Too many OSS tools to really be able to mention them all. Thank you to so many GNU/Linus, OpenBSD, BSD*, and other developers!
I’ll mention these:
Without TeX I’d go insane writing technical and scientific documents. You’ve saved me thousands of hours of work!
Oh, and my current time waster game: Kohan: Immortal Sovreigns.
This whole debacle was a rousing success. The question is for whom. It wasn’t a victory for the US citizens writ large. It wasn’t a win for any NATO allies. It wasn’t a win for the vast majority of the people in the world.
There’s a few people/groups we can assume did win:
It’s mostly an insider trading game at the expense of lives, money, and the US’ sitting on the geopolitical stage. This is all part of the smash and grab stage of this presidency.
Do US state level national guard organizations often make strategic agreements with nations around the world?
We’re in Germany. There’s always more bread.
Cheese and a slice of sausage is a breakfast. Bread optional.
Empires die when the gold leaves the vaults. Until then, the empire can keep paying the military to keep it in power.
Xenophobia isn’t really a sign of rational decision making.
I got my first full B1 German reading book. I’m a few chapters in.
I’ve managed more spoken interactions, but it’s still small and short kinds of statements. We have been doing more German at work for discussions.
My German classes start this week. They’re B1.2 level. It’ll be a bit of a stretch, but it’ll be great to spend more time focused on listening and speech.
I did try out a few of the Telc B1 tests. I scored about 75%, which isn’t good enough for going right into the exam, but I’m getting closer than I thought to B1.
Why the every living FUCK would a serious agency rely on Microslop for any technical component anywhere? Haven’t they learned from the last 40 years of terrible products?
Bingo. They give our masters students (officially) four months to choose, execute, and write their thesis. Nothing of real note comes out of the process.
We can do so much better, but it would reduce profits.
Huge hugs all around because we will do better. The students deserve better and so do the teachers.
Any and all reliance on energy from a foreign source is a national security risk. Many nations are going to be finding that out in a very painful way soon.
Is this the real life?
Thank you. I do like the teaching and student outcomes more than research. That’s not a route to huge success as a professor if you’re measuring on the money, rank, and fame scale, but it’s who I am and seeing my students succeed is my life affirming activity.
When I get out asap it’ll be to another school where I hope I can find a community who values education, not just a grant size measuring contest. It’s somewhere out there.
Huge hugs all around for those making ends meet with their own two hands!
My so-called university is run by people who have never taught a class in their lives. I’m getting out asap.
My school tried to schedule me teaching 9 hours straight (sorry, with a 45 minute break, so a total of 9:45). Get fucked. Teaching is fraking energy intensive and I literally can’t keep going that long. Their reasoning? It’s hard to schedule the classrooms since we refuse to get enough of them, so we’ll just have the faculty and students have insane schedules. Did I mention it was also going to have university students be in class 9 hours per day? NO ONE can learn like that, but it’s really good at saving money.
That’s almost enough to cover their bills for the next 9 months. Good money after bad.
“When you have fear and you stop going to the doctor, then in the future there are important consequences” of missing prenatal care, Bustamante says. “Your children are more likely to suffer, for example, low birth weight, and this will ultimately have lifetime consequences.”
This is the crux of it for me. All of this is to punish and be cruel to brown people. The same so-called Christian principle following fascists who rail on and on about abortion and babies are 100% on board be cruel to adults, which leads to the pain and death of babies.
Conservatives don’t care about babies, only about getting to be legally racist. The slavers never gave up, they’re just wearing elephant pins now.
Science is so very cool. Building a machine to keep antiprotons in frozen suspension with superconductor magnetic fields at 8.5 Kelvin so you can transport them around to other research sites!? Sounds fun, let’s do it.
I had a model of the Yamamoto way back in the late 80’s. I had no idea the quality of the treasure I possessed.
Even a toga is an option. It’s not “normal” most places, but if you wear reasonably covering clothing and get your work done anyone worth working for won’t really care.
And even that was a fractured history. The Netscape to Mozilla release was heavily influenced by Netscape being bought by AOL followed by the Netscape team dumping a non functional browser (they ripped out a ton of code they didn’t own) on the open source world. People had to basically patch the stubs until it built and then rebuild from there. By the end, Mozilla barely resembled Netscape, but it did get the community finally building a serious open source option.