I did this three years ago. The company is going bankrupt now. Coincidence? Definitely.

When Baltic people speak with Slavic accents.

For making a bread that doesn’t go stale, there’s a trick of mixing about 40% of the flour with a bit of water, heating it on a stove until it turns into a coagulated paste and then chilling it before mixing it back into the dough. That’s how I make a brioche type yeast bread, but it should be possible to do for regular bread too.

There was a work chat where people would joke and vent and bitch and complain. Only the lowest level employees were invited. One of my coworkers invited one of the higher ranking employees and all the fun had to stop.

Yes, especially because many Lemmy users have some radical views.

My local blood bank already wanted to know about any possible contact I might have had with Americans.

Lithuanian here, a very popular Facebook page keeps posting “Trump is about to wake up, prepare for him saying something stupid” every day.

I’m fine with actual engineers running tech companies, because most enshittification is done by the business management degree carriers.

Excellent TV show.

“If you have the patience to sit by the river and wait, eventually, the corpses of your enemies will float by.” Sun Tzu

Happens with cans of everything.

What kind of crazy person doesn’t start a jigsaw puzzle with the edge pieces?

To show the goats.

Lithuanian: rodyti ožius.

Means to cry, fight or roll on the ground when you didn’t get what you wanted.

Yes, but also who knows what millions of jews who didn’t survive the genocide could have accomplished in science and art if they stayed alive?

A lot of Nazi technology were just useless Wunderwaffe, while technologically impressive, mostly useless in the field. The V2 rocket was an impressive achievement, but not a price effective bombing system. The jet planes came too little too late. The big tanks were impressive, but too few to make a difference.

My mother-in-law literally gave us 20 eggs from a local farm for free yesterday.

A Lutheran book of Lithurgy written in Lithuanian and printed in Tilsit (Now Sovetsk, Kaliningrad) in 1914.

What did you just say about me?! How dare you hurt my feelings like that, I thought we were friends!?

I commit the coherence fallacy: the side with more coherent arguments is usually the right side.

It feels to me like Firaxis took stuff from Humankind and Millenia into their game because they are out of ideas.