I forgor 💀

We had this as the firewall in our school! I remember bypassing it in so many ways with Google DNS and whatnot.

Not a meteorologist but definitely aliens. Don’t get probed man.

What?

Nobody is trying to be manipulative bro, the boogeymen in your head aren’t trying to be offended - you come off like an asshole that’s why they’re assuming you are.

Kamala lost. The idpol of kinder language is a trashfire and a failure because the assumption that “empathy” is a shared quality among humanity is wrong and “bloodlust” is actually far more common, while complete ignorance and anti-intellectualism and accusations of “overthinking” prevail over both as you can see in the programming.dev techbro below.

Talking about how language influences views of marginalized or minority groups is useless when most people can barely even read more than a paragraph without bitching because they never developed reading stamina.

As for those who make these conversations necessary in the first place - they will always use the meanest word they can and all this has done is fed fuel to reactionaries.

There are far more important real fights to fight, like access to HRT and surgeries for people suffering from gender dysphoria - a crippling disorder, before you metropolitan libs start going on about “trans-femmes” and “masculine gendered language”

☝️🤓 - HR sounding ass

That’s rough. That said as a trans woman (no idea what a trans-femme is) I don’t see a problem with it in the context of “you guys”.

I use “dude” as a general exclamation towards my own also-trans gf sometimes even. Really y’all oughta chill on the language policing. If you pass people will treat you like the gender you look like, if you don’t, they won’t really, no matter how much they try, and your main issue is not passing and thus money which can fix that, not other people and their language use.

No

Plenty of nice scientific info in the thread but from a personal experience as someone who used to hit the bong 3x daily for months, it makes you okay with being bored, it’s instant entertainment, and at the end of it you feel stupid because you wish you’d done something with the time and been bored more to get that spark of creativity to come through.

Thanks! Yeah I’m in the UK, not great, not terrible, and I hope whoever comes after is better but I honestly can’t even begin to speculate how you could actually permanently fix Russia’s jingoism.

Not in Russia. Definitely not OK. Left 10 years ago, don’t want to look back. I wish there was an easy way for people to expatriate but even with no travel shutdowns most people are too poor to really migrate somewhere. Unfortunately same is often true for Ukrainians.

Not really. Mostly online there’s some bloodthirst that can be disappointing, but I know how this works so I get it, it’s not the worst thing happening right now.

I think casual counterproductive xenophobia with e.g. Linux kernel banning russian maintainers supposedly as opposed to people explicitly involved with the war or gov’t is also disappointing.

Back before the war, a lot of my western friends in the UK were either Putin apologists, whenever I’d bring up my persecution as a trans person in Russia, they’d laught if off or say something like “I just like Putin, he’s so funny”. It’s been enjoyable watching them be silent now. It’s been less enjoyable to see them follow Farage and Trump and similar paternalistic populist “charismatic” leaders though. Please don’t make me have to immigrate again.

No quantity of “I told you so” will ever get through to them, a lot of westerners are too close minded and westcentric and they don’t always have the capacity to have discussions about geopolitics that don’t necessarily relate directly to them.

At the outset of the war, literally on day 1 iirc, I was dating somebody from Ukraine, and we had a lot more common ground and ability to discuss geopolitics, probably helps both of us were really engaged leftists at the time.

Need? None of course. MSc I did was a waste of time pretty much. But I needed to stay in the country for the visa so I did it anyway.

Before I got an MSc I got absolutely zero offers for:

Junior Software Engineer/Developer (Full stack, backend & frontend; React, Python, NodeJS, C#, Java) Junior Network Engineer Junior Site Reliability Engineer Junior DevOps Engineer Junior UI/UX Analyst Junior IT Technician Junior IT Support Engineer Junior IT Support Analyst Junior Machine Learning Trainee Junior Data Analytics Engineer Junior Infrastructure Analyst (Cloud and DC) Junior Cybersecurity Analyst Junior Security Engineer

I eventually applied for a Java (Node) Developer and turns out they needed a Junior Security Engineer so I got through the interview and did that. About a year later got promoted to mid-level, fully remote. Never looked back.

In the end in my entire life I’ve applied to hundreds of positions, most with custom written cover letters, I got a grand total of 4 interviews, 1 lead to a technical test I did my best on then failed anyway, 1 led to a technical test that I then succeeded at, 2 others led to offers, one of which was my work placement/internship as an “Junior informatics trainee” during uni as part of their program (cost £5000) and paid minimum wage and it was the worst soul-sucking job I ever had.

It matters more and less than it probably oughta depending on the specifics.

I wouldn’t have been able to get into Cybersec MSc (and later job) with a Gamedev BSc, yet all the gamedevs were way more hardcore as programmers and software engineers with a much more thorough understanding of computers just by the virtue that they learned C++ and Python and not Java/C#, meanwhile someone with a Business Information Systems degree can easily pivot into a cybersec MSc yet know absolutely nothing about how computers work as that is primarily a marketing/media degree with light IT.

AMD Radeon 6300M Or if mobile doesn’t count: GTX 1060-6GB

In the UK undergrads are basically considered like high school by most employers. If you want to be employed (especially in tech) you have to have a master’s degree which is like the new bachelor’s, be a talented artist/slop creator with a following (in industries like marketing) or go into trades, but usually that path is only viable if there’s someone you know in trades thats close.

Eating people. Eating family and friends, eating vagrants, eating the needy. Some people can even taste the camaraderie of the people they work with.

It comes down to eating people and if you have trouble just eat people. You know what they say hungry people eat people.

Okay, so you’re just a moron and you can’t relate to your fellow worker with slightly different circumstances because you’ve not experienced them specifically. That if anything is actually lazy. I suggest you read my posts again and maybe have a salad to get that blood pressure down lol, I have no skin in this game because I WFH so I can cook elaborate meals anytime.

Fast food good for people with not enough time or energy to make meals, if you were having such a rough life as to use what I presume is a dollar store of some sort, then surely you get that? And the fact it’s gotten more expensive, being the symbol of the economic strength of the post-90s Pax Americana world order, it’s upsetting to see it get so expensive, as a reminder that this world order is long gone and we’re firmly in times of economic hardship and sweeping populism across the west now.