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If you can't drive anywhere, chances are the people who fix electricity grids will struggle too. And snow storms can fuck with infrastructure.. Less of an issue in areas where peop…

That is perhaps the most deeply nerdy thing I have heard of

Note that we don't have much gas infrastructure here in the nordics, since we (used to) have cheap electricity. If you choose between heat pump and not-heat-pump electric heating, …

Note that this is not Warhammer (and its competitors, like Warmachine). This is 22mm historical stuff, an entirely different genre.

I had finished my hamburger, zoning out. I had my guitar with me, having had a belowpar band practice, while waiting for my therapist appointment. Life was heading downwards in a s…

"What are you buying with those 20k?" You keep a good thing going, you buy oil for the machinery, you keep your part of the bargain and do the maintenance. You pay the correct pric…

This. Accepting bad terms become a problem after a while, non-solidarity with the profession. Employers get straight up lazy, by having soft negotiating employees to ignore. This l…

Copyright has no business holding as long as it does.

"They get worse because they need to keep pleasing new users, new needs, address every edge case." That is not what enshittification is about, and not who it is about. You don't en…

The Swedish band "The Ark" has a wonderfully named song: "It takes a fool to remain sane".

He is Mr Nimbus, he controls the police!

Fines up to 5 million Euros against meta Now, go away, or I shall taunt you a second time-a!

That is not how people work, especially if they want to do good work. You need to imbue your career with a little bit of your identity, a little bit of your soul. Coding, auto-repa…

I can relate. It is important to meet this head-on, and not gloss over it, explain it away, or shame people for feeling this way. I even feel this about the wargame "Warmachine", w…