Stings every time, when voting in UK elections, rather than Scotland’s. Not just because Westminster has no list system or any other kind of proportional voting, ranked choice, anything other than first past the post. But also because the resulting effects of that, the parties are more corrupt and coerced by the terror induced by the system to be more duplicitous and crap, and so it’s just blatant in your face, there are no good choices [if the “good” choice parties even run a candidate], and the more you try to vote for a good choice, [(albeit a signal to other sheeple to vote with their conscience next time now that others are too)], the more in that election you risk letting the worst in power… Like the system itself is constantly pushing for and towards kakistarchy.

there is no UK green party

Tell that to our Westminster ballot papers.

@Athena5898@hexbear.net , @melvisntnormal@feddit.uk [my first time trying nickping in lemmy, hoping i did that correctly, ~ done so since I’m replying to both those comments combined.]

More than just committees and sub-committees. It’s also wrapped up in a neat veneer to serve as a placatium stopgap to prevent seceding and declaring independence.

I see that is quite similar to all the “states rights” pomp and verbiage. Like being patted on the head patronisingly being told “No need to go independent. You have your states rights. See? There there. There there. Bless your heart.”

… “Never mind the boot on your face, because here’s a smaller boot that looks just like your boots, on your face, as well.” never seems to satisfy the need for genuine autonomy and freedom and community etc. … So the “trust me bro”'s scant reassurance, and frankly, a threat. "It could always be worse, the big boot puts on less pretence of caring about you, less velvet for comfort… That’s a nice state-within-a-state you have there… It’d be a shame if anything were to happen to it… ".

PS, Reminds of legislative reform movements teaching us to get it right first time, because if you hedge for something far less than perfect just because it seemed like an attainable minor alleviation, you get stuck all the harder with that, if you achieve it, because now there’s less impetus for change, the nail’s less rusty, the dog won’t get up, will just wail fruitlessly for catharsis. … unless perhaps, the incremental improvement is specifically improving the ability for people to affect positive change.

[Edit: PPS: … and remembering the context here, regarding the greens… Oh dear goodness is that an effective terror scare false dichotomy. Oh yes, please, keep our state within a state, … I’d much prefer the scottish greens over the UK greens. Please don’t take it away. I’ll trust you bro. I’ll behave. LOL. Such is the terror, blinding us to, maybe there could be a reconciliation of our ideals, and true progress can be attained by availing re-localisation of autonomy, even right to the individual. … And smaller states can tend to be more responsive to needs, including but not limited to, the need for autonomy. Who’s doing better at that? Scottish greens? I see respect for people there. UK Greens? I see infighting and telling people how they’re supposed to be, and all manner of highly off-putting quirky behaviour, almost like they’re trying to be a joke… almost like there are agents easily getting into the mix to poison the well. … Okies… I’ll stop rambling now. … LOL. At least here.]

Dang. What that was in reply to, got removed. I don’t remember what it was (and failed to find what it was in the modlog systems ~ remind me, how do I get to see what was removed?).

Now I’m wondering if I misinterpreted something serious as satirical or vice versa. And even wondering if my reply there could likewise get misinterpreted. IIRC, either way, that image, what it depicts, still stands… remarking on the deranged insanity of being wistful for war.

… One of these days this war’s going to be over.

That’s debatable.

That smells like a false dichotomy… but, I’m heading on to other things better to do with my time than to think up examples outside those two possibilities.

But don’t worry, everybody. The national/global digital ID single point of failure will protect us from such fails. :`3

almost like someone wanted to win a and catch22’d to make sure they’d get it.

so many reasons to love the scottish greens, and loathe the UK greens.

there’s a biggie.

Well at least they had the sense to put the quiche in the back, not upfront, like the Corbyn flopping.

Sucks being colonised and ruled by 'em… Like Renton said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29-LRuuqFT0

And the weather does not help (nor the rest of the toxic crap from the system keeping people down). Make sure you’re getting at least a sunshine RDA equivalent dose of vitamin D3 to survive in the UK. 2 months, in summer… Just wait until winter kicks in. Then it really gets bad. You’re seeing the UK at its best sunniest disposition.

Yeah, if as reported, that’s going to radically nudge the UK green party’s pinpoint on the political compass up and to the right.

Not allowed to be as you are because money? Not allowed to be as you are because our money and power at threat by not pandering to perceptions of public popular perception? Not allowed to be as you are because ticked the wrong box on bureaucratic form?

Not my greens.

Need more sane peeps going green, to dilute the crazy-on-crazy (that I suspect comes almost entirely from agent provocateurs), to dilute the agent provocateur infiltration, to help look out for each other, and keep focus on what the green parties are supposed to be about.

You’ve got me wondering …

… Who are the devolved parliaments equivalents in the US?

’ Looked like UK were charging towards a strong lead for a while there, having committed domestic genocide, and imprisoning people for free speech, ongoing hegemony-complicit commitments, etc.

But… seen the German election result 2026, a day or so ago? AfD won. Germany back on top. Winning [\s]. :(

… Maybe that’s why the UK’s trying even harder now…? Even the greens are getting in on it? o_O Are we soon up to “Dear UK Green Party… Why yes I would like to accept your offer of a train ride to protect the environment.”??? [/s(?)]

Not my green party, thankfully.

I thought that particular green party were even more loosey goosey and leaned even more the other way, even bent double backwards to over-accommodate. Did not think they were one of those greenwashing crypto-fascist green parties, like some countries suffer. Upon first encountering this, it seemed shocking, perhaps even a mite implausible… and then one looks into it even a little further… there’s always more to a story. Certainly more than one side.

Any time stuff like this comes up, my tin foil hat tingles, and I get a sense of wedge issues being pushed to distract from traction on really substantive issues (which if dealt with, would make these wedge issues non-issues anyway), letting crooks get away with it. We can stop falling for it, building sturdy bridges to ally across, not walls to divide us.

I don’t know what they mean, but,

In my experience, it’s an accelerant towards burnout.

And it even entices you in deeper, with the continuing illusion of ease of productivity, deeper, into burnout.

Burnout is no fun. [Note: To be clear, that’s “no fun”, not merely “not fun”. As in, it saps, eliminates and prevents all fun from your life while in burnout. And it takes twice as long to recover as it seems, ~ so the moment you think you’ve recovered, you’re only half way there, and need to keep on having no fun for as long again, despite feeling like you can have fun, and every bit of energy expended on fun can still more readily send you back into burnout and extends the recovery time, tormenting you further. Seriously, burnout, is no fun. ~ Speaking as someone with (at last count) 65 ailments (some of which reduce some people to tears when they hear about), and I remain chipper, mocking the harrowing symptoms of it all, by calling it “fun” (e.g. “oh my flesh is rupturing again, what fun”), but burnout… that’s no fun.]

So, I suspect we may see an increase in burnout among our developers. And that’s speaking just from the enticing use on an individual level, before considering then also the added workload from everybody else churning through LLM accelerated workloads, having to deal with all the bug reports and pull requests (many of which will be hallucinated, or have insidious malicious injections, many of which will be vital critical issues), and then all the extra pressure to try harder to keep up your own skills against the accelerating spray, and those skills being moved to where your lower level skills atrophy, especially amidst the social pressure, perhaps even economic pressure and pressure from bosses and hierarchies and investors, to “keep up”, and quantity over quality lines being blurred in the self reassurance that it’s not being enshitified and our atrophying capacity to discern for ourselves… the demands increasing and capacity decreasing, drives the race to the bottom even harder. So I suspect we may see an increase in burnout among our developers.

Rather than relaxing back towards a 4 hour working week, or to lives of leisure, the driving inertia of society’s contemporary socio-economic model would instead have us see this promise of extra potential as something to maximally exploit, for the more that can be done. … Which in turn drives that ambition even more. And do-addiction is a hard chariot to dismount from, or to slow down. Unlike food-addiction [the other difficult addiction (~ because you have to eat)], the dopamine from a do-addiction is largely celebrated and not shamed nor generally offered help to break the addiction.

All this a verbose way to get around to depicting that… we may see many of those who embrace “AI” more, despite an initial apparent “getting ahead”, may be headed for a big long stall and crash, and instead it’s they who “fall behind”.

Depends how one uses it; How well one manages to titrate ones use. It could be a great pedagogical facilitator. But then, so could the internet… remember…? Remember when the internet was more like a library and science club, before it became more like TV and a bar fight? … With the perverse incentives of big actors with the most grasp of the steering wheel, we may see LLMs/AI head the same degenerative direction, despite the early hopium promise that it wont be skynet, and will be a paradise generator that helps us sublimate past such societal structural corruption issues. Remember when electromagnetism was going to power the world for free, wirelessly in cymatic cromulence, making us all free and healthy (~ no, I guess not… a bit before our time), and now look and the technology born of electromagnetic discoveries and depictions, the prisons it gets shaped into, by those lacking the wisdom to see beyond their petty parasitic short-loop “well I have more than them”, with all it’s attention hijacking, with trillions invested in ensnaring our minds [(~ glad I got outta that biz, where that used to be my “just doing my job”)]. Difficult to see, if pattern will hold, with all this hopium and urgent socio-economic pressure and terror gumming up our senses. It could save us, you have to or you’ll fall behind, it could enslave and kill us all. Hope, pressure, terror. But if we take a step back… maybe we can get a more sober assessment.

Anyways, long rambles aside, really just posing the counter-notion to the assumption in the statement being queried in the original post,

despite an initial apparent “getting ahead”, with the demand, the churn, the lure, they may be headed for burnout, and instead it’s they who “fall behind”. Depends tho.

Aaaaah! I was just getting past that one, starting to convince myself of my adaptability to work around anything I forget to bring. How easily that one is rekindled. That’s a biggie.

Every time I discover I didn’t, I add another check.

I don’t know if “Did you lock the door?” is beginner anxiety. Seems more a delicacy of hyper vigilance anxiety from PTSD; more higher tier stuff. Like starting on a sip of the strong stuff.

Ahhh. Fond memories. They were simpler times. “Duck and cover!” and under our desks we’d go.

That was some fun anxiety fodder… The adults taking care of us were telling us being under our desks would save us from a nuclear blast.

And it’s happening right now! Everywhere!