The global seed vault in Norway is north of the arctic circle as a way of offering preservation insurance and predictable, controlled, frozen temps for food sources and biodiversity. It’s constructed deep underground in permafrost.

I was reading a book about refrigeration’s impact on the food supply last year and at the end the author decided to visit. The day of her visit it was closed due to emergency at the main gate; meltwater was flooding the entryway. Meltwater North of the arctic circle.

I think it’s much more likely you awake when the power goes out because MicrosoftAlphafacebookXDisneyP&G needed more power for a new data center and you couldn’t afford a politician to keep your town’s power.

This nanny state for multi-leggers must end. Fancy Feast queens.

Quick, you need a mental health app and a prescription too. It’s not normal to be overwhelmed by this, you’re the only one.

Business management practices. For a half century now, the snake has been eating it’s tail devouring itself, it’s employees, it’s communities, it’s government’s…all to make Lumberg’s stock go up 1/4 of a point. None of it is sustainable. Most of it is impractical. We all know it will end in violence in several likely ways and some of the damage is irreversible to people and planet. Yet, despite those unequaled consequences of current approaches, it’s breathtaking the confidence with which freshly endebted newly minted business grads seek to join the line of miserable adults to create more miserable adults. Impressive execution of horrible ideas for sure.

I think your premise is pretty easily shown untrue; modern propaganda tools simply outpace and put volume traditional education and so bad ideas, memes and misinformation–to say nothing of the lower ends of human nature–are quite popular.

Lots of support jobs and customer service (if US based) are moving to remote. If you have any tech/software/computer background you might be able to swing that.

The state of things is devastating. Actually getting out is the best option, I know easy for someone else to say. Right wingers love to point yo companies moving to red states for lower taxes and no employee protections, when people start leaving the states is when that narrative will change.

Not sure where you are but Colorado has paid family leave and is generally fighting a good fight and may be closest to you, depending on your red state location. Depending on the type of work you donl or want to do, securing employment in advance of relocating or looking at WFH options may be the best option to allow you to get a job and then move and not have to worry about the job location piece. Coastal places with better protections and rights are expensive as hell and probably less of an option for you but depends.

Hope you can get someplace at least measurably better and safer for you.

I have been surprised an investing community didn’t exist since joining Lemmy; while there is overlap to some degree, the specific aims of investing maybe too macro or indeed numerous to not overrun economics.

1 vote for you to create a new community, but request it not be on Lemmy.world just for healthy diversification of fediverse content

Moving into an eligible class of employees, e.g. working for the company and being full-time 30 hrs+/week (or whatever their benefit criteria are) is an event that allows for enrollment with insurers outside of the once per year Open Enrollment which is for existing, ongoing, already eligible an/or enrolled employees for the next plan year.

A waiting period for the start of the benefits, as others have mentioned, once being eligible, may apply to all new employees, e.g. first of next month/30/60 days. As someone who was associated with the company through a 3rd party already there may be separate or less criteria allowing you to enroll sooner than a normal new hire, or you may have the same waiting period. It all depends on the plan design which varies by company but has to meet federal minimum standards thanks to the affordable care act/Obamacare.

I just had my first thread that I came across today, after nearly 2 years here, that was collaboratively funny, creative, diverse and made me remember what lots of talent in a thread can do. Not just anti-establishment/political circle jerking, or a few tech categories that get enough visibility to get participation.

It was a /mildlyinteresting thread about giraffes being more likely to be struck by lightning. It immediately made me feel like I was finallly home again after 2 years and looking forward to more and more growth in Lemmy and the fediverse.

I knew upstate got cold but not that cold, damn

And that was with the EPA in existence. Just wait until the rivers catch on fire again. Psychotic idiots.

Jack black isn’t funny at all. He’s worse, incredibly fucking irritating and annoying and a try hard. He epitomizes mainstream US “comedy”; obvious, loud, overstating the delivery of jokes with overwrought physical humor. He and Horatio Sanz must have studied under the same Sithlord. Can’t stand him.

We can’t bailout lunch kids, what about my meth addiction debt? Nobody helped me. BOoTsTrApS!

News outlets taking quotes from company PR/employees and including them alongside facts about reality. “Company x does something horrible, here is the data. Meanwhile, the CEO says it’s inaccurate because bs reasonexcuse.”. So much of corporate media is this, we’ve nearly lost the expectation a news outlet have any sense of responsibility outside of an easy quote from the paid company representative. Every single employee quote should come with footer “but of course this person does pay their mortgage based on saying whatever the companies needs it to to continue doing what benefits it the most so this is idiotically biased”.

It’s pretty basic, it comes down to three simple tricks…

Decades worth of cultural work to be done to build men who arent scared and insecure little boys, war more likely to pull them back to reality unfortunately. And so it goes.

See? I can’t even see what you typed, all asterisks. The security is top notch. I’ll even put my social security number *** ** **** and Lemmy automatically keeps it secure.

That was his password, Lemmy automatically obscures your password when you type it.

They will sell it to the highest bidder, likely foreign. That is the whole point of the “sovereign wealth fund”. Trump and the Uber wealthy see it as an asset to plunder, who cares if Bahrain owns Yellowstone or you have to pay Bezos to fly over the Amazon Canyon? The future is amazing!