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Grumpy Website<p>Beautiful form design by all means:</p><p>- “Required” dropdown in which you can select “I prefer not to respond”<br>- Asking for details when you choose not to give a reason</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amazon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Required" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Required</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Optional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Optional</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Dropdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dropdown</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Form" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Form</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>How <a href="https://c.im/tags/Janice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Janice</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Johnston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Johnston</span></a> is ‘laying the groundwork for<br>🔥 chaos’ in Georgia’s elections</p><p>An <a href="https://c.im/tags/election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>election</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/denier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>denier</span></a> praised by Trump sits on the state’s elections board<br>-- which has just <a href="https://c.im/tags/required" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>required</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/hand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hand</span></a>-<a href="https://c.im/tags/counting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>counting</span></a> ballots on Election Day </p><p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/20/janice-johnston-election-denier-georgia-elections-board?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2024/s</span><span class="invisible">ep/20/janice-johnston-election-denier-georgia-elections-board?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Why Does the U.S. Copyright Office Require Libraries to Lie to Users about Their Fair Use Rights? They Won’t Say. - The Scholarly Kitchen</p><p>The notice that libraries are <a href="https://c.im/tags/required" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>required</span></a> by <a href="https://c.im/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> to provide you is <a href="https://c.im/tags/false" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>false</span></a> and misleading. </p><p>In fact, you have the exact same rights in copies provided by the library that you do in copies made elsewhere. </p><p>Title 17, Section 107 of the U.S. Code. It describes limitations on the exclusive rights of copyright holders, making clear that despite the general exclusivity of those rights, users of copyrighted documents are nevertheless allowed to make limited uses of those documents that might otherwise infringe on the exclusivity of the copyright holder’s prerogatives. The law introduces fair use as follows:</p><p>The fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.</p><p>So why are libraries required by the current federal statute to mislead you in this way?</p><p><a href="https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/07/05/why-does-the-u-s-copyright-office-require-libraries-to-lie-to-users-about-their-fair-use-rights-they-wont-say/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/20</span><span class="invisible">23/07/05/why-does-the-u-s-copyright-office-require-libraries-to-lie-to-users-about-their-fair-use-rights-they-wont-say/</span></a></p>
PhoenixSerenity<p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/SwinomishPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SwinomishPeople</span></a> aka <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/PeopleOfTheSalmon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeopleOfTheSalmon</span></a> , make up the federally recognized <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/tribe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tribe</span></a> comprising the <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/CoastSalish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoastSalish</span></a> people who are <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/descendants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>descendants</span></a> of the original tribes that lived in the surrounding areas. Their <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>culture</span></a> is centered around saltwater resources, local flora, and fauna.<br>In 1991, the Tribe &amp; BNSF signed an <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/agreement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>agreement</span></a> that <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/required" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>required</span></a> the <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/railway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>railway</span></a> company to <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/inform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inform</span></a> the <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Reservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reservation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>community</span></a> of the type of cargo contained on any <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/train" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>train</span></a><br><a href="https://www.sportskeeda.com/amp/pop-culture/bnsf-train-derailment-who-swinomish-indian-people-revealed-diesel-spill-strengthens-legal-case-railways" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sportskeeda.com/amp/pop-cultur</span><span class="invisible">e/bnsf-train-derailment-who-swinomish-indian-people-revealed-diesel-spill-strengthens-legal-case-railways</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNations</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/PNW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PNW</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>'Indentured servitude': Nurses hit with hefty debt when trying to leave hospitals</p><p>When Jacqui Rum quit her nursing job at Los Robles Regional Medical Center last fall over the heavy workload and low staffing levels, it came with a high price — a $2,000 bill from her former employer for training costs. </p><p>The payment was related to a <a href="https://c.im/tags/contract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contract</span></a> Rum was <a href="https://c.im/tags/required" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>required</span></a> to sign when she took the job at the Thousand Oaks, California, hospital owned by HCA Healthcare, the nation’s largest for-profit hospital chain. </p><p>Under the agreement, which is <a href="https://c.im/tags/standard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>standard</span></a> for <a href="https://c.im/tags/entry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>entry</span></a>-<a href="https://c.im/tags/level" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>level</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/nurses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nurses</span></a> working at HCA hospitals and becoming increasingly standard for other health systems, Rum agreed to <a href="https://c.im/tags/pay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pay</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/back" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>back</span></a> the hospital for <a href="https://c.im/tags/training" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>training</span></a> if she quit or was fired before her two-year contract expired</p><p><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/economics/indentured-servitude-nurses-hit-hefty-debt-trying-leave-hospitals-rcna74204" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nbcnews.com/politics/economics</span><span class="invisible">/indentured-servitude-nurses-hit-hefty-debt-trying-leave-hospitals-rcna74204</span></a></p>