orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es
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Trans, guy of center, well over 18.
I'm in tech and it feels weird.
Joined Jul 2019
abuse
My family is like, "It makes [x] sad that they can't emotionally abuse you now that you've cut off all contact from them. It would really mean a lot if you let them back into your life now that you are happy and successful without them."
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This is my favourite git commit message I have had to review today: "don't shorten 'cumulative time' to 'cumtime'..."
Calvin & Hobbs & Shaw
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"Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. ... When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." - CS Lewis
Alcohol
Hot take: I like skunky cheap beer. Gimme that 2.50 Beck's 22 oz
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Happy Labor Day in the US. No boss is ever going to pay you enough to live with dignity. No landlord is ever going to charge you what you can afford. Healthcare will only become more expensive in the current economic system. If you don't have millionaire or billionaire parents, you are fucked right now.
Join a union. Organize.
This is a very free country that just worships murderous figurehead presidents
Ok, doing that took me 50 minutes, and now I've successfully passed the 4 week course.
The quizzes mostly covered stuff I already knew, and when they didn't, it wasn't enough material to fail me.
I'm just going to poke at the videos where they seem interesting, and do the weekly quizzes, because I already know most of this stuff.
Ugh...but it's a prereq for the courses I actually want...
I think I'm going to give up on this garbage, because it's wasting my time AND they want 50 dollars for it.
The weekly quiz's first question was about Ronald Reagan, and one of the multiple choice questions mentioned Iran-Contra, but it misspelled "scandal" as "scandle".
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“Americanization Day, Loyalty Day, and Labor Day have one troubling fact in common: They are stark evidence that the U.S. government has long held a vested interest in quashing dissent and cracking down on radical political organizers; in this case, the anarchist, communist, socialist, and trade unionist workers who were behind some of the greatest working class struggles of the 19th and 20th centuries.”
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/history-labor-day-us-government/amp
This is a course that claimed that Ronnie Reagan watching War Games inspired serious defensive security at the federal level in the United States.
Ol' Ron asked his advisors if the movie was real, if it could really happen.
I can believe that part may have happened, since Ronald Reagan was an enormous dumbass.
What I can't believe is that the same president who used a psychic to make policy decisions had any say in computer security at the national level.
I'm taking this IBM course on security and it's so fucking bad, but I want the badge.
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believing that you're a purely free thinker is what's stopping you from ever being genuinely critical
What if...a clown was sad.
That would be deep, and disturbing.
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Trans, guy of center, well over 18.
I'm in tech and it feels weird.
Joined Jul 2019
