DeviantOvary

I guess all people who live in rural places should just get fucked then 🤷 My parents live in the countryside, and despite one of my parents engaging actively in local politics and campaigning to get better public transportation connections, nothing has changed, so getting out of the village is severly limited without a car.

Add emergency situations to that—like the few times they needed an ambulance, but were told to piss off—and they can literally get fucked and die. But sure, everyone who has a car is a terrorist.

I live in the city and commute on my bike and use public transit. Hospital, grocery store and other amenities are also in a walking distance. Not everyone is lucky to be in the same position, though.

PIV is just one form of rape.

I know several (low) millionaires and none of them exploited other people's hard work. All of them are self-employed, and one of them is the single employee of their company.

Billionaires on the other hand. Yep, no way to get to a billion without heavy exploitation and sociopathic behavior.

FWIW not everyone can thrive on 100% plant-based diet due to genetic differences.

People expecting me to magically fix what Microsoft keeps breaking in every imaginable way, update after update, with bugs failing to be fixed for literal years, and then getting pissy at best or straight up an asshole Karen who wants to talk to the manager—or sometimes CEO!—while insulting me at worst, if I'm unable to fix or workaround this horrible closed source, poorly documented hot garbage with no real human support from Microsoft.

Meanwhile Linux. When shit breaks, I might spend days troubleshooting, but fuck if I don't manage to do it after finding some 5 years old thread on a forum that leads to a line of code in another random thread. Also logs. Love that shit.

On the other hand, our endpoint management solution reported long, continuous uptime even if devices were shut down. Turns out fastboot was to thank for it.

Same here, re: the first paragraph. I received two shirts and a (good quality) windbreaker. I've never heard anyone having to buy company uniforms, but I'm in Europe.

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Howdy, neighbor 😁 Matura is such a joke, lol.

Illiad was in our curriculum, too. But I think the worst I gave a shot to were the few works from my country's literature several centuries old that literally over half had to be translated to the modern language for us to understand. It was exhausting to read.

Lol, thanks for reminding me of something with the Achilles bit. We have state exams at the end of 12 year education that are also a requirement for college admittance. There are (were?) two levels of difficulty. I took the higher one. But the lower one had an especially egregious question. It was so controversial, it ended in newspapers, was debated among teachers and politicians alike. The question was which color a certain character's ring was from a book we had as required reading at some point in school. Something, as you can imagine, absolutely irrelevant to test in the final state exams (which test knowledge of the four high school years on multiple subjects).

School systems nowadays suck so much for so many reasons.

We had that basically from the first grade of primary school. Each month a new book. It started with just summarizing the text, then gradually went from writing what you think the moral of the story is, to giving a full breakdown and analysis. 12 years of that, for the books I found mind-numbingly boring, that I ended up weaseling/cheatig my way through most of it without even reading. I remember giving my best to try read through the entire Crime and Punishment, but giving up 1/3 into the book. All the classic literature—just not for my brain.

Didn't help that while my primary school teacher had tried to cultivate my creative writing (45 minute, graded assignment), my secondary school teacher was a snob who graded me lower just because she "didn't like my style". God, I hated school, lol.

I still like reading modern fantasy and some other genres, so there's that, but school almost completely turned me off from reading.

I have to occasionally use it. Not often, but there are still times where nothing else works. Sometimes I'll need to log in to a site, but for a wild XYZ reason it doesn't work on Firefox, just Chromium-based browsers. Or the site won't display at all. Or for instance the web devs completely block anything but Chromium with an excuse that "it can't work on Firefox" (looking at you Apple Business Manager, go fuck yourself). Luckily, it's rare enough.

Same here. If I could I'd only WFH, but we only get a few days a week. I don't have an issue disconnecting mentally from work. However, I think a big contributor is I don't exactly hate my current job. I sometimes surprise myself how easily and quickly I switch off.

My TL on the other hand prefers the office, probably because they have two young kids, who can be quite loud and require lots of attention.