The "What Are You Doing This Moment" Thread

[CiG]

And yes it was.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...rotest-since-1989-to-call-for-pms-resignation

"Feelings at Tuesday’s rally – the latest in a series of anti-Babiš events – were running high after the leaked disclosure of a preliminary European commission auditors’ report accusing the Czech leader of conflicts of interest over his ties to an industrial conglomerate, Agrofert, that receives large EU subsidies."

Is it ironic that people were waving EU flags in protest of this man, or am I missing something?

 

[Onder]

"Feelings at Tuesday’s rally – the latest in a series of anti-Babiš events – were running high after the leaked disclosure of a preliminary European commission auditors’ report accusing the Czech leader of conflicts of interest over his ties to an industrial conglomerate, Agrofert, that receives large EU subsidies."

Is it ironic that people were waving EU flags in protest of this man, or am I missing something?

The EU audit officially confirms that he's been misusing EU money for years. It took a while and we've all known it before but there you go. EU is not the problem, he is.

The problem with EU, admittedly, is that it takes fucking ages for their bureaucratic megamachine to do anything.

 

[CiG]

One problem among many, to be sure. Reading this, he sounds like a real sleazeball, and that so many people are saying living under him reminds them of living under communism is surely quite damning. I laughed that somebody said (paraphrasing) "he's not even Czech, he's a Slovakian gangster and they were glad to get rid of him, it's like he hijacked the country and we're the hostages."

I just thought it was interesting that one of the main charges against him was related to EU subsidies.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

So last night I was sitting around with two of my corridormates, a French guy and a Slovakian girl, discussing spirituality. The French guy related his experiences of successful seances and of being contacted by a deceased friend. The Slovakian girl told me about some wise woman she knew in Prague who could help you with your personal problems, using methods like automatic writing to divine truths about you. I told her that sounds like psychoanalysis to me, but she assured me that it was a mystical practice, that this wise woman formed a spiritual connection and conveyed "messages from the universe". She also made several references to an entity she called "the being".

I told them I didn't rule out the existence of spirits, but that I also could not believe it unless I myself had a spiritual experience. So naturally we held a seance. We contacted a spirit that identified itself as "YTES", but this didn't make sense to us so we asked its name again and it spelled out "VOYOYON". At some point we deduce through yes-or-no questions that the spirit has a message for me specifically, and it tells me "TFUFUKW" before fucking off back to the spirit realm. Maybe our spiritual connection was disrupted by that "they're taking the hobbits to Isengard" song blaring from some outdoor party nearby. Anyway I guess spirits exist and they're fucking retarded.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Every time I see CiG's avatar in the little thread-embedded-icon thing I think it's the backside of a Yu-Gi-Oh card.

 

[CiG]

I'm not going to be able to unsee that now, thanks a lot.

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

Every time I see CiG's avatar in the little thread-embedded-icon thing I think it's the backside of a Yu-Gi-Oh card.

I'm not going to be able to unsee that now, thanks a lot.

i'm not going to be able to unsee it either

 

[EternalMetal]

I actually think it is.

 

[Krow]

 

[Master_Yoda77]

I actually think it is.

It's exactly the same!

 

[CiG]

Yeah I changed it when HBB first mentioned it.

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

View attachment 20337

is this Hitler's arm??

 

[Carpe Mortem]

About to try making eggs Benedict for the first time. I'm cheating with the hollandaise sauce and using a powder, but poaching the eggs alone should prove challenging, I've never succeeded.

 

[Bloopy]

Shutting down my PC because the whole building my apartment's in is getting major repairs and I have to put furniture & appliances in storage and move out for 5 months. Moving back with my parents. A 623km drive away and a chance to see lots of live shows in a different city for a change.

 

[Slammed]

Fuck that's one hell of a commute to work each day.

 

[Bloopy]

Luckily my only work in the last 2 years has been on a laptop at home.

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

right now
me and a girl making sex jokes about "shaving my head"

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Getting files together for a copyright registration. Been working on a novel in my spare time, still a long way from publication but close to 100 pages in. I want to register an unpublished draft now, cause I've been sharing parts of it with friends/acquaintances for feedback, and my giant ego makes me paranoid of plagiarism.

It's starting to sink in how much I'll be baring my soul to the world when I publish this. Hard to decide whether I want to publish anonymously or not. On one hand I value my privacy a lot, but on the other hand the anonymity probably wouldn't last, and on the minuscule chance the book is a success I'd probably prefer to get recognized for it.

 

[Slammed]

Copyright is a given on all created works. If you are that paranoid forget the cost of copyright put the file on a USB stick and mail it to yourself, keep the package unopened with the date stamp on it. It's hard proof of when the file was created because the metadata shows when the actual file was first created.

As for anonymity even if you do make a successful book, having a pseudonym is no draw back if you don't want your full name out there. Plenty of authors, known and unknown use pseudonyms, many readers don't even realise it. If you do use one and the book is successful it can be reprinted with your full name.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Copyright is a given on all created works. If you are that paranoid forget the cost of copyright put the file on a USB stick and mail it to yourself, keep the package unopened with the date stamp on it. It's hard proof of when the file was created because the metadata shows when the actual file was first created.

https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html

"Registration is recommended for a number of reasons. Many choose to register their works because they wish to have the facts of their copyright on the public record and have a certificate of registration. Registered works may be eligible for statutory damages and attorney's fees in successful litigation. Finally, if registration occurs within five years of publication, it is considered prima facie evidence in a court of law."

Poor man's copyright doesn't come with those benefits.

As for anonymity even if you do make a successful book, having a pseudonym is no draw back if you don't want your full name out there. Plenty of authors, known and unknown use pseudonyms, many readers don't even realise it. If you do use one and the book is successful it can be reprinted with your full name.

I guess... just a question of how long it would take to get it re-registered/reprinted (registration alone can take like half a year), and whether people who read the original would bother to look up the new edition.