Communism is psilocybin.
It grows from humble places. It brings out hard truths through intense dialogue and self-examination. It gives the ability to see patterns in things.
Data science and computer science are two definitely different things. In computer science, they're not gonna teach you how to use the tools you'll use in a programming career, more than they'll teach you how those tools were built. In data science you're basically a DBA with a statistics background. Either piece of paper you get, and sometimes with neither, your outcome will mostly depend on how self-motivated you are to git gud at the bullet points and buzz words employers are looking for. And in this market you gotta be ready to work the job boards with every bit of tech and sso savvy you get, you're gonna be sending off a hundred applications unless you "know a guy". Employers are leery to hire juniors because they're worried they can't recoup their education investment before you leave 1 year in for higher pay. If you're self-motivated and have a github that shows it, you can generally find your way. Big companies are more likely to hire any warm body with a degree. Maybe not in this specific market, I know seniors who have been jobless and looking for a year. But this is just a blip, by the time you're educated it'll be a different market, still hard to get in probably. Point is, being interested in the thing is the real advantage.
There's one where a guy sticks his arm in a blood pressure monitor and then zombies rip his arm off his body while it's still in there and it reads 0 over 0.
I make steel cut oats in a rice cooker with a timer, so I can put the oats and water in the night before. I've pre-mixed the spices, peanut powder, flax powder. I throw nuts and raisins in when I mix it all together in the morning. For spices it's cocoa, tiny bit of cloves, tiny bit of cinnamon, tiny bit of ginger, pinch of salt.
Interstate 97 in Maryland, from Annapolis to Baltimore. It's almost always running smoothly with a 65mph speed limit. It's just a no-bullshit fast straight run every day. Scenery is ass but that's Maryland.
In many ways I was addicted to Reddit. I spent a lot of time on there. I needed an excuse to go cold turkey. I will go occasionally for specific information, but I've completely moved my idle doomscrolling to lemmy instances. There's less content so it takes less time, which is good in a way.
I pay a little to pirate. Basically I've figured out how to download a large percentage of lossless songs from playlists I find anywhere. I scrape playlists of radio stations i like. I import those CSVs into Soundiiz, which costs $4/mo. Youtube mixes I like, in they go the same way, imoporting tracklists. Using Soundiiz, I import those lists into qobuz and deezer, which I use to pull down lossless FLACs using deemix and qobuz-dl in linux. Qobuz and Deezer and other streaming services have curated playlists by staff and subscribers, I just download the whole lists. I replaced lists of my mp3s like youtube rips, with FLACs, the same way. Qobuz and Deezer have free trial memberships but TBH after the sheer amount I've pulled down from them, it's worth it to me. I've had to buy new hard drives because of this.
Communism is psilocybin. It grows from humble places. It brings out hard truths through intense dialogue and self-examination. It gives the ability to see patterns in things.