Been a bit sucky these last few days, fighting off a bad UTI :/

I made a big pot of (German-style) chilli yesterday, it’s gonna last me for the next few days I hope. I cooked slices of Seitan in the chilli, it’s such a nice pairing!

Have you explored your local vegan restaurant scene yet? How well is it developed?

We’ve got exactly 2 vegan-only restaurants here in Aachen: one of them is a Food-truck themed place with burgers, loaded fries etc and the other one is a classic Kebab shop. They’re both pretty good, but the Kebab shop is better imo (had their Dürüm, it was amazing!).
I haven’t gone to any non-vegan restaurants yet this month, I just haven’t figured out yet whether that’s alright under my interpretation of vegan ethics and stuff 🤷

Even porn? I’ve had a discussion at work recently about how crazy it is that media conservation often overlooks porn as something of “no value”, so it becomes lost media almost instantly, especially now in the age of streaming.

But I bet that future anthropologists would be really interested in studying it!

Lindt also has vegan variations in their “Hello” line, they’re really good imo!

I always love plugging the App Mealime when it comes to any sort of recipe or mealprep. Their vegan recipes are usually pretty tasty (and they look so good!!) Maybe browse around on there for a bit and see if anything catches your eye?

The meals I’ve got planned for this week are these:

More people do it than you might think! I sit in an office of 8, there’s always someone either quietly beatboxing to themselves, doing minute long "uhhhrrmm"s or muttering movie quotes. There’s an understanding that anyone who feels bothered by the stimming can put on their noise cancelling headphones lol

I’m feeling exactly the same, I’m in a CBT Therapy group rn which feels double invalidating because everyone else seems to have the exact opposite problems.

I’m currently working through a book on Inter Familial Systems Therapy and it’s a much better fit - it works by assigning personas to specific problematic thought patterns and talking the issues out with those personas. Way more validating in my opinion, as it’s focused on being empathetic towards them and guiding them in a better direction.

100% Germany, my sister got hit with almost 3k€ for torrenting Young Sheldon 🤦

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It’s always better to be safe than sorry. Many Software devs can be trusted to not do anything too stupid with their machines, but every person has blind spots and can be tricked. At the company I work at, the IT system is pretty permissive at what can and can’t be done, but the Admins do block installing programs that ask for too many permissions under the hood (like some custom drivers and things that want console access) or that simply aren’t allowed due to company policy (i.e. Postman, because it just sends too much information to the cloud). Even a well-meaning dev usually isn’t aware of all the details of a program they want to install or the company policies - there are too many to reasonably know at all times. So it’s easier to block stuff, and if someone really does need something they just ask and get it unblocked for themselves.

You can also never be sure that a dev isn’t doing anything malicious. Of course that’s rare, but when it happens the damage to all company projects is just too large.

It’s also not much of a hierarchy thing, the Admins are on exactly the same level as devs, their job is just a bit different.

New Year’s was always my favorite holiday because I loved setting things on fire, but apparently I’m the kind of person now that gets a panic attack from the loud explosions. It sucks man