He first lade a threat. Then I called his bluff and then he pushed through.

In that way I got my full year off.

The stupid thing was that I was fired for reading a newspaper. I didn’t take it up to court because I knew I was getting a full years pay if they fired me that way.

I got fired for reading the newspaper during my lunch break. Once a week this newspaper came with a for hire section that also included career advice and al that stuff. I was reading that part but the CEO called me into his office to tell me off. I called his bluff and he fired me.

I was scheduled to lead a team in China for a few weeks and after that had to go to the US for some other job. Sadly people that are fired can’t work off premises anymore so the staff manager begged me to accept their withdrawal of my discharge.

I kindly declined and got payed out a years’ wage. Took the time to reorientate into less toxic work environment. I now work with politicians, don’t know what happened there.

That breeding programme called natural selection is what got us all here.

removed

slaps on the pigeon shed

Fastest pigeons in the world baby.

But seriously. 1.252.000 euro for a pigeon

https://www.pipa.be/en/articles/update-armando-sold-1252000-euro-total-revenue-joel-verschoot-auction-2400000-euro-19439

USPCC only makes for a fourth of Cartamundi’s revenue. And to make it even more Belgian, Cartamundi is still run by the same two families that founded the company 6 generations ago Each family owns 50% of the shares.

ING Turkey ≠ ING Netherlands ≠ ING anywhere else

Billiard balls and playing cards. Belgium is world leader in both.

Edit: forgot to add pigeons. Belgian competition pigeons are the most expensive in the world.

Edit 2: Belfries. Clock-O-Matic is a Belgian company and world leader in the automation of Belfries. It’s not that hard because most Belfries are located in Belgium and France, if not all of them.

Edit 3: It never ends. Roller coaster wheels. Let that sink in. No their country produces more roller coaster wheels nor is as good as we arr at it.

I was there, in the days of rotten.com

Because we (the EU citizens) need some internet and software sovereignty. It’s a valid desire. Most of the governments run on software owned by companies that can be under control of foreign nations.

A certain level of independence is good for any nation, group, society.

Besides from that EU law provides us with some guarantees regarding privacy. If a company doesn’t respect our privacy, we have the means to defend ourselves.

No, not only Russians, but at least the Ukrainians fight for their homeland. Anyway, it is a game of power and ordinary people are on the bottom of the shit stack. At either side.

Only losers in this war. Russians being used as canon fodder. So many sons and brothers that are lost. Ukrainians feeling deserted by their allies. Those wounds heal slowly.

Third is not a meme. This is art.

That’s stupid, so good. How haven’t I heard of this before?

I join my boomer squad nearly every night. I’m the youngest at age 43. We win 1 in every 4 games, so that’s not awful. Depending on the mood we w-key or we just have fun and giggles.

It is a very well made game with fun mechanics and plenty of content.

In Dutch a door is female. Chair? Male.

I love the functionality of TG. It has it all. Add bots in the mix an you have a powerful chat. Would like it to be a bit more trustworthy and E2EE by default.