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Cake day: September 2nd, 2025
  • I find this kind of navel-gazing so cringey, because this literally happens every 5-10 years. I remember when “hipsters” became a big thing, and that was at least two “tech workers are moving to farms” cycles ago.

    This is an awful article.

    Among my Knowledge Worker peers, I am hearing this more and more often: people who want to pick up pottery, painting, crochet or other old-timey analog hobbies

    I wonder why he thinks this is such a big, revolutionary thing?

    Aaron Horwath is the director of AI operations at a creative technology company where he is focused on implementing AI in a way that supports both humans and business.

    Sure, Jan.

  • Oh totally, Nader is the piece of shit here…

    In response to Nader’s criticisms, GM attempted to sabotage Nader’s reputation. It “(1) conducted a series of interviews with acquaintances of the plaintiff, ‘questioning them about, and casting aspersions upon [his] political, social, racial and religious views; his integrity; his sexual proclivities and inclinations; and his personal habits’; (2) kept him under surveillance in public places for an unreasonable length of time; (3) caused him to be accosted by girls for the purpose of entrapping him into illicit relationships; (4) made threatening, harassing and obnoxious telephone calls to him; (5) tapped his telephone and eavesdropped, by means of mechanical and electronic equipment, on his private conversations with others; and (6) conducted a ‘continuing’ and harassing investigation of him.”

    Nader, on the other hand, literally took the money he won for GM’s harassment and intimidation and put it into a consumer protection organization.

    Then

    He went on to lobby for consumer rights, helping drive the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the passage of the Clean Air Act, among others

    You’re fucking delusional to pretend he was the bad guy in this situation.

  • This is actually really funny, because Ralph Nader literally started his activist career pointing out that they didn’t in 1965.

    The book, critical of the automotive industry, argued that many American automobiles were generally unsafe to operate.

    Auto manufacturers were eventually forced to add seatbelts and protection for roll-overs.

    Nader’s book was cited as the reason to create what became the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

    When the original bill was passed,

    Speaker of the United States House of Representatives John William McCormack said the passage of the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act was brought about by the "crusading spirit of one individual who believed he could do something: Ralph Nader.”