I'm closing in on 40 and I've had this mid-life crisis spell happen during the later part of COVID, 2020-2021. I love to write short stories and poetry, but with my "crisis" it became a burden to even think about putting thoughts down. Then this person comes into my life, we will call her Martha. I'm twice her age, her superior at work, and generally not someone I would talk to. But besides all that, we strike up a friendship. It's weird at first, the age gap, the maturity level, and me the authority figure. But we connect somehow, and my writing returned. At first it is mostly about her, and these torrent of emotions that she drew out of me. Her personality, energetic, kind, and thoughtful helped invigorate my own life. Like a nurse pulling poison from a wound, I felt liberated after all this time. All because of her.
We eventually went our separate ways. We seldom talk anymore, but that friendship we made still helps me write. I think of her, and my inner voice sings to express itself. She is my muse but I'll never tell her or say anything about it (maybe if we ever reconnect in the future). Martha has changed me and is my inspiration.
I am in 100% agreement with you. I'm kind of in the same mindset in figuring out my homelab setup. Still learning docker and how volumes work 😢 haha
I'm in academia but I like to tinker with tech. So when my students or co-workers are surprised that I know so much about tech and how to navigate around most computer systems and troubleshoot (Mac/Windows/Linux) they are perplexed. They ask why I didn't major in tech. I tell them that I majored in what I loved (history) and play with tech as a hobby to relax.
It's why I selfhost my own Lemmy server. Gives me something to do with my hobby, keeps me focused on what's new in tech, makes me learn to keep up with docker, Linux, editing CRON tabs etc.
Nullification theory has been a legal idea since before the Supreme Court issued their ruling in Marbury v. Madison on constitutionality. See Kentucky and Virgina Resolutions of 1798-1799.
I guess those Missouri legislators forgot about the Supremacy Clause during their courses in history/civics. It would also be upheld in McCulloch v. Maryland (1819), and most recently Edgar v. MITE Corp (1982) and another in 2000.
Even using searxng it comes up with Google & qwant show it as conservative. But allsides has it left leaning bias.
I can feel that gold pressed latinum in upvotes slipping through my fingers
Firefox - bookmark side bar is still the only reason I can’t use chrome (besides issues with privacy et al)
4-5 years ago Steam had the same issue with their market place. Selling and buying skins for CS:GO and others.
This might help, haven’t tried it but their proof of concept website looks promising.
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joined 1 year ago
Me walking in on one