I have an 03 1.8T 5mt Jetta that I’m keeping maintained mostly myself. It’s fun, old enough that I can consider it somewhat of a beater (I live in the city), and it’s comically easy to park due to the small size. Also, shitloads of aftermarket for it, if you’re into that sort of thing.

I am a simple man; I see the blue shell, I upvote.

American here: there’s a LOT of racism in America. And in certain regions, it’s a lot worse. Even in some neighborhoods of “good” places, it’s worse. Be careful if you’re not white. Be especially careful if you’re in any of the southern border states and you look even remotely Hispanic.

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Also, old people run everything these days

Holy shit guys, seriously, watch till the end, it’s great

If my grandfather were still alive and tried to tell me literally anything about network maintenance, I’d say “ok sure grandpa, don’t worry about it”, and then do it anyways after he goes to bed, because I know how networking works as a component of having over a decade of devops and homelab experience, and he would never notice.

Then tell him to do it himself, because he clearly doesn’t understand how basic networking works, and he’s not willing to adopt the easiest and most obvious solution.

For instance: commenting on Reddit

Chill, meatbag. You’re not the final arbiter of what is funny and what is not. Humor is subjective.

That is actually kinda neat and fun :)

Look at what community you’re in

Thanks for the nuanced reply - I agree that, despite the clear and sweeping benefits of the Marshall plan, it did tend to give us Anglos (I’m unitedstatesian, but I appreciate the compliment regarding my interest in history <3) a bit too much of the carte blanche assumption that “we are doing the right thing” - the final form of which can be seen in both countries: the UK, with the whole Brexit idiocy and assumption that it’d be super easy to reclaim some of their former imperial glory; and the US, with the final form of our hubristic-devolving-to-toxically-narcissistic concept of “American Exceptionalism” (a sentiment, I should add, that was to a large degree based on the convenient fact of “not having large sections of our country and industrial base bombed to shit during WW2”).

Also, I do tend to accidentally write comically long and structurally baroque sentences sometimes :D

Is that the traditional or modern definition of “literal”?

Everyone expects the LLMs to do it for them

I’m not excusing German citizens by any means, but it must be mentioned that putting up with absolutely crippling economic conditions made every single German pretty fucking miserable, and liable to jump at literally anything different. As in - and this is not hyperbole - inflation so bad that price hikes were often performed every day, throughout the day, and people brought literal wheelbarrows of cash to buy basic supplies. They minted reichmark notes in denominations of billions. Everyone’s savings was wiped out. People walked away from the Weimar Republic for a reason; it’s just absolutely fucking tragic that they walked towards the populist scapegoating of fascism, because it gives that good dopamine hit from the daily hour of hate.

And there are a hell of a lot of echoes of that tale in the circumstances we find ourselves in now.

It’s a solid 30%, by all accounts.

Why does a mouse own a dog? And how come the mouse is also friends with another dog? What’s going on there?