Members only. All AFGE local positions are volunteer (unpaid) positions. While you are allowed some time during working hours to conduct union business as a federal employee, its like 2 hours 2 or 3 times a week. And the system for hiring and retaining federal employees is designed to weed out firecrackers like me who both understand their rights and have the spine to stand up and say something about them. Good luck building a revolution out of a population specifically selected to be meek and obedient.

AFGE does not fight back unless there is a political statement to be made. I was hired as a federal employee in 2023 and endured 6 months of rights violations, gaslighting from management, and incompetence from HR. When I made complaints, I was shitcanned. When I went to the union, I was told that they had no representation since the last president of the local resigned in 2022. I was told “arbitrations are expensive” when I filed grievances that the union refused to back. I was told “probationary employees have no rights” despite my union contract very much specifying otherwise. The ONLY reason AFGE is getting off its ass now is because AFGE as an organization is being threatened. They don’t care about their union members. They only care about their own fucking paycheck.

Doors of stone has entered the chat

Scratch that. Reverse it. And on we go

Why does everything appear to appear at +15 across the board just before 1990?

You dare disrespect the mighty Two Fingers?

Tl:dr “Just trust us. We’ll totally come to a consensus at some point eventually, pinky sware. In this case, despite the admin being a pompous sack of duck vaginas, we’re not going to do anything about their censorship. We’re probably going to continue censoring things we don’t like in the future, but only when we agree on it with 0 public comment.”

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Nah. Just start counting on your fingers. 123 on the index, 456 on the middle, 789 on the ring, and the rest on your pinkie. Its based on the segments of each finger, and it’s how Mayans used to count.

Ancient central Americans used a base 12 number system and counted on their fingers using finger segments (3 per finger, 4 fingers, 12 segments). Makes fractions way more intuitive

Definitely not. The geology of California and the rest of the PNW is wild. I suspect this map only shows the strongest recorded events. There are heaps of geological evidence that the PNW regularly experiences 9.0+ thrust fault earthquakes, but the timescales on which they happen are way outside how long we’ve been measuring this stuff. Check out Full Rip 9.0 if you want to read more about it.

Wait till you hear about Christians.

Bro they had a lot of wild shit back in the day. I remember that term specifically because they couldn’t use the word “sex” on the program and had to bend over backwards using every other possible phrase.

The bigger difference imo is the brain development due to hormones in the womb. Old TLC program had a whole section on this suggesting it’s why STEM fields are generally male dominated. Turns out hormones that determine biological gender also very much effect the development of the brain, and the male chemicals tend to develop the spatial reasoning part of the brain faster/more thoroughly than those who get don’t get the male chemicals and stay female. This average higher spatial reasoning capacity creates an advantage in tasks or objectives where complex visualizations are necessary, like visualizing chess moves in your head.

It’s not some massive, overwhelming difference, but it’s enough to tilt the table. Play out that average enough and you have 42 women out of 2500 chess grandmasters