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I work with a CRM that allows users to add additional functionality by uploading definitions in XML "spec" files.

The XML specs are a combo of metadata and code and define all functionality in the system including SQL tables, forms for adding/editing data, query nodes for the internal query system, arbitrary business processes etc. They can include SQL stored procedures to run or call out to bundled C# code, and they can be accompanied by HTML templates that generate UI elements where appropriate (e.g. user facing forms).

There are a lot of moving parts and the documentation is a bit patchy but it's a really ingenious system for adding modular functionality, particularly in a CRM setting. Pretty much all of the "official" functionality is built using this spec system.

It looks a bit more intense in real footage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tgfkGiHhxs

Yeah for sure - I can see why compulsory unionism is a thing for historical reasons and understand the argument for maintaining it but fundamentally disagree on principle (freedom of political association etc.).

Voluntary membership is a hard problem for unions, and in Australia declining union membership is a big thing outside of industries like construction that still have unionism as a core part of the working culture. I think it's hard for a lot of people to see the benefits they gain from union membership when most of the basic working rights that unions have won are taken for granted, and a lot of the bargaining and political lobbying work they do is somewhat abstract.

It always seems strange to me how much anti-union sentiment there seems to be in the US though. Not to say that Australia is perfect by any means but labour conditions in the US seem pretty insane as an outsider.

Definitely agree that compulsory union membership (or compulsory membership of any political organisation for that matter) is a terrible idea!

I get your point, but that's specifically compulsory union membership (which I agree is undesirable). It's a huge leap from that to "unions should be illegal".

Side note - where I am (Australia) compulsory union membership is illegal.

At its core a trade union is an organisation that represents workers interests, and that formally negotiates on behalf of its members. To say that unions should be illegal is to say that workers should be banned from collectively negotiating via formal organisations, which seems a tad extreme.

OK I'll bite - why?

Sorry should have clarified, I'm not from the EU. This is on an Australian passport on the visa waiver program, and American friends have had the same experience (including some biggish bands who tour Europe a couple of times a year).

Maybe it's a "noone cares" thing, but this includes some American friends who were caught with weed in their tour van at the Norwegian border and still didn't have any visa issues (and somehow still managed to get into the country!)

I don't think is true for the Schengen zone/Schengen adjacent countries.

I'm a musician and have toured Western Europe a couple of times (and know a lot of others who have). Apart from the UK noone I know ever gets working visas, and this is never a problem crossing borders honestly saying to immigration that we're there on tour in a van full of music equipment and merchandise.

Does anyone apart from Crisis Text Line benefit financially from Loris? If so it's clearly unethical. Even ignoring the kind of service that CTL is and the extra ethical considerations that entails, the founders of and investors in Loris are using the work of volunteers at a non-profit to bootstrap a company that they will profit from without clearly explaining this to the volunteers and users of the service in advance. Evidently not illegal, but pretty clearly unethical.

Not to mention that they've said that Loris hasn't reached the contractual threshold to actually pay any money to CTL yet...

Edit: Even if it is CTL taking all of the profits from Loris I would consider that unethical without clearly informing everyone involved of how the data from the interaction would be used, and a 50 paragraph privacy statement doesn't count as "clear"