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  • LasbrookLasbrook It takes a lot to make a stew When it comes to me and youRegistered User regular
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  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    what the hell man

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
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    Wow that's a shocker

    I just kind of assumed he'd live to 100, putting our stuff forever. Dude was an institution.

    What a bummer.

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  • HacksawHacksaw J. Duggan Esq. Wrestler at LawRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    In local news, a massive demonstration by the unions in Seattle that represent city-employed workers has prompted the city to cave on its initial offer of a 1% Cost of Living Adjustment (known as COLA to us insiders *smug face*).

    By the way, this contract expired over a year ago, in a time of unprecedented inflation. And what is the ratified offer, you might ask? Well it just so happens to be a 5% increase in wages for 2023 (with retro pay for the whole year), and a 4% increase in 2024. Not too fuckin' shabby if you ask me!

    As it turns out, when you unionize every aspect of an employer who can't outsource your job and you threaten to strike over their bullshit initial offer, sometimes you get a good result. Who knew!

    (It's me, I knew)

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  • Stabbity StyleStabbity Style He/Him | Warning: Mothership Reporting Kennewick, WARegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Heffling wrote: »
    The AMA, the Bar, Professional Engineer Licenses, and the like are all effectively unions for professionals. Except instead of being available to any employees, they restrict membership so they can restrict the supply side of labor, thus causing them to earn more.

    *edit* And because they aren't officially unions they have been able to build a lot of protections for themselves in our legal system.

    Part of what pushes doctors into specializations rather than staying as a GP is that specializations are significantly better compensated, and much more able to have their own practice. I know a lot of GPs in my part of Houston have been bought out by big out of state medical companies.

    Aren't they (AMA/Bar/PE) more like guilds than unions? Not that there isn't some overlap, but they generally have different objectives.

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  • LasbrookLasbrook It takes a lot to make a stew When it comes to me and youRegistered User regular
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    Well, it's less exciting than it would be right now but I have finally watched all 1096 episodes of One Piece. Only took my 536 days to do it. It's ultra hilarious that the main reason I started watching the anime is because the manga was going from the long haul of Wano back to the rest of the world with Egghead and the ultra burnout way I read the manga meant I had retained like jack and shit and forgot who a lot of these characters were. And then I get to the egghead arc in the anime and it has helpful explainers at the end of the episodes for all these characters you likely haven't heard of in years.

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  • GnizmoGnizmo Registered User regular
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    Heffling wrote: »
    The AMA, the Bar, Professional Engineer Licenses, and the like are all effectively unions for professionals. Except instead of being available to any employees, they restrict membership so they can restrict the supply side of labor, thus causing them to earn more.

    *edit* And because they aren't officially unions they have been able to build a lot of protections for themselves in our legal system.

    Part of what pushes doctors into specializations rather than staying as a GP is that specializations are significantly better compensated, and much more able to have their own practice. I know a lot of GPs in my part of Houston have been bought out by big out of state medical companies.

    Aren't they (AMA/Bar/PE) more like guilds than unions? Not that there isn't some overlap, but they generally have different objectives.

    Vaguely yeah, but the end effects for the person is going to be pretty union like. Not nearly as good as a union as seen with nurses who are smart enough to unionize. Still a lot of extra protections that you might not expect at first. There have been plenty of times when past bosses wanted to do something sketchy and I just dismissively told them no and that was the end of the conversation. Not with my license was the long answer the rare few times they pressed. It didn't stop the exploitation, but it does equalize the power amazingly fast.

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  • HydropoloHydropolo Registered User regular
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    It's worth remembering that while guilds are bad, they can STILL provide workers protections. Longshoremen for example.

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
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    Mashle is explicitly and unabashedly and unsubtly a massive parody. If someone is taking it seriously I really don't know what to say to that.

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Mashle is explicitly and unabashedly and unsubtly a massive parody. If someone is taking it seriously I really don't know what to say to that.

    I do

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Perfect.

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Haven't gotten into Mashle yet but the vibe I'm picking up is it has its main joke as the focus, spends time telling that joke in an elaborate manner, and is then over. Sometimes that's all you want.

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
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    Still thinking about Bravern

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Lasbrook wrote: »

    This sucks. A legend has left us. The man was making manga until the end. He had such a huge impact on manga and anime, video games, and even western culture. Dragon Ball was huge for making anime grow in the west.

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  • Gnome-InterruptusGnome-Interruptus Registered User regular
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    Is the difference between guilds and unions just how accountable leadership is to members?

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
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    Haven't gotten into Mashle yet but the vibe I'm picking up is it has its main joke as the focus, spends time telling that joke in an elaborate manner, and is then over. Sometimes that's all you want.

    yeah pretty much. there is a good undercurrent to it that isn't just jokes, and it gets to stick its fingers in harry potter's face, so what more do you want really?

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  • zagdrobzagdrob Registered User regular
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    Tynnan wrote: »
    The AMA is absolutely not a doctor union and frequently operates in ways that are counterproductive towards labor.

    The AMA is not a doctor's union but it (and other professional organizations to greater or lesser extents) do share a lot of characteristics with a union. The big difference though is that professional organizations don't collectively bargain for employees.

    Aside from that, a union acting in a way that is counterproductive towards labor is definitely not a disqualifying characteristic of unions. Unions very frequently act in ways that are counterproductive towards labor that is not their own membership, and even sometimes (e.g. two tier systems) in ways that are counterproductive to their own membership.

    Shit, it's not unheard of for laarger unions to be pretty shitty and in some ironic cases even use union-busting tactics on their own employees and staff.

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
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    Mashle reminds me that we really need more gag fighting manga, because when they hit they’re truly divine.

    But hell if I can’t think of any besides it and Bobobo

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    There's the other muscle magic light novel/manga that didn't get popular but was doing ridiculous things based entirely on muscles way before Mashle.

    https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/S5X/muscles-are-better-than-magic-manga/

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  • djmdjm Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I don't remember seeing this posted here yet?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h71d0QyZqRE

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    I don't remember seeing this posted here yet?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h71d0QyZqRE

    It's still the studio that did the 2nd season, and not the legendary 1st season.

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  • Styrofoam SammichStyrofoam Sammich WANT. normal (not weird)Registered User regular
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    The big difference though is that professional organizations don't collectively bargain for employees.
    So nothing like a union then

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  • SkeithSkeith Registered User regular
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    Is the difference between guilds and unions just how accountable leadership is to members?

    I understood it as guilds being much more exclusive with the specific goal of keeping prices for their labor high.

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  • shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
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    Heffling wrote: »
    The AMA, the Bar, Professional Engineer Licenses, and the like are all effectively unions for professionals. Except instead of being available to any employees, they restrict membership so they can restrict the supply side of labor, thus causing them to earn more.

    *edit* And because they aren't officially unions they have been able to build a lot of protections for themselves in our legal system.

    Part of what pushes doctors into specializations rather than staying as a GP is that specializations are significantly better compensated, and much more able to have their own practice. I know a lot of GPs in my part of Houston have been bought out by big out of state medical companies.

    Aren't they (AMA/Bar/PE) more like guilds than unions? Not that there isn't some overlap, but they generally have different objectives.

    I'm not sure what the legal framework is in the US but here at least professional organizations are mostly about liability and accreditation. They get up to other shit too in terms of lobbying and professional networking and stuff like that too. But the main purpose of the whole thing is controlling who gets to call themselves a member of the profession because as a profession that designation has specific meaning under the law.

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
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    Lanz wrote: »
    Mashle reminds me that we really need more gag fighting manga, because when they hit they’re truly divine.

    But hell if I can’t think of any besides it and Bobobo

    does Dandadan count? it has a lot of gags.

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    The Witch and the Beast is surprisingly good

    I wasn’t expecting a whole lot but I got sucked into watching the 8 episodes that are up on CR. The world / magic building is fairly interesting so far

    The interaction between the two main characters has been great.

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  • GnizmoGnizmo Registered User regular
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    The big difference though is that professional organizations don't collectively bargain for employees.
    So nothing like a union then

    So they will get protections and benefits for their members through negotiations and lobbying as well though. This can include forcing legislation that keeps the work environment manageable. For example, therapists in general in Louisiana, and I think elsewhere, have managed to get it so you can't have more than 12 people in a group. So they don't negotiate directly with employers but will with governments and other agencies to roughly the same end. As opposed to guilds that are all about cornering the market for their own benefit. The AMA as an example definitely fits that much better than most, but it is the worst example of a professional organization.

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
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    Lanz wrote: »
    Mashle reminds me that we really need more gag fighting manga, because when they hit they’re truly divine.

    But hell if I can’t think of any besides it and Bobobo

    does Dandadan count? it has a lot of gags.

    dandadan feels way more on the shonen side of things but there's humor there for sure. mashle feels more on the humor side atm to me (only through the first cour of mashle so far so maybe that's coloring my opinion of the two)

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  • HydropoloHydropolo Registered User regular
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    There is overlap between guilds and unions, and I'll take guilds any day of the week over nothing, but unions are ostensibly there for the benefit of labor in general and are contagious. Guilds are trying to maximize the benefit for their select membership and often actively put massive obstacles in the way of becoming a member to limit their membership.

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  • arthurinscalesarthurinscales Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Frieren
    that is about as perfect an ending to this arc as I could expect, honestly

    i am sorely tempted to start reading ahead on the manga, but i think i'll stick to the plan and read through dungeon meshi first

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  • zagdrobzagdrob Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    The big difference though is that professional organizations don't collectively bargain for employees.
    So nothing like a union then

    If you want to reduce the only defining characteristic of a union down to it collective bargaining for its membership I guess but that's absurdly reductive. There's substantial overlap between the two and - you may be shocked to hear this - even labor models where unions don't collectively bargain with employers at all.

    Like if your union doesn't lobby, set (or try to set) professional standards, or provide any other services for its membership - doing nothing but collective bargaining you've got a pretty shit union.

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  • Styrofoam SammichStyrofoam Sammich WANT. normal (not weird)Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I mean collective bargaining is a pretty defintional part of being a union. If that isnt required we rapidly find ourselves confusing labor action with every form of advocacy. Is this the Chamber of Commerce a union? Sure why not.

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  • zagdrobzagdrob Registered User regular
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    zagdrob was warned for this.
    I mean collective bargaining is a pretty defintional part of being a union. If that isnt required we rapidly find ourselves confusing labor action with every form of advocacy. Is this the Chamber of Commerce a union? Sure why not.

    Are you illiterate or just raging against an imagined strawman only you can perceive? Christ get over your forum beef and read what people actually post.

    I said 'share a lot of characteristics'. Nowhere did I or as far as I can tell anyone else call professional organizations a union or that there is perfect overlap.

    If you can find where I said the AMA or similar organizations are unions go off.

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  • Styrofoam SammichStyrofoam Sammich WANT. normal (not weird)Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    You wrote a long explanation about how the AMA is like a union while also acknowledging that they lack what is the defintional activity of labor unions. Its a silly exercise to engage in.

    You might also need to reread this page.

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