Only for the annual border crossing shopping. We’re in Denmark. A trip could be planned.

You can arrange stuff like that and I can only recommend it.

My friends and I made a “guild” back when we were younger. As we were all young at the time, our original written rules were mostly about drinking and securing the dates in our calendars for drinking. As we grew older, it’s less about drinking, but more about keeping dates free in the calendar on which we are excused from our families. So we meet up a couple of times a year in weekends with no obligations from other stuff. It’s litteraly just agreeing to pull a day out of the calendar in a weekend. We don’t get complaints from the wives either, because they also have their bi-annual trips for their respective groups, or they enjoy a day without the husband for whatever reason. Actually it doesn’t matter if someone is married or not, it’s just the idea of putting a day in the calendar for no other reason that being the “guild meeting” and everyone around accepting it.

So… ar first we had a lot of fun doing the kind of stuff that dudes do (riding motors, shooting guns and daring to run naked etc.), but eventually we got sick of hang overs, bruises and wasting time, so we try make at least one “serious” event before getting to the drinks now. Sometimes we go on company tours. Maybe someone got hired somewhere and wants to show off, or they have a hobby to show. Sometimes we just arrange for someone to show us around interesting stuff. Some things do cost money,but more often they’re happy to showcase their stuff. Doesn’t matter to me. We’re here to learn, experience and understand all stuff that we wouldn’t ordinarily get to see.

Through this self-made “guild” we have been to places that are not accessible without invitations. Some might call it “networking”, but I mean, honestly, that’s not what we are doing. Sure, I learn stuff from these companies and we get a connection, and I would be more inclined to choose them for future references, but we are doing this entirely because we can’t drink from noon to midnight anymore.

Advertisement: I’d gladly volunteer my guild for testing company showcasing and reviews if anyone is willing to have us. We are 4-6 guys willing to watch you work. We won’t be initially drunk, unless you serve it to us. We have seen many companies doing the same stuff before, and can provide valuable feedback if you want it.

For what its worth: He made it to NY last Saturday.

https://nypost.com/2024/12/14/us-news/social-media-stars-roll-in-times-square-after-skateboarding-across-us/

“Can haul” and “can haul safely” are different.

She was loading bags of gravel into a Toyota Corolla. Sure, it’ll drive, but will it brake?

If she should crash into something there’s also a huge difference in having a heavy passenger wearing a seat belt and loading the back seats with bags of gravel.

The actual story is that some guy helped her out:

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/16/nx-s1-5230186/a-woman-was-loading-1-500-pounds-of-gravel-into-her-car-when-a-stranger-interrupted

It still pisses me off. Who knows how many idiots drive around with tons of gravel in their cars?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apt._(song)

In many cities, there are more rats than human. And yet, who feeds who?

For what its worth: He made it to NY today. No rescue required. The community helped him out along the way.

https://nypost.com/2024/12/14/us-news/social-media-stars-roll-in-times-square-after-skateboarding-across-us/

Nah, it doesn’t always make the news. I know of one time where they flew right over my house and there was no mention of it anywhere, so I tell this story every time anyone mentions those “routine” fly overs.

It was New Year 2019-2020 about noon.

The MIG came in from the Kattegat coast and roared through a fjord well below reasonable eardeafening altitude, which made me go outside to see what the fuck was going on. It got intercepted by one of our own F-16s and they did a few rounds of dog chasing right above my head before it flew like hell back towards Russia. The fucker must’ve dodged the Swedes on the way here.

Way out of line. It’s completely reckless to put some kid into a machine like that and have them fly this close to residential areas. Who knows what would’ve happened and how many people would’ve been hurt if the idiot had hit a tall antenna or lost control from the g-force or whatever. They were flying low, fast and swirling like moth being chased by a flyswatter.

The Russians are reckless assholes even in peace.

I suppose so. The only one I found explained was the donkey one.

A town was flooded in 1924 where they wasted a lot of time searching for a missing donkey. To avoid it happening again, they banned donkeys sleeping in bathtubs at night.

The cheese factory law is probably an interpretation of a more general law about not being allowed to sleep when working in food production.

The ban on kangaroos in barber shops also includes flamingos. I do not know the source of that, but Alaska does have a lot of strange laws about animals. Mostly moose.

It’s illegal to keep a sleeping donkey in a bathtub after 7 pm. in Arizona.

It’s illegal to fall asleep in a cheese factory in South Dakota.

It’s illegal to bring a kangaroo inside barber shops in Alaska.

Catnip and hakuna matata

At Subway the customer picks the stuff that goes into the sandwich.

It’s basically build your own food, except it’s someone else’s fingers in your food.

The conspiracy theorists fall for the same falacy that they accuse the media and cops of doing: That it’s only interesting because the victim was a CEO.

If this has been any other shooting, they wouldn’t be theorizing about the “message” or reasoning in his manifest. Every fucking murderer has a message or believes in a reason to do what they do.

Until the proven killer has confessed and stated an actual message, the whole thing is entirely made up by people who want to align the story to their own interest.

Where is ISO when we need it…

Yes sure. Code is logical stepwise. By including the “only if” it implies that other stuff is taken into account, which it isn’t at that moment in code.

I mean, I don’t need to extend the implications of an IF statement. It already does exactly what it says.

Anyway fuzzy logic does exist for people who want “sometimes if”. It’s useful in certain cases. I’ve only ever considered it in music production, where things very often get to the point of complexity where it makes a (sometimes) useful difference.

Yes. You probably just don’t see them on the streets as much, because concrete parks are being build everywhere.

It’s now part of the Olympics and a lot more girls skate too these days, so the sk8erboi stereotype doesn’t really fit very well any more.

It’s called “L’appel du vide” or “call of the void” and quite normal.

It’s an old instinct to think through the consequences of dangerous things instead of actually doing them.

The “only” part implies exclusivity, which may be false, because other things might run the code anyway.

IF “I can see the sun” THEN “It’s day.”

Nothing wrong about that. However if we make it exclusive:

IF AND ONLY IF “I can see the sun” THEN “It’s day.”

That’s obviously wrong. I can actually not keep the day away by sitting with closed eyes in my mothers basement with the curtains shut.

“Only if” might make sense in a legal contract, but there’s no way a piece of code can stop other pieces of code from calling the same functions.

I fully understand the anger and frustration that leads people to dreaming of and secretly prepping for violent insurrections, but I will absolutely urge them to redirect the energy into something that can actually make a change.

Historically, violent insurrections against the owning class have always been put down by the police or army and not resulting in changes.

The latest meaningful changes which happened in Europe in the late 1800s happened due to workers uniting, striking and supporting each other internationally.

This is rarely taught in schools for some reason, and it’s beginning to be a bit of an issue, since many people today have no clue about the foundation for their current life/working situation.

Even if there was a violent insurrection… then what? What are the demands? What is the desired outcome? If people can organize to figure that out, they might as well put it into a strike demand.