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Cake day: October 28th, 2023

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  • The Danish government pays for the military and the military pays the soldiers. It’s a job, after all, draft or no draft. And since it’s a job it should come with all the regular Danish perks of having a job.

    I’m not sure if the military have their own unions (because I’ve never looked into it), but if they do I can look at their overenskomst (union agreement of sorts) to see what their minimum wage is and how vacation days are handled.

    Oh, uh, yeah, so, minimum wage works a little different in Denmark. We don’t actually have a minimum wage, and wages aren’t set in laws. Instead, typically, a worker representative of a particular industry sector and a corporate representative of the same sector sit down every few years to hash out the next few years.


  • Hmm… Well, I have good cardio from my job as a bicycle courier, and great legs, but I’m still somewhat overweight and have no upper body strength. First draft are typically those that meet the minimum health requirements. I’ve already been tested a number of years ago and I think I fall within the B draft.

    That said…

    Should push come to shove and I get drafted, as far as I understand it, it’s a training course. Unless the US decides to actually attack Greenland I doubt I’ll end up getting shipped off. So I’ll probably never leave the army base.

    As for what my personal opinion on the matter is… Well, if I get drafted it’ll basically be a harsh workout regime for me entirely paid for by the Danish government. At the end of it I’ll be a lot fitter than I’m right now, and I won’t be broke. And if I do get shipped off, it would be in defense against Imperialism, so I can’t really complain.

    Well… Maybe I’ll complain a little. I’ll probably be terrified. I’m only human, after all.















  • Currently me and my friend are using a self-hosted server with Matrix, and Sable as a client.

    Sable is the only one with Discord-like functions out of all the clients I’ve tried, all the others falling very short.

    Besides that there is Fluxer, which is far more feature complete than any Matrix client. It has some key features holding it back, though, which are no Federation yet, and no E2E encryption yet. But otherwise setting up your own fully functional server is incredibly easily.