pettertb

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by pettertb 7mo ago
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 people do get around no matter the snowfall tho.
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by pettertb 9mo ago
That is perhaps the most deeply nerdy thing I have heard of
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by pettertb 9mo ago
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, it is cheaper.
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by pettertb 9mo ago
Note that this is not Warhammer (and its competitors, like Warmachine). This is 22mm historical stuff, an entirely different genre.
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by pettertb 9mo ago
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 slow, but steady, fashion. This wonderful woman came over and
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by pettertb 10mo ago
"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 price for the stuff you are lucky enough to have been
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by pettertb 10mo ago
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 laziness will bite them.
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by pettertb 10mo ago
Copyright has no business holding as long as it does.
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by pettertb 11mo ago
"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 enshittify to please users, you do it to please
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by pettertb 11mo ago
The Swedish band "The Ark" has a wonderfully named song: "It takes a fool to remain sane".
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by pettertb 11mo ago
He is Mr Nimbus, he controls the police!
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by pettertb 1y ago
Fines up to 5 million Euros against meta Now, go away, or I shall taunt you a second time-a!
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by pettertb 1y ago
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-repair, horse-rearing, plumbing, accountancy, what have you. You
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by pettertb 1y ago
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", where in the past you could not measure distance be