Kichae

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Astronomer & video game data scientist with repressed anger

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Kichae , to Firefox in Firefox 124.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes

Using chatgpt for searches

I cannot stress this enough: LLMs are not, have never been, and quite likely never will be search engines. You may as well ask your a auto-complete questions.

Kichae , to Work Reform in SAG-AFTRA Pushes For Another Video Game Strike

So ultimately, it's about the union, and the celebrities are a key way the union leverages its members to get game studios to sign union contracts.

If studios want the big celebrity actor to say 5 or 6 lines in its game, then they need to sign with SAG-AFTRA, and that means accepting some rather strict restrictions on hiring on-union VAs for the other rolls.

Kichae , (edited ) to Work Reform in UAW strike Day 4: GM threatens to send 2,000 workers home, Ford cuts 600 jobs

Imagine you’re Biden and you hear about this railroad strike. Your advisors are telling you if the strike goes through how many rail passengers are stranded in the middle of nowhere, how much food is just going to go to waste and not make it to various towns, which factories manufacturing hospital equipment will be without material and unable to continue production.

Strikes are supposed to be inconvenient. A strike that is not inconvenient garners workers no leverage. Interfering with a strike because it is inconvenient is union busting.

On top of a gigantic economic impact there could be deaths associated with the strike.

There are deaths associated with a lot of things that the administration is not acting on. Why was this one special?

Imagine you’re that guy and have to make the call to say nope, I don’t care, the strike continues.

Imagine you're that guy, and your call isn't to tell the rail companies to negotiate in good faith and get the strike dealt with.

He sided with the companies, not the workers. He did so publicly, and with the weight of the state.

There's no nuance here. He interfered with workers' rights to strike and to negotiate, favouring business over workers.

Kichae , to Work Reform in Wreck the economy because it only works for the billionaire class.

It's not sealioning when you say something incomprehensible and someone else asks you WTF you tried to say

Kichae , to Star Trek in Star Trek Day 2023 Special

Jerry O’Connell looks like he desperately wants to be anywhere else

He's worried that people will discover his secret identity, and distracted by trying to find his way home to his native universe.

Kichae , to Politics in The Fox GOP debate melted down when the word “climate” was mentioned

Just waiting for the 2nd amigo to show up so you guys can commence with the Mexican-Spider-Man-point-off.

Kichae , (edited ) to Work Reform in The Elite's War on Remote Work Has Nothing to Do with Productivity

Most of them are not. The reality is, workers in the US are more or less equally split between big businesses and small-to-medium businesses, and outside of the States it skews much more toward small-to-medium. These are companies that often have less than amicable relationships with their landlords, because landlords have this nasty tendency of acting like landlords.

On top of that, much commercial real estate is owned by REITs, which are managed from the biggest cities, and aren't really entities small and medium businesses get to have real relationships with, any more than an apartment renter gets to have a relationship with their residential REIT.

They're not buddies. They don't even have a direct line of contact.

Kichae , to Work Reform in The Elite's War on Remote Work Has Nothing to Do with Productivity

From what I've seen, every push to have everyone return to the office has either been that they just want control over employees or they want butts in seats because the seats aren't free.

Yes, exactly.

Everyone keeps pointing to the real estate issue, but the simple fact of the matter is that most office-based employers don't own any commercial real estate. It's a great theory as to why the media has been promoting back-to-office stories, but it doesn't explain why employers are actually doing it.

Raw, unmitigated distrust of and disrespect for employees, though...

Kichae , to RedditMigration in Maybe it's fine to leave some people behind...

They probably won't like the communists here, either.

Kichae , to Work Reform in We’re now finding out the damaging results of the mandated return to the office–and it’s worse than we thought

Preaching to the choir. I left my last job because they mandated return to office so that I could work remotely with teams in Montreal and Paris.

The only difference between doing that in my home office and doing it from their office was they could watch over my shoulder from there.

It's not about managing remote teams. It's about controlling workers, and those are very different things. These people are worried that you might be getting your laundry done between work tasks, or that you're actually working 5 jobs, or other ridiculous bullshit, not about whether you're achieving your assigned tasks.

Remote work is cheaper, more efficient, and leads to happier workers, and they'd rather wreck the first two to ensure the don't have the third.

Kichae , (edited ) to Work Reform in We’re now finding out the damaging results of the mandated return to the office–and it’s worse than we thought

I'm sure that's part of it, but most office-based companies do not own commercial real estate. They're renters of it. Having workers return to the office does nothing for the value of their property, as they don't own any.

While it does give management a sense that they're paying rent on those long-term commercial leases for a reason, it's pretty clear that the real value for them is in being able to directly see employees when they're not in-camera. Managers and ownership have demonstrated that they do not trust their employees, and pulling them back into the office is much more about feeling like they can control their lessers than it is about anything else.

Kichae , to Work Reform in I think minors need a union, may help with the safety issues at the work place

I can’t fathom why a civilized country

Making some bold assumptions there, I think.

Kichae , to Star Trek in "We Didn't Know It Was The End": Jonathan Frakes On Directing Star Trek Discovery Series Finale

Burnham is raised by Vulcans which is used when it suits the plot (then she’s extremely analytical and objective) but then suddenly turns into an emotional mess when they want to portray drama. That just feels … off

No, that part feels very, very on to me. Burnham was a human girl who was witness to family being brutally slaughtered (as far as she knew/could tell) who was then placed in the care of a Vulcan man who liked living as a sociology experiment. This is a person who is traumatized from a relatively young age, and who has no idea how to cope with her feelings. She's never received therapy, only more psychological abuse.

The issue I ended up having with the show is that the show itself never addresses this. It's actually pretty clearly the setup for the entire series, but no one ever acknowledges that Michael needs help, no one ever tries to get her any, and, in the end, she never gets the help she needs. They took what could and should have been a character arc about healing from abuse and just turned it into "SMG's pretty good at crying".

Once it became clear that the show had zero interest in examining its inciting premise, I lost all patience with it.

Kichae , to Star Trek in Strange New Worlds 2x08 was one of the best Star Trek episodes ever

I feel it hid to much information just to be able to give a twist in the end

I don't think it was much of a twist. Between the doctor's actions in The Broken Circle (using the protocol 12 combat enhancer to fight his way through a ship of Klingons with Nurse Chapel, as recapped at the start of the show), the Special Ops Andorian trying to recruit him to the mission (and the doctor declaring that his days of doing such things were behind him), the re-introduction of the P12 green vial, and the repeated aggressive physical contact between M'Benga and Dah'Ruk, it was pretty well spelled out for us before the end of the episode.

Kichae , to Work Reform in “We’ve Changed the Game”: Teamsters Win Historic UPS Contract

This will be a huge selling point for the Teamsters of they're serious about trying to unionize Amazon.

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