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Is this an Ikea reference? I’m not trendy enough to get it.

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“If they be led by virtue, and uniformity sought to be given them by the rules of propriety, they will have the sense of shame, and moreover will become good.”

I have no real context other than what is here, and maybe Frogfucius, and I’m not great at reading between the lines so bear with me, because that doesn’t seem so awful for medieval philosophy. Lead by virtue rather than punishment? Sounds almost enlightened.

I mean with the part about rules and propriety, it sound a bit like the Broken Window Theorem which has been shown to be a cover for racist policing, but it also came out in the 80s.

Anyway, I’m not Staning Confucius

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It is sad and gross in a way that’s hard to pin down. I can find nature both beautiful and delicious at the same time.

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Linux user should really be shown with a hoodie sleeve…

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Yeah I graduated a good while ago - diploma in programming from a technical school which – for anyone who isn’t familiar – offers a sort of pared down education with an emphasis on job placement (credits for doing highly subsidized work in the field). I was always drawn to the humanities, too. Took a stab at anthropology, but maybe the time wasn’t right.

Anyway, even a simple “advanced diploma” in programming nearly killed me (I got a passing “D” in maths that I am very proud of), but now I don’t have any issue finding gainful employment, which is nice. Downside being all the creative humanities stuff that is my real passion is purely for hobbies now. I honestly don’t hate the arrangement.

My partner taught English as a second language, too. She found it rewarding, and met a lot of her now good friends doing that.

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I went back at 35. It was very much worth it. What are you taking, if you don’t mind me asking?

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Thank you and well said. She’s by no means a bad person. I like her a lot. it’s just the last job she had was as a nurse in the 80s in London; meanwhile, her husband had the same job for 40 years, so her perspective is way out-of-date with reality.

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I get what you’re saying, but I personally don’t find it tiring. It’s just a part of contextualizing history. I think of it as a reminder of the progress we’ve made (I hope) - that we can put an asterisk beside someone’s name in the history books.

Kind of like how it’s impossible to talk about the history of hypothermia research without acknowledging its grossly unethical source.

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The connection between madness and pineapples has been a topic of conversation for years, but no one knows exactly why the two complement each other so perfectly.

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A good example of this is asking yourself if you would kill your immediate family if you could do so with impunity. For most of us the answer is, of course, no. That’s because of familiarity, and how we think of them as our “in group.” Same goes for anyone else. If you’re morally developed then no one should be afraid of you, except maybe the truly vile.

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I feel like after a while, and maybe with a few notes left behind, it would begin to have a chilling effect.

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I mean think of if someone pisses you off now, you don’t automatically go and fuck with them anonymously, even though it’s infinitely easy to do.

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I suppose with that kind of power you wouldn’t really need to use violence to influence them. Just leave a notes in the field of vision constantly until they give all their money to charity or whatever. Maybe upgrade to random cream pies to the face in public if they’re not getting it.

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I think I was a year into living on my own when I realised I could eat whatever I wanted. I have a distinct memory of walking from the microwave at work with two paper cups stuffed with dogs, and more between my fingers, like a corn dog wolverine.

I probably had malnutrition because I didn’t know how to feed myself for shit lol no wonder I was starving

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As opposed to what? The freakin rain has μlastics - kind of hard to get away from.

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I’m with ya, just didn’t find those points particularly compelling.

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My toaster oven’s manual says I have to power it down, clean out the crumb tray, and unplug it after every use or risk starting a fire. After every use. That’s literally what it says. This is what you get when you give the lawyers free rein over the technical writing. It’s insanity.

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This would turn gay in exactly 47 seconds

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Yeah but we’re all learning, so a certain amount of grace is called for.

Anyway, not to counter my own point. There’s a line, is what I’m saying, and it’s blurry.

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I like that idea, and it actually did work for our Marketing guy (Salesforce has a kind of SQL). Near the end there, I just had to debug a few of his harder errors, or double check a script that was going to be running on production.

Never thought of it for Postres or Mysql, etc, but I suppose there’s got to be an easy enough way to get someone access

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You gotta have the “XxX” at the end too for the symmetry!

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After I stopped caring about having a unified online persona, I just picked random names everywhere. Sometimes I’ll just drop a name that doesn’t fit anymore.

Feels so freeing. Like this is my at work account. When I hand in my work laptop, it’s gone.

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Hey I’m on Ubuntu because I’m lazy, not because I have a life

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But surely you must admit that they do extract more wealth from the working classes for people who just move money around. Let’s see your profit-less crown corporation do that. Checkmate /s

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