Generally I share your sentiment, but just for consideration, I couldn’t so boldly say things can get better very quickly. Can they really?

Does human nature support that, or is major change virtually guaranteed to trigger power struggles and chaos detrimental to the average citizen?

I’m not sure we can objectively assert an answer very confidently.

I feel your pain.

Trade some politeness for some pragmatism. Take these lessons learned when making a purchase / signing a contract / whatever. Next time, directly ask for all of the terms you need, even if it seems insulting to imply they wouldn’t provide it. Pin it down, get it on paper, hold them accountable, even if it seems rude.

Not that I’ve got this mastered. It’s hard. You want to assume others are as dutiful as you and your ilk, but most are just trying to make the sale and move on (metaphorically… often literally)

There’s a scene in the original Trigun where one of the Gung Ho Guns, Rai-Dei the Blade, is obsessed with his chance to face Vash because he wants to see what wisdom exists right at the point of death, and he’s sure Vash (with his crazy dangerous life) has seen it and can show him.

Vash responds saying he’s stood on that ledge many times, and he’s only ever seen fear.

The Blade says that just means he’s a coward and engages in the fight to see for himself. Eventually he winds up on the ground with Vash’s cannon pointed at him preparing to fire, and he thinks that he can finally see it, but all he sees is fear.

I always thought this was surprisingly realistic for an anime spouting lofty ideals.

Our DNA has had 4 billion years to learn the very pragmatic fear of death. I don’t believe anyone faces death without fear. Not if they really have time to think about it.

But it’s just as pragmatic to set that aside to focus on what needs doing while you’re alive. It’s the most predictable consequence of being born. You’ve had a lifetime to make your peace.

Don’t expect death to stop being scary, and don’t try to face it without fear. Just find reasons to keep moving despite that. (Just my 2 bits.)

For SNES specifically, you could about have every game ever made, your save data, and a light OS on a nice sd card.

There are some Pi rigs like that.

Not a doctor, but used to cut a lot of weight and can regurgitate some of the stuff I was told that’s definitely too specific to be universally true but might give good hints.

“The body can’t burn fat off past a certain rate, ~3pbs / week. Any weight loss beyond that is probably mostly dehydration.”

“Alcohol metabolizes to sugar up to the point that you can’t metabolize it anymore, and it starts getting you drunk. Any time you catch a buzz, you’ve also basically eaten a bowl of candy.”

My two bits: firstly try to eat as healthy as you can, meaning definitely cut all sugar, then try to cut carbs generally, then fats and salts. Weight yourself every morning before you eat. Take it slow, aiming for a couple of pounds a week (just under your 20lbs/month goal). If you’re not on pace, ramp up exercise a lot (especially cardio) and trim your intake a little. (More exercise better than less food.). Stay well hydrated the whole way. It’ll help your body process all the challenges.

Hate to break it to you brother, but you definitely want to cut the beer while you’re trying to get to your target weight. Maybe you can figure it out without doing that, but that’s hard mode for sure, and I don’t think you’d be asking for tips if you were really ready for hard mode.

Training.

People already commented about running. Best answer. There are plenty of martial arts that can help too.

Whether it’s a gun, a blade, a club, a spray, your own body, an alarm… they all require consistent training to actually function in the crisis moment.

If you haven’t been practicing and can’t execute the defense without thought, it’s not likely to serve you when the time comes.

Thank you very much.

Kinda hijacking, pardon me, but is there anyone reading who’d be willing to explain the specifics of “Microsoft eats boot sectors” or direct me to some documents?

I have a laptop with Microsoft / Linux partitioned on a single internal drive dual booting between them and have never… well never known that I had such an issue, but I’ve broken it in a lot of creative ways, and maybe this Microsoft greedy boot behavior would inform some of it and help me make it smoother

I i mean mostly just to play with my son all day.

The question kinda assumes I’ve already decided that I need a job / money and need to pocket pick between an easier or more profitable position.

This is how I’d make that comparison

Then the outcome gets plugged into the larger decision framework of how much I want/need and which of the two best suits me

I don’t think there’s a universal answer to whether easier or profitable is better

By trying to estimate how much other profitable work I could do with the time saved in the easier job

Back of hand to side of mouth side comment thing

It’s possible to Google packages and stuff on your phone and message yourself so that when you finally get to a desk you can quickly implement your findings without distraction

*It’s also possible to manage your infrastructure on the phone reasonably effectively, which is close to scratching the same itch?

Not personally, but one of my teammates recently gave a presentation on one because they liked it so much.

If you’ll give me a couple of days to remember who / which, I’ll try to get back to you

When I first started using Git, I was still in a phase where I wanted to completely understand every piece of tech I used inside out and upside down, line by line, function by function, every possible scenario.

Git is the thing that broke me of this habit. Never open the .git folder

Just learn the bare minimum handful of commands you absolutely need to get changes in, and manage the rest through the web ui

git clone [url] pull the repo to start. If you started locally, set up and clone the remote repo, then paste the files into the cloned dir

git add -A register all files in the dir for change detection

git commit -m "[message]" commit changes to those files locally

git push push the local changes to the remote repo

git fetch pull branch data from the remote repo (where you’ve set up branches in the web ui)

git checkout [branch] swap to another branch. Any pending changes should be pushed or dropped first. Drop pending changes with git checkout .

Be very liberal with copy/pasting the whole solution out and in to overcome complex situations. Deleting the .git dir inside will detach the files from version control.

There are many desktop UIs that a lot of my peers like. The one baked into VSCode is nice. There are also many more elegant commands to overcome tricky situations. I never use them. Just the CLI and these few simple commands are enough to get whatever I need done and avoid butchering my history.

You’ll also need to know how to associate your local git client with your remote account, which I have to Google every time. Use SSH wherever possible because of how much smoother it is for the CLI. There’s a config flag to disable ssl checks for https commands that comes in handy in some corporate scenarios.

Probably not great advice, but I think fairly practical advice. Use at your own risk.

The nsfw communities are pretty happy with what’s going on there

Mommy Milkers

D vs B

Just in case, can’t hurt to get your prostate checked.

I wonder which data centers with Chinese affiliations are in the way of Trump’s buddies’ data centers

I’m also struggling to understand why not so many people do it.

Not that they should be, but it seems easy to imagine people getting shy about signing up for a wank in a strange room

Hear me out. Have you ever tried naps?