I think that’s true, but we continually try housing them in residential neighborhoods, and that does not go down well.
If ya ship them all to a facility outside town where they won’t bother anyone, well that looks like some sort of concentration camp, and its probly gonna turn into one for real.
Housing them is an interesting series of challenges that we have not really faced yet.

The whole thing sure sounds reasonable to me.

“Unwilling to engage” is a really nice way to describe these folks. Society has given up on them and they hate it in return. Ask them. They are happy to explain it. They hate the fukin world, and have plentiful reasons for doing so. Really. Spend some time talking to these folks instead of theorizing. They are perfectly clear about the situation and how they feel.

Many (all) of these camps are in the middle of neighborhoods that would rather not host a colony of social dropouts that hate them. You know, the residents are concerned about their kids, etc. So it would be nice if they had some way of dialing down the amount of hate that concentrates at the shelter. Is this the correct way? Beats me, but it looks like they had to do something …

You, the molerats, the crazy girl, and any other fans. Start a craze.

You guys should all party together.

This fish grabbing sounds like quite a useful talent.

The broccoli is an excellent source of fiber. Fiber fills you up. Fiber is how you are supposed to know you are full.
The fiber is washed out of all the processed food. It doesn’t fill you up properly. So you eat more.
Its all chemicals, man. They are feeding us shit that’s designed to make us eat more.
So, eat that broccoli. And some beans. You won’t want the burger if you’ve had a healthy meal.

I own two GL.inet routers. I liked my Flint so much that I bought an Opal for my office and on the road. These machines are well provisioned. The OpenWRT reviews of them say to just leave the stock bootloader installed. I’ve installed all sorts of packages, multiple subnets, VPN, adblock, etc. GL.inet gear is good stuff.

I use sticky notes on my monitor.

Narcissist here. Nope. Not exhausting.
I think perhaps you’ve met some unhappy people. Not all people are unhappy.
Being self-centered doesn’t make you unhappy. It’s a navigable condition just like any other mood or perspective. Depends on what you make of it.

Um … ozempic happened.

The ‘body positive’ people finally got their way. See? Being fat really is a disease.
Now you can get medication and fix it. (For many people) that makes it a disease, not a behavior issue.
No willpower or even life changes required. The magic medicine fixes it all.

To be clear, I don’t condone the perspective above. Either of them.
Body positive and chemical living are sides of the same coin.

I lost weight by cutting back booze, eating properly, and exercising regularly. You know. The old way.
But I did that at the exact same time as ozempic hit the market, so I’ve an interesting relationship with the product. Ozempic has changed society more than we all quite realize.

That’s not so bad. Onions are quite tasty.

… Unless they are rotten. I grew up around onion farms. Omg, that smell.

This game looks like Beat Saber or https://moonrider.xyz/
It’s ten years old. 2016.
Says its VR supported. I have an old Occulus I could try with it. But it appears to be made for regular screens. And its only $3.99.
Has anybody played it?

You like this deeply branching thing. There are other aspects to gameplay. NV is ugly. I grew up in the southwest and have seen quite enough tumbleweeds. The whole crafting thing was tedious. The game needs fixin, crashes frequently. I gave up when my annoyance level exceeded my entertainment. That was well before your deep branches. NV is meh.

My first attempt to play was only a couple years ago on a modern pc. It didn’t work out. I figured it was just not running correctly. I’d bought them in a bundle, and just figured they were pieces for my collection, not actually games anymore.

You talkin about NV?
Boring. Bland. I played it. Guess I got about a third of the way through. Its not the great game people make it out to be.
Like I said, meh. Although your input is appreciated. Glad you liked it.

Or the first two games? Like, I’m not even sure they are running correctly. It’s old tech. I chalked their being unplayable up to them being literally unplayable.

Oh, you’re fine. It took me 4 1/2 years to get over sobriety and back to normal life.
You’ve wasted much less time.

I say, go with the intrusive thoughts.

How could you not?

Cisco offers a whole lot of free online training as well, on several different websites.
Its kind of a pita to get access in the first place, but its definitely free, comprehensive, and starts from the ground up.
And of course, they have paid training options on those same sites.

Well … How much do you want to learn? How serious are you?

If you want to know networking, the authority is Cisco.
I’m scheduled to take my CCST Network exam tomorrow. That’s an entry-level Cisco cert.
I’ve been studying for about 3 months. Wish me luck …

Junior NetAdmin Cert
The CCST training is online and entirely free.
https://www.netacad.com/career-paths/network-technician?courseLang=en-US

Access
You’ve got to jump through some hoops. You need to create an account and go through some verification.
They need to figure out if you are ‘overseas’ and whether you should be able to download encryption products.
I think its probably easiest if you use your work email, that’s what they are really looking for.

Cisco U
There’s a shit-ton of free classes at Cisco U as well.
Most of those are not directly cert-related, but a large amount of them were created for people studying for the CCNA, so they are certainly helpful. There’s all sorts of rando training, keep ya real busy. Here’s one I’ve started.
https://u.cisco.com/paths/understanding-cisco-data-center-foundations-20705

Lab Environments
The whole study program uses Packet Tracer for the labs, which you download from them.
I also got a copy of Cisco Modeling Labs running. That was a bitch, had to shoe-horn an OVA to run on Proxmox.
And I got an older edu copy of the Cloud Services virtual router, if there’s anything these other lab environments can’t handle. (This version can be freely downloaded … csr1000v-universal9.03.12.00.S.154-2.S-std.iso)