I regret that most of these jobs involve a certain amount of dirt and bugs in the field, although shit is generally optional unless you're dumb enough to pick my job.
Luckily a lot of trades have the option to go commercial to avoid the worst of what you'll see going to random weirdos' houses. But that has its own set of problems.
Gooofuckyourself
8d ago
I have a friend who was supposed to be touring the Vatican today, what are the odds? (Pretty good I guess, considering they usually only last a few years).
Hopefully his indulgence is refundable
Gooofuckyourself
8d ago
I hope you'll say likewise when leftists start disappearing to Guantanamo
Gooofuckyourself
8d ago
I mean that is literally the canonical example, yes.
I'm pretty sure there are no dramanauts on the mod team. There's no insane word replacing filters and nobody gets called sweetie in ban notices
Gooofuckyourself
8d ago
YouTube's terrible bit rate does make 1080 a lot blurrier than it should be, if other stuff is happening on the screen.
Gooofuckyourself
9d ago
EU4 is the first game I've ever seen where the interface text is still unreadable at 1080p on YouTube.
Gooofuckyourself
9d ago
Unless they have a private account of course, which I've noticed is never a good sign.
Gooofuckyourself
9d ago
I've been trying to learn more about the 50s-90s dissident right for just this reason. I never quite could figure out how much reach Pierce had, because the old metrics are hard to compare against. He had an office, a secretary, and a publisher, but how many people "followed" him in the modern sense?
Gooofuckyourself
9d ago
I talked about the int-econ101 theory of tax incidence last week, if you don't trust the sophisticate version https://www.themotte.org/post/1827/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/316188?context=8#context
Gooofuckyourself
10d ago
the FLUX 1 schnell pro model gave me an asuka with three legs
There's some pretty popular galleries of that, so maybe it's not all bad
Gooofuckyourself
10d ago
But we literally know of two Biden programs that brought in that many by themselves, at the same time as border-crossings hit unprecedented highs. So the numbers won't pass the smell test
Gooofuckyourself
10d ago
NGL I didn't even know some of those were his. Where's "we do a little trolling" from?
Gooofuckyourself
10d ago
Cowen's been a famous econ (and restaurant) blogger for as long as the econ blogosphere has been around. I used to read him way back in '06, and he'd been around for a few years then.
No, because anyone in a field close enough to cite you will easily find and have access to your paper through their university. But they're a lot more likely to a) hear about it and b) want to associate their own work with it if they hear about the paper on NPR rather than skimming through issue #1708 of the Journal of Queering Anthropology (which nobody ever actually does)
I'll never get over how Vtuber and mascot bios have sort of merged into this surreal sanrio madlibs format.
Gooofuckyourself
10d ago
Land of opportunity standards have been dropping though. I know a bunch of illegals who came over 15-20 years ago, and a lot of them have their own lawnmowing/landscaping/general services businesses now. (God knows how they manage the finances.)
But now the new guys coming over don't have as many niches left to fill, except being cheap labor for the last cohort. I see a lot more of them going for dead end jobs and never climbing out
Gooofuckyourself
10d ago
TBF they do need to file if they want the eitc. Which hilariously enough I qualified for this year thanks to a lot of loss harvesting
That's amazing. There's also a bizarre amount of AI porn printed on metal plates(?) with names like "antique vintage something or other." So I wonder if half of this stuff isn't just AI slapping random stuff scraped from social media on products with associated tags.
T-shirts were the first thing they automated that with, like when you go "I want this on a t-shirt!" on Twitter and 5 bots immediately scrape the pic and post a store link.
Gooofuckyourself
11d ago
What?
Gooofuckyourself
11d ago
It bothers me that I was born a citizen by blood, but my parents still had to do more paperwork to establish that than these guys who slip across the border and don't speak English.
Gooofuckyourself
11d ago
Just spend like five minutes on imgur
NGL I'd still hate the "parents" more, in the "if I only had two bullets, I'd shoot the traitor twice" sense. I don't really get being angry at illegals unless they're a major drain on society.
The Canadian reddit posts about "should I be upset all my grad seminars are in hindi?" are a real eye opener about how much worse things can get.
We already have the perfect counter-example to people going "woah, why do you even care bro, how does this affect you personally, seems kinda sus, I don't care about hearing funny accents and eating nummy ethnic food, you must be racist"
Sheep shearer. Run into maggots? Shear right through 'em, don't mind the splash. You'll never do a hundred sheep a run (2hrs) if you worry about stuff like that.
And if you insist on the uncomfortably hot part, there's always Australia.
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