Has anyone had any luck with safely using noise cancelling earbuds while driving? Not interested in listening to music etc. I just want to lessen road noise on very long journeys due to ear fatigue (like 48 hours a week, some weeks).
I’ve seen hearing aid type devices for this, but they’re really expensive.
@dahie oh ok, I see. Yeah I get that. I’ve sat through so many neurodivergent staff management education sessions and often found it strange I was being talked about, not to.
Of course I feel bad for the 100 or so people (that I know of/yet) whom contracted COVID on the conference circuit the last few weeks, but I was also the only one to wear a mask, which means you don’t give a shit about my health or conditions.
It’s not normal for a September conferences to be punctuated every other second by coughs and sneezes. And I’m not exaggerating here.
And some of you were obviously already very ill prior to attending, so fuck you, too.
Call me radical but I’m totally ok with the idea of a 100% tax rate.
Should I or my business profit so much that money becomes trivial, I’d expect the state the step in and make better use of it. In fact, it should be considered a national security risk that those entities hold so much collateral.
And for those that are hard-of-thinking, the majority of that profit ordinarily goes towards paying their executives too much, further exploiting developing countries to increase margins and destroy competition, and lobbying politicians for all kinds of deregulation and to further erode worker’s rights and make more money.
I grew up munching Fisherman’s Friend, as they are manufactured just two minutes from my childhood home. They make different flavours for different markets, so depending on where you live your versions will likely differ.
These are the Salmiak (Salter Liquorice) version. I believe it’s only *intended* to be sold in Sweden, Denmark, and Finland - but obviously could be exported elsewhere. I’ve never come across it.
I must say they’re quite nice, but nowhere near as strong as the original flavour (probably rightfully so, as they need the other flavours in there).
I did a bit a happy dance when I saw them in a Copenhagen Netto, I think I styled it out though.
On Wednesday, next Wednesday, a week on Wednesday, in two Wednesday’s time, three Wednesday’s on, or any other temporal variant, and including regional dialects are all totally alien concepts to it. And god forbid you discuss more than one timescale or event in one email.
What I do fear is that for those that do heavily invest, they’ll be required by the likes of Microsoft to begin to speak in ways that Copilot can parse and ‘understand’. Which in larger organisations will shape the way that they communicate with others, and it’ll spread. In the same way that American corporate speak, or Agile terminology has infected the rest of the world.
Our interactions, the things that make us most human, will be modified for the sake of corporate benefit over the coming years.
So. I’ve just ordered an Android tablet (don’t look so shocked). I’ve gone with the Samsung A9+ with 8GB RAM. It seemed to be the best on the market at a low price. ~£239
The price is important, because if I wanted a good tablet, I’d use my iPad. But my iPad cost 2k, and my MacBook cost even more. If I wanted a cheap iPad, I’d just buy and iPad, which start at 349.
I wanted something for travelling that I could watch TV on and not worry about if it got stolen or damaged. No ‘personal’ use as such. But also be able to do the things my iOS devices can’t. The more hacky, maker, tinkerer things that I shouldn’t be doing on my secure devices.
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