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@sashakovich ok, that makes far more sense - but honestly i feel like a 'returnship' is still a bit of a silly concept because someone launching into a new career in engineering is going to be at the exact same place to benefit

...i'm much too used to other internships that are really often pitched to not-so-STEM folks that amount to "come work for free for us in new york city for 6 months for the amazing benefit of being able to say you worked for us for free. housing credit? what's that?"

@sashakovich like ngl at first blush i'm wondering if "returnship" means "we could use more workers but people who have had jobs already don't want to be treated like shit interns... so what if we rebrand it somehow to get them to more easily accept being at that shit tier 🤔 "

@sashakovich this is likely a dumb question but

isn't a Returnship just like. hiring somebody straight-up.

like internships are typically the pre-entry-level thing of someone who is new to having a job in that field and having a job at all, that's why there's so much pressure to have interns be extremely low paid or not paid at all

....aren't most hires not in that situation people who have had jobs or even 'careers' before

@maple LMAO i saw that and i was like "ohhhh my god what utter weenie bullshit" and thus this rant

i swear "we hear you" is a pure corporate-speak phrase at this point that i cannot help but immediately mock, probably with something like that spongebob meme

@maple oh yeah for sure

but i would have thought the "all clear everyone, sorry!" would be something they'd want to IMMEDIATELY plaster over their mastodon.social account, since it ain't the one everyone's blocked yet

the fact that nary a word except for effusive PR self-backpatting... [ insert spam of various parody think emojis here, growing more and more ludicrous ]

@InspectorCaracal honestly that's completely true

"we'll just remove the report feature! it's not something we need :)" is just... the most utterly top tier self-righteous white cishet upper-class bubblewrapped-in-privilege worst-trial-in-life-was-he-ordered-extra-guac-at-chipotle-and-they-forgot-it-but-charged-him-50-cents-anyway techbro move i think i have EVER SEEN

for reaction, i must outsource to a pro; take it away, eartha kitt https://media.giphy.com/media/2xPJfNH1LWfPG/giphy.gif

and at that point - if you're spending money at a company that is not ethical and is trying to pull the same ol' bullshit -

well -

you can do a hell of a lot more value for your money, instead of just pretending a company don't lie. 🤷

more telling to me is that @Purism has not said a peep about this on the public, forward-facing account for the project - not even a "hey, if you blocked us for this, very sorry! we've fixed it! please unblock us now!", which would be a very politic move.

instead there's just glowing praise and mentions of ethics... ethics...

isn't part of ethical behavior acknowledging when you fucked it up and apologising for it?

is rugsweeping for profit #purism ethics?

i don't know the ins and outs of open source software dev culture, or even dev culture at all

but i DO know that way too many people are shading big greedy companies for hurting people - especially minorities - by allowing harassment to continue, specifically because it makes that company more money .........while also giving #purism a pass for the same shit as a widdle eensy mistake whoopsiepoo.

do y'all really think a company built on avoiding these ethical issues would slip up by accident?

honestly, after taking a quick browse, everyone is letting #purism off the hook way too easily.

sure, they said they'll re-enable the report feature. but if they decided to remove that because of 'spam reasons',

a. they know about as much about keeping an online space safe and secure as a bodyguard who cheerfully doesn't know what a gun is but can totes guide you in the apocalyptic hellscape

b. they know, but reports could lead to banning their users and thus less $$

c. all of the above

@root i love me some medical history but i tend to linger more around "and then doctors drank piss and if you were drowned they tried to revive you by smoking in your butt" tbh

@root FUCK at fuckin least, well i know what i'm going to lowkey be horrified about at 3am now

@root honestly sometimes bodies Just Fuckin Do Some Shit and if you're running low, that's absolutely time to loop the doctor in

i wish i had some better advice to give other than "uhhhhhhhhhhh idk" but man. sometimes bodies just. do some bullshit that's basically inscrutable unless you've got like three degrees LOL

@root it could be that most of it is that you're getting your body into a groove that's alleviated a lot of insulin resistance! ....but also not having blood sugar affected at all when you eat is a great big honkin danger that i'd be super suspicious of (to the point of checking your meter against somebody else's to see if they agree tbh)

@root it could be that has a significant part of it - but also loop a doctor in really emphatically.

you'll probably get a ref to a dietician, which if you have the time/money, definitely go to. i'm not trying to be all obnoxious omnivore at you i promise, it's just that vegan while diabetic can get tricky really quick because a lot of vegan options are really, really heavy on carbs (since beans are carbs, lentils, rice, etc).

i've never played a mgs game but honestly i think we all need to incorporate the ❗ emoji as a new piece of punctuation that is meant to be read like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P5qbcRAXVk