vivamatapacos [comrade/them]

There's several methods to handling this. First, you already have the insight and possess a level of introspection where you've reflected on this aspect of yourself enough to understand it is a flawed mindset. I would argue you didn't waste 10 years because it appears during that time you've developed a level of wisdom and maturity many people never do.

Second, in dealing with lack of experiences and struggling with identity, the best I can do is offer some advice that I hope you find helpful. Identity is a tricky thing because of how abstract it becomes the moment you really try to analyze the concept. For a long time I felt like a void of personality due to feeling no strong sense of identity to things that people I saw identified with. I wondered why they found meaning in these things while I couldn't. But I soon found its because their constructing an identity around employment, commodities, sports, etc., and that I was looking in the wrong places trying to answer "who am I?" I don't have a great answer to identity crisis though. Ultimately, try not to worry about "what's my identity/personality," let people piece it together themselves, either through conversation or by whatever symbols you may use to express yourself. Just let go of trying to define your own identity, let your understanding of yourself and your experiences define you. Which brings us to your reported lack of experiences.

Luckily, a couple things that can be done to help with that. The most immediate one, and it seems you are actively doing which is great, is to go make experiences. By meeting people, carving out opportunities, getting lucky, and so on. But "experiences" in terms of having a repertoire of personal anecdotes comes with time, and well, experience. You'll get there. No need to look backwards because these experiences are in your present and future.

The next thing you can do is a mix of changing mindset and finding the "experiences" you do have, or rather reframing your view of yourself and the last 10 years. Did you read? Did you learn? Did you cook something new? Did you go on a walk somewhere, take a hike, change a tire? Did you play video games, or watch TV? There's a plethora of things to draw from in any of those areas in terms of being able to converse and share experience. Like having an opinion about why you liked/didn't like something and talking about it. You can talk about any of it! Someone has a story and it reminds you of something from a book you read, talk about it.

Last thing, and I don't recommend this but you'll find a lot of people do this. Just lie. Half the stories you hear people telling about themselves, their "anecdotes", are bullshit. Its either highly exaggerated or they're just stealing a story they heard from someone else. Maybe they read it in a reddit comment. Some people will just collect 'bits' and then deploy them out in conversations, but its really just an act. So, you could also develop an 'act' of stories that you make yourself the main character of and use that to fill in the last 10 years. But I don't endorse this method for reasons I feel need no explanation.

The dominant fish women live in the center of the earth.

I understand. My concern with the security of say a Huawei device is, that while domestic surveillance and NSA backdoors into American tech is a significant portion of the state's security apparatus, I imagine the majority of effort spent by our spy agencies is in compromising and penetrating foreign tech. Yes, its easier for the state to coerce our tech industry into cooperating, but that's why most of the offensive cybersecurity funding goes towards breaching non-US tech.

the NSA definitely has shit worse than NSO Pegasus for stock android devices

Shouldn't we assume the same for Huawei devices?

Damn, I missed the (which was already bad) caveat in the title. Yes, the film is great.

Starship Troopers.

I recently rebuilt my PC. Now I want to pull out my racing wheel and play Dirt Rally. Its the most immersive experience I've ever had in gaming.

I added a couple remarks in an edit to my original comment. I would say that a steady income will be better for your mental health in the near term, but from personal experience it wasn't something sustainable for me.

Overnight work isn't healthy. I've had several years of my working life where I did night shifts and it was absolutely destructive to my mental health. If you're young and a night owl, I'd say give it a shot but understand that you shouldn't do it long term.

Edit: I should say that one of the biggest challenges with night shift is maintaining a balanced and healthy lifestyle. It requires a lot of discipline, otherwise you will easily find yourself adopting bad habits. Things like eating tons of fast food because that's all thats open during your commute, etc. Socially you can find yourself struggling too, when everyone else is out while you're sleeping or working. If you can maintain the levels of discipline needed to eat healthy, get sleep, and meet your social needs, then its doable.

EDIT: I don't think I've ever gotten so angry reading an article before. What no theory does to a MFer. All these "GrowSF" people, self described "Obama Democrats" :obama-socialism:, are just CHUDs who've adopted "progressive" aesthetics.

I still love to write code, but I can’t resist the attraction of solving problems with easy solutions. And this problem has the easiest solution of all: just vote better people into office and change the laws.

:i-voted:

what matters to progressives is that you’re trying to replace your window without a permit: that’s illegal.

WTF kind of "progressive" strawman did they create in their :brainworms: head?

Agarwal: Did you see Elon Musk’s tweet? He’s installing beds at Twitter headquarters, and the city Department of Building Inspection is investigating this. In response, he posted a link to a story about a baby almost overdosing on fentanyl in a city park. Buss: Right. It’s a complete misalignment of priorities by the far Left.

:jesse-wtf:

I can go on and on and on...just about every single statement in this article is dunk worthy, but I am going to stop reading it for the sake of my own mental health.

I've been in at least one Whole Foods that had a bar inside of it.

Attempts to pull this info out of the Book of Grudges in an argument with a liberal Them: "You can't be critical of the CIA for disseminating propaganda and disinformation while also using them as a source for your argument. Checkmate, tankie."

Someone forgot to check their dead drop in time.

Most definitely. Also where they keep the Clinton\Biden body double cloning tech.

The documents he had access to (the ones that he leaked onto his discord) were not raw intelligence. They were completed reports that were meant for being shared amongst the intelligence community on a wikipedia-like searchable database/news aggregator, available for view by just about anyone with his level of clearance (and access to that particular classified intranet). He simply needed to log onto any machine on that intranet (he was a network admin for an intel unit, every desk in every office likely has a machine that meets the criteria) and navigate to Intellipedia and just start perusing interesting articles. Nothing out of the ordinary doing that, the whole point is to have this sort of information easily accessible for intelligence sharing. Of course, since you are not supposed to take any of these materials outside of a secure area, there are systems in place to make it very easy to track who accessed what, who printed what, etc. Access to the really interesting stuff is generally more stringent and compartmentalized and requires things like polygraph exams (for a 3-letter, which im guessing this dude's unit was strictly dealing with USAF intelligence). For the really really interesting stuff, it is gatekept behind what are called Special Access Programs that this dumbass would not have met the criteria for (being read onto an SAP requires even more invasive involvement of Uncle Sam into your life and background).

Ian Wright is fantastic, I highly recommend reading his blog article: Marx on Capital as a Real God. He masterfully demonstrates the relationship between capital, metaphysics, and the supernatural. I'm not going to be able to give it justice in this post, but I found reading his work on the topic very enlightening and opened an entirely new perspective for me on Marxism.

I 100% agree and I find this area of 'spycraft' an interesting topic. Its true that video game chats are a decent way to communicate while hiding in plain site, though this method is not secure by any means; more security through obscurity. Its funny you reference World of Warcraft, as spy agencies compromised wow's chat service over a decade ago . So you're correct, Kim isn't half wrong in that agencies aren't looking at EVERY game, though he's full of shit when he says "now you know why I play a lot of video games." He just wants to come off as being a bad ass OpErAtOr because he's a manchild with CoD brain.

Its not even gymnastics, more like cognitive dissonance portraying as ideology.

damn the CNN article about this is crazy: https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/aJIxEzQPML.png

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