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This is only week 5 of 2025???

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Ugh, it’s been a fucken hell of a month. Literally the first day of February and no one wants anymore of what this year has in store.

Work

mgbarJerb is… Consistent in its chaotic, disorganised, environment. It’s one of the reasons why we’re actively shopping for a car, even though the orange trump is about to start a trade war ( 2025-02-02_02:36 : has started. We started this post six hours ago.) with Mexico and Canada. I need to be there quickly whenever someone calls out which happens at least once a week. We spend way too much on rideshares and that’s money that should go towards a car payment.

Got written up for bad attitude. Some of that is deserved, some isn’t. But co-workers who are lazy fuckers are a-okay so fuck them and fuck the corpos who like it that way.

bartendJerb: The “floor manager” quit. She was the one who made syrups and purchased some stuff. So now we have no one to do those things. They (as in the current bar manager, and the owner) want me to do it but I will need a car to schlep all the things around. Doing it on my bike is too onerous a task, nevermind the time it will take.

Personal

My personal life is basically non-existent outside of having a couple drinks at various bars around town, after work. Work is life these days. The hangovers too but we are making an effort to keep them to a minimum, like Ernie. She’s up for a James Beard award as a professional oyster shucker. We should learn from her.

As I need to buy a car, we are shopping around and we know we want a Toyota RAV4 or a Honda CR-V. The purchase needs to be done before the economy crashes but we’re extremely leery of making a purchase of such magnitude when the economy is most certainly about to be tossed into a latrine. See what the muskrat is doing at the US Treasury department. Fucken piece of shit Nazi. Fuck his dad and his mom too.

Had a spot of seasonal depression but I think we’re past it. We hope. We’re pretty tired as we type this on our phone at the bar. (Still tired at home on the computer).

Alertness

ICE raids all over the country. ICE office in Saint Paul : they want 75 arrests a day, with increases coming down the pike. Fuck ICE and if you have someone working there, fuck you, fuck your mom, fuck your dad, fuck your grandparents, fuck your great-grandparents, and all of their fucken cows.

They don’t care whether you’re a citizen or not. A resident or not. If you en’t Caucasian you en’t staying.

So that’s another reason to not take the bus and opt for personal transportation.

Ch-ch-ch-changes

This post comes via the WP classic editor on mobile. It is 2025 in the year of the Lard and fucken WordPress still doesn’t have a decent mobile editor. Automattic has sucked as stewards of WordPress for a long time and it shows. Also fuck Matt Mullenweg, prissy bitch.

Positions

This here blog post is us being pro-union (even if most of the bosses are fucken idiots), pro-labor, pro-lgbtq. You don’t like it? The ❌ button should be on your top-right window corner, unless you’re using a corpo app in which case you’re fucked, your family is fucked and fuck you too.

Fucken genAI slop

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As of late we’ve gotten two or three spam comments that have made it past our filters… And the vibe on them is decidedly different than the usual.

These ones are antagonizing and rude, clearly seeking to get a rise out of you.

Yet another thing to watch out for.

Loud music at bar close

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The saddest thing we have realized about our drinking habits is… No one will miss us, other than the money. We could happily enslave ourselves to alcohol at home and no one would know.

Restaurant people around me keep talking about hospitality and environments and guests and and and.

They’re lying. They’re fucken lying.

It always comes down to the money.

Estoy cansado, jefe

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Work

We now agree with Boomers that people don’t want to work anymore. We would like to have a day off sometime? Our laundry is piling up something massive.

Personal

We’re shopping for a car. We don’t like it, but the abuse our knees are taking at work makes riding bike year-long unfeasible. Plus… there’s a couple of shows that are out of the Twin Cities we would like to attend. Having a car would make it much easier. In the meantime… we will bus to work, we will ride our bike back home.

Learning

We learned people are lazy and you can’t expect yourself out of them. Also learned we need to be the one training people at mgbarJerb, lest they become lazy like the others, so we can maybe expect something of ourselves within them.

All other learning is more or less at a standstill. We wish it weren’t so.

Intersections

We’ve now learned why bartenders are usually broke. They spend money almost as fast as they make money. This cannot, will not, be our way. We know Hunger and we know she’s always around.

Restoring Nextcloud Tasks

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A few months ago due to my own laziness we ended up losing my main ZFS storage array­. One of the things lost was my Nextcloud VM, which used a zvol as its main storage space. The files themselves were easily recoverable as we had full copies on three separate machines but we personally use Nextcloud Tasks, and as it turns out there’s no easy way to backup your data from the server itself.

Cue much banging head against keyboard. By sheer chance and an offhand reddit comment leading to a github comment we were able to find a workaround via DAVx and Tasks.org, the software we already were using to sync our calendar and tasks (CalDAV) to our android device.

The issue is that locally the app has a record of the object existing on the server, but when it queries the server the object is no longer there. This indicates that the object was deleted, so Tasks deletes the local copy.

When you restore from a backup you’re restoring the same task that thinks the object exists on the server. When it queries the server again the object is still missing, so the local copy gets deleted again.

What you can do is put your phone in airplane mode, load your backup file, then use long press + multi-select to move all of your data to local lists. Then you can turn off airplane mode, let it sync once (not sure if this is necessary), then move all of your data from the local lists back to the caldav server

edit: tasks doesn’t support exporting to ics, but this is something I would like to support in the future
abaker commented on Feb 16

This gave us a path forward in restoring five years worth of tasks, as we wanted to keep eveything including old archived tasks instead of having to start over. The process is somewhat involved.

DAVx

Disable synchronization for all involved accounts. In my case there were two CalDAV accounts, one for the failed NC server and another for the newly provisioned NC server. Then put your phone in airplane mode just to guarantee there is no communication between your device and the server.

If this gets messed up there is a fair chance everything is lost and we don’t want that, now do we.

Tasks.Org

  1.  ☰ → Settings → Backups → Backup Now. Make sure it’s a folder the OS can access without additional permissions. The default folder is hidden to all apps by default and the only way to get to it is connecting the device to a computer cos Google hates you.
  2.  ☰ , scroll down to the “Local lists”. Create as many lists as you need to restore to NC.
  3. Open the original task list, tap bottom-right ⋮ → Enable “Show completed”. If you don’t do this you’ll only be backing current uncompleted tasks!
  4. Tap upper-right ⋮ → Select all
  5. Tap the list icon List glyph, tap the local list you want to move all of these tasks to.
  6. Repeat steps 3, 4, and 5, for as many lists as you have.

At this point all of your tasks live on your device. Strongly recommend creating another tasks.org backup and immediately copying it to another device just in case your device dies. If you have pets you know how quickly this can happen.

Nextcloud

Create lists to match the local lists on your device (if they haven’t been created already)

DAVx

Disable airplane mode and delete the account for the failed NC server. If you have not added the account for the new NC server, you can do so now (or enable sync for it at this point)

Tasks.Org

Before proceeding, make sure the lists from the new NC server show up in the list manager and your backup is copied off device. Now we basically do the reverse of earlier

  1. ☰ , scroll down to the “Local lists”.
  2. Open the a local task list, tap bottom-right ⋮ → Enable “Show completed” (if it isn’t already).
  3. Tap upper-right ⋮ → Select all
  4. Tap the list icon , tap the NC list you want to move all of these tasks to.
  5. Repeat steps 3, 4, 5 as required.
  6. ☰ → Settings → Backups → Backup Now.

This backup will contain the tasks as connected to the NC account with its lists and should start synchronizing up to Nextcloud. You can also sync manually in DAVx.

We hope this helps someone in the future other than myself, cos it certainly was a total pain in the ass. We originally tried messing with the raw JSON making up the CalDAV objects but due to the way the protocol works going this route failed. Both Nextcloud and tasks.org have exporting data to ICS on the roadmap but it’ll take a while to get implemented.

Better yet, make sure you have replacement hardware for whatever hardware fails, and attend to those failures promptly.

Hopefully it’ll be good on tips from here on out.

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Here be what’s went on with us this past week. We got our asses kicked.

Work

  • bartendJerb is basically gone. Business levels have dropped below what’s sustainable for the place mid-term, but management won’t adjust labor, nor menu, nor open hours. They keep waiting for the weather to get cold. Guess what! It’s cold now! And it’s still slow!
  • mgbarJerb: Getting ever busier. We don’t think the corpos expected our location to come out swinging this hard, and yet here we are; getting no support from them while they try to tell us how to do our jobs. There is no institutional knowledge at the corporate level and they don’t provide mechanisms to keep it at the location level. Very little of the two weeks-long training I went through has actually been useful.

Personal

We got mamasha, our storage server, back online. She was offline for nearly three months cos we didn’t have to deal with an entire failed raidz2 pool. But it’s back online and so far, no issues. I have a bit more to say on this since a well-administered ZFS pool is not supposed to fail like this but here we are, restoring from a backup made two years ago, right before I mostly lost sentience.

Today the criminal president-elect announced 25% tariffs on all products coming from Mexico, Canada, and China. Better start a garden so you can have tomatoes, avocados, lettuce and jalapeños (they come from Mexico). If you’re building a house, you need to have your contractors finish ASAP (most lumber is imported from Canada). If you need electronics, you need to buy them now. Service industry will see the price of tequila, mezcal, beer (Modelo, Pacifico, XX Lager) go up.

Myself I’m starting the build-out process for a new storage server. mamasha’s hardware is from 2012 (Xeon E3-1220 V2, SuperMicro X9SCM-F) with the motherboard already getting replaced once. It’d be nice to have something with just as many PCI-E slots so we can put a nice GPU and see what’s what with self-hosted LLM tooling. We don’t condone the use of genAI for artistic purposes but that’s where tech is going so we need to learn how to deal with it even if it’s from an adversarial standpoint.

Bringing this server back online was my win of the week. We’ll take it.

Learning

We need to start learning new stuff. Picked up a copy of Meehan’s Bartender Manual and honestly we think it is helping us understand more about bartending as a profession.

Today we think we’ll go to the library and renew our library card. If it all goes to shit in the US it’d be useful to know another language. German, French or Czech would be nice.

Rebuilt our nextcloud VM since it died when out zpool crashed. It’s been okay to re-learn all of these things, the first time I configured the VM we didn’t keep much in the way of notes.

Speaking of notes… we’re now using obsidian instead of vim+wiki.vim. We don’t spend that much time on our workstation anymore and we need our notes available on the phone without having to fiddle on the command line on the phone. It’s a pain in the ass honestly.

Intersections

Now, on the intersection of work and personal… my phone scrobbles to last.fm whatever songs are being played in my environment. INXS is picking up steam as it is on the playlist at mgbarJerb.

They are also starting to push hard on the Christmas music and that’s going to be messy; had the displeasure of listening to an EDM remix of little drummer boy. Just… no.

This week we get an additional day off because of Thanksgiving. From here until the end of the year it’ll be madness at work.

block the twitter app, improve your life

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There are many, many articles out there about the rise of BlueSky. There are so many more about the fall of twitter (yes I’m fucken deadnaming it). But even now, in the twilight of the latter, have had to rarely deal with shitty ads, spam bots, or crypto bros. There’s, I believe, a single reason for it.

We don’t use the official app. At all. We never have.

Currently we use the PWA version of the site via Firefox. This means I get

  • uBlock Origin to filter out ads.
  • Control Panel for Twitter to hide shit the apartheid muskrat came up with, defaulting my experience to the chronological timeline.
  • ClearURLs add-on bypassing tracking methods when linking in and out of the site.
  • The app (and thus, the company plus the apartheid muskrat) doesn’t get to siphon any of my phone data.

On desktop we used to use tweetdeck right up until the muskrat took it away. On mobile we used a variety of apps (Talon, Fenix 2, others) before those were also taken away. The official twitter app never held my attention. Using the PWA takes care of the technology side of things so I can concentrate my efforts elsewhere: Spending the time to curate my experience:

  • You follow me, but you only retweet and quote-tweet? I’m not following you back. Tweet things you came up by yourself.
  • Farming of any sort? You’ll probably catch a block.
  • Use of genAI tools to “create content”? Miss me with that.
  • You come into my mentions telling me I’m wrong about something? Yeah, you’re getting muted.

This effort took years and years. I grew up on the Old Internet; constantly doing this kind of thing was necessary to keep your sanity more or less intact. It’s why BlueSky is nicer:

One thing that makes 🦋 different is been created by people who have seen it all. Like if you think you’re going to shock them with gore,vore, scat, 4chan, 8chan, 256chan, inflation art, 2-girls-1 cup, lemon party, Tumblr lore, you name it – they saw and became immune to all that when they were 12.

David Aronchick ‪@ironyuppie.com‬

On BlueSky we have the nuclear block. I personally think it is the one innovation that will give it the upper hand over all the other would-be twitter competitors, or even social media at large.

the nuclear block is the single best product decision bluesky has made

yes, it’s sometimes annoying when you want to gawk but that’s part of why it’s good

Micah ‪@rincewind.run‬

Upper panel: Man laying down is smiling at his phone. Text says "Block account" Bottom Panel: Man is looking up. He is happy

Building on top of it are moderation lists and blocklists, which build on top of the block function. Like darth says, “just moving on really does work micah tbh“. If you want to gawk at someone posting stupid shit, you can use alternate methods if you really want to, but the vast majority of the time you just… move on, and that way you don’t get enraged or saddened.

Twitter had everything to stay the “town square of the Internet” for this decade, but the greed of it’s C-suite was bound to cause its downfall sooner or later. But even now, at the worst twitter has ever been, you don’t have to suffer the experience the muskrat wants for you.

Gotta block ’em all

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Robb Knight, a software developer who found that Perplexity was circumventing robots.txt to scrape websites it wasn’t supposed to, told 404 Media there are many cases where it’s hard to tell what a user agent does or who operates it. “What’s happening to people, including me, is copy-pasting lists of agents without verifying every agent is a real one,” he said. Knight added that the Wall Street Journal and many News Corp-owned websites are currently blocking a bot called “Perplexity-ai,” which may or may not even exist (Perplexity’s crawler is called “PerplexityBot.”)

Source: Websites are Blocking the Wrong AI Scrapers (Because AI Companies Keep Making New Ones)

The solution we used on this here blargh is simple: We blocked everyone on robots.txt:


User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Crawl-delay: 360

We also like to have a terminal window to look at what’s currently hitting the server and we block bots liberally. We’ve already blocked ahrefs.com and perplexitybot for being assholes without rate limits. Does this mean this here blargh will be that much harder to find? Yeah, but we don’t particularly care about it.

So much thinking to be done ugh

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So. The fucken orange idiot won the election:

  • Department of Education: To be closed, or as close to that as possible.
  • Abortion: Likely to be made illegal via FDA prohibition of abortion drugs and Comstock Act.
  • Kakistocrats taking over government functions. See who is getting picked to the orange idiot’s cabinet.
  • Immigration: Paths are going to get completely blocked off. And they’re talking about getting rid of Jus soli and switching to Jus sanguinis. Also, deporting millions of people. Doesn’t matter if you’re citizen, resident, or illegal. If you’re not white, you’re going.
  • Economy: Accelerationists are going to take over and they fully plan to crash the economy to achieve their societal aims.
  • Whatever it is they decide to fuck up next. Go read about Project 2025 to find out. You’re not going to like it.

For the past week we’ve been considering our options and we don’t have a lot of leeway— our savings were considerably sapped by large purchases for family and my own period of unemployment from August to October. We have just enough to get out with a large bag and that is dependent on us being able to afford to get out.

I don’t want to start over yet again, for the nth time in our lives. We have much to consider in the next month. Then comes the execution of whatever plans we come up with.

While we grapple with my personal facts, a whole lot of magaots are now realizing how badly they’re about to get fucked by the person they voted for. They’ll cry and they’ll moan and they’ll want for rescue but… what’s done is done. Fuck their feelings.

That was the big thing. Now for the usual things:

  • bartendJerb: Slowly picking up now that the weather has turned colder. It’s not nearly as cold as it should be. No idea how well the cocktails I came up with are selling, no one tells me numbers of any sort. I don’t think anyone knows numbers of any sort anyways.
  • mgbarJerb: It’s picking up steam and a lot of our staff still haven’t gotten it through their heads we are a high-volume craft cocktail and they need to fucken move. We don’t have the staffing levels they have at Bar La Grassa, much less that level of service.
  • Reading: Re-reading Meehan’s Bartender Manual to understand better what the fuck it is they want us to do at mgbarJerb.

I’ve mostly cut out twitter out of my social posting as most of those circles have moved over to bluesky, with twitter itself cratering even further down that it was before; still keep a browser window open to the site but it’s mostly for reading, not for posting. Been pruning a lot of my RSS feeds to cut out a lot of stuff we don’t follow anymore. Also! we rejiggered MariaDB on this server and hopefully OOM-killer will leave it alone from now on.

We also wanted to build a new server to replace our aging storage server hardware but… it depends on what we decide to do given the economy situation around this here parts.

The last bit we need to do is figure out a way to get us to sleep at a decent hour. We’ve been going to sleep with the first light of the sun and… we’ve missed out on overtime at work due to us not being awake to actually take the shifts. This post is one of those actions we’re taking since it’s keeping us awake past the usual sleep window.

The long slow painful backroad to renewed sentience

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It’s been a busy week over here:

  • bartendJerb: I was non-ceremoniously put in charge of the winter drinks menu. The previous-previous bar manager neglected to leave his builds behind so… we got to come up with new ones. We think there are two good cocktails, two decent cocktails, and one iffy cocktail. But they’re done and mostly ready for launch barring ingredient availability. Yellow chartreuse is not cheap.
  • mgbarJerb: It is having new-restaurant issues that we personally thought would not happen at all given it is a corporate rim enterprise with many other venues all over the United States. And yet we keep having logistics issues all over the damn place. Also, la barra fue diseñada con las nalgas (designed with the ass cheeks. Pencil held between them). But hopefully we’ll be able to implement changes that will make life easier for our barbacks and our servers.
  • bistroJerb: Gossip says they’re looking for another bar manager. It will be their fifth of this year— just this year. That’s in addition to the slow season coming up for them. The temperature dropped a solid 35 °F from yesterday. The joint is supposed to be featured on a tv show one of these days and bistroBoss is hanging all of his hopes on the business picking up for the business because of it.

All in all it has been busy and we are making money after taking a li’l menty break hiatus over the summer. Our big expense has been going out to eat and drink but we are currently in the process of reconstructing our kitchen space so we can actually cook at volume. The lack of counter space once again comes in to haunt us in our tiny little galley kitchen but… it is much better than the lame tiny space we used to live before.

Slowly we regain the ability to concentrate and think. We lost that for a long, long time. We fucked up a lot of things during that time.

Going to try and do these reports to myself more often. They help to keep track of dates and events.

Meses como esclavo para que ni las gracias te den

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Con los años, los mejores restaurantes se adaptan más a las demandas de los jóvenes, pero advierten que la exigencia no puede bajar: “Quien quiere formarse en la excelencia lo hace libremente”.

Source: El infierno de los becarios de los estrella Michelin: 14 horas, sin cobrar y a vivir en pisos ‘patera’

La industria restaurantera en Europa esta cayendo en un precipicio de su propia creación. A donde va el dinero que cuestan menus de €400? Por mas caro que cueste la renta, los insumos, la labor, de ahi queda ganancia. Si Noma, en un pais nordico con una red social avanzada, no pudo con los gastos, que esperanza hay para los demas? Eso sin contar el incremento en costo de vida que mucha gente joven esta sufriendo.

De restaurantes en Estados Unidos ni se hable. Aqui la industria completa depende de labor migrante por lo regular indocumentada, cosa de la cual malos jefes se aprovechan. Yo he sido stagiaire pero por lo regular suele ser un dia, dos a lo mucho, con posible contratacion por parte del restaurante.

Scoffier invento un buen sistema para aquel entonces, pero ya es hora de cambiar.

Ah shit here we go again

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That’s ominous, but more importantly Pinboard is a one person show and that person is no longer responding to support emails. Maciej is no longer active on social media that I know of. His Pinboard.in support forum has been quiescent for years. I’ll be researching my micro blog options and I’ll write about what I come up with on tech.kateva.org.

Source: Gordon’s Notes: The End Times have come for the Pinboard.in bookmarking service

So much for the man gloating about buying out del.icio.us. He doesn’t even need to sell the service. He can be “the founder” with just one or two full-time people working under him to make the service viable for the next 10 years and beyond.

On the linked Hacker News thread there are some alternatives worth looking into, most of them self-hosted.

we will all lose something of ourselves

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This is all about to flip — the default assumption about a photo is about to become that it’s faked, because creating realistic and believable fake photos is now trivial to do. We are not prepared for what happens after.

Source: No one’s ready for this – The Verge

Considering the current state of reading comprehension and media literacy in the United States the situation is going to become horrible extremely quickly.

Take in point— conservative media blowing up over “Haitian immigrants eating pets“, which was from the get-go a fake issue, created by Springfield neo-nazis as blood libel. We were already familiar with this kind of racial perception from previous situations so I was already disbelieving of it. But other people on social media outside the US truly believed it. Ourselves we corrected a couple people. One of them blocked us for it 🤷‍♀️

But in both these cases there were no fake pictures to complicate the issue. At some point a fake picture is going to blow up and it’s going to be almost impossible to dispel the issue unless there’s video of the specific situation. But then genAI is going to then start faking video and we’ll be in the same situation.

Humanity will lose the ability to remember things as they truly were, choosing instead to remember things how they wished they were.

 

Corriendo, con una bestia detrás

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The question is :

  • do we have the mental weaponry to start over again
  • do we have the economic wherewithal to see it through
  • do we want to lose everything yet again? For the Nth time.

Horrible things happening around here. We’re lying on the couch and there is no peace.

Fucken drama, seriously

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So much stuff happens at bistroJerb that I think it’ll just be better for my long-term memory if we dump it on here instead of attempting to remember it all.

In the past week:

  • Monday: no activity, thank gods
  • Tuesday: Four servers hired.
  • Wednesday: GM is out. She’s new to the job and already went off on vacation (she’s coming back but not yet)
  • Thursday: All bartenders are unavailable for me. Full patio buyout, full dining room. bistroBoss understaffed so badly he had to take tables and he absolutely sucks at it. We fang dinner service on our own.
  • Friday: Two people staging cos this is how bistroBoss gets free labor out of everyone that wants employment. Three people are actually training and they’re supposed to be paid for it.
  • Saturday: One of the new hires walks out. One of the bartenders walks out. He was going to pay them both below minimum wage in Minneapolis­— as of July 1st it is $15.57 an hour no matter the size of the employer! We close the bar as the other bartender has a health condition.
  • Sunday: 13 hour shift as there are no other bartenders available.

Every single day the schedule went through multiple changes cos bistroBoss doesn’t know how to use 7shifts. He’s still intent on having a hospitality charge instead of tipping and our guests absolutely hate it.

We have the day off today and we’re being productive, which makes for a nice change. See y’all next week in this post series lmao.

Fucken’a bistroBoss

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Where to even fucken start, ugh. These past few months have been a whirlwind. And when the wind hits you try your best to keep your head down.

Except we’re too fucken good (and proud of it!) to keep our head down. This has the unfortunate effect of leaving our neck exposed.

But if our head rolls, so will the owner of the restaurant we work at.

We’re the sharp end of the stick. We’re the one cancelling the apocalypse on a regular basis.

Standard Mandarin will be a challenge

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The cynical observation is that people pay a lot of money to register as operators for new gTLDs, and who is going to turn down that money? The operators may not make much money (but maybe they do, from some spammers), but the people who approve new gTLDs and get money for them sure do.

An interesting report on newly used domain names and their usage in spam – Chris Siebenmann

We just watched the Fallout TV series and the cynical observer in us can’t help but think it’s Vault-Tec taking a dollar from us humans to pay RobCo, which in turn takes a dollar from us to pay ArmCo, which in turn takes a dollar from us to pay Big Mt, and so on and so on.

gTLD miners know they are basically unbound by law. They’re going to keep digging into the English dictionary and when they run out, start on other languages.

We had to be the know-it-all

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The past two weeks have been… weird. At musicbarJerb we’re kinda sorta getting more fare? We think?

The booker is still working through his friends looking to do gigs. It’s a good look for him and his friends but… it leaves us, the staff, with no tips. And that’s really what makes staff stay. Booker is straight up fucking people over just so he looks good.

We’re in Minneapolis so we still get our $15 USD hourly. But also does everyone in town with live music, and if our booker is not maximizing occupancy in the stage, then he’s fucking everyone else over. Apparently The Powers That Be still haven’t gotten the message. They trust him blindingly just cos he’s toured the world over.

They won’t listen to us poors, hourly staff.

But that’s our opinion. We can only see what our wages plus tips are. We also talk to coworkers about it, trying to get a feel for the situation. Already got two people out the door cos _they’re not making enough money_. We do know for a fact this is not a situation they see at the jazz spot over on Nicollet Mall. Their staff have stayed for a long, long time.

Knowing our luck, those people are going to walk and instead of moving me up, The Powers That Be will hire new people, cos we’re the only who know where everything is. There are multiple bartenders, there are multiple hosts, there are multiple servers, there are multiple cooks.

the human isn’t moving up at musicbarJerb.

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We’re getting used to the beatings.

Already got in trouble with The Powers That Be, at musicbarJerb, due to the human complimenting people in ways that are not workplace approved by a federal agency in the United States of America.

(the human hugged and kissed someone on the forehead, and complimented someone else endlessly. But they also brought up work roles and that’s a NO NO).

The human is apologetic, and the entities running this here blog have made sure to adjust all expectations and hope accordingly.

Capitalism demands our (remainder) of soul. We shan’t give it. We may license it.

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