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American workers had begun organizing into unions following the Civil War, and by the 1880s many thousands were organized into unions, most notably the ​Knights of Labor.

In the spring of 1886 workers struck at the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company in Chicago, the factory that made farm equipment including the famous McCormick Reaper made by Cyrus McCormick. The workers on strike demanded an eight-hour workday, at a time when 60-hour workweeks were common. The company locked out the workers and hired strikebreakers, a common practice at the time.

On May 1, 1886, a large May Day parade was held in Chicago, and two days later, a protest outside the McCormick plant resulted in a person being killed.

A mass meeting was called to take place on May 4, to protest what was seen as brutality by the police. The location for the meeting was to be Haymarket Square in Chicago, an open area used for public markets.

At the May 4th meeting a number of radical and anarchist speakers addressed a crowd of approximately 1,500 people. The meeting was peaceful, but the mood became confrontational when the police tried to disperse the crowd.

As scuffles broke out, a powerful bomb was thrown. The bomb landed and exploded, unleashing shrapnel. The police drew their weapons and fired into the panicked crowd.

Seven policemen were killed, and it’s likely that most of them died from police bullets fired in the chaos, not from the bomb itself. Four civilians were also killed. More than 100 persons were injured.

The public outcry was enormous. Press coverage contributed to a mood of hysteria. Two weeks later, the cover of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Magazine, one of the most popular publications in the US, featured an illustration of the "bomb thrown by anarchists" cutting down police and a drawing of a priest giving the last rites to a wounded officer in a nearby police station.

The rioting was blamed on the labor movement, specifically on the Knights of Labor, the largest labor union in the United States at the time. Widely discredited, fairly or not, the Knights of Labor never recovered.

Newspapers throughout the US denounced “anarchists,” and advocated hanging those responsible for the Haymarket Riot. A number of arrests were made, and charges were brought against eight men.

The trial of the anarchists in Chicago was a spectacle lasting for much of the summer, from late June to late August of 1886. Despite a glaring lack of evidence linking the anarchists to the bombing, all eight were convicted and sentenced to death by the illustrious Governor Richard Oglesby.

For the first meeting of the foundation of the second international the American Federation of Labor would choose May 1 to commemorate a general strike in the United States, which had begun on 1 May 1886 and culminated in the Haymarket affair four days later.

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[–] PaX@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Hey did you nerds know the the country top-level domain for the USSR still exists under ".su"?

Might get one tbh, they cheap, also communism cool

I am mildly concerned anti-spam systems will trash my emails if they come from a .su domain though

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago (6 children)

running your own mail server is a sure fire way to never have working email

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[–] PaX@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago

Too tired to be awake, too awake to get more than 5 hrs of sleep

Maybe I should just get up.....

[–] SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago

i like helldiverrs 2, but I absolutely HATE the people who play it. in no other game will you be team-killed so frequently and blatantly.

[–] homhom9000@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Now slack doesn't give updates to my phone anymore and logged me out of my jobs space 😡. How do I steal time now

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[–] let_me_tank_her@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Kendrick murdering Drake god damn lmao

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago

Drake-Kendrick beef feels like such a coughing baby vs atomic bomb situation

[–] Moonworm@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

is there any reason to leave a significant portion of your ssd storage open? I've got this vague notion that I should and I'm trying to figure out why. It might be just because the little bar next to the drive in explorer turns red and it bugs me for that, but I also feel like I remember an old laptop that would struggle to run chrome sometimes when it was nearly full.

[–] PaX@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

There was this thing people said, not sure if it was ever actually really necessary, where you were supposed leave part of the disk free so the flash controller could swap out worn memory blocks with free, unused, fresh blocks from the free region to counteract wear and tear. Maybe it was legit once but I think all SSDs now have spare, inaccessible flash memory available specifically for this purpose

Feel free to use all available space

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[–] Mokey@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Mokey ListensJohn Coltrane Quartet with Roy Haynes - I want to Talk about you (Live at Newport Festival 1963)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1SaofDEVrk

Preamble

Weird to hear of Coltrane as a "new giant" instead of a instituionalized figure. 1963 was when the trane ballads came out which is one of my favorite albums.

Wikipedia has this to say about this time period: (The Classic Trane Quartet 1962-1965)

In 1962, Dolphy departed and Jimmy Garrison replaced Workman as bassist. From then on, the "Classic Quartet", as it came to be known, with Tyner, Garrison, and Jones, produced searching, spiritually driven work. Coltrane was moving toward a more harmonically static style that allowed him to expand his improvisations rhythmically, melodically, and motivically. Harmonically complex music was still present, but on stage Coltrane heavily favored continually reworking his "standards": "Impressions", "My Favorite Things", and "I Want to Talk About You".

The criticism of the quintet with Dolphy may have affected Coltrane. In contrast to the radicalism of his 1961 recordings at the Village Vanguard, his studio albums in the following two years (with the exception of Coltrane, 1962, which featured a blistering version of Harold Arlen's "Out of This World") were much more conservative. He recorded an album of ballads and participated in album collaborations with Duke Ellington and singer Johnny Hartman, a baritone who specialized in ballads. The album Ballads (recorded 1961–62) is emblematic of Coltrane's versatility, as the quartet shed new light on standards such as "It's Easy to Remember". Despite a more polished approach in the studio, in concert the quartet continued to balance "standards" and its own more exploratory and challenging music, as can be heard on the albums Impressions (recorded 1961–63), Live at Birdland and Newport '63 (both recorded 1963). Impressions consists of two extended jams including the title track along with "Dear Old Stockholm", "After the Rain" and a blues. Coltrane later said he enjoyed having a "balanced catalogue".[56]

Some noodlin'.

Head begins at around 01:25

They start out trying to feel the internal subdivision, i think roy haynes is suggesting straight sixteenth notes but they agree on swung. Also they're trying to decide whether to play the thing slow or give a double time feel. It really feels like they're trying to decide whether or not to play it as a softer and more romantic Ballad or not.

Jimmy Garrison is playing some really funky shit in the head.

Roy Haynes here is like a quieter, less motific, less deep Elvin Jones. Not to discredit Roy of course.

I like Roy Haynes three stroke ruff into the bridge. it's so weird and clean.

Somewhere in the bridge they entirely give up on the ballad idea and now it's this in polyrhythmic 2-feel forever, they never go back.

Head ends at 02:25

Trane soloing. I don't really have much to say about Trane's soloing.

Roy Hayne really likes doing spang alang alang on the ride and doing ah1, ah3 on the snare drum. He also just in general likes shuffling in flourishes. Quarter note triplets everywhere too.

LLK LLK LLK LLK and RLL RLL RLL RLL

I really enjoy Jimmy Garrisons playing here, it's really playful and solid. I like his closer choices. I feel like I can connect to him here more so than what I've heard of Paul Chambers.

Head comes back at 05:39. I dont know the form too well. I think he comes back on the bridge like most ballads.

Track ends at 06:10 then Coltrane does a cadenza. It feels like they were surprised Trane cut the tune short, I'm sure they're more used to spreading out but maybe that was done because it's a festival and they only have so much time.

There's something about listening to a Coltrane cadenza that feels real but listening to some white kid doing it you're just like shut the fuck up please end the tune.

minnesota-flag

This flag didnt fucking win, found the emoji on accident.

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[–] ta00000@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago

Every time I see a PPB I report it to the mods, that way I'm effectively PPBing the mods.

[–] bigboopballs@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago

fuck landlords
fuck cars

[–] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

meet the grahams is fucking incredible, every line hits, it just gets better on more listens, drake is done

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[–] Bat@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

playing a game that i have multiple hundreds of hours in

finally don't restart my save and gets to late game content that i've never experienced

almost immediately gets overwhelmed and has to stop playing

why am I like this

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[–] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

New Digital Circus is out!

The go to THE BACKROOMS

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Complex analysis fans: wow these theorems are so deep

Elliptic PDE enjoyers: oh more consequences of the maximum principle

[–] Kolibri@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago

ugh, I hate it when a migraine wakes me from my sleep

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago

Lol people writing about their layoffs on linkedin in linkedin voices using therapy talk and talking about the "grieving process" is so bleak. You can't even get fired without having to do whole HR friendly song and dance for everyone.

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Got a friend who I hadn't seen in a year ago had lost 20 pounds and looked very different. We were talking about it, and he said he has a personal trainer and that most of his weight loss just came from a diet.

Mostly it made sense, no soda and beer, calorie counting, normal stuff.

Then the next day he was talking a bit more about his meal plan and his PT told him he needs to be eating 195g of protein a day lmao these broscientists just making up whatever

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[–] Cigarette_comedian@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago

I'm gonna be the reason why Cringemas comes early this year

[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago

just, as politely as I could, charged up the property manager at my office. Weve had spotty internet going down all the time consistently since at least march but really its been a problem for over 6 months. I've requested it be sorted at least once a week since march and I come in to it being down again this morning.

I hate being an asshole to people but damn, they move so SLOW to sort everything out and unfortunately my new phone plan has a shit hotspot that doesnt work very well. None of the files I'm moving are crazy big, nothing over 2gb or so but I look like an idiot on my DSL speed phone wifi. Not to mention sometimes (thankfully not today) i do video conference sessions and it wouldn't even be possible

[–] KittyBobo@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago

vent, suicide mentionedI'm really frustrated with my job right now. It's not the worst job I've had by any means, I mean it's nothing fancy either, hourly making 22k a year, but I can be pretty lazy so I feel guilty whining about it. I have some undiagnosed mental problems that makes shit really difficult. And even that is frustrating because no one will take you seriously even with a diagnosis, but with out? If I try to self-diagnose them I'm a "removed" who's ableist towards people with real problems. Doesn't matter that my parents never took me to a doctor and just yelled at me for not being normal and that now as an adult, because I can barely find work I can tolerate, I can't afford to see a doctor myself to get diagnosed with anything. No one wants to hear it. They think that because I am working at the moment that must mean I'm capable of working and therefore don't need or deserve help. But people can do some pretty extreme things in extreme circumstances, people can survive through a lot even if it leaves physical and mental scars, that doesn't mean they should have to though. But no one wants to hear it when I'm trying to express that basic shit can be pretty difficult for me. They'll just point out how some people are worse off so that invalidates what I'm going through and it's hard not to internalize that and feel worse. I really feel like the only way anyone would take me seriously is if I killed myself over it, which would kind of defeat the purpose of getting people to understand that I have problems because what I want is fucking help. And even then they probably wouldn't get it. But right now my boss is hinting that she doesn't think I'm working hard enough. On one hand, yeah, I'm pretty fucking lazy, I sitting around all day trying not to think about the best way to kill myself instead of working but at the same time her and my coworker are fucking lazy too. They both show up late, they're both on their phones more often than not, they both barely get any work done. I can fucking sit around for hours and still get more done than they do, but she doesn't complain about him because he's teacher's fucking pet and does favors for her or buys her fast food. I come in every day at 8 and they show up late, sometimes hours late, even though they only have to come in at 12:30. Part of my job is greeting people and helping them but my social batteries are small. People expect you to look at them when talking so I've learned to blur my vision on command so I can look like I'm looking at people without actually having to because it really makes me uncomfortable to look at people. It's also difficult for me to talk some times, but I can't just be nonverbal since talking is part of the job, so I've had to come up with a script where I just say the same things in the same tone so I don't have to think about it, it helps if I just pretend I'm saying "hello" or whatever outloud to no one. And having to jump through all these hoops makes it so by the time I get home I just don't have the energy for doing all the other adult things I need to do, let alone anything fun. I'm just getting really close to the point where I can't keep doing it, I've had this job for over two years which is way longer than any other job I've had, I've never worked at the same place for more than a month anywhere else. But I literally have no other options, I don't drive and I've already worked and quit at every other place in walking distance. I'm just so tired of thinking about suicide every single day, I'm tired of being tired and not having to energy to do what I want, I'm tired of having to do all this and still be told it's not enough, I'm tired of just having to sit and listen to my coworker's racism, homophobia, and transphobia because I know I can't say shit. I just have to mask and pretend I'm a normal heterosexual with no mental problems. And if I can't be myself I may as well be dead already. I really just don't know what to do, no one cares and I can't get help from anywhere. And while dealing with all this my best friend has ghosted me, deleted all their socials and I don't know if they're just having a rough time or if they're dead and I'll just never know.

[–] PaX@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

They injected me with gadolinium contrast agent

New brain damage anxiety just dropped

Realllllllly wish they told me earlier so I had time to think about it and ask what form they were using

[–] PaX@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)
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