and it looks like I got on an anti-ukraine list somehow?

Quite possible you just rubbed someone the wrong way. Wil Wheaton used to put anyone who sent him ‘shut up, Wesley’ on the gamergate list.

The Mask, and I turned out just fine

What a strange question

Hit yourself in the testicles with a cartoon mallet, then rethink your priorities

His outpouring of dismay when Cameron won in 2015 was a real salve. It was a good podcast.

He was always hesitant to attack Chavez on The Bugle iirc (for a lib)

Many such cases. Something really needs to be done about it.

I just think it’s better to be sure

Anyone who says ‘externalities’ belongs in prison

If you’ve managed to hold onto those friendships, I’d say that’s a very good thing. It gets harder to make friends as you get older — ‘hanging out’ stops being a thing as the pressure of getting by in this hellscape mounts. Nurture those relationships, because they are precious!

Orly? I might have to look into that

Reminder that Mussolini did not in fact make the trains run on time

I’m currently daily driving a 2011 MacBook Pro running Arch, and it does surprisingly well. I mean, the screen is a weird resolution, the battery life sucks, and it gets very hot, but other than that …

Speaking as a parent, I can say that all babies are born Libertarian. Even liberal education systems understand that they need that shit socializing out of them at an early age

So this problem may be local to Spain, but over the last fifteen years there has been a huge change in the industry, with everything consolidating into these huge, HR-driven companies. The era of small academies wasn’t perfect, but they were generally friendly, family-run places whose strategy was to deliver a good service. The new model is about getting people in and out the door, and monetizing propriety materials — which are increasingly AI-generated. Oh and pay is stagnant or worse.

There has been a change in the profile of student too — from people driven by a desire for personal enrichment and just enjoyment (no-one has the spare cash for that anymore) to people who need to pass a particular exam for work.

There’s also the timetable — split shifts every day, all but ensuring that you never see your kids. That isn’t new, but there used to be enough demand that you could piece something together as a freelance.

Oh dgmw I very much want to get to a point where I can meaningfully contribute labour/expertise to causes I actually care about, it’s just that I do also kind of need to eat lol

I’m pretty competent with React, and I just finished a crud project with Next.js (never again lol). It does seem like there are a lot of offers looking for Angular, so I guess that’s next on the list - just as soon as I get good enough with Go to use that as the backend. My portfolio is hosted on my own hardware with a self-hosted git server and Jenkins pipeline. I worked so hard on it, and felt so proud, but it seems getting anyone to even look at it is incredibly difficult

If blood and soil mattered — which it shouldn’t unless you are a literal fucking fascist ffs I mean jfc — the Palestinians have the best claim to being the descendents of those tribes anyway.

The White House argued that Biden was only referring to the comedian in his comments and sent a transcript in which Biden says: “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter’s.”

Expecting people to buy that excuse is a bigger insult imo

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