Kesa sent me this article about how the exodus of teachers out of the profession isn't really about "burnout".

https://kappanonline.org/teacher-burnout-stories-moral-objections-santoro/

People get into teaching for moral reasons, and they are leaving for moral reasons.

Teachers are demoralized, and their departure from the profession is often an act of a conscientious objection, not of personal burnout.

Focusing on "burnout" puts the onus on individuals rather than the systemic conditions that actually need attention.

@clacke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_Everywhere_All_at_Once yes? Adding it to my list too!

A reminder to myself:

I came to social.coop & the fediverse as a place to share what I enjoy in life, to learn from others, to deepen practice, and to build solidarity.

@clacke no worries -- I was surprised not to find a "mute this conversation" on here. I guess I've never needed it before...

@jcast @kravietz @obsolete29 one of the points that Snyder stresses several times in https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/politics-and-more/russias-intentions-in-ukraine-and-america is that discussions about what to do about Ukraine that don't have actual Ukrainians as part of it are not useful.

@clacke @kensanata @grumpysmiffy @withaveeay @jens while I'm familiar with both I didn't know about the connection between regex and Chomsky ... thanks for this!

@seachaint @o0karen0o what a super idea though, hmm

@seachaint I know some clients seem to be able to autodetect settings, but I always assumed that worked because the client recognized the corporate platform behind the domain somehow? A little standard for packaging up the details would be super useful.

@o0karen0o It is frustrating.

If I had a penny for every time someone has said "have you checked your spam folder" I could buy a ☕ and a 🥯 and have some 💰 left over.

I wonder how that ship can be turned?

Would encouraging the use (and support) of email clients instead of webmail help people realize how email is not a platform?

@seachaint @o0karen0o It has never been easy I guess, with acronym soup (IMAP, POP, SMTP, TLS, what what)? But instructions can usually be found if you are persistent?

As a point of reference, I got a new work laptop recently (MacOS) and spent a bit of time getting Mail to talk to my personal Gmail, my work email (Exchange) and my Pobox (now Fastmail) and it worked. I couldn't seem to convince my Android FairEmail app to talk to the work Exchange though, so your point stands.