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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I love the fact that you are being downvoted by idiots when you are 100% correct. People forget that he held political offices on Cuba for way longer than he was a guerrilla fighter, and he failed hard when he tried to do guerrilla warfare on his own, both in Congo and Bolivia. He was just a dude, a son of Argentinian oligarchs who got a good ol’ white savior complex, then got himself killed because he thought that everyone but him were stupid.


  • Let me tell my personal grievance with Cloudfare. One of the services that Cloudfare dispenses to websites, whether they like it or not, is bandwidth throttling, in the name of safety, of course. If an IP has been flagged by their system to have created spam, sent spam, being part of a DDOS attack and other various offenses, afterwards the Cloudfare service will throttle that IP requests to the sites that use Cloudfare. That’s on paper what it should do, and it sounds reasonable on a surface level. However, this includes wide swaths of residential dynamic IPs, which means that a lot of people get slow internet for the actions committed by a person with whom they have no relation with whatsoever.

    Furthermore, Cloudfare has decided to mass impose this status to the entire regional IP block for my country. So, my entire country is deemed as a threat, and doomed to slow AF speeds almost everywhere on the internet. Unless, of course, you own a datacenter and specifically pay Cloudfare to reclassify your static IP addresses to be trusted. This means that in order to use 100% of the bandwidth I pay for to my ISP, use of a VPN is mandatory. Else Cloudfare determines that I don’t deserve anything but dial-up speeds.

    Fuck Cloudfare.



  • “You’re not friendly!”

    “Neither are you.”

    “Well, that’s a rude thing to say!”

    “It is, isn’t it? Anyway, see you later.”

    Histrionic and narcissistic people hate it when you don’t play along to their manipulations. It’s very hurting for their ego. Plain “No”, and ignoring them as long as you can usually is the way to go. But, with some, it also runs the risk of triggering some manipulative attempts at drama. It takes a lot of mental fortitude to confront or being antagonistic with one of these persons, I recommend against it, there’s hardly a win state. The win is that they either consider you too boring or too difficult a mark, so that they leave you alone.

    We don’t have to like everyone and not everyone has to like us. But in these scenarios blunt honesty and transparent politeness is usually enough to make them see that you’re just not going to play along in their little theater. The hard part and the actual trick is, never give in, never engage. If you give in, sometimes, and act boring and assertive other times it will signal that you are capable of falling into manipulation and will make you look like an attractive challenge to find and push your buttons. This might already have happened, since she seems to have gotten under your skin.

    It helps to have a lot of maturity, self-control, emotionally know yourself very well, and have a genuine thick skin yourself. This way they can’t use your emotions against you.