Yes, but not like that, not with my mortality, I'm quite ok with that. My constant existential crisis is that I am psychologically unable to live "now" with the irreverence it deserves.
In other words, I'm worried about doing absurdism wrong, which is absolutely ridiculous.
Weird case to make anyway.
The primary language of most non-UK non-Irish Europeans is not English/American/Australian/"International English"/whatever.
Yes, English/American/Australian/"International English"/whatever is the de facto lingua franca.
Would I rather that it was Esperanto or some other easy-for-all-to-learn manufactured language? Yes. Does it really bother me it is what it is? No, I'm just happy we have one.
I've got a few pieces from them, and they really are worth the praise IMHO.
I did this too! Started out as a "test" or temper tantrum, but afterwards it felt so safe he didn't start talking, that it really was a space where I was in control.
Stupid clever therapist.
None has moved completely, but two family members and one friend have installed Signal to chat with me. Contacts are ok, people know I don't have WhatsApp and use SMS in stead, but social neighborhood/hobby/association groups won't move and it often leaves me out of the loop unless they remember to toss an email.
Have you looked at zooplus.co.uk or their "outlet sibling", bitiba.co.uk? German company selling many German cat foods, such as Animonda Carny (my regular), MAC's Cat (my cats' favourite), or anything made by Matina Gmbh, such as the similar but cheaper wet food brand Smilla (varied acceptance by my cats, also has dry foods). All these wet foods have a rather "chunky spam" consistency, adding a bit of water and mushing it in may make it tastier (and add water yay!), but it also means it's very nutrient dense. You only need about 200g/day/cat, whereas you need about 300g/day of eg. Whiskas, essentially paying for water. Bozita is Swedish... Probably others that I forget.
Aren't the used LCD ones available really cheap these days? Probably best bang for your buck.
In the context of start-ups. Where workers presumably are also rewarded with stock options or similar. Takes a certain mentality and a definition of "winning" that I don't share, which is why I don't and wouldn't work at a start-up. And besides, the message is chiefly directed at founders. I don't find it -that- controversial.
Ehhh.
As much as the traditition of yearly votes on some version of Chat Control sucks, it's just two mentions (The Register missed the reference to COM (2022) 209 under "Fighting serious crimes/child sexual abuse", because of course it'd be there) in a document with way juicier tidbits. Like
The DSA enforcement is something strongly opposed by social media giants, so I'd expect more denigration of the document as a whole in the future.
If the cause for muted celebration persists, for next year I'd suggest reviving International Workers' Day and/or Beltane, possibly with Cinco de Mayo influences. Nothing like solidarity marches, or bonfires, pagan magic and feasting.