At this point I am much worried about the future effect of evil bloodlines then of stupid ones.

They do often go hand in hand, granted, but there are some wonderful stupid and/or mentally handicapped folks out there.

Yeah, when I take an inventory of the businesses I frequent and follow this train of thought, it ultimately boils down into the line "No ethical consumption under capitalism" I've read before.

If it's a company we've heard of, it inevitably has an entire collection of rich psychopaths running and owning it. Local small businesses can be better, or they can be run by hateful bigots and/or small-time psychopaths that charge twice as much.

I just try to find the reasonable balance between trying to reduce harm and not support the worst of the worst, while also participating in society.

I'd argue that the rate of decay per atom is actually random, except that the probability per unit time is scaled according to how long the half life is.

You need a shitton of atoms so that you can average out all that randomness and find the emergent property that is half life.

Fortunately, any amount of radioactive material large enough for us to do anything with it does indeed have a shitton of atoms! Avogadro's number is one of my favorite scientific constants because it reveals the crazy scale of the atoms we take for granted.

Like with U238 and its 4 billion year half life, one mole of just that atom would weigh 238 grams and have 6.022x10^23 atoms. A half-pound or quarter-kilo chunk of very heavy metal that fits in the palm of your hand contains over 602,200,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms.

Some of those atoms are going to decay today, and some of them will still be radioactive in 100 billion years.

Alarming, but not surprising.

The setup that works for me is LibreWolf as primary browser and Firefox ESR if a site doesn't work.

I don't do web development or anything, but I haven't run into anything that hasn't worked recently. Librewolf works for almost everything, but if some stupid login page doesn't like some privacy thing that librewolf is doing, I'll try one more time with some more loose permissions, then it's over to normal firefox.

They don't think you have no interests because you say you like to work.

They think you have no interests because you say:

From personal experience, i do start to slowly drift towards depression during my mandatory 2 week vacations as oftentimes there just isn't anything to do and i tend to doomscroll way too much.

In my case, I have loaded myself up not just with hobbies and projects, but with ones that are often physical in nature and very different from my career at a desk writing code.

If I were forced to take the next two weeks off, I would probably get MORE "work" done but it would be according to what I find fulfilling at the time.

Yeah, before we got the OK to just dual boot our laptops at work, I ran a linux VM inside windows for a while and it honestly worked very well.

Even now that I just run Linux, and Windows is VM-only for occasionally checking Windows build artifacts, it can be convenient to have a different Linux distro in a VM for random things.

I appreciate you sharing, and I mean this as a light-hearted comment and not an insult:

You discussing your difficulties in getting NPD treatment while also capitalizing pronouns referring to yourself is 🤌

But he can see Jesus?

"I can't see germs so they aren't real" sounds like the kind of meaningless strawman "got 'em!" argument he might make against atheism or whatever. It would be stupid then, too.

But no, he of course did the more sincere, more stupider straightforward version of that statement.

You can run a LOT of Windows applications in Linux with how good compatibility layers have gotten. And there are also VMs as a heavier option.

Granted, for work stuff maybe it would be more convenient not to switch, but it might be interesting to experiment!

Oh it was a long time ago, but not so long ago that it's suspicious.

Are they really such amazing actors

Unfortunately I don't think they need to be good actors in the first place.

One of the lessons of the last decade of the shit show that we call human society has been that awful and/or stupid people rise to positions of power and influence every day by acting confident and promising things they can't deliver.

The modern confidence man isn't the thief of the street but the legitimate executive.

Fear is definitely a reason they love to drive 3-ton trucks to rugged wild places like the office and McDonald's. I have heard my fair share of rednecks call ANY small or normal sized car a "death trap" or "tin can," or comment something like "I'd hate to have somebody crash into me in that thing!"

"Winning" in a crash is a big unspoken feature that drives vehicle choice for a lot of paranoid/scared iamverybadass turds. Around me it's a pretty varied mix of trucks, truck-based SUV barges, and luxury SUVs.