large_goblin [he/him, comrade/them]

Hey I used to do this job !!!

It is hard, it’s a industry with almost no fault tolerance in the process of stripping itself down to be run by less and less people.

I was able to use the experience to transfer to other fields requiring constant uptime and content delivery without being as much of a pressure cooker.

If you’ve been there for a few years already I would start looking at building all the very in-demand skills involved in near-instantaneous content delivery + data tracking into your resume or begin to specialize in one of the “cookie replacement” technologies that are worth 400 trillion dollars.

Especially in the current job market of “no one wants to train juniors” these are invaluable. Your job might even offer courses / cover training in whatever you are missing.

For your own mental wellbeing being able to focus on something related to but not the job itself might help? Sorry I know it’s hard being the breadwinner making slacking off / “quiet quitting” a risk. Best of luck and hope your situation improves.

Many such cases!

Not mentioned - Getting a medical diagnosis can be a multi-year process where you will be passed around different departments and waitlists with no guarantee of getting what you need at the end.

Even when self-diagnosed or your condition is clearly apparent to other people, it doesn’t help. It reminds me of when my boss told me I was autistic at an old workplace where I was constantly in a cycle of being told I had huge potential for the role but was underperforming.

Thank you

Hey can you share the name of this account ?

Yeah it’s exactly that. I used to use shaving foam but I think the lather from soap is better and easier to continuously apply, plus canned foam is very wasteful.

To add to this, once you are good with a double edged safety razor it’s better for your skin as well. Took me 4-5 shaves to get used to it and then I had zero cuts or redness post shave.

Also get a nice synthetic shaving brush and a block of vegan shaving soap and you’ll save a fortune, good shaving soap lasts a long time.

Finally get a alum block for post-shave skincare and if climate appropriate one for using as an anti-perspirant too.

And then congrats! You have a zero-waste daily skincare / hygiene routine.

Death to PayPal. They’ve stolen my money before because I logged in from a new location and refused to unlock my account. I have a complicated financial situation legally so I’m aware they can and will close my new account without warning but sometimes it’s the only way to get money to people who need it (no cashapp or venmo etc here).

I hope the suggestions other people have given you work and you can have control over your own identity soon. Best of luck.

Learning languages.

It just never comes together for me.

What mine (m1 pro, 16gb ram, has fans) is good at:

• Very low power usage and exceptionally long battery life
• Screen is above and beyond what a laptop needs
• generally fast and can manage cpu-heavy games and video transcoding

What it’s bad at

• ever being able to upgrade
• some functionality requires third-party apps or terminal knowledge
• not all programs have an Apple silicon version and need the translation layer
• virtualization is inconsistent and unpredictable

They’re cool devices. I’ve been a longtime laptop hater but I’m happy with mine. Yes you do need the 16gb ram upgrade that they will rip you off for. Get a pro model if you think you’ll need active cooling, but my fans rarely turn on.

To be clear - I’d be willing to contribute to this. Cash is a no go but I’ve made purchases from Amazon and other US retailers online before so it should be OK.

I have to jump through so many hoops to send cash to US comrades so I can’t help with day to day stuff.

However - and you can tell me if I’m out of line here - have you considered creating an amazon wishlist on a burner account and sharing it here? That way you definitely get the specific goods you need without worrying about money management. Stuff like the sleeping bag and clothes you mentioned.

Geopolitics is just a map painting game to these people. When your borders are bigger thats good. Why would you not want your borders to be bigger? Graduated from Total War university with a PhD in Medieval 2 crusade strategies.

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I was in a very similar place for most of the past year, and I’m not entirely out of it. Some of those feelings have gone away, but others have not. I didn’t get things back together by myself, it was the support of others that allowed me to start healing.

I hope things will get better for you, and this community (including me) is here for anything you need to keep going and start moving towards a better place. If you just want to talk, for someone to listen, people to play games with or whatever helps take your mind off things or helps you work through everything please reach out. That includes material assistance too.

I can’t give advice without specifics of where you are but please feel free to post in [email protected] if you are struggling to pay for essentials.

9 months. It has been hell. At points I felt like the job market just wouldn’t get better, even if the economy recovered the new hiring processes were here to stay and I wasn’t compatible with them.

Time to return to work. Hoping this won’t end in redundancy or bankruptcy like all my other jobs. This time I’m going to become an immensely boring person for a year, get my finances in order and have actual retirement and emergency funds in place.

Det. Greggs beats down a physically restrained “suspect” not once but twice

Hey ACAB applies to them all. I was referring to Kima’s personal story being about commitment and compromise in relationships and eventual parenthood instead of what all the other cops were up to. Still a bastard but we see some personal growth and a welcome break from the self-destructive behavior of the other characters.

Bodie was so conflicting because he showed zero remorse and the little bits of humanity we saw died when he killed his friend who was also still a CHILD at the time and just went on business as usual.

But he still didn’t deserve what happened to him,

And then McNulty tries to do the exact same shit the day after.

This is the face of the show and the cops in general for most of the seasons too, the reference point for cop behaviour, he’s even portrayed as one of the “better cops” when Omar gets arrested.

Kima was the most human of them all and Bunk was just sad. It felt like as long as he kept being one of the more / only competent detectives noone would ever try get him to avoid liver failure in the next few years.

If we start Prez discourse we could get a 200+ comment hexbear thread going.