[–] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 child)

Many people, like myself, can only get contract work as a software dev these days. Getting employment with any real benefits is harder and harder (often near impossible). How do you handle contractors? Completely avoids that answer. All of software devs need to unionize, not just your employee co-workers. Also, I'm going to be unemployed in a few weeks. This article leaves out completely how to get unemployed tech workers into a union. Thousands of devs are getting laid off with zero unions there to help them. Completely avoids dealing with them, as well.

Employment beholden to a single corporate entity and limited only by that corporate entity's desire to keep employed humans on payroll is not the road to a unionized workforce. Software engineers are often not profit centers. Anything not a profit center to a corporate entity will ultimately get outsourced. Solidarity across the entire industry is the only way to lasting change. You don't see carpenters or electricians or plumbers or welders being employed by a single corporation for 30 years and then retiring on a 401k. Those skillsets have industry-wide unions behind them.

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  • [–] 29 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    the good people.

    You are limiting your own intelligence by thinking companies can be described in those words.

    They are not good. They are profit-seeking. Profit seeking doesn't necessarily mean evil, but it can never mean good. A non-profit who's goal is to improve their community around them, a co-op who's goal is to treat their workers with respect etc etc can all be described as 'good' to varying degrees, but no for-profit entity, especially a publicly traded one, can ever be described as 'good'

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago*

    source available. Lots of non free components make this not open aource, but cool nonetheless (you still need someone elses permission [source 2, steam, and almoat certainly other dynamically linked libraries] to make this work, which goes against the definition of open source)

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    G has mexican, cajun, columbian, and tex mex. Seriously south florida is insane food choice as well. Hell, I can get california burritos too. D has filipino, thai, arabic, and indian. Incredible vegan options and protein options and who doesnt love spicy thai chicken and rice? Either of those and im set for life :)

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