Must feel great not to have homework for a few months! I remember that.

In my defense I have ADHD.

Fair enough. [looks for d20]

I like a nice salad of tomatoes and cucumbers with french dressing and a little pepper. Some feta would make it even better!

Stripped of all flesh? Could I keep at least a little of the flesh? Cuz the flesh is what makes the bones worth having.

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By then shuttle flights were so routine I didn’t even get up to watch the liftoff. My mom called me before work and told me it blew up.

Christa McAuliffe trivia: she was the only one in her training group who didn’t throw up on the “Vomit Comet”.

I thought determination was supposed to be a good trait!

I wonder if “human BS” is just the frustration that real human communication is less convenient and demands more attention than the other forms of communication we’ve gotten used to.

Also maybe we should try to stop seeing everything as a binary issue and deciding whether to put a black hat or white hat on everybody. I know oversimplification is a good way to process memes, but it’s really not good enough for dealing with real issues and real people who aren’t cartoons.

I will support this by continuing to be apathetic toward (and in fact ignorant of) the game known as Subnautica 2.

In the most absolute historical sense all borders are arbitrary made-up lines on the ground.

Depends on how you take it. When you say anyone who doesn’t have a neurological disorder can do something it puts a negative light on people who haven’t done it. Not being multilingual is a common negative statement about Americans, for example, always comparing them with Europeans. But most Americans don’t live close to multiple places where different languages are prevalent, as in Europe, so their only reason to learn other languages is purely academic. Similar to the average person’s motivation to learn calculus. I think I framed it pretty realistically - certainly with more brevity.

IDGAF if it’s the best (mint), it was easy to install, easy to transition to from Windows, and in 6 months hasn’t given me any trouble. I just wanna use my computer.

TBH that sounds like saying anybody can become “fluent” in calculus if they just apply themselves. In my experience that’s just not the case. People have different aptitudes. You might be right that with sufficient motivation and unlimited time, anyone without a neurological disorder could theoretically learn a language, but in a real-life context where people have a lot of other concerns and responsibilities going on, I think it’s much more reasonable to say “probably but it depends.”

Popup blockers aren’t as satisfying as a browser plugin that adds a “Fuck Off” button to them.

I used to feel that way, but Trump has done so much damage he’s just not fucking funny anymore, and I wish people would stop generating all the noise to point out how stupid he is. We know, and by now it’s WAAAY past funny.

Sadly Mr. Japan died in April.

Could things like this go in linuxmemes? Memes are fun but it would be nice to keep this a place for actual information. And no, this is not a comment on what it’s saying, I’m just tired of so many memes.

The old school method of learning a programming language, database, framework or whatever was to read books and take classes, do a series of exercises that teach you how to use the features, and the errors you get if you don’t do it right. Then you write code that way for like 10-15 years.

The Information Age method is to find some sample code, copypaste into an editor and hit Compile, then paste compile errors into google and fix them until there are no more. Then hit Run and copypaste/fix runtime errors until there are no more runtime errors. Old-schoolers used to call this hacking, but now it’s called not having time to deeply learn the hot new thing because before you do you’ll have to start over with the next hot new thing.