Tbf, they look so close to each other, i’d went for Mario and Luigi. Wario is quite different from Mario.

It really fucks up my mind trying to say who’s the worst anarchist between the ones defending america’s propaganda and the ones defending china’s genocide. And it’s not like they’re really that much disagreeing, it’s just relatively minor differences in their analysis, they all could probably agree that China is genociding Uyghurs and that Western right wings are amplifying it.

I’m not familiar with the matter, but from the little i’ve learned of the article, it seems the general have just disappeared, right?

If it was corruption matters, that would be official, as it would be a good reason for a trial.

I found the info on this article first, and it did seemed fishy at first, especially with the photo that kinda looks like AI at a glance

But there is actually a lot of media coverage about it, at least from the main francophone news sources.

To answer your questions, it seemed the ship was going back to europe after that. One fact that can help explain it all was that, as people from the attacked ship claim, the coast guard are mercenaries and not members of official police force or anything.

If i’m not mistaken, the very last graph showing posts by month shows a significant decreasing over the summer, or at least specifically july (since august is not over yet). It says June is around 12M posts and July around 9M. August seems already over 9M and we’re only 2/3 in, so maybe there was some drop around July for some reason, which could explain OP’s feeling.

As for the reason, i’m not sure, maybe a combination of factors like some server blocking access from UK with the latest privacy bullshit, some server having signficant downtime (i think slrpnk.net had a problem with servers locking themselves up while tech admin was abroad), and maybe non-Lemmy factors like holidays (though they don’t seem to impact previous years stats).

From what i learned from french investigation media Mediapart, it included slapping, strangling, being asked to hit someone else, among other humiliations.

Didn’t northern Scandinavian countries have some kind of heatwave too (around 30-32°C) ? Is that the handful of warmer days, or is Denmark dodging through heatwave like a ninja ?

Pas de soucis ! It was quite a specific experience, so it might be useful to put in some context in here : it was a studio making apps and games, founded a decade ago, always has been a SCOP, they started being 3-4, and when i was here we were between 15 and 20. Also, i was first an intern, and then got a short-term contract : in both cases, i was not offered to participate as a share owner, you have to have a long-term contract for this. I also have a relatively short experience there (10 months).

One of the pros was there was a lot of discussion about most subjects. The fact it was a relatively small studio helped too, both for the number of people and the methods : open-space, weekly meeting with everyone, shared relaxing time (lunch, afterwork, teambuilding days, etc.). Even as an intern, i got to hear about most subjects, even general ones like financial state of the company or which projects to accept or reject.

Another one was the company values (not necessarily inherited from the SCOP thing, but when you do a SCOP it’s more likely) : they wanted to do projects with a good social impact, and it was nice working on those. It is relatively limited though : since you have people and taxes to pay, you have to get profitable projects, and most of the time, they’re not the one with the biggest social impact. Doing projects for banks or army led to some debate, and the temporary result was that it was best to work for them and still exist than just close the studio.

A con i heard from the share owners is how to handle shares when someone leaves the studio. Two options are either everyone buys them (but not everyone may have the money immediatly) or the person keeps them (but then you have someone who owns share and does not work here, so it may counteract the purpose of the SCOP). This question is even harder when the person is a founder and/or when the person has to leave involuntary (sickness or wrongdoing). I guess it’s best to have it planned beforehand, but it would not prevent all the friction anyway.

Another con was the perception from the non-share owners : there were constantly 2-3 interns, and 1 apprentice. If you consider very low salary, least interesting tasks and no saying in the decision making, it was not that different from a classic studio. And from the owners point of view, it was kinda legitimate : there was not enough money to pay someone 100% for those tasks, they had to be done, and it would be quite weird/complicated to include people staying only 6 months in the decisions making, even worse for the shareholding. Anyway, there was some tension around this, but it’s also due to the number of workers and the field of the company.

In general, it still is something nice. I’d say the main advantage was communication to my eyes : the more you can communicate about anything in the company, the better it is. It does not prevent some problems like overwork (it can even be worse since most employees feel some kind of responsibility) or toxic management (in the end, it really depends on your direct superior, when there is some hierarchy) : you have to come up with specific methods to counteract those (for overwork, they tried to track time and to make sure everyone was leaving at the end of the day, and for management, they were in the process of splitting it so everyone would have 2 managers to refer to, in case one was bad). But all of this is probably a (maybe not so) distant future if you’re setting one up for two people, so it’s probably not very relevant. Probably worth to discuss it now around a drink though, but not crucial.

I’d say the layer of grilled cheese would technically make a separation between the two lasagna (yes im fun at party)

I meant any type of company that is engaged in a capitalist system, where you have to make profit just to be able to function. I’d say SCOPs necessary fall in this category, while worker cooperative may escape it, though this is just a simple opinion.

I find it better than the alternative, so i probably would participate. But my experience in a french SCOP, even with mostly left-leaning coworkers, was that although it helped with transparency and democratic decision making, it still had a lot of capitalists defaults (overwork, toxic management, insecure employment for basic tasks, quest for profit that can get in the way of your values, etc.).

To my eyes, cooperative companies are to capitalism what greener cars are to global warming : we can change how it works inside, but we won’t really solve the problem until we change how we use them. But in the meantime, it sure is slightly better to go for the lesser evil.

From what i get from English wikipedia, it’s mainly preparing curricula for basic and secondary education, participating in the education field’s regulations, and acting as a central organizer for administrative things relating to education.

It makes sense for me too, and i like your cheat code version of it. I think it’s also akin to the tutorial hell for devs and artists.

Happens to me all the time, but with the swipe left/right from the border of the screen. I understand that reloading when selecting a community or feed can be wanted by user, since AFAIK there is no other option to reload the feed you’re currently in. I just wish the navigation principle of swiping left/right from the border of the screen could work in the communities list to bring you back to the previous feed. Altough, tbf, if there’s a post i want to read, i save it, and if i didnt have the time, i can remember which post it was and find it again.

China too it seems, from what the comment says

I’ve heard that SSD have a relatively limited number of write cycles, and that wiping/compacting data can even be a slightly bad thing in this regard. I am not sure at all if this is true though, don’t take my word for it and correct me if i’m wrong.

I’m not sure about “girl pop” concert vibe, but i don’t see much video pointing out at people in the crowd in concerts (in fact, i only remember one, and it’s not really being mean at the person). Also there may be some kind of survivor paradox here : the video you see of young adult woman may not be a realistic depiction of the crowd, there probably is people just chilling, but they’re less interesting to film, so there’s less video about them. I’d say enjoy yourself !

Doesn’t have AppImages the same problem than Flatpak regarding dependencies duplicated for each program ? If so, what is their advantage over Flatpak ?

To be the devil’s advocate, people elected nazis around the apparition of tv, so i don’t think social medias truly are a necessity for fascism to proliferate. That being said, they can still have a major impact.

It is indeed ! Do you mean weird in the sense “very picky about what you owe to each other” ? Cuz i mainly see either this, either “i will do anything possible to pay for my friend”