with this beautiful job market that requires 5 years of experience for an internship and 10 for an entry level position i think the 6 year old has the right idea starting early

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that’s what neurodivergent people do to show sympathy - very often unknowingly. folks sometimes think we do that to get the attention for ourselves, but it’s just a long winded way of saying “i understand what you feel, you’re not alone in your pain”

person, though a much more difficult encounter it’d probably cost nothing to get them out of there, and the likehood of them coming back is much lower. all it’d take for the roaches to come back is the exterminator missing 2 or 4 of them

holy hell

not your kink then, now you know to avoid anything with “scat” in the tags

not realistic enough, unless they always used the speedrun setting on their washing machine, most cycles are 2 hours or more

ah it seems i’ve misread the initial post and replied to this under the assumption it said “rare illnesses have no cures”

are they wrong though?

if you’re a person who mostly cares about profits which one do you accept

research 1: we’re on our way to cure [rare illness]! we just need funding to find and develop the proper formula, we need x million for the budget, and the drug itself is not likely to be expensive and will be one time use/short therapy

research 2: we’re going to tackle [not really common but not quite rare illness], we need x million for the budget, we probably won’t cure it but a weekly dose of the drug will help those affected

now think like the only thing that matters is your profits, research 1 will cure people, and sure you could make the cheap drug cost $100000 but the researches could turn against you and release their research to the public losing you profit. and even if they don’t you’ll need to balance the price to turn in some profit in as short amount of time as possible. if the illness is rare that means there isn’t many people who are affected, and those people are not likely to be rich - why bother

research 2 on the other hand is an easy investment, people will need that drug forever so you can set the price low enough for most to be able to barely afford and get your sweet sweet money back with profits fast

remember you don’t become a billionaire being charitable, you become a billionaire by cutting corners and milking as much money out of those below you as possible

rats are strange little critters. incredibly clever, but you’ll never know what they’ll use their smarts for

well i think half my point still stands - they want to know you’re not quitting any time soon. If you answer “yeah sure i guess the position sounds nice” they’re already scheduling the next interview because you ain’t sticking around

but yeah, it is absolutely ridiculous, i’m not an actor, and i’m neurodivergent, navigating those job market mind games is hell

and self esteem when a CV scanning AI sends you an automated rejection e-mail how you’re not qualified to work a job that specifically has “no qualifications or experience needed!” written in the listing

logic knows it’s bullshit, but man, it still stings to read

yes that’s the point

they want someone desperate enough to lie to them and to themselves that their childhood dream is to become a shelf stacker, they want someone out of options, they want someone who will stay with them for a long time without even as much as a whimper of a complaint about low pay or the working conditions

if you have ambitions, you’re not who they’re looking for

best believe the same company will keep a ghost job listing for a shelf stacker up at all times, just so that the current employees feel replaceable and don’t dare to step out of line in fear of losing their job

same, i could even do both at once. for some reason my right hand can do everything but effectively give me pleasure

alright fuckers let’s go over this again (and spread the knowledge please, it baffles me how it’s apparently niche info)

your sleep is on a cycle, each cycle is ~90 minutes, you need from 4 to 6 consecutive cycles to get a good night’s sleep, that’s 6 to 9h (how much you need depends on your body)

now here’s the kicker - if you wake up at the end or the beginning of a sleep cycle, which is when the lightest phase of sleep occurs - you’ll feel nice and refreshed.

but if you wake up in the middle - during the deepest phase of your sleep cycle - you’ll feel like a fucking zombie and are quite likely to promptly turn off your alarm & go back to sleep and not even register that action as a memory because most of your brain is still asleep

this is also why you can’t really have a 40 min nap that leaves you refreshed, you can either have a refreshing <20min nap or a refreshing ~90min nap, anything inbetween will make you feel more tired as your mind now has to wake itself up all the way from deep sleep

so yeah, sleep in ~90min increments, my personal sweet spot is 7:30h

and he maintains a near monopoly because Steam is just a great platform for gamers, as Gabe has said:

Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem.

and he’s right! i almost never pirate video games because of their price, i can wait for a sale, there’s a billion other games i can play in the meantime

when shit like Epic takes years to implement a shopping basket, and still have yet to recolour their payment page so it stops flashbanging gamers across the world, Steam doesn’t even need to try very hard to be the best. The biggest changes on Steam in the recent years are what - updating the UI aged ago? adding a points system so people can get silly profile decorations as an additional reward for buying a video game? Steam has created a platform so good all they need to do is sit back relax, and think of what other sprinkles colour to add to the cake pie?

Steam has competitors, but the difference is Steam is for gamers, and most of their competitors is for money

god help us all if that ever were to change, the second Steam enshittifies the internet will implode

you cannot know which one is which when you see a person shoplifting

if you snitch on them, there are two outcomes:

• whoever organised the crime of stealing baby formula doesn’t get their daily quota from the person they told to do it, and either helps or punishes the person desperate enough to go and do the actual shoplifting for them. You helped a corporation avoid theft

• a baby goes without food, and an already impoverished parent is financially, legally, or socially punished. You helped a corporation avoid theft

is it worth it to possibly make a mother cry as her baby goes hungry, to try to help a corporation?

there was nothing short of death that would stop that man from continuing to deny the right to live of millions of people. Money rules the world, do you think even if found guilty of genocide he’d face prison time? Do you think even if he was, miraculously, put in prison he’d go some place else but the most luxurious prison available for the shortest amount of time possible?

How many million dollar bottles of champagne do you think he drank with the money that he denied those who put their lives in his hands? Is that not a celebration of their deaths?

How is it wrong, to feel satisfaction that he finally met the fate he wrote for himself?

the people we oppose have been widening the wealth gap, shrinking the middle class, and pushing more people into poverty. And in America - not having enough money means you, or your loved one, dies.

That particular dragon was in charge of denying as many insurance claims as possible without getting anyone too ravenous for his blood. He was playing a game with people’s lives, eventually he was bound to lose. His true cause of death was greed.

Unless you’re a billionaire who hoards wealth, you’re no dragon, and nobody cares about you until you step out of line of being an obedient money cow

skill issue