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divya

@divya@sfba.social

Formerly @divya on twitter. A transplant from #chennai via #singapore and #seattle in #sanfrancisco. தமிழ். Love bending the arc of Justice towards a more equitable world for all beings.

I cook often, take care of plants and a rescue dog. Love birding, sewing, woodworking. These interests are funded by my tech job in #cupertino.

Tech engineering manager by profession. Previously: project manager, web evangelist, web developer, sales executive, device driver engineer.

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Capitalism!!!!

"A Florida court has ordered Chiquita Brands International to pay $38m to the families of eight Colombian men murdered by a paramilitary death squad, after the American banana giant was shown to have financed the terrorist organisation from 1997-2004."

divya OP ,
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Oh really bro, there is a reason for the name "Banana republic"

"The rightwing AUC sprang up in the 1980s to protect landowners from leftist rebels such as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc), but went on to become the worst perpetrators of human rights violations in the south American nation – and one of the country’s largest drug-traffickers.
Until it disarmed as part of a 2004 peace process, the AUC was responsiblefor most of the civilian lives lost in Colombia’s brutal, six-decade-long conflict, which left 450,000 people dead and millions displaced.
Chiquita has argued that it was extorted by the AUC and that the payments were necessary to protect its employees from armed Marxists."

divya OP ,
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NO FREAKING WAY

" New evidence presented to the Florida courts also showed that Chiquita allowed the AUC to use its ports to import automatic rifles and its banana boats to smuggle cocaine across the seas, human rights lawyers at International Rights Advocates (IRAdvocates) said."

divya , to random
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French leftist members of the Parliament wore clothes and sat such that they depicted the Palestinian flag https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e76144C674k

divya , to random
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Just now realizing NASA didn't stop Elon Musk polluting the night sky with star link but overrode the decision of Indigenous Hawaiians to establish an observatory in a sacred mountain "for clear sky". This is how you know they just love not caring about non-white opinions.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/mauna-kea-sacred-to-spiritual-practitioners-and-treasured-by-astronomers/ar-AA1lDGfZ

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OMG UAW is running CIRCLES against car manufacturers. UAW files charges in Germany (!) accusing Mercedes Benz of violating a Germany law that took effect in 2023.

https://uaw.org/uaw-files-charges-in-germany-against-mercedes-benz-companys-anti-union-campaign-against-u-s-autoworkers-violates-new-german-law-on-global-supply-chain-practices/

divya , to random
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Congrats to your donations to ACLU. ACLU joins trade joes in questioning the constitutionality of NLRB

https://www.nysun.com/article/aclu-joins-trader-joes-spacex-in-questioning-nlrbs-constitutionality

Here is an older article documenting ACLU's claims https://abovethelaw.com/2023/09/aclu-gop-talking-points-workplace-harassment/

divya , to random
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"First U.S. moon lander in half a century stops working a week after tipping over at touchdown"

If this is not a perfect metaphor for private enterprises trying to fulfill social needs, I don't know what is.

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-03-01/first-us-moon-lander-in-half-a-century-stops-working-a-week-after-tipping-over-at-touchdown

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