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If anyone tells you that your teenage years are the best years of your life: Smile, nod, and slowly back away. Then never talk to that person again if you can help it.

Not usually. I don’t typically look too much at the instances I’m interacting on to know if they care about reports or not.

Anyways, the point I’m making is that your experience was just being unlucky with the quality of the professors you got and the style of teaching they favored.

I think the problem is that experience is pretty common (at leat for my experience in the US). I only learned to love math later in life because I started getting interested in physics, and then I realized that math wasn’t rote memorization.

I generally tag people who are being shitty. It’s totally fine if they disagree with me about things, or downvote me or whatever. But if they just insult others, or openly lie/mislead, or yell at others without bringing an actual argument, then they start getting tags. After enough tags, they get blocked.

The good news is, you have no tags! :)

Remember when they got mad after Trump said “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters”? They said it was cult-like behavior by his followers.

But when Biden bombs children, or backs a genocide, it’s somehow not cult-like behavior to keep supporting him.

awesome, I’ll check that out

https://archive.is/VBn5c

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/well/live/guidelines-iud-insertion-pain-management.html

It’s insane to me that this just now came out

Chris Crawford was talking about this problem in 1992 and we still haven’t learned anything

The Dragon Speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBrj4S24074

I couldn’t find a transcription, and it covers a lot more than education, but it’s a good speech. The relevant part starts at ~12:45

I forget where I heard the quote, but:

Stack Overflow is a great place to find answers. Stack Overflow is a terrible place to ask questions.

But it’s never enforced. I get a lot of spam from US companies that don’t have working unsubscribe mechanisms, and I report it all the time, but nothing is ever done about it.

Patient gamers represent! The older I get, the less I care about FOMO. The less I care about FOMO, the happier I am. It’s a beautiful cycle.

/me goes back to playing snes games on an emulator

It’s always been super spotty for me. Sometimes it doesn’t work for a few hours, sometimes for a few days. It usually ends up working again after a bit. I ended up moving to mostly using yt-dlp instead, as it’s more consistent. I don’t know of a more reliable phone-option tho :(

I use LUKS and backup to a usb-drive that I have at home. I rsync those backups to my work once a week. Not everyone can backup to their office, but as others have said, backing up to a friend/family member’s house is doable. The nice thing about rsync is that you can limit the bandwidth, so that even though it takes longer, it doesn’t saturate their internet connection.

I love it when I have a mouse. It’s terrible on modern touchpads though :(

As someone who grew up fundamentalist-religious and right-wing, but then got out of it, it’s becuase of a few things:

• You’d have to restructure a lot of your world-view, and that is very hard. You have to take a fundamental part of how you see the world, discard it, and watch a bunch of other values and beliefs come crashing down. Rebuilding from that is scary and hard.

• You have a lot of social investment as being part of the “in-crowd” of your community. A lot of your friends/family/colleagues/social-circle all keep reinforcing your beliefs. This makes it hard to step away from those beliefs, because you feel like you are betraying that community. Many communities will indeed abandon you, especially if you go to the “other side”. You suddenly have to become the enemy that you’ve been rallying against.

• Sunk-Cost fallacy: You’ve already spent so much time and effort in this belief, that youre really hoping something will happen, and your faith in the person or system will be justified. Eventually it’ll pay off if you wait just a little longer. Of course, “wait a little longer” ends up being years and years, and at that point you have more compounded mistakes that you have to admit to. This makes you feel like a bigger idiot than if you had just admitted your mistakes up front.

tl;dr: It’s a cult!

On the west coast. Most polls that I’ve seen show that those aren’t progressive values, they are the vaules that most people have. The Democrats just keep chosing unpopular positions, because they care more about their donors than voters.

I feel like “lets stop bombing children”, or “maybe people shouldn’t go bankrupt because of healthcare”, or “maybe the rich should pay their taxes”, or “stop backing a genocide”, or “we should probably get rid of torture facilities” are a far cry from “obliged to only vote for perfect candidates that they agree with 100% on everything.”

I’m all for voting for a candidate I don’t totally agree with, I do it every time. But lets not pretend that the Democrats are doing a good job of reaching out to their voter-base. There’s a reason their current polling is so low.

My understanding is that for about 1/3 people, coffee acts as a crazy flush system

Behind the Insurrectionists

A lot of what he talks about prior to previous insurrections are pretty similar to what’s happening now.