All things being equal, the Memorandum of Understanding marks no victory for the United States. It is no “major win” for the United States, much less an act of “unconditional surrender” by Iran. Instead, it confirms the Trump administration’s faulty planning and management of the war, and its bungled diplomacy to end it. It is a stopgap measure, a face-saving solution. It averts capitulation and conceals humiliation. It provides political cover for a strategic retreat. In other words, it serves all the functions of the Paris Agreement, the progeny of a lost war.
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0002 Taking Small Steps


I’ve decided to add a number to my posts titles just to see how public I can be. I don’t want to spam the server too much, but I also don’t want to occupy the space if I have nothing to say. It’s a way for me to know if I should have a blog at all.

Speaking of which, after my first post I actually got spooked seeing that someone read it and reacted (・_・;). Even though my IF "game" isn’t complete yet, I am already scared of people judging it. I wager most creative minds are haunted by the phantom “I am afraid to disappoint others” to the point that their creations either remain hidden or unrealised forever.

Well, I let myself dwell on that fear for a moment too long, and then I decided to ignore it ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ. It will never go away for me, but that doesn't mean I should just give up on everything. Usually, to motivate myself I look at other creators that I follow, the ones that continue working on their projects no matter what. And their immortal advice is "write/work even just a little every day", it doesn't have to be perfect, all it needs to be is an attempt at making progress. I think they are right, it's the small steps that make a difference in the end.

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@Coquillage Logs

Coquillage Logs wrote:

Wow. I guess I am really bad at finding things xD.

I would not blame it on yourself. To be fair a lot of the Friendica Instances we federate with most likely are not Open Enrollment and others may not advertise on the official Friendica directory (this is an option that the administrator of an Instance can choose). I can see my Federation Stats in my Administrator's Section though it does not tell me specifics, such as the names of the nodes I federate with. So I could not tell you one way or the other which ones have Open Enrollment or not.

I started Rogue Project's Friendica because I was fed up with Meta and could not stand micro blogging (Mastodon) . I too had a very difficult time finding a Friendica Instance that was stable enough for daily use. Not that I put a lot of effort into it, I gave up in three days 😉. So I decided that If I could not find a stable Friendica Instance, then I would just use my own. At first I was going to make it just for Myself and Family and Friends but I decided that was a bit selfish so I opened it to the general public as well. So far I have had no real issues. I have to delete several marketing accounts most weeks because apparently painting that I do not allow Marketing accounts on the Home Screen, Sign Up Screen and TOS gets past some user's notice 😉.

The first year was kind of shaky as I had a lot to learn about Friendica in General. Though I am an experienced System's Administrator and Developer that does not mean I just automatically know everything about all software everywhere (like the experts on TV do 😀).

It is nice to have you here and I hope you post frequently. I want to hear more about your story. Honestly I am not into the horror genre, but I love choose your path stories, so if it has an interesting plot I will likely enjoy it despite it not being a genre I would naturally prefer.

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Per the HR employee evaluation website, on average I spend 25% of my week in technical or project management meetings. I spend another 20% trying to translate waterfall designs and deadlines provided by customers into tiny chunk tasks, each representing "a day's work", while I have to learn a new project management tool (or new interface to an old tool) every six months. I actually accomplish something productive for about 20 hours a week, all said and done.

Because we're "Agile"...

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:ittle high I am little low
Open your eyes, look up to the skies and seeeeee...
And anywhere the wind blows it does not matter to mee

"You did that on purpose!"
"What did I do?"
"You named that table!"
"It's a perfectly fine name!"
"You didn't have to suggest that name. You know Jim is a religious nut!"
"Look, 'Boolean Flag Translation Table' was just unwieldy. It had to be shortened."
"You named it '[B-Trans]' on purpose to cause trouble. Then you started using it like a verb, and telling Jim he 'should B-Trans... that data'!"
"We use all kinds of identifiers as verbs as a shorthand!"
"Which you knew when you planned this!"
"I really have no idea what you are talking about..."

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Verse 1 (paraphrased meaning): The singer takes on the role of a controlling dance instructor he wants to lead the dance, insists everyone let themselves be "controlled" a little, and promises to show them how it's done "correctly." He describes forming a nice round dance where "freedom plays on all the violins," music comes "out of the White House," and "Mickey Mouse stands in front of Paris."
Verse 2 (paraphrased meaning): He claims to know useful steps and to protect his followers from missteps; anyone who doesn't want to dance "doesn't yet know that he'll have to dance." He'll show them the direction "Santa Claus comes to Africa," and again "Mickey Mouse stands in front of Paris."
Coca~Cola, somebody's war

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