This is more of an indication that the USSR had a functional public education system, and the dictatorship style, top down style education is indeed good at hammering (STEM based) academic skills into young brains. Arguably, most other non third world countries are doing a better job at the public school system than the US

That's fucked up that a prosecutor has lobbyist interests in private prisons.

It's metal but we shouldn't make fun of this situation. Imagine if this was NYC, LA. The cities you and I live in. It's a living hell and terrible greedy people are making this happen

"You asked for a plague when you said no to vaccines, now here we are!"

This reminds me of when I was a kid. My school computer were running slow as heck windows xps or windows 7s, mostly slow because the bloat of education software that was installed to block visiting certain websites, lock down computers during certain hours or when the teacher is lecturing, etc. Even in my high school.

One day for my computer class during a lecture, I plugged in my liveboot USB running Mint, hushed my classmates next to me and rebooted. I didn't expect the computer to make a loud as hell beep sound when it got to the bootloader, but I was sitting in a side row so the teacher just said "what was that?" and moved on while others looked at me suspiciously. But then I was able to boot up Linux right there, super easy. And everything works, I was able to browse the web without any restrictions, well I'm not really trying to look at bad stuff but just hate being locked down when I can do something else instead. Or maybe I just wanted to show off Linux. Anyways my classmates next to me silently whispered "what the heck how did you do this??" I look back at this as a fond memory.

Good job for standing your ground and drawing boundaries. I have similar problems but a few years ago I did just that. A lot of anguish and strong emotions went through me as my mother went mad and extremely angry with my choice. This hard decision will pay off, stay strong. I had a friend recommending this book "The Body Keeps the Score". Never got a chance to read it but it could be helpful.

I genuinely thought it was fishnet instead of scales. Still yiffy to me

You should take a look at Ansible, it's the same problem as infra teams in tech companies to manage Linux deployment and it's a mostly solved problem

You probably need to be a white male at least.

It seems like the search engine is not working anymore, redirects to a personal portfolio page. Any updates?

Which book?

He sacrificed his life for more soup umami

Are you happier today in a different job? That's what matters

Ditto, going outside with some physical exercises boosts my endorphins levels a bit. Playing instruments too. Socializing is very helpful for those bad days.

Does inulin give you bad bloating and flatulence or is it only me? Half a teaspoon will do that to me. Although, the benefits of improved movement outweigh the negatives.

I hope you're right, I also tried to read the pricing page on netlify carefully about this. The Q&A says the websites will be shut off if the bandwidth limit is reached, but the pricing table still says $55/100 after 100G is reached. Talk about not reassuring. From the look of it, it's probably fine to use the free tier since it technically didn't ask for credit card info and real name to sign up iirc, I don't think they have enough info to send a bill to any users home address, so nothing is stopping from surprise charge free tier user from just not paying the bill at all.

I see, thanks for the clarification! May we never receive a $100k bill :D

Just a heads-up about netlify, I am building a website and planning to host there as well, but be sure to do rate limiting or put it behind a cloudflare proxy to avoid ridiculous $100k bill from netlify.

Update: I checked netlify's docs on rate limiting and it is a paid feature :(. That means you're a DDoS attack away from a huge bill from netlify, even if you're on a free plan. I'm going to host my site on GitHub pages or cloudflare pages instead, netlify is simple to use but this is simply too dangerous.

meet someone who is thoroughly fucked up (as am I), but who is keeping it in check? Because, yes, I am attracted to the existential grit brought about by hardships. I like someone with dirty hands, someone who has good reasons to not be optimistic or generally cheerful, someone who has seen the things beneath the flesh and is now knee-deep in the abyss.

I would say yes, this increases your chances of finding toxic partners by a lot. A lot of people can have hardships and have the "grit" but some of them stay positive and move forward while others keep the pessimism and the trauma unhealed. And as people with past trauma know, it's gonna take a long time to properly heal, and having a positive life attitude and outlook is essential in that process. I am one of those with past trauma so I am not trying to be against them, but there is a reason that a lot of terrible criminals had terrible childhoods. Of course, others can become overachievers or great people too, but the correlation is there. If you want to find relatable partners, there are things beyond life hardships you can try to relate to.

Graphics looking awesome