That’s why it’ll be a shock to the system when on May 21, nearly 45,000 of Samsung’s unionized workers plan to walk off the job for 18 days. If that happens, it will be the largest work stoppage in the history of the semiconductor industry, at the single most important chokepoint in the AI supply chain.

Suck it, AI companies. I use an agent to help me code projects and it’s genuinely useful. But these companies are leaches and they deserve a good kick in the balls. See price hikes due to shortages because of their build-outs. I’m very fortunate that I am not in need of any hardware (at the moment! hope nothing fails!), but I’m still very mad about how it’s affecting people.

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Last September, SK Hynix settled with its own union to allocate 10% of annual operating profit directly to employees as performance bonuses for the next decade, while removing caps on bonuses. Based on 2026 profit forecasts, that translates to average payouts of $460,000-$477,000 per worker this year across SK Hynix’s 35,000 staff, with projections approaching $900,000 per person next year. This is nothing new for SK Hynix: it already paid profit-sharing bonuses averaging about $95,000 per employee this past February.

Holy shit. The next time someone tries to tell you unions are bad, point them to this.

Side note: I’m literally trying to figure out and schedule time off before it expires that was won for me by my union. I didn’t know about it and it’s per-pay period so I got an automated email telling me to use it or lose it. What a great problem to have.

If it wasn’t the right code, it wouldn’t be so popular. /s

ps: rm -rf /

This is the best laugh I’ve had this morning. So good that I’m literally about to close the window to end on a high note. Awesome. Also, dupe please close.

So, a photo of your kid with a sign you made?

But that would be unfair to 938 people who unfairly got rich on the backs of the working class! Think of the poor billionaires!

/I have to point it out because sometimes people can’t tell when it’s text on the internet. It’s sarcasm.

Don’t let them divide us. I just (five minutes ago) responded to what I think is a pretty clear plant (see misspelling of Mamdami’s name). Whether someone isn’t “Left-enough” to you or whatever, if they want to help people and want to beat the Repubs, try to bring them along.

There’s the trope that Leftists fight each other and the right have solidarity. The first part is true. The second part is only true in that they unite around hate and fear and bigotry. That’s why the orange dickbag kept firing his cabinet in the first admin. And though he brought a bunch of sycophantic ass-kissers this time, he’s finally removing them too.

Let’s work together to put these assholes in prison.

Nope, never.

Why do I care? Because Israel commits war crimes.

I’ve never watched Who Wants to be a Millionaire, or America’s Got Talent, or So You Think You Can Dance (I’m in USA). I don’t like that sort of content.

But I’d care a lot if we let someone from a genocidal nation, that literally indoctrinates their children to think of an entire people as less than human, to compete on our shows. Fuck Israel (not Jews, just that country).

What, so everyone who can hear Radio Free Europe should be able to compete in whatever stupid national contest we have in the USA?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Europe/Radio_Liberty

More Mandani’s

Ok, this person is a fucking troll trying to sew division on the Left. Zorhan Mamdani proved that young people want progressive politics. This person doesn’t know how to spell his name and they’re claiming he’s the reason we need to keep supporting Dems and “take over” the party when it’s clearly already captured by the corporate class.

I think this person might be a right-wing plant trying to sabotage Leftist solidarity. They (the right) play dirty. Watch out. Don’t become divided (said the person calling someone a plant; the irony is not lost on me).

Footnote: a person who genuinely cares about politics enough to want to take over the Dems with progressives would know (or at least look up) how to spell the name of the person they were using in their argument. A person who only wants to sew division might be stupid and not know they should double-check the spelling.

Reminds me of the lawyers who got slammed for submitting bullshit cases that didn’t exist and then it happened like three more times. How did you not read the news and know not to do this after the first one blew up?

Beat me to it.

I’m happy to hear that Aussies are musically gifted. They shouldn’t be in Eurovision either.

I typically want good things for all people, but I don’t feel bad for people who knowingly worked for an evil company when bad things happen.

TLDR: Because they don’t give a fuck about you or me or anyone who isn’t a donor.

Repubs want to hurt you. Dems don’t care that you exist. We need a third party (as if that’s a new idea).

My partner has started using terminology that I use. I think she genuinely still saw the USA as possibly a good country and now she drops words like “corrupt,” and “fraud,” in places that weren’t previously said when talking about our society.

My hope is that I’m merely providing scaffolding to articulate a thing that is felt but not discussed. I’m pretty sure a lot of USA citizens really need that.

Collins, New England’s lone federally elected Republican, is in the fight of her political life against the Democratic progressive upstart candidate Graham Platner. Platner, an oyster farmer and military veteran, has seized on anger directed at President Donald Trump and anti-establishment animus to rocket to the Democratic nomination — forcing Democratic Gov. Janet Mills to abandon her own Senate campaign within a matter of months. His yard signs dot the state’s backroads and neighborhoods, and he leads in almost every head-to-head poll against Collins.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/15/maine-graham-platner-susan-collins-senate-congress.html

Well, that’s all I need to know. Support Trump? Fuck off. I ended my relationship with my mother over her support of that dirtbag. The first time, I couldn’t figure out why she didn’t know he was a liar. After ten years, she clearly doesn’t care. She’s a bad person. So is this lady.

Israel isn’t part of the EuroAsian continent. Regardless of whether they’re committing a genocide (they are), they shouldn’t be included. Also, fuck 'em.

Wrong. Beta means that. Alpha means “set everything on fire.”

I’m not saying that you’re wrong. I’m saying we have different definitions. Cheers!

Best advice I’ve seen in a long time.

You guys, all those employees contributing to their huge profits were actually a liability and now they’ll be so much more efficient.

/s because people take sarcasm literally