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The Civilian Conservation Corps - 1933-1942 work-relief program, employing 3 million in forests, parks, & farms: planting trees, flood barriers, fire fighting, building roads & trails. (52:58) (CC EN)

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Im March 1933, within weeks of his inauguration, President Franklin Roosevelt sent legislation to Congress aimed at profiting relief for the one out of every four…

Civilian Conservation Corps

March 1933, within weeks of his inauguration, President Franklin Roosevelt sent legislation to Congress aimed at profiting relief for the one out of every four American workers who were unemployed. He proposed a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) to provide jobs in natural resource conservation. Over the next decade, the CCC put more than three million young men to work in the nation's forests, parks, and farms: planting trees, creating flood barriers, fighting fires, and building roads and trails. Corps workers lived in camps under quasi-military discipline and received a wage of $30 per month, $25 of which they were required to send home to their families. This film, by director Robert Stone, interweaves rich archival imagery with the personal accounts of CCC veterans to tell the story of one of the boldest and most popular New Deal experiments, positioning it as a pivotal moment in the emergence of modern environmentalism and national service.

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Resurrect Dead - One man's quest to decipher cryptic tile messages that began appearing in city streets around the world in the 1980s. (01:26:30) (CC Auto)

The Toynbee tiles, also called Toynbee plaques, are messages of unknown origin found embedded in asphalt of streets in about two dozen major cities in the United States and three South American cities. Since the 1980s, several hundred tiles have been discovered.

More Information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toynbee_tiles

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Edwardian Farm (Episodes 1-12) - Historical reenactment by experimental archeologists running an Edwardian era (~1901-1914) rural farm (00:58:00 each) (CC Auto)

A particularly low/no drama reenactment, experimental archaeology documentary. Pretty cozy stuff but still very informative look at a bygone era and lifestyle.

"Edwardian Farm is a British historical documentary TV series in twelve parts. It depicts a group of historians recreating the running of a farm during the Edwardian era. It was made for the BBC by independent production company Lion Television and filmed at Morwellham Quay, an historic port in Devon. The farming team was historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn."

More Information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwardian_Farm

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Bronze Age Catastrophe - Why So Many Ancient Civilizations Collapsed At The Same Time, Late Bronze Age Collapse circa 12th century BC (CC Auto)

The Bronze Age collapse is perhaps one of the greatest disasters in human history and also one of the least understood. Delve into the theories as to how this ancient apocalypse happened and evidence that supports them.

More Information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse

First attempt posting here, hope I'm doing this correctly.

  • Yet another thinly veiled stealth lay-off by a technology company. Amazon’s cloud boss Matt "The Prat" Garman will indeed see some departures, as intended and desired. However, that first wave will be of their most talented, who feel confident they will land on their feet elsewhere, leaving those that simply cannot leave (yet) or those that will cozily under perform. When Amazon applies the inevitable followup reductions (subjectively based on their internal review process) to remove the latter, and the former buckle under the load or also leave, Amazon will be left with lower-middle talent at best.

    The more I see of business "strategy" among this layer of "leadership", the more I'm convinced it is just a game of Jenga with talent, resources, infrastructure, security, quality, etc; pulling out as many pieces as possible in the drive for short term/sighted gains until a company collapses under its own dysfunctional "efficiency" and "success".

  • Court "ordered" end to a strike generally means that any contractual, union or legal protections workers have are forfeited if the strike continues (i.e. folks can be fired, benefits lost, even sued in some cases). This is not uncommon in regimes where the judicial system has been compromised (USA, Israel, etc). That being said... be a real shame if productivity of non-striking workers were to mysteriously plummet to effectively non-existent levels. ;-)

  • Rad City support could not or would not explain how my battery might have stopped working, but would only say it was "not covered by warranty". They could also not explain what sort of causes of battery failure were covered by their warranty. It was pretty clear they just didn't want to cover the expense of honoring their warranty (the battery is probably one of the single most expensive parts on their bikes).

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    "The Secret of Mouse Guard"

    I unironically re-read Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH the other day for the first and only time since I was a young child. While the movie holds a larger mind-share in my head, unsurprisingly, the book has more nuance and depth. Honestly, it would make a good pre-history for a Mouse Guard like world after the collapse of human civilization (pick your apocalypse).

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    Seeking a Community

    Is there anything like /r/listentothis on lemmy.world or elsewhere in the federated lemmy-verse? I need to be exposed to music that I'd normally not find otherwise. :-)

    rpg @ttrpg.network
    Mystech @lemmy.world

    Player Scheduling Tool for West Marchesque Campaign?

    I have roughly a twenty players in our extended group to pull from, and any time 4-6 are available, I'd like to run a single-session adventure in my campaign. We use Discord for general communicating between sessions, but juggling all the available/not-available messages is tedious (especially when they are subject to change), and Google Calendar isn't cutting it.

    Anyone know of a good tool, with low overhead to let each player mark available dates and times a few weeks in advance, so we can lock in our sessions? Ideally:

    • WordPress plugin or Discord bot (our campaign tools are in a self-hosted site). Not a deal breaker though.
    • Very easy to use. While I am, not all our players are technological adept or used to scheduling/meeting tech.
    • Allows dates and times
    • Allows each player to change their availability
    • Allows each player to add a few notes/comments