I’m an American with some outdated experience from about 25 years ago.

I loved Germany and would love to return. I’ve even thought about migrating there, though I know this would not be simple.

I was there for about 3 weeks. My last name is very Italian, but apparently the family i was starting with hoped it was Spanish and expressed this with shock when I corrected them.

During my time there I witnessed quite a bit of racism directed at Italians and Turks. As it was explained to me, post WWII Germany encouraged migrants from Italy and Turkey to rebuild the workforce. What I witnessed was that Italians and Turks were looked down on and often held to lower jobs.

It’s been 25 years. I hope things have changed.

My university had an entire /8 block and no real centralized IT. A number of departments ran NAT internally but the default was that every computer was assigned a public IP. This included connecting a laptop to the network in the library or in a dorm room. At some point they did require associating your MAC with a student or staff ID in order to acquire an IP.

There was also a pretty robust collection of drives shared on the network. Some were intentional and slightly nefarious, some were accidental and the people didn’t even realize they were sharing.

This was over 25 years ago.

Through the 90s and visiting various areas of the US, those things were always there but not discussed in the open. People would say disgusting shit to people they thought they were safe saying those things to.

We’ve come to the point where people will say they aren’t racist but will still defend racist views and say racist shit but it’s not all brown people, just certain ones.

We’re probably about 6 months from having these assholes walk around with armbands.

Unfortunately we have seen many instances throughout history of ethno-religious supremacist ideology, specifically around abrahamic beliefs. Would removing such belief systems from society remove all hate and violence, of course not. But I’d argue that we would be in a better place as a society. Maybe if we weren’t trying to prove whose god was more right or whose belief was more righteous we could have a more just, loving, and peaceful society.

Allowed to return after Trump builds his resort and condos.

I work on a business communication tool. You know those things you have in your phone that people send messages to and expect you to answer.

When I leave my computer, that’s it, I’m done. I don’t have the application on my phone. I didn’t check email or messages after 5 or 6 and most days I work for a few hours before I check them.

On weekends, I turn off my computer.

I’ve been doing this for years now. No one notices, or if they do they are smart enough to not bring it up.

I came up in a world where we were the ones introducing Yahoo and AOL into the business world, I had a phone on my desk that was essential, and email was king. I rarely had a laptop and they were quite rare. When you left the office, it was expected that you were some for the day.

The grind culture over the last decade or so is insane. It is insane that people will give over half their time to a company that would show them the door in an instant.

Yes, you should do everything possible to set up your team and colleagues for success when you take your PTO, but that should never require a tether to the office.

Yep. Thank you.

Then release the files so we can all read the epic tale of Trump defender of women and girls.

Florida already seems to have a bit of a problem with child population. Public School enrollment has been declining in my country county and the surrounding countries counties for the last few years.

Yes, a capable politician is going to choose the hardest path to advance his career by claiming to be gay. Like playing US politics on super hard mode.

Sent this to my SO because she definitely relates. Funny thing is I feel the same way if I don’t know where I am, but anytime I am going somewhere new I pull up the location on satellite view and find all the parking areas.

Wish I lived somewhere with viable public transit. I hate driving.

Also ITT fuckcars is leaking

Look at the robo taxi situation they have going. The same tech that is stopping people off in the middle of the road is what is being used for FSD.

I wouldn’t be surprised if we found out that the whole thing is a scam and there is some sweat shop full of teenagers remotely driving cars. I feel like the random stops where they shouldn’t stop is exactly how someone who learns how to drive playing GTA would drive.

Definitely a case of the journey being more important than the destination.

@thecoffeehobbit@sopuli.xyz

Finally got around to writing everything up. I’d love to eventually add some visual customizations and chain loading of the installed OS.

https://gitlab.com/jeremy.loffredo/bootable-grub-usb

43 year old American who at 10 would ride a bike over a mile to school and spent my summers pretty much going wherever I wanted on my bike or walking. But things have definitely changed.

People have forgotten their own childhood and see kids on their own as troublemakers. Or like in this case, they feel they know better than parents.

We’ve also given up what little walkability we had to wider streets with higher speed limits. The small town where I grew up has significantly more people and more and larger intersections. Many of the roads have also been widened.

Finality, policing has changed. At least where I grew up officers were members of the community. They were there to uphold the law and would rather take you home or talk to your parents than charge or detain you. It would have been national news for a cop to handcuff and detain a 10-14 year old, now it is expected and celebrated. IMO policing is a profession that has lost its humanity. They are enforcers, not peace officers.

This is true peaked in high school energy.

This meme would be more accurate if you replace the girl he’s with with Fat Bastard from Austin Powers feasting from a trough of IP.

I’ll work on putting something together with all of the details.

Recently I recreated my favorite drive. Runs grub, stores multiple distros it can boot from, has a standard exfat partition, and an encrypted partition.

The outlawing of porn is part of project 2025