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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Add another one person to the list. I am a software engineer, I have ADHD and I go to the office 3 days of the week instead of the mandated 1 day. It’s just much easier for my brain to focus when I’m in a work environment than at home. Part of it might be how my working space at home is set up, but at home, I have never matched my productivity at the office. Plus, commuting to work is a large majority of my outside time and social time. I touch grass and attend social events relatively rarely and I know I need to work on that, but the fact remains that commuting to work is good for my sanity.

    EDIT: Regardless, I understand why people don’t want to commute to the office and when given the opportunity, I will always advocate for people’s right to choose one, the other, or anything in between.



  • I didn’t click through into the article, but while the achievement is huge, it is not as much a success story as this post makes it seem and the fight is far from over. Babiš is still in the Parliament, he’s been in opposition, but the current (neoliberalism-friendly, status quo friendly) government is not very popular and Babiš’s party is projected to win the next elections based on polls. He still has about 25-30 % of die-hard voters and other parties are fragmented and disjointed. I fear that he might be able to assemble a government with Communists (who have already quietly tolerated him in a previous government) and right-wing populists…

    Thinking about it now, I think a US-like scenario is quite likely–a first term of madness, oligarchy and corruption, then a brief one-term respite which does not address the systemic issues that got us the first term in the first place, and then another return to the madness. Though I’ve also heard speculation that seeing Trump’s antics in the second term is what might make people here less likely to vote for Babiš.