Dilbert principle

nostr:npub1u3ud495fjw9xf0lfjezu4l2rvkccn58dyr9w9e8f4jkr3xz590nqtg0nsw nostr:npub1qfkcklnmes45z75y7y8dkud5yll8vp5eq5ysk9rmgqdxeasv8unsrfj6kq basically, nerdy women are the only people i feel completely comfortable about talking about everything to. my nerdy interests *and* other things. so versatile.

nostr:npub1u3ud495fjw9xf0lfjezu4l2rvkccn58dyr9w9e8f4jkr3xz590nqtg0nsw nostr:npub1qfkcklnmes45z75y7y8dkud5yll8vp5eq5ysk9rmgqdxeasv8unsrfj6kq i primarily talk to women who are a bit like that. they're also just good friends in general. in my experience, women are more comfortable with personal topics and also more comfortable with displaying affection. and us men are also more comfortable doing that to women. male affection can often get quite awkward.

nostr:npub1u3ud495fjw9xf0lfjezu4l2rvkccn58dyr9w9e8f4jkr3xz590nqtg0nsw i'd have to move to a rural area to do that. i think some of the younger farmers are pretty computer-savvy already though.

nostr:npub1x05hrgua8cgd6grz45dpfql5v702zpgfxw5xhg70g88xpc5atkasyz0je6 nostr:npub1qfkcklnmes45z75y7y8dkud5yll8vp5eq5ysk9rmgqdxeasv8unsrfj6kq this also means that you can pretty much freelance as much as you want without losing any benefits, since you're technically unemployed.

nostr:npub1x05hrgua8cgd6grz45dpfql5v702zpgfxw5xhg70g88xpc5atkasyz0je6 nostr:npub1qfkcklnmes45z75y7y8dkud5yll8vp5eq5ysk9rmgqdxeasv8unsrfj6kq the Norwegian welfare system doesn't discourage you from doing this unless we're talking social (emergency) benefits. you can make all the extra money you want on both unemployment and disability benefits.

they don't check how much money you make for those two. $22270/yr is the minimum for both. if you work part-time, you report the hours worked and they deduct that much, compared to an average man-year of 1950 hours.

here's a job i would do

everyone comes to me for something and i give them to me, and i'm the guy everyone in my community knows for that thing.

i'm extremely motivated by attention and affection from others. there was ZERO of that in my programming jobs.

i don't work for anyone unless i feel seen. money is cold and doesn't motivate me. it's just this crap i need to survive and buy things i want. i'd be fine with the Star Trek replicator. but i'd still want a job like i described above.

and if you put Linux on it, hardly anyone will like it

nostr:npub1qfkcklnmes45z75y7y8dkud5yll8vp5eq5ysk9rmgqdxeasv8unsrfj6kq i'm not so surprised you're a woman. i've met several female programmers and also, a few years ago, i was working for a crypto startup and we went to a conference about STEEM in Amsterdam and there were plenty of women present.

men vs women

nostr:npub13auludvjjd2j6m9v2fae8mfgutmln632m9up6fw0jtfklm9kszyqvs5qsc i mean the people who deny that it's not even undergoing a shift these days. those people exist. i destroyed "the climate is already changing" argument elsewhere in this thread i believe.

nostr:npub1hemdxvjcfz0zt39ymgxwv77k5vrr4tkk25zzg486e4t8sw5rwyksafrq92 i haven't heard of that one, is it something new?

don't try to start a business on your own unless you already have customers.

this sounds a bit backward but let me explain: you can do business as an individual and sell goods and services to people that you encounter. if you start earning real money on that, and business is growing to the point where you need more than one person, that's the time to do the paperwork to register a business, get an accountant, etc.

if you do it too early, you're just going to be doing more paperwork and waste money. it needs to have a certain scale before the authorities care to tax it anyway.

for a brick and mortar business the story is a bit different, but again, this is much easier to do if you already know people who would want to be customers of such a shop.

starting anything completely from scratch with no network is though. cold calling is the least efficient way of getting sales except for advertising.

as you can see, none of this is about how cool your business idea is. it's usually the case that the best business idea is determined by your circumstances and abilities, and what people in your network are looking to buy.

not all circumstances and abilities are conducive to starting a business. this is not a level playing field.

nostr:npub13whz9pgleshd0w9tff3sxgl7xnlmkqe8r82hp5td45l7sg2dg5gqfkwvah it's both. and i don't think it's ideal.

but i think it's a bit less so in more left-leaning countries since the governments takes more responsibility for funding science there, and big business doesn't dominate as much.

i'd trust science coming out of northern Europe more than science coming out of America.

nostr:npub13whz9pgleshd0w9tff3sxgl7xnlmkqe8r82hp5td45l7sg2dg5gqfkwvah if there is one thing scientists don't do, it's to blindly trust other scientists. the whole field of science is based on scepticism.

there are some incredibly stupid people out there who keep denying climate change, even as the ice caps are melting and the sea levels are visibly rising.

English speakers can't for the love of god pronounce Scandinavian words and names correctly.

even when they have a sound reference and try really hard, their mouths simply can't form the right shapes. you can hear the straining.

i keep having this issue where the sleep paralysis sets in before i actually lose consciousness.

i have fan on when i sleep and as the paralysis sets in, the sound gets louder, and my body goes all numb, weird and dizzy. it's a highly unpleasant sensation like i'm falling, so it startles me and i wake up.

this happens repeatedly until i finally fall asleep in the correct way.

i'm having it right now and my body is still semi numb and tingly.

insomnia and uneasy sleep

i'm awake too much

i'd have more of a reference frame if i had community. difficult to just plug yourself into one of those as a full-grown adult.