Damn crazy that you’re in favor of regulating porn but are also telling people to use a VPN.

Wow you’re a woke globalist. /S

Everyone should really check this piece of shits post history

I was a self taught programmer who 10+ years later is now a senior software engineer. I can’t tell you what to do but I can tell you what worked for me.

The reality is, I never sat down with the intent to “learn programming”. Instead, I had practical ideas for things I wanted to make the computer do, and then I learned whatever was necessary to accomplish my projects as I went. Whenever I got stuck or hit an error, I’d search my questions online.

I never truly “finished” most of these early projects but they gave me a practical understanding of how things fit together. From there I just kept making stuff and taking on harder projects and then harder jobs and eventually other programmers started coming to me asking for help because they knew I had solved the thing they were working on before.

I’m not sure if it’s advice, but I’d say stop worrying about learning and just do. If you like firmware, go buy some shitty unsupported peripheral from Goodwill and try to make it work on your modern system. Solve a problem you have in your everyday life. It doesn’t matter if you accomplish the goal, you’ll learn a lot by googling your way through it. Do that enough and you’ll wake up one day and be a competent programmer.

This comment might be a good opportunity for self reflection. You asked a question as if you were interested in good faith dialog, but then instead of trying to understand others point of view you’re just arguing that you’re “objectively” right and they’re wrong. You even admit at the end of this comment that you weren’t really interested in hearing what others had to say, you just wanted to shout your “point”. Another word for that is preaching.

Regardless of the topic, that kind of approach is going to rub people the wrong way. To answer your original question that is why people get annoyed when veganism comes up - because it’s often brought up in the hostile and preachy manner you’re employing in this comment.

Based on my past interactions with people who want to talk about veganism on the internet, I’m guessing you’ll just jump down my throat again in a response rather than consider what i said, but just maybe this will get through to you. Since you weren’t interested in dialog, I’m not either - I won’t respond so don’t bother trying to tell me what you think in a response.

Country McCountryface

Plenty of places you can do this. Put “homesteading” into a search engine of your choice and you’ll get more information on the topic than you can handle.

You’ll also pretty quickly realize its a very hard, tedious life and we have it pretty good in many ways in the modern world.

Its great that you’re helping to inform him! I have found the people who know the most about politics and global issues tend to talk less and listen more.

If your political opinion begins with “why don’t we just…” then its a bad political opinion.

If we could just, we would have already just. If you think you’re the only one with the capacity to see a simple answer - newsflash, you’re not a political genius. Its you who doesn’t understand the complexity of the problem.

I’m on the extreme end. Any kind of “recommendations” are an immediate and complete turn off for me. Not just the obvious stuff like “sponsored” posts or “algorithmic social media” feeds. I abhor and avoid even things like Spotify recommendations, which most people consider useful.

Whether they intend it or not, these engines are built to funnel you back into the lowest common denominator, most broadly appealing stuff, because that’s what the algorithm sees gets the most clicks from the average person. Sure, everyone likes oatmeal, but that’s because its bland and inoffensive.

I want to find my own shit through my own idiosyncratic process.

Otoboke Beaver

Punk isn’t dead, it just put on a dress and moved to Japan

My brain has coalesced around this fantasy version of who I was when I was 25.

I’m in my 30s now but when I imagine myself that’s who I picture. And funny enough that person wasn’t even who I was at that age. I was way insecure about so many of the things I now think back on fondly. Getting older is a funny thing.

60°F. Not raining, but misting.

This is why I live in the PNW.

I jokingly said “1999 Honda Fit” so many times that now they call me asking about that fictional car.

Your question implies the answer is black and white, but its not. Its very complicated and uncertain and we’ve got to take a nuanced view of things.

Obviously it’s not gonna sway anyone who’s gonna vote for him

Its not this black and white. According to a poll: “only 4% of Trump’s supporters said they would withdraw their backing if he’s convicted of a felony, though another 16% said they would reconsider it.” https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/6-months-out-tight-presidential-race-trump-biden-poll/story?id=109909175

This may or may not affect things - depends on how it plays out and where since swing districts usually decide preseidential electons.

is there any actual way this keeps him from office

There’s multiple ways it could influence things beyond just changing voting decisions. It could lead to the campaign spending more money on legal fees for appeal and therefore less on ads, campaign rallies etc. It could also have the opposite effect of firing up Trump’s base and leading to more donations, more votes and potentially political violence.

Its a situation that’s never happened before, and its very complicated and uncertain. Anyone who says they have the answer is trying to sell you the fantasy of certainty in an uncertain world.

I had a similar experience. I was maybe 17, driving alone at night to choir practice. Stopped at a red light on an empty street and a guy walked straight up to my car and tried to open the passenger door. It was locked and thankfully the light turned green a second later. I peeled out.

Human beings are FUCKED.

Drawing. I tried so hard in school, practiced regularly, and never got better. I’m in my 30s now and my DND group still makes fun of me when I draw anything other than walls on the wet erase mat.

Average “no one will listen to my under baked political opinios in real life so I’ll hold a meme community hostage” 17 year old

A if I know the vocabulary. B if I don’t.

Its all about the audience.

Probably depends where you live. In a big city I don’t think anyone would bat an eye, but in a small town in rural nowhere people would probably get upset right away.

Great. I got downvoted for pointing out the fucking rules which you’re breaking. Enjoy your dumb fucking rage bait debate that goes nowhere. If you hate California and Democrats then move to Texas and freeze to death with the rest of the republicans.