ZombiFrancis
@ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Maybe someday 😌 32 minutes ago:
‘Do the thing’ is using the tools a user has at their disposal to block other users. Communities can block and ban users too.
Defederation over moderation is not the thing I am suggesting. Especially not as part of a multiyear campaign perpetuating a bad-faith feedback loop.
- Comment on Maybe someday 😌 1 hour ago:
That’s why instances, communities, and users can be blocked and banned. If ‘their conversation’ is not allowed in ‘your space’ then do the thing and move on.
- Comment on Anon likes a thing 4 hours ago:
Now, now it is only a Totenkopf if it is from a distinct region of Germany.
- Comment on Doctor Debates 3 days ago:
- Comment on On Oysters 4 days ago:
They don’t so much ‘change sex’ as they grow reproductive organs in response to conditions and blast sperm and/or eggs everywhere, sometimes both at the same time.
- Comment on Sweatshop 1 week ago:
I get what you mean, and it’s a common thought and strategy. It just doesn’t work as well as one might think. Unless there is a union, employees are at a significant disadvantage. Forming a union would be FAR more effective than quoting OSHA regs.
The main thing is regulatory violations aren’t (usually) criminal so there’s a long administrative process to most enforcement actions. Companies overwhelmingly have the resources to litigate beyond their employees means. So if they have the resources to have legal council or a compliance officer, there likely needs to be a well documented paper trail of concealment or otherwise flagrant disregard or denial of improved conditions.
There not being A/C isn’t enough. Refusing requests to install A/C is better. The company removing workers fans to make a point goes further in a case. Then putting out an internal memo requiring zero ventilation and to lie to investigators is a strong case.
- Comment on Sweatshop 1 week ago:
The fear of god isn’t enforceable. The main thing you do in referencing OSHA is to demonstrate a level of knowledge, commitment, or at least interest in the issue. And most of the time it is the appearance of concealing a condition that is the enforced violation. This is usually what companies are actually sensitive to.
So while an OSHA violation is a serious thing, the conditions in question here (heat) are not a regulation that can be violated and therefore enforced in the same way.
- Comment on Sweatshop 1 week ago:
Yep, and precisely why there is the need to develop an argument in defining ‘reasonable’ instead of just citing the applicable law or regulation. The OSHA recommendation provides a less arbitrary foundation for defining a reasonable temperature.
- Comment on Sweatshop 1 week ago:
The OSHA recommendation is 68-76F, which isn’t a direct link to ‘reasonable’ but provides a suitable context to frame workplace conditions.
If people’s body temperatures can be measured exceeding 100F a link to heat stress and increasing risk of injury in the workplace can also be drawn as it’s generally the equivalent of working with a fever.
- Comment on With all the animals that die in the sea, is it possible they get pickled in there? 1 week ago:
There are pockets and layers of water in the ocean that behave very differently from each other. There are areas of high salt concentration that pretty much act as death horizons for many organisms. There are waters completely devoid of oxygen that suffocate organisms that get lost or stuck in it.
So, in a sense: yes. However the degree to which marine life had adapted to these conditions, the more unlikely parameter is a dead organism not being consumed by scavengers.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 1 week ago:
Absolute parody.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 1 week ago:
‘HOA Board member’ puts this entire thread of conversation into perfect context.
- Comment on spicy one 1 week ago:
Without it the value of the Suez Canal plummets. Please, think of the shareholders.
- Comment on Republican Senator callously says 'biblically, we are supposed to work' to millions set to lose health care 1 week ago:
He does not deserve Babydog.
- Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games 1 week ago:
I guess Nexon wasn’t happy with $6 million because the court found Dark & Darker wasn’t copyright infringement, but was an infringement of ‘trade secrets’.
If I remember 2023 correctly, Nexon decided to cut the game at the end of development and dumpster their work. So the devs left and finished the game on their own. Since Nexon never actually made/finished/released the game they couldn’t claim copyright.
- Comment on So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to distract americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance... 1 week ago:
distract americans from the nightmare they are enduring
I assure you the nightmare is being experienced more acutely and directly by the people being actively bombed.
- Comment on Just curious 2 weeks ago:
The collective age of this comment chain is now approximately 120.
- Comment on Priorities 2 weeks ago:
We do a lil’ innvoation in the private sector here.
- Comment on What are your favorite Tactical RPGs? 2 weeks ago:
Fallout Tactics remains my favorite Fallout.
- Comment on What are your favorite Tactical RPGs? 2 weeks ago:
There’s a hilariously drawn out postgame/endgame challenge dungeon type thing that’s like 100+ straight battles.
But the main game is solidly worth the full price, quite honestly. Any sale you find is just helping your budget.
- Comment on But but but 2 weeks ago:
They hate it when you clown on Sparta like a smug Athenian too.
- Comment on Only $50? 3 weeks ago:
Bladder sourced is what the study determined, with the fluid being normal urine or Skene’s gland secretion, but likely some combination.
Plausibly there could be pure glandular secretion squirt. Or urine. But likely a mix.
- Comment on NOOOOOOO 3 weeks ago:
Moral ABCs never disappoint.
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 3 weeks ago:
They don’t even have to pass those if they don’t want to. In portions of America it is just: win an election, appoint your friends and lackies.
A lot of departments use the admission tests to screen out candidates who might be overqualified: they specifically won’t want the best. An overwight blob is preferable to an in shape individual that might think before acting.
- Comment on Opinions on the internet 3 weeks ago:
It isn’t a paradox, or it doesn’t have to be. It isn’t a seemingly false or untrue statement that belies a deeper meaning.
It is a definitional and logical conclusion that a concept cannot tolerate its anathema and inverse.
Chemically tolerance means the limit at which something begins to degrade or an organism has to/begins to adapt. This is at least what I interpret with what is being brought up with tolerance of intolerance: when adaptation or degradation is required, the limits of tolerance have been reached.
- Comment on Opinions on the internet 3 weeks ago:
Insert one shibboleth, like one bit of information critically wrong intentionally. Make lists of users who point it out for HR.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Ah I see. It took me entirely too long (now) to notice the typo. I’ll have to leave it there.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I do a lil American conjugation. Prefer it to youse, at least.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I assume America by ‘West’ and ‘free country’? Ya’ll are teenagers and she is a minor. Until she is in an independent position and likely a legal adult I would not engage in the affairs of her legal guardians, as close as you two may be or feel.
- Comment on Guess I'm on the right track 😌 4 weeks ago:
That’s likely what’s at work with these things. I even got a few chronic haters that downvote just about everything I write, even when it’s calling out racism. They’ll downvote criticism of Nazis in the effort, even.
