Not sure this is true … But mainly due to nuance.

I think everyone who has reached adulthood has done bad things worthy of atonement (not because minors can’t be bad, just to set a line), regardless of whether that’s because they’re a bad person or because they made poor decisions. I think of myself as a good person - because I try to better the lives of those around me - but I can think of plenty of bad things I’ve done (primarily out of ignorance or foolishness - I don’t think I’ve ever acted with the intent of hurting someone).

I’m not trying to atone for those things; once I realized they were bad things, I did my best to fix them and once I did everything I could, I moved on (and hoped the other participants did as well). In some cases, continuing to try to atone for bad acts would have exacerbated the consequences if the other party just wanted to move on.

My mom, who was a big fan of aphorisms, used to say “if you mess up, apologize if you should, fix it if you can, and move on.” I try to live by this.

So, to reiterate the nuance: I try to fix bad things I’ve done if I can; I try to learn from them so I don’t do them again; but I don’t live my life trying to atone for them.

I do like the sentiment behind your post, in case you think us philosophically opposed.

I’ve self diagnosed with face blindness, but I tentatively recognized his hair lift.

The references confirmed it.

Ancient video time!

https://youtu.be/yWYvl_AIIbU

I don’t know if it is, but you can always just use yt-dlp or something similar.

It’s just the special effects department showing off.

I just assumed he was in some foreign language class.

I also am curious.

It was probably the Technology Connections one. Even if not, I strongly recommend his channel.

https://youtu.be/udNXMAflbU8

There were individual books per person.

In my childhood household, at all times, there were in-progress books on the back of the commode. You would simply select the one relevant to you.

I’ve never had to manually do that. I use almost exclusively Kensington Orbits and have for around twenty years. Maybe my hands are either clean or dirty enough that the balls are being polished by use.

That said, while I would say “have to” is strong wording, it’s still probably a good idea to polish your balls, innuendo or not.

Trackballs are glorious, just saying.

Oh yeah, most modern reboots are a drop in quality. Doesn’t mean I won’t seize the opportunity to make a pun!

Also, speaking of apparent drops in quality … Scott Adams turned out to be pretty offensive, but I still appreciate your username.

That’s a shame, but I appreciate the edification!

I didn’t know they rebooted Reboot.

Nice.

Back when I used Windows, the keyboard shortcuts I used the most were probably super+m (minimize everything), +d (show desktop), +r (show run dialog); in browsers, Ctrl+t (new tab), +shift+t (reopen most recently closed tab), +tab (switch between tabs); alt+tab (switch between windows), +space (open window menu, not sure what it’s called); shift+F10 (open context menu or, if in the installer process, open command prompt).

In Linux most of these work in most modern desktop environments, but super+r is usually alt+F2. Relatively recently I learned about alt+` which switches between windows of the same type. Don’t know if this also works in Windows. Also, I don’t know if one would consider it a key shortcut, but alt+click anywhere in a window drags the window so you don’t have to move the cursor to the title bar. Middle click usually pastes the last block of text you highlighted. Note that, due to the nature of Linux, none of these are guaranteed to work in every installation.

I have limited experience with OSX, but it seems like many of the shortcuts work if you replace the modifier key with the command key because Apple needs to be special.

If you’re on Windows or Linux, in most browsers you can press Ctrl+t and get a new tab. Maybe that would improve your day?

Well, thank you for the information.

In that case, you sound like a good manager to have.

I like my current managers, but I think if I stopped showing I’d eventually just stop getting paid. There was a period where I wasn’t attending daily meetings because I hadn’t received the invitation to them. Eventually I made a comment to my manager that I was glad the current contract didn’t require a ridiculous number of meetings and he said something like “what are you talking about? There are daily meetings. We just thought you were out sick or something.”

I’ve always been skeptical of greentext (and most internet) stories, it’s just more fun to suspend one’s disbelief.

I’m just still confused about the concept of “implication arrows,” heh.