It’s in regards to all matters, not just being gay.

I’d argue that Russia has less misogyny. Women for example have always been in the workforce, and having a woman run a large department or be in charge of men is considered normal. It always has been.

In terms of gay bashing, Russians are private people and they don’t care what you do in private. But this is true for all matters, not just being gay.

I do agree about racism.

It’s so funny that some people think Russia has traditional values. It was an atheist country up until 30 years ago, and today when people say they’re religious, what they mean is they go to church a couple of times a year at most. Not to mention, today they have a very high divorce rate/many single mother households. How are these traditional values?

Oh man. I’ve never considered myself a power user. Mice are uncomfortable for me, trackpads are much better but I learned excel before I got a laptop.

That makes me feel better… I disliked office 365. How does it compare with keyboard shortcuts? I barely use the mouse these days.

As a side note, damn we are an old bunch here.

This is a good reminder to finally dl it and bite the learning curve.

That’s the right strategy. They want to use ai, so let them. No need to speak to professionals who will use ai anyway.

Why aren’t penalties the percentage of the company’s worth? It would be a catch 22 for the companies - do you inflate your worth to get more investors or do you deflate your worth to pay less penalties.

Tbf the threshold is quite low.

Congrats on your 2+ months! I know it’s very tough for people, you can do it!

I quit accidentally, it was covid and I was too lazy to get dressed and go outside to smoke. I doubt I’ll start again because they’re so pricy here. Besides, weed is cheaper and makes me feel all funny. I’ll take wacky tobacky any day.

I went fairly recently and it tasted like crap. You’re not missing out. I cook better.

McDonald’s doesn’t taste good, but menthols? Mhmm mhmm I’m loving it… or I assume I’d still love them. I haven’t smoked in years.

You still owe money for taxes and insurance, and of course you have to pay for the upkeep. It’s interesting that home ownership isn’t an asset since you’re not renting it out, but investing the same amount of money is considered an asset.

Yup and patriarchy. My father is low functioning and constantly has temper tantrums/outbursts, and it baffled me why the family was run by him. If he was a woman he wouldn’t be the head of anything.

Re capitalism, I never understood why people wanted to have a house and car. It also doesn’t make sense to have most of your assets sitting in real estate and not diversified.

Think of how much money the company will be saving! Profit will go through the roof!

This got me thinking. I move every 4-8 years and adapt to the new living conditions. I suspect this hedges against any unknown issues my living conditions have that I’m unaware of. For example, I never filtered my water until I moved someplace where it was necessary and I just kept the habit. Maybe I should have been filtering water my entire life but moving forced me to create this habit.

Didn’t oracle just pay out a settlement for a data breach?

God sends emails now. Very modern.

We don’t have aliens living anywhere near us/our galaxy etc., but there definitely could be another planet out there with life. I mean why not? It happened to earth.

Does the app require internet? If there’s a catastrophe, the first thing to go out is internet and phone reception because of high demand.