There is no official anything when two duopolic corporations (with wildly similar interests) decide which candidates to bring forward. They decide which two will be the only viable choices.

Afaik there are no legal requirements binding them except the restrictions who is eligible (“being born in USA”, that sort of arbitrary weirdness).

I mean, in previous years we did pass some environmental laws (like banning internal combustion cars), not as much or as strict as I hoped, but change was there. Sure hope that doesn’t all get undone ‘to boost the economy’ (in the USA sense - so help the existing big corps to boost their profits & do nothing for the majority).

Hell, I rally like the vast majority of EU regulations (various directives and delegated acts) that were passed & are being constantly updated (to keep up with the times/trends & tech) over the last 20 years, I think its a rally good balance between protecting the people whilst at the same time working with the market to actually achieve a meaningful & painless change over several years. That’s why we have representatives. The added “bureaucracy” as companies call it is just extra reporting & testing (to confirm compliance with standards). This benefits us all & is of unbelievably marginal cost when you look at the economy, regardless of what lobbyists say.

Its … horrible how you treat your elderly in closed wards.

I shall avert my gaze.
Didn’t mean to pry, it was just too loud to not notice it.

I’d rather look at our … increasingly hard-right EU politics … wait, that can’t be right, wtf.

Bird, doing bird things, on his way to file a report at the agency.

Hard agree.

Some evil cabal intolerant to vast variety of species orchestrated mass extinction so that now we are all this uniform fish-bird things.

I want to go back.

Yeah, Im still hopeful one day I’ll find a set with like an imaginary symbols that I’ll like (but not from like recognisable fiction, common sigils, runes, pictograms, etc).

Aww, it is kinda wholesome.

Doesn’t matter, memorised your house keys pattern.

(Be ready for surprise titty piercing at 3am, after the cat is done with the zoommies, so like 15-ish minutes past 3am.)

Tell me you never sucked tiddies pierced with house keys by providing me with a picture of tiddies pierced with house keys.

Early yesterday.

Like, it must have been a (horrible) style choice right?
Can’t fuck up that much on accident.

I don’t wanna see how the inside looks. Maybe those windows use just one continuous foil …

In a helmet, suit and everything, holy shit.

My fly is just realistic, can’t judge it for that.

Its all pain and suffering, and feasting in a pile of shit as a highlight of it all.

allowed

Yeah, wtf, what did Linux ever do to the great furry community sys admins?

Our group is still fully on Windows all the things (except like two virtual servers), desktops all run W10.

I will again plead in this years strategy to not upgrade to W11, if for nothing else ‘moral reasons’.
I’ll be the only one tho.

Yeah, task switching in general kinda works for me sometimes, it makes no difference to me how (un)desired the task is. Even tasks I enjoy are hard for me.

Yeah, this explanation makes the most sense to me.

Just a generalisation that “good at computers” is a programmer. So no Apple programmers :P (joking ofc)

Yes, a power tinkerer!

And if something needs to be programmed (or just coded, bcs copypasta), then that’s what’s gonna happen.

If IT won’t accommodate my ticket in the way I want Im just gonna write another ticket for access rights.

Yes, this is regularly seen throughout Europe for years.

You can buy such tags in bulk from China, they are very cheap at any scale really (and their use isn’t limited to just pricing).

But yes, I think some EU countries already have laws preventing price changes throughout the day or (to some extend) price differences between eg countryside and cities.
I think there should be an EU directive for this tho.

Yes.
And there is absolutely no way a neurotypical person can comprehend that.

That’s why a crisis (a “stressful situations” by normies definitions) calms us down and/or we continue to function normally. And normies just panic. And even when it’s obvious to us what is best to do next, we have to wait for them to calm tf down to even understand what we are saying. But by then the advantage is lost.

(“Oh, so we are going with the plan I proposed and detailed in an email last week but this time is “your” idea?” … :|)

Yes, every day.

The only hopes are:

• getting enough adrenaline from stress to end the cycle (super harmful in the long run)
• completely let it go no matter the importance & hope that randomly without thinking about it and doing something else (perhaps being stuck in the same loop but for another topic) I’ll just be ok to immediately drop everything and just start executing the first step … then it usually goes on ok after that
• get someone to help me, then think about how much of a drag Im being on their personal life, alienate them “for their own good and happiness”, have a copy of them in my mind for years to come hopefully the example will sometimes magically help me with some current issue