Ciderpunk

I’m in this picture and I ~~don’t like it~~ have made peace with the fact that this will always be me.

My guy, every definition of genocide is predicated on intentionality. Look it up.

You can argue this all you want, but when does something become intentional when you know about it and do not act to stop it? The Soviets at best knew people were dying and did nothing. Is that affirmation of the outcome, and therefore intentionality?

I knew you wouldn’t be able to resist biting the Xinjiang bait, but nice try citing a historical policy that is no longer in effect that has nothing to do with the very present low birth-rate situation.

My guy, Douglas Tottle’s central thesis wasn’t that the genocide didn’t happen, it was that it was unintentional. He uses the exact same arguments holocaust deniers use of muddying facts and saying “well no one explicitly signed a document saying kill all these people so did it really happen?” You can do better. Unrelated but evidence he cites couldn’t have possibly have been obtained by him without working with the Soviets, which speaks to who was in control of the narrative in the book, because the Soviets sure as shit weren’t gonna work with anyone who was going to blame them.

Also cool of you to insist that the EU somehow made Russia do this. And that the existence of some people who might be Nazis totally justifies killing indiscriminately inside another country. Do you think Russia’s treatment of LGBT people would justify someone invading them and killing indiscriminately to “solve” that situation?

Not to mention that the literal Nazis used the exact same justification of “ethnic Germans are being mistreated in the Sudetenland, so we must invade and intervene” as the Russians are doing right now.

I bet you think Xinjiang is just suffering from “abnormally low birth rates” too.

Hey, quick question, were those votes held before or after Russian troops were occupying those regions?

We have a mandatory approval system for our GitHub at work, but literally no one ever actually looks at PRs, they just blindly approve them. When I first joined the team I tried to actually read them, not knowing this was just formality and got shit on for pointing out errors and stuff like… why the hell are reviews mandatory if everyone just clicks approve without looking? As far as I can tell this system only exists so management can blame the entire team when something goes wrong instead of one person by saying "well someone else should've noticed". And god forbid I am doing something I'm not super familiar with and would like someone else to take a look…

I am in sweat pants or pj pants every second I am not required to be in public. Also denim sucks but I find it more tolerable if I get the jeans that have a decent percentage of elastic, those are just way more comfortable but still look the part.

Also nothing can touch my forearms. I don’t like wearing short sleeve shirts because they are too breezy, but I absolutely must roll up the sleeves of any long sleeve shirts so they aren’t touching my forearms. I live in a place where 0°F (-18°C) isn’t uncommon during the winter, so I will tolerate a coat because it’s more painful to be cold but if I’m shoveling snow or whatever, you bet you’re gonna see some weirdo with his coat sleeves mashed up over his elbows but also wearing gloves… I’ve gotten more than a few comments about that look.

Some tricks I’ve picked up over the years:

Frozen veggies tend to cook into a more consistent texture, which can help with dealing with them. Fresh vegetables seem to just vary weirdly in both taste and texture and that can be a lot to deal with, so going frozen means I have to deal with less variance.

Freeze dried stuff for seasoning, to me anyway, feels much easier to control the flavor levels. I hate onion when there’s too much, and hoo boy is it easy to overdo the onion. But freeze dried onion seems to be less dominant so I can still get some onion without overdoing it.

There’s no shame in having a handful of easy recipes you know are good, healthy, and easy to make (in case it’s a low energy kind of day) and for me the routine of knowing a meal I’ve prepared a thousand times in the same way every time makes it easier to tackle. Then I can feel alright about a healthy meal without it being overwhelming.

Hopefully some of this information is helpful, it’s what I’ve found that gets me through dinner time.

Everyone knows optimal strategic planning is to gather all your high ranking folks in one place but then also make sure you tell everyone ahead of time that all your leadership will be in that specific place and when they will be there.

Friendly local celiac here,

Cleaning products might be used on surfaces that can be used for food prep. Cleaning agents that contain gluten may leave behind enough to cause contamination issues on subsequent uses of the surface. To be safe, using cleaners that do not have such ingredients will prevent this kind of issue.

Because the cable itself is a factor. Just because the supplier says “I can give you 200 watts”, and the secondary device says “I can take 200 watts” doesn’t mean the cable between is able to carry that.

It’s not even just power but other things like DisplayPort over USB, Ethernet over USB, Thunderbolt, and whole slew of other things a theoretical USB-C cable can do, but not necessarily every USB-C cable.

Nah, sacrifice in regards to your children is absolutely a mindset thing. You can cognitively restructure your thinking in this case.

If you look at your children and think “wow, I’m not getting anything out of this” I can promise you that your children feel this and will become very distant to you when they grow older. They know when you just think they’re a burden.