Obi @ Obi @sopuli.xyz

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I go into a lot of fancy houses for work and some of them have urinals in some of their bathrooms, I'm always quite jealous about them when I see one, would definitely be nice to have (and that's coming from someone that sits to pee at home, but does experience some of the issues you describe).

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I'm in the business myself, and the way I handle this is simple. When it's coming from people I know personally, I look at it like I'm going to do it for free, I weigh that decision that way and only say yes if I accept that. I let them know my rates are quite expensive, and that I'm not asking that from them because I'm doing it as a favour/for the art/for myself (depending on what we're talking about, weddings, portraits, short films, something for their business etc). Then I let them decide if and how much they'd like to offer, and I'm happy with anything, because I've already accepted this was something I was gonna do "for free".

Weddings in particular, I did a bunch when I was young and these days I'd never pursue more work in that niche, I only do it for family/friends and then the last thing I want is for money to sour things.

Obviously you can't be doing that all the time, thankfully I don't and have plenty of properly paid work as well. But you gotta make the difference between favours and clients and can't look at it the same way, if my wife's cousin asks if I can help her film some clips for her cupcake side-business I ain't gonna treat it like a corporate client and ask the 1200€+ day-rate.

Your are basically just making the case for nationalisation (which I agree with). Amazon, bol.com, Uber, all these things could be (inter)national services managed by and for the public.

This article was way more interesting than I expected. I particularly enjoyed the anecdote about how some guy forgot to prepare something for a potluck dinner, basically threw random stuff he had left together and someone at the dinner published the recipe in a magazine and the rest is history.

I kinda want to try it, I'm not against the combination in theory, it's just not really pizza anymore at that point, it just happens to be on a round flatbread.

I tried, it was terrible.

Could very well be, but it's not used in informal language, everyone says email. Maybe in government letters or so. The Canadians do though, as well as arrêt instead of stop signs, fin de semaine instead of weekend, etc.

I can't tell if I genuinely agree or if it's the nostalgia goggles doing the thinking.

You're thinking of Québec, they're the ones with the strict translation policy which leads them to use direct expressions borrowed from English which sound weird to the French, they are much more used to just integrating the English word.

Except it's the individual countries of the alliance that participate in the world cup, England, Scotland, etc.

Shut up, brand.

That must be so peaceful, I'm insanely jealous.

In the country where I live it's still a thing.

This is the name of a place in the Netherlands, I tried to Google these cubes but no luck, I'm very curious.

Whenever someone uses my driveway to turn around (rare occasion), I'm just glad I could be of service. American obsession with violently protecting their private property and fear of getting raped/burgled is weird AF.

That was me two days ago. Spoiler: nothing is fixed and now I'm even more late...

This is all American rave stuff, around here it's just black, black and more black.

Sans domicile fixe?

I remain convinced I'll die choking on some stupid piece of food... I've had a couple close calls already. It's been a while though, probably so I let my guard down before the big one.

What you come across when you go night-kayaking.