I have a coworker travelling there in July. Unwillingly, I've been more or less been kept in the loop what preparing the trip implies and I'm pretty horrified.

Up until now, these are some of demands made (and accepted):

• full disclosure and acess to social networks
• criminal record
• recent photo, perfectly groomed and in the attire to be used to travel there. No deviations will be tolerated from the supplied photo.
• complete list of possible identifying marks on the body, with pictures (tattoos, moles, melanistic spots, scars, etc)
• name and social networks of parents, siblings and other close relatives, including children.

The person is separated with two children; this is causing a lot of friction.

• has already been warned an interview of up to two hours will be held upon arrival.

The person speaks broken english at best.

• disclosure of place of employment and other connections to public organizations

They are connected to a local soccer club and a youth sports association.

To add to all of this, this isn't a standard caucasian human but someone who has looks that can be taken for someone from the middle east, slightly darker shade of skin included.

Flying from southern europe straight to Florida.

I'm concerned. I would not go, full stop. They have people waiting there for them but nonetheless. Considering the heated state of affairs, it is something I consider of not easily to overlook risk.

Developers are so opinionated that its difficult to pin down one favourite tool !

I swear I've tried like 5 times to delete Reddit for good, but I always and up going back after a couple of months because I miss the webms, gifs, and story posts.

I know that Lemmy seems to have some character restriction that prevents super long story posts (which I think they've increased the limit a bit?) and I can scratch the itch with creepy pasta, manga, or SCP archives, but why does Lemmy have such a prominent lack of gifs and webms?

All of the gif-centric communities are dead and I know that there's no restriction to that type of content, so am I just missing something? If you're not seeing it here, then where do you guys watch gifs and webms?

Inspired by yesterday's discussion on whether or not a hotdog is a sandwich, I've decided to wade into the waters of filled-bread food controversy. I am of the contention that jelly belongs on top of the peanut butter. What say you, Lemmings?

Maybe it's worth looking on reddit? But to be honest, I'm not particularly fond of reddit, I don't think it will be suitable for my task, but maybe I should give it a chance?

So, I lived in India as a foreigner over 12 years ago now and, back in both 4th and 5th grade, our class teachers would record our weights and heights(I don't remember if this one a year or for every term) and would later be written in our report card for our parents

As fat kid, having to step on the scale in front of the whole class was humiliating and its not like they did anything with those numbers. They didn't mention them to parents, didn't make life style changes recommendations. The least they could have done was take those measurements in private and not in front of the whole class

Is this still a practice Today in India school? Was it popular during the 2010(I lived there from 2012-2014)? For people who had their measurements taken, especially other fat kids, how did it feel?

What about other parts of the world?

I remember doing combinatorics puzzles and number theory exercises in platforms like Brilliant when I had a bit of free time. All the while learning something. But the last time I tried Brilliant I did not enjoy it as much and I can't afford it not anyway.

Does anyone have any recommendations of websites (or webrings), apps or games about or that touch on:

• combinatorics puzzles
• modular arithmetic puzzles
• concepts or exercises of number theory

My boss lets me live in one of his apartments rent-free with all utilities covered, and he also gave me a spending card.

Are these really the people that should be required to work so much? Isn't their job about handling life and death daily? Wouldn't we want exactly these people to come fully rested to work every single day and be fully staffed?

I don't know if there are jobs with similar stakes that are so carelessly staffed and disgustingly paid.

I've had the nice experience of teaching my younger brother chess and as he made those bad blunders I started to remember when I played the same and made me happy. We like to review his games together and have a laugh at the shit moves and crack jokes like "killing a fly with a bazooka".

So I would like to know what you guys enjoyed re-living and teaching.

Half as serious as to the subject or details of current wars, political corruption, environmental collapse, etc.

15 years of IT experience at medium to large companies but never got any degrees or certs. "Born and raised on tech in the silicon valley" and aced interviews. Looking to add certs to my resume. Which ones are a waste and which ones are beneficial to have on your resume?

Is a hot dog a sandwich?

I'm making this post on a throwaway anonymous account because I want to ask something about how my mind works that I'm deeply ashamed of, and I want to hear honest opinions of other people's perspective - probably mostly men but ofc anyone is welcome to answer. I'm obviously a man, in my late 20's.

It's about seeing attractive people in public. I'm talking about seeing girls but I guess it applies to anyone you're attracted to.

I know I'm not supposed to stare but I can't help it. Little glances when I think they're not looking, looking at their bum or chest or face or legs. I will change my walking route to innocently walk past them and steal another look. If they're nearby it's like they occupy my mind and I have to keep looking, and I keep thinking about them and picturing them nude and imagining putting my hands on them. Never interacting, never saying anything, never openly staring, but just internally in my head.

tbh it's not even just attractive girls, it's basically all girls. If any girl has walked past me in the street or the store or on a bus, I have almost certainly checked her out. When I'm driving my head will turn away from the road to look at a girl on the sidewalk as I pass. I went to the beach this weekend and I couldn't keep my eyes in front of me because of all of the girls in bikinis, and some of them undoubtedly noticed me looking.

It's like I'm constantly scoping out everyone in my vicinity at all times, and always looking at their boobs and bums semi-consciously, and I can't really stop. I know it's horrible and creepy, and it probably makes them uncomfortable, but I kind of let it happen anyway. And I can't even say why really.. it's not like I get pleasure from looking at them, or that I'm looking for someone who I could approach or anything. There's literally no reason for it. It's just this passive activity that my brain automatically does to all girls at all times. And.. I will pick a different route to walk along a more busy street just because I know there will be more girls to look at.

When a guy walks past I probably couldn't tell you what he was wearing, or his hairstyle, or what he looks like. I don't notice. But when a girl walks past I notice all the details of her appearance, her body shape, her boobs in particular, her hair and face. I'm kinda disgusted by this aspect of my mind.

Obviously I know people find other people attractive and check people out. But.. is it this constant for everyone? Are you unable to keep your eyes and mind away when someone attractive walks past? Does looking at others' bodies constantly occupy your mind when you're in public? Or am I just so starved that it's broken my brain? Is this internal obsession with girls' bodies just what it's like to be a straight guy.. or am I different??

I've been thinking of how to go about lobbying institutions to join the fediverse. I think the next step could be to look at the domain of accounts with large followings and approach institutions that share those domains. When they see large followings for their subject matter, they would be more likely to join.

Whistle by Flo Rida

Meme

I only know this song because I like Tolkien. I hope he didn't just turn in his grave.