Army basic training was pretty easy for me because I had spent most of my life with people yelling at me, assaulting me, and treating me like garbage. I was prepared!
Much of basic training was an improvement compared to that. There, at least the food was decent and no one was attempting to stab me and the like.
Just as degrowth is nonsense, the liberal approach of taking away people’s rights to “protect” them is pretty evil. I don’t know how anyone can think like that.
It's a Nokia 9000il from 1996, and it runs PEN/GEOS on a 24mhz 386 CPU, with 8mb of RAM. pic.twitter.com/HRgOzc16Ad
— foone (@Foone) September 11, 2021
I wanted one of those so badly in 1996, but it was very expensive and I couldn’t afford it then.
Sally Rooney is the Andy Rooney of midwit pseudo-educated faux-sophisticated poseurs.
Automakers could be required to install technology to detect drunk drivers.
Oh fuck that. Way to waste everyone’s time.
That Elizabeth Holmes was able to pull that kind of a scam for as long as she did I actually think is an example increasing gender equality. https://t.co/DkKqY1xy33
— Angie Schmitt🚶♀️ (@schmangee) September 17, 2021
Same. A bunch of mediocre women everywhere means that gender equality is closer. Women making mediocre movies, writing mediocre books, running companies poorly or fraudulently — shit, that’s stuff men have been doing forever. When women get in on the action and don’t have to be truly exceptional to be out there is when equality is in sight.
The myths of bodyweight training.
The basic advice isn’t bad, but I disagree with “it’s a mistake to want to be hot in the first place.” I think that shouldn’t be a primary goal of weight training, but it is a worthy goal. It makes a huge difference to one’s life. She’s reacting to past trauma and yo-yo dieting, I understand, and that’s fine but she’s largely wrong in her thoughts about motivation.
Getting strong first should indeed be your priority. I do agree with her there. But working out to look better is something I’m very, very, very glad I did and it motivates me a lot. She’s making assumptions that getting hotter will not and cannot motivate anyone, which is just completely bogus. It is extremely motivating to me and to many people.
Sat through a horrible job interview for an hour then the guy was like “btw, this only pays 30k so if you’re looking for a job that pays better, look elsewhere” so I said “ok I will” then he was like “?? wait no” lmao this was hours ago and I still feel incredible
— Kristin (@fencheeks) September 15, 2021
Mooks are always surprised when you up and walk out of a bad job interview. Done it at least four times in my life and it always feels good.
GNOME to prevent theming, wider community not happy.
Open source projects are often not better — and are often even more totalitarian — than closed ones. Gnome is total trash and has been for quite a while. Will never use it if I have any other choice.
At least they aren’t pretending it’s for “security” because of course it’s not and never truly is. It’s just about control — it is when Microsoft does it, when Apple does it, and when anyone does it. People just get a thrill out of having that power. That’s all. If you believe it has a single thing to do with security ever, you’re a fucking idiot.