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I don't consider myself an introvert, but I can identify with a majority of those graphs.
 
PhantomCruiser said:
I don't consider myself an introvert, but I can identify with a majority of those graphs.
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I'm not sure I identify completely with being introvert or extrovert. I think most people are neither one or the other, but a mix. There are times I am on and times when I am off. I worry about people who freak out when they are alone without distraction, and I worry about people who freak out when they are with people and noise. But I think there is a balance with a wide latitude of normal between those extremes.

I think the real problem is certain portions of society don't get that sometimes people may need quiet and solitude and sometimes they may need people and interaction, and the timing and proportion really is up to the individual, and this is completely normal. When I have a long day and I really crave peace and quiet, maybe even cancelling plans to meet with friends, I hope they get that a) it's not about them and b) I don't have a social disorder, I just need some freakin' quiet.
 
Trying to find the basic dimensions of a BSS-702 satellite is proving to be fairly difficult. Why Boeing do dis?!
 
Started fooling around in Powder Toy again. Took "cities" from the game's server and subjected them to all kinds of destruction and evilness. Here's one before and after an H-bomb. The crater looks surprisingly real.

Edit: this one was an airburst. I think I stepped up the size of the bomb too much though. At a certain point, you end up turning everything into a molten soup. Which isn't THAT different from how , say, an asteroid impact would play out , but still....

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Why is the fun of a game so proportional to the versatility of your ability to blow stuff up in it, hm?
 
The benevolent Manchester City is transferring 75 million Euro foreign aid to Wolfsburg, Germany, collected by the television union of British workers.

Thank you. :rofl:
 
Would this be BECTU?

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Notebook said:
Peculiar, I was in the ACTT(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Cinematograph_Television_and_Allied_Technicians). Close shop, joining compulsoryThey were moderately militant, mostly concerned with wages and conditions, some political stirrings. Last I heard they amalgamated with the BBC union. All irrelevant now, tele industry has been casualised to death.
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Well, there is still no true union for software developers in Germany. Quite many are in the service agent union VERDI, which I personally dislike, I don't want to be mistaken for a different kind of hair cutter. I have different wishes for a perfect working environment, and that is not just a good salary.
 
There may be a yearning for more union power in the UK, Margaret Thatcher set about dismantling them in the 80's. Tony Blair wasn't really interested in them(no votes). Of course the present Tory government isn't a unions best friend.
The Labour Party is electing a new leader next month, and seems to be in a panic state. This man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Corbyn seems to be in the lead, and is causing great consternation...he could be a Socialist....Not wanted in the New Labour Party.
All academic, 5 years till the next general election, it'll have all changed by then.
 
Notebook said:
There may be a yearning for more union power in the UK, Margaret Thatcher set about dismantling them in the 80's. Tony Blair wasn't really interested in them(no votes). Of course the present Tory government isn't a unions best friend.
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Asking the government if you should found a union is just as futile as asking your own boss. Of course the mighty and rich will fight them with all their legal and illegal might.

You have to do it yourself, if you want one.
 
I think the union ethos has gone here, probably take a generation or two for it to come back, if it ever does. The classic unionised industries, coal, steel, shipbuilding, motor manufacture, general engineering have gone or much reduced. The UK is a service industry nation now(so I'm told), and a low-wage one at that.
You would think these conditions would encourage unionism, but its not happening here. I think the sense of community or camaraderie isn't there. We are encouraged to be individual and competitive.

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Notebook said:
I think the union ethos has gone here, probably take a generation or two for it to come back, if it ever does. The classic unionised industries, coal, steel, shipbuilding, motor manufacture, general engineering have gone or much reduced. The UK is a service industry nation now(so I'm told), and a low-wage one at that.
You would think these conditions would encourage unionism, but its not happening here. I think the sense of community or camaraderie isn't there. We are encouraged to be individual and competitive.

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Yes, same in Germany. Was the conservative moral turn-around, that Kohl wanted, which coincidences with this lack of loyalty towards your peers.

But I think, it is quickly changing here. Maybe no longer classic unions, but then, you already have rapid social groups forming beyond your workplace, that are doing that the classic unions here are more and more forgetting: That its about collective bargaining, not about channelling political power. Non-persons should stay out of politics, IMHO.
 
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