Pas de soucis ! It was quite a specific experience, so it might be useful to put in some context in here : it was a studio making apps and games, founded a decade ago, always has been a SCOP, they started being 3-4, and when i was here we were between 15 and 20. Also, i was first an intern, and then got a short-term contract : in both cases, i was not offered to participate as a share owner, you have to have a long-term contract for this. I also have a relatively short experience there (10 months).

One of the pros was there was a lot of discussion about most subjects. The fact it was a relatively small studio helped too, both for the number of people and the methods : open-space, weekly meeting with everyone, shared relaxing time (lunch, afterwork, teambuilding days, etc.). Even as an intern, i got to hear about most subjects, even general ones like financial state of the company or which projects to accept or reject.

Another one was the company values (not necessarily inherited from the SCOP thing, but when you do a SCOP it’s more likely) : they wanted to do projects with a good social impact, and it was nice working on those. It is relatively limited though : since you have people and taxes to pay, you have to get profitable projects, and most of the time, they’re not the one with the biggest social impact. Doing projects for banks or army led to some debate, and the temporary result was that it was best to work for them and still exist than just close the studio.

A con i heard from the share owners is how to handle shares when someone leaves the studio. Two options are either everyone buys them (but not everyone may have the money immediatly) or the person keeps them (but then you have someone who owns share and does not work here, so it may counteract the purpose of the SCOP). This question is even harder when the person is a founder and/or when the person has to leave involuntary (sickness or wrongdoing). I guess it’s best to have it planned beforehand, but it would not prevent all the friction anyway.

Another con was the perception from the non-share owners : there were constantly 2-3 interns, and 1 apprentice. If you consider very low salary, least interesting tasks and no saying in the decision making, it was not that different from a classic studio. And from the owners point of view, it was kinda legitimate : there was not enough money to pay someone 100% for those tasks, they had to be done, and it would be quite weird/complicated to include people staying only 6 months in the decisions making, even worse for the shareholding. Anyway, there was some tension around this, but it’s also due to the number of workers and the field of the company.

In general, it still is something nice. I’d say the main advantage was communication to my eyes : the more you can communicate about anything in the company, the better it is. It does not prevent some problems like overwork (it can even be worse since most employees feel some kind of responsibility) or toxic management (in the end, it really depends on your direct superior, when there is some hierarchy) : you have to come up with specific methods to counteract those (for overwork, they tried to track time and to make sure everyone was leaving at the end of the day, and for management, they were in the process of splitting it so everyone would have 2 managers to refer to, in case one was bad). But all of this is probably a (maybe not so) distant future if you’re setting one up for two people, so it’s probably not very relevant. Probably worth to discuss it now around a drink though, but not crucial.

I’d say the layer of grilled cheese would technically make a separation between the two lasagna (yes im fun at party)

I meant any type of company that is engaged in a capitalist system, where you have to make profit just to be able to function. I’d say SCOPs necessary fall in this category, while worker cooperative may escape it, though this is just a simple opinion.

I find it better than the alternative, so i probably would participate. But my experience in a french SCOP, even with mostly left-leaning coworkers, was that although it helped with transparency and democratic decision making, it still had a lot of capitalists defaults (overwork, toxic management, insecure employment for basic tasks, quest for profit that can get in the way of your values, etc.).

To my eyes, cooperative companies are to capitalism what greener cars are to global warming : we can change how it works inside, but we won’t really solve the problem until we change how we use them. But in the meantime, it sure is slightly better to go for the lesser evil.

From what i get from English wikipedia, it’s mainly preparing curricula for basic and secondary education, participating in the education field’s regulations, and acting as a central organizer for administrative things relating to education.

Indeed surprising for me, the trick being that it’s not 18 when considering “marriage with parents and judicial approval”, which are probably pretty rare but definitely possible in way more countries than i would have bet

It makes sense for me too, and i like your cheat code version of it. I think it’s also akin to the tutorial hell for devs and artists.

Happens to me all the time, but with the swipe left/right from the border of the screen. I understand that reloading when selecting a community or feed can be wanted by user, since AFAIK there is no other option to reload the feed you’re currently in. I just wish the navigation principle of swiping left/right from the border of the screen could work in the communities list to bring you back to the previous feed. Altough, tbf, if there’s a post i want to read, i save it, and if i didnt have the time, i can remember which post it was and find it again.

China too it seems, from what the comment says

I’ve heard that SSD have a relatively limited number of write cycles, and that wiping/compacting data can even be a slightly bad thing in this regard. I am not sure at all if this is true though, don’t take my word for it and correct me if i’m wrong.

I’m not sure about “girl pop” concert vibe, but i don’t see much video pointing out at people in the crowd in concerts (in fact, i only remember one, and it’s not really being mean at the person). Also there may be some kind of survivor paradox here : the video you see of young adult woman may not be a realistic depiction of the crowd, there probably is people just chilling, but they’re less interesting to film, so there’s less video about them. I’d say enjoy yourself !

Doesn’t have AppImages the same problem than Flatpak regarding dependencies duplicated for each program ? If so, what is their advantage over Flatpak ?

culminated in a 2017 civil forfeiture case United States of America v. Approximately Four Hundred Fifty Ancient Cuneiform Tablets and Approximately Three Thousand Ancient Clay Bullae.

Now that’s quite a long name for a case

To be the devil’s advocate, people elected nazis around the apparition of tv, so i don’t think social medias truly are a necessity for fascism to proliferate. That being said, they can still have a major impact.

It is indeed ! Do you mean weird in the sense “very picky about what you owe to each other” ? Cuz i mainly see either this, either “i will do anything possible to pay for my friend”

That saying is cool ! What is the original version ? Here, one of the main saying is “good accounting makes good friends”, and i clearly prefer yours.

You seem to be open to all three options, and i wouldn’t choose for you. I can provide some thoughts though.

What the kids wants could make the difference between 2 and 3 : do they want something strictly defined and stable (so more 3) or are they looking for something temporary and prone to change (so more 2) ? Their ability to provide the money can also make the decision for you, but since it’s not discuted i assume they can.

Now, between 1 and the others, your wife opinion may make the decision for you, and talking with the kids to setup boundaries to prevent the situation from getting out of hands can be of some help in case you tend towards 2 or 3. Another idea is to search for other options, even if they don’t use them yet, but that they could use in the case it’s not possible at your house anymore, as others suggested.

Okay, my mistake, i misinterpreted it. To be fair with BBC, they point out in the title and article that this is just some transcript of someone anonymous, and they try to tie each allegation with reports from other sources to back up their likeliness. I guess it’s the best you can do with someone anonymous ? Revealing the company, dates, or town might compromise the anonymity. I have this low-key uncomfortable feeling of “well, there’s nothing that proves it” with most anonymous reports i read or hear, even when it’s for events that are common otherwise.

There are also reports by companies and american judiciary system. Now, those are biased voices too, they lack clear proof of what happened, and they probably make it bigger than it is, but i find it unlikely that this is 100% bs and staging : if i had that much resources to pour into staging something, i think it would be more convincing.

Touché ! Though it may also be a translation mistake, english is not my main language, but reading other comments, i’m getting the vibe that i indeed am not the right person (yet!) to do this kind of stuff.