Depending on overheads, your time has to be worth between 1.8 - 2.2x your compensation. For the company to make money and stay in business, it has to charge above this amount.

But if your company is charging you out at 4x your compensation, they are making a massive amount off your time. A reasonable amount would be aroung 2.1 - 2.5x your compensation.

As an anecdote, my little brother finished his architecture degree after being a builder for years. He had both the practical skill from building and the eye of an artist. He got a job at a very prestigious firm. It wasn’t long before they saw how good he was, even though he was a grad his charge out rate was $180/hr. I asked how much of his time was billable, it was not as you would expect for a grad, his time was 100% billable work, he was being paid $25/hr. I was shocked, after trying to negotiate with the firm for a year he got a pay rise to $30/hr. It was only a month later he quit and started his own business, he charges much less than previously for the same work and he makes significantly more.

Climate change.

In the mid 90’s when the data was becoming more mainstream, I felt that there wasn’t enough info to make a decision on it, looking back from now there was but the O&G lobby was muddying the waters as much as possible.

A few years later, ~97/98; I had read enough studies and seen enough data to accept that, yes; we were changing the climate, and yes; we need to do something about it.

It has shaped a lot of the decisions I have made in the last 25+ years.

BTW electric power tools kick arse.

The pictures don’t show any reason why this should be closed.

It looks like a huge gap between the cycleway and the tracks. If the level crossing needs work, why close 1.5km of cycleway?

Even though it is an Australian movie The Castle is pretty good

How would that make him a non-billionare?

He paid $44B for Twitter, even if it completely failed and he could realize no value from any of the assets. $44B is a small portion of his wealth.

Run tasks on a schedule

Termux + syncthing cli + tasker

But this is not a solution for those that you do family tech support for.

It sucks that Syncthing is discontinuing its android app

It would be up near the top of my list.

BricsCAD has a native Linux client

Ketamine

I was in hospital and had some significant pain. Opiate based pain relief doesn’t really effect me so they said we will try a ketamine. I said ok, I had never had it before…wow dissociative drugs, are not for me. I told the nurse to stop it and had a small argument about it with her as I felt myself become distant and spacey.

I decided that the pain was better then the loosing my mind feeling, stuck with paracetamol.

Well if the goal is to spark discussion, hopefully we will see some that are taking aim at some of government decisions 🤔

Well the front is not supposed to fall off, is it.

Honestly just eat vegetables and keep your ultraprocessed foods to a minimum.

Milk and eggs are pretty good, as they literally have all that a growing body needs. But since I assume you are not a baby posting on social media (never can tell in this “modern” world) you need more than just milk and eggs.

Eat fermented foods, kimchi, sauerkraut or kombucha etc…great for gut health

I do like some nutritional yeast though. It is really tasty.

Surely not, we can’t have new ferries this other boat, well it just isn’t on the cards.

Halt and catch fire.

Do you like dags?

Do you know what “namesis” means? “A righteous infliction of retribution manefested by an appropriate agent.” Personified in this case by a horrible cunt: me.

Agreed thieves are terrible.

Not many better options if you are getting robbed though.

Pretty much; then get the police to deal with it.

Well…there is a fix for this issue.

Don’t watch broadcast TV; use ad-blockers; learn to sail.