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Cake day: October 25th, 2023

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  • It’s so I hopefully get the right answer so I don’t have to switch to an alternative for my calender (just switched from Google), my mail, vpn and password manager. I am a paying customer since May 2019. I was happy with Proton and what they stand for, their CEO is now ruining everything. “We want to switch to a foundation so our goal will be preserved.” Sure… Spreading fake news and taking a political stance in the US, while at the same time claiming to be Swiss neutral. Why do almost all techbros have to become evil now Trump is becoming president again. Even Swiss foundations.



  • Lord Wiggle@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneLaid off rule
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    27 days ago

    Ask for a day off for radiation treatment because you were diagnosed with terminal cancer. Normally you would plan this outside business hours but you also need to get a second mortgage to be able to pay for treatment as insurance won’t cover it.

    Oh and talk about it out in the open with coworkers before they ask you in their office for ‘the’ conversation.


  • 879 children died in the US during school shootings in the past 10 years. Source

    That is higher than the number of Military casualties from the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Poland combined during the war in Afghanistan (2001-2021). Except for the US, these are the countries with the most casualties during that 20 year war. Source

    The risk of dying should be higher for soldiers during a war than for students at a school.


  • Lord Wiggle@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneSeems fine rule
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    Well, honestly I was happy with my bullet proof vest when I was in the military for 15 years. I think pigs would think the same. But I agree with you, I just think there are some exceptions lol

    To be completely honest, I wasn’t issued a vest. I was in the navy and had to share a vest with 3 others. I used it when I was photographing outside during anti Piracy actions. Just the idea the risk of dying from a bullet is higher at school than it is in the military is crazy. The US truly is a dystopian hell hole (but Musk and Trump are shouting “No! Not enough! We can make it even worse!”, with most Americans shouting in reply “Yeah! 'Murica! Thur turker jubs!”).


  • So un-American, the second amendment isn’t for bullet proof vests. The best defense is offense. These kids should all have gotten guns to protect themselves, with the rich kids bullet proof vests in addition. Because everyone has the right to gunslinging, rich people have the right to survival.










  • Because the states were new and full of mixed cultures, they desperately created national holidays to create a more general national feeling among the wide variety of people. Many were hand picked, to create a national culture as the states had none. It’s all to create unity and identity.


  • Dutch guy here. Our racist saint Nicolas “Sinterklaas” with blackface “zwarte Piet” isn’t Christmas celebration. He arrives in November and celebrates his birthday on the 5th of December by giving gifts to children.

    All aspects from American Christmas celebration were stolen from European traditions. The story from Scandinavia, the character from Germany, the name from the Netherlands. But the Dutch tradition isn’t Christmas. It’s racist though, not arguing that. I’m fighting it though, because fuck racism. Also the racist part is only recent, back in the old days “zwarte Piet” was a white guy with black soot all over him from climbing through the chimney. Later it became a caricature black person which is so fucked up.

    Sadly there’s a lot of systematic racism deeply nestled in European cultures and traditions. Slowly we are working to getting rid of them, although there are also many fighting to keep them. But luckily we’re making progress.

    But if we’re pointing fingers here, at least we’re not celebrating genocide every year by slaughtering insane amounts of turkeys with Thanksgiving 👀