That being said there have been progressive folks going way back. My folks were kinda amazing for silent generation and the ones fighting for civil rights go way back before boomers. I mean. Jane Adams.

Well I mean not every gen Xer is a ceo. As an Xer myself my main thing is that the feeling was everything is bullshit but maybe over time (view from high school) we will get better. We just need to not put up with bullshit and over time technology and politics will improve to the point that there is less bs. So one of those things did progress. For awhile anyway. Whelp its pretty clear improvements have pretty much stopped or more like any we get are along with many more detriments. I don’t know what to do but one thing was the boomers in good jobs did not retire so for my own part I have responded to promotions (to be clear kinda bullshit promotions) by saying hey go to the younger guy who is like a millenial but maybe they have enough time in their career to make something of the position. Heck millenials should try and push down further. People need to be doing things before they hit 40 to have time to keep getting experience and rising. Just to be clear this is not all nicey nice on my part. We are talking about. Hey how about you become the manager but as part of that you do all the work you did before and likely be asked to reduce headcount and all for no extra money but you know you will be able to not be part of the group that gets the ax for now.

So my wife and I always seem to be low with the vitamin D tests and taking vitamin D supplements did not seem to change it much. So im a little skeptical how well they work but if you felt the effects then I would use that as a way to go. My wife likes using the type with k2 like yours as drops. That seemed to work for her better. Not sure if its the k2 or the drops. Honestly k2 is pretty easy to get and I like things like cheese and eggs. I don’t concern myself to much with supplementing them but I do take fish oil because my eye doctor recommended it for my dry eye and it that I very much see an effect. The type of fish oil does not seem to matter at all and hopefully the whole omega-3 things is good for me to. Since the type does not matter I started taking cod liver oil pills which contain some vitamin D naturally and are further fortified with it. So anyway I guess im saying that I take a supplement for one thing I know helps me in a way I can definatively experience and I make it a point to get two things im not sure of how much they help but studies seem to indicate they do while im at it which is vitamin D and omega-3’s. Im like that with a lot of things in life. I like things that due multiple duty or work in a way that accomplishes multiple outcomes. Why take two or three pills when I can get it in one. Sorry Im not answering your question directly but I figure if your asking for people on the internets help your really asking for sorta life experience type of things.

I find it hard to believe. He was using ubuntu and both his wifi and trackpad and the lot broke. I remember in the aughts when a student came in to proudly say he through th latest suse on a laptop and everything worked out of box. Yeah things can have issues but much like windows its often just an update which even with windows you have to be ready to have a physical network connection or you could be screwed with wifi. I have not seen any issues with ubuntu. Did he intentionally say to not use 3rd party drivers which is what my thought is which to blog about that afterwards without repeating using third party sounds like a hit job.

oh man. totally don’t remember. I wish they were more robust and lasted longer as there is tons I would do if it was less common for them to die when sitting around.

Although it took me a long time to switch to linux as my daily driver I did move most all of my applications to open source way back in the aughts. portable apps was super helpful in enabling this and actually the biggest thing that would be helpful to me in linux is something similar as it makes getting a new system up and running a breeze. appman with appimages is pretty close but it needs a nice gui and to default with using local home and config folders. there is a gui project but their library is not as well done as appman. I need to hit them up suggesting they use appman as their software manager and just concern themselves with the gui part as appman has pretty much solved that part. I sorta wish appimage had defaulted to local directories as without them you might as well use something more like flatpak.

If you can get the training I knew someone who was a massage therapist and what got me is its the one skill where you don’t really need anything to ply the trade. Like a massage table and oils or whatnot are pretty much expected but again not strictly needed. Also you can take one phlubotomy class at a community college or such and be assured to get work that is over minimum wage. Granted you got to be able to handle the work. I can’t stand blood myself.

I find depression helps. Seriously I hope I will be going to work at some point. I dunno. Fantasize.

holy crap because I had an mmo character with that as the name. I had thought I had something that did not exist in any language. wow.

Still ff12 but I got past the shrine of miriam and up to the phon coast. Im going back and picking up optional espers which I had not done before so there are a few I can get.

An update on my builds. So I was using this guys thing that combined having everyone have 3x speed and making sure people could get synergizing equipment. Thing is I really want to use all classes and his did not do that. In addition I noticed he skipped some of the equipment synergizing anyway. There is actually only one thing I had to get rid of from his rules to get all 12 classes and that is having the supposed top 3 weapons seperated between characters so they could be on the filed concurrently. Anyway I decided I could kick that out so my criteria is 3x speed, item synergy, and not combining two magic user types for survivability (mostly hit points).

So my class pair start with the redmage/archer. This is easy as its a well known combo and its about maximizing the red mages capstone big damage spell ardur which is a fire spell. They either have to be paired with black mage which is verboten by my rule or archer for the burning bow and its a highly rated pairing by many people so its a no brainer. The peson to put it on was a bit difficult though. penelo makes the most sense for black mage because most mp and magic power and then fran has the highest vitality so is basically best for time mage. ashe is second with mp and magic power so she makes the most sense min/max wise but darnit. rp wise fran makes so much sense since she starts with a bow and the basic black and white mage spells. Its perfect for her but I went min/max and did ashe.

Next im going to jump to some warriors. The guy whos guide I used says vann is best for the best bushi blade because of his one handed animation. Im assuming that is true. This is were we meet the crux of my difference. I find the knight absolutely has to have the bushi. excalibur needs mystic robes and the knight does not get 3x speed. only one class can bring that to him and that is knight. This puts two of the top three weapons on vann but im fine with that. I mean every class gets a top weapon and I am going to assume I will live with the possible third weapons that might be used which, you know, might more likley be a spell caster or technic. So bushi/knight is my second and goes on vann

Next he similarly says balthier is apparently best with the ninja sword dark blade and im trusting him on that so he becomes the shikashi which has 3x speed and could benefit from mystic armor for the dark blade. Since all my other mages are marked for other individuals he gets white mage and oh boy. I am so happy with this combo. with the mane gouche or whatever you get high evasion and the shikashi gets lots of hp and shields. this makes a great tank for the period evasion is useful. So you essentially get a healer/support/tank all in one which gives you much more options for the other two in tough fights. Later the knight/bushi becomes another sorta option for that when espers help you unlock some white mage spells and a combo below should take over the role and be even better late game.

Ok. So we got 3 of the six and next im going to pair fran’s time mage with something and it already has the 3x speed so can take one of the warrior classes that does not get 3x speed without extra squares. So one thing I noticed with monk was if you can unlock the squares you get the top white mage spells and if your combining mages the white/time mage is the ultimate support/healer. so using monk is practically as good as adding white mage (eventually) but then also you get the monk combat benefits which are substantial. monk is the class that is pretty nice with every class as it has all the combat and hp squares. So now you have a class combo that eventually will be as good an endgame support/healer/tank/warrior as your going to get. I saw another guy talking about how he stumbled across this mix but basically if it was an mmo this would be the class combo I would choose for my character.

ok so we have 4 character and 8 classes used and actually we already said penelo was going to get black mage. At this point there is only one warrior class that gets 3x speed easily and that is the machinist. its not bad. nice having a range alternative for black mage but it sorta necessary as it does not bring a lot of tankiness. mystic robes help darkshot. easy access to steal and poach. probably the most meh of my combos but it works out fine.

ok so we are down to one character and 2 classes. This would make basch a ulan/beserker. Thing is that will only be able to unlock 3x speed when you get ultima. So im eventually going to do this but 3x speed is real important to me so for most of the game my bash is a ulan/bushi.

So I find in early game you don’t need magic much class wise because the girls give you white mage and fran black mage first level spells. I put everyone as their class that gives the 3x speed and make a race for those squares just getting equipment/spells thats I can access as more a priority which continues into the dual boards. Ultimately 4 of the 4 characters can heal/support to greater and lesser extent and everyone is a good warrior and to some extend tank with the squishiest ones having ranged attacks and offensive spells a plenty. The espers get spread out decently to.

this is exactly what I want. A basic phone with hotspot capability that is also not much more expensive than a basic phone. preferably foss hardware and software.

I actually use a tablet for map and other things but I only use if for specific things and don’t have it on me all the time. I do have a smartphone because of previous work needs but I don’t use it for personal things.

im not even sure I know enough about how the fediveration skews to be sure.

existence of god obviously.

I as often as possible use incorrect data. I always get directions from places close to where I want to go but not the actual places. never use my actual info unless absolutely necessary. I learned it from the blues brothers.

these things were so commonly used to outline poor thinking skills and apparently these supposedly learned men argue this. this is just the worst timeline. I remember at one point early in the millenium I was like wow. India is really getting somewhere. Unfortunately everyone seems to be going down. from the article:

“The question is can it [illegal surveillance] be done? The question here is not whether a person is ‘bothered’ or whether he has something to hide,” Mr. Mehta submitted.

The State had sought an extension of the police custody of former Telangana Special Intelligence Bureau (SIB) chief T. Prabhakar Rao, who is an accused in the snooping phone-tapping case during the previous BRS government in the State.

“Now we live in an open world. Nobody is in a closed world. Nobody should be really bothered about surveillance. Why should anyone be bothered about surveillance unless they have something to hide?” Justice Nagarathna questioned.

In my state your polling placed does not record your party although if you vote in primaries they will ask which ballot you want. As for my opinion its simply this. For most of history the average person has gotten no say in who was in charge and how they governed. There are examples but they tend to be pretty small. Something on the scale of most modern countries. Not even close. Voting may not give you a massive say in what goes on but it does give you some. Its incredibly precious and even further the right to protest if you voice is being ignored or circumvented is an even greater thing. I like living in peace. I don’t want to have to contest violently to have a say. My country is already getting a taste of what not having rights is like and losing the right to vote (or the vote becoming a truly on party pointless excersise) is not an experience I am looking to have.

ok that makes it a bit more consistant. forty sumthin.

well over if they had a trubo button at ten. I would estimate upper forties like 47 but could be a bit younger. Under 45 and they were using some old stuff which would be wierd since that game system at 5 does not look atari. looks like an snes which would then make them 30 or so. I feel like lcd was gaining traction late oughts though which goes back to about 40.

if you had a turbo button at ten then this needs to more decades of life to portray. At least.