are seemingly big asks, they could happen before midday naps here.
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clucky
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Post by clucky on Nov 29, 2022 17:33:01 GMT -6
Couldn’t we just take afternoon naps and a Mediterranean diet and leave the rest. Lol. And like get some healthcare. And maternity leave. Bring on the slippery slope!
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richard
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Post by richard on Nov 29, 2022 17:36:46 GMT -6
I made it onto post.news i am the same handle there if you want to find me! I just followed you...same avi as here.
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richard
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Post by richard on Nov 29, 2022 17:47:27 GMT -6
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willow
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Post by willow on Nov 29, 2022 18:00:14 GMT -6
Very happy about the marriage bill news. Sad it took so long but it’s a glimmer of hope.
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origami
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Post by origami on Nov 29, 2022 20:07:11 GMT -6
I made it onto post.news i am the same handle there if you want to find me! I just followed you...same avi as here. I just followed both of you and not to be a creep but my handle is identifying. But hi friends!
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Post by imapenguin on Nov 29, 2022 20:27:47 GMT -6
For those still watching Elon Musk and Twitter, apparently he’s on a tirade against Apple and free speech. I heard that Apple had been the biggest advertiser on Twitter in Q1 but has since stopped advertising. He’s supposedly also releasing Twitter Files on free speech suppression on Twitter. How long until Twitter fully implodes? Did you see the picture of his bedside table he tweeted yesterday? I won't repost but it's... something. Also, Diet Coke does not deserve to be continually sullied by association. Do any of you follow TIBAL? Diet Coke’s social media person is in for it when he gets back to work tomorrow. For those that don’t know what I’m talking about things.i.bought.and.liked is an influencer who used Diet Coke as a size reference. She never shows her face or takes paid promotions. For giving Tuesday she collects thousands of teacher wishlists and hassles the brands that she promotes for free to give back to teachers. Most brands either ignore or pledge a dollar amount of number of lists to clear, but Diet Coke replied that they get too many requests for donations. You can look at her stories today to see what kinds of donations and brands she gets, but several big brands like Mercedes and clorox do participate. Anyway, it’s a fun day to follow, and mostly full of humans being excellent to each other. Except for Diet Coke.
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iruntodrink
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Post by iruntodrink on Nov 29, 2022 20:57:29 GMT -6
I just followed you...same avi as here. I just followed both of you and not to be a creep but my handle is identifying. But hi friends! I got my notice but I'm having handle block... I don't want to use the same one and I am not creative at all 🤣
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iruntodrink
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Post by iruntodrink on Nov 29, 2022 20:58:52 GMT -6
I kinda dig stoner Gretch all the comments about her accent 🤣 Someone mentioned a Gretch/Katie P ticket... 🤔
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dc2london
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Post by dc2london on Nov 29, 2022 21:12:55 GMT -6
I kinda dig stoner Gretch all the comments about her accent 🤣 Someone mentioned a Gretch/Katie P ticket... 🤔 Her accent is an ENTIRE situation but it definitely shouldn't be held against her. Just let SNL do their thing, it will probably help her in the end.
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Minerva
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Post by Minerva on Nov 29, 2022 23:30:30 GMT -6
What you think of the strike in calif universities? I know what my grad student in Washington thinks about it. He laughs that they are just part time workers. They work way more hours than the 20 hrs the schools all claim. Thats just the hours for teaching labs and classes. They (may) qualify for free tuition but so does a lot of other workers at the univ that are paid more. Overall they haven't had a pay increase for the grad+ students since 2010. I have so many thoughts. 🤣 I was in the grad student union that is now striking for 7 years. Honestly, the strike has been a long time coming. The UCs have been maintaining their reputations as highest tier research institutes based largely on the labor of post docs and grad students while paying those students and young professionals far less for their labor than they would make at comparable private universities. Housing and food instability is very real for the grad students and post docs at UCB. I knew multiple grad students who were functionally homeless for months at a time, couch surfing with friends or living in their car, showering at the campus gym, and cooking in the microwaves in the student offices. Our contracts as student-workers legally prevented us from holding any other jobs and we were usually working more than the 20 hours we were paid for as TAs or RAs, in addition to our own research and coursework. And average monthly rent for a room in shared housing in the Bay Area was about 2/3 of our base monthly stipend. We also largely funded our own dissertation research and had to pay taxes on many of the grants we received, in addition to being expected to pay our way to scientific conferences and training opportunities. And don’t get me started on parental leave and the cost of childcare for student parents. Childcare in the Bay Area cost more per month than my RA salary. When my son was a baby, it made more financial sense for me to drop out for a semester and finish my dissertation on my own time while my husband took 50% paid parental leave from his company than to remain enrolled as a student with an RA position and pay more than I made for childcare. The UCs can’t function without grad student labor. Research and teaching have ground to a halt in most departments at Cal. With the way the academic job market is these days, less than a quarter of their PhD students will end up with tenure track jobs. The grad students have hit a point where their lives are financially untenable and their potential gains when they graduate with their PhDs just aren’t worth the costs of 5-7 years of financial instability. The faculty at Cal are generally pretty amazing. The researchers I worked with there are scrappy and good at figuring out out-of-the-box ways to solve problems. In order to survive as a grad student, you have to learn quickly to fight for grants and fellowships in a way that isn’t necessary at other US R1 universities with similar reputations. The UC system receives the majority of its funding from National grants, but a huge amount of that money goes to administrative overhead. The system is very underfunded on the state level and doesn’t have the large endowments of the universities it competes with for grad student talent. It’s been exploiting the ingenuity and labor of its grad students and post docs to make up this gap for several decades, but there’s only so far you can squeeze before the whole system explodes.
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Post by athn64 on Nov 30, 2022 0:39:30 GMT -6
What you think of the strike in calif universities? I know what my grad student in Washington thinks about it. He laughs that they are just part time workers. They work way more hours than the 20 hrs the schools all claim. Thats just the hours for teaching labs and classes. They (may) qualify for free tuition but so does a lot of other workers at the univ that are paid more. Overall they haven't had a pay increase for the grad+ students since 2010. I have so many thoughts. 🤣 I was in the grad student union that is now striking for 7 years. Honestly, the strike has been a long time coming. The UCs have been maintaining their reputations as highest tier research institutes based largely on the labor of post docs and grad students while paying those students and young professionals far less for their labor than they would make at comparable private universities. Housing and food instability is very real for the grad students and post docs at UCB. I knew multiple grad students who were functionally homeless for months at a time, couch surfing with friends or living in their car, showering at the campus gym, and cooking in the microwaves in the student offices. Our contracts as student-workers legally prevented us from holding any other jobs and we were usually working more than the 20 hours we were paid for as TAs or RAs, in addition to our own research and coursework. And average monthly rent for a room in shared housing in the Bay Area was about 2/3 of our base monthly stipend. We also largely funded our own dissertation research and had to pay taxes on many of the grants we received, in addition to being expected to pay our way to scientific conferences and training opportunities. And don’t get me started on parental leave and the cost of childcare for student parents. Childcare in the Bay Area cost more per month than my RA salary. When my son was a baby, it made more financial sense for me to drop out for a semester and finish my dissertation on my own time while my husband took 50% paid parental leave from his company than to remain enrolled as a student with an RA position and pay more than I made for childcare. The UCs can’t function without grad student labor. Research and teaching have ground to a halt in most departments at Cal. With the way the academic job market is these days, less than a quarter of their PhD students will end up with tenure track jobs. The grad students have hit a point where their lives are financially untenable and their potential gains when they graduate with their PhDs just aren’t worth the costs of 5-7 years of financial instability. The faculty at Cal are generally pretty amazing. The researchers I worked with there are scrappy and good at figuring out out-of-the-box ways to solve problems. In order to survive as a grad student, you have to learn quickly to fight for grants and fellowships in a way that isn’t necessary at other US R1 universities with similar reputations. The UC system receives the majority of its funding from National grants, but a huge amount of that money goes to administrative overhead. The system is very underfunded on the state level and doesn’t have the large endowments of the universities it competes with for grad student talent. It’s been exploiting the ingenuity and labor of its grad students and post docs to make up this gap for several decades, but there’s only so far you can squeeze before the whole system explodes. It's a problem in most higher learning institutions, honestly. The GEO went on strike at my university the year after I graduated. We're in a much LCOL area, and my department paid much higher than the average grad student wage, but some departments had students that had trouble making rent. Grad students are seen as cheap and easy labor, but the universities absolutely would not run without them.
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sifl
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Post by sifl on Nov 30, 2022 1:10:04 GMT -6
Minerva oh I didn’t know they couldn’t have another job. Wow. Every single grad student in my program at a CSU worked at least one job off campus too. There was no way we could have survived otherwise.
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richard
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Post by richard on Nov 30, 2022 9:38:19 GMT -6
At the university I worked at, we were not allowed to hire graduate assistants into any other job classes. They were very strict about it in part because they were afraid of a grad assistant strike/unionization. And the GAs technically were not supposed to have jobs elsewhere but I think a number did just to afford rent/utilities/food.
(When I was a grad assistant, I had two other jobs and just didn't tell anyone. But I was just a TA and not a RA involved in research and could get away with it as I brought my TA work home to do.)
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Minerva
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Post by Minerva on Nov 30, 2022 10:29:23 GMT -6
At the university I worked at, we were not allowed to hire graduate assistants into any other job classes. They were very strict about it in part because they were afraid of a grad assistant strike/unionization. And the GAs technically were not supposed to have jobs elsewhere but I think a number did just to afford rent/utilities/food. (When I was a grad assistant, I had two other jobs and just didn't tell anyone. But I was just a TA and not a RA involved in research and could get away with it as I brought my TA work home to do.) People definitely moonlighted illegally, especially grad students and post docs with kids. One colleague who is now tenured at an R1 worked 30 hours a week as an RN in addition to research and TAing. He entered grad school in his late 20s and already had a large family - it was what he had to do. And he was honestly an exceptional person in his abilities to juggle it all. For most of us, working second jobs meant less time to work on your own dissertation research and added years before graduation, so a major opportunity cost. Some grad students had family support and some took out student loans for emergencies. I got lucky when I started shacking up with H - he had graduated with a real engineering job by our third year, so I had secure housing. But I knew multiple postdoc and grad student families with kids that relied on local food banks to make it through the month because their salary went straight to rent and childcare. And they were the ones pushing out the cutting edge research that the University was so proud of. It was all just backwards and wrong.
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Minerva
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Post by Minerva on Nov 30, 2022 10:42:03 GMT -6
On a more uplifting note, Hakeem Jeffries has officially been elected to lead the Dems in the House. The first black party leader in Congress. It’s the end of an era with Nancy, but hopefully the start of something great!
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elle
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Post by elle on Nov 30, 2022 10:49:10 GMT -6
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clucky
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Post by clucky on Nov 30, 2022 11:09:45 GMT -6
Holy crap to that thread elle.
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Post by mrsweasley on Nov 30, 2022 11:40:59 GMT -6
MH isn't allowed to get paid a stipend by the university while he works on his PhD but he thinks the other grad students in his dept make about $35k/year. For COL perspective his studio apt rental is $800/month including utilities, which was basically the cheapest thing we could find. There's no way you could support a family on that
ETA: and they're all definitely working more than 20 hrs/week. They're all research assistants and in the lab ALL day. MH is typically spending at least 10 hrs/day working, not including classes
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Post by AmyG on Nov 30, 2022 11:45:27 GMT -6
At the university I worked at, we were not allowed to hire graduate assistants into any other job classes. They were very strict about it in part because they were afraid of a grad assistant strike/unionization. And the GAs technically were not supposed to have jobs elsewhere but I think a number did just to afford rent/utilities/food. (When I was a grad assistant, I had two other jobs and just didn't tell anyone. But I was just a TA and not a RA involved in research and could get away with it as I brought my TA work home to do.) People definitely moonlighted illegally, especially grad students and post docs with kids. One colleague who is now tenured at an R1 worked 30 hours a week as an RN in addition to research and TAing. He entered grad school in his late 20s and already had a large family - it was what he had to do. And he was honestly an exceptional person in his abilities to juggle it all. For most of us, working second jobs meant less time to work on your own dissertation research and added years before graduation, so a major opportunity cost. Some grad students had family support and some took out student loans for emergencies. I got lucky when I started shacking up with H - he had graduated with a real engineering job by our third year, so I had secure housing. But I knew multiple postdoc and grad student families with kids that relied on local food banks to make it through the month because their salary went straight to rent and childcare. And they were the ones pushing out the cutting edge research that the University was so proud of. It was all just backwards and wrong. The grad students, research assistants and post docs asked for pay increase at wa univ. The univ specifically Said grad students added no value to the university. So they formed a union. And are asking for more pay collectively Son gets tuition and a small paycheck so they say that's enough as a grad student. He "works" 20 hrs a week teaching lab classes. But then there's the grading all papers for profs classes that takes at least 10 hrs. He's required to "work" at least 10 hrs a week on research projects that the school/profs got huge grants for. But the tests they are running on berkleys labs at night so several days a week he's going to school, teaching lab,doing homework, trying to formulate his own PhD program research and then staying up all night from 8pm to 8am remotely babysitting experiments. Burning candle at both ends.
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