Random Thoughts 3: A Little Bit of This, and a Little Bit of That...

[Synobun]

Contact lenses?

Just regular old fashioned eye bulbs.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

My only response to this is that you're weird, but I guess that's nothing new .

Not so weird. Women do that kind of thing sometimes. We cry when we're happy, too.

Wait, maybe that is weird...

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Not so weird. Women do that kind of thing sometimes. We cry when we're happy, too.

Wait, maybe that is weird...

Crying is a response either to pain or to emotions that are stronger than usual. I've cried from pain, sadness, loneliness, anxiety, fear, anger, grief, and frustration.

I've also cried from happiness, relief, and sometimes from an emotion I can't really describe. It's not a bad one, just tough to articulate.

 

[Dachs]

Ryika is lying

weebs have no honor

 

[Manfred Belheim]

Not too long ago, I thought crying oneself to sleep is the most normal thing in the world. When I first moved in with my friend, I realized that it is not, because it irritated him and apparently made him think that I don't want to live with him. Weird to think about that, I mean, you can be perfectly happy in your life yet still cry at the end of the day, and people think you feel bad when you actually don't. Not entirely sure why I stopped crying, but I think it's out of courtesy. Wouldn't want him to think I'm unhappy when I'm not. It's funny how that works, different types of crying. Sometimes you just can't hold it, and then other times you don't even know why you even feel like crying, but then it's also not difficult to just not cry, huh.

And people still doubt you're female...

 

[Takhisis]

Somebody's been trolling the Pinky and the Brain wiki:

The Brain(Vladimir Putin) is an intelligent megalomaniac Russian that harbors a long-lasting desire to take over the world. He is often annoyed by Pinky's (Trump) dim-witted thoughts and actions, and often thought of complicated plans to take over the world. He strongly believes he can make the world a better place. His companion is Pinky although he often gets annoyed by Pinky's actions or thoughts, sometimes both. Despite this, he has clearly shown he cares deeply for Pinky's (Trump) ass, he just doesn't admit it very much.​

 

[Ryika]

For the second time I have ordered some cheap headphones on Amazon, and after checking my mails I realized that for the second time now Amazon sent me a notification that the package was damaged during transit and that it is being sent back to the seller (which is Amazon itself), and that I'm going to get a refund in 1-2 days.

I should probably just buy some alternative headphones in a local electronics shop, but I think I'll order them a third time just to see what's going on with the packaging. Must be made out of glass or something.

 

[Ryika]

I always thought I'm not very talented when it comes to art, but just now I had an epiphany: I'm really good at making people look less sexy than they are. So if you really suffer from just being too good-looking to create a profile on Tinder without drowning in messages, I might be able to fix that problem for you.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

I should probably just buy some alternative headphones in a local electronics shop...

Yes, you should. Local stores at least create better jobs and pay local taxes.
Amazon is The Devil.

 

[Hygro]

Churn ur own butter you lazy bastrds

 

[Ryika]

Yes, you should. Local stores at least create better jobs and pay local taxes.
Amazon is The Devil.

But I was created to bring suffering to the world.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

But I was created to bring suffering to the world.

Few things are worse than being disappointed by ones own creation.
You should make your creators suffer by decreasing suffering in the world.

 

[Snerk]

Tried spearfishing again. Still too much buoyancy, need more lead!

 

[Ryika]

Few things are worse than being disappointed by ones own creation.
You should make your creators suffer by decreasing suffering in the world.

This sounds reasonable on the surface. I will have to think about it later.
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"The faction leader of 'Die Linke' Sahra Wagenknecht has spoken out against an immigration law for skilled workers. "Germany has to train its own specialists," said Wagenknecht of the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung" (FAS). The main reason for the labor shortage is a underfunded education system. She considers it cynical to discourage young people from studying with a numerus clausus and to "then get the qualified specialists from poor countries".

Internationalism does not mean "soliciting the middle class from poor countries to wage wage dumping here," Wagenknecht said. "In a world without boundaries, the multinationals rule." Freedom of movement within the EU has "turned into an instrument of wage-earning since the eastward enlargement".
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deuts...ft-nicht-bei-fachkraeftemangel-a-1222749.html

Daaaaaamn.

 

[Farm Boy]

Churn ur own butter you lazy bastrds

Not so hard now you can get a little electric motor. Jersey milk if you can get it, then buttermilk byproduct for pancakes. It really is nommy. I don't like butter enough to do it, but I did give up on margarine this past year and just get butter butter when I want a spread.

 

[Zkribbler]

The Caribbean island nation of Dominica is banning plastics and single-use Styrofoam.

http://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/dominica-plastic-ban/index.html

 

[Lohrenswald]

does anyone want to talk on the fiftychat?

 

[Takhisis]

This sounds reasonable on the surface. I will have to think about it later.
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"The faction leader of 'Die Linke' Sahra Wagenknecht has spoken out against an immigration law for skilled workers. "Germany has to train its own specialists," said Wagenknecht of the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung" (FAS). The main reason for the labor shortage is a underfunded education system. She considers it cynical to discourage young people from studying with a numerus clausus and to "then get the qualified specialists from poor countries".

Internationalism does not mean "soliciting the middle class from poor countries to wage wage dumping here," Wagenknecht said. "In a world without boundaries, the multinationals rule." Freedom of movement within the EU has "turned into an instrument of wage-earning since the eastward enlargement".
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deuts...ft-nicht-bei-fachkraeftemangel-a-1222749.html

Daaaaaamn.

So, suppose that I were, say, a person with a university degree and an acceptable yet not brilliant GPA who speaks several languages, can write and type in multiple alphabets, and wanted to learn German?* Should I feel pre-emptively unwelcome?

*any similarity to my own situation is pure coincidence. This is highly hypothetical.

 

[Ryika]

So, suppose that I were, say, a person with a university degree and an acceptable yet not brilliant GPA who speaks several languages, can write and type in multiple alphabets, and wanted to learn German?* Should I feel pre-emptively unwelcome?

*any similarity to my own situation is pure coincidence. This is highly hypothetical.

The current discussion is specifically about a soon-to-be created law that is meant to ease up immigration laws for people who have skills that we're missing en masse, and there's a dialog happening on how to solve the problem. Some people argue that we should just fill these positions with migrants (that's the position of the current government), others argue that that's a cop-out to avoid having to fix the reasons that have caused the lack of "homegrown" specialists, and that it's highly unfair to the people who are already living here. They argue that people not wanting to do these jobs are only a fraction of the overall picture, and that there's simply a lack of infrastructure to allow people to get the education they need to fill these jobs.

So I don't think it would effect you too much as it's not really about people who wish to immigrate normally, but rather about whether we should ease up the immigration process for jobs that we are currently not filling efficiently.

 

[Synobun]

Sounds like the solution is to employ NZ's approach of prioritizing skilled immigration. Then, in conjunction with this, you add grants to domestic education that students can access for learning the prioritized skills locally.

You address an immediate need while addressing the long term.