Jayjader

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[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Looking at your profile, Lemmy itself seems to be saying your account is 3 weeks old. I don't know what exactly is going here.

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[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 2 points 3 days ago

Aw, geee, thanks! It's been a while since I figured in a meme

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Well, now that I made this post lemmy is finding cross-posts of it..... at least none of them seem to be in this community.

 

This blogpost is close to 3 weeks old and I haven't seen it anywhere on lemmy yet. Pretty decent writeup of not just why but also how to unionize effectively, catered to tech workers in the US.

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 3 points 3 days ago

On a au moins la base du monde diplomatique qui leur sert à faire leur fameuse carte des médias & leurs propriétaires !

Les données sont organisées en sept tableaux :

  • personnes.tsv, medias.tsv et organisations.tsv contiennent les médias, personnes physiques ou morales actionnaires
  • personne-media.tsv, personne-organisation.tsv, organisation-organisation.tsv et organisation-media.tsv détaillent les liens capitalistiques entre ces actionnaires et médias qu'ils possèdent

Mise à jour en décembre 2024

Dans la partie "sources" du poste originel

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 2 points 4 days ago

New Pride Flag for the irradiated wastelands just stopped!

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And surprise, surprise, almost half of his "I use Linux now guys" video is showing off the window manager hyprland, which got a lot of bad press over the past 2 years:

https://drewdevault.com/2024/04/09/2024-04-09-FDO-conduct-enforcement.html

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

10 ans trop tard, mais mieux vaut tard que jamais?

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 1 points 1 week ago

So this but in earnest?

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 20 points 1 week ago

From 1 internet stranger to another, thank you. It really means a lot to me that people are doing what they can at their own level like you. I know how demotivating and isolating it can feel to be the only one doing the necessary work.

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 4 points 1 week ago

You buying at a grocery store is out of convenience, the alternative is learning how to hunt like a survival hunter.

At some point that was an alternative, but today the natural ecosystems have been so encroached upon by human civilization that we can't just decide to become survival hunters - we'd simply starve. Grocery stores are all you have if you're living in a high-rise apartment in most cities, for example. Most suburbs can't support enough wildlife to then be hunted for survival by the humans living there.

Vegetable gardens might be a better analogy than survival hunting. There are even some initiatives being taken to break the cycle of dependency that grocery stores encourage, which I suspect is what @subignition@fedia.io is getting at: collective effort is needed beyond just letting the techies do their thing in their own corner, otherwise we all suffer. Everyone needs to move beyond their comfort zone at some point, for some amount of time - be it the techies teaching others, or the others learning a bit more about how their tools work.

the average user wants the convenience of easy to use software, because they don’t want to learn the alternative [...] If everyone was like you, then easy to use software wouldn’t be selling so much.

I can't tell if you are simply stating how the world currently is or claiming that it is destined to always be that way, but in either case I don't see how "people prefer convenience" is a good argument against trying to help them get over that preference. I don't think convenience is nor should be the end-all-be-all of existence, in fact it can be actively detrimental to life when prioritized.

Unless I'm mistaken, the average user wanted asbestos in their walls, lead in their paint, and asked their doctor for menthol cigarettes instead of regular ones when said doctor was prescribing them for stress. The average user in the USA couldn't tell that their milk was full of pus and mixed with chalk to the point it was killing their babies, all for the convenience of still owners and milk producers. Their society had built up so much around the convenience of drinking milk in places that couldn't produce it locally, that it took an Act of Congress as well as the development of technology to safely transport milk long distances before the convenience stopped killing people.

Don't get me wrong, convenience is great when it doesn't come at the expense of our well-being - in those cases it tends to dramatically improve our well-being. I tend to agree with @subignition@fedia.io that currently the software market is overly delivering convenience to the point that it is negatively affecting our collective well-being - with regards to software, at the very least.

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 3 points 1 week ago

Also, wasn't Trump the reason the largest non-nuclear bomb in the USA arsenal was first used in combat? The bomb that had never been deployed in the almost 15 years since it's creation specifically because the US military thought it would create too many civilian casualties?

The same Trump that allegedly wanted to nuke hurricanes to disrupt them before they hit the US's coast?

The dude just wants to play with the shiny toys and see things go "boom". He has literally stated to his own biographer that

When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I'm basically the same. The temperament is not that different."

(source: The Week)

I suppose it suits him just fine that Israel is now flirting with open warfare with their neighbors.

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 5 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I guess calling them bi is more of a projection of our reality onto theirs. I think you're spot on with it being about stigma (or the lack thereof, rather).

 

Daddy, what's a train?
Is it something i can ride?
Does it carry lots of grown up folks and little kids inside?
Is it bigger than our house?
...well how could I explain?
when my little boy and girl ask me,
Daddy, what's a train?

When I was just a boy,
and livin' by the track,
Us kids would gather up the coal, in big ol' gunny sacks
Then we heard the mornin' sound as the train pulled into view,
The engineer would smile and wave as she went rolling through

She blew so loud and clear, we had to cover up our ears
And we counted cars just as high as we could go
I can almost hear the steam, those big old drivers scream -
Sounds my little kids will never know.

Daddy, what's a train?
Is it something i can ride?
Does it carry lots of grown up folks and little kids inside?
Is it bigger than our house?
...well how could I explain?
when my little boy and girl ask me,
Daddy, what's a train?

I guess the times have changed, kids are different now -
Cause some don't even seem to know that milk come from a cow!
My little boy can tell the names of all the baseball stars,
I remember how I memorized the names on railroad cars...

The Wabash and the TP, Lackawanna, the IC,
The Nickel Plate and the good ol' Santa Fe.
Just names out of the past, I guess they're fading fast,
Every time I hear my little boy say -

Daddy, what's a train?
Is it something i can ride?
Does it carry lots of grown up folks and little kids inside?
Is it bigger than our house?
...well how could I explain?
when my little boy and girl ask me,
Daddy, what's a train?

We climbed into the car, drove down into town,
Right up to the depot house, but no one was around.
We searched the yard together, for something I could show,
But I knew there hadn't been a train for a dozen years or so.

All the things I did, when I was just a kid,
How far away those memories appear!
I guess it's plain to see they still mean a lot to me -
Because my ambition was to be an engineer.

Daddy, what's a train?
Is it something i can ride?
Does it carry lots of grown up folks and little kids inside?
Is it bigger than our house?
...well how could I explain?
when my little boy and girl ask me,
Daddy, what's a train?


Une de mes préférées de son album "all abord!", le dernier qu'il a fait avant de perdre la vie. Tout l'album est dédié a son amour des trains, souvent coloré par une tristesse sur leur disparition du paysage états-unien.

 
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