Hell yeah! And I’m confused af when Sunday happens to be on the left.

I live in Czechia (born in Slovakia) and you won’t see Sunday-first calendars around here unless they are imported. (I bet lot of people even don’t know that in some calendars in the world Monday is not the first!)

I was thinking of Crystal systems which would be cool because there’s 6 or 7 depending on convention. The only problem is that the “Monoclinic” would have 3-letter abbreviation of “Mon” which could be confused with abbreviation for Monday—I would challenge myself to find a way around it.

The XKCD thing is also great start. Continents would be nice, main-stream way of going about it. (I’m hopeful that people of Antarctica would not feel ripped off if they got the 7th season.)

(By the way, I always wanted to give these seasons names but my mind just goes blank whenever I try. I’m not very creative, I guess.)

IMHO months add unnecessary complexity. In my own experimental calendar I use normal Gregorian year with ISO week numbers and then instead of months, I define seven “seasons” which are just 8-week periods (week 1 to 8, 9 to 16, etc.). Each season has 56 (8 x 7) days except for season 7, which is the only one that absorbs all the irregularities and typically has 29 days.

It could be pretty similar to 13-month calendar you described, but I decided to use larger unit and also remove ambiguity about meaning of “month” (all other units means the same thing as in Gregorian + ISO-week-numbering)—by simply abandoning that unit entirely.

very orange.

Oranges and other citrus fruit are also significantly acidic, which is hard on teef

also, what if my teef are orange?

teef

i believe the correct scientific spelling is “teeph”

or someone who flexes their “downloading skills” on everyone they meet.

many years ago a colleague of mine tried to flex on me without really knowing my position on ethics of piracy.

(i have no problem with as long as it’s about enabling access to media and art that would be inaccessible rather than making money. on the other hand, if an artist decides to do Spotify instead of Bandcamp i generally tend to respect their wish and avoid them like the plague.)

incidentally the same guy complained some months later that he got some notice from police.

TL;DR: for “simple” employees, pretty quick and simple. for freelancers / small businesses the complexity scales based on type and size of business: from pretty quick (for freelance licenses) to more involved (for high turnover or special corpo licenses etc. i don’t really know).

Generally if you are employee and all your income comes from single employer, your taxes are done by the employer and simply withheld from your paycheck. Some are paid continuously and then balanced (excess returned, never the opposite) some time in the spring, but as employee you don’t have to fill any forms. (With small exceptions – IIRC we had to sign one “pink” form every year, I don’t recall what exactly it was for.)

For long time when I was employee I also had income from stocks, so then my employer did not have to do taxes for me so I had to do it on my own (ie. I used advisor.)

If you are self-employed then it depends on the type of business license / trade and turnover: you may need to track every expense and then compute & fill form in April (this term moves to June if you use accredited tax advisor).

There are also license types where you don’t need to keep expenses, you only need to report yearly income and tax based on that number. The license has a percentage number assigned and it’s just assumed that your expenses was that % of your income. When I was freelancing as a programmer, I used this kind of license. It was pretty comfy for me, even though i still used advisor since I can’t come close than 2m to a tax paperwork or I’ll start panicking :D

Once you get past some turnover (i think it’s 2 million CZK per year–about $100k) you need to use more complex system which requires you to do extra papers/taxes related to VAT, plus there’s more tracking. (You need to track expenses precisely and keep the invoices/bills for some amount of years.) The rules are probably also different for different kinds of corporations, for some regulated trades, etc. For even larger businesses some of these are done half-yearly or quarterly.

Social & health insurance (both of these are mandatory, ie. they are basically taxes) is paid separately from the above (for businesses. for employees this is still done by employers) as advance payment and then balanced based on your reported income. (Then there are several small taxes like public broadcasting, land taxes or city taxes, but those are usually really easy to pay, they are either same per capita, or in case of land taxes you just report your land size and the burreau will compute it for you and send you the bill.

Of course there are also deductions based on whether you have kids, spouse, mortgage, charity gifts, etc.

or it’s a chatbot asking one someone’s behalf. i’ve already blocked the account.

ten thousandth six hundred and forty third

damn! … that’s my favorite number, I wanted to be that … th.

(my second favorite number is a 999999 so i better rush…)

they also have ai slop artwork on their profile. could be a bot.

edit: they also got banned from some communities

i3

With alacritty, qutebrowser, neovim and LibreWolf. I use my custom dmenu-based utilities for things like launching apps, locking (with slock), controlling (ie. postponing :D) redshift and music player and opening bookmarks, links and searches. Thunar is the most DE-like app I use but being comfortable with Bash i use Thunar just for certain tasks like organizing files like photos. For quick text edits, I sometimes prefer Mousepad. For screenshots it’s slop+maim.

I don’t “rice”, I just set some color schemes years ago and use simple wallpaper (which I rarely see.) And keep everything as minimal and out of way as possible.

(I don’t care about Wayland unless I’m somehow forced to. I mean, some of my utils depend on X11 for things like clipboard access but I suppose it could be fixed easily nowadays. However X11 works fine for me so if it ain’t broken…)

Personally I’d be put off by that. It sounds like talking down to “kids these days”, which i find really poor attitude, and usually pretty dumb.

I think compliments work best if they are generic. Just say “you are well spoken”, or “you come off as educated, deep thinking person”. Or even “you are good with words”.

Also it would detract from the compliment if it was made while interrupting conversation; it may be distracting and uncomfortable, even if agreed upon by all participants.

It may be cultural but complimenting for a specific thing sounds either patronizing or sarcastic. Maybe it’s because specific compliments and praises are typical to developing children: a child is learning not just to do the “good” things but also which things are good, so it often helps to be specific. (Especially if during longer period the kid also does a lot of not-necessarily-so useful things – while all should be treated with love, it helps to point out the “grown” behaviors, as most children will eventually subconsciously start trying to mimic adults and look for the feedback.)

Making a compliment too specific may imply “unlike the other things you did/said”.

I just love the correct use of the English language.

ok, you asked for it :)

How come people don’t compliment other people on great word usage? If someone use uses the word lets let’s say, ecclesiastical or something like that, they do not get complimented it shows they respect English.

(I can’t quite fix the last part, “it shows they respect English”…)

Great way to explain it at any age.

It’s just language that computers use to talk to other computers.

Mostly right but it has little to do with computers being “dumb”. It has more to do with predictability.

Protocols are simply the standards used in he communications, much like people have standards for post mail, shipping, etc: where to write the address, what ZIP codes mean, how to mark packages en route, etc. It’s not that people are “dumb” but it’s just far more efficient to have most packages marked in same “language”.

Sure, computers are “dumb” (and also universal) but that’s why programming languages exist, protocols are not quite as good example of that.

Hey, great use of the word “How”. You really nailed it!

😛

I do my taxes. I renew my driver’s license. I pay my electric bill. I don’t understand how else someone would say those things.

“I do taxes. I renew driver’s license. I pay electric bill.”

“I do the taxes. I renew the driver’s license. I pay the electric bill.”

As a non-native English speaker I know “my taxes” just sound most natural because–but only because–that’s how lot of people say it. :D

(Not that it’s relevant, but In my native language, Czech, we would not stress the “my” part, maybe only in case of the driver’s license, and even there, only indirectly by grammar. But I’m aware Czech is weird to most of the world… :D))

It’s ZDD (Zucc Dysmorphic Disorder). From Wikipedia:

Zucc dysmorphic disorder (ZDD), also known in some contexts as zuccmorphophobia or simply zuccmorphia, is a mental disorder defined by an overwhelming preoccupation with a perceived flaw in Zucc’s physical appearance. In ZDD’s delusional variant, the flaw is imagined. When an actual visible difference exists, its importance is disproportionately magnified in the mind of the Internet. Whether the physical issue is real or imagined, Internet ruminations concerning this perceived defect become pervasive and intrusive, consuming substantial social network bandwidth for extended petabytes each day.