QuarterSwede

13. Ukraine and Russia will introduce school courses that promote understanding and tolerance of different cultures, fight racism and prejudice.

I don’t see Russia agreeing to this.

It is a good teaching tool for budgeting though, especially with kids or people who never have budgeted (which is most people I’ve worked with, sadly).

More like TRUMP Jesus H Christ. He can’t stand playing second fiddle to anyone or God. Gotta have first billing, Donny!

Ah, so you’ve been to Colorado.

I was talking to an old timer that went part time and asked him if he thinks it’s gotten harder to manage people and processes. He responded, “oh hell yes. I couldn’t do what you are expected to do.”

I’ve never actually considered peeing on anyone’s grave but this guy … he honestly makes me want to do that when he finally croaks.

That was an excellent long read. Great investigation and handled relatively well at the professional level.

And then someone else actually living there says, yeah, that’s not actually true nor practical day to day.

So that’s not just me! I’ve also had Alt+Tab get stuck showing all windows and not move to the selected one lately. Gahhh.

It might be your hardware. I just migrated from a Ryzen 5 laptop (with much better battery life than its Core i5 cousins in the office) to a new Core Ultra laptop and the difference in shutdown time is striking. Mostly because it actually shuts down all the spreadsheets and office BS I have open while the Ryzen one would hang. I normally don’t like Intel chips but this generation seems to be pretty good. Could be RAM too. Old laptop had 24GB, new one has 32GB.

For me it was not being able to keep a homebridge VM from crashing. Threw it on Debian and it hasn’t gone down once. Dual booting for now but I’m moving everything over. The final piece was seeing how fast Debian copies files. It’s instant most of the time. Made me realize that the “nice” speed dialog is literally just show and slowing down the functionality by quite a bit. What a pig.

Ma’am, excuse me but, you’re a fucking idiot.

The real secret is understanding failure makes us learn quicker and that we rarely get better unless we’re uncomfortable.

One of my favorite movies is Meet the Robinsons. If you haven’t watched it with him it’s a great message about failure and not being afraid of it.

I’ve lived through the cell phone invention, to flip phones, to smartphones. They were terrible back then and I doubt that’s changed now.

Now, I do understand the reason why you moved back to one. For me, I just got aggressive about notifications and turned off most of them. I stopped social media tied to friends and family and am selective about what I’m on and for how long. Takes more personal willpower (or whatever) but you do get used to it in the long run and feel better.

I don’t agree with the premise of this article. When hunting and gathering the default is, “oh look, berries I can eat on a bush, let’s pick them or there’s a deer nearby, let’s shoot it with my bow and arrow.”

These are just … choices. The only difference now is the amount of choice we have. It’s overwhelming so we go back to what we know to move forward. That’s just simply the human condition. Don’t think too much into this.

“He didn’t look like he was speeding to me.”

Freaking slayed!

My experience is this is just online and it’s much worse on far (US) left sites like Lemmy.

It doesn’t track the same in the real world, at least the places I travel to (all over the US). People are generally still very nice and accommodating to all kinds of people and generally don’t like what the government is doing.

Right. What people need to understand that any globe put on a flat surface will be distorted. Their proposal is just as distorted as the Mercator, just in area vs angles as you stated.

The higher you go the less air pressure there is to keep the carbonation in the liquid. This definitely affects taste.

Colorado as well. It’s currently 51F/11C out … in August, which is traditionally the only hot month, usually in the 90F/30Cs. It’s rained every evening and we don’t usually get much rain save the beginning of Spring, which we didn’t get this year. Very odd.