Your username being Finnish I assume it’s more Yule and less CHRISTmas for you as well?

Our ancestors celebrated winter solstice long before Christianity was even a thing, and everyone knows the best gifts are handmade, not storebought. Emotions over stuff.

At ours this year, the kids got toys, but the adults got framed family photos and such.

It’s mandatory 2x here where I live, but even then it doesn’t exist outside of places with shift work usually

Tomorrow being Christmas Eve, I completely agree with her

There were a lot of news articles and social media posts from angry boomers being circulated at the height of the minimum wage worker shortage after covid hit, but I’m having a hard time finding any right now so I must’ve dreamt it instead.

It’s a class war, but many boomers are scabs.

Remember when there was a worker shortage and retired boomers went and volunteered at chain restaurants so they wouldn’t have to raise wages to attract workers? Remember all the “millennials are so entitled, they want to be PAID FOR WORK” style posts by boomers, back when some non-boomers still used Facebook so we had access to their posts?

It’s not their fault they’ve been brainwashed by right-wing propaganda, but they for sure are fighting against anything resembling economic justice.

And obviously much like any generation, you can’t make sweeping statements about them. There are right-wing nutters in their 20s and even their teens out there right now and there are obviously boomers who aren’t selfish assholes.

Lmao I actively work with shortdates in a database because I have no control over how things are stored. They need to solve before 100 years have passed from the epoch, but at some point before then it’ll be fun to figure out if “58” in a date of birth is 1958 or 2058.

By googling it, it seems these will filter out some forever chemicals that are a problem pretty much everywhere. It will also cool the water, which might be beneficial if your tap water is a bit on the warmer side (which mine is and it’s infuriating, I want to drink near-freezing water)

Note: I’m not American and don’t have one of these, just googling.

This is almost certainly a joke playing on multiple tropes like “save a penny to magically become a millionaire” or “you gotta step on a lot of toes to make it big” and also referencing the insanity of linkedin posters

Yeah tf is that “as long as” clause doing there? If I worked at, say, the FBI, I’d be paying that instance admin a visit.

Also make sure to keep in shape by running with scissors. Keeps both you and your peephole slim.

You know better beggars than I’ve seen, then. Usually I’ve seen them refuse food, they only want cash.

It’s good that you ask them, instead of just buying food. The honest ones will accept your offer and the dishonest ones will at least tell you to fuck off if you offer them food but they really wanted vodka or drug money.

My rule is I give them cigarettes if they ask, but not money.

They’ll usually never admit the money is for booze and I never carry cash anyway. Plenty of people have stories of the beggars throwing food back in their faces. They only want money, they don’t want to be fed. Hell, when I was a kid and a beggar asked for money and my mom said she could go to the store and buy some food for him, he just straight up refused.

And I’m fairly sure some of those beggars make more money than I do at my day job as a software engineer. If you have a really lucrative spot, I think you could probably make 50 euros an hour, if not more. Multiply that by the standard 168 hours a month and…

Is it still ILS if I’m just overweight so my actual lats get in the way of pressing my arms at my sides?

He made a big scene and quit, and just went back after the weekend and pretended like he’d been joking.

Sounds like the whole situation could’ve been avoided by him curbing his enthusiasm

He is and you’re right.

At least 14, maybe 15 - because it was 1 just a bit over 13 years ago (I’m sure if the baby was nearly 2, it would’ve been labeled as such)

This is where I’m going to have to tell you that I have more to gain from Ukraine fighting Russia than any American politican does. You see, I’m from a country that would be first in line to be invaded by Russia if NATO ceased to exist. I’ll never trust Russia the country, regardless of any purported left-right leaning of their leadership, farther than I could throw it. Which is less than one planck length because it’s a pretty big country, attached to the planet, I can’t throw it anywhere.

That’s not to say I hate all Russian people or anything. Most of the ones I’ve known have been chill and hate Putin too.

Some three decades ago, us Estonians, along with our brothers in Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine and many other country, managed to become free of Russian oppression. Nobody wants it again, and clearly Ukrainians are pretty proud of their independence too, otherwise they’d be laying down their arms en masse.

I do wish there could be peace, but Putin’s ego won’t allow him to settle without any significant territorial gains and while there’s war, I for sure am rooting for Ukrainians who, idk if you’ve heard, this, are the defensive side in this war. They did not roll tanks into Russia out of the blue.

I was going to make a joke saying “What, you don’t appreciate Andre Da Costa telling you to reboot your computer?” but tbh the reason I do remember him is because he often had actual solutions.

Crazy that out of the thousands of Microsoft MVPs, there was exactly one that knew how to make your Windows shit work, and now he’s no longer affiliated with Microsoft either.

ChatGPT might even be the better option here. People give it a lot of flak, but it understands context better than Google Translate.

Can I have some of what you’re having?