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13 hours ago#Tradle #928 6/6
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https://oec.world/en/games/tradle
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Compeltely forgot that the answer country existed, and tried to not use a map for this one. Apparently I’m not nearly as smart
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This one stumped me for a while, for no other reason than me being stupid and forgetting how Central Asia looks. Litterally couldn’t think of an industrialized country in Central Asia with plenty of oil and wheat. Then I had an epiphani while on the toilet and remembered that I had somehow forgetten about the biggest country in the region, that famously has a shitload of oil and space for growing food.
Or just fucking use your own credit card like a grown up. Such a weird thing to lose an entire parliamentary career over, especially because he was one of the SocDems who seemed perfectly happy just being a toadie to the PM.
Edit: LMAO, he got convicted in 30 minutes. Admitted to the whole thing and just started talking about being “vewwy sowwy”
6·10 days agoWas it Chicago or Detroit that sold the rights to their parking meters for 75 years to a group of investors from Abu Dhabi, and after like 4 years they had already made back their money and just started jacking up the price of parking because they could. Also supposedly there is a clause in the agreement that makes it so the city has to pay excessively anytime they want to take away a parking space that the investors own. It’s literally insane that a city that size doesn’t just tell the investors to fuck off and sic the national guard on them.
#Tradle #918 3/6
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https://oec.world/en/games/tradle
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Went with Honduras at first, because my coffee was from there this morning. Then guessed Nicaragua before looking at a map in my office and realizing that I had to go further south.
Telegram is litterally the source given in most of Danish State Broadcaster’s articles about Ukraine. It even got me into trouble with our IT-department because I clicked one of the links in the article, since apparently Telegram is mega-blacklisted on my work-computer.
True to my word, I have refrained from posting on this site for the duration of my paternity leave, as I refuse to post here unless I can count it as work. Anyway, kid is doing great, but it does take a toll to be alone with him for n entire day while he is learning to walk. The amount of times I have had to catch something falling on his head is incredible, especially considering that I child-proofed our place when our daughter was born.
You can sort of skip the first half-ish of the book, if you don’t want to know the historical background for why the book is important. The second part, where he begins talking about how to get better at scheduling focused work, and the benefits of doing it are much more interesting. It’s also an incredibly easy read, and only about 250 pages, so even a busy person can get it done in like a week / long weekend. If I have to give Cal Newport some commendation, he is actually pretty good at writing in a way that is accessible, and he avoids a lot of the #Grindset shit that you see on instagram and hear on podcasts. In particular his point about concentration being a muscle that you have to exercise regularly, and if you don’t it will wither and must be retrained.
I’m currently in the middle of reading both the self-help book mentioned above (which is liberal as hell, but still useful as a disciplinary exercise), and before I got started on that brief tangent, I was about 100 pages into Seymour Hersh’ biography of Kissinger, which is depressing as hell, but gives a decent insight into the mind of the demon king.
Been trying to read more in the past couple of days. Borrowed one of those demonic self-help books that everyone on my instagram is swearing by, and while the book itself is brainwormed (LOTS of great-man thinking, and reverence for people who’s only job is “investor”), forcing myself to spend a 60-90 minutes every evening has been quite interesting. I sort of fell out of the habit of reading seriously since my son was born, especially since I already had a daughter, and trying to keep them alive has been a handful.
The book in question is “Deep Work” by Cal Newport, and it includes an incredibly funny section about the statistical genius known as Nate Silver, which has aged absolutely perfectly.
BadEmpanada retweeting it is one hell of a move
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I literally forgot that the country existed and somehow got it into my head that Columbia and Bolivia and Ecuador were all that existed on that part of the continent. Hence my guesses being so close to the right answer.