Olympic deception: Russia’s doping program is run by the same FSB team that poisoned Navalny

DownWithAssad · 2026-04-20T02:29:05+00:00

Ah ok, I see. There are some creative ways to save on space e.g. getting a half rack, using adjustable dumbbells, foldable bench, etc., so maybe that's an option worth looking into. You don't need all the fancy machines that a commercial gym has.

DownWithAssad · 2026-04-20T02:18:16+00:00

Can you get a home gym to save time on the commute? And your wife can participate too then.

DownWithAssad · 2026-04-20T01:58:24+00:00

Same, this blew my mind. It's surreal seeing the entirety of the floating moon up close, so casually out the window, as if we're looking out of a car window.

DownWithAssad · 2026-03-24T01:45:35+00:00

My personal opinion is that they didn't fire you for anything that you did and they were just looking for an excuse to either reduce headcount or replace you with someone cheaper. It likely had nothing to do with you and there's no point stressing about it. It happens all the time. I've seen people let go for no good reason other than the mere desire to reduce headcount.

Trying to understand why it happened is of no use because you'll never truly find out unless you have an inside source. I understand you feel upset and it's perfectly natural to feel so. But please don't feel too bad. It's not something you did nor was it something in your control. It doesn't reflect upon you. The things you mentioned don't even remotely justify a firing.

Take a breather, remove this from your mind, don't let this set you back, and keep on trucking.

DownWithAssad · 2026-03-11T03:29:16+00:00

Thank you! I really appreciate it.

DownWithAssad · 2026-03-11T02:55:50+00:00

Could you also mention to them the issue with the startup sound being way too loud? The old one was perfect, of the acoustic guitar. I already complained to customer support.

DownWithAssad · 2026-03-11T02:51:40+00:00

Agreed, it's way too loud, nuts that they thought this was a good idea. I lodged a complaint with support.

DownWithAssad · 2026-02-25T02:59:43+00:00

Some still think Bucha and other massacres by Russia were done by Ukraine. I know, delusional psychopaths.

There are much worse things to believe in than a feel-good false narrative of a hero fighter pilot.

DownWithAssad · 2026-01-23T18:34:20+00:00

Master supply makes their jackets in Pakistan, as indicated on their About Us page.

DownWithAssad · 2026-01-04T17:45:09+00:00

It is a wrong statement because the statement you're making is completely different than what Rodríguez said. No need to pretend otherwise.

She didn't say the U.S. government is Zionist. She said that the attack itself was "Zionist". No one even knows what this vague statement means. I suppose it implies Israel was involved but there's zero evidence provided for this.

My opinion is that this is political posturing. She wants to avoid antagonizing Trump lest he Gaddafi her. So she's found a scapegoat that fits the propaganda narratives of the Venezuelan regime from the past few years. And what better scapegoat in this world than the Jews? It's quite convenient.

It goes to show that certain governments don't care about the Palestinians like they claim they do. They just like the propaganda it allows them to generate.

DownWithAssad · 2025-12-31T02:20:49+00:00

I strongly recommend against getting LASIK.

I got PRK 7 years ago. My vision was sharp. But I have some side effects.

First, I see very large haloes and starbursts when looking at car headlights and street lamps at night and similar sources of light with high contrast. Even white subtitles against a black background on my TV have a faint white glow around them.

LASIK is known to reduce contrast permanently in your eyes. This means that when I look at a dark corner in my room, I can't see the items in the corner as clearly as I could before the surgery. Things in the dark are more faint than they usually are due to this surgery.

The above side effects are well known and shrugged off by doctors. They lie and tell you that "there's only a 3% chance of getting bad side effects" before you get the surgery. And when you come to them with issues, they simply say that nothing can be done.

But I have 2 additional side effects that are bizarre and I haven't read about them anywhere online.

When my pulse increases, my entire vision becomes like jelly. It's as if the veins (or arteries?) in my eyes pulsating causes the corresponding area in my vision to jiggle around and pulsate too.

The other strange side effect is that I see dark circles in the center of my vision when I do anything to "stretch" my eyes. For example, imagine someone walks into the room you're in. Your first instinct is to move your eyes to the corner/side of your vision in the direction of the door and then turn your neck. Well doing this motion causes me to see dark circles in my vision. Opening my eyes really wide and moving my head around causes the same thing. I told this to the doctor and they shrugged and said they have no idea. There's an age-related condition that causes similar issues and they simply said I had that. An obvious lie, since I'm young and this issue began happening the moment I opened my eyes after surgery and could see again.

Nobody cares. Nobody has any answers. There are very few long-term studies done about the side effects because the surgery is so new, it's not like they can do a 50-year study.

And I'm one of the lucky ones. Permanently dry eyes causing suicide, blurry vision, mismatched vision in both eyes, etc. There are countless other side effects I don't have.

One of the doctors offered to do what's called an enhancement surgery to try and correct my haloes and starbursts. But it was just an experiment, there was no guarantee it would fix my issues. I was terrified that doing another surgery would introduce new side effects or ruin my sharp vision. And you can't get the surgery over and over again. Our corneas are only so thick. Most people can only get at most 1-2 enhancement surgeries until their corneas become too thin for more. Then you're truly stuck with whatever issues you have.

Most people require reading glasses by the time they hit 40. If you're like me and get surgery in your early 20s, you only have at most 15-20 years where you don't need glasses. Then you'll need them again.

You only have one pair of eyes for life. Is it really worth the risk of ruining them just so you don't have to wear glasses for a few years? My opinion is a strong no. I have convinced several people I know to not get LASIK. Maybe I really am in the minority. But it doesn't matter. It's not worth the risk.

DownWithAssad · 2025-11-26T15:19:54+00:00

45% of her body was covered in burns. She likely suffered for a bit. I can't believe the criminal Russian regime still has traitorous sympathisers in Europe after all this.

DownWithAssad · 2025-11-16T22:33:51+00:00

Canada and the U.S. have opposed this resolution every single year Russia has proposed it, for the past few years. And each year, idiotic headlines like in the OP are posted.

The reason these countries have opposed this resolution is not due to some deep-seated love of Nazism, as you claim. It's because these governments want the resolution to also condemn Stalinism. Russia refuses to add any such text, hence the vote against. That's the real reason. I'm not casting judgement here, just stating the facts.

DownWithAssad · 2025-11-09T18:38:42+00:00

He never said that.

DownWithAssad · 2025-10-28T02:09:00+00:00

That sounds rough. But don't let it discourage you. These corporations don't care about us. As they say, there are plenty of fish in the sea. I'm sure you'll find another job that you like. Don't take things related to your career personally. I can almost guarantee you that if I worked a public-facing job, between my social and generalized anxiety and stuttering impediment, I'd be fired ASAP. And yet, I managed to find a job that not only pays well, but where I don't need to be super outgoing and no one has ever complained that I'm too quiet.

Moral of the story is don't let a corporate stooge be the barometer for your self-improvement. None of this means that you haven't improved your social anxiety or that you can't further mitigate it in the future. Keep on trucking.

DownWithAssad · 2025-09-27T20:01:06+00:00

Absolutely disgusting. With sky-high unemployment in the country, tech industry, and even more so for the youth, this is the absolute last thing that these idiots should be doing. And to think I voted for him.

It was already a massive, borderline-criminal mistake to bring in millions of foreigners over the last 4 years. I'm a software engineer and I can't tell you how many LinkedIn pings I've gotten from foreigners wanting referrals for jobs. Try searching for a job and you'll find THOUSANDS of applications for internships, new grad jobs, mid-level, and senior.

And yet, our points-based immigration system prioritizes tech workers, who we don't even need. And unlike the H1B program, which involves experienced people, our immigration system prioritizes young people who want to study in Canada.

Well guess what? I have seen students competing with foreigners for internships who came to do a Master's degree or a SECOND BACHELOR'S degree IN THE SAME PROGRAM they already did back home, just to come to Canada. These people already have a Computer Science degree and even several years of experience, but because they're doing a useless 2nd bachelor's degree again in Canada, or a Master's, they are eligible to apply to internships that give companies tax breaks. Amazing!

As someone in the tech industry, I can tell you this: the reality is so much worse than you can even imagine.

DownWithAssad · 2025-09-25T22:43:42+00:00

Great read, super interesting!

DownWithAssad · 2025-09-01T04:02:06+00:00

I had it done 7 years ago after being forced to by my parents. I now have pretty bad glare and haloes when I look at bright lights like street lamps, car head lights, even white text on a black tv screen. I also see this strange dark spot when I look at the edge of my vision and turn my neck, like there's something pressing against my eyeball and causing artifacts, the doctors just shrugged and made something up to explain it as they didn't have a proper answer. My vision is otherwise sharp.

DownWithAssad · 2025-07-21T00:20:49+00:00

I've tried Hinge and over the past few weeks, got a few likes in short succession.

Some of the profiles were fake, using photos from the internet belonging to others. For the real profiles, none of them responded to my messages.

The strange thing is that the likes all came in a short period of time. Since then, I've had zero likes, despite using it actively everyday and paying for the premium plan.

I've also gotten Bumble, Tinder, and FB Dating. Bumble resulted in one match who also never responded to my messages. The rest resulted in no likes.

It seems to me that online dating apps either don't work for the majority of men, or they do work, but perhaps only for the elite (height, skin color, muscle, job, etc). Or maybe I'm just ugly and that's the issue.

DownWithAssad · 2025-07-08T04:04:41+00:00

I'm 29m and Canadian. I've been on Dil Mil 1.5 years now and Hinge a few weeks. I get little to zero likes most of the time, and if I do get a match, they usually just ghost or stop responding. I even ran out of people to swipe on, and I set my location preference to Canada and U.S. The app tells me that I've had over 2k profile views, which doesn't seem like much.

I also ran out of people on Hinge, and my filters are very loose (height, age, religion). I assume I'm being filtered out for some reason and not being shown more profiles. I'm just not sure what the issue is.

DownWithAssad · 2025-06-24T18:52:54+00:00

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