Anytime English speakers talk about the Nordics having long weird words, I remind them of the word "Defenestration" (the act of throwing someone out of a window)
"Surprisingly, our results show that women's contributions tend to be accepted more often than men's. However, when a woman's gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless."
@matthewskelton I gotta say, there are days when living your life to the fullest and being taken seriously through it all while being only mediocre at your job is a privilege I'd like to have.
You speak Norwegian with a Polish accent. Your vowels strained like half-smiles you receive from your neighbors; your consonants rough like a Monday morning workout session at SATS. There’s no escaping from stereotypes your accent invokes.
@bmispelon Thank you for the nice words and for sharing your experience. I like that you used the word “impossibility”, because in its essence, one can never be fully integrated. It takes a lifetime of shared experiences, I feel, so integration as a slogan rings a bit hollow for me.
"The Nordic states are letting go of values and infrastructure resources that are dear to the welfare state – from shared access to public resources to democratic values and universal access to communication and electricity – while intensifying digitalization and dependencies on Silicon Valley companies."
The public values of openness, affordability of connection and universal access to infrastructure are under threat by Big Tech.
@harce@bmispelon Your selection depends on whether you have a university degree (requirement in NITO and Tekna, not in EL go IT), and whether you work for the private or public sector (I blanked on the public sector union name sorry). I am in EL og IT myself because I am self-taught. Here is an overview: https://www.kode24.no/kodelokka/altfor-fa-utviklere-er-fagorganisert/70987731
I've recently spent 35 days without a working stove top and I gotta share this. Fixing it required time and effort from five (!) companies, each responsible for a different subsystem in the apartment:
Each of them (except the electrician, bless his soul) focused not on helping me fix the stovetop, but on proving that it’s not their part that’s broken. In the end, the fault was a loose cable that disconnected the stovetop from the electrical socket.
I did not expect to experience peak enterprise IT when my stove stopped working. It took 35 days to find and reattach a loose cable. 🤦🏻♀️
@matt I probably could have done it, too, but it's my first time renting in Norway and I don't really want to upset the landlords by doing stuff on my own. 😥
What a week. On Monday, I got bronchitis. On Wednesday, I got some bad job news, and on Thursday my partner of 7 years broke up with me. The week ain’t done, but I sure am.
@matt in the book “Dette er nordmenn” the guy who runs the immigrant meme page on instagram told a story of applying for a job in Godt Brød bakery only to learn they only hire pretty young women. 🤷🏻♀️