My parents have a small bussiness here, and like, we can’t just thanos snap and move everything.
Remember that many jews said the same thing in Germany before the war, until they realized it really was time to get out of Dodge and they couldn’t.
Curious, what country did you go to
I lived in many countries. The one I went to when I left the US was the UK. But it was in Europe back then. I would never move there now.
Because AFIAK, there only a few ways
You missed mine 🙂 I had dual citizenship. I simply gave one up. I had to pay the extortion racket but other than that, that’s all I had to do.
Also, if you’re trans or not male or female (some people are born with extra X and Y chromosomes, which flies in the face of the administration’s idiotic male / female classification), you’ve basically become a non-person in the US. As such, I’m fairly sure you could make a convincing case for asylum in many European countries.
If I was still an American (I gave up my citizenship after Dubya shat the USA Patriot Act) and part of an at-risk group - and there are many - I would seriously consider emigrating at this point.
Don’t do like the jews who stayed in Germany after 1933 thinking it can’t get any worse: it will get worse and you don’t want to be stuck in the US when it’s too late to leave.
The morale of the store is, read the release notes to see what’s changing.
You do that, I do that, but most people just click Update. And that’s if whatever wants to update itself lets you even opt out: Windows for example will nag you into submission at best, and more likely simply apply the update without asking your permission, and while you’re in the middle of important work if it wants to.
Same here. But I avoid saying it too often because I always get jumped by a bunch of forced-upgrade lemmings who insult me and tell me I’m a dumbass because I expose myself to immediate and terrible danger from evil hackers in the next 30 seconds. Which of course isn’t true, but most people have been so drilled into blindly updating anything anytime an update is available without even checking what they’re installing that they’ll aggressively confront you if you don’t.
The instance I use (SDF) has stopped fetching Youtube video titles and thumbnails weeks ago. I just add them manually now.
The SDF instance runs 0.19.8.
That’s the most accurate article on the subject I’ve read in years.
With shell scripts, I’m not sure.
With Python scripts, you want argcomplete.
I try to learn the following sentences in the language of a country I go to if I don’t know anything at all about that language:
I find this quite enough to strike up a conversation in most of the world. When people don’t automatically switch to English - perhaps because they don’t know it well enough - then I try another “universal” language like Spanish or French (universal mostly because of past colonialism, sadly). That implies speaking those languages of course.
If the locals won’t speak English because of a prejudice against English (mostly French-speaking regions) I don’t even bother with the “I’m sorry…” bit. I just let them figure out by themselves that conversation is going to be difficult.
If the locals are anti-Americans - very common, and getting more and more common - I affect a British accent. I wouldn’t fool a Brit for a New York minute but I’m convincing enough for a non-native English speaker to avoid being associated with the US.
Everybody loves an underdog who fights against someone everybody hates.
And Zelensky just went up 1000 karma points for the same reason: everybody hates the US now.
I’m from yesterday. When I was a kid in the 70’s, my tomorrow was the triumph of science, an evermore interconnected world of evermore educated people, the rule of individual rights and freedoms, the retreat of religion and magical thinking, fewer and fewer wars and the gradual end of poverty.
I’m very bitter today because somebody stole my future. But you can also argue that I, a man of yesterday, failed to shape the world of today too. We all failed, those of my generation.
If you’re a person of today, you need to work towards a better tomorrow right now. Because if you don’t, you’ll end up regretting not doing it later in life like I do.
Because the American culture has indocrinated Americans to put themselves first. Whoever has “me first” hard-coded in their personality tends to view everybody else as inferior, and tends to have an unwavering confidence in their own greatness.
How much do you bet certain parts of the Epstein file will be redacted?
He is much too verbose, launches into side topics that have nothing to do with the subject on hand, and he speaks much too fast. But that’s his style. I believe he’s on the spectrum and doesn’t really know how to focus on what he has to say.
Having said that. I think Louis Rossmann wouldn’t be Louis Rossmann, or even be as efficient as he is, if he didn’t do that.
It’s all a matter of perspective. I’m an optimist myself so it goes:
I have my own mannerisms because I have my own personality. I don’t need to copy nobody else’s, rich or poor.
I’m glad one more person discovered Linux is good in 2025.
I’m a random person too and I discovered Linux in 1993. Where’s my 15 minutes of fame?
Oh right, I’m not a Youtuber…
I never tapered off. I replaced hard smoking with hard vaping almost overnight - and when I mean hard vaping, I mean big mods with big drippers, tons of power, tons of clouds, tons of nicotine.
I calmed down a bit with the vaping over the years because I didn’t feel I needed as much. Then one mornng, I simply left the mod at home and stopped vaping cold turkey.
Vaping had two functions for me:
After 10 years of vaping, I really felt like tobacco was well and truly alien to me at that point, so the “crutch” aspect of vaping disappeared. As for the nicotine, I figured I could always smear some nicotine base VG onto my gums. So I quit vaping but I left home with a bottle of nic that morning, but ended up never needing it.
That’s my tobacco cessation story. Everybody’s is different 🙂
how about they leave the fluoride in it for starters?