Huh? First 9 years of school is absolutely mandatory where I come from, now 12 I think soon.

Then after 12 years of school you still need a degree for most job listings. That’s optional but it’s free so you’re seen as uneducated if you don’t get a degree.

There apparently was an Arvo Pärt + Aphex Twin concert for Pärt’s 90th birthday.

Had I known, I would’ve really liked to go. I’m Estonian so not exactly far away lol

I’ve definitely read all the XKCDs at one point, though that might’ve been about a decade ago so I’m not sure if I’ve read ALL the newer ones after that. Definitely been trying to keep up though.

That’s me. Wanted to move there because software engineer. Now I’m 30 and fuck no. Major changes would need to happen and even then I’m not sure I’d feel safe. It’s not the damn shootings that bother me even, it’s that so many people support Trump and ICE. Those people will still be around even when Trump is gone. Meaning at any time the US could elect a less incompetent version of Trump.

Yay can we move a rug very suddenly now, perhaps with people standing on it?

I have an HDMI cable somewhere that stops working temporarily when there are changes in temperature, air pressure or planetary alignment.

This is not an HDMI vs DisplayPort issue.

It works outside dense cities too. It’s not FUN to drive on a highway, but the max speed of even the weakest 2nd gen model is not legal anywhere in my country. Not sure about first gen because Wikipedia didn’t list speeds for those and I CBA to look it up. The four door variants, though still tiny, had slightly bigger engines and therefore higher top speeds.

I couldn’t find a coin gor lemmyman, but the ticker for “lemon nation” is “LEMMY”.

I think I need to start my own crypto lol

Oh I got my fiber last year. But in the meantime I at least had ADSL starting 2004 or 2005. In a post-soviet nation at that

It’s now the name of a crypto token. Why? I have no idea.

In 2007? Damn I feel sorry for you

There was a joke that I can’t be arsed to look up about bedroom golf.

For solo players, there’s pocket billiards.

I’d pronounce it in English about the same as I pronounce hamster in Estonian. Just based off how it’s written and ignoring how human is pronounced.

Yeah, you gotta bomb the cafe, but do it in a police uniform. And don’t forget to smash all the windows of the other shops a couple of days before. That’s the part that necessitates the police uniform.

They’re doing the Apple/Google/Samsung thing now. Selling you a phone without a headphone jack, while also selling earbuds (or in this case over-ear headphones)

Dude you don’t have to put your load IN the magazine, it gets smelly. You use a sock for that! Or that’s what I gather from American movies from the 90s anyway.

That’s about how it feels, yes.

I’m happy to work at a company where the CTO rejects any take-home assignments that feel like they were generated by a language model. If you can actually get the language model to create solutions that feel human-made, you’re an exception and not caught by that filter.

Maybe, but then if you abolish wage-labour, you just have a different type of work needed to survive. Either you’re going off-grid and living all on your own, which would mean you don’t have a lot, but you’re truly independent - or you’re part of a society where you don’t get paid a wage, but instead receive certain living conditions similar to everyone else’s, and you’re expected to work to the best of your ability.

Yes, working for a wage is unnatural. But then being part of a large society with super specialized roles is unnatural. We’ve been doing unnatural for thousands of years now.

Considering I’m not even among the 4 people who downvoted you, I don’t think it’s a me problem. If you were trying to play a character there - it wasn’t over the top enough, it seemed like the average “trains solve everything and there’s no use case for cars, ever” person.

So why would you, an anarchist, defend those who literally simp for dictators? Because I’m talking about people who literally simp for Russia and China, which are capitalist countries - China minted more new billionaires in 2024 than any other country. Sure, it also has a bigger population than any other country, but if it was in any way communist, wouldn’t they prevent billionaires from happening? And I’m sure you understand that modern day Russia is about exactly as communist as modern day USA.