PJ, you’re cool, but that sentence is impossible to parse.

Just because they don’t do it doesn’t mean they don’t have to. Similarly, some shops will give you credit instead of a refund and will only return the money after you complain - they know they have to return the money (or at least ask if credit is okay) but too many people don’t know or don’t bother.

Wzf, it’s true. Brudi, I thought I was on top of my rights as a consumer.

Thinking about it, I think I’ve only ever returned partial shipments - which seems to be one of the cases where the law isn’t clear.

Super nice to know in any case!

Ah, this again.

I keep seeing people ask why people call Bluesky decentralised. I never see people call Bluesky decentralised.

(Okay, “never” isn’t quite correct, I’ve seen the term used in relation to Bluesky maybe a handful of times but you make it sound like that’s their main selling point)

“That’s what the constitution would ask of me, so yes, obviously. I don’t understand why you’d even ask me this.”

What are you even saying, there is no reason, this is NORMAL. I too keep declaring regularly to my family that I am ready to step up and inherit my dad’s house and live there instead of my shitty flat should ThE uNsPeAkAbLe happen. This is to reassure my dear family of my loyalty to my dear old dad and my confidence in his health, obviously, may he live to 150. Normal People Things.

It is very normal to talk about this.

Oh! Oh! I know this one! They get hidden in statistics.

Everything you said is a common storytelling trope you can find in other stories too.

Take the hero’s family being endangered - the difference is that Die Hard dude then jumps into action and does shit, like what you’d expect from an actual hero. Job does fuck all, doesn’t seem to mind too much (at best he’s like “oh bother”) and, worst of all, does NOT get his family back, it’s a new wife and kids and that’s perfectly fine by him.

The villains corresponding to the neighbours is far-fetched in my opinion but even then, common trope to have story elements trying to discourage the hero. You can find that “parallel” anywhere. They also have vastly different motivations: in Job, his neighbours are presumably worried for him, Die Hard dude’s villains are trying to save their own skin.

What did this man do to suffer? Die Hard dude is devoted to his job, his family doesn’t leave for no reason and isn’t endangered for no reason. It’s a moral dilemma that he struggles with, rooted in the hero’s personality and informing his character arc. Job is just there, changes nothing and learns nothing.

In general, there has to be some motivation for the hero to start his (we’re talking about classic tropes here) journey and people around him and his property (sometimes seen as the same thing…) being endangered is the most convenient one. The interesting part is how he reacts to this situation - which couldn’t be more different between Die Hard dude and Job, as I said above.

Person suffers, then gets happy end - that’s every classic story ever told by anyone (bad endings are a new-fangled modern thing).

Edit: it is 4am i cannot fucking believe i wrote a wall of text about this. i havent even watched any Die Hard in years and years, never mind read the fucking Bible. fuck.

Edit2: McClane. I knew the name was somewhere in my brain. Yes I have the world’s knowledge at my fingertips shut up I also have perfectionism and I only took 3 hours to remember so there.

You’ll have to explain that. Where Job refuses to have a character arc, staying completely passive, watching people around him die, until the very end (and even then only goes whining to his god), Die Hard dude is everything but passive and even willing to risk his own life for others. What do they have in common?

Armedangels (German company)

(≖_≖ ) … “poor”? “arms”? … “Dangels”, wzf are Dangels, Brudi… oh wait, that’s English, goodness gracious…

Good job, way better than I’ve managed so far :) Now how to avoid Kaufland and the like for their less than stellar treatment of employees?

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Bless your heart.

only applies outside of work and study

Smartphone use during non-leisure activities, such as watching videos while cooking or exercising, online learning and practicing for an e-sports tournament, will not count

Oh okay, you want to look like you care about your constituents and propose change without REALLY proposing any change that could inconvenience anyone, got it.

(I just learned that there’s no good English word for the very convenient German “Aktionismus” which this is to a T. “Actionism” seems to exist but doesn’t seem to be the same thing. Shame.)

lmao

It loses some of its poetry in translation, alas.

You can turn it off. Opt-out is still bullshit.

Yep. That sounds about right in the year of Our Lord Yog Sothoth 2025 in the planet’s richest country.

Be still, my shipper heart.

Oh I wasn’t dismissing this as a non-issue or anything, it’s clearly bullshit and yet another reason for you to burn cars and billionaires. But I remember when I first heard about this, specifically the “(file) for free” was INCREDIBLY confusing because as ridiculous many, many things the US does may seem to me, (what I understood as) the notion of paying your government a fee to process your taxes was juuust a bit too far out.

You CAN still do it on your own though, just not online, yeah?