He is much too verbose, launches into side topics that have nothing to do with the subject on hand, and he speaks much too fast. But that’s his style. I believe he’s on the spectrum and doesn’t really know how to focus on what he has to say.

Having said that. I think Louis Rossmann wouldn’t be Louis Rossmann, or even be as efficient as he is, if he didn’t do that.

I have my own mannerisms because I have my own personality. I don’t need to copy nobody else’s, rich or poor.

You’re about to move to a country in which the rule of law doesn’t apply anymore. ICE is roaming US cities like a bunch of thugs, snagging and deporting legal and illegal migrants alike, as well as US citizens. It’s well documented. The criterion for being a target of ICE is not being white enough.

Don’t unpack too quickly when you arrive: there’s a fair chance ICE will deport you right back.

You know you can say “Chinese troll” without hating anybody, yes?

As in “the person is a troll” and “the person is Chinese”. No hate anywhere: it’s just two facts that happen to go together quite well because China is kind of notorious for being the place where you can find internet trolls for hire for cheap.

You need to stop thinking everything in terms of how racist it sounds.

Thank you. That was informative. I didn’t know.

Instead of whining like a 5 year old, why doesn’t he use his obscene wealth to pay an army of Chinese internet trolls to rewrite Wikipedia to his liking? I bet Wikipedia and the regular contributors wouldn’t even have the resources to withstand the assault and correct the untruths faster than they’d be created.

I never tapered off. I replaced hard smoking with hard vaping almost overnight - and when I mean hard vaping, I mean big mods with big drippers, tons of power, tons of clouds, tons of nicotine.

I calmed down a bit with the vaping over the years because I didn’t feel I needed as much. Then one mornng, I simply left the mod at home and stopped vaping cold turkey.

Vaping had two functions for me:

• Inject nicotine into my system in a safer way than tobacco
• Reassure me that no matter what happened, as long as I had a mod nearby, I never needed to touch a cigarette again. And my most pressing source of anxiety was to want to smoke again.

After 10 years of vaping, I really felt like tobacco was well and truly alien to me at that point, so the “crutch” aspect of vaping disappeared. As for the nicotine, I figured I could always smear some nicotine base VG onto my gums. So I quit vaping but I left home with a bottle of nic that morning, but ended up never needing it.

That’s my tobacco cessation story. Everybody’s is different 🙂

Tobacco. 10,000%.

I smoked 3 packs a day for 25 years.

Then when vaping appeared on the scene, I switched to vaping - HEAVY vaping, loads of nicotine (you could buy 100 mg/ml nicotine base by the gallon for a few bucks back when it was still free). For 10 years.

Then finally I quit vaping. It’s been 5 years.

I’m finally free from tobacco. And it’s entirely thanks to vaping for me. I tried a million times and only vaping finally peeled me off tobacco (and then it took me 10 years to peel myself off vaping, but that was easier).

That’s what it took and how long it took me to get off tobacco. I curse the everlasting shit out of the day I took my first drag on a cigarette…

Well yeah but as long as the price of eggs goes down, it’s worth any sacrifice.

You have to admire the stupendous recklessness of applying Silicon Valley’s idiotic "move fast and break things* motto to things that must never break…

Hmm the 28th isn’t super convenient though. I think I’ll do it on the 29th.

It’s the everyday drudgery, miseries and annoyances that make the good times worthwhile. Just like you never appreciate the sun more than in a place that gets very little of it.

I currently live in a country that enjoys a very high standard of living and where people really do enjoy the good life. Yet weirdly enough, a lot of the locals are depressed and keep complaining. Why? Because they don’t realize what they have, because it’s their everyday normal.

As for what’s the point of living, if you don’t want to fall into the easy fallacies of religion, I suggest you simply enjoy your life while you can. You were born with a finite number of hours on this dirtball and they’re ticking away, so make sure you spend as many as you can with your loved ones having a good time. Because when the clock stops ticking, it’s over.

All English. It’s just more practical. Every software is first and foremost written in English, for English UIs, for English-speaking users, and then internationalized. I’ll just stick to the primary design for simplicity’s sake and to reduce potential issues.

Also, English tends to be more terse and less verbose than almost all other languages when abbreviated.

When then announced they’d be selling content for AI training, I went back to my old abandoned Reddit accounts and slightly altered all of my previous posts with actual content to be factually incorrect and misleading in subtle ways. It took me two months to rewrite everything, a few old posts at a time per day.

Now whatever technical or historical stuff I posted on Reddit is false and AI is training on that.

Aren’t you glad you did the work and gave Reddit the content it monetizes for free?

Keep your lenses clean and scratch-free for a long time

I never thought I’d ever see an internet where Godwin’s law has been rescinded because it interferes with the description of factual reality…

I don’t know how the pro-life religious crazies can look at themselves in the mirror.

It could be a lot worse

I’m not sure how…