In the words of my late mom; it’s better to be alone than to be alone together with someone.

Yeah, apart from that one thing there’s no reason his approval rating should be slipping, is there. /s

Snow day… a concept unfamiliar to a Norwegian. I can’t remember ever not going to school because of snow. I do remember we were allowed to stay home if the temperature dipped below -25 centigrade, though.

Diving bells in place of cubicles.

Well, such a knife’s primary purpose is to help with preparing food while the gun’s primary purpose is to injure/kill. So one would be used for something which it was not designed while the other would’ve been used exactly as designed.

I got curious… In Norway pedestrian fatalities fell by ~73% (from 22 to 6) from 2010 to 2024.

Source, a quick search on SSB.no.

I thought that read “ANAL06” for a second, and I giggled.

Edit: In Norwegian 6 is pronounced the exact same as sex.

I only know for certain it’s by law in Norway, and I suppose I just assumed it was for other European countries, too, since a shared bathroom is rarely to be seen.

First time I saw that sign I was baffled, as in most other countries I’ve been to it’s illegal for employees to use the same facilities as guests. Then I got a bit grossed out thinking of the fact that employees apparently need to be reminded to wash their hands.

It’s been almost 20 years since he passed? Blimey…

This. I’ve never heard of spelling bees outside of the US. I remember learning about it though movies/tv, and thought it was very odd because of course you know how to spell words, otherwise, how would one write.

But yeah, English definitely has more words that can throw you off.

It’s just upside upon upside with this stuff… /s

80 kilos of cocaine is quite a lot, it really should be disposed of safely.

Why the heck is orange douche even commenting… ah, ofc, to look after daddy Putin.

I have a 9 year old laptop and it’s just fine for pretty much anything you can do in a browser, and that’s enough for me, 95% of the time.

Haha, I didn’t know they did that, and it sounds like a fun read. Does anyone have a link?

Their revenue probably felt very threatened.

That might be exactly what he has done?!

US: Mental health issue? Here, take a bullet.

I don’t disagree with anything you’re saying.

What I wrote was based on my personal experience, managing engineers on product teams and how I approached the role as manager.

We owned the products we developed and maintained and as a team we enjoyed great autonomy, and so we were spared customers/clients asking for the ridiculous, and I can probably count on one hand (ok, maybe two hands) the times we just had to do something because corporate said so.

We always pushed for engineers’ involvement in product and feature development, planning/roadmaps, and they did indeed have great influence over the what and the how. Push back from engineers on products’ suggestions/ideas/plans were frequent, and attention was paid.

This was for a company in Norway, where perhaps top down management isn’t as prevalent as in many other places, and employees are typically encouraged to speak up and get involved. Again, in my experience.

I found that being there to support and assist my engineers, not micro managing them, gave great results in terms of team culture and work satisfaction. I made it clear that I would always have their backs as long as they didn’t intentionally fuck something up.

I fully realize this isn’t the case everywhere, nor even typical.

All said, I really enjoyed being a manager. On some level it triggered a father’s instincts in me, and I took great pride in looking after people and seeing what they were capable of building as a team.