Ah, the infamous hard R

Norwegian here. I don’t think it’s “trust” in the literal sense, but more in line with “viewing them as a neutral yet benevolent institution with integrity”.

The latter is more or less the image they’ve tried to portray for ages, and with reasonable success, since they don’t really have much de facto power. However, the recent stupidity have caused many people to question what purpose they serve to begin with.

And just for the record: I don’t really care that much about them, neither for nor against. Bigger portions of my taxes go to stupider things.

Yup, the 2nd half covers that.

Early 2000s entertainment too. A good portion of the edgy jokes could be considered funny because they were made on the assumption that “We can laugh about this, because we all know racism and sexism is bad, right?”.

And then 2015ish happened and it became obvious that a lot of people weren’t laughing AT the -isms but rather WITH.

EDIT: Which slur did Ross use, BTW? I haven’t watched that show in eons, and I don’t remember any.

I’m in a couple of community-specific mod chats on matrix. Also, the matrix room for NonCredibleDefense is fairly active.

I’ve been meaning to set up a matrix chat for CasualConversation, I just haven’t gotten around to it yet.

I’m not a corporate penguin, but I’m in a position where I often find myself in meetings with them. While there’s a lot of corporate jargon, such as “Let’s circle back on that”, and other common phrases, I am so happy that my industry doesn’t have a “user experience” to “monetize”.

We are the survey equivalent of hotdog vendors: you pay us, we do geophysical surveys for you. Sure, there’s an armada of geophysicists that work oit the specifications regarding the type of condiments and hotdog buns, and the hotdog is produced on a ship, but at the end of the day, I like how little fluff there is.

This post is about Vovka, isn’t it?

I travel a lot, so I have a bunch of stuff downloaded onto my laptop. And a lot of that stuff I have mirrored onto my phone. And on top of that I have additional stuff loaded onto a tiny USB C drive that I can plug into both for when I want to store stuff for later loading onto my phone.

I often find myself watching an ep on my phone in an airport lounge, and doing the next ep on my laptop on the plane.

Generally, I’m not that picky in terms of screen size, I usually go for the biggest screen conveniently available. And my laptop has the additional benefit of allowing me to use my Roland headset.

EDIT: Splelign is hrad.

Considering how the US is doing these days, I don’t entirely disagree with you.

More than acceptable. To put it this way: Rhinos are objectively cool; You know what would make them cooler? Bigger and more pointy bits.

He’s done a reverse fairy tale: Despite kissing so many girls, he transformed from a prince to a frog.

The 4400

I used to do a lot of parse-compile-report scripting, and I’m very curious about how the data is formatted in the pdf. Would you be willing to share it?

Other than that, fiverr or an LLM is perhaps your best bet.

Glay - Kanojo

I have no idea where I first got that song, but I’ve had it as an mp3 for at least 20 years at this point.

A friend of mine wrote some software and ended up using one of those as a foot mouse.

I’ll probably regret asking this but… cumbox?

At 22 I had fallen far behind my peers in a failed attempt at adulting. That was the year I went back to school (so that I could later drop out one final time).

Don’t sweat it. I am utterly convinced that the ones who have their life figured out in their 20s are the same ones who forget to actually live their lives.

EDIT, just for the record: Doing pretty fine today. Took me a while, but I eventually landed a pretty comfy life.