AgentGoldfish

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[–] AgentGoldfish 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wouldn't call 3 extra days "much better".

[–] AgentGoldfish 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You're talking about the Netherlands? It's 5 days fully paid.

I can take several months if I want it, but I have to take a 30% pay cut, which we can't afford. Paternity leave in the Netherlands sucks.

[–] AgentGoldfish 83 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I taught English in Japan (JET) for one year, and at the end I said what a lot of people say: I'd love to visit, but I'm never going to work here again.

The work culture in Japan is fucked. The fact that the amount of time you spend at work, not your actual output, determines how "productive" you are is so fucking stupid. I worked my contract hours and I was seen as lazy. Despite the fact that everything I was asked to do was always done and done well, the fact that I didn't come in 2 hours early and nap at my desk meant I was lazy. Add onto that the fact that I only got a (generous for Japan) 15 days of nenkyuu (paid days off), which you can't actually use because what happens if you get sick. Sick leave exists, but does it? Does it really? The one time I tried to use it, I was told "it'd be better for everyone if you didn't", and then had to use my nenkyuu anyway.

And that was me working a pretty privileged position! If I was coming from Vietnam to work in a retirement home, I'm sure the working conditions would be far worse with the threat of deportation looming over my head. Immigration is a band aid at best. As soon as immigrants have the opportunity to move somewhere better, they will of course take that.

In contrast, I now live in the Netherlands, which shockingly has some of the least generous child benefits in the EU. And yet, we get about 100€/month from the government in support, plus about 50% the cost of childcare paid for. My wife gets 4 months of maternity leave at full pay (I only get 5 days which is super fucked), with up to 3 years at 60% pay with a guarantee of her job being there when she gets back. We each have 25+ days off a year, which are actually used for days off, if the kid gets sick, we can use sick leave to care for it, and sick leave is unlimited. Also, healthcare for children is 100% paid by the government. And with all of that, we're barely in a position to be able to consider having children.

[–] AgentGoldfish 113 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not me but my partner.

She was working as a research assistant in a lab for several years. She asked her boss if she could be promoted to a research associate, which was one level above her. She already been doing the job of a researcher (3 levels above her). Her boss said that they were in a hiring freeze and that it wouldn't be possible, but maybe in 2-3 YEARS she might be up for a promotion. Her boss wanted everyone to get the most they possibly could out of their current position before promotion. What my partner heard was that even if she eventually got the promotion to the next level, it might be 5-7 years after that promotion until the next promotion.

I've never seen her so angry when she came home. She immediately started applying to new jobs in a different field. She also stopped doing work above her pay grade, to which her boss actually tried to retaliate against her. Within 2 months, she moved onto a new job that is 75% WFM, pays more, has a better culture and is in a field where she can much more easily move upward.

Her former company has started layoffs.

[–] AgentGoldfish 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No he didn't.

He's announced he won't be on the party list on the next election, but he's still going to be the caretaker PM until the next election. He's still in office, which again, this terrible article makes it sound like he's not.

[–] AgentGoldfish 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The AP source is clearer about this (though the title is still problematic). The Indian news took the AP source and made it worse.

[–] AgentGoldfish 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

This is poorly written at best and outright misinformation at worst. But maybe don't source news about Dutch politics from an Indian news source?

Anyway, Rutte resigned the cabinet, he didn't personally resign. He said "my government can no longer do its job" not " I can no longer do my job".

The way this is written it makes it sound like the latter, where Rutte personally resigned, which is definitely not the case. Especially considering Rutte is blaming literally everyone else for his cabinet collapsing.

[–] AgentGoldfish 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where I live it's only legal to use the horn to prevent serious situations, so someone doing this could (and would) be fined by police/eventually lose their license.

Even in places where this isn't directly illegal, is it illegal to make loud noises after certain hours? If so, that could be a reason to call the police or make some kind of official complaint against the driver.

Also, have you tried talking to this person? Maybe they don't realize that its disrupting literally everyone (a lot of people forget that other people are not just NPCs).

[–] AgentGoldfish 3 points 1 year ago

Top box. It's legal to filter forward where I live, and while side bags definitely look better IMO, they add to the overall width of the bike, which makes filtering much harder.

As it stands now, if I can get my mirrors past two cars, I can get through. If I had side bags, I would be able to tell until after i get stuck.

[–] AgentGoldfish 2 points 1 year ago

A lot of the still water caters to people like OP, who aren't aware/used to drinking from the tap. We do have a lot of international people.

I think much of the bottled water is sparkling, which caters more to the European market. I used to by sparkling water by the cart load until I bought a soda stream.

[–] AgentGoldfish 2 points 1 year ago

I live in the Netherlands, where a huge percentage of people commute by bicycle.

People also don't want to go back into the office here either. My work has been begging people to actually come back into the office (another advantage of NL is that worker protections make it really hard to fire people, and firing people who are working hard just not from the place the employer wants is unlikely to be successful).

So I think this idea is largely irrelevant to cars/driving.

[–] AgentGoldfish 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’m not sure if this backlash will actually cause any change because for businesses it’s a win as long as even one person decides to tip and it costs them nothing to have the option on.

I'm a university lecturer, and this sounds a lot like students who will ask for extra credit/more points because "it can't hurt". And if one of their professors/lecturers gives them extra points one time, it's worth it for those students. To them, it costs nothing to ask, they can only gain, and there are no downsides.

But there are, just not directly. My students think that the worst thing I can do is say no and their score stays the same. But I can also be less lenient in the future (which I definitely am with grade grubbers). I will also refuse to write letters of recommendation or supervise theses for students that do this shit, because I genuinely don't want to deal with those students anymore.

You are right that it does not directly cost businesses money to have that option. But it can still cost them in the long run. I know I'm less likely to support businesses that pull this bullshit, especially if they try harder to guilt you. Also, it's increasingly giving the appearance that needing to give tips means that workers are underpaid, so by turning on that option, the business is effectively announcing that they underpay their staff, which is a bad look for the business.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by AgentGoldfish to c/lemmyworld
 

ou might have seen that we've been defederated from beehaw.org. I think there's some necessary context to understand what this means to the users on this instance.

How federation works

The way federation works is that the community on beehaw.org is an organization of posts, and you're subscribed to it despite your account being on lemmy.world. Now someone posts on that community (created on beehaw.org), on which server is that post hosted?

It's hosted on both! It's hosted on any instance that has a subscriber. It's also hosted on lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml, etc. Every instance that has a subscriber is going to have a copy of this post. That's why if you host your own instance, you'll often get a ton of text data just in your own server.

And the copies all stay in sync with each other using ActivityPub. So you're reading the post that's host on lemmy.world, and someone with an account on beehaw.org is reading the same post on beehaw.org, and the posts are kept in sync via ActivityPub. Whenever someone posts to that community or comments on a post, that data is shared to all the versions across the fediverse, and these versions are kept in sync. So up until 5 hours ago, they were the same post!

"True"-ness

A key concept that will matter in the next section is the idea of a "true" version. Effectively, one version of these posts is the "true" version, that every other community reflects. The "true" version is the one hosted on the instance that hosts the community. So the "true" version of a beehaw.org community post is the one actually hosted on beehaw.org. We have a copy, but ours is only a copy. If you post to our copy, it updates the "true" version on beehaw.org, and then all the other instances look to the "true" version on beehaw to update themselves.

The same goes for communities hosted on lemmy.world or lemmy.ml. Defederation affects how information is shared between instances. If you keep track of where the "true" version is hosted, it becomes a lot easier to understand what is going on.

How defederation works

Now take that example post from earlier, the one on beehaw.org. The "true" version of the post is on beehaw.org but the post is still hosted on both instances (again, it has a copy hosted on all instances). Let's say someone with an account on beehaw.org comments on that post. That comment is going to be sent to every version of that post via ActivityPub, as the "true" version has been updated. That is, every version EXCEPT lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works. So users on lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works won't get that comment, because we've been defederated from beehaw.org. If we write a comment, it will only be visible from accounts on lemmy.world, because we posted to a copy, but our copy is now out of sync with the "true" version. So we can appear to interact with the post, but those interactions are ONLY visible by other lemmy.world accounts, since our comments aren't send to other versions. As the "true" version is hosted on beehaw, and we no longer get beehaw updates due to defederation, we will not see comments from ANY other community on those posts (including from other defederated instances like sh.itjust.works).

The same goes for posting to beehaw communities. We can still do that. However, the "true" version of those communities are the ones on beehaw, so our posts will not be shared to other instances via ActivityPub. And all of this is true for Beehaw users with our communities. Beehaw users can continue to see and interact with Lemmy.world communities, but those interactions are only visible to other Beehaw users, since the "true" versions of the Lemmy.world communities (the ones sent to/synced with every other instance) is the Lemmy.world one.

Communities on other instances, for example lemmy.ml, are unaffected by this. Lemmy.world and beehaw.org users will still be able to interact with those communities, but posts/comments from lemmy.world users won't be visible to beehaw.org users, as defederation prevents our posts/comments from being sent to the version of these posts hosted on beehaw.org. However, as the "true" version is the one on the third instance, we can still see everything from beehaw.org users. So we see a more filled in version than the beehaw users.

Why can I still see posts/comments from beehaw users?

Until they defederated us, posts/comments were being sent to lemmy.world, so we can see everything from before defederation. After defederation, we are no longer receiving or sending updates. So there are now multiple versions of those posts.

Why can I still interact with beehaw communities?

This won't ever stop. You'll notice that all posts after defederation are only from lemmy.world users. You won't see posts/comments from ANY other instance (including instances that ) on beehaw.org communities.

Those communities will quickly suck for us, as we're only talking to other lemmy.world users. Your posts/comments are not being sent to any other lemmy. I highly recommend just unsubscribing from those communities, since they're pretty pointless for us to be in right now.

Why do I still see comments from beehaw users on lemmy.world communities?

Again, comments from before defederation were still sent to us. After defederation, it will no longer be possible for beehaw users to interact with the "true" version of lemmy.world communities. Their posts/comments are not being sent to any other lemmy. They also aren't getting updates from any other lemmy, as the "true" version of those communities is on our instance.

Why do I see posts/comments from beehaw users on communities outside lemmy.world and beehaw.org?

That's because the "true" version of those posts is outside beehaw. So we get updates from those posts. And lemmy.world didn't defederate beehaw, so posts/comments from beehaw users can still come to versions hosted on lemmy.world.

The reverse is not true. Because beehaw defederate lemmy.world, any post/comment from a lemmy.world users will NOT be sent to the beehaw version of the post.

This seems like it's worse for beehaw users than for us?

Yes. In my opinion, this is an extraordinarily dumb act by the beehaw instance owners. It's worse for beehaw users than for us, and will likely result in many beehaw users leaving that instance. They said in their post that this is a nuke, but I don't think they fully assessed the blast area. Based on their post, I don't think they fully understand what defederation does.

 

The old IWantOut community was great for getting advice. Let's put together a new community to help us all get to where we want to go. Until more people join, I'll do my best to answer questions based on my own experience.

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