Is the joke that you’re not communicating and expect us to read your mind, as referenced in the original post?

He should be personally, criminally, liable for the deaths and suffering caused by his policies. So should leadership that supported him.

Sometimes I resent being straight, where monogomy is basically the only option

There’s plenty of poly/enm people. I know people who have success there, and had some myself.

Counter intuitively, it lead to fewer dates for me than monogamy. There’s a smaller pool of people. I’m still rolling the same dice trying to clear DC 18, but when I had it filtered to poly I was making like one check a week, versus like two a day.

There’s a lot of ghost jobs. Should probably be illegal to knowingly post a ghost job, with penalties to the tune of “pay a year’s salary to every applicant”

I mostly read lounged on the couch, long ways. Sometimes in bed with pillows to prop me up.

I mostly read ebooks and highlight passages in them. For physical books sometimes I’ll take a picture of an important page I want to reference later.

Not sure what you mean by “hard books”. I do have a bad habit of reading too quickly and not fully retaining everything. The last book I (re)read was House of Leaves. A classic. Highly recommend.

It was a quick and easy way for cops to hit their quota, even if the DA didn’t end up prosecuting

I feel like if that sort of thing happens, you should be paid extravagantly. None of this “okay you can go” business after you’ve been fucked around.

It’s funny because people who have never been to New Jersey aside from like an airport or maybe the Secaucus train station will shit on it. Meanwhile, they’re from like bottom-of-the-barrel Mississippi or something.

I dunno, I’ve always felt negatively about, like, unoriginal things people just repeat to feel like part of the group.

When I read “influencer” I read it as like “grifter”. I concede what you’re describing may not be bad.

Müller-Vahl asked the obvious follow-up question. What she found was that almost every patient in the outbreak had been watching a small number of Tourette influencers with very large followings who documented their own tics on YouTube and TikTok.

Why the fuck do these influencers exist.

Unfortunately, the idea of “then we go into the board room and execute all those assholes” has a certain emotional appeal that’s absent from “we’ll boycott, vote, run better candidates”.

More active resistance like strikes or blocking production are a little more poetic, but tend to draw violence

Does it really matter in a development enviroment?

Yes 100%. There’s a good chance whatever you’re working on with be on Linux, so being on windows locally is just an extra layer for problems to manifest. Plus windows is just weird compared to everything else.

I don’t want to fuss with the OS. I just want the basics like ~, cat, grep, curl, etc to work. I don’t want OneDrive. You can go get tooling to make windows more linux-like but, like, why half ass it.

With containers I guess it matters less. You could have a Windows host and Linux container, and probably not cause any problems with case folding or line feeds, but again: why half ass it.

Do you do software development work?

I’m not that kind of computer person so I can’t speak confidently on the specifics. I imagine it might be a factor that windows is just more familiar to many people, lots of enterprise software was already written for this task, and common problems were solved.

A user in linux without admin rights is pretty limited in what they can do.

Windows isn’t really fit for development (outside of windows-specific targets), so. And it kind of sucks for just day to day usage. And most IT departments aren’t great, so linux is out.

I suppose. But I remember old games came on multiple disks.

I also think that chasing every higher graphics has reached diminishing returns. Style counts for more than fidelity, I think.

No.

• most people don’t know about it
• many actual children won’t care
• many “gamers” are little better than children

I played paintball once and they had a “tag them out” rule. I snuck up on someone and tagged them. Pretty satisfying. Then I got shot with a paintball while standing there smug.

Apparently “that’s different and you know it”

This is conservative thought. Different rules for different people. In-groups to protect, out-groups to bind.

You can also see it when it’s like “when I needed welfare I was down on my luck and needed help. When they needed it, they were lazy cheats”

It’s poor empathy, poor reasoning, emotional dominance. They are, frankly, stupid

Many of them are illogical, or have logic descending from extremely dubious axioms.

For example, “abortion is murder of an innocent baby” + “allow abortion for rape or incest” don’t square well together, but see commonly seen together.

I remember my child mind being blown when some clothing store my mom took me to had two giant mirrors facing each other. I guess it was so you could see how you looked with their outfits, but I was amazed by the infinite hall of me.

True. Having some reasonable photos and sending a good first message helps with that. Ask your friends of your desired gender to look at your profile. (If you have no such friends, maybe work on that, too.)

Some people just write “hey” and that’s a really poor strategy. Write something that plays off their profile.

Also don’t spend too long chatting on the app. Initial exchange, like 1-3 more volleys, clear any deal breakers, ask them out. You want to get in person so all the normal human things like body language work for you, and the siren song of new matches is somewhat muted.