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Comment · 5 months ago
It also doesn't work like this in all job domains in the US. These hyper-competitive FANGlike employers are meat grinders. You can live well enough on a modest wage a few hundred miles away in the Central Valley working for a public institution with a pension. It still exists even it's less so than it was 30 or 40 years ago.
Comment · 10 months ago
After reading Primo Levi's "The Drowned and the Saved", I went on a binge of his earlier works: "If This Is a Man", "The Truce", "If not now, when?". All great, but I keep coming back to "The Drowned and the Saved"; it's hard to put my finger on it, but it's a book that provides more meaning about life than anything I've ever read.
Comment · 1 year ago
Firearms should never discharge unless the trigger has been pulled. It's an absolute bare minimum requirement. But you should always assume it will go off in the direction it's being pointed, even if you haven't pulled the trigger.
Comment · 1 year ago
I feel like I'm spinning, hitting the spiral of the drain where civilization is to inevitably pass through, gone. The many who suffered and continue to suffer from iniquities of the human race carry the tonnage of likewise experiences, know a truth that is so impossible to know:

"It was useless to close one's eyes or turn one's back to it because it was all around, in every direction, all the way to the horizon. It was not possible for us nor did we want to become islands; the just among us, neither more nor less numerous than in any other human group, felt remorse, shame, and pain for the misdeeds that others and not they had committed, and in which they felt involved, because they sensed that what had happened around them and in their presence, and in them, was irrevocable. Never again could it be cleansed; it would prove that man, the human species - we, in short - had the potential to construct an infinite enormity of pain, and that pain is the only force created from nothing, without cost and without effort. It is enough not to see, not to listen, not to act."

- Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved

Comment · 1 year ago
sic semper tyrannis
Comment · 2 years ago
I get the lowest dose and then break them up. Not precise, but if you get a 2-2.5 mg pill, it's pretty ok.
Comment · 2 years ago
Tri-flow. Also good as a penetrating oil, and smells like bananas.
Comment · 2 years ago
Just FYI, Adobe's website will port scan you on 16494, 35693, and 57923 after you login.
Comment · 2 years ago
"Equipped with this tool, a person outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well" M-F morning this cheeky little chihuahua gives me a run for my money tho
Comment · 2 years ago
I have an absolute treasure trove of saddles; it's hard to state just how personal they are to each person's physiology. What works for one may not work for another. It can be a long frustrating (and expensive) experience.

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