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16 days agoThere’s a lot of people out there whose goal is to feel morally superior, rather than change the world in any way.
They tend to congregate at the extremes both left and right. Anywhere when they can loudly judge and exclude others.
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21·16 days agoWell, not much else to say. Actually a lot more to say but to a therapist. I made some really bad choices in life, and suffered the consequences. A rags to riches to rags story.
Giving more specific details would go into doxxing territory.
A company was willing to sponsor my visa and pay for relocation costs. Was it worth it? In some other world it might have been, but the way it went for me - absolutely not.
If your entry point into a society is work, make really really sure you will like it. “Culture fit”, despite all the criticisms of the concept, is more important than ever. And make sure the initial social circle you fall into is conductive to your mental wellbeing.
In some ways it’s like being born. Your starting point matters. Anything you achieved previously doesn’t matter since your entire support system will be gone.
3·20 days agoNew streamer incoming …
The article doesn’t say if it worked. Says it caused stomach pain and parasite infection, but no mention of back pain.
Let’s go one level deeper - people who say “I feel normal” do it because saying it is part of that script of life you’re talking about, not because they believe it deep down.
Basically internal life of almost any person other than yourself is impossible to know. And you can’t trust what they say, because they might be lying even to themselves or just don’t want to reveal deep inner thoughts to anyone.
One of the few ways into private thoughts is to get someone blackout drunk. But even that is not 100% reliable.
Someone who used to dislike it in school and university here.
Having to cram a lot of information and formulas, and then reproduce it without error for an exam. None of it made sense, and I wasn’t even aware it was possible for it to make sense.
Only after many years did I understand it’s all connected, there’s a logic to it. It’s possible to understand rather than just blindly learn.
Btw the notation really doesn’t help.
Nominative determinism
What do you mean? Every rapture day has been absolutely true. We’ve been raptured many times so far, like every other year.
KJV is the original text that Jesus wrote, none of that blasphemous “translation”
Grok is woke these days. Mandatory offline bible study with only pre-approved interpretations
Be the change you want to see. Unless they harass you for being positive toward sw, just keep posting there. You’ll never find a community where everyone agrees 100% on everything. Reminding people that hostility towards sex workers is part of patriarchal values is more useful than an echo chamber.
(I’m assuming “reddit” was a slipup)
Anything to do with vampires. So much of the lore is implied and you are expected to have some previous knowledge of the concept of a vampire.
Although this might have spread enough that pretty much the entire world has some context. I’m not really sure.
Anyone not from Europe or North America, did you understand vampires the first time you saw a film or series involving them?
Yes. I’m not too demanding about it but I want my phone to survive being soaked in rain or a washing with clean water.
Bonus points if I can take it into the sea, but I never had a phone for which I was confident it could survive salty water.
Drug laws are evil and must not be acknowledged as legitimate no matter how much you hate some people
I have no idea how people agree to have sex. And I get panic attacks in relevant situations.
I’m quite sure I was in a situation of mutual attraction with at least several people so far, but then what? … someone has to say something or suggest having sex. And that’s not me.
But first she can make a “happily in love” album just for variety. I don’t think she’s done that before.
compared to being a nazi? it’s not mutually exclusive but anime gooning addiction takes time and effort that can’t be used for spreading bigotry
Are we witnessing the Elon Musk redemption arc?
Ok, let me first try to explain what happens on a good day, before going cynical.
Let’s assume we have an existing system. You go to what for you appears to be a website, fill some text fields, click on a button, etc. In the background a lot of shit happens. Typically the backend part of the system consists of tens of services each doing it’s own thing. Some participate in returning a response to you, the user. Others just process data further for analytics, security, etc.
One day someone (in most companies a product manager, or a UX researcher) comes up with an idea for a new feature. A user should be able to do XY. And of course pay for it.
That’s where you step in. Since you mentioned full stack, you will need to do everything.
This is all done with code. You can copy/paste, vibe code, just type it yourself. Code is the least of your concern. Making sure it all works together is what’s tricky. You will go through several iterations until you get it right. Then you write automated tests for it (TDD people don’t come at me).
Also you communicate to other people in the company about any dependencies and overlaps with what others are doing. Finally, you can deploy the code to production which will make it available globally to users.
I just described about 50% of the programmer job. I didn’t mention code reviews, architecture discussions, plannings, retros, communities of practice, incident handling, herding cats…
This is all valid in a good case scenario. good company and a good organization in it.
In reality it’s mostly waiting. A lot of waiting. Despair if you can’t make it work. Happiness if you can. Then despair again because all you do is pointless. A lot of fighting against the system designed to make you as unproductive as possible. Or just giving up and faking it for a paycheck.