semi-toxic and stupid. I got the fucking AI cert they wanted me to, but instead of getting hooked up with clients to do that, I’m doing the fucking test automation since the start of this awful career.

it means they got placed in a mental sickness institution against their will to prevent harm

You make it.

I think Ahegao man looks more like Trotsky than stable.

I’m sure they can play a video on their computer.

Two things to bear in mind : just because you see a box that you can put text into, doesn’t mean that you have to fill it with text every time.

This person is asking you to demonstrate your knowledge of linux programs and curation of good programs, and trying to find a piece of software that is more obscure than what they found. If your response to that request/question is what you put as a reply, than you don’t have the adequate knowledge of the kinds of linux programs out there for media playback, and aren’t a good curator.

I do understand that you might want to encourage someone to be more in line with your views, but you’re not accomplishing that, you’re just showing you lack knowledge.

I’ve been banging this drum on a few other posts, but it’s literally something I ended up having to go to a therapist and taking antidepressants over.

It’s hedonism and eudaimonism. You need a bit of hedonism to help pick you up, and some eudaimonism (long term rewarding, high quality past time) to make you feel more self esteem and that you actually enjoyed yourself. If you just have obligations and responsibilities and you make up for it with hedonism only, you feel depressed in the long run because the days bleed together and you are wasting your time. But, eudaimonistic past times actually require effort and sometimes self esteem involvement and even risk. Like for example, playing the guitar. If you practice and it sucks ass, you feel bad. But if it goes well you gain more self esteem because you feel good about your capabilities.

Who aré we expecting to counterattack the US? Because the Falklands blew up in the face of Argentina because the UK took them back

Danke schön Hans für türkischekültür ge…spreadïng

Thank you Hans for spreading Turkish culture

I didn’t want to come off pissed. I’m sorry if it was perceived like that

You did not come across that way, just that you assumed I put in Merkel when I deliberately avoided putting her in, so in terms of tone and whatnot, there’s no problems.

I guess people could interpret the decisions of Thatcher in multiple ways as well. Those people would be wrong though.

With thatcher it’s a bit more straightforward for some of the things she did and it’s wide ranging impacts. I don’t think Merkel decimated entire regions of germany the way thatcher did to britain, even though she made some people very rich.

Merkel may have made choices that had undesired impacts, but thatcher was really something else.

I purposely avoided putting her name in as she is a complex ruler who is largely average and debatable the same way most male leaders are and her decisions can be interpreted in multiple ways by multiple people…

unlike May, thatcher or kitchner.

The world would be so much better with women in charge.

The women in charge we end up with :

(nb : I’m not saying women are incapable of power, just that assuming women would be great leaders is a stupid idea. There are examples of great/not horrid female leaders like Jacinda Ardern, but thatcher, this woman, Kirchner, theresa may, the lettuce woman are all terrible)

great, now I am realising that “pre-turn of the millenium” memes are a real thing, and were around long ago for it to be a valid measurement of time, since that was over a quarter century ago.

My extremely popular opponent can’t take over my role if he’s in jail for a zillion years

I realise the distro is primarily meant for gamers and my friend is not much of a gamer themselves, however they told me they appreciate its friendlier KDE interface so I wish to avoid switching from this distro again if possible.

KDE lives on probably every single version of linux, most downloads have an option to have it as a pre-loaded download version (https://kubuntu.org/ , https://fedoraproject.org/kde/ , etc : https://community.kde.org/Distributions )

Even if your chosen version doesn’t come with KDE, you can usually rip out the existing UI, and install KDE through the package manager.

Trans : The vatican reveals Waria , the evil nemesis of the Virgin Mary

it’s called transport

We need a time travel machine to go back in time and kill hitler!

There are plenty of authoritarian people ruining the planet and committing genocide right now. Why not do something about it if you’re so gung ho?

actually no. I mean yes, it’s a worldwide issue, but the point I’m making is that in terms of natural resources and system of governance, Argentina actually has a lot going for it. They have a two round election system, the elections are fair and reliable, the amount of terms someone can serve as president is limited, they have abundant natural resources, free and high quality public education, etc etc.

For all intents and purposes, the argentinian public doesn’t have as many excuses as other countries, for having such shitty governments. There’s no unfair vote distribution, there’s no lack of resources, there’s sufficient education opportunities for social mobility and so on and so forth. If they bothered voting for a decent party instead of idiots, they’d be faring far better than they are.

I started watching Salem Techsperts on youtube recently. He sarcastically calls himself the greatest technician that’s ever lived, and calls himself stupid a lot.

I think part of this sentiment is probably because working on “mechanical”/“logical” things requires you to observe events, notice what is happening, measure or react to them in a calm and sensical manner and resolve issues by repeating this process over and over again. You lay the foundations of this by having previous experiences in the domain.

So, when you mess something up, it does feel like you are an idiot, because the process feels like an obvious thing that anyone should be able to do. However, many people fail one of the previous steps I listed.