Why would I think that?

>- Immediately stopped having insomnia. Better feel overall;

It's interesting you mention that. When I took up cycling to work in Manchester, I started struggling to fall fully asleep because I'd have short pseudo-dreams about the POV of cycling on wet, dark, busy roads & jerk awake, scared that I was falling asleep at the handlebars.

It goes away after some time. It's almost as if you unlock a lot of stored energy just by moving. After a while the extra energy is gone and you will sleep right away.

I just... got more fit and stopped being all that much tired after the trip so it stopped helping for sleep.

>you got cussed out by the high priest of IT because your backups were taking up more than 500KB of drive space.

IT becoming upset when the things people need to do to get work done deviates from their IT model?

Some things never change.

I mean, IT was upset because they were in an impossible position....

Developer: I need half a million in equipment.

Management: Here's your stuff.

IT: I need 50k in equipment so we can actually backup/support the new equipment the developer got so we don't lose millions in work.

Management: I'm sorry, we don't have the budget for that.

IT: We'll I'm right screwed, ain't I.

So it can know where it is in that 6"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_localization_and_...

Perhaps you should delete prod so you have to work harder, compete harder, learn faster just to save your job

The US. Since I was posting statistics for CA, I had hoped that was clear. Sorry if it wasn't.

Here's CA, a state well known for its rolling brownouts throughout summer, as an example:

https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/califo...

Vietnam's transport stats are skewed by insane import and luxury taxes.

>They could have cherry picked other sample posts to demonstrate the exact opposite.

They couldn't, because it's 'the algorithm' that does the picking & Facebook's algorithm optimises for inauthentic or boomer. Cherry-picking posts isn't a standard usecase.

The word 'racist' didn't appear until your post. It's a shame we can't discuss obvious language bias without you becoming defensive about imagined sleights.

Favoring a Western lens or English language sources is racist, whether the word was used or not, insofar as it favors white people and the people white people care about. You might disagree with that definition, but it's not like the commenter above is the first person to use it that way.

> It's a shame we can't discuss obvious language bias without you becoming defensive about imagined sleights.

Just wait a few years, I feel like this nearly-satanic-panic level of sensitivity will pass. Maybe a decade or so.

Oh God I can't wait that long. It's so hard to make friends in North America right now.

IMHO the golden years for making friends are the school years, peaking in High School and College. After that it's a desert compared to that oasis.

That said there's a cheat I've heard of for the terminally lonely extravert: Clubs and Volunteering. I haven't tried either myself as I'm an introvert and near hermit happy with my three super-extravert friends that only need to hear from me a couple times a year.

Then there's the ultimate cheat, get married and have kids. Totally worth it, IMHO.