Great idea! Let's huddle with the Coach at the retrospective.

Well, you're supposed to refer to them as "rituals". "Meetings" are so waterfall. No wonder it isn't working.

Agile is LinkedIn religious bollocks. Might as well just pray. Bunch of corporate nonsense.

BUt YoUrE NoT DoINg it RIghT!!1!

Should be reciting the creed in Latin, presumably.

Nah. Hospitals cater to vegetarians all the time. If you want your dietary needs accommodated then you need to be respectfully assertive and not act like you're being victimized. Maybe don't throw the food on the floor (that's a last resort), but hospitals should - and will - accommodate vegetarian diets, you just have to find the right way and person to make the request.

Tell your doctors you can't eat the food that's being given to you because you don't eat meat. The doctors should instruct them to accommodate you. Failing that order a vegetarian food for delivery to your room. There is no need to force you to eat meat if you are vegetarian. Not everybody eats meat. Don't tell them it's "moral", tell them it's "religious". If they absolutely refuse to serve you at least vegetarian food then throw what they bring on the floor and let the rude staff clean it up. You need to be committed to not eating anything they serve you by that point though and have established a way to get your own food.

TIL there is vim for Windows.

https://www.vim.org/download.php

this is especially rich coming from a Queensland paper.... how soon we forget...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joh_Bjelke-Petersen

Here are some snippets to save you reading the whole thing...

"Within months of becoming premier, Bjelke-Petersen encountered his first controversy over allegations of conflict of interest"

"three weeks after becoming premier, Bjelke-Petersen's government gave two companies, Exoil NL and Transoil NL—in both of which he was a major shareholder—six-year leases to prospect for oil on the Great Barrier Reef "

"Plans by Country Party members to support a Labor Party vote of no confidence in parliament were quashed after the intervention of party president Robert Sparkes, who warned that anyone who voted against Bjelke-Petersen would lose their status as the party's candidate at the next election."

"Bjelke-Petersen seized on the controversial visit of the Springboks, the South African rugby union team, in 1971 to consolidate his position as leader with a display of force."

"A crowd of demonstrators also mounted a peaceful protest outside the Springboks' Wickham Terrace motel and were chased on foot by police moments after being ordered to retreat, with many police attacking the crowd with batons, boots and fists. It was one of a series of violent attacks by police on demonstrators during the Springboks' visit to Queensland"

"Bjelke-Petersen praised police for their 'restraint' during the demonstrations and rewarded the police union for its support with an extra week's leave for every officer in the state. He described the tension over the Springboks' tour as 'great fun', 'a game of chess in the political arena'. The crisis, he said, 'put me on the map'."

"Bjelke-Petersen began regular media and parliamentary attacks on the Whitlam Labor government, vowing to have it defeated, and he and Whitlam exchanged frequent verbal barbs, culminating in the prime minister's 1975 description of the Queensland premier as 'a Bible-bashing bastard ... a paranoic, a bigot and fanatical'"

"Bjelke-Petersen also vehemently opposed the Whitlam government's proposal for Medicare, a publicly funded universal health care system."

"In 1975, Bjelke-Petersen played what turned out to be a key role in the political crisis that brought down the Whitlam government. Bjelke-Petersen alleged that Queensland police investigations had uncovered damaging documentation in relation to the Loans Affair. This documentation was never made public and these allegations remained unsubstantiated"

"television cameras captured an incident during the confrontation in which a police inspector struck a 20-year-old female protester over the head with his baton, injuring her. When Police Commissioner Ray Whitrod announced he would hold an inquiry, a move supported by Police Minister Max Hodges, Bjelke-Petersen declared there would be no inquiry. He told reporters he was tired of radical groups believing they could take over the streets."

"In 1977, Bjelke-Petersen announced that 'the day of street marches is over', warning protesters, 'Don't bother applying for a march permit. You won't get one. That's government policy now!'"

"When, after two ugly street battles between police and right-to-march protesters, the Uniting Church Synod called on the government to change the march law, Bjelke-Petersen accused the clergy of 'supporting communists'"

"The government's increasingly hardline approach to civil liberties prompted Queensland National Party president Robert Sparkes to warn the party that it was developing a dangerous 'propaganda-created, ultra-conservative, almost fascist image.' "

"Florence Bjelke-Petersen (his wife) was elected to the Senate in October 1980 as a National Party member and six weeks later Joh was successful for a fifth time as premier at the 1980 Queensland election, with the Nationals converting a 27.9 percent primary vote—their highest ever—into 35 of the parliament's 82 seats, or 43 percent of seats."

"In 1984 Bjelke-Petersen was created a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) for 'services to parliamentary democracy'. Author Evan Whitton suggests the premier had made the nomination himself."

"A 'Joh for PM' campaign was conceived in late 1985, driven largely by a group of Gold Coast property developers, promoting Bjelke-Petersen as the most effective conservative challenger to Labor Prime Minister Bob Hawke, and at the 1986 Queensland election he recorded his biggest electoral win ever, winning 49 of the state's 89 seats with 39.6 percent of the primary vote."

“Mark Zuckerberg made more than $28 billion this morning after Meta stock makes record surge” https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/02/business/meta-stock-surge-mark-zuckerberg/index.html

seems fair.

The highlight of the flip is that you can't sell it.

“It was obviously really tough, we parted with a lot of talented people we cared about" - Mark Zuckerberg

"Mark Zuckerberg made more than $28 billion this morning after Meta stock makes record surge" https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/02/business/meta-stock-surge-mark-zuckerberg/index.html

Easily amused, you might say.

The US Attorney General John Ashcroft singing his wonderfully jingoistic 2002 masterpiece "Let the Eagle Soar"

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=woLQI8X2R6Y

yeah, but now it's even funnier to read complaints about Swift-plane memes.

je ne sais quoi

Published Feb 19, 2023 12:37 PM by The Maritime Executive

Sailing cargo ships are making a genuine comeback. Japanese bulk carrier MOL is operating a wind-assisted ship. American food giant Cargill is working with Olympic sailor Ben Ainslie to deploy WindWings on its routes. Swedish shipping company Wallenius is aiming for Oceanbird to cut emissions by up to 90%. The French start-up Zephyr & Borée has built the Canopée, which will transport parts of European Space Agency’s Ariane 6 rocket this year.

https://maritime-executive.com/editorials/sailing-cargo-ships-are-making-a-genuine-comeback

Well, the colonies certainly know all about catastrophic ground offensives.

No need for /s - this is no less illogical than most of their other arguments.

Nup to YouTube videos so didn't watch - but you cannot possibly hate vim if you started with vi.

Edited to add that Edlin was even worse than vi, but apparently Microsoft is still shipping it. It was released 44 years ago. Now I shall return to contemplation of the great void that lies ahead. Have a nice day.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edlin

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Unshittification

At this point, I’m just so sick of every little thing being a huge struggle

Suffering is inevitable. This is the first noble truth in Buddhism. Troubleshooting Linux is Tao.

well, well, turns out he's a complete fruitcake. Whod've guessed?

I think the '1973' is supposed to be '1937', even though that is the title at this web page: https://www.max-ernst.com/the-triumph-of-surrealism.jsp - the text describes it as 1937 - and this style was a response to rising fascism, which presumably seemed disorienting and surreal - just as it does today.

Hardly ever...

Alas! The backups failed, so now

The system's down, the password's wrong

And all the mounts are also hung

It used to work - I don't know how

armor plating and tractor tracks coming soon.

It is understood they were found not as a direct result of the search operation for 35-year-old Ezedi.

A sentence with the clarity of the sediment in which they were found. Good old Grauniad.

Imagine this happening today...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event

Plus, their shit doesn't stink.

"This has been linked with major mass political developments including the Brexit referendum in the UK, and the presidency of Donald Trump in the US"

Bingo.

it can only happen in Canberra where all those Greens and Labor staffers are

You can take the cop out of Queensland...

Kid at school named Miles Long.

I don't get it either. Why announce it like he's proud of it as a policy position when he could just push it through if they manage to win a majority? Who sent him out in front of the cameras to talk about it? The only thing I can think of is that maybe he's being deliberately set up for a spill because he's so obviously out of touch and un-electable.

“No, I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want. You got to pay. You got to pay your bills.”

Meet the (Many) Small Business Owners Stiffed by Donald Trump - inc.com

Hardly ever use Windows myself, but I'm pretty sure you can just download it from Microsoft and refuse all the nags to register it when you are installing it.

Although the use of war elephants in the western Mediterranean is most famously associated with the wars between Carthage and Roman Republic, the introduction of war elephants there was primarily the result of an invasion by Hellenistic era Epirus across the Adriatic Sea. King Pyrrhus of Epirus brought twenty elephants to attack Roman Italy at the battle of Heraclea in 280 BC, leaving some fifty additional animals, on loan from Ptolemaic Pharaoh Ptolemy II, on the mainland. The Romans were unprepared for fighting elephants, and the Epirot forces routed the Romans. The next year, the Epirots again deployed a similar force of elephants, attacking the Romans at the battle of Asculum. This time the Romans came prepared with flammable weapons and anti-elephant devices: these were ox-drawn wagons, equipped with long spikes to wound the elephants, pots of fire to scare them, and accompanying screening troops who would hurl javelins at the elephants to drive them away. A final charge of Epirot elephants won the day again, but this time Pyrrhus had suffered very heavy casualties – a Pyrrhic victory.

...

The use of war elephants over the centuries has left a deep cultural legacy in many countries. Many traditional war games incorporate war elephants. There is piece in chess called Elephant. While Englishmen call that piece bishop, it is called Gajam in Sanskrit. In Malayalam, it is called Aana (ആന), meaning elephant. In Russian, too, it is an elephant (Слон). In Bengali, the bishop is called hati, Bengali for "elephant". It is called an elephant in Chinese chess. In Arabic – and derived from it, in Spanish – the bishop piece is called al-fil, Arabic for "elephant".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_elephant

sounds like basic Buddhism - but anyone who says they've "found the answer" makes them sound like a small child claiming they've caught the moon.

It was four wheel drive, so it may have been a manual transmission for off-roading, which would be fairly common in those parts. The fact that it was brand new suggests the possibility that they didn't realize a manual can roll on a steep incline if the handbrake isn't engaged (of course it could also have simply been left in neutral, regardless of the transmission type).

She'll promise you more than the garden of Eden

Then she'll carelessly cut you and laugh while you're bleedin'

But she'll bring out the best - and the worst - you can be

Blame it all on yourself 'cause she's always a woman to me

Sounds ridiculous. Thanks again, Windows - Love, Linux.

all aboard! Coming soon to your local employment office.