It’s a great strategy, but exclusively for software engineering. Weird tech bros who want to run the world like a software company inherently don’t understand that fact.

Russian at a Native level, because my parents speak it (so I can barely read)

German at a Native level, because I’ve been living in Germany the past 20 years.

English at a C2 level, just from school and because all my online activity and all my entertainment is in english.

And some French and Latin back from school, but learning those was horrible and I’d like to forget as much as I can.

I absolutely hate learning languages and hope that I will never have to do it again. But the reality of living in Europe is just that you never know whether you’ll wake up one day and decide to move to the Netherlands or Denmark because there are great jobs there 🤷

He was pressuring his employees to go faster with testing and development, as their competitor (I believe it was Synchron) got approved for human trials way faster.

Well, “move fast and break things” isn’t really a good mindset while performing animal trials, and after about 1500 deaths, many due to botched and rushed brain surgery, the research facility actually got audited for animal cruelty allegations (which happens SO rarely because the law basically allows anything when you say it’s “research”). Vox article

Can’t tell, must be some sort of japanese animal. Tanuki?

Dang, your Adderall keeps you awake? If I even look at a cozy sofa after taking mine I get smitten down by a mandatory 4 hour nap

tummy ache city

I’m both depressed and grew up poor so idk what you’re on about

Getting jealous at people who appear to have it better isn’t exactly a productive solution to either of those

… do people actually do that? As in, is strong jealousy really a thing?

I’d like to believe that each of us builds their life into the exact thing they need, so swapping places with anyone else would be terribly uncomfortable. So I can’t relate as to why anyone would ever be jealous i guess haha

naah fuck that, I think the internet should go back to being as unregulated and wild as possible

Idk how it is with chipmunks, but rats poop every 15min on average. So it would probably be an inconvenience to wear a dress that’s long enough to get shit stains

+1 for Mistborn!! Just recently finished the first Trilogy and it was so good!

My parents claim there is rampant discrimination and racism towards Russians. They’re all hysterical about it, claiming that they need to stow away all their money in a russian bank before the German government starts persecuting them “like they did with the Jews” (yea, literal quote). I’m doubtful that it’s as bad as they claim 🤔

Even porn? I’ve had a discussion at work recently about how crazy it is that media conservation often overlooks porn as something of “no value”, so it becomes lost media almost instantly, especially now in the age of streaming.

But I bet that future anthropologists would be really interested in studying it!

More people do it than you might think! I sit in an office of 8, there’s always someone either quietly beatboxing to themselves, doing minute long "uhhhrrmm"s or muttering movie quotes. There’s an understanding that anyone who feels bothered by the stimming can put on their noise cancelling headphones lol

I’m feeling exactly the same, I’m in a CBT Therapy group rn which feels double invalidating because everyone else seems to have the exact opposite problems.

I’m currently working through a book on Inter Familial Systems Therapy and it’s a much better fit - it works by assigning personas to specific problematic thought patterns and talking the issues out with those personas. Way more validating in my opinion, as it’s focused on being empathetic towards them and guiding them in a better direction.

100% Germany, my sister got hit with almost 3k€ for torrenting Young Sheldon 🤦

In NL, they’ve got bike racks with roofs next to the bus stops, I wish we had that here as well!

Install Revanced, it’s literally better than the vanilla youtube app because you can customize basically everything

I don’t think your ban reason leaves a lot of room for that…

It’s always better to be safe than sorry. Many Software devs can be trusted to not do anything too stupid with their machines, but every person has blind spots and can be tricked. At the company I work at, the IT system is pretty permissive at what can and can’t be done, but the Admins do block installing programs that ask for too many permissions under the hood (like some custom drivers and things that want console access) or that simply aren’t allowed due to company policy (i.e. Postman, because it just sends too much information to the cloud). Even a well-meaning dev usually isn’t aware of all the details of a program they want to install or the company policies - there are too many to reasonably know at all times. So it’s easier to block stuff, and if someone really does need something they just ask and get it unblocked for themselves.

You can also never be sure that a dev isn’t doing anything malicious. Of course that’s rare, but when it happens the damage to all company projects is just too large.

It’s also not much of a hierarchy thing, the Admins are on exactly the same level as devs, their job is just a bit different.