how they will do anything they can to get to me as fast as possible except from hiring more people

Aww yeah, story of late stage capitalism

I don’t much care about the type of music.

There’s this one place I have to queue every now and then that uses some old technology that produces an audible click every time the audio loop starts over, and every time I think somebody picked up.

That sucks.

I’d prefer something that works even when I put the phone aside - so it can be loud, but on the same level as the speaker who then later picks up - and gives me clear markers that either I’m still on hold or that somebody picked up.

The audio/music has to have a continuity to it so that you notice immediately when it ends. Whatever artificial voice speaks to me must not sound like an actual human just picked up.

Unlikely it will ever make it to the people creating these things, but this is my constructive criticism.

Here I am wondering how many dicks you have now

He really did say that? No clue about politics. It’s all just another You’re Fired episode for him.

But now he can blame it on them if they won’t!

It’s all too transparent. I hope a significant amount of people sees through his charades.

ding-ding-ding

Uncharacteristically conciliatory. This is just the first countermove in the war that is going to be fought in the coming 2 years.

Particularly annoying because he’s basically dismissing the widespread damage he already did to whatever’s left of democracy in the US.

SCOTUS?

/s

ngl, I came here for the thumbnail:

Is this going to prompt a new round of climate change denialism? “There’s always been flooding, pull yourself up by your bootstraps” kinda bs?

I think the Trumps’ finances are much less stable than people assume, so he isn’t just fighting for his reputation (lol).

Whatever, he’s still richer than any of us will ever be.

Analogous to OP’s statement, shouldn’t that be

“Chasing sickness out is more satisfying than inviting health”?

I guess it depends on who’s being voted for here.

I do most small edits in nano these days. Trying to switch to micro, nano’s syntax highlighting is far from perfect, and micro’s impressed me.

But if it’s something even slightly more complex I go for a GUI code editor.

Strangely, I much prefer writing Markdown with the GUI variant, too.

kwrite

Huh, yet another KDE app. It seems they all build on the same base, with increasing feature richness:

Kwrite => Kate => Kdevelop

?

kdevelop

Huh, yet another KDE app. Installed now. Seems to be just as suitable for my needs as Kate even though it says to be centered around C/C++. Unlike Kate it has something called LSP which might help with automatically adding closing tags; but I have yet to figure out how to activate this. — Huh, Kate has this too. Reading up on it in the Archwiki now.

VS Code/Codium seems to be omnipresent when diving into the topic, but I just don’t like that it’s controlled by MS, even if these are opensource.

What’s an LSP here?

edit: OK this has come up a lot in this post. reading up on it, installing packages. Hopefully it’s not too hard to get it to work.

And I hope it stays that way until the matter is resolved. Much better deterrent than fines.

We need to teach big multinationals that they can’t just ignore local law.

Right now I wonder if construction is/remains stopped until the matter is resolved. That would really show them to stop messing with local law.

edit: it looks like this is the case ✊ - for how long though.

Adding insult to injury:

The US-based company operates an AI training platform named Outlier, which employs more than 900,000 “freelance” workers.

Or rather more injury to injury.

Thanks noyb, we really need to stay vigilant. It’s clear that US companies have almost no oversight at home, and expect the same to be the case everywhere.

40 million and rising

As of the fourth quarter of 2025, there were approximately 201.82 million people employed in the European Union.

So a fifth of the EU workforce already. Damn.

Yeah it’s pretty cynical. Orwellian. 2+2=5 type of shit.

when everyone lived by the rising and setting of the sun.

That’s timezones. Flowing instead of bordered, and they used terms like morning, noon and evening instead of numbers, but still.

Your post reminds me of this hippie who once told me they don’t like daylight saving times because it feels “unnatural” to them. Dude, all clock time is unnatural. Human made. They didn’t understand.

Entertaining your preposterous proposal: every time you post something on the internet that is time specific, you’d now have to explain that in your neck of the globe, 23:00 means early morning. Your work starts at midnight, pardon, 00:00.

I find timezones significantly more convenient.