BU's Foul Mood Thread

[Buster's Uncle]

They got caught red handed with the racial gerrymandering stuff a few years ago.  I'm kinda tuned out.  I refrain from investing a lot of emotional energy into things I'm not in a position to change.  I try to imagine strategies that will help me affect change somewhere, but one cannot be spread thin by many causes.  There are plenty of people paid a lot of money to be scumbags full time.  The rest of us try to do Social Good as an often thankless second job, on top of whatever job stress we're already under.  I wish union organization was talked about in the game industry 20 years ago.  I would have put some effort into it.  Now I'm too old to be bothering with all that.

^This^ is pretty much my take, too.

I would like being in a right to work state, but I'd also like for unions to be able to get a toehold as a shield against the bossmen, and the two don't play together well, alas...

[bvanevery]

"Right to work" is Republican doublespeak for right to work for low wages.  Those laws are there to kneecap unions, they have no other purpose.

[Buster's Uncle]

It is sad, though, that you have to choose, in those non-right-to-work states, between putting up w/ Bossmen's bull and putting up w/ a union's bull.  I don't want to pay dues and then get a shop steward doing a crappy job, which you hear about happening all the time.  I wish there was a better balance/solution to be found.

[Buster's Uncle]

Hey, This Just In - I had an impulse Thursday while I was sending a lot of time in Facebook messages coordinating tech -and also distracting a friend recovering from surgery- and pinged Metaliturtle with, quote, "Hey - spam my forum, buddy."  He only saw it this morning, and responded positively w/ laughter and saying he'd come by later for shenanigans - so we're in for a bumpy ride tonight, maybe in three-four hours or so.

On background for those of you who don't know, he was one of the Clown Posse -we really called ourselves that- who participated in me ruining my reputation as a newb at WPC 16 years ago - and was never allowed to live it down.  We may say spam to each other - you may not; it's rude, and I WILL get mad.  A spampage there should be, though, and I'll be pretty tolerant, as -done only once in a while- it harms nothing and can be a lot of fun w/ all the joking.  Please be patient as yr. Humble Dictator indulges a childish whim...

[bvanevery]

I don't really know what spamming is in your parlance, but I guess I'll find some popcorn.

Someone's gonna do a crappy job about something sometime.  If you don't want that, you can work for yourself, and be responsible for all your own crap.  I personally am well disposed to living with my own mistakes.  Not so much with other people's.

In a union context, it's hard for me to say, because I've never actually been part of a union.  Nor at the rate I'm going, does it look like I'm going to be.  One of the Reddit groups I finally unsubscribed from, was r/union.  I realized I'm not going to subject myself to an employee situation, so I don't have that much skin in the game, as far as union organizing goes.  But I do believe in worker solidarity, and the reality of class enemies.

[Buster's Uncle]

Spamming is something nobody in this community gives you a good definition when you ask.  It's an insult word to apply to high-volume posting, w/ implication of uselessness and just posting "+1" and such to run up your count.  Turtle will probably surely be making that joke; I've never once done it but ironically.  For us, it's just joking around.



And well, here I am on my own taking on all the crap-work running the place as armor against being burned again.  I get you, there.

Power to the people!

[Buster's Uncle]

Well, I'M feeling a little let down...

[Buster's Uncle]

I don't think I've ever mentioned that my living immediate family has a bad streak of you can't tell us we missed a spot while we're mopping - Mom literally so.

Buster's Daddy also has it pretty bad, at least when it comes to me - and I can't claim to be better, actually.  I've only touched on this in convo w/ Rusty a few times, recognizing that criticism can start all sounding like You Suck too easily.  Guess how I knew?

And no, no recent RL problem associated brings this up - just discussed it w/ Mom a few weeks ago, and she admitted it, and I admitted it -which is good; you have to admit error to DO better- and best part?

Mylochka ain't got that loathsome shortcoming - she sometimes explicitly asks me to bring my "powers of pissiness" to bear on something she's done --- to considerable profit, because my powers are real and I am clever; good ideas come out; I've made a number of her projects much better, as we are a good collaborating team.

[Geo]

Mylochka ain't got that loathsome shortcoming - she sometimes explicitly asks me to bring my "powers of pissiness" to bear on something she's done --- to considerable profit, because my powers are real and I am clever; good ideas come out; I've made a number of her projects much better, as we are a good collaborating team.

Yeah, there was a world of difference between The Den en Mylochka's house.

[Buster's Uncle]

Migration of AC2 to our new hosting is now underway.

I've only wanted this for 13 years.  I believe a fifty-Lal post is in order, don't you?