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San Marino’s constitution was apparantly written in 1600.

I really don’t get what they want to achieve with this. It’s just a spoiled todler destroying other’s toys for no apparent reason at this point.

At one point he had to disconnect and reconnect his safety line because of stuff in the way.

This is why you need to wear two lines.

I’m still pretty good at hanging around at a bar.

In the Netherlands it is a minimum of 5 times the days you work each week, so if you work five days it’s 20 each year. Most companies add 5 extra days to this in the collective agreements (basically union agreements). These agreements also cover public holidays, 5 is the average amount I think.

Lots of companies have a 38 or 36 (less common) hour work week. Usually you’ll work for 40 hours under these contracts, and for the extra hours you get “ADV” days, 12 if your contract is 38 hours. Depending on the company these days get scheduled in advance, or it’s extra days off.

Quick edit: sick days is basically limitless if you’re sick. There’s other types of leave like bereavement leave or for care taking, but that is totally company dependent.

Moore agreed with you, he quit playing Bond because he was cast against women young enough to be his daughters.

if you have to use Google for whatever reason

I was a member of Mensa for a few years, tbh most of the active members are insufferable.

A pornstar from my country (decades ago) said that she preferred working with black men because of the contrast on screen. Totally unrelated tidbit, but it makes sense to me that the same goes here.

In the Netherlands: blue collar mostly 7:30 - 16:00, white collar half an hour or an hour later.

If you double the diameter, the volume increases 8-fold, and also the mass.

When I was a kid in the eighties, slot machines were abundant and there was no age limit, at least not enforced. So we kids tried it, and basically I got lucky because I never won anything and have never tried them since.

Six weeks each year.

liberal Western narratives

I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt if you mean this political or not. I do want to state that in the Netherlands liberal is associated with the right wing. Not the extreme right, but rubbing against it for sure. So liberal narratives amount to “money to the rich” over here.

My cure:

1. Take a walk every day. No headphones or music, just take a walk through your neighborhood, nature if it’s nearby or anything. Aim for an hour each day, at least 30 minutes.
2. Look for non-screen hobbies, or at least non social media hobbies. Things like drawing, writing, making music, woodworking, 3d printing Warhammer, or even reading books. Don’t beat yourself up if you don’t work on your hobbies a lot though.

Besides this I hear people being positive about journaling, but I’ve never tried it.

“workers” is a disambiguous word in this context, as well as “management”. Source: the rest of the article.

If you really look into stuff like featherbedding, it seems (to me at least) that it’s just a propaganda word for populists. It would be easy to convince someone that others are making more money due to featherbedding, meanwhile never discussing the worth of the work this specific someone is doing. In reality, I’d estimate over 80% of all paid work done today is some kind of this so called featherbedding.

Gimp I’ve tried a lot, but didn’t get how it worked. Now using Krita (new pc and can’t be bothered to download cracked ps), and it kind of works like pre CS1 photoshop. Probably it works a lot better, but I’m set in my ways.

Yeah, I foresee a few quiet walks alone around the block in your future.

Pungent Stench - Been Caught Buttering. The original album art, which depicted two severed, partially decomposed heads kissing (in fact, it is one head which had been sawed in half by Joel-Peter Witkin)