Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

@coriander right-to-work means workers can't be required to pay union dues as a condition of employment (specifics vary by state i presume)

it's a problem because contract negotiations benefit all workers but only union workers have to pay for it

it encourages people to not join and not pay so that union membership and resources suffer

@coriander do games really need to simulate the exact physics of a horse’s balls? no of course not. if convincing some game director of that will mean they hire an additional person to do horse ball simulations, though, of course you want to create more jobs. and much of tech feels like this, people collectively picking somewhat difficult solutions because they present things that rich people find attractive and consequently justify hiring more people, because everybody wants more jobs and nobody wants layoffs, but then how do you make a union line out of what is essentially playing to rich people's egos so they don't realize they could fire the whole lot of you if they could just learn how to log off

@coriander to be clear i think the remaining 10% is important and sometimes essential work, keeping the internet running for example is good, but it’s also not where the money is

the money is in convincing some billionaire that hiring a thousand people to build a website nobody wants or needs is a good idea

@coriander problem with tech is that it’s working class, but also a grift. 90% of it is conning rich people into paying lots of money for magic words that do nothing. and it’s hard to get people to take seriously that yes, we should keep conning rich people out of their money, but as a unionized workforce this time

@Packbat @Satsuma (language has implications beyond just screenreaders and spellcheckers; it can be used to style CSS so it requires a certain level of formal rigidity)

@Packbat @Satsuma yeah it's the sort of thing i wouldn't have been surprised if it had worked but i checked the spec and there doesn't appear to be anything to support it

probably at least in part because it could create a weird conflicting situation where the HTML language and the XML language differ

@aschmitz i always get really anxious around springtime so it's not exactly surprising but it is still a bother