Could you take a 50% contract, and claim 50% social benefits? These last 50 won’t be much but will help.

That’s kinda what I do here in France, but I only get short contracts, then unemployment, then work etc to about 35~55% a year.

Another thing that helps is not going 50, but like 80 - it helps a ton to have 2 afternoons a week, I have many friends who did / do that.

My mother was a nurse, I feel you. Took early retirement as soon as she could.

Thanks !

When my babies napped on my belly, I would fall asleep immediately. Got one hand on their back that wouldn’t move, and zzzzzzz

Discovering that I can, with measure, work a half day this morning without paying too dearly for it.

Recovery is slow, I was afraid I wouldn’t achieve it.

Classics

When I work with Ardour professionally, I always make a donation on a per-project basis, depending on budget of said project.

It is truly Pro Grade software, it deserves it.

And if the budget is small, I do i small donation, easy :)

Don’t forget that other contraption : for “those” we have “celles” + “ceux” = “celleux” (and probably celle + celui into cuielle or something)

Then let’s have fun with everybody : “toutes” and “tous” is an easy one - toustes !

Checking wikipedia on the matter, TIL that until the XII century French had neutrals “al” or “el”, and these are proposed for a comeback

I am sincerely 100% for the transformation of language towards eradication of the default masculine and the new pronouns, but changing habits is hard.

Music : Quobuz - buy it, download it, it’s yours. Books : ebooks.com - same [EDIT:] if you buy within their “DRM free” selection.

Voyager app shows age of accounts if new, in bright yellow. So when I notice someone new interacting like an articulate human being, I am extra nice to them, and if not, I vigorously ignore it and move on.

By spinning headless server machines, you’d probably run way more of them. And the process of allocating ressource, transferring image and spinning it will probably be much faster.

Tell us how it goes!

Igorrr “blastbeat falafel” - tho it’s not the only one from them that I tend to have on repeat.

The Guardian

Slip Kangourou

Not much to it outside of trying to convey “perfect by RPG standards, tropes and parameters (probably)”, but failed to “hit” me in any way.

Watching it, I was expecting to see something akin to a Franchise movie, where you may miss a bit or two if you’re not in on all the lore. But I was also expecting true entertainment with striking visuals, gripping storytelling, stuff like that

Imagine watching a spy movie. 20% in you have adversarial hierarchy, 30% in the car chase, 66% in the romantic pause, 80% in the unexpected traitor, 95% in the final hand-to-hand fight to avert the end of the universe or whatever… And it’s boring, but everybody around you is telling you it was so great because it’s got it all, the car chase the traitor the, the.

Doesn’t make a good movie.

It is so absolutely, terrifyingly horrible, many thanks for sharing.

I’ll never look at beans the same way from now on. Heck, I’ll never look at my microwave the same way.

Which is precisely the problem: I am not, and not only was I mildly bored, I also found the narrative to be just plain incoherent. It was obvious to me the story was driven by some Reference Guide on RPG stuff, and not on captivating an audience.

I guess it hit every nail on the head. That’s all it hit, actually.

Seemingly a cooking show with industrial shit and a microwave, I don’t. It must be british, is it not?

queijo

I though you where not serious, but in doubt I had a look. TIL!

We’re now 57. At age 25 my SO went to work for MSF in a really remote place - like, no road through the jungle, small airfield served by derelict Russian aircraft, and in the middle of that nowhere, a huge refugee camp serving 2 warring nations.

It’s something she needed to do.

The pay was shit, but the local expenses where null, with food and accommodation being provided; her entire salary went into calling once a week for about 20 to 30 minutes (if the phone lines worked). She wrote also, same rhythm like once a week, but I would usually get them as a bunch of 3 or 4.

I couldn’t write. Dunno why retrospectively, I just couldn’t. Not getting the phone calls was nerve-wracking of course.

She was good at what she did, so in order to have her stay beyond the scope of her original mission they offered a Logistics position to me so I could join her. As it happens, in these conditions that position was untenable & she didn’t want us as a couple to establish ourselves in such a hellish place.

She came back changed of course. But mainly, when she did move across the earth again a few years later, we went together.