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That’s why you get a bulldozer. And if need be, an immense supply of steel sheeting, concrete mix, and welding supplies.

The games are way better.

m a huge trek nerd so this place is basically like A Little Piece of Heaven.

That’s pretty much exactly how I feel about it top. It’s very refreshing.

m slowly getting my wife into it, but she’s still learning the basics so it’s great to have a place to read and discuss the finer points.

Same. We are currently wrapping up TNG season 1, but we are certainly getting through it, and she loves it enough to keep going which is great.

I usually keep the star trek conversations to my star trek account though.

Like how much RICK FUCKING BERMAN sucks ass, and how Captain Jellico may be a good starfleet captain but he’s still an asshole and not a great enterprise captain

I’ll admit I’m not as familiar with the background stuff like that, but pretty much everything I hear about Berman is not good.

Yeah, that’s pretty much where I’m at. It’s worth tying, even if the chances are small, and they are definitely small.

Idk why they thought I’d be dumb enough to believe them, considering they wanted me because of my test score.

I think therein lies your answer. Their own test scores were low enough to think you might eventually join.

Yeah, it is a bit defeatist. And I don’t have high hopes for this country to unfuck itself of the current situation. I’ve mentioned unionization to co-workers in the past. At best they don’t bat an eye and engage, and at worst they treat you like an enemy, and no matter what the word is treated in a hushed manner.

I’m not saying it is impossible. It’s just a ball busting-ly hard job to get done.

This was years ago, not the current recruitment crisis.

But either way, I’m glad the latest generation isn’t falling for it either.

Thank you for your take.

Completely unrelated to what you said, I appreciate seeing so many star trek fans around here. It really makes lemmy feel like a home.

But people are already losing their jobs without these safety nets anyway.

And it’s absolute bullshit. But from the average workers perspective, there is a strong incentive to not lose your job even if you know there is a high chance of losing it to begin with. So the resulting behavior is that workers try to keep their head down and postpone that eventual job loss.

Until a worker can be confident there will still be food on their table and a roof over their head when they strike or try to form a union, the incentive to keep your head down will continue to remain too strong.

What do we have to do, and why aren’t we doing it?

The list of worker protections needed for that kind of solidarity would take a book series to properly explain. The majority of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, meaning they can’t walk out without losing everything. They would pretty much instantly lose their jobs, which is a huge deterance.

And culturally, the situation is fucked. The U.S. has a much workers solidarity as La Croix has taste. Nobody wants to be the first to stick their neck out for a general strike. Nobody takes the ideal of a general strike seriously. A third of the population is republicans, whom vehemently oppose unions and worker protections.

The culture, values, and worker protections of this country need to dramatically change. And I wish I had solutions.

They sent a recruiter to my place of employment back when I was in retail. They asked me if I ever thought of joining the armed forces, and I gave them a polite but firm no.

So then they asked “are you happy with where your life is going?”, trying to take advantage of me being a teenager stuck in retail.

Even if they werent asking you to throw your life away in some oil war to protect corporate interests, even if they weren’t asking you to sell your morals away, they’re aggressive assholes. So fuck them they’re getting the treatment they deserve.

Yeah. Luckily the work I am doing is to fix some really bad work that the entire company has been complaining about. So once it’s fixed it will hopefully be a little bit more recognition than that. Plus my boss is pretty level headed.

But who fucking knows? There is always the likelihood that people will say things along those lines. And it ain’t my job to fight them on that.

No, we have worse. Dates sometimes stored as strings, sometimes as datetimes, and sometimes as integers. There is no consistency, logic, or forethought to the schema.

It’s rough.

At work, I am currently dealing with a table that has no primary key, no foreign key, duplicate (almost) serial numbers, booleans stored as strings, and so on. It’s a nightmare of a table.

Entity framework is acting like I’m on meth for using such a table.

And if your electricity isn’t sourced from renewables, you’re just kicking the problem down the road.

Partially. With the exception of maybe coal, fossil fuel energy plants are more carbon efficient than an internal combustion engine can be just due to difference in scale.

The better option is to have it powered through 100% renewable, but it isn’t an automatic lost cause.

You don’t need to name call to argue against somebody.

I’ll be honest, I followed you here/noticed this thread because I was checking to see if you were ignoring the reports or just weren’t around. But now that I am here, I’m giving you my two cents.

You are getting a ridiculous amount of reports because you are failing to do anything effective about TJD and Momo, who make up the most of the civility issues outside of random dissenters that occasionally see the posts from your sub.

or the very least not report each other? If you don’t report it, I can at least pretend I didn’t see it and be on my merry way with plausible deniability. Fucking tattle tales.

The lack of moderation response to Momo is the exact reason why I clapped back at Momo that last time. Your options are:

1. Deal with the problem makers (TJD & Momo), either by banning them or removing their comments (waiting around for them to edit their comments is not enough).

2. Don’t do anything and allow your sub to descend into a 4chan-esc world of slurs and insults, probably getting your sub banned in the process.

Like does that really warrant a ban? Not really.

An individual bad comment/insult/name calling may not warrant a ban. I agree with you on that. But when a user consistently does it, when they have a history of doing so, it is time to show them the door. If they want to use slurs and insults in every comment then they can go to 4chan.

Some people will never admit anything is happening. They’ll just blame everything on something else.

We are already seeing the effects of climate change. If they were going to admit it, they would have done so already.

And the biggest polluters are corporations/industry, and the rich.

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