I grew up in a very similar house. This is indeed uncommon.

My advice:

• you’re doing great by going to therapy
• get out of the house at all costs as soon as possible (today if possible)
• wherever you end up, you will have a rough go, but you will find work and a way to support yourself. You’re a good person, and people want to work with good people
• in your new city, join a volunteer group. This will help you to understand that there are good people out there, that you can make a positive difference in the lives of people with similar experiences, and that there’s good in the world. Social connectedness is very strongly correlated with happiness
• people can begin to resemble their abusers but sometimes they become saints. You’re on the right trajectory, keep up the good work

I’m a programmer. Happy to take a DM from you anytime. Also if you go to SF, I can give you more info.

Many many more reasons to dislike the central valley. Politically it is a lower class orange county

Corporate propaganda

Now that is a labour union

This meme is my favourite of 2026 so far. Makes me laugh every time.

What an absolute legend. Had an insane career then got her PhD in 2000

This is an amount that would cover university tuition for all American students for a year.

You’re right about civil infrastructure, it’s a shitshow of road layout in some parts of Oakland.

However, they’ll print money with these cameras the way people drive.

What’s really interesting is that between Oakland and Berkeley, there are so many cyclists risking their lives every day

Welp, that’s it. Not voting for Newsom for any reason.

I don’t mind when it links to wiki but I actually follow the link to verify. It totally made up a pardon from the king of England to some guy yesterday

Exactly. Many were historians and Christians.

They already had the previous example of the sale of indulgences within the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages. Even American colonial revolutionaries were offered pardons by King George III to stop fighting.

Commenter below cites the fact that the expectation was that the congress would step in if popular sentiment was outraged by this sort of thing, but this state of affairs was foreseeable.

They ended up with a powerful executive even though they believed previous kings had too much power. e.g. “His Excellency” George Washington refused the title of King.

Also of note is that there were relatively few voters and they were privileged and generally well educated and informed members of the public. White men with land.

Do you think it’s possible for these same users to use the “M365” version of the Office apps?

And de jure

What’s up with cashiers in coffee shops not listening when they ask for my order?

I wait for them to ask, I announce it loudly and clearly. They interrupt. I confirm. I go on to item two. They confirm. I confirm.

Then, they apologise and try to guess item one again. They get it wrong. I correct them. They’ve got it.

Oh yeah, what was item two? Yes, that’s right.

Also, what’s the deal with not waiting even for a split second between me saying “flat white” and “with two sugars”?

I understand that coffee shops are loud and hectic, and I might have to repeat myself once in a while, but damn Melbourne, every time?

The bespoke short-lived solutions angle is an interesting one, to be sure.

I wonder how many orgs will back themselves into a corner thinking their product will be short lived but it ends up hanging out for a while, as you mentioned.

Honestly this feels like an extension of this Agile/Scrum madness we’ve been dealing with since the mid-2000’s. Instead of the next quarter, we’re only building things with a view of the next two weeks.

Now it’s measured in hours, and even then we can give a prompt to an LLM and have a half working thing to throw away after it converts that PDF to a CSV.

I worry about the craftsmanship leaving this field. Engineers used to push back and for good reason.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3M_5oYU-IsU

Deep in the outback, there are more stars than you can imagine. The soil is so red.

Driving along the highway, seeing a single pair of headlights on the horizon for twenty minutes, combined with the dust and bug reflections in your headlights, and the sheer remoteness of it all, does things with your mind.

This thread is full of people imagining that he committed war crimes in Iraq, but it’s also very likely that he once had discipline, the threat of consequences, formal training in weapons, use of force, the rules of engagement, and the concept of restraint.

It’s far likelier IMO that when he joined law enforcement, and particularly ICE, he felt that he could be less restrained.

The U.S. is unreasonably stupid given the wealth