I assume a coup by the reigning government.

These fuckers will clean out a pond in your backyard in no time, so don’t worry about them. They alternate between a range of ponds anyway, it’s not like it’s gonna starve. They are beautiful birds though.

Rule number 1 of international law is that it is not a set of laws, but a set of agreements that don’t have the power of law.

I admire your passion. None of the things you mention are mutually exclusive with generally preferring to rise early, however. Preferring to rise early is not a statement against people working night shifts.

This is really about habits. I used to be a night owl, but changed my habits gradually and now I’m a morning person. You might have some genetic predisposition towards staying up late, but even so this is something that you can change, I believe.

What helped me, is that I started enjoying waking up early a lot more than staying up late.

I laughed way too hard at this. Thanks for brightening my day

Strongly depends on the company. I have done this exact thing several times when something was critical and it was actually noted as one of the reasons they told me as to why I got my last promotion. Something like “staying focused on the issue at hand while respectfully managing the pushback from the business while still moving ahead with the urgent fix.”

Basically I told the business to shove it in a very polite way and fixed the issue.

I thought they were dropping the tpm requirement. I even have a W11 iso at work that doesn’t have it, provided by an official Microsoft partner.

What movie or series is this scene from actually?

The sword through the nose in The Northman had me laughing, also because he had cut off the nose years earlier.

Seriously, he had the worst heils. He would just flop his front arm up.

I don’t even know what potash is…

Which savage listens to the gps? Turning off the sound is the first thing I do. Although I have been considering getting a snoop dogg voiced gps or maybe Douglas Hedley (the philosophy professor from Cunk).

More like a broken clock: correct eventually for a short time.

I just pay whatever they ask without fishing for a discount. When they offer a discount I tell them that’s really not necessary and I’m happy to pay full price. But if they keep insisting, I will take the discount, not going to argue over that.

I disagree with the paying more, that could well be interpreted as offensive, as it makes it seem they need a handout. Just let them set the price and don’t beg/demand/fish for a discount.

That’s Sidney Sweeney, btw. You’re welcome.

Seems like what Dominique Pelicot considered his wife to be. Not an example I am willing to follow, I’ll tell you that.

He technically didn’t brainwash them into setting him free. He convinced the pirates to double his ransom and to let him walk free around the camp, where he often and loudly told them that he would come back and have them all killed, once his ransom was paid and they let him go. Then he did exactly that.

I don’t really like Gnome as I like to tinker with everything, so I use KDE. I also have a laptop with Cinnamon, which is also pretty good.

If this goes to trial, and it probably will at one point provided he gets arrested, there is a decent chance of jury nullification.