Snerk
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Thanks. I think I got it. I think. Think.
I can still have nicotine free cookies.
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classical_hero
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Bring on warmer weather. The cold sucks.
I'm not against regulation of private corporations where it makes sense.
What happens when circumstances change, when someone starts using a platform innocuously but then start using it to spread hate and lies? If someone starts saying normal things and then moves on to white nationalism and holocaust denial?
If platforms aren't allowed to ever remove anything they host, they'll just stop hosting most things completely.
And then those platforms disappear since their entire reason for existing would be gone. Which, of course, is the point.
So, in your alleged attempt to expand free speech, you'd actually gag free speech, apparently as intended.
There's a bit of an Ayn Randian vibe to that, Commodore. Instead of allowing the state to put a stop, or at least a brake, to things, you are positing a scenario in which majorities (or at least localised/vocal/energised minorities) can do whatever they like unchecked, potentially resulting in mob rule.
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<----Awesome burst of stupidity
My friend was down in LA and stopped at this Jamaican BBQ place...and brought me some. So I'm chowing down on this really spicy BBQ chicken and my nose is starting to run. Two instinctive responses kick in. One is to swipe at my nose with the back of a paw, and the other is to sniff. And somehow I snorted this little piece of charcoalized chicken skin that was stuck to my fingers...fully spiced. It felt like it was going to blow my eye out of its socket.
My friend was down in LA and stopped at this Jamaican BBQ place...and brought me some. So I'm chowing down on this really spicy BBQ chicken and my nose is starting to run. Two instinctive responses kick in. One is to swipe at my nose with the back of a paw, and the other is to sniff. And somehow I snorted this little piece of charcoalized chicken skin that was stuck to my fingers...fully spiced. It felt like it was going to blow my eye out of its socket.
Social media is not required for free speech. And since they have been extremely irresponsible in their stewardship of free speech and public discourse, it's time to either force them to reform or take that stewardship away from them.
As for the platforms themselves, I don't want to gag their right to free speech. I want to put reasonable restrictions on their freedom of association to keep them from violating others' right to free speech.
Are you having a laugh? You want to restrict their "freedom of association" (thereby restricting other people's freedom of speech by proxy) to avoid their supposedly gagging other people's free speech?
Snerk
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The reported grouse population estimates are pretty bad this year it seem. Climate change is messing up everything. No fun. 
Still sitting at home with gastritis, doing absolutely nothing. I hate how sickness just bombs my plans. And I didn't even have any for this weekend 
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I hope that it goes away before tomorrow. My week is busy, as always. But I feel that I prob need to go to my GP to get something against it.
Well... at least it's prob not a stomach ulcer, so that's positive.
.I hope that it goes away before tomorrow. My week is busy, as always. But I feel that I prob need to go to my GP to get something against it.
Well... at least it's prob not a stomach ulcer, so that's positive.
We've had to offer considerably higher wages to attract talent. Dignity, depends on the individual managers.
So I'm in a bit of a bind
Situation: I've been working full-time close to two years now. In many ways I'm very lucky. It's a secure full-time job with a long career basically guaranteed ahead of me if I stick with it, close to home, great and supportive managers and coworkers. But the workload is high. It's pretty stressful at times. Pay's... fine. I can cover all the essentials but not afford much beyond that. And I'm unhappy. I don't find the work fulfilling at all. My health, mental and physical, is taking a beating. This isn't really want I want to do with my life and as much as I appreciate the last two years at this company I feel that it's time to move on.
I have an idea of what I want to do in the medium term: study GIS and surveying while working to improve my art - geography and drawing being two things that I've always been passionate about ever since I can remember, but from which I've been deterred because for whatever reason I wasn't really free to make my own choices. And now, having built some semblance of an independent life over the last couple of years and with my 30s approaching I feel like I need to make that leap now.
But transitioning between where I am and where I want to be, that's going to be tricky. I'm renting, and I've got debts to pay back. I'm afraid leaving this for a part-time or casual job that gives me the time to study, or work on my art, or look after my health, will only leave me with a worse job and even worse prospects for improvement. I'm also afraid of telling my family, who's depending on me to help pay debts. I've got a supportive partner which is awesome, but he's not in a position to pay the bills for the both of us.
I'm trying to treat this like a project with timelines and goals and looking at things objectively and it looks very possible and I can pull it off if I put in some effort, but there is still this raw visceral fear that's holding me back, that whatever choice I make I'm throwing my life away. Staying where I am is on the surface the safe option, but it's killing me. It's not sustainble. But I don't know if I can make it out there in the world. I'm risking a lot. But I don't want to feel trapped anymore.
So if anyone wants to offer advice, or admonition, or solace, please, I think I need all the help I can get right now.
Situation: I've been working full-time close to two years now. In many ways I'm very lucky. It's a secure full-time job with a long career basically guaranteed ahead of me if I stick with it, close to home, great and supportive managers and coworkers. But the workload is high. It's pretty stressful at times. Pay's... fine. I can cover all the essentials but not afford much beyond that. And I'm unhappy. I don't find the work fulfilling at all. My health, mental and physical, is taking a beating. This isn't really want I want to do with my life and as much as I appreciate the last two years at this company I feel that it's time to move on.
I have an idea of what I want to do in the medium term: study GIS and surveying while working to improve my art - geography and drawing being two things that I've always been passionate about ever since I can remember, but from which I've been deterred because for whatever reason I wasn't really free to make my own choices. And now, having built some semblance of an independent life over the last couple of years and with my 30s approaching I feel like I need to make that leap now.
But transitioning between where I am and where I want to be, that's going to be tricky. I'm renting, and I've got debts to pay back. I'm afraid leaving this for a part-time or casual job that gives me the time to study, or work on my art, or look after my health, will only leave me with a worse job and even worse prospects for improvement. I'm also afraid of telling my family, who's depending on me to help pay debts. I've got a supportive partner which is awesome, but he's not in a position to pay the bills for the both of us.
I'm trying to treat this like a project with timelines and goals and looking at things objectively and it looks very possible and I can pull it off if I put in some effort, but there is still this raw visceral fear that's holding me back, that whatever choice I make I'm throwing my life away. Staying where I am is on the surface the safe option, but it's killing me. It's not sustainble. But I don't know if I can make it out there in the world. I'm risking a lot. But I don't want to feel trapped anymore.
So if anyone wants to offer advice, or admonition, or solace, please, I think I need all the help I can get right now.
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Maybe better for the job thread. Ehhhh. Maybe.
My take: Throwing your life away according to whose perspective? What constitutes as throwing your life away here?
You have an extremely valid point regarding switching gears and how that might limit you. Passion is passion but it doesn't pay the bills for most people, especially when you're at the studying stage, so finding a way of balancing the pursuit of passion with gainful income is important.
You have the income, but the way you have the income right now limits what you can do. You have a justifiable fear.
So here's another question: If you stick it out at this job another year from today, what can you get from it? Let's say you're on top of your manager whenever it's appropriate for reviews and raises and discussions about your responsibilities. Is it realistic to expect that you could get a raise? Reduced hours at the same pay? A promotion that has a better schedule? If so, based on your realistic expectations, do these changes make it more or less likely that you can start switching gears in your life without putting everything else at risk? Would there be consequences to sticking with it another year that overrules the potential benefits, even with the long term in mind?
My take: Throwing your life away according to whose perspective? What constitutes as throwing your life away here?
You have an extremely valid point regarding switching gears and how that might limit you. Passion is passion but it doesn't pay the bills for most people, especially when you're at the studying stage, so finding a way of balancing the pursuit of passion with gainful income is important.
You have the income, but the way you have the income right now limits what you can do. You have a justifiable fear.
So here's another question: If you stick it out at this job another year from today, what can you get from it? Let's say you're on top of your manager whenever it's appropriate for reviews and raises and discussions about your responsibilities. Is it realistic to expect that you could get a raise? Reduced hours at the same pay? A promotion that has a better schedule? If so, based on your realistic expectations, do these changes make it more or less likely that you can start switching gears in your life without putting everything else at risk? Would there be consequences to sticking with it another year that overrules the potential benefits, even with the long term in mind?
EnglishEdward
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Are you earning more than you are spending, and therefore reducing the debts?
If so, you should be able to identify the point in time when you may be out of debt.
If not, remember you will not be able to keep up a too demanding job indefinitely.
Either you crack up physically/mentally, or your employer replaces you with someone fresher.
I'd have a careful look at those debts and outgoings. Are you enabling freeloading family members to keep freeloading ?
OR could you reduce the overheads by moving somewhere cheaper or spread the burden by perhaps taking in a lodger?
The problem with renting is that too many people end up working, for the benefit of their landlord.
JohannaK
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It sounds like a change you gotta make. Now waiting it out another year like Synsensa suggests seems sensible, if you can take it.
That's the principal issue, of course. What matters above all is your wellbeing, and you can't stay in this place indefinitely.
That's the principal issue, of course. What matters above all is your wellbeing, and you can't stay in this place indefinitely.
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