Ugh that sucks to hear, I’m too old to get the shot for free. Used to be all women regardless of age and men up to 26. Now it’s up to 18 regardless of gender. Of course I only found out when I was 27 and there was no mention of a paid option at all back then.

Do you exclusively cook meals that go in the oven and that’s it? No sauces to simmer, etc?

I think if I’m ever staying at your house, I’m ordering McDonalds lmao

The US also has literal holidays centered around sharing a meal with friends or family. Thanksgiving turkey, 4th of July barbecue…

I’d wager the reason people eat in 10 minutes instead of an hour is the same as it is everywhere else: after an 8 hour workday, you feel like all you’ve got between work and sleep is a few hours and you don’t want to waste it on something boring like eating.

That’s when you sue god

Python itself might not be, but all the AI shit runs on GPUs so it’s CUDA or OpenCL or whatever underneath

I’m having a hard time deciding which Tommy is weirder tbh

That’s pretty much exactly what I meant, yeah - except maybe the redistributing. The CEO makes the board rich with all the fraud and deceit before they even get their golden parachute. Pretty sure they’re gonna keep that for themselves.

Do fraud, earn 10 billion for the company, get caught, company pays a hundred million fine, you get a hundred million golden parachute, company gets a brand new CEO, everyone’s happy except for all the plebs who got fucked over.

But it’s been pipe since 1973

But in my neck of the woods plenty of people owned a PC before Windows networking AND ISPs were reliable lol

Like yes I had Internet at home, but sometimes it didn’t work very well, sometimes it was really slow, etc.

For years, it was almost normal in a small town to have an ethernet cable routed from your neighbour’s house to yours, share a connection. Guess what, it’ll be slow as shit when they’re using it too. Or if the router needs to be restarted for some reason and they’re not home? Welp.

Why did we have that setup? Estonia over 20 years ago was still pretty poor. This whole ADSL thing was pretty new too, it cost quite a bit. I found an article from that period and turns out in 2003 there were three main providers. Starman at 149 EEK per month, Eesti Telefon at 345 and Uninet at 800. I have no idea about Uninet, but Starman was only available in a couple of cities and even in those cities I think it was mostly just apartment buildings. Minimum monthly salary BEFORE tax was 2160 EEK. First 1000 EEK per month was income tax free, on the other 1160 EEK you’d be taxed 26% so 301 EEK. The remaining 1859 EEK, and this is with only income tax deducted, nothing else, is equivalent to 119.16 euros. 345 EEK for internet is 22 euros and change. Imagine spending 18% of your income on an Internet connection!

Still, a computer was becoming necessary for schoolwork. Researching subjects online, printing out homework, etc. If you didn’t have one at home, you’d need to use computer class at the end of the day, or go to the library. Having one at home got me into gaming and tinkering with software and the tinkering got me into programming at the age of ~13 and you can guess what I do for a living now.

That’s quite interesting and actually a very useful step in proving what the comment above mine was trying to prove.

I feel like Nolan’s Batman actually has moral dilemmas beyond the no killing rule.

1. In Batman Begins, you can clearly see he doesn’t even like living as Bruce Wayne. When he sees his childhood friend Rachel and says “this is not all that I am. Inside, I am more…” or whatever he said, you could tell he felt embarrassed about flexing his billionaire lifestyle, which he was only doing because Bruce Wayne needed to occasionally be visible in society, otherwise things would get suspicious.

2. He clearly realized that A) Law Enforcement and the DA’s office needed a lot of help in Gotham and B) He needed to help them arrest and prosecute people legally, rather than having himself, one rich dude, be judge, jury and executioner. This is why he cooperated with Jim Gordon

3. In cases of particularly dangerous people like Ra’s Al Ghul, he committed manslaughter, potentially murder, because he knew they’d endanger more people otherwise. At the same time, I think he realized Ra’s Al Ghul had a bit of a point, that the rich and powerful had fucked Gotham up so bad it would almost be best to destroy it altogether. Still, he can’t agree with it because even letting it happen would mean the blood of millions of people on his hands.

4. While he’s doing a lot as Batman, the Wayne foundation is trying to actually improve society - and while this is feeding into the old libertarian narrative that individuals doing charity is better than government spending to improve society, it becomes clear to him at some point that this is not really working either.

Your conclusion is probably correct, but I don’t think your proof works. I’m going to play devil’s advocate now: The thing to consider here is that these women were not just raised as boys, they were also born as boys. They may be on HRT now, but what if there are differences between how the male and female brains work that come from the Y chromosome? Or your hormonal balance in your formative years? I would hope not because that gives sexists way too much ammo, but we do not know for sure.

There’s other potential reasons for all the trans women in software engineering too. Children who don’t feel comfortable in their own identities are probably way less social - I don’t have enough trans friends to confirm this is true, but I feel like it might be. Not being particularly popular in school drives you to gaming as a hobby because you don’t need friends for that, and at least in the 90s and 00s that would usually mean tinkering with your PC (because Windows never fucking worked properly, did it now). This would also explain all the furries IMO.

Yeah, the session token expiry time seems to be something really short. In comparison, Steam has asked me to re-login like 3 times over the last 7 or 8 years I’ve used it (I used to be an active hater and only had it for HL2 and claiming the free games like Portal).

Headspace app, omega 3 supplements, amphetamine, CPAP machine

Even that is not a full guarantee, as you may develop an incurable disorder, or even be born with one.

It is a great way to minimize the throughgoing though.

I’ve given up on the free games. I’m sure some are great, but I have enough of a backlog on Steam, I don’t need more indie games. Plus I may as well pay for indie games - it’s the AA and AAA games I want to grab for free.

Now they still have some great AAA games every now and then that I would actually like to grab for free, but due to how much stuff they put out that isn’t interesting to me, I’ve given up looking at it. Doesn’t help that I have to re-login every time, regardless of whether I’m using EGS or Heroic (which is a way better launcher and the one I have installed right now).

At this point I think I need to invest some time in getting an RSS client set up and getting notifications for EGS free games and other things I enjoy that I keep forgetting about. I guess I had notifications when I had the EGS client installed on Windows and it ran on the background, now I only fire up Heroic when I realize it exists.

Edit: No idea why I didn’t do this sooner, I already have Akgregator installed and found this rss feed for free games from a reddit comment. It’s a Steam community and posts games from several sources, including Epic.

Not all my life, nor even that major a city (just under 100k population), but that’s where the jobs are. If I were to move to Sweden it would probably be Göteborg to work at Volvo, or Stockholm to work at some tech company. As a foreigner I don’t know the language or the tech job scene enough to pull off some small town.

I was actually born in a much smaller town, bored as hell as a teenager, my peers’ (obviously not everyone, but a lot of kids) daytime activities included booze, drugs and crime. Pretty much everyone escaped after high school, many after middle school. That’s not the kind of environment I prefer living in. The ~100k population range is decent, there’s places to go, things to do, it’s walkable (since we’re in Europe, not US), but if you want to drive out of the city, it’s 10 minutes to the city limit and then you’re gone.

Now if there’s a decent tech scene in like Jönkoping or Lund or somewhere, I’d be delighted to hear about that. But for the most part, those aren’t places you hear about, nor do they pop out much in job search sites. I’m not picky either, I don’t need to work at some big megacorp, a promising startup with an interesting product would be better even.

I’m not looking to move in the next few years anyway, but Sweden is a country I’m interested in, as is Norway.

I know, but los isn’t a verb unlike go. In other languages I speak, modal verbs like müssen are followed (not necessarily immediately but before the sentence is over) by the main verb in its infinitive form. E.g “ich muss gehen” would sound normal to me, but “ich muss mal” or “ich muss los” sound funny despite knowing it’s completely normal.

Trying to translate Bruder muss los literally word for word is also hilarious because to me it sounds like “Bro must away” but then German isn’t my native language (neither is English, but I like to think I understand it at a slightly higher level than my A2/B1 German lol)

Hella expensive property though. For my Baltic ass anyway