Addendum: it looks like microsoft just rolled out a version of teams for linux that is more or less up to speed with the ones for windows. Also important to mention is that there is a possibility that the security systems your organizations use might have compatibility issues so thats something to research and/or ask people in the IT department about.

Libre office is a pretty good replacement for the Windows office suite, though I will say that Excel is a little nicer than its Libre office counterpart. You could try them out on your current system to see how they work out for you. R has a bunch of linux compatible versions though I am not so sure about Teams being able to run on such systems, there is a possibility that one might be able to run it using compatibility tools like WINE but I do not have any experience with Teams so I cant really say.

Maybe they did, maybe they didn't, they are libertarians after all.

Late to the party with this thread but whatever.

A wide range of emotions this week but I think I'm back to feeling normal, if not motivated. The night of the election there were a lot of trans people who look up to me coming to me for consolation I couldn't give and questions I couldn't answer. I recognize that there wasn't really much I could have done to prevent this outcome but I still feel like I stood there and did nothing. I'm trying to network and see what kind of IRL organizing and activism I can do. I will say that the dissilusionment I have seen in my lib friends has been very good and I have been having conversations to nudge them towards more radical left thought.

Beyond that my experiment with vegetarianism has reignited my love of cooking all over again, the weather has been really nice, and I'm in this era of my life where I have never felt so very myself.

I hope you all have a beautiful day, be well <3

Dawg, is this REALLY the most constructive thing you could be doing with your precious, finite lifespan right now?

I partially disagree. There are creative works that are being made today that are just as thoughtful, inspiring, aesthetically pleasing and engaging as the ones made in yesteryears. Our view of the art of the past is warped by the tendency for the good to be preserved and passed on while the bad is cast aside. However, in the past 30 years or so media corporations have gotten marketability down to a science in the name of creating safe investments, not stimulating art. That approach creates highly sucessful, super visible, and entirely bland slop like the Marvel movies and Call of Dutys of the world. Its not that its all worse, its just that the great stuff is lower profile. In my opinion the advent of high-bandwidth internet has partially counteracted this by making global distribution acessable to the everyman.

Damn, and I nixed that because I didn't want to get called Ellen lmao... thank you for your rates!

Zephyr

Rio

Gwendolyn

Eleanor

I like to think that my runners-up were strong choices but I await your judgement. (This isnt self doxing... right?)

"Wash"

Was this machine translated from spanish?

as much as i would like to be the cute trans librarian there also needs to be a strong agricultural workforce in order to make shit work so I guess Ill work the fields, ill bring my copy of Four Season Harvest though! it could be really cool!

If I had my way every domicile in human history would have one of these and a pair of decks.

CW for SA mention

Did anyone ever get a 100 that way?

To add on to your first point there: There are some notions that have been put forth that suggest the UFO phenomenon is, for lack of a better term, partially psychic in nature. The idea is that whatever this is, it is something that appears to be whatever one expects it to be. Not in the sense that the phenomenon is experienced solely through a cultural lens, but that there are aspects to it that cannot be fully perceived through the human senses and thus the pattern-seeking mind fills in the blanks. The theory posits that of the slim percentage of UFO sightings that are "real" were observations of something that exists in more dimensions than just three.

I am perfectly mentally healthy and only have normal thoughts.

no ayylmao ever misgendered me so they're in the clear as far as I care

There's some evidence to suggest that cis women have greater color perception than cis men do. You are not the only transfem that has attested to this and you won't be the last either, it happened to me too. There are anecdotes about the reverse happening with people on FTM HRT, so there may be something to it. Too bad there's no way to quantify the change unless one were to have already taken some visual acuity test with a color component pre-HRT.

Fucking nightmare system. Yeah let's just not have a serious intervention at the plant that produces toxic chemicals that produce fumes when combined with water. Lets just fucking let this keep contaminating the environment where all these people live out their lives, yeah that's great, no way to prevent this you know? Totally necessary too, 100%.

Chemical fires are some seriously scary shit, it looks like there aren't any immediate fatalities but that whole community now has an elevated cancer risk.

Trump's mental health wanes to the point that he has a total breakdown, quits the race, and the ticket becomes Vance/some intern that he picked in a panic the night of Trump's resignation.

The physical books can be had on secondhand bookstores for significantly less, albeit they're still sold for more than they aught to be, usually. Thriftbooks is an online reseller that has them for around $25 USD but local thrift stores and library book sales have them sometimes and will sell them for next to nothing.

There are some inexpensive/free programs/websites that exist to automate and simplify basically everything in the game. IME the only advantages the manuals have over the apps is that the manuals convey the bigger picture of how the game works.