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@coriander degrees minutes seconds are definitely base 60

things like a yard being three feet of twelve inches of sixteen sixteenths of an inch are definitely more complicated

i think technically the term there might be “mixed base”?

@coriander *looks at english units and measures* none of these motherfuckers are base twenty

@coriander i got over 100 pretty easily but who am i missing??

@coriander that would require handing them off to an actually competent dev team

@akjcv (some call the degree MLS [masters in library science] or MLIS [masters in library & information science]; i think these are more common now that information technology has become increasingly synonymized with “computer toucher”)

@akjcv you need an MIS (masters in information science) for any position which says “librarian”, but there are lots of non-librarian staff technology positions in libraries (i have a b.a. in gender studies and am a digital library developer for example)

https://jobs.code4lib.org/ is where you find those (both the librarian positions and the non-librarian ones). they share a community, and are pretty nontoxic (partially, no doubt, on account of being a mix of subject matter specialists and software engineers rather than entirely the latter)

@akjcv (work for a library if you can afford the lower pay?)

@coriander pokémon does it for slightly different reasons tho, or at least to me it feels more justified, because they really just want every region to feel unique. each region has its own food (and related food mechanics) and, since Gen V for serious, its own way of pokémon battling (rotation/triple battles, mega evolution, Z-moves, Gigantamax, Terrastal).

there are obviously commercial reasons why they do this; it feeds into the marketing and gives them new things to show in the anime and inspires new TCG mechanics (which powers card sales) and so on. but “i want each region to feel unique” is at least a reasonable artistic motivation to have even if the execution is sometimes lacking.

that’s different, in my mind, from mario, which is like “there is a powerup which lets you become an elephant this time”.

@aescling @coriander anyway this is why the polls are still close despite virtually everybody agreeing biden is too old

people know but nobody believes anyone else would actually do more for workers, they would just be a more functional neoliberal backstabber

@aescling @coriander of course sanders would have done all this and more but look at who they’re liable to replace him with…

@aescling @coriander also his handling of the economy and pandemic stimulus was genuinely better than pretty much any other president would have been willing to have done

we are supposed to be in a major recession right now, and we're not, and people would like to keep not, yk