Has the time to learn how to install Linux finally came?My approach is always:
(1) Get the cheapest drive you can find.
(2) Install and test Linux on your machine, especially with all your games.
(3) If it works, never look back.
It's for a more long-term perspective. Allegedly Microshits patched out at least some of the methods of installing new Windows 11 locally/offline, so while my current computer works fine, when I will be getting new computer in unforeseeable future, it will be the time to switch to Linux.
I am vehemently not agreeing to Microshits account terms and conditions.
(2) Install and test Linux on your machine, especially with all your games.
It seems that after installing Proton on Linux, the Steam Deck tested/verified label on Steam might be enough...
EDIT: Or not, Steam Deck status on Steam seems to take into account specific gfx used by Steam Deck hardware.
Quite literally 7 years ago my Linux desktop ran every Steam game I asked it to. As I think I've mentioned, the issue arose with FFXIV where I'd get a black screen for every cutscene. I threw in a Windows partition to be able to run FFXIV, and ended up in the endless trap of, "Well, since you've got Windows running anyway..."
Has the time to learn how to install Linux finally came?My approach is always:
(1) Get the cheapest drive you can find.
(2) Install and test Linux on your machine, especially with all your games.
(3) If it works, never look back.
It's for a more long-term perspective. Allegedly Microshits patched out at least some of the methods of installing new Windows 11 locally/offline, so while my current computer works fine, when I will be getting new computer in unforeseeable future, it will be the time to switch to Linux.
I am vehemently not agreeing to Microshits account terms and conditions.
I know. They'll steal the shirt off your back...
Blargh. Humble Choice has Atomic Heart that I purchased a few month ago.
And of course, I already played it beyond 2 hours return mark.
It also has V Rising, which I played on free weekend, and already seen most things that game has to offer. Building misshapen gothic castle was fun, but combat was very meh.
I have finished Salt And Sacrifice... It's... Eh. Tedious and tiresome, poorly balanced, and inferior to much better (if still tedious in a typical Souls-like way) Salt And Sanctuary...
It's a bit of a shame, because it does have potential and some interesting ideas.
What the frack is wrong with game designers who think their default controller keybinds are so great that there is no need for ability to rebind keys?!
Is that so frackking hard to add editing keybindings to your game?
Fantasy NPC: Enner Liesth, Tangler Of Lineages
When you need a wingman to romance the Queen behind the King's back...
I like this guy.
Sitting on my back porch. The moon is almost full. The sky has beautiful sunset colors.
Pork on the grill. I put a lot of cayenne and garlic powder on there to make it spicy.
And yet you have not invited me over to your house for dinner, nor have you a wife for me to abscond with.
Bad Waterhammer. Bad.
There were some serious d**kbags in the Berkeley yudanshakai. Did not know how to check their egos at the door and leave them under the bench with their shoes and their car keys. That's why a bunch of people left.Sounds like the sensei couldn't handle his curry.For me it was the whole, "I don't like this so you shouldn't have brought it," that made me stop cooking for the dojo. We had this incident. We had the, "I made $60 worth of seared sashimi-quality ahi and a guy who didn't believe in undercooked fish took one look and threw out the entire tray." We had, "My kid doesn't like what you cooked so you shouldn't have brought it." We had, "I'm vegan and you didn't bring a vegan dish so you're a d**k." And on and on. I stopped cooking and started bringing store-bought blandness instead, 'cause people don't complain about store-bought stuff.
In short, my experience was, "Entitled a$$****s at potlucks ruin potlucks."
EDIT: I think the worst part is that LM frequently brought what was apparently an amazing seafood jambalaya(?), but since I don't eat invertebrates I didn't partake. It disappointed her, but not once did I say, "Y'know, *I* don't like this so you should've made something else."
Im sorry that happened. Ego is the mind killer. Ego is the little death that precludes the larger one.
The jambalaya had chicken, andouille sausage, prawns, and a ton of fresh herbs. It was damn good. But you have to like prawns.
I do like prawns. Please prepare this for me should I be in the area.
Earlier this week, I did my annual day at school where I go to the fish market, get a whole two-pound fish, bring it into school on ice, and give all three Primary classes the Parts of the Fish lesson outside on the picnic table so they can see the structure of the gills and how the scales are translucent and how the fin rays are actually poky at the ends and so forth. Then I take the fish home and filet it and make cioppino with it.
COOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLL
...There were some serious d**kbags in the Berkeley yudanshakai. Did not know how to check their egos at the door and leave them under the bench with their shoes and their car keys. That's why a bunch of people left.Oh, yeah. My recollection was that there might have been a couple of jerks in the Richmond location, but they were such a minority we were a happy, sociable family. It wasn't 'til sensei got obsessed with getting back to Berkeley that we started getting some serious "people with issues" problems, and once the move happened the people at the new location were so unwelcoming and hostile that we all quit in rapid succession. It really felt like losing family, but holy cow that Berkeley location attracted some a*****es.
...why did the schools not simply fight to the death?
Did years of Shaw Brothers documentaries lie to me?
Has the time to learn how to install Linux finally came?My approach is always:
(1) Get the cheapest drive you can find.
(2) Install and test Linux on your machine, especially with all your games.
(3) If it works, never look back.
It's for a more long-term perspective. Allegedly Microshits patched out at least some of the methods of installing new Windows 11 locally/offline, so while my current computer works fine, when I will be getting new computer in unforeseeable future, it will be the time to switch to Linux.
I am vehemently not agreeing to Microshits account terms and conditions.
I remain skeptical about windows 11.
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For those of you unfamiliar with the term "ensh***ification", it's the drive to sacrifice quality for price in terms of pretty much everything you buy.
Flashlights are my shining example (pun intended). A flashlight is mechanically one of the simplest-possible devices to make: A tube to hold batteries, a bulb, three wires, and a switch. And yet ever since Elder Spawn was born in 2001, I've tried and tried to buy flashlights that satisfy the simple paradigm, "When you flip the switch, the flashlight turns on."
Not a single flashlight, no matter how expensive or well-reviewed, has managed this simple test, with the sole exception of the massive 3 C-cell LED flashlights I keep in my car trunks.
Most of them have that idiotic "strobe" effect that's so sensitive that it ends up being the default no matter what you do after a month or two of use. If I'm trying to look behind my dryer for a dropped sock, I do not need a strobing flashlight. I finally found some non-strobing flashlights and bought a trio. You turn them on and the light slowly fades and dies, exactly as if your batteries were dead. Except they do it with brand-new batteries, and if you adjust the aperture (which is a feature I did not need, but try getting a non-strobing flashlight with no other features) it comes back on.
PLEASE, universe! I just want a flashlight that takes two AA batteries that lights up when you turn it on, doesn't flash, doesn't go off after a few seconds, and can survive being dropped 3' onto hardwood.
And in 24 years, I haven't been able to find one.
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I swear, the difference between smart cats and dumb cats.
Lenore: I can tell that this human loves this ancient cranky cat very much, so I should work hard to make her love me.
Mephisto: The old cranky cat gets the best food! I want that life. "Tell me your secrets!"
(Morrigan is definitely in the Lenore camp, but she does it as a clown, getting near Nefret and then flopping over and giving big kitten eyes. She knows she's cute and she tries to exploit it.)
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For those of you unfamiliar with the term "ensh***ification", it's the drive to sacrifice quality for price in terms of pretty much everything you buy.
Flashlights are my shining example (pun intended). A flashlight is mechanically one of the simplest-possible devices to make: A tube to hold batteries, a bulb, three wires, and a switch. And yet ever since Elder Spawn was born in 2001, I've tried and tried to buy flashlights that satisfy the simple paradigm, "When you flip the switch, the flashlight turns on."
Not a single flashlight, no matter how expensive or well-reviewed, has managed this simple test, with the sole exception of the massive 3 C-cell LED flashlights I keep in my car trunks.Most of them have that idiotic "strobe" effect that's so sensitive that it ends up being the default no matter what you do after a month or two of use. If I'm trying to look behind my dryer for a dropped sock, I do not need a strobing flashlight. I finally found some non-strobing flashlights and bought a trio. You turn them on and the light slowly fades and dies, exactly as if your batteries were dead. Except they do it with brand-new batteries, and if you adjust the aperture (which is a feature I did not need, but try getting a non-strobing flashlight with no other features) it comes back on.
PLEASE, universe! I just want a flashlight that takes two AA batteries that lights up when you turn it on, doesn't flash, doesn't go off after a few seconds, and can survive being dropped 3' onto hardwood.
And in 24 years, I haven't been able to find one.
NH.
I have recently procured new glasses, as Vany and CH and CY and Lisamarlene can verify.
I can see better than I have in decades. Decades.
I swear to god, I honestly thought you were talking about fleshlights. I had to move my phone around a bit before I focused on the word flashlight.
I was reading what you wrote with great interest. I was like ,"wow. I didnt know NH was into that! And I didnt know the quality of fleshlights had decreased so much over the years. How unfortunate. What is the strobe effect for a fleshlight? Oh man, am I behind the times to the point NH is dunking on me? Jesus, I gotta get to toys in babeland, stat!!!!"
I am still getting used to these trifocals.
For those of you unfamiliar with the term "ensh***ification", it's the drive to sacrifice quality for price in terms of pretty much everything you buy.
Flashlights are my shining example (pun intended). A flashlight is mechanically one of the simplest-possible devices to make: A tube to hold batteries, a bulb, three wires, and a switch. And yet ever since Elder Spawn was born in 2001, I've tried and tried to buy flashlights that satisfy the simple paradigm, "When you flip the switch, the flashlight turns on."
Not a single flashlight, no matter how expensive or well-reviewed, has managed this simple test, with the sole exception of the massive 3 C-cell LED flashlights I keep in my car trunks.Most of them have that idiotic "strobe" effect that's so sensitive that it ends up being the default no matter what you do after a month or two of use. If I'm trying to look behind my dryer for a dropped sock, I do not need a strobing flashlight. I finally found some non-strobing flashlights and bought a trio. You turn them on and the light slowly fades and dies, exactly as if your batteries were dead. Except they do it with brand-new batteries, and if you adjust the aperture (which is a feature I did not need, but try getting a non-strobing flashlight with no other features) it comes back on.
PLEASE, universe! I just want a flashlight that takes two AA batteries that lights up when you turn it on, doesn't flash, doesn't go off after a few seconds, and can survive being dropped 3' onto hardwood.
And in 24 years, I haven't been able to find one.
I haven't tested if my 69.99 29.99 PLN (or something like, it was a sale) LED flashlights with aluminum body can survive fall from 3'.
Their main quirk is that when you push the button once they give light, but you need to turn them off twice - I think it is a sort of precaution against turning them off accidentally when you hol them in reverse grip with a thumb on the button.
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*eyesight woes*
That's why I read FAWTL on the desktop.
The mind is a truly mysterious, oft-frustrating instrument.
On Monday I talked about pondering a sick day. So today I'm actually physically sick.
I blame my brain entirely.
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High Drama in Local HEMA Land.
* The longsword instructor at the club I go to on Weds has decided to start his own sparring-focused group on Weds (this is good news, as the other one we had has been in abeyance for some time. I shall go)
* The head instructor at the Weds group, who does not like any sort of competition, knew this was happening; according to him, Mr. Longsword asked him this evening if he could advertise the new group (I can't see why this would be a problem - it'd be a different sort of outfit altogether) - and asked for the contact details of everyone who attends, too. Unwise, if true - Head Instructor said 'no' to both, at which point (and I have only heard one side of this), Mr Longsword left in a huff, and shall not be returning.
So Freehold may get his beautifully choreographed inter-dojo battle after all. I will fight for whoever promises me two (2) 660ml bottles of Guinness Foreign Extra, should I survive.
I don't remember, have we crossed Oracle off the list of potential Global Megacorporations NobodyWorks for?
I ask, because I just saw an article about zero-day vulnerability in Oracle products...
I think the only ones I have categorically crossed off the list are Microsoft and Amazon. That leaves a LOT of contenders.
High Drama in Local HEMA Land.
I want to begin HEMA. How do I start?
I looked HEMA on the interwebz. Turns out there’s a club very near where I live. They had Sedona red rocks in the background. Heh. I know where that is.
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Best I could do is make introductions to the local crowd to anyone with a blade traveling through Dallas. One of the best HEMA instructors in the area is one of my exes from university days.
I wouldn't trust him around your wives or girlfriends, because he's an amoral tomcat who makes Freehold look chaste and prudish, but he knows his stuff.
Best I could do is make introductions to the local crowd to anyone with a blade traveling through Dallas. One of the best HEMA instructors in the area is one of my exes from university days.
I wouldn't trust him around your wives or girlfriends, because he's an amoral tomcat who makes Freehold look chaste and prudish, but he knows his stuff.
Oh, come on, you know you just jinxed it roused Freehold into action right now...
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I think the only ones I have categorically crossed off the list are Microsoft and Amazon. That leaves a LOT of contenders.
I think that you explicitly denied working for Facebook/Meta and s@%&ter Melon's ex... And their portfolio don't seem to match what you are saying about your work, but so does P**nHub...
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I have finished Salt And Sacrifice... It's... Eh. Tedious and tiresome, poorly balanced, and inferior to much better (if still tedious in a typical Souls-like way) Salt And Sanctuary...
I liked the concept and art style of the first one but didn't care for the Souls-like frustration of it. Sounds like I'll be passing on the second as well.
Yes, I'll definitely confirm I don't work for Meta, Font of All Evil.
Today I'm dealing with administrative stupidity, which I think GothBard correctly identified as a "California thing": I have infinite PTO (paid time off, aka vacation, medical appointments, and the like), but I had 80 hours of PSL (paid sick leave) that I'm required to report and track. I'm pretty sure it's because California mandates at least 40 hours of PSL for all full-time employees, so it's some legal reporting thing Global Megacorporation has to do.
Well, my 6 hours put me to 74 hours for the year, and it turns out that this year Global Megacorporation reduced PSL to 72 hours a year because... who knows? I'm sure a beancounter could explain it to me.
I dutifully reported my 4 hours, and since I told my manager before I left I will consider the remaining 2 hours to be PTO, "time off with notice".
As will all the rest of my sick days for the year, apparently. Just have to remember to TELL my manager that I'm going to be sick at least a day in advance.
Whee?
Me: *sees tour bus pull into parking lot, knowing we are sold out*
Guy: *parks bus out front, comes in* "Where am I supposed to park this bus? Your lot is full."
Me: "Yes, we are sold out, so the lot is full. We don't provide bus parking. They should have told you when you checked in."
Guy: "I'm checking in now, so tell me where to park."
Me: "I'm sorry, but as I said, we are sold out."
Guy: "B##!+@%*. My dispatcher just called you and you said you had rooms available. So check me in and tell me where park."
Me: "I didn't speak to anyone about a room for you. Maybe..."
Guy: *interrupts me* "B~%$!%@%! She just called and spoke to someone here, so give me my f+#!ing room and tell me where to park the f#**ing bus!"
Me: *getting angry* "I am the only one here. I have been the only one here for two and half hours. I spoke to no one about a room for you. Your dispatcher told you wrong."
Guy: "This is such f&@~ing b+!%~~##!! I was on the phone with her as I pulled into the parking lot, and she said she spoke to you no more than 5 f!&$ing minutes ago!! So give me my f!!~ing room and f!!%ing tell me where the f@~~ to park the f+&*ing bus!!!!"
Me: *had it* "Your dispatcher either told you the wrong hotel or lied to you. I don't know which. I don't care which. There is no room for you here. Even if I had a room, I wouldn't rent it to you because you're an a!%*@@&. And I'd tell you where to park your f*%$ing bus, but I'm pretty sure you wouldn't like the answer. Now. Leave."
Guy: *turning bright red, starts to say something, but doesn't. leaves*
Me: *treated to the sight of him trying to back the bus out of the lot (a straight shot) for 5 minutes*People like this are one of many reasons I hate my job.
This epitomizes why I only lasted 8 months in retail. You quickly learn that the general public is a bunch of entitled a$$hats, many of whom are also morons.
So Freehold may get his beautifully choreographed inter-dojo battle after all. I will fight for whoever promises me two (2) 660ml bottles of Guinness Foreign Extra, should I survive.
Everyone here knows of my opinion when it comes to subtitled vs. dubbed fare.
This is the one exception.
I need my badly dubbed laughter, long explanations of techniques, and lots of awfully fake blood.
Limey.
Use the Shaolin Wonder Palm.
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Best I could do is make introductions to the local crowd to anyone with a blade traveling through Dallas. One of the best HEMA instructors in the area is one of my exes from university days.
I wouldn't trust him around your wives or girlfriends, because he's an amoral tomcat who makes Freehold look chaste and prudish, but he knows his stuff.
Clearly, I must study the blade under this man.
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Oh, come on, you know you justBest I could do is make introductions to the local crowd to anyone with a blade traveling through Dallas. One of the best HEMA instructors in the area is one of my exes from university days.
I wouldn't trust him around your wives or girlfriends, because he's an amoral tomcat who makes Freehold look chaste and prudish, but he knows his stuff.jinxed itroused Freehold into action right now...
...
Not that kind of blade.
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*SIGH* And this is why Lenore best kitty.
Mephisto terrified us with his escape on Tuesday.
Today I put them out in the yard. Lenore tied herself to a tree because she has an immensely long lead built on trust. She is very fat and her fur is the slickest of any cat I've ever touched. So she popped off her harness and trotted inside to let me know she didn't like the tree.
And this is why she gets the immensely long lead. Freedom = the chance to go back inside and hang out with the humans.
Wow, Crunchyroll.
"Upgrade to Crunchyroll manga and read over 200 manga titles for free!"
Q: Is Frieren available for free on Crunchyroll Manga?
A: Nope.
Q: Is One Punch Man available for free on Crunchyroll Manga?[/b]
A: Nope.
Q: Is Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure available for free on Crunchyroll Manga?[/b]
A: Nope.
Q: Is Chainsaw Man available for free on Crunchyroll Manga?[/b]
A: Nope.
So... um... here's the full list. I have no idea why Crunchyroll would think I'd pay an extra fee every month for that list of titles. It's kind of like paying extra to dumpster dive through the $5 DVD bargain bin at Fry's.
Wow, Crunchyroll.
"Upgrade to Crunchyroll manga and read over 200 manga titles for free!"
Q: Is Frieren available for free on Crunchyroll Manga?
A: Nope.Q: Is One Punch Man available for free on Crunchyroll Manga?[/b]
A: Nope.Q: Is Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure available for free on Crunchyroll Manga?[/b]
A: Nope.Q: Is Chainsaw Man available for free on Crunchyroll Manga?[/b]
A: Nope.So... um... here's the full list. I have no idea why Crunchyroll would think I'd pay an extra fee every month for that list of titles. It's kind of like paying extra to dumpster dive through the $5 DVD bargain bin at Fry's.
That is unfair. There are some gems here, though admittedly not many.
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For those of you unfamiliar with the term "ensh***ification", it's the drive to sacrifice quality for price in terms of pretty much everything you buy.
Flashlights are my shining example (pun intended). A flashlight is mechanically one of the simplest-possible devices to make: A tube to hold batteries, a bulb, three wires, and a switch. And yet ever since Elder Spawn was born in 2001, I've tried and tried to buy flashlights that satisfy the simple paradigm, "When you flip the switch, the flashlight turns on."
Not a single flashlight, no matter how expensive or well-reviewed, has managed this simple test, with the sole exception of the massive 3 C-cell LED flashlights I keep in my car trunks.Most of them have that idiotic "strobe" effect that's so sensitive that it ends up being the default no matter what you do after a month or two of use. If I'm trying to look behind my dryer for a dropped sock, I do not need a strobing flashlight. I finally found some non-strobing flashlights and bought a trio. You turn them on and the light slowly fades and dies, exactly as if your batteries were dead. Except they do it with brand-new batteries, and if you adjust the aperture (which is a feature I did not need, but try getting a non-strobing flashlight with no other features) it comes back on.
PLEASE, universe! I just want a flashlight that takes two AA batteries that lights up when you turn it on, doesn't flash, doesn't go off after a few seconds, and can survive being dropped 3' onto hardwood.
And in 24 years, I haven't been able to find one.
NH.
I have recently procured new glasses, as Vany and CH and CY and Lisamarlene can verify.
I can see better than I have in decades. Decades.
I swear to god, I honestly thought you were talking about fleshlights. I had to move my phone around a bit before I focused on the word flashlight.
I was reading what you wrote with great interest. I was like ,"wow. I didnt know NH was into that! And I didnt know the quality of fleshlights had decreased so much over the years. How unfortunate. What is the strobe effect for a fleshlight? Oh man, am I behind the times to the point NH is dunking on me? Jesus, I gotta get to toys in babeland, stat!!!!"
I am still getting used to these trifocals.
Grar. Another idea that I haven't immediately written down is gone...
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High Drama in Local HEMA Land.I want to begin HEMA. How do I start?
I'd find a club - the HEMA Alliance club finder can be helpful, depending on where you are, as can asking on r/HEMA on Reddit.
You can learn (or practice) on your own with a sword or sword-shaped object and videos or books, but you'll need to test what you're doing against a live opponent at some point, and that's arguably the most enjoyable part.
Feel free to drop me a PM if you have any specific questions you don't want to ask here.
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Crunchyroll ain't what it once was.
The saddest thing about that video was the statement, "In Japanese business, seniority is everything." It's hard to imagine running a company that way. You'd boot the best-qualified in favor of the oldest? Sounds like Congress, actually...
The saddest thing about that video was the statement, "In Japanese business, seniority is everything." It's hard to imagine running a company that way. You'd boot the best-qualified in favor of the oldest? Sounds like Congress, actually...Crunchyroll ain't what it once was.
I was gonna say, this sounds like plenty of businesses - public and private - in the US.
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I was gonna say, this sounds like plenty of businesses - public and private - in the US.The saddest thing about that video was the statement, "In Japanese business, seniority is everything." It's hard to imagine running a company that way. You'd boot the best-qualified in favor of the oldest? Sounds like Congress, actually...Crunchyroll ain't what it once was.
It surprises me because Global Megacorporation acquired us and had us sit on our hands for two months solid while they did a side-by-side comparison of all the redundant positions and chose the better-qualified person. It ended up being a bloodbath for the incumbents because we were a smaller company whose CEO's directive to managers was, "If your report isn't kicking a$$, fire them and we'll find a replacement."
We were a brutally efficient team, so the side-by-side comparison was a no-brainer.
Seniority had no impact on the decisions.
And, having been through around ten rounds of layoffs now, seniority hasn't had an impact there, either. Maybe it's just the companies I work for.
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High Drama in Local HEMA Land.I want to begin HEMA. How do I start?I'd find a club - the HEMA Alliance club finder can be helpful, depending on where you are, as can asking on r/HEMA on Reddit.
You can learn (or practice) on your own with a sword or sword-shaped object and videos or books, but you'll need to test what you're doing against a live opponent at some point, and that's arguably the most enjoyable part.
Feel free to drop me a PM if you have any specific questions you don't want to ask here.
I went down into the creek bottom and cut myself a box alder staff of the length I figured to be right for a hand and a half sword. Hung a bundle of rags from a springy tree limb, and had at it. Learned my moves from Haomaru of Samurai Showdown fame. Still can’t throw that cyclone off my sword though.
Later the wood cured out and was too light, so I wound the “blade” with bailing wire. Had a bearing race from my old jeep that made the guard. Eventually I managed to break the stick, so I went to the hardware store and bought some bar stock. Yeah, way heavier. This was years ago.
I was gonna say, this sounds like plenty of businesses - public and private - in the US.The saddest thing about that video was the statement, "In Japanese business, seniority is everything." It's hard to imagine running a company that way. You'd boot the best-qualified in favor of the oldest? Sounds like Congress, actually...Crunchyroll ain't what it once was.
It surprises me because Global Megacorporation acquired us and had us sit on our hands for two months solid while they did a side-by-side comparison of all the redundant positions and chose the better-qualified person. It ended up being a bloodbath for the incumbents because we were a smaller company whose CEO's directive to managers was, "If your report isn't kicking a$$, fire them and we'll find a replacement."
We were a brutally efficient team, so the side-by-side comparison was a no-brainer.
Seniority had no impact on the decisions.
And, having been through around ten rounds of layoffs now, seniority hasn't had an impact there, either. Maybe it's just the companies I work for.
I would definitely say your company is the exception rather than the rule in that regard. Which is a good thing, for all their other flaws.