The 2 tier system really bothered me. Lhotsampa not being allowed to have passports or bank accounts is fucked up. Also, living there was just rough. It's really a developing country. Frequent power outages, and buying things was hard. For example, the vegetable market was only open Friday through Sunday.

I lived there for 6 months. It's interesting. If you get the chance definitely do it. A week or 2 as a tourist is fun, but even 8 years later I'm not sure if I'd live there again.

Bamboo scaffolding, no safety harnesses. Eek.

Yeah, ask.

That walk is so brutal, even if you hire a pony for the first half. I have no clue how the old people manage to do it weekly.

I live in Albania. Nobody here blames Americans for what the elites are doing. They're pissed at their government for making separate laws for "strategic investors" and the PM Rama being the only person that can grant that status.

Primaries are for selecting who's going to stand in the election.

Theoretically, anyone in the party can vote in the primary (in most states) but normally, it's nerds and diehards that vote. Americans don't get time off to vote, and have been getting "your vote doesn't matter" propaganda for most of their lives.

America has a 2 party system. The far right party are the democrats, the fascist kill everyone if it makes a dollar party are the republicans. The democrat socialists of America are a center right offshoot of the democrat party that are branded by the 2 main parties as the radical left.

They're not advocating for seizing the means of production, or putting billionaires against the wall. "Please sirs lube up before fisting my asshole" is at best center. I'd say forced profit sharing is the bare minimum to be considered center left. In most countries free Healthcare, affordable school, and unions are expectations, not looney lefty ideals.

To be clear, I'm pro DSA. They're our best option.

I was working for the EPA when they were transitioning from Lotus Notes to Office 365. Management required us to wear pins that said "Ask me about MyWorkplace" on the cutover day. I wore a clown suit to work that day. Workers loved it. Management was not amused. It technically met dress code, but I only made it 2 hours before I was told I had to change clothes.

I really like https://vaemendis.net/ubooquity/

The subtle art of not giving a f*ck pisses me off every fucking time I see it. If you didn't give a fuck, you would spell out fuck like an adult.

Fun story time: I once got informed of a drug test for a job I'd just accepted after a weekend of hard partying. I was on prescription opiods, Adderall, and ketamine. They called Monday morning at 9 to tell me I had to piss within 4 hours. I hadn't even slept yet. I should have lit that test up like a Christmas tree for everything except thc. It came back clean. They never asked about my prescriptions. I have 2 theories. 1) they don't actually test. 2) if too many things light up, they assume it's a calibration issue.

So what you're saying is that wolves made "fetch" happen. Gretchen is going to be pissed.

1. they're under paying you.
2. if you can get through this hell for 2 years, you'll likely be pretty set as a Windows admin. No joke, I got promoted into a very similar position from being a datacenter tech. I fucked all kinds of shit up, broke everything multiple times, didn't leave the office for days on end. While you're waiting for access to be able to do things, start learning powershell. Don't fix problems, automate solutions. What I mean by that is anytime you fix anything, immediately write a script to fix it next time it happens.

I am that guy. I got pissed off that there was no way to buy all of the episodes of Good Eats legally. Next thing I knew, I had a dual xeon server and 60TB of hard drives. Of the 50 or so people using my server I think 6 have servers of their own.

Oh look, it's me. Except I've put in 600 applications in 6 months without a single response. 15 years as a Devops engineer at fortune 100 companies, and can't make it to round one.

Here's some of my set

The executive branch enforces the judicial branch's interpretation of the laws passed by the legislative branch. I believe there's a small judicial police department, but really all of the checks and balances we were taught about are gentleman's agreements. If say the legislative branch decides that the head of state is God king of the golden shower, praise be upon him, and the executive branch agrees, it doesn't really matter that the judicial branch thinks it's illegal.

Too bad their build quality is absolutely shit. I'd always wanted an Alienware growing up, but they were way out of my budget. In 2020, I bought my wife and I new Alienware laptops. $5000 worth of laptops. Mine did a firmware update and died in 2023. Dell offered to diagnose it for $200 if I shipped it to them. My wife's has had to be repaired 3 times, and her hdmi port died yesterday.

Thought this was c/shittyasklemmy. It's not, so here's an earnest response. I'm from the US, but have spent a bunch of time living outside of the country. Every guy I know usually poops daily, but a lot of women only poop every couple of days. It doesn't have anything to do with the cold.

Fun somewhat related story time. I once had a colleague travel to the US from South East Asia. He went to our boss a few days into the trip and said he needed to go to the hospital. My boss eventually convinced him to explain the problem. His poop was a solid mass instead of liquid. Dude had never had solid shit before. It's possible an anecdote like this is what gave your teacher that idea.