Not how the union works. But thanks for trying.

Found the guy who never worked a union job.

Reality doesn’t care whether you care to play or not.

There’s a limited amount of resources, you can’t hire everyone on Earth, you can’t give everyone an unlimited salary. Everything past that you’re making decisions as to who gets what.

And by the way, if you make enough poor decisions eventually everyone loses their jobs.

Its a very true dichotomy.

Hey let’s hire Ashok for this position! He’s really good!

Oops, sorry. Bob Whiteman has been here for 30 years. He’s just good enough not to fire but he has seniority so he gets first dibs on the job.

Hey, let’s give Ashok a raise! He’s really good!

Oops, sorry. Bob Whiteman has been here for 30 years. He’s just good enough not to fire. It he’s been here the longest so he gets paid the most.

The false dichotomy is assuming your choices are a massive adversarial bureaucracy or not making a living wage.

That doesn’t have anything to do with what I said.

Do you want to pay people more because they’re better at their job or do you want to pay people more because they’ve been warming a chair longer than anyone else?

The person who decided a headphone jack is superfluous should be found, tarred, feathered, and left naked and alone deep in the alaskan wilderness covered in pigs blood for the wildlife to enjoy.

I’m probably in a minority where I preferred tng to ds9, and I identify ds9 as the “darker grittier trek” that led to the long vacuum of trek. It was extraordinary, but like a lot of outliers, I think it gave the studios the wrong message about what people wanted.

It’s actually a common problem that people go “Oh, I had some pasta, that’s 200 calories” but not paying attention to the 600 calories of sauce slathered all over it.

Same with salad. People go “Oh, I’ve got salad, 50 calories” but then the dressing is several hundred calories.

• Lemmy
• Searx
• Matrix
• Xmpp
• Soapbox
• Lotide
• Peertube
• Nextcloud
• Nostr
• Wordpress
• Plex (sorta borderline of this counts)
• Invidious
• Pfsense

Running on a total of 5 fanless commercial grade sign PCs. That’s why the motto of my websites is “this site runs of parts scavenged from a roadside sign”

1x core 2 duo running Lemmy

2x atom d2550s running xmpp, matrix, lotide, searx, nostr, and invidious

2x core i5 4000 series running everything else

I try to run bare metal so I can stick my fingers into things.