I doubt anyone to know too much about the US Open Cup or even MLS but just know that this is really bad. The USOC is the oldest soccer tournament in the country, starting in 1914 and teams from your local amateur club to Inter Miami compete in it. The fact that the hyper-capitalist, anti-competitive, hates the game league is trying to kill it (again) spells complete disaster for such an important tournament. If you plan on going to an MLS game this summer, please reconsider and support a lower league team (there's a decent chance you have a semi pro team if you live in an area with > 60 people).

Anything new with beehaw and the lemmyverse? Are we still changing platforms? Things seem a lot more quiet now. Is that really a bad thing though? How are you?

Tangram is a browser for your pinned tabs. What this means is that I can put all my frequently visited websites in an app and have the ability to view them all with great ease. Before I was signing into everything each time I needed to check it but now I just switch to my workspace that has tangram open. I use mine for email, discord, and matrix. As a tab hoarder it's also quite nice in how it clears up many of my tabs.

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/6863279

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/6863278

These candidates are really the only challengers to Biden in the primaries. All of their campaigns are extremely long shots (but not impossible in my opinion- if we decided we liked them more than Biden they could win). Let's all have a civilized discussion/debate over them. Let's try to not focus too heavy on their perceived inability to beat Biden but focus on them as actual candidates.

my take

MW: I recently watched an interview with Marianne Williamson who I'd never heard of before (I'm sure there's a reason media doesn't cover her). She really impressed me with her views, especially on neoliberalism. She heavily reminds me of Bernie and isn't running just for the sake of it or as a protest like some other long shot candidates do. In my opinion she deserves everyone's vote in the primaries, at least. She is also very talented at oration.

CW: I'll be honest, I know very little about him and need to do more research.

RFK JR: He's literally a clown. He's a nepo baby and all his views are inconsistent, harmful, and crackpot. He has no shot at winning.

These candidates are really the only challengers to Biden in the primaries. All of their campaigns are extremely long shots (but not impossible in my opinion- if we decided we liked them more than Biden they could win). Let's all have a civilized discussion/debate over them. Let's try to not focus too heavy on their perceived inability to beat Biden but focus on them as actual candidates.

They're so great!

• Pockets
• Super cool looking
• Warm
• Blanket whenever you need them

||Just don't make them a neckbeard thing people!||

Here's how it'll work:

• You love one person or be kind to 2+ people
• They do the same to other people
• Repeat
• Eventually the whole world will be in the hands of our savior. Kindness. We will all be richer and more powerful

Rules:

• You must be kind to at least 2 people
• You must ensure they're also kind to the next people
• No Nazis

Examples on how to be kind: https://personaldevelopfit.com/random-acts-of-kindness/

Who's with me!

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/620668

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A 10-day UPS strike could be the costliest in US history

By Chris Isidore

A 10-day UPS strike could cost the US economy $7.1 billion. That could make it the costliest work stoppage ever in US history, according to an estimate from a Michigan economic research firm that studies the costs of labor disruptions.

The estimate from Anderson Economic Group said the hit to businesses and consumers would be $4.6 billion by itself, causing “significant and lasting harm for small businesses, household workers, sole practitioners, and online retailers across the country.”

Other costs include estimated direct losses at UPS of $816 million, as well as $1.1 billion in lost wages by 340,000 members of the Teamsters union at the company. The remaining costs would be born by UPS suppliers and from lost tax revenue.

The union has said it will go on strike August 1 without an agreement on a new contract. Talks broke off last week with both sides accusing the other of walking away from the table.

The Teamsters union did not have an immediate comment on the study. It has said in the past that if there is a strike it will be the fault of the company for not stepping up and agreeing to the economic package being sought by the union despite having its earnings nearly double during the life of the current five-year contract.

UPS said that it won’t comment on third-party research and that it is still hopeful of reaching an agreement with the union to avoid a strike.

“Our focus is on negotiations rather than speculation,” said UPS spokesman Glenn Zaccara. “We remain confident that we will reach an agreement that is a win for our employees, our company and customers, and the union.”

UPS did say Friday that it has started to train its nonunion US workers, including managers to help continue at least some of the company’s operations if there is a strike. UPS has nearly 100,000 nonunion employees in the United States as of the end of last year.

“While we have made great progress and are close to reaching an agreement, we have a responsibility as an essential service provider to take steps to help ensure we can deliver our customers’ packages if the Teamsters choose to strike,” said a statement from the company.

UPS handled an average of 20.8 million US packages a day last year. It would only be able to handle a fraction of that volume if there is a strike, said Satish Jindel, president of ShipMatrix, a software provider that works with the parcel shipper. But he said that UPS will concentrate on trying to deliver international shipments and high-value expedited shipments.

Asked if nonunion employees have been told they can’t schedule vacations starting August 1, Zaccara said, “We are asking management employees to be at the ready, should we need them.”

UPS has had only one national strike in its history, a 16-day strike in 1997 by the Teamsters. During that strike it essentially shutdown all US operations and did not try to make deliveries. Back then the company had 180,000 Teamster-represented employees during that strike, slightly more than half the numbers it has now, and it was far less central to the US economy, said Patrick Anderson, president of Anderson Economic Group.

“It wasn’t a tech-centric economy built around small package delivery then,” said Anderson.

Anderson said estimates of the cost of earlier strikes goes back only 100 years, and that this would be the costliest he could find in that time frame. The $7.1 billion cost estimates would nearly double the $4.2 billion total economic hit of the costliest recent strike, the 2019 strike at General Motors. And that strike lasted six weeks, not just 10 days.

He said that the cost of the strike would be limited if it only lasts a couple of days, but would increase rapidly after that.

“The damage clearly grows day by day,” he said.

The authagraph is arguably the most accurate map projection in existence, at least as far as lack of distortion (I wouldn't try to navigate with this).

*This is actually an open source clone of the authagraph known as IMAGO because the math that makes it work is closed and I can get higher quality images here. It's basically the same thing. *

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/1016376 cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/1016375 cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/1016365

the ccc (civilian conservation corps) man... they were huge

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/1016375

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/1016365

the ccc (civilian conservation corps) man... they were huge

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/1016365

the ccc (civilian conservation corps) man... they were huge