“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. They’re allowed to take only a knapsack and a little cash with them, and even then, they’re robbed of these possessions on the way. Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return from shopping to find their houses sealed, their families gone.” — Anne Frank

That's a relief.

So just go on about my merry way and if someone corrects me respect their choices ?

The first mistake was liking a company.

It’s bad. Very bad.

I spent the past month or so looking for my first job out or school. And so many places make you jump through hoops or have humiliation session interviews.

The place I accepted the offer from called me once for screening. Then set up a technical interview.

The technical interview was half of it talking about who I am. What I like to do. What I want to work on etc. and the other half them explaining what the job is, why it’s a great opportunity etc.

Next day I got the offer. Simplest process ever and not humiliating at all. Felt like the exception. There are decent people out there still.

Young Dave Chappelle was the greatest comedian of all time and I’ll die on this hill.

He still has some sparks of brilliance here and there. But fuck. Yeah. The meme is accurate.

I've only ever had one date in my life that went bad. I had a feeling I was about to get ghosted so I asked her to like. Lemme know why it went so bad from her pov. It was an interesting conversation.

If they bring it up just be honest with them.

I want to like this place.

People seem too aggressive here though.

And apparently everyone's hobby is using Linux and neurodiverging.

This was forever ago. But basically we both drove to a mall for I think sushi and a movie ?

The conversation during sushi went swell but during the movies I could tell she was sitting farther away from me than she had to.

On the way out I asked her if she wanted me to walk her out and she said nah. I was taken aback it was late at night. And was like. Are you sure ? She said yes so we parted ways.

I remember thinking man I'm not sure what I did wrong. That whole thing usually works. Lol.

Once I got home I messaged that I apologized if I made her feel uncomfortable in anyway and asked her on her end what went so wrong.

She told me during the movie / on the way out she thought I might attempt to kiss her. And she wasn't feeling that way. I thanked her for being honest and that was that.

I wouldn't have tried tho. I was fully aware that things weren't going ideal. But yeah. Thats the story.

sudo makemehappy

Pls?

Not gonna lie. I think most people just don't want work for free for some company's benefit.

Why are you providing a service for some live service game that doesn't pay you for it ?

Full IDEs kinda suck.

Playing Town of Salem.

It's a game where some people play good guys some people play bad guys. And every day someone is put up for trial and you have to convince everyone you are a good guy so you don't get hanged.

So. I was put for trial and made a very laboured argument of why I had to be a good guy and shouldn't be hanged.

Someone replied "Fake and gay".

And they hung me. I was a dead bad guy.

It needs to "just work". It's not more complicated than that.

Good painless alternatives:

• Chrome -> Firefox

• Gmail/Calendar> Proton

• Google Search -> Feels like all search engines got SEO'd into uselessness these days, but duckduckgo maybe.

Good but somewhat painful to switch alternatives:

• Google Drive -> Proton

• Office -> LaTeX/LibreOffice

• ChromeOS -> Linux, yeah technically ChromeOS is also linux but come on, you know what I mean.

Less than ideal alternatives:

• Maps -> Idk, not really many good options, apple maps is good too, but not sure if that's what you're looking for.

• Android -> Idk, lol iOS, or de-googled android roms. Not many great alternatives there.

Is there anything else you need an alternative to?

Why do they even have such a shitty policy? What benefit would it have? Bully people into coming in?

Policies made by people thinking neurodivergent just need the right incentive to be "normal".

"Have you tried hard enough to be normal?" -- The people who set up that system probably.

If it's not obvious those rules are in place to punish women. Not to protect. They will never ever be applied in a protective way. That's not what they were made for.

"wow you are trying to punish x people for wrongdoings of their parents/grandparents" is the argument it's trying to counter.

my computer?

"Your computer?" -- Microsoft probably

I'm 35 and I already feel a little out of touch tbh. It's insane people in their 80s being in positions of power is so normalized.