I replaced a fan on my Lenovo ThinkPad so yeah, it wasn’t difficult except for that moment of adding the right amount of thermal paste.

Quite vile is an understatement, that’s one of the worst on the list.

I need this article lol

This is definitely a moustache twirling villainous affair.

Belgian Congo/Jewish Holocaust is right up there. I wouldn’t say a specific person but innumerable people involved.

King Leopold and Hitler were THE authority, so ultimately they signed off on the death and suffering of millions of Congolese and Jews (and other minorities) respectively.

For the Congo: imagine a father staring at the severed hand and foot of his five year old daughter. That’s a photograph searchable online, and needs to be seen to understand the violence and dehumanism of colonialism.

For the holocaust: we have all seen at least one picture. But imagine a baby being smashed against a wall because it wouldn’t stop crying. Pretty women (maybe even underage girls) being raped. To say just a small part of the atrocities of the holocaust.

Well, I haven’t even included Unit 731. General Shiro Ishii.

Now, what to say about today in 2026? Who’s to say these atrocities are not being repeated?

Great showerthoughts from this one

Two versions: Buddhism: escape. Theosophical Buddhism (their ideas): ascend to next stage (post death), roughly 4 more stages to go I think.

Run into a wall fast enough and you can phase through it!!

I met a Russian in China. Said his opinion: Ukraine should be part of Russia. Strong, fit, young lad.

He’s still in China enjoying the good life.

Absolutely. China is primarily a technological powerhouse by this stage but all based on either buying up patents or improving existing tech. Their fusion reactor is on par with ITER’s or better, while the US did something fundamentally new, attempting fusion with lasers. This illustrates the difference: they are following, not leading the scientific endeavour.

“I said to the police, ‘it’s better safe than sorry’,” he said. “I’m not blaming the police, they were very nice with me. I was being nice with them, we work together. That’s why we pay our taxes so we keep ourselves safe.”

Again, I don’t think he took issue with being processed in handcuffs after being mistaken for a suicide bomber.

They were on both tower and ground control, and during an emergency request (hence fire truck). They were basically managing the entire airport.

Well, looks like they’re coming to about 1/4 of their senses.

Guy was running around in a vest that looked like a bomb vest, close to a Jewish community while in other countries they are being simultaneously threatened. You think they were going to end it there, by not taking him into the station and giving him a chance to make a statement for in case there’s some kind of pushback or worse, he gets targeted too?

He said they treated him well. I’ve been in handcuffs before (employer cancelled my visa in-country) and it’s not a big deal.

It’s an incident that needed to be processed unfortunately.

Edit: Ok, they could just let him go right there and try to answer or guess the answer to a lot of questions about who he was or what he was doing.

Funny I was thinking this once

Mandatory military service, gun training, and guns are owned in a context of national security.

Whereas in US it’s a ‘self-defence’ thing so apparently US citizens can fire off a gun in quite a few legal/illegal circumstances. That got extended to school shootings.

Wouldn’t happen in Switzerland as it seems to be more a collective national defence protocol.

It looks as if her sentencing was based on her old age and evident remorse. But I still think she should have had a short stint in prison, around six months.

Let’s just go with 100% tax.

I suck at any kind of public speaking.

That said, I went on stage and made a speech. Strong enough voice (I’m a teacher) but my hands were shaking like mad.

Past week, more speeches to parents. First speech I’m pretty nervous.

Second, third, fourth…

By this time, I hold a piece of paper up to the parents. Not a single tremor or shiver in the paper.

This is because I don’t think of my issues with public speaking as failure. That’s just me. I already accepted that’s how I react to situations like that.

If my parent ever told me my shaking was failure, do you truly think that my mindset that doesn’t attribute my ‘shakes’ to failure would be the case now?

Keep any shortcomings personal, to them. As a parent, always see the positive. Never weigh your own child down like that.

You sound like a teenager but I figure it’s worthwhile sharing my aspect with the adults here.