This might be one of the most batshit insane things I’ve seen in a while

This hit me harder than almost anything in recent history including Trump becoming president. I love Noam, I have a signed photo of him on my bedside table and listen to his lectures several nights a week. I’m truly mortified

Exactly this, I’ve modded out 3DS and sold them for a while as a fun project. But it wasn’t until I got the Thor that I could really get into the games. I’m 16 hours deep into my first time playing Pokemon Y and looking forward to the dragon quest titles

Signal works on Linux?

https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.signal.Signal

WhatsApp has a non official client

https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.ktechpit.whatsie

I don’t use Roblox but it seems to have a working workaround for Linux

https://sober.vinegarhq.org/

I would argue that Linux is a lot more customizable than windows, and can be a lot faster and more stable than either windows or MacOS.

I personally don’t like Ubuntu and am pretty content on Fedora after a decade of distro hopping

I want our tourism to plummet badly enough that companies start to turn on this fucking administration

Follow this guide and you’ll be able to emulate all the GBA and pirate 3ds

https://3ds.hacks.guide/

If you have the new 3ds SNES emulation will work as well

Blue states should stop paying taxes. See how well funded his stupid military would be with fucking North Dakota trying to pay for it

That’s how they get ya

Now that’s a headline that isn’t clickbait, it fucking click kidnapped me

I would state that this is the bar for determining if anything is an addiction. Does it make your life harder to manage or not?

P.s. the answer to your question is capitalism. You must keep the poor in their station so you can continue to benefit from their labor

Ok, well that’s certainly not how you phrased it in the original question man. You kept it pretty vague and relatively open to interpretation. Might have been worth narrowing the scope a bit

In my country at least public education is free. Higher education is paid for, I don’t think it’s a radical belief that learning takes place outside of university

Most employers won’t actually check, just lie and say you have the degree if you’re confident you have the knowledge

This may not be a popular opinion but I personally reject the belief that universities have a monopoly on education. In fact I think most are designed to create a more compliant employee.

That said libraries are free, piracy is free, YouTube hosts millions of lectures by experts in their field and can be downloaded to watch or listen offline. I personally have spent the past couple years learning about the affects of US imperialism and haven’t spent a cent on it

I don’t give a fuck what Ja Rule thinks at a time like this

It does feel odd to conflate discrimination with whitewashing history

I’m certainly not naive enough to ignore that this happens. I do personally believe that these people are outliers and not the rule. But I talk with people who are misdiagnosed all the time. I personally have bipolar with a trend towards mania, and I talk with people who tell me they’re bipolar often enough and they don’t meet the requirements for the diagnosis at all.

And lastly, the stigma of mental illness is fading which is great, but what isn’t is people are self diagnosing themselves left right and center. They then use this self diagnosis as a crutch. Which in my belief is the opposite of what a diagnosis should be, a tool to help you improve your life

I mean I think that part of it is the loss of connection in the digital age.

The improved quality of diagnosis.

I also think that we may be misdiagnosing people who aren’t able to have the resources to survive as depressed. Like “huh you’re sad all the time and constantly stressed, gotta be depression and not that you have to work 2 jobs to live in a shithole and be one car accident from losing your home” I say this not as someone who wants to dismiss depression, but as someone who works with mentally ill addicts and sees that a lot of people are perhaps not chemically depressed but situationally, and they’re never given a chance to leave the situation.

I mean, yes and no.

I have two childhood best friends, we all talk every day. We’re in our thirties now and in some ways have sharply diverted. I had a kid, one got married and a vasectomy immediately after. And the other is still a bachelor who enjoys time alone. However we’re all still working in Tech, we all still hold the same values for work life balance, we all still would be considered far left, and we all love each other and are very much there for one another