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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 people do get around no matter the snowfall tho.

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, it is cheaper.

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 slow, but steady, fashion.

This wonderful woman came over and asked if I wanted a hug. It warmed me to my bones. She said that "people should do that more", or something along those lines, and disappeared.

I don't remember her face, I just remember the warm feeling in my chest.

"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 getting on the cheap.

I like the directness of the question: "Why should I pay more when it won't burn down right this instand if I don't?" This is a question asked all over, and it is dangerous, keeping anything going requires maintenance and knowledge in how to maintain it. That goes for cars and it goes for people.

This is not business, it is miserly behaviour, it is being cheap.

The miser will find himself in a harsh, transactional, brutal world. Because that is the only way for people to protect themselves against him.

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.

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 enshittify to please users, you do it to please shareholders.

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-repair, horse-rearing, plumbing, accountancy, what have you.

You do well to limit this somewhat. But it is inevitable, if you want to achieve anything. You are going to end up smelling somewhat like your work clothes, no matter your industry, no matter the year.

We can't all have the mission statement "to make money", if the machines of money-making are to function. You would never have the nevessary skills that way.

Not saying that we do well to spend the next 30 years griping, we don't. But don't shame people from being hurt by the whims of business. People need to grieve lost stuff, goes for AI, goes for "auto plant went out of business", goes for anything.

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 before committing to actions. Deciding if model A and B were 10" or 14" apart was a critical skill, and calle "weaponized geometry". I was good at it. The game has changed, and you can now measure to your hearts content, making this skill basically pointless. I still feel a tiny bit conflicted about it.

Dublin in the Rare Old Times - The Dubliners

Like my house that fell to progress//My trade's a memory