Small domino: Augustus failing in his world-historic duty to forcefully drag the Germanic barbarians into civilization.

Large domino: A Lemmy instance banning pro-Palestinian posts and comments.

Here’s the gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-build-my-future-and-build-my-family-home

It’s fitting that a German incel from the 19th century will continue to inspire incels for generations to come.

Are you actually waiting for the event or are you doing prep work for the event?

Europe came closest to achieving political unity under the Nazis, making Adolf Hitler the Qin Shi Huang of Europe (a very cursed phrase). You can see this clearly with this Wikipedia map on Sweden’s “neutrality”

Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland were “neutral” who did what Herr Hitler told them to do, leaving only Iceland, Portugal, Ireland, the UK, and the RSFSR as part of Europe that Hitler failed in the project of European unification. Runner-ups of European unification are Napoleon and the EU, which both failed to bring southeast Europe to the unification project.

The Waffen-SS was essentially Europe’s first real army, not a European army of some European principality or a European statelet or a European petty kingdom, but a real army of a (near) unified Europe with European men recruited from the entire continent.

And this army was completely staffed by genocidal fascists hopped up on stimulants and tasked to wage a war of annihilation against the Tatar-Mongolic Judeo-Bolshevik hordes of the Soviet Union, demonstrating that the very idea of Europe itself is forever cursed and order will not be restored until Europeans accept their true identity as northwestern Afro-Asians hailing from the continent of Afro-Asia.

Me in 2013: Fuck em-dollar sign for taking out the start menu. I guess I’ll give Linux a shot. But there’s no way em-dollar sign would fuck up Windoze even more.

Me in 2025:

I see your Tuppence Middleton and raise you Lawrence Eagleburger.

You definitely need the certs even with a degree, so work on A+, Network+, Security+. When I started out, IT tech was touted as a career path where you don’t need a degree if you have the right certs. I honestly don’t know if this is still true.

I know about Windows Server Management (worked a shit ton with VMs in classes) daily drive Linux, do some real amateur game development on the side on my own so I know how to code, not great but I have experience there. Any advice on how to give myself a better shot?

All of these are home projects related to software. This might be your actual passion, but as far as getting your foot into the door in IT, you need to be decent in hardware as well. At bare minimum, you should have home projects that demonstrate some familiarity with hardware as well as software. Some ideas:

• I set up my own security camera system.
• I hooked up my home with various smart devices that I’m also managing with my own server. (See here: https://hexbear.net/post/4377896)
• I fix and build computers for my family and friends.
• I build my own home server from salvaged parts that is running various docker containers that I can show you the interviewers with my phone.
• I know how to take apart a monitor and put it back together. Random video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6cgQZ8zT4o
• I took apart my old smartphone as a fun challenge.

I guess the point is that you have to show that you’re not just some nerd but someone who is also handy. I don’t know how good you are with hardware, but if you absolutely suck, you can always just buy used shit on eBay and try to disassemble it as practice using Youtube videos as a guide. Let your family and friends know that they can dump their old and broken shit on your footsteps. If you can’t reassemble it, who cares, it’s already broken junk anyways. This allows you to make mistakes without them being too costly. Better to ticker with your parent’s old 15 year old laptop than the laptop that you’re currently using to apply for jobs.

I already knew how deranged the Zionist entity was from the Sword of al-Quds in 2021. The main thing October 7th has opened my eyes on is how treacherous the Arab comprador regimes really are. People like Erdogan will cry about Palestinians while Turkey continues to ship oil to the Zionist entity.

OP of that dumpster fire thread just threw ace people under the bus lmao

I think your definitions are fine although I still can’t take people being uptight about other people not caring about their hobbies/leisure/play seriously. I like to collect random bugs (mostly detritivores because they have almost zero maintenance outside of occasionally giving them new decaying plant matter like dead leaves and banana peels), and it doesn’t need to be anything more than me collecting random-ass bugs for fun.

Melting my PC so I can experience the riveting experience of Hearthstone.

An electronic trading card game (TCG) by a terrible game developer riding on decades-long nostalgia because they made a couple of good games more than two decades ago. TCGs like Hearthstone and Magic the Gathering were the blueprint for much of what plagues modern gaming. Lootboxes and gacha games wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for MtG.

And they’re pretty much gambling because the way TCGs work is you have to build a deck of cards, but the cards themselves are only available in booster packs and not all set of cards within those booster packs are created equal. If you’re lucky, your booster pack will have OP cards, but if you’re not lucky, your booster pack is filled with complete trash and completely worthless. Lootboxes are just those booster packs applied to gaming and gacha games are an entire genre of gaming build around opening booster packs and the highs from getting what you want/the lows from getting worthless garbage.

I applaud OP for putting the g*mer in his place. The g*mer needs to be repeatedly reminded that his hobby ain’t shit and he needs to get over himself. No one who’s well-adjusted would care if randos don’t give a shit about their hobby or even consider their hobby to be one, but I could see how some dude who’s addicted to blowing thousands of bucks on jpeg waifus in some trash gacha game would feel insecure about his gambling addiction. Like just step back for a second. The dude is building a fire hazard all for the sake of playing AAA slop because as even g*mers know, most indies don’t require the latest CPU or graphics card, which would cut down on the total wattage of the PC. How pathetic is that?

Her brother is really cool and builds computers for fun and I think that takes a level of knowledge that I don’t really posses so I’m like very happy for people who do things like that and I do see building computer is a hobby because it takes skill determination and a lot of time to do and there’s a healthy component behind I think. I think I see it as a puzzle.

Meh, building computers is just like building Legos after a certain point. Unless he’s like purposely choosing a smaller form factor where the physical dimensions of the parts actually matter, it’s really not a big deal. It’s a bit of an open secret among IT techs that PC g*mers without actual tech backgrounds (ie at least an A+ cert) are not very good with computers.

And ignore the loser L*dditors here trying to make you feel bad. They need to be shown their place (and the door) as well.

In one of the first places I’ve worked, you were supposed to clock in and out of lunch but they didn’t have a good way of controlling how long your lunch was, so I would purposefully clock my lunch to be 45min even though my lunch is supposed to be an hour. It worked because the clocking software basically took the times of the beginning and end of your shift and subtracted that by how long your lunch time duration was. You technically could have a 0min lunch by clocking in lunch and immediately clocking out lunch and the software would think you worked 1hour overtime, but that was way too obvious.

So 45min lunch it was. I did something like clocking in lunch at 12:07pm and clocking out lunch at 12:52pm. Of course, I wasn’t actually taking 45min lunches. People didn’t all go to lunch at the same time, so I would begin eating food at my desk at 11:30am in order to signal to people I’m at lunch, clock in lunch at 12:07pm for my official lunch that I was supposed to clock in at 12pm, and clock out lunch at 12:52pm that I was supposed to clock out at 1pm. Since my clock-in lunch was 45min, the extra 15min is overtime pay (well, on paper anyways except I also liked showing up 10min late, meaning most of the 15min gets used up to make up for showing up late lol).

I find it believable because:

1. Other journalists have already been arrested for their views on Palestine like Richard Medhurst and Ali Abunimah. Abunimah got pretty close to being disappeared into a black site in Switzerland.

2. Some Muslim dude named Hasan being “randomly” selected for further inspection by TSA is a sadly mundane event that isn’t even news.

3. Hasan has appeared in various mainstream Zionist publications like Haaretz in a very “will no one rid me of this turbulent priest” way. I personally think Hasan needs to worry about security and have an escape plan to leave the US.

I often think in the cliche “what was the straw that broke the camels back?” Was it the time I burned the rice? Was it the nonstick pan I scratched because I was too lazy to use a wooden ladle? Was it the deodorant I used? Maybe it was the frozen food I texted her on those days I wanted to cheer her up that I was at a store ready to bring home one of her favorite treats.

Unless you were like forcing her to bath in toxic sludge every night or handling radioactive waste with her bare hands, there isn’t much you could’ve done because the vast majority of people in their 20s and 30s don’t think they will get hit with cancer. Most people begin their “I better pay attention to early signs of cancer” stage of life in their 40s. People don’t exactly rush to get colonoscopies in their 20s. I only know one dude who actually did colonoscopies in their 30s and it was because he was some vet who breathed carcinogenic fumes while in Iraq (I forgot the term, but there’s a pit where troops burn their trash and he was constantly exposed to those fumes).

I know it’s disgusting to think this way but sometimes I feel like I endured more pain than she did albeit a different kind of pain. I know it’s selfish but I’m alone now without my best friend. She was my everything in this life.

This is reasonable. She was able to endure 2 years of pain with you by her side while you’ll have to endure a lifetime of pain without her.

Hasan is rich and famous enough that it would be more trouble than it’s worth unless Hasan completely fucks up by saying shit like, “I am a card-carrying member of Hamas.”

I try to jog a mile every day.

Being a pedo (defender) just comes with the territory for the entire clergy.