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On this day in 1912, the Paint Creek Mine War began when West Virginia miners struck, demanding formal union recognition and fairer labor practices. The incident quickly escalated into one of the worst labor conflicts in U.S. history.

The event, also known as the Paint Creek-Cabin Creek Strike, centered on the area enclosed by two streams, Paint Creek and Cabin Creek. It is considered part of the "Coal Wars", a series of armed conflicts between workers and coal companies from the 1890s - 1930s in the United States.

The strike lasted for fourteen months, and over 5,000 workers participated. Notable labor organizer Mother Jones (shown) came to West Virginia to support the workers, organizing a secret march of 3,000 armed miners to the steps of the state capitol in Charleston to read a declaration of war to Governor William E. Glasscock.

The confrontation directly caused approximately fifty violent deaths from armed conflicts between miners and strike-breaking forces, as well as many more deaths indirectly caused by starvation and malnutrition among the striking miners. In terms of casualties, it was among the worst conflicts in American labor history.

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[–] assyrian@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Aquilae@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

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[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Would Walt Disney be seen the same way as JK Rowling is today if he had access to Twitter?

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[–] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

there is absolutely nothing stopping me from opening up a word processor of choice and writing a short story where Yoda goes shopping at Winco. Upload that to AO3. Literally nothing is stopping me i can write all the fanfiction i want of Yoda shopping for groceries and nobody can stop me

[–] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

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[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

been seeing this thing on youtube "movie recaps" and it uses ai art, ai voice, and probably llm scripts, cranks out a basic ass summary of a film with its footage. hundreds of thousands of views, doesn't even cite what the original was. WTF?

[–] GeorgeZBush@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

My manager is seriously starting to suck at managing lately, more than she already did, and I can't help but wonder if it's due to her evangelical rapture brain going haywire because of the recent escalations in the Zionist entity.

[–] rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'll never forgive myself for missing my chance to make a lengthy effortpost "Why I am a pro-Israel communist" on hexbear.net at 12 am Australian time on April 1 and have everyone get mad at me

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[–] KittyBobo@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

I'm not a lathe guy. I believe saying something makes it not happen. Trump is going to go to jail and not be able to run for president, Biden wins and the right whine about it for a little bit but aren't capable of doing anything about it so we just get four more years of Biden and he doesn't even die in office, the worst possible reality.

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[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Happy 10th birthday Monero!

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[–] MonkeyBanana@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Why does apple juice make me very sick for a few hours, I actually feel like I’m dying but I’m not concerned because this always happens after I drink it but I always forget whenever I buy it again lol

[–] Commiejones@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

nerd This is what they call an allergy.

[–] trabpukcip@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Spending my work morning reading about how the IWW protested anti-free-speech laws (anti soapbox laws) in Spokane Washington. Basically, jobs were scarce, and a system developed where day laborers would pay job scouts to get them hired for jobs. This led to a permanent state of spontaneous layoffs for any laborer because the job scouts were in cahoots with hiring managers to purge the workforce whenever there was a risk of rising wages.

The IWW gave soapbox speeches discouraging workers from "buying a job", so the City made soapbox speeches illegal. The IWW complied for a year until the City gave an exception to Churches to give street speeches, so the IWW protested that. They would start giving a speech and get arrested one by one until they filled the jails, then the overflow jails. The public would donate food and cigarettes to the prisoners, who demanded a jury trial, until the courts were packed with nothing but free speech cases. The public began protesting the cost of holding the prisoners. When a boycott of goods from Spokane was called, the City capitulated, released it's prisoners, and revoked licenses for job scouts.

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[–] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

my son is also called fart

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[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Looks like my DSA dunk post was liked a lot, its in the front page of lemmy.ml lmao

Im still playing pokerogue my run with scorbunny sadly ended with the 3rd rival fight but after that i did one with salamance, metagross and vivillion, it was pretty good i lost to the champion, vivilion is really strong it gets really good moves like quiver dance and hurracane plus compond eye for 91% accurate hurracanes.

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[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

There's a thing going around twitter of what your gun and car would be if you were an 80s detective.

I'd definitely use a .357 Magnum Colt Trooper MK 3, but the only good detective car I can think of is a '77 Dodge Diplomat and that's a bit of an 80s cop car cliche. What would be better?

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[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would make so much more sense for Peter Parker to live with Aunt May. Like they'd both be slightly less broke!!

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[–] ped_xing@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

How do we feel about landlords and/or cars?

[–] buh@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago
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[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Just got an ad on Twitter for a Northrop Grumman manga what-the-hell

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[–] let_me_tank_her@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Finished Unicorn Overlord and even got the plat. 9/10 game and my GOTY so far. Story is pretty basic but the gameplay is great. Ignore some of the anime booba lol. Theorycrafting, team building, and programming your squads with the gambit system is really fun and addicting. It really scratched the Fire Emblem itch too and the game is definitely inspired by it.

I don't know what I'll play next, no games are speaking to me rn. I was thinking maybe play Ghost Trick and then maybe Dragon Quest XI after that, but still deciding.

[–] Comp4@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Dumb question. Do I have to use my "IRL" pronouns ? Or can I try out other pronouns ?

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[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Napoleon playing Pikmin 4: I shall command these Pikmin with the same skill and daring with which I defeated the Austrians and Russians at Austerlitz, je suis Napoleon

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[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I find wlw more fun and comfortable to hang out with then any other group lol. Mostly because they actually like women and arent weird about it usually. Straight men suck, gay men usually suck, straight women can be ok but can be kinda intimidating. Wlw are comfy for me.

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[–] blipblip@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Almost spent 2 hours round trip to fix a tech issue for some fancy exec but the device isn't even there for me to fix today. Very glad they thought to tell me that before I left.

[–] nemmybun@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

I've been (re)learning FL Studio recently. Am I good at it? Not at all. Am I still having fun? Heck yeah

[–] Sleve_McDichael@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Been seeing a woman I met on a dating app for like a month and a half now. I realized that every time we talk it’s because I reach out first and every time we go out it’s because I make all the plans. I stopped texting her to see if she’d reach out to me and I haven’t heard from her in a week lmao

Maybe this seems like a shitty game to play but I also don’t want to be the only one in the relationship starting conversations or making plans

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