Vlyn @ Vlyn @lemmy.ml

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This is unfortunately part of finding a new job. You apply, do the interviews, sign the contract and then you just have to hope that the new employer is decent to you.

But in the end you have full agency. You're not a slave.

Read the contract, sign it and stick to it. "No" is a full sentence, if your new employer wants to force you to do overtime you can decline, or ask them to pay you extra if you're up for more work. The worst they can do is fire you, but that just puts you back in the same spot you're in now, so no big loss.

Just get up and have a look around, devs are in demand, you'll find a job sooner or later with a great salary and work conditions. You just have to get to it.

Good luck :)

Then don't join and/or block anime communities? I don't like sports, but I'm not going out of my way to downvote every sports related post.

Dragee stuff. Like sweets with a hard coating and a softer inside (dragee eggs). When you break the coating the whole thing starts to melt in your mouth.

One thing I love and simply haven't found a replacement yet: "Obstgarten" yogurt which is very fluffy quark with a bit of fruit jam underneath. I don't want the fruit jam, but I do love the quark part. If you buy other quark products they simply don't have the same texture (which is probably created with nitrogen in an industrial process and can't easily be replicated at home).

This is a really difficult topic though, because there is no one form of feminism. You got old school, where it was about basic rights (Right to vote, right to work, right to drive a car, ..) and then newer forms that might take things too far.

One relatively current example: Feminists want that board members of large companies are at least 50% female. It sounds fair on the surface, but it really isn't. Because what happens when the number reaches 60%? 70%? Mission still accomplished, even though you just started to discriminate against men at that point instead of hiring based on merit.

When it comes to universities we already have that situation. More women than men get higher degrees, but nobody is trying to push more men into nursing for example (which is 86% female dominated). The push only happens for STEM with female only scholarships and making it easier for women to get accepted into courses. But again, the goal is to get to 50%+, but nobody seems to care when the balance entirely tips to the other side.

Same for dangerous jobs, 95% of oil rig drillers are male, but nobody pushes for more women in this job. Simply because it's dirty and hard work (though paid well).

True equality would be to hire based on merit. Don't even put names and gender on applications for example. Everyone should get the same chances, same rights, same treatment as much as possible. If they can and want to do the work, they should have a crack at it.

Favoritism only makes a mess. If you include a ratio of women vs men in a job and a capable woman gets it simply because they want to raise the ratio she'll still fight against prejudice that she only got the job because of her gender. That really helps no one.

So personally I might agree with a lot of points of feminism, but I'd rather call myself an egalitarian. Can't we just treat everyone well?

I did hear of Lemmy first, with immediate criticism about supporting the CCP and so on. The second alternative mentioned on Reddit was kbin which is where I went first.

Unfortunately kbin runs on PHP and you can really feel the site lagging at times, no clue why someone would port a stable Rust code base to this mess. lemmy.ml is lighting fast in comparison and has working federation.

I did also try sh.itjust.works as an alternative Lemmy instance (which would be nice as it blocks lemmygrad.ml), but it's in Canada and I'm in Europe, so the latency is noticeable.

So now I'm here, oh well.