This was the thing that made GIMP useable for me, after bouncing off it for close to two decades.

Yeah, no way Apple is gonna integrate MechaHitler into Siri, he can sue as much as he wants.

At that time i was still undiagnosed - took a complete work stress induced breakdown with me voluntarily entering a psych ward for 3 months to find out about my personality disorder. I’m really bad at emotionally handling people - me entering a costumer-side working position was pretty much the worst decision i ever made, but it also meant i got my disability pension now, for which i’m very grateful.

I started my working career at a small ISP doing costumer support, which was bought up, and then this company was bought up. what started with me helping people through NT4.0 installations by phone because it was good service ended in a treadmill where only call duration and amount of calls mattered, not if the client actually got help, which was already going against my grain.

Also, the last company worked a lot with freelancer agents, which weren’t salaried like me, but got paid by the hour (which was pretty much illegal here in retrospect, since they had fixed, preplanned hours, amounting to a hidden salaried position). Part of my duties as one of the senior agents was signing off the time sheets of the freelancers.
Edit: It slipped my mind that in the beginning it was my duty to plan the hours for out freelancers. i made sure to ask everyone their preferences and made sure everyone got enough hours without bullshit like 4 hours in the morning and 3 in the evening, which caused minor overlaps where we had more than minimum staff around. Got that taken away because it was too inefficient - my desire to make things work out for the workers was definitely not in the companys interest. Was pretty pissed about that from the beginning.

It so happened that 3 months in a row i got dinged for not bringing in my own time sheet, even if i was sure i had put it with the others when signing them off at the end of the month. As it happened the third time i said that if they were insinuating that i didn’t deliver my time sheet, i would quit on the spot. i did so, handwriting my resignation, going into the bosses room, throwing it on his desk and going out, slamming the door so hard that the whole open office floor looked up. Had a nervous breakdown afterwards.

In retrospect i’m pretty sure it was a strategy to get rid of me and other salaried employees, since we were in the process of unionizing - the company previously only had freelancers, but after the merger they were over the minimum amount of fixed employees to form a union. OTOH, i was happy to get rid of that hellhole, OTOH i gave them what they wanted - I dont know how i feel about that, even nearly 2 decades after.

Wanted to say the same thing! A cat staring at someone is a pretty hostile signal - staring contests between cats are pretty much always the unfriendly type.

My then-girlfriend and I started our degrees in our 30s - she did it in minimum time, i dropped out after 6 years (mental issues), and we both don’t regret any of the time we used to grow mentally.

I’d say anyone young finishing their degree in minimum time did probably not have enough time to immerse themselves in a social environment that is important to LIVE, not run through. There won’t be another chance at experiencing such a multicultural, mental stimulating and rich in experiences setting while being young enough to really soak it in.

Dont forget this game has been in development for a lot longer than the RAM/SSD price increases have been forseeable - from the perspective of their development cycle the ram upgrade would have been a pretty low cost upgrade.

I agree that most of society has a blind eye for the safety needs of men, but there are organizations which know exactly what men go through and which offer shelter for people in unsafe situations.

Both deserve the cudgel, with the difference that the russian populace actually risk something if they protest, but the american populace is so silent on this you can hear the crickets.

He is concerned about congress losing the right to decide who the US go to war with, furthering the loss of separation of powers and enabling trump to “run” venezuela. He wants the congress to get off their asses and put a stop to this. Read carefully.

He explicitly says that the US does not have the right to take over venezuela, and that congress has to pass a resolution to make sure that congress is the one who decides on wars and to end trumps shit. you and all the bears are failing at reading comprehension.

They are completely fucked in the head. Bernie is calling for peace, against american interventionism and Trump dragging the US into war, i cannot understand what an issue they have with that, isn’t that what they should want from him?

They seem to have tried to fix this, but like all LLM’s, there’s probably a way around that.

Darling brother has a great sense of humor!

Even DDR4 went from ~50€/2x16gb module to 180€ - utterly insane

Yeah, but people are using Grok to put everyone in bikinis (or replace clothes with a string of dental floss) with “donut glazing” over their bodies. Sometimes Grok undresses people without even being prompted to - some people ask for a change of facial expression on a selfie and get a nude. I’m pretty sure this will land Xhitter in hot water with the EU once again, and maybe they finally just block this hellhole (one can dream)

I’m not so sure the venezuelans are going to cooperate as much as trump thinks they will.

I’m living in Vienna, having grown up in this city. I can assure you that while the city has grown, it actually put a lot of effort into primarily increasing population density instead of growing into the countryside (well, they have expanded too, but not by much in comparison to the population growth). The extra heat does not come from more concrete here - Vienna is one of the greenest large cities in Europe, and with lots of forest surrounding the west and the river going through it is a pretty privileged situation overall. Also, this year for example i can count the amount of days below 0°C on one hand - i haven’t seen ice in any meaningful amount. All together i’d say our temperature window has shifted by around 10°C upwards since the late 80.

Edit: Just looked it up, it really seems like the average didn’t move as much as the temperature maxima/minima.

You mean for oil and for distraction from his pedophilia. What are a few lives to save his sorry ass?

I’m not sure you aren’t talking with Mark V. Shaney