Senior Chief Petty Officer. Starfleet is in my blood, and I’ve spent my entire adult life in service to boldly going.
Keiko and Molly are my favorite humans, but Transporter Room 3 will always be my favorite.
Just don’t ask who what’s in the pattern buffer.
I got an email like this a few weeks ago, and then about 2 minutes later I got a new email with the corrected replacements.
I replied with a screenshot zoomed in on the “candidate name” bit and left it at that. Didn’t even get a half-assed “lol sorry Bruh”
corporations not knowing what fair use is
pretending to not know. They’re fully capable of understanding when it helps them make money.
Supposed to be. But I woke up and decided I didn’t want to go in.
Supposedly I’m giving up my holiday pay tomorrow but if I read my hiring packet correctly, their version of “holiday pay” is “well give you an hour of PTO for the day instead of the usual 3 minutes”
I think I’ve said this before to you a few weeks ago, and I totally understand that it’s easier said than done to cut family off, but your family are negative influences in your life and on your psyche, and you should be ignoring their bullshit and get away from them.
Sorry your family still sucks, all I can offer are platitudes I’m afraid.
To answer your question though, I think a good, solid “Shit up, shit-bagel, you wouldn’t have shit if it weren’t for me and no amount of denial on your part can change facts.” and walk away/block/slam the door.
I haven’t made it past s3 of Quantum Leap yet, but the bit with god sound super dumb, so I’m hoping you’re right and I’ll be pleasantly surprised.
Krycek in X-Files was a piece of shit and I hated him. 10/10 performance from Nicolas Lea. Haven’t finished the series yet.
Damn, I keep burning myself out by binging a series and never finishing them…
If you’ve got any sci-fi show hot takes, I’d love to hear them!
Honestly I barely talk to my immediate family, about 60/40 because we live under one roof, and most of our communication is just sharing memes anyway.
The only relatives I care about are three democrats that realize capitalism is a problem and the rich are the true enemies of the people. The rest are all corpo-throating republicans.
And even when I was younger and dumber/more “conservative” , I still didn’t care to keep in touch with them. Just never really cared to.
Wanted to go to a trade school for welding when I was a teenager. Mother said no, because “you’re going to college”
I kept asking for help figuring out college stuff, mother kept saying “I’ll help you tomorrow/next week when I have time” (she was technically a substitute teacher but usually worked 1 day/wk)
Graduation came and went and I had no money saved up, no colleges looked at beyond what my limited googling skills could come up with, and absolutely no help from my parents with anything.
Good news though, since my parents collectively made enough money, I didn’t qualify for financial aid of any kind! Did I say good news? I meant bad.
And of course my parents lived paycheck to paycheck and we got EBT or medicaid for most of my childhood.
Now instead of an education or a trade that’s in demand, I have depression and a shitty 15/hr job that is destroying my joints.
Ain’t life grand?
If he ever gloats about having a degree, I’ve had success with tossing back “in order for me to feel insulted, I would have to value your opinion”
Its made two relatives block me and my mother in law call several relatives to cry and moan about how evil and manipulative I am because when she responded with multiple gigantic run-on paragraph/sentences in a row, I hit her with “lol. I ain’t gonna read all that”
People who take pleasure in how much better they believe their lives or decisions are typically can’t stand it when someone else doesn’t fucking care
Isn’t it Ionic?
Yes, but line go up fast enough?
I mean, half of my hammers have had their handles remade with whatever hardwood was closest. So I’m gonna go with those.
However, the most complex thing that I can repair with sourced parts would be either my truck, or my truck. I’ve had to fix it with “close enough” parts before, and I will fix it until the frame rusts (which given Northern states and salted roads probably won’t be more than a few more years)
There’s a smattering of electronics that I’ve seen mentioned multiple times as well.
One thing that is theoretically repairable, but is hard to find parts for, my washing machine. It’s a old 50s model with a lever to engage the motor, a roller on top to squeeze water out, and a simple steel gear system to drive everything. I should be able to open it up with a crescent wrench and flat head screwdriver, but I doubt I will ever be able to find ready-made parts (I have looked briefly when I thought I had a problem with it that sorted itself) but I might be able to bodge some things together if needed.
I saw a post asking the same thing the day I joined lemmy dot world with my first account.
That was a couple years ago now. I think I’m on my third instance?
To me it’s felt more like “look at me I’m so unique”
“God told me to do it.”
The first time I heard that as a teenager, I made sure nobody ever felt comfortable saying it around me again.
Some mild stripping, knocked over glassware, and “speaking in tongues” later, sorry god made me do it.
“are corporations whose sole purpose is to extract as much money from the masses as possible with no thoughts to anything else up to and including destroying the house it occupies in order to maximize profits to blame for the world around us? Or is it those dirty fucking people with all their bad gross nasty purchasing of the things the corporation shoves down their throats?”
I’m sorry but did a CEO write this?
If I had the money and ability to trust strangers I would hire people to clean my house for me.
I love the loop of “feel bad for not cleaning - depressed - don’t clean - stare at floor - feel bad for not cleaning…”
I guess Google just says “fuck 'em”?
Yes, 100%, absokutely correct.
Google is a company.
Companies do not care about you. You are not a person, you are a number.
You ask a bunch of questions about a task in order to convince the client that the task doesn’t need to be done at all.
I ask a bunch of questions because I’ve forgotten half the answers already and am trying to make enough stick that I can make something close enough they don’t notice my attention is wandering while they blather.
We are not the same.
Former Christian here: it is a cult. Full stop. You are throwing your decisions around based on a belief that there’s some magical perfect happy place we all get to go.
Starting from that alone means we have VASTLY different goals. So many Cultists believe no matter what they do they’re still going to paradise so fuck whatever happens here.
The staunch angry denial without a hint of reflection on how religion has undeniably damaged the world is very telling about what OP is willing to accept. I recognized religion has failed the world even when I was still religious.
No, I don’t know there’s nothing after we die, but I DO know there are things HERE AND NOW that need more ACTUAL FUCKING WORK and your prayers are worth the toilet paper I’ll print them on.
And I am so fucking tired of “well they aren’t TRUE Christians because we don’t get taught that” any of the many, many, many, many, TOO FUCKING MANY TIMES when Christians, ÉN MASSE , do shitty things. No TRUE scottsman… My brother in education, you cannot keep saying your religion is peaceful when it rather spectacularly and historically is extremely violent.
[FREE SPACE] contenders in here, but I like this one the best. The next one is a very close second.