My experience a few years ago, after we caught a member of the team persistently (£250 a day cash withdrawals) and fraudulently (faking receipts) stealing from us (and uncovered pathological lies and likely other plans).
We went to court for his trial as the Crown Prosecution Service had failed to acknowledge or understand our evidence.
Turned out they'd reached a plea bargain on the basis of lies and therefore he got off lightly - and without having to pay us back!
@antlerboy it happens in the vast majority of cases... the judicial system would collapse if more than a tiny percentage of defendants insisted on their right to a trial
okay this is aimed at socially lazy heterosexual men and that's 100% justified.
but people who can't handle small talk because it's low bandwidth and only come into their element talking about deep 'n meaningful stuff are EXCELLENT at sexual negotiation.
Having a charge-the-collection day. Every time I do this iPod I forget it's a HD based machine until partway through it fires up the drive with a noise that sounds like the ones that early morning huntsman spiders make when they click to each other on the walls.
Starting a thread on the different types of tofu and how to cook them. (Some of these are vegan, some are not. In Chinese cooking, tofu is not a vegan protein):
Egg tofu
This is one of my fave tofus. It isn't vegan. It's made with soy beans AND eggs. It has a eggy taste that egg lovers will love; but that goes way entirely when it's panfried lightly.
On my second workday medicated. One of the best and surprising parts is confidence and trust in what I've already done.
Before, in essence I couldn't trust that my intent was what I actually managed to do.
I don't have to double check myself over and over. I just remember, and it's there. The live thoughts of tasks I performed still exist in my head and are accessible in moments.
@NanoRaptor This is so familiar and I'm delighted you're getting the same benefits I did. Coming from further along in the journey, a quick question: if you're on the amphetamine type of stimulant, has your doc prescribed you a top-up dose? You may otherwise find that the dose lasts a workday but you want your brain to continue to function for the whole day.
People, please. The "Mastodon Board" (whatever that even means) could have Mr Satan in it, and you'd still be able to fork the software and/or run your own instance. None of y'all have ever had problems defederating from large instances, so don't even think about throwing that argument in.
Whatever your opinions are about this, it's unrealistic to expect this to remain a hobby project for two engineers. Maybe this is not the best way to solve this problem, but (again), Just Fork It™
@brunoph I think you're missing something important here — funders can set the agenda for positive developments in the feature set, architecture, federation, etc. We might not even recognise the forks in the road, the paths not taken because someone had a vision for something else.
Also the vast majority of users are not in a position to just fork it. An elite few can do that. Do the rest of us just not count?
@brunoph You're suggesting there's an easy solution — 'just' fork it.
I am fine with Boards and funders, I'm just pointing out the risks are opaque and the solutions are not easy and probably not technical either. They are about activated communities placing demands on the funding entity and its governance.
Sometimes I forget how beautiful The Trout is, and someone has to come up to me in a parking lot, point to it and go "Nice. I really like it... Nice" and then I'm proud again.
Ugh, I follow a lot of mental health professionals on LinkedIN, and my feed there has just shown me three posts in a row about mental health conditions that I have being associated with poorer life expectancy.
I already have high cholesterol and heart disease. Should I bite the bullet and begin taking a statin? Green tea? Red wine? (Don't say regular exercise.)
@jonobie Oh gosh, I just checked and I follow 505 people! I don't think there's a public list of them I can share. I can recommend two people who consistently post interesting stuff with thoughtful comments, though:
@antlerboy This is not a book, it's a bloody corpus. And it certainly captures the pluralism and eclecticism of systems thinking, which can be strengths but also pose huge problems for anyone starting out in the field. I wrote about some of those challenges in this piece for New Directions for Evaluation:
Can anyone help me find the article I once found through Twitter which suggested that finding out how their organisation actually worked (through IIRC something as simple as process improvement) was like arcane knowledge which often derailed careers and led to people leaving their orgs?
I think the thing that is going to drive me off Mastodon is the one-eyed fedi superfans.
I've always known twitter can read my DMs but I also know they have a privacy policy backed up by strict privacy regulation in the US, EU and Australia.
The chap who runs my local instance is lovely but there's no privacy policy and no regulatory oversight. I don't even have a contract with him. I'd have to sue him in a private capacity if anything happened.