Comment by pimeys
3 days ago
It's 1st of May here, so probably not doing it today. Looking into it a bit more when I get back from the parties. but it's basically just three files: QML for the UI, some python code to parse /proc data and a metadata file.
> It's 1st of May here
Is that date significant somewhere? It was an nice sunny Friday for me.
It's May Day, which is a labour holiday everywhere except North America commemorating the Haymarket Affair when American police brutally repressed striking workers .
In North America we have Labor Day in September to distance it from the historical associations with actual organizing and police brutality.
Still widely noted in Chicago, where the Haymarket riot took place. There's even a very well-attended reenactment every year.
North America is a big place. Generalizations always fail.
May Day has been around significantly longer than the Haymarket Affair.. a couple thousands years at least.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day
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You do know that no sea/ocean has split the continent and that Mexico is still in North America right?
1st of may is festive day in Mexico.
International Workers Day:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers%27_Day
It's huge in Berlin. First sunny and warm day this year and techno parties everywhere.
May Day - like labour day in Canada/USA... but on the first of May
I would argue nothing about American Labor Day has anything to do with labor at all. Honestly we should just rename it “Summer’s End” because there is literally no theme. The ad flyers for the sales on that weekend have, if any perceivable theme at all, red, white and blue / Stars and Stripes for some reason. It’s traditional that school starts the day after it, but in many places that’s been dragged several weeks sooner into August for some sick reason.
We just don’t even have any holiday that honors labor, laborers, or labor unions.
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