Printing money does not create wealth. I.e. it does not create new jobs. What it does is it dilutes the wealth.

It can be tool to revitalize the economy in hopes getting people to spend more and help them pay their loans or getting new ones, ir short term help goverment build something/try to pay their debts, but on its own printing money just creates inflation.

So when somebody on internet says “oh, they can just print money” its not how it works.

That is not how economics work.

If you wanna see extreme case search hyper inflation in Hungary after ww2. There was basically a time when every 15 hours price of everything doubled because the goverment just kept printing more money.

Goverment is in fact widening the safe zones around many of the lines, but its expensive and slow as many of them go trough privately owned forests so there needs to be some recompence for the lost wood value. Many of the maintanence roads are also done for light vehicles or have been overgrown so heavymachinery has bad time getting where they need to go. As a one point i have heard, but i dont know if its true goverment may want to keep those lines somewhat overgrown to make it harder to destroy in case of war.

New lines are mostly made underground, but its expencive and just insulating the line does not matter if the ground around it moves yearly.

But generaly the infrastructure is getting better all the time. When i was young it was not uncommon to loose power many times a year and some time for long times. Now its not happening even every year and generally the down time is measured in hours or tens of minutes, not in days.

I live near artic circle and snow is really a problem im rural areas. If the roads have not been cleared its very straining to cycle. Wet snow is even worse and in late autum and late spring there can be ice hidden under the snow and even spicked tires wont help with that. Ebikes help with that, but most ebikes arent designed to subzero temperatures and low to middle price bikes emty the batteries much faster. Especially if the battery is fixed to the frame and you need to leave it outside during work or when going to shop.

On the other hand i lived in “winter cycling capital” of the world and you cant compare the well maintenanced bike lanes to rural roads.

(Also i laugh at the notion that Denmark knows anything about winter)

There are about 14 500 km of powerlines in my country and many of those go trough long unhabitabed stretches. Another thing is that where i live ground freezes and that makes the ground shift, sometimes enough to ruin foundations of buildings so there are some real problems to make long underground lines.

But yes. It would be nice if underground lines were easy to make.

I looked in to those, but for those to be effective you need to keep them always charged. Also cheaper ones need air conditioned space and more expencive ones were, well expensive.

I also need three-phase power for some tools away from the home and the convertor for the batteries seemed really expensive and not easy to use on the fly.

And biggest thing is that if something reallu bad happens i can easily get more gas, but recharging batteries would mean i need to go somewhere to charge them.

Another thing that somebody is going to say soon are solarpanels, but i live near arctic circle and during winter the operating time for them is so short i would need to make way too big solar farm for them to be usefull.

Because i cant bike holding fence posts and tools. Nearest shop is 15km one way trip and nearest bus stop 500m away. Long enough so i dont want to carry my groseries by hand.

As for biking i do a lot of recreational bike trips.

We have basic public transit, and id say long distance transport is excelent, but it does not serve me at all when i need to drive because of my work from farm to farm, or i want to pick mushrooms or berries from random forest plots.

Last winter snow pressed trees against the power line and it rook 36 hours for electric company get it fixed.

I live in rural place and both aggregate and car is pretty necessary things.

The Elden Ring.

The open world just did not do it to me. I enjoy much more tighter game world like in the previous souls games.

Most of the side bosses were unintresting and if you found them too late you were completely overpowered.

I personally loved it the part where i was weak. Its lore accurate and it was like travelling back in time to the olden days.

It was great nostalgia rush to play a game where you could really die and it was not unusual to need and try same fight multiple times.

Now days i feel like most games are allmost impossible to loose. I dont want it from all the games, but its nice to have games like that available.

Helldivers 2 is hard game, but dying a lot is something the game mechanics are build around and you dont loose instantly and when you loose you just fire up a new game, it does not give me the same 2000’s vibe i got from the space marine 2.

Also the reaction times are not that tight. Even my dad reflexes can manage those.

Yeah we use huddles too. But its not like it always clear when this things is going to be involved or not.

You understand wrong.

I message somebody --> they take ten minutes to answer, with question --> im doing something else, it takes me few minutes to finish or risking losing my tough then i answer --> maybe with good luck they answer right back, but most likely it takes few minutes again.

In the office i could have talked to the person and resolve the thing faster.

Customer service and sales support. The work is on the basic channels. Phone, email and chat and its pretty much allways some variation of few same questions or complaints.

Both customer satisfaction and work effiency started to get worse the longer the lockdown went.

By the way we dont have mandatory office days. Everybody can work from home if they want. The split is now pretty much 60/40 with bigger part working from the office. (I think big part is because it has kindergarden and its in place with good public transport) During summer when parents want to stay at home looking after the kids or when bank holidays make broken week most of the people stay home.

Nah. Coders get slack messages. Only exception is if something is truly fucked and it needs to be fixed asap and for some strange reason i notice it before they do. Mosty happens when they push from test to production.

We have biweekly check ins with code team and thats enough.

Every time this comes up i tell my personal and data driven experience as a middle manager in a company, and every time people trash me, but i keep saying it.

IT FUCKING DEPENDS!

From purely data point of view (note: this is from my place of work) workers whose work is purely executing more or less the same duties every day had their productivity have a nose dive when working long stretches from home. Also their works quality got worse. Its easy to reinforce bad habits whitout even noticing it, if the feedback comes from email and and not straight from the supervisor.

BUT with jobs like coders or artists where the job is more open ended instead of monotous labor there was no ill effects.

Then on the other side communication has gotten much slower with the people working from outside office. Where i used to just walk to the other room and ask something from my collegue i now need to message them in our internal and hope they notice it. Getting answers for questions have turned from 5 minute thing to 10-40 minute things.

Also from the point of more inventive things on my work we have lost a lot of changes to brainstorm ideas. No more throwing ideas around during lunch or coffee breaks

What a idiotic take.

Firstly its not like this is only petition people can sign.

Secondly this mighy very well be first petition for many young people. Its good stepping stone for them to get knowledge how these work and sign other things in the future. Also this is something imoortant for young people and its important they can get their voice out there.

Thirdly. Even if gaming might not be the most importand thing in the world, this is good thing to sign to fight for consumers. Companies have allready much power over what we consume and what services we use and this is step on the right way.

Fourthly. Many other problems have already large goodwill organisations working on them, like red cross, doctors without borders, oxfam etc etc. These organisations already lobby for new laws and are active politicaly. Consunerr rights are also important for everyone who consume and this is goes under that umbrella.

Fiftly. Its not about hating AAA game studios. Its pretty big thing regarding ever growing digital products and what consumer buys when they buy thise digital products.

If you cant think things further than just “teenages signing nonsense” i find it little annoying that you have the same voting power than me.

CTR has so much higher skill ceiling it changes the game completely when comparing to other kart games.

In Mario Kart difference between good player and great player is pretty minor and they can both enjoy playing against eachother.

In CTR good player can think they are playing perfectly, but still they are going to get lapped by great players.

I personaly loved CTR, but playing with friends that havent played it meant nobody is going to have goodtime.

Well its very loosely organized group. But i feel like anons get credited less for these things than they used to be, so saying they are less active is not wrong.