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Apropos of nothing: trying to solve community safety issues by "listening to everyone's opinions and finding a compromise" means you've already committed to a compromise with abusers before the discussion has even started

You shouldn't directly criticize people, because they might feel attacked. You shouldn't bring up community safety issues, because that's just unnecessary drama.

You shouldn't question which companies the community supports, because that's bringing politics into tech. You shouldn't point out that you feel unsafe, because you won't be taken seriously - surely you're exaggerating?

This is what tech people think constitutes a "reasonable" community.

A follow-up call to action: protect and guide the young people in your workplace. Point out the importance of rest, of not being a hero to cover for systemic failures beyond your pay grade, of getting paid for your time, of the cost of disability.

You may be the first person to let them know it's ok to ease off, or to have boundaries with work.

If not you, who?

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I don't say this with any particular bitterness, more that this seems to be generally how it is, and you should know that your loyalty to your team and the people that employ you is just not worth the damage that you are doing to yourself, because that loyalty will not be there for you at the end of the process, and healing takes a surprising amount of time.

To put it in ecological terms, your health needs to be a sustainable resource for you. There is no safety net.

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PSA: until you've experienced burnout, you are likely to underestimate how long it takes to recover. It's not a couple of months, it's 6-18 months for partial recovery, and maybe 3 years for full recovery (all depending on how bad it gets). The company burning you out will almost never support your recovery, mostly they'll drop you when you stop being productive.

Nobody in business cares about your health but you, so be your own advocate, or suffer the consequences.

A lot of “thinking” about AI is based on AI’s marketing, rather than what AI does.

re: NixOS, the sponsorship thing, community safety 

Anyway I guess I need a "will not collaborate with these people" list for NixOS now

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snarky 

theres only two genders. Santa claus and the easter bunny are real. These are facts i was taught since childhood therefore are true

NixOS, the sponsorship thing, community safety 

Too many people in the community are comfortable with enthusiastically defending Murder Machines Inc., and too many other people just see that as a "difference in opinion" rather than being a direct threat to marginalized folks

I think you can probably guess which demographic this people belong to

Da unser Fahrgastinformationssystem per Lautsprecher (seit Wochen) kaputt ist, haben wir zur Sicherheit die Verfügbarkeit von Informationen auf dem System, das noch funktioniert, massiv reduziert. Der gelbe Hinweis ist da permanent eingeblendet.

@CaribenxMarciaX as usual i think it's a case of white people waking up to the fascism that's been there all along, and instructing others who've been dealing with it already for years how they should deal with it... i'm reminded of folks coming here for the first time in november last year and then writing articles about how to behave on mastodon; same fervent + misguided + patronizing energy of the privileged new convert

kidney disease update 

So now my potassium levels are *too low*, instead of too high. Huh. What.

People who keep shouting it's unethical to be on Twitter now I have some fucking questions. You still buying at fast fashion outlets? Driving cars? Flying in airplanes? You eating Tyson Chicken? Do you try to keep slave labor out of your coffee? Or do you just not like evil when it feels a little too in your face?

today i heard the term "polyworking" for the first time and i want to punch a capitalist in the throat

I just realized how fucked up it is that lead is in some aluminum alloys for better machining.

Like to they get that out when recycling or is recycled aluminum just always contaminated with a bit of lead?

#aluminum #aluminium #lead #recycling

re: cleaning, positive 

For clarification: I mean 'botvac' in the generic sense, I was until today unaware that it is also a brand name 🙃

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