First thing that comes to mind is "prison camps" vs just "prison." Will edit some more in when I remember them.
Well, you see, true literate people read gringo/English-language newscorps and philosophise about the economy, while the poors just look at reality itself and think about that, like the silly marxists we are. It's that thing where people are forced into poverty then turn to socialism, and then are derided as stupid by the very same imperialist farces that forced them into poverty in the first place because we don't understand the marvels of The Economy ®
Sim, mas moro a muito tempo no sudeste. Já tive muitas experiências peculiares onde a pessoa não percebeu que estava falando de nordestinos para um nordestino.
Good luck on Kotlin and the freelance sites!
I think the employers are resistant on the idea there because becoming "management" is supposed to be a promotion for the "good ones," and that'd take away from their roles. In their eyes you're either an important manager or a disposable developer.
I call it "support" specifically to counter the notion of being a superior. Lots of newer workers will already know things others don't yet, so in a sense it's just a worker solidarity thing, with the added bonus of a change of pace for people who are a bit tired but not enough to warrant sick leave.
But you probably already know how techbro CEOs feel about solidarity...
It usually doesn't last longer than an year, but depends on a couple of factors. I generally hate trying to concentrate while surrounded by other people, so during the pandemic I actually had a way better time due to working from home. It also doesn't help that in the area I'm trying to leave (Machine Learning and Data Science) a lot of the good-paying work is very useless, so keeping any illusion of purpose is very hard.
I also have ADHD, so I wish it was more normalised to be able to just "take a break" every once in a while instead of having sprint after sprint to appease the Trello Gods. I've been even devising in my head a work routine of "playing support" every once in a while where the worker can reduce their workload and only focus on helping out the other ones during slow weeks.
I used to be quite a workaholic and to obsess over doing the best work, but right now I'm just looking into freelance gigs and part-time jobs to keep me fed with less effort. I think if I still manage to have time to do something actually interesting by myself on my terms, actually working only to pay rent might be manageable to my mental health.
Not exactly what you're looking for, but in this report employment is already scarily low (25%). Keep in mind some possible selection biases because the "milder" ones can often live a long time without even knowing they're autistic.
On personal experience employers also have this weird belief that every autistic person is some Sherlock Holmes savant, so as soon as we disappoint by being mere mortals they change their tune very quickly. I myself am unemployed because I can't work a full time daily office job without getting burnt out, so even quitting might be interesting to account for besides firing.
One of us! One of us!
Regarding potential drawbacks, I don't think there'd be any besides the time. I'm not Canadian but I think any anti-discrimination law would prevent any kind of "obligatory disclosure" and you could just apply without "disability." It might even be a crime for the doctor to disclose that without consent.
On my personal anecdote regarding self-diagonosis, I've been pretty sure I was autistic since fairly young. I generally think of it as "being autistic" or "having autistic behaviours" because I generally don't like how pathologised it sounds to say one "has" autism. I only got diagnosed literally last month because I was already going through some other harsher stuff and decided I might as well investigate that. The confirmation did not change my life a single bit, but it might be cool if you're having doubts.
I was also completely misdiagnosed as bipolar some years ago, so be careful that your doctor doesn't railroad you into some completely unrelated diagnosis that is medicable. I'm not completely anti-psychiatry but you should definitely do a deep dive on whether you really want to take a drug before you take it. Autism is generally not medicated (and most popular medications are actually harmful), so if the medication brands itself as "for autism" rather than some actual issue (i.e. social anxiety), change doctors ASAP.
As a general rule of thumb, if you're well acquainted with austism, old enough to know yourself well, and seriously thinking you might be autistic, I think it's very unlikely you're a complete neurotypical. But you could fit nicer in some adjacent spectrums such as ADHD.
We also have a neurodiverse comm here but it's rather dead right now. Would be really cool to populate that one again because we neurocooler folk tend to be either forgotten or just outright sectioned under capitalism.
Oh yeah, I'm not blaming you. It just looks like they did a really bad website for something like this. No plan, no demands, just "strike now." I can think of a myriad of reasons Stadians should be thinking of a general strike, but their reasons are just not tangible enough.
Honestly that website looks so trash that I don't think it's even related to this whole thing. At no point do they reference the 1st of September, and by looking at the archive they seem to have been around since January.
They also have no tangible demands and don't clarify what kind of strike this is even supposed to be.
But on the tiktoks (God do those make me feel old), they also seem to not have any clear cut demands or strategy and to have only popped up recently. I doubt something like that on such a large scale could catch on in some 2 weeks, specially with no organisation support.
They also have some liquid nitrogen takes on striking ("this is not a political thing" or "use the strike to think about life") that really reduces the credibility.
Doesn't look like anything of value will immediately come out of this, but seems like yet another signal for the left parties (CPUSA, PSL, DSA) to start organising better general strike plans. A good place to start on demands would be just updating the BPP 10 point program to 21st century language, cuz I'm pretty sure a majority of Yankees agree with at least 7 of those 10, and not only just for black people.
Then set the date to a slightly further date like December. Christmas is always a great time to strike ;)
I've been looking for something just like this, thanks! It seems to work pretty well.
Never heard of it. On a cursory search I couldn't find much about it. Is it in the USA? The dontpay.uk campaign may be a relevant recent pay strike to use as a case study.
If it materialises it could be cool to co-opt or develop further, but I'd like to read more about it beforehand.
No pressure, but that'd actually be pretty cool of you. 20th century Poland is quite a historical blind spot for me and I suspect for many others because it doesn't get much attention besides the "Stalin gave Poland to Hitler" lib meme.
If not for the Polish comrades here I'd probably still believe some of that "both-sideism" on the war.