I’ve never complained to get someone moved, but there are plenty of people that I didn’t/don’t like that I still have to work with. I will maintain a positive working relationship with those people by being nice.

I don’t don’t fit the mould of these ladies you’re talking about, but it could be a similar motive assuming they are aware that your are aware that they are the reason you moved. If they don’t know that, sometimes distance can help make bad relationships amicable. Again anecdotally, I’ve worked with people who’s work I don’t approve of, but they are fine people. Not working directly with them allows me to enjoy time with them.

Without the context omitted for why they complained about you, we can’t really offer fair judgement. Giving you the benefit of the doubt, you can see my above for possible explanations.

That must be one helluva water source to get it to cross fork tines.

I work next to a former pastor. He’s the most based religious person that I’ve met, and he’s imo what Christianity should be about. His big thing is your relationship with God is between you and him. This guy isn’t here to judge, and knows that it’s not his place. He mostly believes that if you’re a good person you’ll get to heaven.

I don’t agree with his religious views, but we can comfortably discuss philosophically about religion. More Christians should be like him and not like the fanatics and hypocrites.

Tell them you stopped believing in ghosts when you were a child. If coincidentally, the Christian God is real and all those other dieties aren’t, he’s a real fuck face. Why would anyone want to follow a supposedly all powerful being that gives children cancer instead of not being a piece of shit? If I die and go to Hell, at least I’ll be spending time with the one angel that fell because he loved me too much. It’s these old Christians that explained what Hell is like, and they had a pretty strong bias when writing it out. Why should anyone take their words with any value?

God’s either fake or a dog shit entity, so either way I have no interest in giving him any sort of praise.

You didn’t miss a step, Trump and his cronies skipped the whole deplomacy step.

True, but the whole process can throw wrenches into Russia’s invasion and maybe be a catalyst to get other countries to step up their support as well. The US isn’t the only Western country doing wrong by Ukraine.

At the very least, this publicly puts pressure on Russia. Zelensky can’t just wish the war away or tell Trump what to do, but he can play his best hand.

Let’s say that some papers do get signed and and it makes Russia have to pivot or draws in more support from NATO. Maybe a couple months later Trump roles back those protections. That’s a couple of months closer to Trump’s exit and the hope for a better future system. He’s hopefully lived to fight another day. At worst, talks devolve and the status quo remains the same.

Admittedly it’s worked fine for me, and this is my only use for it, but they were bought out by a company with history if malware based ad injection. PIA still maintains no logging and since they can’t really feed ads to my torrents, it probably doesn’t matter. I’ve known this for years and still haven’t switched, but it wouldn’t be my first choice for a VPN I use for web browsing or other online activities.

I have qbittorrent and PIA VPN. I need to switch VPN providers but that’s a separate topic. Qbt is on a kill switch so if the VPN goes down, no torrents flow. I’ve never received a letter when running VPN but have a few times in the past when not.

I have a Plex library over 40TB in size, and the vast majority has been torrents. I love in the US for geographical context. If you also are in the States, a simple VPN will be enough.

She was released and had stories of abuse/torture while in captivity.

Anecdotally, my closest friends are all senior level tech workers who are fully aware of what reddit did and the current state of everything, but I’m the only person that’s left for Lemmy. They are all still regulars on Reddit. In the same vein, I’ve written off doing business with many companies due to their shitty practice. Other than my sister also dropping Target, I’m the only person that I know that has stopped giving business to shit companies.

So yea, unfortunately the reality is that the vast vast majority of people just don’t care enough change even the smallest of behaviours for ethical reasons. I mentioned something today at my family Christmas that I don’t buy Reign energy drinks anymore because I stopped buying PepsiCo after they rolled back DEI. The response was, “get over yourself”. That’s probably the above average response for most people I know.

Yea, I try to not go down that path if available, but just tonight for example we were talking about an athlete who I lost respect for due to their not getting the covid vaccine when it was mandatory. I expressed that given the timing, I can empathize to an extent, but at a certain point, this person just ignored any procedure and didn’t work for an alternative, which there were paths for. In reality, it shouldn’t be a political opinion, but vaccines have become political.

I generally try not to engage in political discussion in person otherwise, but if I get pulled into it, I’m not in the habit of letting bigots speak without pushback, regardless of my relationship (boss, subordinate for example) to that person or persons. Silence is complacency. I try not to stir the pot, I’m not going to keep quiet just to not insult someone’s opinions, but I do try to speak in a respectful manner for the sake of conversation rather than debate.

90+% of the time it’s a non issue because I try to take steps to not be belligerent, and often times that leads to some level of constructive conversation or it just pivots to something else and we all move on amicably.

Usually it’s because the topic i want to discuss is politically motivated. I always preface with, not to get political but… And try to make it a neutral conversation.

For a basic setup to learn hello world and basic if/then logic, it’s extremely simple to setup Python on Windows or Linux. For Windows, which I’m guessing every non technical viewer will be using, download the installer and hit next taking the default values. Open idle, type the very human readable, print(“hello world”). Save and press f5. That’s it no complicated setup.

OP isn’t talking about teaching a lesson where any confusing syntax will come into play. They are giving an intro to programming class. That’s all about learning basic programming concepts which is done very easily in Python. You wouldn’t teach a non technical first time programmer a ternary operator or a list comprehension. You’d teach them:

if a == 10: 
    print("a = 10")
else: 
    print("a is not 10")

and simple for loops

for x in range(10):
    print(x)

I don’t know about you, but to me that’s about as human readable as it gets. No imports required. No extra packages. Just default python install and copy paste and this will work.

There are other languages with minimal setup that can be used. OP could go as far as basic JavaScript in JS fiddle so no setup would be required. The basics of JavaScript are also very easy to read compared to a language like C where explicit typing is required. That can be a difficult concept for people that have never even seen code before. Python and JavaScript soften that blow. Once the concepts of if/then, loops, and functions are grasped it’s much easier to pivot to other languages with more verbose syntax.

I’m not here suggesting that Python is by any means the superior language of the universe, just that it’s a very good option to learn with for it’s entry level simplicity and syntax readability, which I’ve demonstrated.

I’m not convinced it happens. I sure as shit feel like an old man some days physically, but my mind ranges from juvenile 12 year old potty humour to 70 year old get off my lawn and everywhere in between. It’s less often as I get older, but some days I get humbled when presented with something that I was sure was true that turns out to not be. It’s best to take it in stride as a learning opportunity rather than mope about it. It’s the xkcd “lucky 10000” situation.

Without a doubt. Like I said, I remember having views as a teen that were bad due to lack of life experience. I can look back into my 20s and think of plenty times where I was notably better than my teenage years but now I can see I still didn’t have it. It’s just the nature of growing up and getting older. We all evolve and have new life experiences that highlight our previous gaps in knowledge. It was just really noticable when I was listening to the sound bites in those PBS interviews the other week and it hit me like a truck. A sad, sad truck.

I’m not saying today’s youth is dumber than past youth, I’m saying all youth are dumb due to ignorance, but especially when it comes to social media since that’s relatively recent in the grand scheme of the world.

I’m not saying they are dumber than we were, I’m saying all kids are dumb due to ignorance. I do think that a lot of the current generation coming out is better adjusted than my generation, but they are still ignorant to the real world. The more I experience the real world the more ignorant I see that they are.

I was watching a piece on this the other day on PBS and they had some sound bites from youths they interviewed. It really hit me just how much dumber kids get as I get older. They aren’t actually dumber, but my understanding about how ignorant they are just keeps getting clearer. I remember think similarly in my youth, so it’s not unique to this generation, so no shade, but kids are dumb.

Python 100%. It’s the most human readable and easiest to pick up, especially for a non tech person. It’s easy to setup contrary to what I’ve read in the comments. Go to python.org install the latest version and that’s it. The downloader includes Idle so no other ide is required, but I’d consider vscode as well. Either watch an install video or better yet do it yourself before going to class.

I think you need to highlight the differences between OSs when it comes to setup if you plan on having a mixed environment of systems. It will also affect the code you write, so to be thorough, you’ll need to cover those differences as well.

Don’t go low level like C. These people will die the first time they have to compile in terminal.