Fascinating stuff. Also, club swinging “appeared as a gymnastic event in the 1904 and 1932 Olympics”. source

Not Linux-specific, but if he’s looking for new casual games take a look at:

• https://flashmuseum.org/
• https://www.newgrounds.com/games

A bit subtler than that. We still have the largest economy and the strongest military, but the problems we’re facing (both individually and globally) can’t be solved with those tools.

So we’re “great” but we can’t solve these problems… why not? Someone offers a scapegoat or similar “common sense solution”. And if you believe in it then everything makes sense. But for it to make sense you have to get angry.

Take a look at !fosai@lemmy.world … they have lots of info in the sidebar and it’s moderately active so people will probably answer questions.

Instead of doing LinkedIn, look at individual companies’ web pages for their careers section. Make a temp email, look at LinkedIn or other job sites to see who’s hiring, then look at those companies’ web pages.

Create a dedicated gmail account.

Great advice. I got a cheap Chromebook, a burner flip-phone, and use Google docs, meet, email, etc only when on that system.

This. Write an email that says “Happy belated New Year…” and says you’re looking for a job and what kind of job, and send it to everyone you know in your field.

!creepywikipedia@lemmy.world

Go to scholar.google.com and look up the following, to see if it’s what you’re looking for:

• training simulations
• serious games
• interactive exhibits

I’m torn because I want to tell him to leave me alone, that I don’t care about his life, but considering the ‘offense’ this seems too much and knowing me I’d immediately regret it and feel bad about it.

Imagine someone has a huge booger hanging out of their nose. It might be embarassing that you point it out to them, but it’s a lot more embarassing if they walk around with the booger hanging there. It’s the same with this. If you’re polite but direct, there’s nothing to feel bad about, you’re helping the guy learn where the line is.

WARNING: anyone possessing such a manifesto may be suspect of “ill will towards corporate America.”

Careful, kitty! That bag is not a toy!

Your attempt was ill-planned poorly-executed and just plain not nice, Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.

Relative: You know about computers, right?

Me: I’m not sure. Who knows about computers, really? In the words of W.S. McCulloch, “What is a number, that a man may know it, and a man, that he may know a number?” (if you’ll pardon the gendered language) Now if you extend this to computation…

Relative: All right, STFU, I just wanted to know how to update my Amazon account…

You should read up on the history of racism in the US. A lot of places it isn’t talked about, because we are the land of freedom. /irony

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_United_States
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_People's_History_of_the_United_States

I think that’s the brother-in-law (also murdered) and the sister (mad bc you murdered her husband) too, right? The consigliere’s out cleaning up the fallout from all the murders, and the guy in the doorway I think was murdered bc he betrayed you. Need to make new murder victims friends!

I think the “prove you are not a bot” and the preview picture (if any) are often automatically-added. It gets complicated, bc the picture (for example) MAY be added by the posting software and/or the server, and the picture may or may not propagate. Whether or not this happens depends on the version (of posting software and server), how it was configured, and where it is hosted. Sometimes, the preview will not be generated because the content being previewed will disallow this – for example, youtube previews on !fullmoviesonyoutube@lemm.ee used to be automatically generated, but I think youtube changed something so that doesn’t happen any more. Furthermore, the reading client will sometimes generate preview pictures anyway. CAVEAT: I only partially understand all this.

Summary: preview generation on the fediverse is a complex issue.

You did the right thing: you kept an eye on your environment, and you had an exit plan.