I'd love to have this to a form letter, and just spend a small chunk of money disrupting lives.
I try not to be chaotic, and just be neutral good, but... Some pranks require too much resistance.
Of course my friends at the table questioned if the bipolar epileptic could play a Malkavian. Hah!
I started with Backtrack on a laptop, and I currently have Kali on a preserved USB; with endeavor as a daily driver.
That being said, my current "real" daily drivers in Win10, mostly for gaming - Not because proton doesn't do a hell of a job, it certainly does, but it makes modding single player games more complicated. I will say that is absolutely my fault, I haven't spent enough time to figure it out. But after work, and the wife, and the animals, and the alcoholic BIL who shares the house... I just want to use Vortex to add some simple QOL mods to single player games and play it.
I troubleshoot IT issues all day at work, at the end of the day, I just need it to work. I've hardened and removed as much telemetry type bullshit as I could, but I'm sure some slips out. For my threat model, on this machine, I'm fine with it.
On the aforementioned labtop I boot into Kali for... well, that has a different threat model.
Its all self hosted vulnerable VMs for the specific reason of education, but some activities may fall into a grey area, so better safe than sorry.
I came to, apparently, agree with you. My exact thought.
This is clearly a trick to get into power, and we all know Republicans love power before anything else. Morals, the children, the budget, actual constitutionally protected rights, etc.
Its not that introverts don't want to, per se, we just aren't prepared at the moment to deal with others.
I take calls all day, offer IT support to entitled doctors. Sometimes I don't even want to talk to my wife after work.
It isn't her, it isn't anyone else having a problem, its just... I do NOT have the energy to mentally deal with people.
So much consideration, and empathy, and shit I just don't possess in great deals. I spend most of that shit at work.
Why is an introvert in a help desk position? Cause I'm fucking stuck here. I lost a GOOD job in the pandemic and I'm trying to survive.
At least I've upgraded my back up job source from retail to help desk. It pays better, has benefits, etc. I can always do it, I just fucking hate it.
This isn't the first, shall we say open, church in Texas or even Ft. Worth, but actually assisting with funds is a first for me.
We aren't all hateful assholes with big trucks and tiny dicks. There are just a lot of them, and boy are they loud.
My mother, as she grows older, is thinking about her passing and planning for it. Nothings wrong, she's just a planner.
She is looking into donating her corpse to science.
Med students need cadavers to practice on, grisly, but better than being a human guinea pig for some Doc's first attempt at surgical intervention.
Or, there was a story that made rounds about a guys mother whose body was used in testing explosives by the military. If I get a choice I want that option, since apparently funeral pyres are illegal these days.
So many women worry about if they're too small, some worry they are too big (my ex being one example)
If your parts fit your frame, you're beautiful. And you know what, the whole product of growing up is most things that grow fit your frame. Fuckin' DNA sucks sometimes right?
Look, I'm just some random dude replying to a GW post, but I wouldn't kick you out of bed based on appearance. Lack of enthusiasm and effort? Yes.
Ladies, TL;DR: Enthusiasm and willingness to try trump almost all physical qualities.
When in worked in Yellowstone, it was a culture shock for two reasons
One, people just drink hot water, like tea temps but no tea - thus apparently is an asian (sorry for lack of specifics) and is used along with other eastern medicine practices
Two, if you plug in more than six small appliances (electtric kettle, hair dryer, etc) it will trip the breakers for that floor of the mammoth hot springs hotel.
Less shocking was the English couple who mistranslated directions to their room. The "first floor" would be the second floor for an American, they apparently starting counting at zero, which us great for arrays, not so good for describing a floor as 0 or in English, ground floor.
On a long enough timeline, this solar system and all if its inhabitants, will go dark - unless we survive long enough to propagate the stars.
Of course there are more short term pre-catastrophic events going on currently.
Tell that to, I dunno, everyone else.
They certainly think so.
I've been wary of corporations since I first read Neuromancer.
Ah, the animal computer books of my childhood, lol.
My parents (both in tech fields) had a library of these before they split up.
Somehow I wound up in IT as a career, no one saw that coming, I assure you /s
I wore vans up until my mid late 30s, but even with a desk job my feet killed after a day.
So now I have running shoes with more support and its helped. I also have a pair of combat boots, but they're more difficult to get on when I'm half asleep and trying to get to work.
So yeah, you might just have enough youth left to get by with vans lol.