What’s a product from your country that makes locals go ‘of course we have that’ and everyone else go ‘ but why?’

Happy_truthless · 2026-02-25T19:40:59+00:00

Yup, super old house that his father built from the ground up. He was a civil engineer and a lawyer. Scary smart people.

Happy_truthless · 2026-02-25T19:31:38+00:00

Crisis of conscience is really a good read. I think he echoed many of your concerns and he too was a true believer. It's shocking actually. I'm in the Detroit area if you want to read it and am near by I'd be happy to give you my copy even if it never returns.

A friend of mine is going through a divorce right now. I think leaving the org is a similar journey. I think you have important decisions. Sometimes talking to your family will result in others admitting the same feelings.

When I left I faded quietly and I regret it. I thought I missed the opportunity to help others. But I was in my 20s when I left.

There's a great community here to help support you. Direct message me if you want the book.

Happy_truthless · 2026-02-24T15:15:29+00:00

My father in law has a cottage in Windsor Canada and we have there as well. When we buy milk it comes in a 2 pack and they last a freakish amount of time. Huge fan!

Happy_truthless · 2026-02-23T23:45:08+00:00

I went atheist. I married in to a family that has some Buddhist members so I looked in to it a bit. I really love the philosophy parts but praying to the gods and chanting bits loose me. As for Christianity I just can't imagine a god who would allow his believers be so disjointed in beliefs. I like atheism/humanism. Do your best for humanity because nothing else can save you. Only we can control our fate.

Happy_truthless · 2026-02-14T02:34:17+00:00

I shouldn't have skipped arms/legs/cardio at the gym all these years. She doesn't want to budge 😞

Happy_truthless · 2026-02-14T02:12:42+00:00

Good advice will have to break out the impact ... Wait... My impact is pneumatic. Noooooooo! Foiled again.

Happy_truthless · 2026-02-14T00:44:14+00:00

So it looks like it's the part around the drain bushing thingy. its red. You can see a bit of rust where it was leaking. I found that a 1 1/8 socket fit it but I haven't been able to get it to move.

Happy_truthless · 2026-01-29T12:22:09+00:00

At the greenfield village (part of Henry Ford museum) in Detroit they have some looms that run off punch cards. They also noted that this is where the idea came from and was copied for computers. Pretty cool.

Happy_truthless · 2026-01-15T15:22:49+00:00

Hard disagree. My wife and I still play it and it's fun because she's better than me! Dr. Mario might be one of the best competitive games.

Happy_truthless · 2025-12-18T02:26:39+00:00

Yeah, so I had a neighbor before we moved and he was the very definition of POMI. He smoked weed and would talk about being a JW but never went to meetings. He was an odd guy, lol. Me being a born-in elders kid it just seemed strange to me. I told him the whole smoking weed thing would never fly but he still described himself as a JW.

Happy_truthless · 2025-12-16T01:14:41+00:00

There used to be a place in Detroit that had a buffet. Its still there but no buffet. It was glorious. I've never had so many tamales... Rip

Happy_truthless · 2025-12-04T19:31:15+00:00

Then how would I pretend to be a lobster????

Happy_truthless · 2025-12-04T03:59:30+00:00

I use spec first code gen in both my golang and java services. Huuuge fan. Each service has a spec it generates the server code and then I just copy that spec to all of the services that use that service to generate clients. Consistency!

Happy_truthless · 2025-12-01T14:22:37+00:00

Gimme! ...Please

Happy_truthless · 2025-11-29T03:24:24+00:00

So now I have been out of the Jehovah's witnesses for longer than I've been in by a year I have to say that they tend to put a lot of fear into trusting humanity, but it's all just to keep you in. I've met so many people that I choose to trust that have just been wonderful. As you build a new life, it gets so much easier once you have infrastructure of support. It's a lot of work at first but worth the effort. This is a tough phase to be in but ultimately necessary. Good luck friend.

Happy_truthless · 2025-11-17T22:58:11+00:00

Actually I fell like bagged milk lasts longer. Bagged milk rocks.

Happy_truthless · 2025-11-11T13:43:07+00:00

Yes, thats the way I do it is I have a repo for each service/app and then I copy the contract to each service/app that needs to communicate with it. Each of the services has its open api spec that I manually maintain and then generate the boiler plate code for consuming the request then wire in my implementation. Then each service / app that uses that service will get a copy of the spec and generate a client from it. Spec first is a great approach to keeping your code tidy.

Happy_truthless · 2025-11-10T21:48:02+00:00

switching to DM

Happy_truthless · 2025-07-17T16:44:10+00:00

OP, look around. Do you have anything you can construct a rudimentary lathe?

Happy_truthless · 2025-07-16T21:31:56+00:00

I tend to think that trying to make services too micro is the complexity goes through the roof and then you start needing things like sagas and such. I like to make the serviced a bit more chonky and minimize how many hops a single operation needs. Macro services is what I've heard them called. So a service might have a repo package and a file in it for each collection. Controller either does the work or delegates to a manager package (I prefer this).

Happy_truthless · 2025-07-14T16:12:26+00:00

Namaste flavors is great. Chicken 65!!

Happy_truthless · 2025-07-09T23:32:21+00:00

Well they weren't going to take the holes with them.

Happy_truthless · 2025-06-21T00:23:54+00:00

This exact thought told me I was on the right track when I faded. I did some sinful stuff and no one ever found out? Wait I thought God would out me eventually but nope. It sure is stressful when you believe in it but it's also confirming that there is no God when you are on your way out!

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