Subscript5676

Oh boy! This is so good to hear!

You read that wrong my friend. It says “Spend ¥6000 or above (implies that you spend this much at The Poutinerie) and get this magnet for free”

Oh, I forgot to add the interesting part: they were out of a job for a good while, finally got a got a new one, and started looking for a place to stay cause the job’s nowhere close to where they lived.

Literally had one such old person checking out my shared house the other day and telling my younger housemate, who’s struggling to find proper work, to “try harder”. Guess who didn’t get to stay in the house.

I don’t see why we can’t designate door-to-door mailing in sparsely populated areas and community mailboxes in more crowded places? Wouldn’t that save quite some money while still ensuring that people don’t have to spend ridiculous amounts of time to get their mail? I’d imagine that in more crowded places, because things are a bit more down in scale, people wouldn’t have to drive 20 minutes just to get their mail, and it would generally be a 5 minute walk.

We can do something more creative too. If there’s a nearby cafe or something, make that the community mailbox and people can grab their mail and have coffee. Your parcels would be away from the elements, and the cafe can become sort of a 3rd place. It’s more efficient land use!

We can also make community mailboxes have the ability to notify the people whenever there’s something in the mail, and people can subscribe to that system if they wish to (not everyone wants or can use digital ways of getting information). That way, it’s more difficult for people to forget about their mail. There definitely is a development cost and ongoing maintenance cost, but hey, it’s an option.

For those in sparsely populated areas, nothing much would change, if any. I think they could still have community mailboxes and just opt into it if it fits their lifestyle (eg, they choose to head out to the mailbox every Tues and Fri, for example). They can change their delivery option by going online or just visit a library or somewhere they can get a person to help them change their setting.

Is that a bit more work for postal workers to have to separate mail? It could be, but perhaps we could append some kind of token to the address to clearly distinguish door-to-door vs community mailboxes, making it easier to verify by eye, and also easier to automatically separate via a scanner if needed. Heck, could we just plaster a QR code to mail?

For those who changed their option, you might still get mail either in your community mailbox or your own mailbox, depending on what you’ve switched to.

Just spitballing here. There’s a lot you can argue about each idea, but there are many things we can do to be more efficient, make it less painful for our postal workers but also save out on cost.

Not in my functional language with no nulls :P

That’s one real tone deaf response. Did you even understand what I wrote?

While I don’t disagree with the comment you replied to, just saying that you’re hearing similar complaints these days just reminds me that a lot of “complaints” are controlled and disseminated strategically to flood the zone and make issues seem more serious than they are. While it’s still a useful way to get a gauge on certain issues, when it comes to politics or politically charged issues, it’s no longer a reliable source for any kind of personal judgement. Just my 2 cents.

Am trying to build my first NAS here (and no I’m not buying one off the shelf, cause where’s the fun in that when I drive Linux on the daily?), and I do have some spinning drives. I wouldn’t lose important work; this is just for my personal use, but it would pain me to lose some of my personal stuff. My important docs are already backed up on a personal cloud, and my side projects are on some public git.

But yeah, my plan is to have just enough power in the event of a power outage to gracefully shut down the NAS. Would be really nice if I could automate that, in case I’m not around.

Back in university, it was an iPad mini 5, using Notability. Notability has enshittified badly though.

These days (I’m no longer in university so I do write a lot less), I write on a Kobo.

It does. I vastly prefer writing notes by hand than typing em. But my handwriting sucks when I have to write quickly, and I also don’t like lugging around giant stacks of paper. And so I settled on a digital writing pad, and just do the work to type my notes later. Acts as revision too.

pp’s comment doesn’t even make too much sense. Does he think people believe that governments can change the course of literal macroeconomic trends in just less than a year, and especially in the face of an aggressive economic threat from a large trading partner?

Oh wait. His supporters would believe that.

Fuck off pp