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Serbia!
With some luck, soon it might be free Serbia, since our dictator was never closer to going down

I was at a student project that just transitions to a being a normal job once you get your BSc, and there was one guy on our team who nobody knows how he got there, since there were objectively better students (in terms of grades and knowledge) who got rejected. He was beyond useless and always got other people to do his work for him.

Anyways, the company I worked at offered internships for students, and the main criteria for getting accepted was your average grade. I was present to witness that guy going on a call with someone who determines who gets the internship to vouch for his friend. His friend had an average grade far under 8 (which is honestly embarassing at our uni), but this dude said how his friend is very motivated, wants to work, the grade problem is only there because those are some subjects he doesn't care about, and he personally stands behind him that he'll be a grear intern.

Well it worked, that guy got the internship and other students who actually knew something got rejected because they didn't have connections inside the company. I imagine that's a story that gets repeated often. Higher mamagers don't really know who's doing what, so people who know how to confidently bullshit can talk themselves into and out of many situations and they often form connections with similar people.

The guy is a nazi in his own words. Or rather, he wrote that he stopped considering himself a nazi because he doesn't agree that Slavs are subhumans, only the other groups.

Though Filosofem is soooo good. It really sucks that some of the best music was made by some of the worst people.

It was actually quite an interesting discovery that Newton's first law, the way it's usually repeated, was written in Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan", which was published when Newton was around 8 years old.

I forced myself through the first two seasons, and it turned out to be my favourite series, same happened to a friend. The show massively improves in season 3.

We just call him "cat"

Yes! There are normal types that just grow straight up, but I really liked these braided ones. Makes me wonder how many cool plants you can end up with when you shape them during growth.

I memorized 100 digits some years ago using physical memory. I would type the digits of pi on the numpad and memorize the movements of my hand, how it feels and which button goes when by position. Then when I would have to recite it, I'd imagine a numpad, move my hand and just say the number that corresponds to the imaginary button I'm pressing.

Don't know if that could work for 70k digits though

I always wanted to see far north and remote places like Svalbard and Greenland. Does the environment make people feel depressed or generally lethargic? Are Greenlanders more social or individualist and distanced? I imagine a strong community culture is in place to combat the feeling of isolation a lack of greenery and light might induce?

And how would you compare people from Greenland and Denmark?

I think the idea behind the graph was to make it look like blood flowing, but the execution was... not the best

Tu smo

Donated on Liberapay.

As others have said, this is financing software development, not a political campaign. I first learned of the fediverse when Reddit removed 3rd party apps, and I felt like my eyes were opened. This is what I want the internet to be, decentralized and running on open source software, and I'm sure I'm far from being alone in this, so thanks to the devs for that.

Also Jerboa is great!