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from the authors of “Gas Clap” and “The Ruble’s Tactical Retreat”

Car. In the forest. Covered with a camouflage tarp. Surrounded by plywood, so it wouldn’t be seen. At first glance, no one had been here for a while – the grass was undisturbed. I should have found it not now, but at night, with a flashlight.

P.S. Local police contacted me, requested the coordinates, and sent a squad there.

The dog loves to walk at night. Besides the fact that the owner can humorously step on a frog in the dark, it’s easy to suddenly see someone else who is watching you. There’s always someone watching, it’s just not always visible. Only the eyes glow in the bushes.

Can someone explain to me what the point of this is? I buy a collar for 27 dollars. With it comes a coupon – send 25 dollars to this number and receive 25 dollars. I sent it. A real person replies. Rate the product on a scale from 1 to 5 and give us your PayPal to send the money to. I reply “5”, and 25 dollars arrive on my PayPal.

What was that?

An interesting interview (in English) with a guy from “Amish country” (Holmes County, OH) – Mennonite Josh. He talks about how things are organized there, what they live by, and how they coexist with the outside world. Peter (the author) announces seven episodes, this one – the first – was just released recently. By the way, it was surprising to hear that Josh (the Mennonite) has a Ukrainian wife, and he has visited Ukraine.

Interestingly, when we took a “wrong turn” while looking for our Yukon’s seller, the house owner turned out to be from Ukraine too – we also bought some homemade honey from her.

Very interesting lectures @[1087585110:2048:Konstantin Severinov] on life science. Thanks for the organization @[553229549:2048:Александр Плющев]. About the structure of DNA “in layman’s terms,” the sequencing process, how PCR works, the mechanism of replication, etc. If you’re interested – do not miss it. It can be difficult at times, but generally, it’s quite accessible. I’ve been interested in this topic for a long time and didn’t expect anything new in yet another lecture on the subject, but three hours have passed and I can’t pull myself away. Here is the link to the first lecture, search Google for the others

This is roughly what pictures “for the corporate event” and “from the corporate event” look like. I’ve already forgotten how to spell corporate event. It seems to be something about strengthening the corporate spirit with something strong and corporate spirited.

Today’s walk with Yuki. Rabbits, deer, but I didn’t manage to capture the fox. Yuki didn’t see it in time but caught its scent as we passed by and went a bit wild.

I haven’t written about English in a long time. Recent discoveries:

– how to pronounce the word unanimously

– how to pronounce the words asymptomatic, atypical, asexual, atheist, apolitical, asymptomatic, amoral, asocial

– how to pronounce “I ordered it”

– how to pronounce “cleanliness”

– how to pronounce “infamous”

– how to pronounce “Hyperbole”

Personally, I’m beginning to drown in messengers. There are just too many of them.

Besides Telegram, Skype, and the social network messenger, there are several Teams that don’t want to work together. Recently, there was also Slack. There are notifications from multiple emails, and along with those, notifications from Jira (which can also be multiple). Many service notifications cannot be aggregated. And some are actively monitoring and messaging on LinkedIn (where I have thousands of unread messages), Twitter (where nobody writes to me), WhatsApp (same story), Instagram (same story). For some, it’s also their business.

Corporate Teams can’t properly manage multiple accounts (i.e., formally it can, but switching between accounts is far from instantaneous, and you’ll think twice before clicking on a notification from an inactive account).

If you’re involved in five projects for five clients, each will give you their messenger, their email, their Jira, their Confluence, their Git. And while handling passwords is simple, Microsoft products lament, as under one user, they cannot properly work with multiple accounts simultaneously (to avoid switching).

Many clients simply send their laptop. Then comes the problem of how to work with two or three laptops on a desktop with two monitors and a keyboard.

Luckily, I don’t have such a large number of clients, but when there are even two or three, it becomes difficult.

Installing on mobile phones is even more complicated. For instance, I cannot properly install the Teams from the client I’m currently working for on a phone that already has Teams from EPAM. I mean, Microsoft formally allows it, but clicking on a notification will require switching accounts, which takes seconds.

It’s somewhat easier on laptops. To work with two Teams on one machine, I have to run one in the browser and use the app for the other. And if I need three more Teams from clients, with their login-password pairs, I will need two more browsers (choices include Safari, Chrome, Chromium, Vivaldi, Opera, Brave). Theoretically, you could somehow run the Teams application under a different user on the same machine (in Windows, this is done via runas, I haven’t figured it out on Mac yet).

Besides that, all messengers have different message histories, each with its own search, contact lists, image storages.

What could be a viable solution here? A messenger aggregator is definitely not an option, as vendors won’t go for it. They run ads and gather knowledge from what we send to each other. Honestly, users wouldn’t be happy if everything from their 20 sites with personal messages were collected into one feed, where important mixes with unimportant, without context, etc.