Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

@0xFF Define the term first, please; then I can opine on the proposal.

@ottocrat Because music makes time go faster. For those of us who can't find enough time to do everything, it seems strange. But for those with too much time on their hands, it makes it go faster.

@trinsec Fair. I do usually have to build massive fridge rooms that eat up a lot of electricity for that.

@trinsec Ah, okay. I usually "butcher forever" and then just have stacks of raw meat waiting to be cooked in my walk-in. Also easier to trade meat that way.

@trinsec No wonder they're not getting butchered fast enough! Your butcher pawns have to take breaks to thaw themselves out! 😛

@trinsec Build a meat locker freezer for non-rotten animal corpses.

@gpowerf 90hp?!

What's its time from 0-40? 3 days?

Does the instruction manual tell you to avoid hills or are you just supposed to learn that the hard way?

@annmlipton Is this one of those weird judge understatement things where "mad" means "barely containing myself from leaping over this bench and throttling you in rage"?

@freemo @realcaseyrollins ...if the employee can prove that reason in a court of law, which is a tall order even for someone who hasn't recently lost their income.

@freemo @realcaseyrollins In half the country they can just fire them for no reason at all 🤷‍♂️

@Teri_Kanefield @feditips I mean, yeah, if the server stops responding to requests, that makes sense. Still, I'd think it'd be pretty uncommon, especially among larger instances, and it's all the more encouragement for organizations to host their own instance so they don't fall prey to that.

@freemo @realcaseyrollins But the elected ones set the budgets for the rest. So they're the only ones for whom pressure should matter anyway.

The point is that other public employees can mount campaigns to get the public on their side to pressure the politicians to increase their budgets. An appeal to the masses, as it were.

@realcaseyrollins @freemo But public employees have much more control via the levers of public pressure. You hear about teacher salaries all the time. That's better than trying to convince an unsympathetic CEO who gets richer the less he pays you.

That's why I think the public/private line is where the union line should also be drawn.

@freemo @realcaseyrollins Uh, I don't want mailmen to have a union. Then my mailman can just start burning my mail and the union will protect him from being fired.

@freemo @realcaseyrollins Agreed. Taxpayers are the customers and the employers. We *are* the police union. Any union they form separately is in direct opposition to the general public they're meant to serve.