aeki

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[–] aeki@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's probably normal to forget. I am probably the odd one in that I'm always very aware of my age and I'm almost 40. I'm also acutely aware of the ages of people around me, and (very mildly) uncomfortable if I don't know someone's age.

[–] aeki@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago

How do you phrase your refusal? I am not looking for work right now, and my current job didn't give me live coding sessions. I'm against them in principle.

But I can't figure out how to phrase it in a way that doesn't sound like you're dodging. Do you refuse while you're already in the interview? Or do you make a preemptive disclaimer when they invite you for a "technical interview"?

[–] aeki@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems like only the US is available. I am also curious about a product like this that'd deliver to Sweden.

[–] aeki@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year ago

I have both, but it's in general an executive dysfunction thing, which can happen in both and other conditions.

[–] aeki@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

We ordered a Librem 5 in 2017 and still nothing.

We even requested for a refund in 2022; still no answer. No communication at all. Don't even know what to do about it in terms of legal processes, it was certainly not an insignificant amount of money for us.

[–] aeki@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

I'll never, ever watch Dancer in the dark again.

[–] aeki@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 year ago

Oh, Quino cartoons in the wild!

[–] aeki@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Image transcript:

Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.
Your well fenced out real estate of mind
No high flat of the nomad citizen
Looks over, or train leaves behind.

Your rights extend under and above your claim
Without bound; you own land in Heaven and Hell;
Your part of earth's surface and mass the same,
Of all cosmos' volume, and all stars as well.

Your rights reach down where all owners meet, in Hell's
Pointed exclusive conclave, at earth's centre
(Your spun farm's root still on that axis dwells);
And up, through galaxies, a growing sector.

You are nomad yet; the lighthouse beam you own
Flashes, like Lucifer, through the firmament.
Earth's axis varies; your dark central cone
Wavers a candle's shadow, at the end.

[–] aeki@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago

Not op but at least in Sweden we often get 6 months trial employment and after that they are honestly kind of stuck with us (cannot really fire us unless very specific things happen). So you can actually get some better conditions as they do want you to do the job and can not just replace you. If all fails you can also get help from the union.

[–] aeki@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Why would you go there?

Video below: "We went to North Korea to get a haircut"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BO83Ig-E8E

[–] aeki@slrpnk.net 26 points 2 years ago

I am the dad when I'm outside and the mom when I'm inside. It's so hard to get myself out of the blankets, but once outside I'm so happy with all the refreshing snow.

[–] aeki@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I do read extremely fast in my native language (Spanish). Feels like entire sentences go straight into concepts and my brain builds a whole world based on what I'm reading.

However I started reading in a verbalized way with my second and third languages (English and Swedish) because I was completely useless at pronunciation, while reading at a high level. So I had to learn the sounds and they started invading my reading, which I sort of resent.

But the verbalization is still very mild; faint, monotone, non-enunciated.

Some people talked about poetry and I hadn't considered that my absolute lack of poetry-sense could be related. People have told me about the metrics and whatnot and it really doesn't click. I have to sort of analyze a poem and explain it to myself in prose, and I imagine that defeats the purpose of poetry?

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