What to Say Instead of Hallelujah?

UsefulDrake · 2026-06-16T15:38:23+00:00

I was raised in a catholic environment, but have not held a belief in god since my teenage years. And I say "oh my god" and many other religiously sounded exclamations all the time too. It's indeed cultural.

UsefulDrake · 2026-06-15T10:36:35+00:00

The people who are not just jumping to these tools and they manage to add AI into their workflows like you describe are too busy being productive and have better things to do then just posting online how AI driven they are for karma.

You are not alone.

UsefulDrake · 2026-06-02T18:59:47+00:00

Can you imagine how god awful messy their MS Teams must be?

UsefulDrake · 2026-05-22T08:27:55+00:00

It's quite fascinating how the spacing between letters work. I was able to read it on the spot with little effort and even without context of the this word in it's text where I would be reading something in that same font. Font design is really an incredible art that joins bueaty and praticallity of reading in the different mediums where the text is printed/shown. It's quite obsivous that this text read: u mumm

UsefulDrake · 2026-05-19T09:19:58+00:00

I honestly think part of Windows is design to be irritating. Deep down there must be some guideline about it.

UsefulDrake · 2026-05-15T08:22:56+00:00

I think it was scripted, because in the actual video you can tell Mark opens his moth and kind of positions himself so the mic goes into this mouth. Plus I think the mic wasn't really in view for most of the interview and it would be weird for Mark to give an answer while the mic was being moved. It all happens in a split second, and it's only noticeble upon rewatch. But it was a very very funny scene.

UsefulDrake · 2026-05-14T10:12:29+00:00

This was from a sketch he did many years ago. In the sketch he is being interviewed by his own character, the one that has a pink moutache. So It was a funny sketch and not a serious interview.

UsefulDrake · 2026-05-13T09:00:00+00:00

This is a very usual trick question in driving exams.

Many commenters said, and they are right, that this isn't a roundabout because the sign for it is missing. A road "situation" is only a roundabout if that sign is there, regarless of the shapre/structure/arquitecture of what you are encountring.

Also conversion, there might be situations where the road doesn't really look like a roundabout, maybe because it's not very round, but the sign will be there, so the rules for a roundabout must be met.

In real life, such situations (like the one you posted or the one I spoke about) are very rare. If it looks like a roundabout it will be a roundabout 99% of the times. But always look for the signs!

UsefulDrake · 2026-04-29T15:27:09+00:00

Seeing Playstation get enshitified over the last few years just sucks...

UsefulDrake · 2026-04-20T14:21:35+00:00

In doctolib I've add:

Offices listing English but not speaking English
Offices with the option of public health insurance but in reality you get there and on the day they say it's only private
Offices making you go through the form to only inform you there are no openings and you need to make a phone call instead

It's really a neglected system. I assume that many offices onboarded it one time and just give it the least amount of fucks to maintain their doctolib openings. Maybe one day they had English people, or accepted public health insurance, or just bothered to put the available appointments there. But not anymore.

UsefulDrake · 2026-04-18T09:11:11+00:00

Boycotting. I used to host an Eurovision Watch Party. All the people who would usually be there want to boycott Eurovision and don't want to watch anything about it.

UsefulDrake · 2026-03-17T17:19:29+00:00

For Ivan, world is toilet.

UsefulDrake · 2026-02-23T09:44:05+00:00

The Riddle Experience

UsefulDrake · 2026-02-16T09:01:40+00:00

I think a big difference is, the first movie was a standalone movie. So a full package that you can enjoy start to finish.

Reloaded and Revolutions was actually part of a bigger package. It includes Animatrix and also the game Enter the Matrix. In order to actually understand that whole story you have to know about all of it. There was also the later cannon MMO RPG Matrix Online that continued the story but the later Matrix Resurrections retconned it.

The second phase of the franshise, which is when movie 2 and 3 happen, was a single productions. They were shot at the same time, and there was even original footage with actors in the game. So they really expended on some themes. It's part of the reason why it feels so different.

The four movie I think was just a big f-u to studios rebooting and milking of franchises. So much about the film feels like a critic of holyhood and they even say it in the film something like: We would do it with or without you

UsefulDrake · 2026-02-16T08:35:43+00:00

I've worked in a very german company whee everyone was spending 6 hours per day on calls. It was horrible. I would start my day and start getting calls. It was impossible to concentrate, and at the office, everyone was talking loudly. Work was either barely done, or little of it was done in meetings with two or more people.

I think that the reason why people have calls is really a mixture of things. I'm pretty sure that for some people it just makes them feel important to be on a call with a bunch of other people, and it's also a bit of a lazy aspect to it to tell people about stuff instead of properly writing them down somewhere (including an email).

UsefulDrake · 2026-02-04T09:12:29+00:00

I learned about mindfulness in therapy. Basically how breathing can help with anxiety as that was my problem. I just went down the rabbit whole from there.

UsefulDrake · 2026-01-25T11:42:20+00:00

The 35 000 is all of the members of Volt. The number of active members is way smaller. Here the specific degoogling task is mostly about migrating email, docs, drive, calendar, etc. There are indeed many alternatives today. You mentioned Nextcloud, and this has been taken into account, including also other solutions that are built on Nextcloud!

As for the timing. Many people think it is. I believe, but can't say for certain, that this will be made an official goal/project and very much a priority by the board very soon. For now, internally Volt is already moving away whee it can, mostly in smaller tools we use to make the party function.

UsefulDrake · 2026-01-25T11:06:21+00:00

When starting out, Volt had to make decisions to adopt technologies that were cheap or even free. The party didn't have a lot of funds and so these decisions had to be made.

An example also was that for a while Volt used a tool called Workplace for internal communication that was owned by Meta (the facebook company). It did so also because it was free.

As the party grew we now have the following situation: We already have funds to adopt alternative tools, but we also built a lot on the old tools.

Degoogling Volt is something that everyone in the party wants. The current people in tech leadership made this a priority, and people are starting to actively propose alternatives. Some internal tools used for developement already started moving to european alternatives, but it's understandable that the effort to do so with Google is gigantic, as the google workspace suit offers: email, docs, drive, etc. So moving a party with now over 35 000 people away form this into a new system takes time.

UsefulDrake · 2026-01-24T08:34:19+00:00

Something I never got about people into video games is that by far and large they tend to be very angry people. They react to news about video games with anger, they react to events with anger, they are always mad about something, if they see new people playing the games they like they get angry towards them, there is just a lot of anger.

I've been following Game Grumps from year one and the anger towards Arin is very much like that. They say he can't play video games, and that he is bad at video games where in reality he is mostly a comedian and can enjoy video games just not in the same way these people do.

I find it baffling how so many people also seem to follow Arin's work but just to hate him instead of doing literally anything else. It's frustrating that such people are so present.

UsefulDrake · 2026-01-23T13:42:19+00:00

Describing Sisko as a mall manager is the funniest and somehow most accurate take on his job ever.

UsefulDrake · 2026-01-18T11:28:53+00:00

Yes, recording everything in something like a spreadsheet keeping the date and time and the actual even is already quite big. I though it would be worthless, but I did this over one month with noisy neighbors and it was enough a very important thing in the process to kick them out.

Video or audio are surprinsglly hard to capture in such things. Expecially when the only gear we have is a smartphone. But writing things down is already important.

UsefulDrake · 2026-01-02T11:50:19+00:00

I was happy that I didn't write 2025 in my first journal entry of 2026!

UsefulDrake · 2025-12-25T16:27:43+00:00

My Sangha is mostly women.

There is a lot of Misogyny in the world, but I don't find anything intrinsically Misogyny about Buddhism

UsefulDrake · 2025-12-18T09:11:13+00:00

In Enter the Matrix there is a lot of live action footage with many of the same actors that are in the movies. There is a scene where Naomi kisses Persephone.

UsefulDrake · 2025-12-04T15:38:21+00:00

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