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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Location is the most iportant, meaning that the realistic option is appartment

    • Can get fresh breakfast on the week-end with a 5 minutes walk, and do not need to plan a weekly grocery trip when I have everything down the stairs

    • Do not need to drive home if I get a drink

    • Have access to tons of activities within a reasonable distance, no matter whether I want to learn Korean, watch stand-up comedy or listen to underground heavy metal

    • Kids can quickly get some autonomy compared to suburb where road are full of cars and parents need a car to go every where.






  • Clear and accessible policies, and in general HR being at least honest and consistent with what’s written there. I know what kind of hotel I can book, or whether I am eligible to an upgrade when travelling, and don’t have to ask to get my double-pay when working on sunday. It’s a pitty that this bare minimum isn’t guaranteed in many employers


  • With my limited experience, (Free flight and powered ultra-light), in most cases it’s a genuine mistake, either because you’re not familiar with where you are, badly estimated the drift due to the wind, mixed two landmarks, and ended-up in a restricted airspace (Even a simple free flight GPS would solve these issues) or, for commercial flight under ATC supervision you mixed up frequencies and didn’t replied to the radio for a while.

    An important thing is check whether the plane is OK not replying to ATC may-also mean that you have a fire on board and loss electrical system, or are already burning on the ground (I believe fighter jet were scrambled for the Air-Berlin suicide/mass murder but by the time they were on site, the plane was already on the ground) and most likely capture an image from the cockpit which may be used for further legal developments.

    Then in principle, to get your pilots licence, even for an ultra-light you’re expected to know that if a fighter jet rock their wings near you it means follow me_



  • This is IMO the most awful stuff in these economy,

    You have a couple of actors/singers who earn insane amount of money.

    Then you have a large chunk who by mixing teaching, local theatre/bars, and some extra, get from a living wage, to a well-paid job.

    And finally you have a majority who struggle.

    All of that mostly based on being at the right place at the right time, and having the right friends




  • This actually a pretty interesting take.

    I see how it can work with experienced players ready for some experimental game, but indeed it’s not something I’ll do on another context for the following reason.

    I don’t know whey some people seems to strongly decorrelate the system from the rest of the game. The mechanic is a component of the game theme and mood and a good pairing Setting/System is important. To be cliché you’re not going to use D&D to play Chtulhu unless you want to do a dungeon crawling agaisnt Mi-go

    Many players don’t have a feeling about which game mechanic they can come with

    This kind of discussion works if you have a lot of time. If you’re young and plan to play until dawn no matter what, sure it’s fine. for a busy and married adult needing to have dinner with their SO and who plans to take the last train home to come back, you don’t want to loose time with these less important questions




  • Government services aren’t company, and some do develop technology, place like US national institute of Health, or US NASA, or US department of Energy come to my mind, but any first world nation would have tons of similar things. As usual doesn’t mean there is no bullshit to deal with (You know the saying about reserarcher main job is to look for fundings)

    Then there is FOSS sofware some of them being managed by non profit who can afford to pay their developers

    finally, there is a whole non profit/charity/coop part of the economy, and considering the weigh of technology, you may have some jobs linked to technology. (But managing let’s say the “red cross ERP” sounds as awful as managing any other corporate ERP)