CertainlyWorse
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CertainlyWorse
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1mo ago
You're right it is. It has real low brow used car salesman or carnival barker vibes.
CertainlyWorse
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1mo ago
I agree.
I once had a salesman friend get into my industry and arrange a meeting with me to spruik a very average product that I knew was very average. I couldn't believe how strongly he seemed to believe in the product. I'd known this guy for about 20 years since childhood. He absolutely believed the bullshit that he was spouting about the peddled garbage being the best in the field.
CertainlyWorse
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1mo ago
To provide food for someone is considered the ultimate display of affection
You're doing yourself and Malaysia credit to speak in this way. I'm not a food or water guy, but I appreciate the offering of these things (even to those you don't like) as important.
I'm thinking in my western way that I want to push offering a safe haven to those around me I like.
And in the rare case, those I don't.
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1mo ago
Yeah, even Sydney can't compared to Georgetown for foodie culture. I have a friend who comes from a 'gula' Kampung near Penang on the mainland so I spent a fair bit of time there. The different Chinese/Malay 'foodcourts' are interesting and a lot of social fun for a meal.
Speaking of wildlife, you aren't wrong about monkeys just outside of the urban areas.
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1mo ago
As predicted last month, expect to see DOGE working with and through, not around or over, the Cabinet Secretaries. Expect DOGE to shift from government destabilizer (your employees owe reports to us... or else) to external consultant (DOGE comes in, looks at data, and proposes things that the heads may or may not take up). DOGE will not go away, but it's relationship to agencies, and thus their federal employees, will change.
This should have happened in the first place, but now its becoming more likely I think DOGE will have less impact on reducing spending going forward. Department budgets are like this entrenched Gordian knot and without a strong disruptor I don't see how they can be moderated.
(Assuming the leak is true, which is a big IF) Marco pushing back on cutting USAID is a case in point. Rubio, seeing USAID under his purview as Sect of State wants control of any cuts. So now you've got one more point of failure in the cost cutting. Marco would cut less than Elon suggests, probably wishing to keep 'soft power' elements and other things that give the State Dept more power or influence.
— I didn’t realize people really did steroids. It’s weird realizing first of all that a decent number of guys are on some kind of dosing cycle or other, and second that a lot of them aren’t that strong. It’s really not the difference maker it is often made out to be. I have nothing against mild steroid use morally, it’s something I would consider in another ten years or so, but I’m just surprised to actually see it. It’s one of those things I’m always surprised when I run into people who actually do it, like hard drugs or leaving your wife for a younger woman. I understand that such things are normal, but I kind of assume they happen somewhere off camera statistically, not right in front of me.
There are so many moments like this I've had in my life and I'm sure there will be many more.
Most of the posters attracted to this site aren't the average person. I'm not saying that to say we're better, I'm just saying we're outliers.
So we live our life in our own ways and then we get exposed to what everyone else is doing. Steroids is a thing, but there are so many 'wtf' moments where you're kind of shocked that people live their lives in such a cavalier way.
It''s kind of great. I've run into people that have shown 'you live like that?' on their faces to me too. Makes me laugh
Each to their own, but yeah; wtf.
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1mo ago
Some will stay, I admit. Many will go.
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1mo ago
Economic migrants moved to the West for economic advantage. This incentive ends during wartime and is compounded by the risk of death in fighting a war. Wouldn't it be easier for economic migrants to just pack their bags and move to greener pastures (either their country of origin or a third western nation) rather than risk death fighting for a country for which they have little affinity?
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2mo ago
the ultranationalists within your power structure allegedly aim guns at your back in case you have any thoughs of defecting.
I think 'hold on to power' can be equivocated with 'hold onto life'. If he takes a bad peace deal (even if necessary or forced to do so) there's a good chance he'll be dead within a year.
Book of Hours and Cultist Simulator are different games, but there is overlap in the 'discover what happens if you combine these two cards' mechanic. There are a lot of intuitive interactions between cards. The survival drive aspect becomes very very obvious when you are new to the game, first thirst, then hunger then disease and finally mental illness.
If you'd like to try these two out, I'd start with Tropical Island. There is a free demo of the first days here on Steam. You should know if the gameplay is for you by the end of the free content.
Edit: I should say that while they seem expensive for indie games, there is so much complexity under the hood that keeps things entertaining. I've got 450 hours in Tropical Island.
CertainlyWorse
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2mo ago
Not a demo, but the sequel to one of my favourite survival games was released yesterday.
Card Survival Fantasy Forest currently doesn't hold a candle to its predecessor Card Survival Tropical Island. The original took a couple of years to make it to 1.0 so it not really fair to judge it by that standard. Still, there are many steps backward in terms of the quest system (meant to introduce recipes and game elements to the player) and the exploration system.
I'm sure these will be ironed out over early access and I trust the devs won't abandon the game. Unfortunately in the meantime, the Chinese playerbase are review bombing the game because it doesn't reach the quality of a full release.
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2mo ago
NYC was well known in the PUA community as one of the best dating scenes for single men in America.
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2mo ago
I have no words.
Your earnestness is a credit and you will recover and learn from this.
CertainlyWorse
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2mo ago
Do you know of any simple techniques to practice this? Recording yourself speaking for instance might be low hanging fruit.
CertainlyWorse
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2mo ago
proof-read yourself;
There are small things like this. Like 'walk away and come review tomorrow' in the same way you would with an important email.
I'm typing this out because I don't really want to take this on board.
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2mo ago
Thanks. I'm slack as shit in my words on here, but I kind of think I'd like to be better at it, hence the post.
One of my issues is that its difficult to walk away from your words before you come back to edit them and post.
you should write to a clear structure, and include logical connective tissue in your first draft, but then tear down the scaffolding once the thing is built.
This is how you should edit yourself? (no trap)
CertainlyWorse
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2mo ago
Is it reflexive that once you've written something, you will go and remove words?
CertainlyWorse
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2mo ago
Thanks for the article. I unironically appreciate someone bringing the receipts on that and basically confirming that it was a rhetorical nothingburger.
I still predict that the email will trip up some of the indolent or otherwise provide information that will direct further investigations.
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2mo ago
It is one very low hurdle of what will be many hurdles put in front of federal government employees. There will be low hanging fruit harvested out of this. Just like auditing welfare records found people over 200 years old, there will be govt employees who will be unable to 'be illegible'.
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2mo ago
Clustering of denials throughout the government can be honed in on through analysis and targeted for further investigation. Some of this clustering would be legitimate and some of it would not.
Even in the case of intelligence/defense departments and the like, DOGE could then do a more nuanced investigation/direction to the department head with Trump's approval (to be fair they should have done this to begin with, but the perfect is the enemy of the good).
I'm listening to Post Captain in the Aubrey/Maturin series. I'm continuing with the audiobooks because I'm kind of addicted to the Narrator Patrick Tull. The books were recorded back in the 90's and while there's a small loss in audio from the CD > mp3 encoding, it generally holds up. No sound effects, but still great narration.
I really enjoy having a bottomless 'go to' fictional audiobook list that I can mindlessly put on for chores, exercise, driving etc.
Edit: About the series itself so far, I'm really enjoying it. Not just for the adventurous Age of Sail naval life (and the cavalier cheapness thereof), but the incredibly subtle ways the author alludes to background events such as the strange love triangles/squares set against the mores of courting, Maturin's intelligence operations, the Irish independence movement and related conflicting loyalties. If it continues like this, I'll be a very happy 'reader' indeed.
I think people are obfuscating deliberately and hiding up behind Information Security as a shield. One of the basic requirements of working with sensitive information is the ability to compartmentalise what is sensitive and what is not so you can effectively do your job.
You could absolutely write a brief summary with dot points of what you did in 90% of cases in the federal government.
Some examples:
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Intelligence officer saying they attended 'several' 'operational and strategic meetings' where further details can be provided to someone that has a suitable security clearance.
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Finance/Contract Manager saying 'spent 20 hours reviewing/drafting various contracts (with no mention of what deals, live or dead)'
If you are not willing to provide information, say why in a polite professional tone: Eg, I can't provide further details due to the sensitive nature of my work, however my workload can be confirmed by my line manager or department head (don't even need to name who that is).
This is so much better than just 'nuh uh, I work in 'Three Letter Agency' so I won't even respond'.
Edit: I generally agree that it should have been better coordinated, with direct approval given by Trump to provide legitimacy quoted in the request and the request sent to Department Heads to enact within their organisation. The Department heads should have been given reasonable discretion to exempt (by which I mean self-audit) roles that work with sensitive information, but provide a report back to DOGE about how many roles they found to not provide sufficient answers.
If Trump has put his people in place as department heads, he should trust them to enact his policy (eg Patel and Gabbard get a lot of rope here).
CertainlyWorse
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2mo ago
people who don't pass and exhibit male-coded bad faith behavior, like murder sprees.
Thank you for this. I'm nursing a hangover and the laughing, while painful, was very much appreciated.
Yes. I would really really love these games (KCD1&2 are good examples) until the enjoyment fell off a cliff. My advice is ignore most side quests and focus the main story to maximise your enjoyment before burn out. And yeah, its kind of a 'where were we again?' feeling of requiring effort to get back into it that turned me off picking them back up.
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