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  • Autism Rule

  • No, the cost cost goes up sharply.

    PhaseHobbyCost
    1Crochet$100
    23d Printer$250
    3Soldering station$400
    4Homelab$1000
    5custom eBike, LLC, self-hosted website6 - 10k
    6Paramotor$22k + $1.5k/yr

    The deeper you get into engineering, weather, networking, software dev, academia the more your hobbies cost. This is also ignoring the cost of acquiring all that knowledge first (at least $100k at a state school).

  • What's Your Least Favourite Noises?

  • Knocking on doors. Small children screaming. Default, uninterrupted, and lengthy ringtones on a boomers phone as they stare at the screen like a mole seeing the sun for the first time.

  • Bullshit jobs?

  • Lol, touché.

  • Bullshit jobs?

  • I am in a similar boat. Or I should say, I wish I was in your boat, so to speak. I'm a highly experienced engineer. The compensation is adequate. Only one problem, I hate design engineering. I have a real contempt for the entire field. Part of the job is calculating estimates that meet the profit expectations of the boss but also affordable for the client, all of which are neuro-fucking-typical and have no perspective at all. Then the projects involve tasks that take weeks, or months, or even years. I heavily rely on people responding to emails or messages and the management are all dinosaurs who don't view email as legitimate communication. If I didn't stand in front of their desk or literally call these rubes and allow them to audibly molest my time with their awkward nonsensical mundanity, then I basically didn't try at all. I can't just turn in a timesheet after doing work; I have to justify every second of my day toward a specific task and then track that task completion for the assholes upstairs that don't generate revenue at all. The HR manager listens to the Harry fucking Potter 2 theme music on repeat ALL FUCKING DAY and the last time I complained to HR about anything it nearly ruined my career.

    But, for a number of years I worked in inspections and investigations. The compensation is garbage but the work is bliss. I want to light this office on fire and flee back to that, but it would mean a total upheaval of my family's life. We would need to move, I would lose my garage, go back to fighting for parking or getting hit on my bike by shitty drivers. No more vacations, no toys, and Walmart fucking groceries.

    I know what I want, but I don't know how to get there. I'm hoping my partner can get a more lucrative position so I can change jobs without significant effect. I'm not sure.

    But that's where I am. No measurable metrics and playing the fucking social game. I hate it. It helps to imagine that we were all cavemen and the neurotypicals are sitting idly while I watch a sabertooth sneak up on them. But instead of alerting them and keeping them alive so they can inevitably destroy our language, society, culture, economy, traffic, planet, etc. I just watch as they get torn limb from limb while screaming in agony. 😊 Our society just got a little less dumb.

  • Chat, new silverware just dropped

  • The fork is akin to the barbaric abbreviation, IMO.

  • Gotta have my bacon

  • Lol, no doubt you're right. It just made me lol when I saw the image and immediately thought, "wtf did caplyta ever do?"

  • Gotta have my bacon

  • OMG 🤭 I needed your sense of humor so bad this morning. I was in a real pit and your wit has started something positive. I just want you to know how much I appreciated it. 🙏

  • Gotta have my bacon

  • Caplyta is an anti-psychotic.

    Do you really want to take that from me?!?

  • How do you feel about yourself in general?

  • Minty! I needed that this morning. I'm in.

  • How do you feel about yourself in general?

  • Lol, are you me? 🤣

  • How do you feel about yourself in general?

  • Not to dog-pile you with positivity because what community is this... NAUTism? 😋

    But you deserve love and respect just like anyone else. This world caters to neurotypicals. It's not your fault. Even as I write this I struggle to fully embrace it. So, I am super glad you find energy in the chaos, I envy you for that, and I only want to serve as a bellwether to your future mental health. The things you think won't affect you may come back in the most crippling of ways. Don't let it overwhelm you. Others have gone through that and come out the other side.

    That's all. I hope you've heard this before and I'm wasting my time! 😉

  • How do you feel about yourself in general?

  • There's a podcast I just love: Weirds of a Feather. The host says, "Don't give 110%! They're not paying you for that. Do 60%, and now you have something to work to.

  • How do you feel about yourself in general?

  • Lol, I am not sure if this is what you intended, but I resonate with this. Pretext: I do a lot of therapy. I will tell my partner that I did not think about killing myself today and we micro-celebrate.

  • Try YouTube Premium? Yes | Maybe Later

  • *Laughs in ReVanced

  • To quote a movie: Why is it when a person in the military dies we feel some sympathy for, but if someone killed a mayor or senator everyone loses their minds?

  • Lol, good point!

  • To quote a movie: Why is it when a person in the military dies we feel some sympathy for, but if someone killed a mayor or senator everyone loses their minds?

  • Sorry, we voted in secrecy. You have been included. You may appeal this decision to the district courts. You will lose. You can petition the supreme court for certiorari but Clarence Thomas will just put one of his pubes on your Pepsi and then blame you for it.

  • To quote a movie: Why is it when a person in the military dies we feel some sympathy for, but if someone killed a mayor or senator everyone loses their minds?

  • A soldier in a war has a high probability in dying

    Just a friendly FYI for something that really doesn't matter, outside of Russia's galactic fail, these days this is largely untrue. I only knew a handful of dudes that died in OIF, it was nothing compared to the Iraqi local nationals. If you were running the genocide, the probability was less than 1/1000. We all wore shrapnel home though, so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  • Or any neuro

  • I mean I'm still at work for a few hours so I am definitely procrastinating but only because HR said this was the last straw.

  • Or any neuro

  • Scrubber handle insertion no doubt.

    "Did you do the dishes?"

    I'll bet porn of this already exists. I'm not going to let you know, but I 1000% will look later.

  • Or any neuro

  • Mushrooms

  • Art @lemmy.world
    ZMonster @lemmy.world

    Photos or pictures with foreground objects printed additionally on a slightly raised layer... Does that sort of style and medium have a name?

  • Books @lemmy.world
    ZMonster @lemmy.world

    676 Banned Books List

  • Food Crimes - Offenses against nutrition @midwest.social
    ZMonster @lemmy.world

    This is my work hell

  • Lemmy Administration @lemmy.ml
    ZMonster @lemmy.world
    Question

    How to integrate sendgrid into Lemmy-Ansible installation?

  • Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services. @lemmy.ml
    ZMonster @lemmy.world
    Question

    How to integrate sendgrid API into Lemmy Ansible installation?

  • Explain Like I'm Five @lemmy.world
    ZMonster @lemmy.world

    ELI5: How does Trump benefit from overvaluating his assets?

  • Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services. @lemmy.ml
    ZMonster @lemmy.world
    Question

    How to get email working on Lemmy-Ansible install?

  • Lemmy Support @lemmy.ml
    ZMonster @lemmy.world

    Please, need help deploying a lemmy instance...