So, I was on a long drive yesterday, and put on some pump me up music, so I didn't get sleepy. I just put something on YouTube, and I ended up in the group of music that I would call Peak Mid to Late Millenial. For perspective, I'm one of the Gappers, not quite old enough to be Gen X, but also feel too old to be a Millenial, although I suppose I technically am, just an Ancient one. ANYWAY, this music, on the surface, sounds like bubble gum pop dance music, the kind you dance in "da club" to, but as I was listening, I realized most of the lyrics had a trend that broke down basically to this:
Get your friends together, drink heavily, have sex, party, DANCE, GO LIVE IN THE PRESENT, because we will all probably die young anyway.
Most of these songs are probably between 10-15 years old, and honestly probably really caught onto the zeitgeist of the time. Hope didn't work, we are still caught in a shit conflict none of us want to be in. The world is actively burning, and no one in power wants to save it. We make less money than our parents and their parents, we'll probably never get to own a home, we'll probably have college debt forever, if we could even afford to go. Might as well party your life away. I do wonder if Trump was a pretty big slap in the face about how bad it could really go, because this Apocalypse attitude seems to be changing a bit, or maybe Gen Z is just rebelling against their sad grunge Gen X parents. LOL
Either way, that was some kind of a ramble, share your thoughts on this, and listen to a peak representation of this musical phenomenon. It's kind of a banger.
@isotopp@Loredo ich denke eher, die 0,25% Regelung bei der Dienstwagenbesteuerung ist der Hauptgrund. Was erfinden, das mehr Benzin verbraucht wenn es mit Benzin primär fährt (weil schwerer) und dafür dann noch weniger Steuern bezahlen.
@eWalthert dat deed ik eerst ook, maar er volgde niets. Als ze opnieuw aan de slag gaan, zullen ze even een beetje hun best moeten doen. @nporadio1 heeft dat onlangs ook gedaan. Dat begint vanzelf wat bekender te worden. @nporadio1 laat ook zien dat t soms kennelijk ingewikkeld is. Lang niet alle columns werden eerst gedeeld.
Omdat er geen super-makkelijke 'redactie'-client software is waarmee nieuwredacties kunnen posten op Mastodon doen ze het meestal met de hand (of er wordt op basis van een RSS-feed van een bestaande plek iets geknutseld).
Bij @nporadio1 is het daadwerkelijk handwerk, maar ze krijgen niet heel vaak complimentjes.
Bij deze ook van mij dus: Top bezig Radio 1 redactie!
@tournesol oooh trop cool ! bon courage pour le raspberry !! ça me fait penser que j'en ai un qui m'a jamais servi parceque je sais pas quoi faire avec :((
This is not a software glitch, it's the Y1C problem: old mainframes were so storage-constrained that they only allocated two decimal digits for passenger age, and adding another digit would mean rewriting software that in some cases has been in use and constantly patched since the late 1950s. https://press.coop/@BBCNews/112345996328670433
@fdr@Life_is Indeed. But: these are tickets that may be used for routing via different airlines. So any change in passenger record format probably needs to be agreed to and implemented by multiple airlines.
Aujourd’hui, les chatons de #Touffue ont trois semaines, j’avais décidé de les peser et éventuellement de changer un peu l’aménagement de la pièce pour qu’ils puissent commencer à bouger un peu plus, mais manifestement c’est pas l’heure !
Je suis en train de réfléchir à faire un Wine portable avec un préfixe déjà préparé avec les packages les plus courants.
Ça permettrait de faire tourner out-of-the-box la plupart des jeux, sans dépendances.
Ps: inutile de me parler des Bottles ou PlayOnLinux: ce sont des usines à gaz, avec beaucoup trop de dépendances.
Mon but c'est de rester minimaliste (et en ligne de commande)
“The way in which the fiscal gap for Wales is calculated by the UK’s Office for National Statistics is sufficiently clear for a political analysis to determine which aspects of this subvention will be relevant for an independent Wales. My analysis has determined that the figure will be approximately £2.6bn, significantly lower that the figure of £13.4bn, frequently quoted in the media.”
The same con trick is being perpetrated in Ireland by 'experts' in the Republic no less, who're clearly exaggerating the costs involved in reunification. Lies, damned lies and bollocks statistics. See also GERS in Scotland for the greatest load of bollocks of them all.
This is a bit long, and I've talked about this a lot lately, but it's something I'm thinking about a lot in the wake of so much hatred of female Healthcare. When my female troubles got bad enough that I finally talked to my doctor about it, he referred me to a gynecologist. I had already had several ultrasounds and an MRI at this point, and she had put me on some oral contraceptives for several months, (which made sick to my stomach no matter what I did) and had just done another ultrasound. She greeted me with "Well, you're really messed up inside, Honey.", which already had me pretty stressed out. Then told me I would probably need surgery to figure out exactly what was going on. She then asked me if I wanted children, and I said No. I had taken my husband with me to the appointment for moral support, and she glanced over at him, and then talked to me for 5 minutes about how many women my age could still have children, and I could definitely consider it, and that they would do everything they could to make sure I could stay viable. They could freeze my eggs if I had to do a hysterectomy, just on and on. She probably asked me directly 4-5 if I was sure I didn't want kids. Finally, I said, "Ma'am, my husband got a vasectomy over a decade ago, we are absolutely sure we don't want kids." After hubs had found me crying on the toliet, because my period was late again, he went to his doctor and said, "Hey doctor, I'm thinking about a vasectomy." The doctor gave him a pamphlet to read, and made him an appointment. The whole thing was done in a few weeks.
Anyhow, she finally referred me to a gynecological surgeon, and I was not looking forward to dealing with this again, and was just generally terrified of having surgery for the first time. I met with this woman and she was so efficient and practical. It is the longest doctor appointment I've ever had, since this surgery would be exploratory, she went over every possibility of what could happen when she was inside. She did a thorough exam, she went over all the scans that I had, and explained why she thought this needed done. Then she said she would like to put in a Mirena IUD during surgery. She said, "You're in pain half the month, and there's no reason for you to have a period if you don't want to have kids. You'll have some erratic bleeding for six months, but by a year most women have a very light or no period at all, there's no reason for you to needlessly suffer if you don't end up needing a hysterectomy."
It's interesting to me still, that one doctor was so focused on what my body could do, and another so focused on how I felt. I came out of the first appointment feeling scared and confused, and the second feeling heard and cared for. Feeling valued as a person and not a baby maker made the surgery much easier to go through, and the Mirena has been great btw. Women don't have to needlessly suffer.
@kcanales02 I already did it and I absolutely love it, saved my life, but yeah it's a low dose of hormones and people react differently to them, oral meds made me feel awful, but this didn't, Healthcare should be tailored to you.
@RickiTarr Thank you for sharing this; it is such an important subject, especially now when women are being given less and less control over their own bodies. We truly live in a sick culture when half the population has less control over their sexual lives than the other half!
@cstross It's not as if we haven't known “grinding up dead animals and feeding them to other animals” is a bad idea for, oh, four decades at least. I still can't give blood in the US because I lived in the UK during the Mad Cow years. But, naturally, agribusiness never wanted to learn that lesson because, hey, what else are we going to do with all these dead chickens?
New industry rule: before you can feed it to the livestock, you have to feed it to the CEO. That should take care of the issue.
@angusm I think we should have fed ground-up John Selwyn Gummer to the cattle after that force-his-daughters-to-eat-a-mad-cow-burger-on-TV stunt he pulled.
Oh cool, new Mastodon official blog post! Let’s read it…
Huh… Okay… Well, that sucks for their tax status in Germany… Interesting they’re incorporating in the USA… The USA does have a very… Open… Tax regime for non-profits.
Oh, new board members!
The fourth one is COFOUNDER OF TWITTER?
God damn, Mastodon is really going corpo now, what the stars is this nonsense