darishante

The first thing I thought when reading this was "wow, someone must have fed Infocom games' location descriptions into an AI". Would still like to see that.

I'm living with my partner. We both work remote. Not sure about her, because her job (teaching) is not super-well suited for remote work, but my productivity remains about as high as before. Granted, I tended to be remote 1 day / week even before All This. I would also guess that if I didn't have my partner sharing the flat with me, my mental health & therefore productivity would be lower.

(As for monitoring, yeah, stuff like that mentioned in the article would never fly here in Finland. We have very strict privacy laws, and the employer cannot do whatever they please.)

Yeah, this -- the reason, why my answer to tech support outside of job is a firm "no". No to friends, no to family, no to anyone. I don't want to deal with panicked requests starting "you did something to fix my computer, now it ate my grant application, deadline is tomorrow, help!" And I don't deal with sudden stress particularly well.

Russia seems to like Europe destabilized, in all possible ways.

"ASH [alt.suicide.holiday] began as a Google discussion group"

... stopped reading at this. Do your damn research. Also, get off my lawn.