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@ Tooks @piefed.social

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3 mo. ago

  • The correct response

  • There's no way anyone would have guessed from my basic-ass comment, but I've lived most of my life with trauma from childhood sexual abuse. And with fucking kids being en vogue worldwide at the moment, my triggers have been woooo boy. Sorry to shit on your duo, just differing perspectives.

  • The correct response

  • This was the one my mind immediately went to.

  • The correct response

  • Props for admitting he was wrong. A "fool," sure, but still feels kinda light on the self-disrespect for the content of some of their lyrics. I don't recall "going with the flow" to include pedophilia. Necrophilia, on the other hand, totally going with the flow.

  • Critter admiring his shadow

  • Despite never having a pet until Critter, Mr. Barker's closing sentiments to every show were enough for me to know the importance.

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    Critter admiring his shadow

  • We should popularize using the guillotine as a symbol of the common man.

  • Anyone else notice a sudden uptick in guillotine related content over the past week or so?

  • Butterfly lost from Bradford reserve spotted after 17 years

  • Pretty old for a butterfly.

  • Rate My New Gaming Chair

  • This will sound crazy, but I've found sitting up straight, back aligned with the seat helps reduce my time... grinding levels.

  • Call em out

  • I think when they say "normalize" they actually mean enwhiten.

  • Call em out

  • You're correct. I've been to jail, and I have prescriptions for mental health. Your point, sir?

    FTD, MAGArds, and the Gang of Pedophiles (GOP). If you support any of this nonsense, you're human garbage. It's that easy. If you don't support it, yet give someone shit for their comments about people who do support it, well...

    This is a variation of something overused to the point of cliche, but... There's a table of 11 Nazis having dinner. They ask you to join them and you oblige. There are now 12 Nazis having dinner at the table.

  • You make $65,000 (USD 🤢) in a dead end career...

  • I've been passively studying stoicism for the pest few years, and while some of the strategies meant for dealing with certain aspects of my psyche (like envisioning a stop sign when feeling triggered), others sound a bit too defeatist to me. Committing oneself to any singular concept is the fall of man, so I'll definitely look into Taoism after your recommendation. Thanks!

  • You make $65,000 (USD 🤢) in a dead end career...

  • Thanks for the advice, and for insight on the job market.

    Oddly enough, just did the math and ~60% spending power in 15 years alongside what I save up to that point might actually be doable. I have zero debt aside from the mortgage (costing significantly less than current avg rent costs), a car purchased outright new in 2024, all major household concerns addressed over past five years (new roof, new HVAC systems, new sump pump, renovated bathrooms, new 10x10 shed).

    I believe I'm dying, but my doctor thinks otherwise. Clean bill of health with all milestone checklist procedures completed. Family life expectancy is the kinda average 68-74 (cancer, heart disease).

    Of course the unknown and the $$$$ that requires, but otherwise, doable?

  • You make $65,000 (USD 🤢) in a dead end career...

  • I'm always looking for new opportunities. Of the 15 years, I would be willing to sacrifice 5 to learn a trade of some sort, and then the remaining 10 (or more if I like the work or start my own business) working in that field. The unknown is just so f'n scary at my age. What happens when I follow my dreams (there are none) or pivot into a financial disaster of my own doing and end up struggling through poverty in my later years? My safety net is my savings. Not much of a net. No family remaining. Literally no friends. Transplant to this area 19 years ago and wound up alone after several absurd failures. Never took the time to make friends, since I believed my wife-not-wife's theory of not needing anything but each other. She loved adultery.

  • You make $65,000 (USD 🤢) in a dead end career...

  • I'm doing it for a few reasons. 1) It's free education and I enjoy learning, 2) Spite (my immediate supervisor was promoted over me with a high school diploma), 3) I'm hoping it will both give me something to do over the next few years AND give me the sensation of fulfillment or satisfaction knowing I have reached and completed the highest level of post secondary education. An accomplishment I'm hoping I can hang a hat on. I think this is subconsciously the real reason.

  • You make $65,000 (USD 🤢) in a dead end career...

  • Our entry level positions begin at $35k. You don't want this smoke. 😁

  • You make $65,000 (USD 🤢) in a dead end career...

  • Excellent points. I would love to start my own side hustle, perhaps consulting, but I literally don't know the first thing about any of that. I do however know the ins and outs of a 501(c)(3). Capstone for my MS was developing a strategic plan for a local non-profit. They loved it so much, they made me a Board member. Did that for three years before realizing it was more of a social club for white retired women. Resigned from the org, and two years later they closed up shop. Turns out, they were banking on gaining a pipe dream celebrity endorsement (Ellen DeGeneres of all inhuman cretins) instead of following the strategic plan.

  • You make $65,000 (USD 🤢) in a dead end career...

  • I am both these. Happy(ish), yet unsatisfied. But I think I'm unsatisfied because my brain insists on holding me to a level of excellence I cannot exhibit let alone maintain.

  • You make $65,000 (USD 🤢) in a dead end career...

  • You'll love this. Two years ago on the last cycle of promotions after our long time director finally retired, I was set to advance from an assistant director to a director role. This would either have been the primary CIO position, or a second in charge role. Well, the CIO position was given to a guy the former boss had been priming for the role (god fearing, white, christian) for no good reason aside from him having a PhD. Fine, earned, I suppose. Well that should certainly align me for the second in charge seeing as I have the next highest level of education completed (three degrees: AS, BS, MS). screeching brakes NOPE! The new director instead promotes his best buddy to director over me. Nepotism, not fine, but it exists. Here's the kicker, the guy he promoted not only has fewer years with our employer, his highest level of completed education is high school. That's right. It's all in who you blow. (they drive matching Subarus)

    Immediate reply is probably, "Why are you still there?"

  • You make $65,000 (USD 🤢) in a dead end career...

  • If I’m working towards a PhD I am too smart to waste my life working a boring job

    Best compliment I've received in what seems to be a lifetime. Unfortunately, the boring job provides the means to earn the PhD. So I would need to stick it out at least another 3.5 years. Allowing time for absurdities, I'm giving myself until age 52 to complete it. Need a deadline or I'll just chip away at it forever.

  • You make $65,000 (USD 🤢) in a dead end career...

  • Teaching is likely where I will end up. I'm already responsible for employee onboarding (it's an email), and have conducted many public speaking affairs, most involving some new change to something nobody is going to love. Or "special projects" as they like to call them. The projects I'm given are those others have failed because I'm a mark for getting stuff done. I could teach as an adjunct now with my masters, but the pay is abysmal.

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    You make $65,000 (USD 🤢) in a dead end career...