Where I’m from a 36 hour work week is the norm. I work 4 × 9 hours and have every Wednesday off (plus I have like 9 weeks off every year). Some colleagues do work 40 hours a week and then save a day off every two weeks. A friend does this and he takes one fairly long holiday (like a month) and also a week or two off every two months or something.

And you can also take a sabbatical and be guaranteed of your job when you get back. A guy I know from another department took a year off to take a trip around the world with his girlfriend.

Yeah the search is not forgiving. One typo is enough to ruin the search results.

How well an area is mapped also matters a lot for search though. I now live somewhere that has all addresses in the country mapped from a government source. I didn’t before, and it’s so much easier now because at least I can just punch in the address and I’ll find whatever I’m looking for.

Oh yeah I agree 100%, this whole thing is ridiculous and shows wells Fargo don’t trust their employees and have to resort to this kind of bullshit.

I’m just saying it’s possible that these employees were fired merely for using this mouse moving software, not because they weren’t getting much work done.

The article doesn’t say the fired employees were doing this all the time. They could have used them for an hour here and there while they were out running an errand. Very difficult to spot that on any work review.

Hahaha also blue but waaaay more scary!

I think most countries with their own sesame street have slightly different characters. We don’t have big bird, we have the superior Pino.

Where I’m from credit cards aren’t really a thing (they exist obviously but I think people mainly use them when on holiday elsewhere or when buying flights or something since often the card will have some sort of insurance).

Anyway, I was wondering what you use/used your credit card for to get so much debt? Not shaming you in the slightest, just curious since I don’t even own a credit card. And what is the interest on it? Do you pay interest every month? What happens if you can’t pay?

Just curious about the logistics of cc debt. I hear it from stories from the US all the same but don’t understand how it really works.

Oh nice thanks for sharing the video! I made up the part where the trickster mates with the female, but the first part was true!

It is real. And I think it continues with this snake pretending to be a female so many males try to mate with him, thereby warming him up and allowing him to sneak in and mate with an actual female snake join the mating frenzy

Better late than never, right?

I used ‘reader mode’, or whatever it’s called, on Firefox and that worked well.

Jose is not happy

Don’t know where you live but in the Netherlands you just stay home when you’re sick, that’s it.

I believe after two weeks you need a doctor’s note.

And then you’ll get paid for up to two years of illness, after which you can apply with the government for further assistance.

So not unlimited, but quite long still.

https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/ziekteverzuim-van-het-werk/regels-en-verplichtingen-bij-ziekte

Scary times for Argentina

The vast majority of places don’t have zwarte Piet anymore. My young nieces don’t even know who that is, they only know him as Piet. Why repeat this shit about zwarte Piet when it’s fading away?

1. Just because I have heard of NordVPN doesn’t mean I’ll necessarily use it (in fact I use arch mullvad, btw.)
2. Let’s see some numbers that ads work. You can’t just calculate how life would be without ads, but I wonder what would happen if ad expenses for all companies would be capped somehow. When cigarette companies were severely limited in terms of advertising they saved a ton of money. Of course people already knew their brands, but still.

I think ad space sellers wildly overestimate the effectiveness of ads and google has made it far worse with targeted ads. People have gotten used to saying things like “ads work” and “brand recognition” but does anyone know the numbers? Or is this just repeating some phrases you’ve heard?

I don’t know the numbers myself, but I’m quite skeptical.

Seven

I have a pihole already, so I guess I could use that.

Any idea how much that would block?

And besides the sensors, what data is the OS collecting? Wouldn’t the Chromecast collect the same amount of data?

I thought I was done when I guessed oven, but there was no clear feedback saying I won. Went to the comments for the actual answer.

So my feedback: fun game! If possible, perhaps add something like “very close” if you guess something that’s almost the answer but not quite. Or oven could have just been wrong, since that wasn’t the actual answer.

But what happens if someone sends you an email from a non-gmail account? Can you react then?

If so, does it just reply to this email with an emoji in the body? Cause then you’re basically just replying in the exact way as before, google just added a quick-reply button with a predefined body.

I’m personally not a fan of nonstandard functionality for something as ubiquitous as email. Email should be exactly the same regardless of the client that’s used.