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Lithuanian 30+ year-old shitposter who works as a programmer.

  • Tbh milkmaids were the prettiest women because they would get mild cases of cowpox instead of skin wrecking smallpox and it was the origin of the smallpox vaccine (vacca means cow in latin).

  • I remember that time Facebook had a random text in a page saying "This text should never be visible in production" or something like that.

  • I found a webpage that uses it and found out that it requires no authentication. So I just copied the url and sent a request every 5 seconds just like the webpage did. It gave a csv of busses, their routes and gps locations.

  • If you hate plank and don't have a kettlebell yet, start with some dead bugs.

  • I used to work at a place outside the city that only had one bus after work and it was kinda spotty and unreliable. However, there was an online API provided by the bus company that told me where the bus is.

    So I wrote a Python script and a Linux alert that would give me a notification when the bus was within range, with enough time to get to the stop on time.

  • Sony Ericsson J300i

    My sister also had a Siemens M55, pretty fun phone at the time.

  • Citizenship does exist under tyranny, but instead of having rights, you get duties.

  • I remember that one getting tested in my hometown.

  • Learning our language is admirable, especially because of a loud minority who never did despite living here for decades.

    While some accents are more easy to tell apart and imitate (Georgian comes to mind) nobody will react negatively to hearing it.

  • Where is the justice for everyone that Stalin killed by sending them to gulags? To Siberia? Where is the justice for those killed by Khmer Rouge?

  • I had that during my second year of master's. I barely understood it and the rest of the class couldn't understand it at all. I wrote my exam and forgot 99% of it a week later.

  • A USB-charged battery-powered pump. I use it to top up my bicycle tyres, it makes cycling a breeze.

  • Not all batteries are easy to remove nowadays. Also, power management might have gotten better and the battery circuit mostly disconnects when not in use.

  • Removing the battery when using AC used to be the advice to prolong the battery life a decade ago.

  • Coronaviruses are one of the largest groups of viruses, COVID-19 is just one of them.

  • I have literally had this argument, but it was about shrinking population growth. "We will just have more immigrants." From where, outside of West Africa and Central Asia, all the countries have fertility rates below replacement levels and even those countries' levels are dropping.

  • let self = this;

  • Ughh

    In 2004, Jack Ryan, the actress' ex-husband, was the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from Illinois. Then his divorce records became public, including allegations by Jeri that he'd pressured her to have public sex in swingers clubs in various cities. Ryan denied the allegations but dropped out of the race a few days later. The Republicans recruited former MSNBC host Alan Keyes to run in Ryan's place. Obama defeated him in a landslide, earning himself a U.S. Senate seat and a prominent public platform from which to launch his presidential campaign.