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Cake day: July 3rd, 2024

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  • Funny thing there: we have been automating an insane amount of work and processes since the 1950s. Email Messages arrive within seconds instead of weeks by snail mail. Computers optimize rail and road fright for optimal performance to ship more things faster or cheaper. Things can be measured, counted and sorted by computers much faster and accurately than humans ever could. A 1000 euro computer and one secretary can do the billing department for millions of orders. How did workers profit from the previous productivity advances? I did not see working hours go down or pay go up by an proportional amount?


  • White Tights, White Pantyhose or White Stockings[1] (Russian: белые колготки, beliye kolgotki; Lithuanian: baltosios pėdkelnės; Latvian: baltās zeķbikses; Estonian: valged sukkpüksid) is a Russian urban legend about female sniper mercenaries fighting against Russian forces in various armed conflicts from the late 1980s.[2] The legend describes these women as blond Amazon-like nationalistic biathletes turned anti-Russian mercenaries. They come predominantly from the Baltic states, but subsequent variations of the legend have diversified the ethnic composition of the snipers, including Ukrainian and Russian women in their midst.

    Sounds like a plot for a Stephen Segal movie…