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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • We don’t need no AI to write that, when we already have:

    Arise, ye prisoners of starvation! Arise, ye wretched of the earth! For justice thunders condemnation, A better world is in birth! No more tradition’s chains shall bind us, Arise ye slaves, no more in thrall! The earth shall rise on new foundations, We have been naught, we shall be all.

    Chorus: This is the final conflict, Let each stand in his place. The Industrial Union Shall be the human race.

    We want no condescending saviors To rule us from a judgment hall; We workers ask not for their favors; Let us consult for all. To make the thief disgorge his booty To free the spirit from its cell, We must ourselves decide our duty, We must decide, and do it well. (Chorus)

    The law oppresses us and tricks us, wage slavery drains the workers’ blood; The rich are free from obligations, The laws the poor delude. Too long we’ve languished in subjection, Equality has other laws; “No rights,” says she “without their duties, No claims on equals without cause.” (Chorus)

    Behold them seated in their glory The kings of mine and rail and soil! What have you read in all their story, But how they plundered toil? Fruits of the workers’ toil are buried In the strong coffers of a few; In working for their restitution The men will only ask their due. (Chorus)

    Toilers from shops and fields united, The union we of all who work; The earth belongs to us, the workers, No room here for the shirk. How many on our flesh have fattened; But if the noisome birds of prey Shall vanish from the sky some morning, The blessed sunlight still will stay. (Chorus)

    (hot damn formatting that many lines on my phone using boost as my client is cumbersome, I don’t have the time to add double spaces at the end of each line to get linefeeds right… Thanks keyboard app that makes tapping space twice into “go back one, add period and a space”)


  • That’s a great first step.

    Second step is popping back in the store and getting the cheapest bike chain locks, or wire locks for luggage, and attaching the trolleys, closest to the car, to each other and the coral. Three locks should do it.

    Third step would be even more vindictive. Maybe crossing some line, IDK. But while in the shop, pick up some nails or thumbtacks. I’ll let what you do with the tacks be up to your imagination, but I’ll bet the driver won’t notice stuff on the ground behind the wheels in their rage over the locked trolleys.

    Fourth step, move your car so that the situation is observable, and wait. Do not let the driver know about your existence.


  • A general “fuck you and the horse you rode in on” goes out to all car designers, who hide buttons beneath the wheel at all.

    My car has a heated steering wheel, but the button is between the wheel and the door, in the second row on the left. Guess what I can’t see when I’m driving. Lane assist? Same. And it’s not like missing the button is inconsequential either, one button on that row is opening the charging port. Probably wouldn’t open while doing 90km/h, but I’d not finding out in the first place.

    Meanwhile the center console has multiple blank place holders where physical buttons could be installed, and my car has all the options is fully optioned. Just move the buttons, that you could want to use while driving, so they are actually visible.


  • Worst offender I’ve found to date is Peugeot, which my job so wisely chose for our company cars consistently. I think the CFO was in a lodge with the local Peugeot dealer or something.

    Over time I’ve driven the 107, 207, and the 208, as well as I tried to fit in the EV versions of the 208 and 2008 recently when hunting for a second car. To date I’ve not found a Peugeot that I can comfortably get in and out of, while also fitting without hitting the roof. Ended up getting a Renault Zoe, which seems like the same size as a 208. But even without height adjustable seats I can still fit in it.

    Also, fuck car designers who hide buttons under hidden beneath the wheel at all.




  • Your wife’s job is going to be hard to translate to other countries. But if she has an education in healthcare, and it’s nursing adjacent, maybe reach out to the nurses unions in your target countries, they could maybe help you move forward. Everybody are screaming for healthcare professionals, so maybe the local health authorities would be able to help as well.

    I have no idea about other countries, but in Denmark we have an agency of international recruitment and integration. They’re mostly involved with deportations, or so it would seem based on the news stories, but guiding potential specialists in translating their qualifications should be in their purview. Maybe other countries have something similar.


  • “IT” as in operations, networks, security, support, or? I mean a suitable background in networks and you’d make 130k USD plus pension as a networking consultant in Denmark. IDK about citizenship though. As with all the rest of Europe, we’ve seen a rise in right wing populism and are now suffering from its resulting inane immigration laws.

    But if you’re in for the adventure, then you could look outside the list of English speaking countries. There’s The Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, we all speak English and we all have healthcare… But don’t go to Sweden, they suck :-)