It’s like the US only realized the cost of trump’s bullshit after the fact.

NATO made European nuclear ambitions less essential and thus helped reduce nuclear proliferation. When the US threatens that alliance and shows itself to be completely unreliable (does anyone expect donald to launch nukes in defence of Europe?) Then Europe is almost forced to get a European nuclear deterrent.

In the meantime, thank fuck for Charles deGaulle.

Oh wow, I haven’t heard autotune the news since they raping everybody in here!

Oh fully agree. I’m in a similar spot though I’m an okay-ish manager, I don’t like it and much prefer my actual job.

I’m not sure how common my experience is as I work in a large non profit and while union, my union group is pretty free wheeling (fewer protections but fewer restrictions.) Anyway, we’ve gotten around the problem by just adding words to or changing words in my title.

This has had the effect of allowing me to do my job, get raises as basically deserved and look like I’m advancing. Admittedly, my manager etc are very understanding and most of the senior leadership knows me, so take from that what you will.

I wouldn’t want the hardest worker to be the automatic promotion. We’ve all worked with someone who means well, works hard but is dumb as a brick. God help us if they get promoted.

Edit: Okay, I guess I’m the only one who has ever been managed by a hard working, well meaning idiot?

I really like their response. Between the lines, it’s basically “the audacity of this whiny little bitch…”

Not like that, not really.

But in the before times when I worked in an office, there was a good half year where a big building opposite my window was being torn down. A few times a no th when something awesome was happening (like smashing the walls with an excavator) folks would hang out and just watch for chunks of time.

It’s free and using it means I don’t have to support American tech companies.

Ahhh, that makes sense.

In retrospect, I suppose I could’ve googled it but it’s always nice to have an excuse to dig out the anthology.

I like that Han’s blaster is more powerful than an ATAT

Really interesting answers like tbis, about topics on which I know nothing, are my absolute favourite part about social media.

Thank you for this! I had no idea it could be so complicated. Congrats on the blooms and enjoy the next half decade!

That’s wild, congrats! For someone completely ignorant of botany, what does that half decade entail?

Was playing hide and go seek with my friend’s toddler, who is clearly new to the game as when she found me she said “okay, now I’ll hide here and you come find me!”

Hmm, are you sure on the dates? The March 12th 1989 is a Sunday strip without the transmogrifier, and the 3rd of December is about mailing Santa.

… BUT… The cardboard box the beanie comes in first shows on March 11 (with the action concluding on the 18th talking about all the fun they’ll have with this great cardboard box.

(Admittedly, looking at it now, the box does seem a bit too small for them to fit in but…)

Not mine but one day my buddy’s 6 year old asked “what’s parking tips?” My buddy being a veteran dad gives him some generic parking advice, doesn’t think much of it until later when he hears his kid singing along to the shaboozy song but instead of “everyone at the bar getting tipsy” he’s sing about how everyone getting parking tips.

Ahhh, thank you! I didn’t look particularly closely. Neat that Lemmy has that system, wonder if it always did.

Oh shit, I think this is the start of the longest plot in Calvin and Hobbes?

Certainly one of the plot points with the most long term effects as that box is the transmogrifier, the time travel something and the duplicator?

Did you mean to screenshot the post?

Or if this is a “but you participate in society…” Comment, cool. I like spreading the word about piefed so folks know there is a system where you can note users and thus moderate your responses before expending good faith effort etc.

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Admittedly, the .ml works too. I just hate tarring everyone with the same brush but damned if y’all don’t keep reinforcing the stereotype.

(No idea how a note only I can see is social credit but hey, what are facts to a fool?)

Lemmy didn’t have a system like that when I was using it. But yeah, it’s super useful.