Steven R. Baker

@vaxryy Weird that this person minds negative things you might have said about a self-admitted sex pest.

scary!

If only the Swedish government care as much about safety and prosperity as they do about snus.

@devagrawal09 First, you're saying "types" and you probably mean "static types". Dynamic languages have types. Second, static types are neither a linter nor a test suite. You still need a linter and a test suite.

> Give them a linter and a test suite What do you think types are lol

@quipsfromthekid @jakozloski Pretty much. But also, her older sister was _very_ annoyed that she'd found someone, so there might have been some spite in there too on her part. :)

@srbaker @jakozloski You both knew straight away?

Most marriages that last got decided faster than each partner expected. Most relationships that didn't become marriages dragged on through ambiguity longer than they should have. The relationship research on courtship duration finds that longer courtships don't predict better outcomes. Clarity tends to come earlier than people give themselves permission to act on it.

@quipsfromthekid @jakozloski Yeps.

@srbaker @jakozloski 23 days?? 😲😲

This. But it applies to humans, too.

@Fat_Electrician Because they are opposed to progress in general, but the people who are pushing it forward in particular. It's even less grounded in reality than opposing nuclear power. (Which is not grounded in any current reality.)

I’ve looked into this very minimally, so I’m genuinely asking. Why are people opposing data centers so hard? My gut feeling is it’s hippies opposing nuclear power 2.0, but I’m willing to be convinced otherwise.

@TheLaurenChen Voters. They gain voters.

Why are European countries importing people who rely on welfare to survive and are exponentially.more violent? Genuinely, what do they gain from this?

@dingoddude @KrisztinaMaria I was too, that’s how I learned that my tax rate was over 70%.

@srbaker @KrisztinaMaria I honestly don’t know how it works now. Everything changed in 2022.

THIS IS HOW THE STATE CONTROLS YOU. AN EXAMPLE. In the world’s highest taxed country - Denmark - we pay up to half of our salary to the state. Both laws were passed under Social Democrat governments. Mette Frederiksen’s governments. The same Prime Minister who talks about freedom and family values - while systematically undermining both. In return, the state promises to take care of us. Look after us. Protect us. But it forgets to tell us that the price of that care is control. Let’s take two examples. Both passed by the same state. Both wrapped in the word equality. Parental leave - 2022. On March 3rd, 2022, the Danish Parliament passed a new parental leave law. The background was an EU directive. From August 2nd, 2022, 11 weeks of parental leave are earmarked for the mother - and 11 weeks for the father. They cannot be transferred. If the father doesn’t use his weeks - the family loses them. I spoke yesterday with a young woman in our building. She had one week of her maternity leave left. She was still breastfeeding. She could barely comprehend that it was over. That next week she would have to return to work - hand her breastfeeding baby to her husband - because the state had decided that was what was right for her family. Not because she wanted to. Not because her child was ready. Not because her body was done. But because the state said so. Conscription - 2025. On July 1st, 2025, yet another law came into effect. From now on, women are subject to full conscription on the same terms as men. The justification? Equality. Because we all know that men and women are completely biologically and physically identical. Built for exactly the same things. 🤡 So if you have a daughter - she can look forward to, when she turns 18 - being called up for Armed Forces Day. Drawing a lottery number. And potentially serving 11 months of military service. And risking being sent to war. Not because she chose it. But because the state decided it. And now comes the argument I often hear. Yes, but when the state pays you - it can also decide. Can it? We live in the world’s highest taxed country. We pay up to 50% of our income in tax. Our entire lives. These are not the state’s money it gives us. These are our own money we get back - in a form the state has decided is appropriate. The right answer is not to accept control as the price for the money. The right answer is to lower taxes - and give families the freedom and the money to decide over their own lives. Freedom is not a privilege the state grants you. It is something you are born with. And which the state slowly - gradually - decision by decision - law by law - takes from you. ❤️‍🔥✝️🪽

@github holy shit, how did the attackers find a large enough uptime window to get in?

I am going to practise my Swedish by writing a passive aggressive letter to the kommun about the state of the road to Junsele. Language and culture practise: getting two birds stoned at once.

This so-called "tech expert" apparently doesn't know how to search the internet.

@ZacksJerryRig Please, explain how we're doing the impossible and killing people with pacemakers in Sweden, then...

Not only is this impossible it would also kill anyone with a pacemaker in a 5 mile radius. Which is most of the people in Florida.

@dingoddude @KrisztinaMaria Is it not the same as Sweden, where the employer pays a chunk on your behalf that is hidden from your payslip?

@srbaker @KrisztinaMaria Danmark top tax is 60.5%

@Peakstate89 @KrisztinaMaria In Sweden, the stated minimum ignores the ~ 30% that is deliberately obfuscated so that folks don’t realise they’re paying 60%. Usually 🇸🇪 will jump in to say that a mandatory fee based on a percentage of your income autoremitted by your employer is not a tax because it’s a fee.

@srbaker @KrisztinaMaria Yes, everytime money changes hands the state takes a large cut. 40% income tax is minimum, then 25% on everything you buy or sell, then additional random taxes depending on what you buy or sell and then a monthly tax on some things you own. The Banks takes a cut too ofcourse.

@dorianmariecom I don't use gmail, and I don't experience this from folks who use gmail.

@srbaker it’s assigned by the algorithm of gmail

Sometimes I get emails marked "Important". Does anyone actually use these these flags as a recipient? The mail goes into the same box, and I process it in the order it arrives. If the sender can mark supposed importance, what actual utility does it have?

@dorianmariecom Sure. But when arbitrary randos can assign importance to something, it becomes a useless metric.

@srbaker you can have important items first in grouped inbox