Ah, yup, this makes sense. I’m in good ol’ U.S. of A (for context in my previous comments, in case it wasn’t obvious). Hearing about these European laws def makes me envious for some modern work reforms.

You’re not wrong, and I agree.

TL;DR: I don’t want perfect to be the enemy of good enough.

I do worry that being too aggressive with that rate would cause the private sector to lobby extra hard and thus prevent any legislation from happening in the first place, hence why I suggest a reduced (but still substantial) stipend for the unemployed-but-still-bound period. In the sectors this most effects, the pay is generally high enough that one would have a comparatively easy time surviving on half salary while they figure out next life steps (as loathsome a compromise of that scale would be)

That’s neat.

I’ve been saying that basically needs to be the way non-competes work (that you receive some payment; 50-75% of original salary while unemployed and under non-compete) restrictions.

I have a chip on my shoulder about the metric system as it appears in sci-fi writing.

It drives me nuts that in books like The Expanse (and I think the Bobiverse and Andy Wier’s works) that the writer will call distances in “thousands/millions of kilometers”.

Really feels more reasonable to just go full send and call them megameters and gigameters, but maybe that’s just my American non-metric mind trying to force full use of a system in a way those born to it don’t actually do.

Anyway, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

Mocking you for…washing your hands? Wow. That’s…uh… something.

While this is hilarious and I want it to be true, can you pass any source on it?