I find it interesting you call it Jesuit programming.

Some of the greatest scientists from India were evidently religious but they were also extremely scientific. I guess monotheistic dogma does run counter to multifaceted scientific evidence.

That said, there’s still a lot of Christian scientists who do not discard of evidence. It’s just that OP is talking to the wrong people.

Reminds me of walking quite far and into the docklands area when my friends were visiting me for a night out at university.

I said something along the lines of ‘Why are we out here?’ and their reply was ‘We were following you.’ I replied I was following one of them, and then the reply was: ‘You fuckwit, we don’t know where your dorm is.’

Drinking does seem to ruin critical thinking.

Well well, isn’t that amazing /s

I’m going to take a shower now, brb when I get inspired.

This article gave me zero idea what a square front camera is.

Does it mean that the sensor is a square instead of a rectangle? I’m confused.

I think true psychism in the universe does not allow for confirmation of what psychics predict. The universe reacts in a way beyond our ken. The plane will land just fine.

This comment thread is creating an amazing rainbow on the left of my screen.

You could still distrohop a bit if you want. Debian (as well as mint) is stable, loads of deb packages out there. I really like Fedora (less packages for my use case but COPR is similar to AUR in that there are thousands of packages outside of the main repositories). Ultimately like they said, Arch is really out there with the rolling releases, but sometimes you’ll need to reconfigure. Recently firmware packages got split up and that required manual intervention. Haven’t had any breaks so far, so EndeavourOS is a good choice imo.

If you’re new to arch, I think maybe go endeavouros. A new install has update scripts and whatnot, and EndeavourOS has good documentation. Going straight into arch involves a lot of reading the docs just to even get a desktop environment running. You probably want to start with the full package.

I’m using endeavoursOS gnome.

Kubuntu will get you familiar with package management, though it could well be managed through a desktop app so you may well barely touch the terminal. But you will discover that there’s a fair bit of bloat - not in the windows sense - but apps that you may not necessarily need.

I’m a freefall sleeper so even no pillow works, otherwise a pilloe has to be flat and manoeuvred under my chest to stop my neck bending.

Freefall sleepers may have a slightly lower life expectancy but I’m like ‘meh’. Sleeping is nearly half my life.

I see it as ‘This is our house but lovemaking needs to happen elsewhere. The child moves out at 18 and does whatever they want.’ Of course, the child prior to 18 needs to understand consent and the use of contraception.

This is giving me Stagtown vibes.

This sort of post tells me you haven’t done LSD. Yes, you refer to them in the third person, but also the fact that you are not likely to focus on a screen if at all while on LSD.

It’s a pretty good movie, might watch it again.

To be honest this doesn’t sound like a good workplace. As a teacher at my school, we just get on with the job and the last 50 minutes you can join in conversation or just get on with something else. When a teacher is busy with something (even if they’re reading) we don’t interrupt them except if they have a school related question they can answer.

If a coworker runs in and says WTH?! and it’s no news, I don’t think they’d be popular either.

To me, the lady is not really looking at anything, but yes, her eyes are directed behind my shoulder.

The eye contact ‘language’ is complicated. Sometimes I’m facing someone directly. I’m probably looking towards their eyes 90% of the time with an occasional look in another direction as I process the conversation. Other times I’m faced away in a posture that shows I’m listening (I’m hard of hearing so sometimes I need to have an ear facing towards them); then I’ll be looking towards their eyes 20%-ish of the time.

I think it depends on the context. In a formal setting facing each other, looking away could be misinterpreted, and eye contact is a skill to be cultivated. Call it ‘cultivating charisma’. I’m a teacher and had to develop quite a lot of experience in it, and popularity tends to scale with its effectiveness.

Even if more functions were automated, two pilots means that neither will cave under pressure because you’ve got a buddy by your side who is doing all they can to get the plane safely back to land.

You sound like someone who believes in being authentic. Don’t throw that away.

Taking into account expenses, and no need to financially budget for travel and stress about it, this is a fairly low cost way to satisfy your employees. Is the work not possibly WFH or employer would rather have people in office?