Relatively little going on so I'm still gonna go back to reddit occasionally because for example on the software development side I've found the reddit communities really useful and they simply don't exist here.
Beyond this I'm determined to stick it out with lemmy. There are cute animal pics. There are memes and jokes. And a few other interests of mine are also reasonably active. It's almost enough to satisfy my desires for "doomscrolling" without being a total time trap. So that's nice.
I love fireworks. I've been helping in professional level shows for a few years and ever since I basically stopped buying fireworks myself.
There's no way I can capture even a whiff of the awesomeness of a proper display, yet I'd still spend hundreds on trash, trying. And I too get annoyed with random bangs throughout the days surrounding national holiday. There ought to be "shooting ranges" for the general public then let some pros do a proper display and see each other in a year again...
Including teaching we got our 3 player game done in a little under 3 hours. This is just about still tolerable. I would nnot play this with 4. My friends have reserved their judgement till after next time but so far it wasn't a huge success or failure either way. While we had the gameplay pretty much down pat towards the end of the game, we're still grasping for anything remotely like a strategy though...
GF mentioned that she will probably try it again with me seeing as we didn't hate it...
Why? It's a great middle point between bikes and cars:
Ive only played once. While the theme carries over well, it's a very different game. It’s much more of a card fishing game centered around a lead-follow mechanic like RftG or San Juan.
Recently caught up with a former coworker. When we worked together the company was led by the founder who wanted to pursue other ideas and sold the company to some managers. The company had also grown a ton with a clever new product so the culture changes could easily be attributed to that.
But neither of the new owners were particularly high EQ people so to speak. I left because there was no room for growth and I had already put ten years into it. The coworker told me that they worked the remaining crew "to death" in order to inflate the value of the company to the maximum. Their best buddies got promoted and many others got eeked out. They cleaned out all the satellite offices by inviting them to an orientation meeting and sending in "hired guns" to just fire the entire management on the spot. A few years of this and they sold it to a big player and walked out without even saying goodbye to anyone.
But they won't. They will drive instead.
As much as you may detest them, they ARE removing cars from the roads and they are an excellent first/last mile combo for public transport.
I've been in the presence of lathes for a few months during my apprenticeship and I am entirely comfortable leaving it at that.
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Oh boy. My current employer had an app built inhouse over 18 months I think. Nobody cared to be involved in the reviews providing nothing more than "good good" until the thing was done. Then suddenly everything was "ugly and not what they wanted". An external company was hired who promised to rebuild it from scratch in 3 months. The internal devs were shuffled around, many quit. 2 years later the external company finally releases version 1 and celebrates themselves as absolute heroes. The were then set to work on taking over the current project the internal team had been working on... They again changed everything and made pretty much everyone on the team leave. That was another 2 years ago and they are getting close to release which no doubt will be celebrated again.
Luckily my work is a whole lot more specialized and the consultants we work with are actually competent and not greedy.
Yes. American regressives are recently pushing the idea of arming teachers (so they can shoot any students that are running amok) in the latest attempt to not pass even the slightest bit of gun control legislation.
Don't have the leaving early part down yet but I'm making a conscious effort to be more accomodating on the road? For a long time I've been annoyed with some road behavior. People squeezing in before me with what feels like half a meter to spare. People not letting me join the passing lane. Until I realized that I contributed to these myself. Because I didn't want anyone to squeeze in in front of me I kept a short distance to the next car which means that other cars were either not being let in (which I hate when it happens to me) or force it by squeezing into way to narrow gaps.
So I decided to deliberately let anyone join the passing lane that wants in. I'm not gonna drive slower as default but if I see you stuck behind a truck I'll fall back enough to make it clear that you can hop over. This solves both problems for me.