I’ve gotten a lot of helpful answers, but yours was the only one that included a visual aid! Thanks!
What’s interesting is that when I focused on the UFOs, I didn’t notice a difference between the 30 fps and the 60 fps stars. When I let my eyes go out of focus, though, I was able to see a clear difference between them.
Uh… as I see it, they can’t “refuse” to do their job and still expect to keep that job. Verify the signatures, quit, or be fired. Those are their options.
Of course, it won’t be handled that neatly and fairly. I’m just being naive again.
A problem I often have is finding something good enough to kinda watch, but not SO good that I feel like I’m missing something if I screw around with my tablet while it’s on.
Conservatives can openly break the law, and laugh while doing so. Liberals too often lack the spine to make them pay serious consequences, or any consequences at all. I can’t blame people for losing faith in democracy when it’s disintegrating before our eyes.
Whenever anyone reading this feels stupid or embarrassed, just remember the “protesters” standing out in the cold in support of Apple. It will make you feel better.
Back in high school, I worked with a girl who simply would not do her job. She’d walk away from her cash register at will. She’d go on break without telling anyone (never mind asking, like she was supposed to), and wouldn’t answer her radio, so people were constantly asking where she was. She wouldn’t follow instructions from anyone except the general manager - as if she outranked everyone else (which, of course, she didn’t). Everyone who actually had to work with her couldn’t stand her. From her perspective, though, she was always the victim. Nothing was ever her fault.
She would also talk your ear off. It was impossible to work with her and not hear several stupid, irrelevant, boring stories every hour. Fortunately, I didn’t have to work full shifts with her very often. If I had, I probably would have quit long before I had to leave for college.
I strongly suspect that the main reason she wasn’t fired is because it had taken months to fill her position, and filling it again would take months more. Plus, she only annoyed management; she didn’t completely exasperate them like she did the rest of us.
Wow. It’s been years. I’m surprised I still remember this so clearly.
Aaaaaaaand this is where my lack of experience shows itself. Thank you for the explanation!
I think it’s kinda funny that a conversation about Beehaw’s problems resulted in a a great Beehaw post. Elsewhere, I probably would have gotten several comments calling me an idiot, or at best, an insulting and condescending lecture poorly disguised as an explanation. Instead, you took the time to educate me on the issue. I appreciate that.
Not prioritizing moderation tools doesn’t make sense to me, either. A database that’s crummy (but functional) is an important issue, but one that seems like it can wait. Moderation tools cannot wait.
Community building is what Lemmy is supposed to be for, right? Any instance, regardless of its goals or ideology, needs good moderation in order to thrive (what’s considered “good moderation” will vary widely from instance to instance, and that’s fine. You know what I mean, though). Even an instance that prides itself on minimal moderation needs powerful, flexible mod tools to deal with things like spam and cp.
The less obvious technical parts are important, of course, but users don’t love or hate an instance because of the back end. They care about how it’s moderated.
Bear in mind that I know nothing about programming, moderating, etc. Take that into account when considering my comment.
Okay. I was already annoyed, but now I’m like “seriously, fuck these people.” I hope Unity is driven out of business.