NotYourSocialWorker

Vi kör 50/50, så till sex koppar tre mått koffeinfritt och tre mått med koffein.

Ah but when the prices can't go any higher they can always remove content, paying their suppliers less and getting cheaper hardware. I wish I was joking but these are the options that are left.

Talibans, Christian fundamentalists, they are quite similar...

Restricting your own wage increase in the hope that companies won't add to inflation is very much like trying to be extra nice to an abusing partner in the hope that they won't hit you.

I know that you later wrote that you're in favor of a law restricting their ability to increase prices so please take this as an aside.

It doesn't help that Google tries to guess what you actually wanted to search for.

In Sweden kids learn English from second grade and a third language from fifth grade.

What really annoys me is how many programmers seem to expect us to only be able to understand one language. I much rather have the program made in English than to read a bad Swedish translation.

To "hack it" also means to be able to handle something. That there were multiple meanings for the word was never in question and I really do agree with you that language evolve over time and you simply need to learn to live with that.

But also, if you go back and look at my response to op I also wrote that I found it unsuitable to use it in this case exactly due to the risk of being misunderstood.

Earliest I've heard was from MIT and the pranks they do. I think that was from the fifties.

Yes, Ikea hacks are much later. Me and my wife were doing it/calling it that around 2005 when we modded a desk. It was intended to be an example of the dual usage of the word hack.

You probably already know but hacking originally meant to modify a machine for instance (or furniture as in ikea hacks) but it really is a word one should avoid when speaking with people who aren't part of the communities that use it in its original meaning.

I agree with you. So many times in the last decades democratic presidents have started their period with the economy in a downswing after the last republican president. They get the economy in order just in time for the next republican president to step in, take the credit and mess things up again.

The stupidity of that really baffles me. How can you be so low on empathy and understanding that you don't get that this would be the reaction?

I mean, I understand, even if I don't like, the drive some people have to greedily gobble up every dime they can get their grubby hands on. But I can't understand how they could have thought that the people adversely affected by it would applaud it. It's not like I expect cows to give me a high five when I eat a burger...

An infuriating part of it is that IMF, money lovers that they are, published research on this at least ten years ago.

But you can teach someone something that their job depends on them not knowing.