Russia, China, and Iran. Just doing their normal shitty stuff.

I love that saying. And I’ve known that for a long time.

I’m going to go with you being crazy. Although based on your mention of “deja vu” and the number “4”, I did see djview4. I don’t think that’s what you wanted though.

Humanity. I know it’s kind of self-defeating or something, but humanity just scares the shit out of me.

The history of that Island, the stark differences between Haiti and the DR, is just painful.

Do you have things on the external that precludes you formatting it? You aren’t doing it too often, so a tarball might work, but you’ll be wasting a lot of time doing it that way. Then again, if it’s once a month, that doesn’t seem like a huge deal. I just use rsync now and then for my external backup and it doesn’t take long at all.

I’m kind of out of date with modern Linux stuff, but can’t you throw that in the .xsessionsrc or .xinitrc file?

He flew a helicopter onto Johnny Cash’s lawn to try to get Cash to listen to a song he wrote. It worked, but he wouldn’t suggest doing it.

I always hear people bitching about the “no choice” of voting, but they never seem to be around during the primaries, when they could make a difference.

I hate a lot of things for stupid reasons

I had to check to see if I was about to reply to myself.

I can’t remember the last time I bought a PC. I just incrementally upgrade over the years. I would be disappointed if they came out with a PC that only ran with their flavor though.

Mutually assured destruction was supposed to be a deterrent to anyone using nukes. Not to enable an aggressor force to do what they want without repercussions out of fear that they would use nukes. If they use nukes, at a minimum they’ll no longer exist. Probably along with the rest of us.

Here’s a tip I picked up somewhere. Make a playlist. An hour or two worth of music. ONLY listen to it when you’re studying. I’ve found my brain just blocks it out after a few times through, but it triggers my subconscious or something. As in, if I’m not feeling like studying, I put it on and my brain just goes,“OK, it’s time to study.” I change it up when I’m starting a new long task (writting a new book, starting a new semester, whatever). At first, I find myself listening to it, but it doesn’t take much repetition for it to fade into the background.

“Influencers”, advertisers, and just about every Wall Street job.

Turkey should just drop out of NATO if they want to support Russia. Or be kicked out.

The Tao of Pooh. If you are someone who has trouble taking a deep breath and being in the moment, slowing things down, this can be a helpful read. That and Zen And The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance helped me.

$40.50

It just uses nitrogen. You can order a bottle of nitrogen from Amazon. That, a plastic bag, and some tape, you’re good to go. When I learned that, I felt way more secure about my choice to kill myself, hopefully years and years from now. As long as something doesn’t happen sooner to take the choice out of my hands.

When I looked it up here, it looks like it already only takes about 8 hours, granted with a transfer. And surprisingly inexpensive.

“OK, you’ve finished your first play through. Now go back a handful of decades and don’t do the same fuck-ups.”