Good job for standing your ground and drawing boundaries. I have similar problems but a few years ago I did just that. A lot of anguish and strong emotions went through me as my mother went mad and extremely angry with my choice. This hard decision will pay off, stay strong. I had a friend recommending this book "The Body Keeps the Score". Never got a chance to read it but it could be helpful.

Are you happier today in a different job? That's what matters

I genuinely thought it was fishnet instead of scales. Still yiffy to me

You probably need to be a white male at least.

You should take a look at Ansible, it's the same problem as infra teams in tech companies to manage Linux deployment and it's a mostly solved problem

This reminds me of when I was a kid. My school computer were running slow as heck windows xps or windows 7s, mostly slow because the bloat of education software that was installed to block visiting certain websites, lock down computers during certain hours or when the teacher is lecturing, etc. Even in my high school.

One day for my computer class during a lecture, I plugged in my liveboot USB running Mint, hushed my classmates next to me and rebooted. I didn't expect the computer to make a loud as hell beep sound when it got to the bootloader, but I was sitting in a side row so the teacher just said "what was that?" and moved on while others looked at me suspiciously. But then I was able to boot up Linux right there, super easy. And everything works, I was able to browse the web without any restrictions, well I'm not really trying to look at bad stuff but just hate being locked down when I can do something else instead. Or maybe I just wanted to show off Linux. Anyways my classmates next to me silently whispered "what the heck how did you do this??" I look back at this as a fond memory.

Ditto, going outside with some physical exercises boosts my endorphins levels a bit. Playing instruments too. Socializing is very helpful for those bad days.

That's fucked up that a prosecutor has lobbyist interests in private prisons.

"You asked for a plague when you said no to vaccines, now here we are!"

This is more of an indication that the USSR had a functional public education system, and the dictatorship style, top down style education is indeed good at hammering (STEM based) academic skills into young brains. Arguably, most other non third world countries are doing a better job at the public school system than the US

It seems like the search engine is not working anymore, redirects to a personal portfolio page. Any updates?

He sacrificed his life for more soup umami