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the woke military makes them carry so many books listing all the genders that they can only fatroll for bad iframes now
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Only advice I'd give is look into large-format e-readers, so e-ink tablets basically. Much better having more text on the screen. There are a lot of fly-by-night Chinese brands making 10.3" 227 dpi android-based e-ink tablets these days. Boox is fairly reputable. There's also the remarkable tablet if you want pen input.
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yeah it's a question asked by people who have not actually watched much/any anime
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well personally I just move a single soldier around a map (lordran)
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he's kinda like rogan but targets the techbro set
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lol that debate was a total son moment for him
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fuck it I will go to the mat for skiing. not those monstrous resorts but cross-country skiing and also backcountry skiing are both fun, except for the avalanches that kill at least one of your friends every year.
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I'm also on linux but use sway and haven't configured anything to take a screenshot yet lol
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Irrelevant because self-help books are garbage. "Self-improvement" is simple so all relevant advice is boring. Find a therapist if you can afford it. Cook for yourself more and eat healthy. Go to a gym, do a sport, or just go for long walks. Meet up with friends at least once per week. Get a hobby. Enjoy some form of media produced by your culture, like books, games, films, or shows. All of this subject to the constraint of time and money.
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People really can survive getting shot in the head unfortunately. ::: spoiler CW: suicide I'm friends with some doctors who work in emergency psych units and there are an alarmingly high number of patients who try to shoot themselves in the head and fail to die in various ways that maim them terribly and make their life so much worse than it was before. :::
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This is an appallingly cliche boomer thing to say but life has ups and downs. When you're young the ups and downs happen on the scale of moments or days or perhaps weeks. As you age you can get large chunks of a year of ups or downs. Even older these can stretch to multiple years. For me I'm at around periods of 8 months or so of downs interspersed with ups. If this is your first time hitting a long down it can really seem terminal, this is how it will always be, etc. This is rarely the case as long as you have your health. So I can't say anything other than yes it sucks, I feel it completely, life isn't a monotonic upward progression toward anything. But after a few of these cycles you start not to care about each one too much. It still sucks when you're in the trough though.
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fuck every single self help book
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it's staffers & committed volunteers planted in the crowd leading the reactions to paper over any weirdness. same people who start the "four more years" chants to drown out any protests against the genocide in gaza. it sounds cynical but it's super basic in-person politics, and how you avoid stuff like Jeb's "please clap" incident.
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Was this guy's public entry into politics talking about trump's "talent stack" back in 2016? I remember that phrase randomly entering like every news article I read.
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absolutely #2. the usage of screeching is accurate
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I no longer believe any sort of "you'll love what's going on behind closed doors" bullshit. It has always just been a way to placate people. 90% of the time there is absolutely no reason not to have these things said in the open.
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ohhhhhhh the slice is in the shape of israel/palestine
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I futzed around in the fancy BIOS a couple times and tried using their recommended CPU overclocking profile and upon boot my computer crashed so hard that it refused to boot again for like ten minutes
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I'm still running that exact processor lol 10 years old and still chugging along
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I feel as though I'm pretty online and this is totally indecipherable to me
pls, how do I change this
mas.to
I fuckin love cardinals holy shit, they have so much personality and are unbelievably cute.
I came across this playing DS2. Transitioned. Staying that way, this is part of my journey.
universeodon.com
Do these people not realize that when they say shit like this and then people are hit with an overdraft fee the next month they stop trusting anything coming from the dems? Good to learn sooner rather than later I guess. The resume padding is unreal and it makes talking to libs impossible.
www.thelightphone.com
Anybody have one of these gizmos? Seems a bit interesting to me although it also lacks a number of non-social smartphone features I like/use: - mapping/directions (apparently this is an optional feature, no idea about quality) - audiobooks (although maybe podcasts app can be used?) - signal/whatsapp - email (viewing email as addictive in 2024 is a bit quaint; remember "crackberries"?)
github.com
It's been open source and "ambiguously" GPL for a long time but as of yesterday it is super duper official definitely under GPLv2. Just source code, not assets of course.
Is it configured to ignore its own posts? Would this immediately crash the site as it replies to itself indefinitely? Seems like it could be possible to inject a youtube or reddit link inside a reddit link.
This thread is an amazing peek into the minds of people who literally know nothing about anything at all
So I've had a pretty good run, career-wise. I did the follow-my-passions thing (for computer touching) and it worked out. The problem is that there are very few jobs of any social utility whatsoever to be had as a programmer in the US. The thing I'm encountering is everyone in my social class (unless they're only driven by money) seems to want that same thing: a prestigious, engaging & creative job that pays well, allows one to cultivate & showcase their individual talent, and has positive social utility. Unfortunately I haven't ever actually come across one of these jobs. The closest is just people lying to themselves that their app does anything other than speedrun exploitation of marginal workers while making people in their own social class more comfortable. When I think about social utility it makes sense to consider what things I require to live my day-to-day life, and think about what jobs are required to provide those things. Unfortunately here I run into what I think is a bourgeois mindset ingrained from birth: none of those jobs are *good enough*. Think about a shopkeeper, or someone sitting at the help desk at the subway station, or a picker at an Amazon warehouse. If I took one of these jobs my parents and social circle would all believe that I had literally gone insane. Objectively, every one of these jobs is necessary for contemporary society to function and the people filling them have easily contributed more social utility than my entire programming career. And yet the idea I could actually take one of those jobs runs into gigantic barriers that exist in my mind. A local political org is working to salt Amazon warehouses and this seems like a pretty easy way for me to get in. But I just can't do it. Every time I try to articulate the idea I could work in an Amazon warehouse to one of my friends it starts to sound like a joke. To me this indicates I have a fundamentally non-proletarian and thus anti-marxist mindset. I've worked jobs like this before graduating university and I know they suck. They are boring, the pay is bad, and worst of all - you get absolutely no respect. The lack of respect is what really sticks with me in my memories of those jobs, and still makes me burn with anger over a decade later. Anyway I'm rambling but I guess my question is - does anybody relate to holding this attitude toward employment either now or at some point, and more importantly how does one overcome it?
www.youtube.com
This book is wild. I greatly recommend reading it if you're on the spectrum. A large part of my social life is occupied with finding plausible reasons underpinning peoples' behavior and this book is a rich source of them. My sole critique is that the book hits extremely hard the first few chapters and then the rest of the book is just ceaseless meandering through practices of various historical & contemporary cultures, but yeah - really that means you only need to read the first few chapters to get 90% of the benefit of the book. I feel like a lot of the scenarios in this book could be put on some kind of final exam for autistic social interaction. Here's a sample: if you save somebody's life, they do not owe you a debt to be repaid as you might first assume; instead, you are responsible for them for the rest of their life. Why is this?
inthesetimes.com
First off I want to say that I'm glad I'm autistic. 20-30 years of struggle & humiliation before developing decent enough social skills, but in return I get to be very good at computer. I would choose this again. I want to write about a lesson I think I've learned about myself which might apply to you too, and I'm interested in what you think about it. It has to do with intentions and how we feel when we say something that makes someone else feel bad. This happened quite often growing up. I would say something insensitive, a person would get mad at me, and my immediate reaction was that I was blameless because I had good intentions but (due to the autism) it didn't come out right. The hardest lesson I've had to learn is that this story isn't true. It's just 100% false. It relies on an incorrect belief that we possess full self-knowledge and don't need to learn about ourselves. You do need to learn about yourself. Your self is somebody who will become more known to you as you age and see how you react to different experiences. You will realize how mercurial & weird you can be. And you will realize you are not inherently, axiomatically, a good person with good intentions. Autistic people are even worse at knowing what's going on inside themselves than others. The reality is you didn't necessarily have good intentions, and your rush to forgive yourself was to miss a moment of possible personal growth. Because you are fully capable of, intentionally, being an asshole.
I've been using DDG for a while but I honestly don't understand their business model if they're privacy-focused. They're basically comparable to google in search quality, which is to say quite bad. Started out on the free tier of Kagi the other day after hearing about it on mastodon. It's a subscription service. So far seems to work okay. Anybody have experience or reviews to contribute?
