Farming? I was talking about data engineering.

I don’t think she’s evil. But I’m pretty convinced she’s into girls or at least bi-sexual for some reason.

Before people started measuring time, a day was a day. People worked when they felt like it and stopped before it got dark.

When we started quantifying time, it didn’t take long before time suddenly became a commodity. All of a sudden bosses would pay by the “hour”, and no longer by what they got in return.

Then, they started regarding the hours that they paid for as “theirs”, demanding workers to keep breaks short or peeing in bottles.

/Rant

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U.S. based. Not a great premise.

Kudos for mentioning Lost in Translation. One if my favorite movies. Whenever I try to explain to people what it’s about, I get blank looks why that would be entertaining.

If artists would actually get paid fairly by Spotify that would be a good model.

Until about 100 years ago music artists would get paid for playing live only. Then music reproduction became possible, and lo and behold, companies started making a profit off of popular musicians by reproducing their music and taking a share, just because they could afford the technology.

Then, reproduction came into the hands of regular people, and you could reproduce music at home, bypassing the companies that profit off of the musicians. So copyright laws were drafted to protect mostly the companies making a profit off of musicians.

Now we’re going back to the situation of 100 years ago: musicians need to play live to get paid. But reproduction does still make them famous without them having to travel. So that’s a plus.

And you can argue Spotify has to.pay for infrastructure and app development, but that technology is in the hands of individuals as well nowadays. So what do they actually offer, on top of the work of creative people making music? Not much. Yet they become more expensive every year. And the only people getting richer are their shareholders.

Käse

I started working out twice a week and running in the weekends when I was 40 and after a couple of years felt better than I did in my twenties.

Of course they want to politicize this. And the EU is being far too careful here, these amounts are only 1.5% of the maximum penalty. They got off easy

The new version of Lost in Space just has people in danger constantly and then making the dumbest decision in that situation possible.

Same with ‘suits’, I really liked it in the beginning, until it was just too painful to watch. Each storyline was set up in a way that there was one path for the protagonists to take that would lead to certain disaster, and lo.and behold, at the end of every episode that path is exactly the path they took.

This happens until you start wondering if you’re just looking at the dumbest lawyers or astronauts in existence.

Of course it is. I hope that’s not true. Where did you read this?

I have to disagree here. I find using Cinnamon is very close to using windows. Everything hardware wise pretty much runs out of the box on all desktops and laptops I have installed it on. Have been using it for years. The one thing I can’t comment on is hdpi. I never owned a high enough resolution screen to have problems with scaling I guess, although I do have a three monitor setup. Immutability might be nice, but I think it’s also personal preference. Windows doesn’t have it so it might be a strange feature to new users coming from Windows.

What if everyone would transfer their PayPal credit to a regular bank account on the same day? Would that bring Paypal value down?

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Pretty satisfied with kmail/infomaniak

I deleted my Disney plus and Amazon prime accounts last week and it felt so damn good.

Sorry I misread: not crowdfunding assassinations, but the Ukrainian government and defence forces.

I actually love this idea of anonymous crowdfunding by the masses. But how could we make this happen? I guess it would have to be initiated from the Ukrainian government.

Damn the bullies in your school had a field day with you, didn’t they? They can take your milk and you would offer them your lunch too. Because conflict is bad. Surprise, sometimes violence is actually the answer. Whether we like it or not.