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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

There's very little point in robbing a bank unless you desperately need office chairs and stationery.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I feel the same way about Charles Bukowski. I can read, understand and appreciate the books without liking the guy. He also paints himself in a negative picture, but the thoughts are still worth considering or just knowing of. Whether or not it's intended, I think it's okay for litterature to provoke the reader to think that the author is wrong or plain crazy, because at least it makes me think about stuff instead of just entertaining my existing views.

I did read Lila 25 yeas ago, but I hardly remember it. It's been a long time since I last read any books at all. Perhaps I ought to give it a second chance.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's worth a read.

I think it's often frowned upon for being somewhat of a naive juvenile pocket philosophical rambling, or the dairy of a madman, but I'd say that it introduces some valid points about the concept of quality that you can then think about yourself.

It's definitely on my top 10 list of books. Not because it's great, but because I can often relate to it in miscellaneous situations even 30 years after reading it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Retirement age was recently raised to 70 in Denmark, but I'm honestly not even that pissed off about it, because I think it might finally be the key for people to understand and act upon something that is much more important:

Retirement is not and has never been the carrot on a stick that excuses wasting most of your life on working.

There's no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for those who choose to endure 50 years of wage slavery. The cake is a lie, and if you didn't get it before, you'll surely get it now that the promised retirement is getting pushed further and further away. Fuck retirement. You'll likely never get to it, so you need to live now.

You need to make your life worthwhile through the entirety of it. If that life includes paid work, you need to make paid work worthwhile.

Sure, it's a lot of work in itself to make the conditions for your paid work better, but we have to start demanding just that and it's really easy to get started: Join a union.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Jeg synes det er lidt fjollet at sætte det som en procentdel af BNP, men det er da dejligt nemt at forholde sig til i stedet for at diskutere budgettet hele tiden.

Jeg håber vi kan finde nogle fornuftige ting at bruge de penge på, så det ikke bare bliver til et tilskud til USAs våbenindustri.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Two things: VBA and the autosum formula keyboard shortcut.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The mentioned cars are somewhat outdated.

You might also want to consider newer models like Renault 5, Skoda Elroq or Hyundai Ioniq.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

In countries that collect church taxes on behalf of the church, it can be necessary to officially de-register your religion to avoid paying taxes to the church.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2014/09/22/in-some-european-countries-church-membership-means-paying-more-taxes/

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Masks or not, they're going to get themselves killed.

At some point, someone will resist being abducted and take one of them out. A mask doesn't stop a bullet.

It just hasn't happened yet.

How many of them will be brave enough to show up for work the next day?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Jeg har bemærket at franchises i Danmark næsten altid bliver drevet af sådan nogle typer som forsøger at omgås reglerne og er ligeglade med både produktet, ansatte og kunder. De tror de kan gå på vandet så længe de kan kalde sig selvstændige erhvervsdrivende. Det er useriøst.

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