@jezebelkat@famichiki.jp
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jezebelkat

@jezebelkat@famichiki.jp

Labor Organiser 🎌, Journalist, Teacher, New Mexican, Kimagure Orange Road Fan
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avdi, to random
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If there's one thing that's more and more clear to me over the course of my career is how much of developer culture is dedicated to making ourselves complicit in our own exploitation. Witness the absolute mindless doublespeak that passes for engagement on LinkedIn.

jezebelkat,
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@passenger @daniel_wengelin @avdi

Yes, we do struggle with a recent boom in recruitment, and the organisers are overworked--only one of whom is an actual member-employee, and only one other is paid. I'm generally considered "the major third," and I have a day job and receive no pay. I don't even ask for reimbursement so I pay like double-dues. :P

jezebelkat,
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@passenger @daniel_wengelin @avdi

Exactly. We have a hyper-local version of it called 駆け込めないで which means "don't rush in" (like trying to catch a closing train door).

Don't join when you have a problem--the train is already leaving the station. It's too late.

jezebelkat,
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@passenger @daniel_wengelin @avdi

A pretty common join reason is "company asked me to enforce X, X is horrific, I can't do it."

jezebelkat,
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@passenger @daniel_wengelin @avdi

My union has middle managers, being protected by trade union law here (in Japan) if they don't meet the benchmark of having final or sole say over hire/fire/discipline (which is actually a pretty high bar to clear), and what prompts it is usually moments of extreme moral injury, with upper management crossing a line they just can't follow through on.

jezebelkat,
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@passenger @daniel_wengelin @avdi

My union is overtly democratic. Like militantly so. The organisers, such as myself, do not run the union, and do not want to run the union, and we're also members with our own workplaces. We don't have outside staff. Everyone is elected. Most receive no pay. I assume that we quickly run off those that don't get that. Or they don't bother applying in the first place.

jezebelkat,
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@passenger @daniel_wengelin @avdi

We've more than doubled since the pandemic, and that's why it is so important for members to understand that unions are not insurance schemes. You don't call the rep when you're in trouble. You have to do the work to run the union. The union is you.

jezebelkat,
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@passenger @daniel_wengelin @avdi

Yes. Middle managers are some of the most stressed out people I know.

tokyohomo, to random Japanese
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Umm…fellow 30-somethings, maybe let’s not marry 19-year-olds? 👀

jezebelkat,
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@tokyohomo My parents were eight years apart, but they also got married when my mother was 44 and my step-father was 52, and that's an entirely different situation.

Even 11 years isn't a big deal if it's 51 and 40. Not sure 18 years is really not sketch to me if either person is below 50.

jezebelkat,
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@tokyohomo 30 and 19 is sketch enough, but 37 and 19? Nope.

FlockOfCats, to random
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It’s quite chilly tonight, so shorts season might finally be at an end.

I’m sorry, but you all might have to wait until spring for more of the zettai ryōiki between the bottom of my cargo shorts and top of my socks.

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats

As long as it is only mildly cool until spring, basically meaning now through March is Autpring, I'm okay with it.

FlockOfCats, to random
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Ms. Dr. FlockOfCats has to do a meeting in English where predators of an endangered bird will be discussed.

But she has trouble saying “predator”, so for the past two days she has been asking me random questions to practice saying it:
“Do you know bird predators?”
“Do you like predators?”
“What is your favorite predator?”
“Have you seen a predator?”
“Are you a predator?”

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats

And have you had her watch this classic as study material?

thelinuxEXP, to random
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Well that was certainly one hell of a storm!
160-190 km/h winds, about 800 000 people left without electricity in my Region alone, and roads are blocked around my city as so many trees were ripped out of the earth…

I live on the last floor of my building, and the flat was battered the whole night by these winds, it was insane!

jezebelkat,
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@thelinuxEXP

I hope you and yours are okay, Nick. No injuries? At least nothing serious?

jezebelkat,
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@thelinuxEXP

That's wise, when we got hit in 2019 with our big typhoon here in the Tokyo area, it did some significant damage, and I'm doing renovations on my house, and might want to go ahead and replace the entire roof...

FlockOfCats, to random
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No entry, 24 h limes

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats 8 h limes, 8 h sleep, 8 h of what we will!

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats It can not hold all these limes.

FlockOfCats, to random
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Gonna try reading an analog Kindle

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats dead tree?

jezebelkat, to random
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Asked on that other website, thought I'd ask on the chicken snack:

When did helicopter parenting kick in? When did kids stop having the ability basically be gone on their bikes all day and maybe call from a payphone/friend's landline to check in once?

Was it the rise of cell phones as something now adolescents or even younger kids just... had? Did it start earlier and I just didn't notice?

It feels like kids/teens haven't had that kind of freedom in a very, very long time. 20 years maybe.

jezebelkat, to random
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If next year I tried to figure out how to run a D&D game virtually, would anyone on the chicken snack be interested?

Might even look into hybrid if some people would be willing to come out during the warmer months to Kujukuri...

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats I'm sure that with the pandemic, someone hammered out a way to run it via Zoom or whatever. I'll need to investigate.

jezebelkat, to random
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Okay, given the expressed interest, I'm looking at launching a D&D Campaign through Foundry starting maybe late January.

The party will be limited to Famichiki participants for a couple of reasons: keeping party numbers manageable and providing some assurances the party members know each other or at least know of each other.

Please let me know your interest by the end of the year.

jezebelkat, to random
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I'm officially done with macOS on my personal machine.

Given the age of my MacBook Pro (2015) and the demands of running Ventura or Sonoma via OpenCore Legacy, it's time to move on. The errors on macOS given the hacked nature are impossible to deal with.

Linux Mint XFCE runs well enough these days to eke out one last year on this thing--and then I go with a custom Tuxedo laptop.

jezebelkat,
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This is basically Nick @thelinuxEXP 's fault.

jezebelkat, to random
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Although Linux has come a long way in the 25 years since I started using it with Red Hat 5.2 or whatever, there are still those squirrelly things that means if you install X, it breaks Y, and even when X is removed, Y remains broken, and you just have to bypass it.

I borked my keyboard layout and it seemed the layout applet (the Japanese flag in my previous screenshot) and the full screen app dashboard I installed did not play nice. In the end, I had to remove both.

jezebelkat, to random
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I guess Season 5 of Stranger Things actually is filming now. So I guess that's cool. Now that I'm invested I'll have something to look forward to.

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats no, as of S4, the characters are only freshmen.

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