Nature gives no fucks

Wow, that was a screed, (a worthy one) and yeah, an engineering degree should be special IMO, as perhaps a (pure) Math one. should also be. We have a tendency to regard you lesser, in self defense, but that professional responsibility is significant, a more elegant weapon from a more civilized age. I do apologize, the steam age thing was out of line (but meant with heart, trains rock, and IMO is where ‘engineering’ started) has it’s roots.

Nah, good engineers are retiring, bad engineers are running rampant. You give yourself away calling us engineers, we were never, except for some yearly title increase instead of money. Just programmers, and that is fine. Engineer is a whole other thing from the steam age, my BSc was in Math, worked fine to get me in.

We should seriously consider a right to destroy noise making crap in general. Currently listening to a 110Db mower, I should be allowed to go out and stomp it, except, maybe, on Sunday afternoons.

Big nose! Love me some sighthounds, big old cat dogs…

I think the principle is sound, if not the implementation. Veto should fuck all the way off though.

Then it might be time for the UN, created in the wake of the last fascist plague to ensure it never happened again, to do it’s damn job. Ideally through law and the cooperation of countries.

Well, good!

XXXX which is 3.5%

That’s Mid (strength), XXXX is 4.4 but was stronger for a long time. I don’t care, I like Ales. Coopers uses brackish water, so it’s rich in electrolytes, stepping around the problem, as long as you ‘zebra stripe’ (drink some damn water along the way) as the next gen says.

Sounds awesome, not technically a wine spritzer, but who cares. I’d go with cocktail in the original sense (drink at 11 a.m. to clear the head)

I would have been Asperger’s Syndrome, but there was absolutely nothing to be done about it at the time, so a diagnosis (as my psychologist actually said) was all downside. Eventually coping mechanisms developed, some through hyperfocus, e.g. learning how to identify emotions in others with body posture and language, microexpressions, voice analysis etc., was a deep rabbit hole, but it’s served me well. If I turn it fully on I seem creepily intense in my focus, so I mostly don’t, but it’s there if I need it and just mildly on brings me up to parity with normies. I’ve done similar things with exercise, diet, meditation, and more.

Solving (my) problems, one hyperfocus at a time ;)

To life being full.

It really is, takes a toll though.

Piece of shit still gets to say ‘I was the first trillionaire’, likely the big thing for him.

It was you. You started the war, you’re responsible. Mass murderer.

Yup, cause implies mechanism, of which there is very little here, seems a lot more like correlation. Also, it’s Harvard nutrition public health, which is, problematic.

Impossible, no, the app is optional, car still drives, just not sucking data for VW (or not if you disable its network in gOS). It is however grounds for a lawsuit seeing as they’re arbitrarily removing functionality that was likely advertised. Yoti is UK specific I believe, and those companies are little loss anyway, more of a prompt to divest. It’s an unhealthy pattern, sure, but the sky is not falling.

The cultural effect of Android requiring developer registration and otherwise trying to kill third party stores like F-Droid, to get their precious walled garden, is a much more significant threat.

“Those who would trade liberty for security, deserve neither and will lose both” - KMFDM, Shake the Cage, by way of Ben Franklin.

Privacy is a liberty.

That’s fair. Guess I should have a look, might be a recommendation to someone. Initial impressions are quite positive, I mean I’ll stick with Immich, still…

Don’t know Ente, but the GrapheneOS gallery works fine for basics, and pop Immich on Mint for the rest of google photos functionality. I’ll suggest Bazzite for the distro, especially if they game or are likely to break things.

Goth was my horn, nowadays I do it with a vibe, but also goth at times.