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@withaveeay@mastodon.scot Truth be told, *I* mind. It's one of my pet reporting systems, and I rather it didn't have such problems. So I'm perfectly happy to do the updates about the fix, almost as a reassurance to myself.
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Malachy Eireannach
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mastodon 4.7.3Jag har nyligen anlänt till Sverige! Min fru och jag bor i Göteborg, och vi älskar det! Jag är Sydafrikanska och Irlandska, en dataingenjör i telekoms, en löpare och en ryttare.
Nu måsta jag lära mig svenska. Jag förstår lite men jag måste bli flytande...
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I'm off to Ireland today until the weekend. See the offspring, congratulate them on goals reached, plot new goals.
They are now autonomous adults, but I try not to remember that, mainly to prevent myself thinking of my own senescence 😹
Körsbärblommor utanför #Folkuniversitetet i #Göteborg. Våren är vacker!
I'm a very bad runner. But I do #run.
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Every country in the world has a welfare state.
In poor countries, it's just privatised. But this is in the cynical sense that poor people are expected to look after their families and communities, with no rational 'state' support.
It erodes social and personal capital - no assets exist, only income and expense. Encourages paternalism and hierarchical control of women and children. Gangs proliferate, becoming successful as informal welfare organisations.
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@golgaloth AI hallucination avant la lettre, but seriously by hundreds of millions of years.
The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,
Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long
Whatever is begotten, born, and dies.
-- Sailing to Byzantium, by WB Yeats
If there's one thing that I know I'm really good at, it's imposter syndrome.
Vassen idag.
The Odyssey. Not bad. Nolan caught between making a blockbuster and making an arthouse meditation on trauma. It sometimes feels like he's forcing two films into one. I think I prefer the scenes with Athena, Calypso and Tiresias, which describe the choices between remembering and forgetting the past and the future. The Sack of Troy is done 1000% better than that schlocky Troy movie.
I've been handling a reporting systems crisis all week, which is under control now but needs some detailed management until everyone's nerves are settled. Mysteriously all the people who have been demanding instant answers from me are today not replying to my updates.
Ahhhh - there's a public holiday in SA on Monday. Urgency is relative.
Spotify spelade Scissor Sisters sedan The Offspring en efter en. Jag tänker banden skulle vara okej med det!
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@icing@chaos.social @maxleibman@beige.party @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems The Butlerian Bay of Pigs Invasion.
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@kimvanwyk@fosstodon.org Yes it's perfect and exactly true. The Boots Theory describes 'scale' in terms of quality, but it works the same way in terms of quantity too.
For example, a big bag of rice costs less per kilo than a small one, but a poor person must buy three of the small bags over time, because they can't afford the big one to begin with.
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@overholt@glammr.us And it's been decades since I first read that - about the 1980s - and winced.
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@withaveeay@mastodon.scot This is tachyon-driven customer service. The electricity service you're shopping for was terminated last month.