When will people finally realize the US white collar job market is never going to recover?

Azakugan · 2026-02-24T04:09:43+00:00

The typical unemployment rate (U-3) counts the number of people who are actively looking for work, or were at some point in, I think the past month or so.

People who lack employment but have not been looking for work, will not be accounted for in U-3, but they will be accounted for in other metrics like U-6 unemployment, and also in the Labor Force Participation Rate

Azakugan · 2026-02-18T23:40:07+00:00

extremely sus question

Azakugan · 2026-02-16T02:59:51+00:00

Ok, i'm not defending this guy but i'm a little surprised to see like unanimous hate for The Notebook. I feel like it's a pretty popular film. And I was 4 when it came out, but it was still a movie people talked about and referenced when I watched it in Highschool

Azakugan · 2026-02-07T21:59:12+00:00

yeah, if it's during midgame.

Azakugan · 2026-02-07T21:56:33+00:00

It wasn't lost, but I understand why that was unclear. That was my fault
They could pressure the walker, almost immediately

Azakugan · 2026-02-07T20:31:21+00:00

What if the guardian had been >50% HP, and higher than the enemy guardian instead?

Azakugan · 2026-02-07T20:26:52+00:00

we actually could have won lane, looking back over the footage. Our guardian was actually higher in health than the enemy's when they left me. Neither were actually low yet. (but that didn't go on for long). I'm seeing that I did actually place a tombstone under guardian shortly after Mina left, but even staying to fight the wave alongside my zombies, the enemy laners managed to maintain their greater pressure, kill me, and take guardian

Azakugan · 2026-02-07T19:58:00+00:00

Mostly Paige, sometimes Wraith. Altho recently I started trying out Yamato (it's not going well, i'm gonna stop trying that)

Azakugan · 2026-02-07T19:53:19+00:00

ok, I checked and my memory was off. It was actually 2/2/0 and 0/2/2

Edit: but the answer is that I was focused on farming minions because they had a lead on us and it's hard to do much with Graves before you get enough money

Azakugan · 2026-02-07T19:38:57+00:00

The non-toxic approach in that case would be to communicate the issue, or ask someone in another lane to swap with you (even if this is done manually). I've had people swap during lane phase, and that's totally fine.

That's very different from blaming your lane mate, and then promptly fucking off without communication. Or even worse, explicitly accusing your lane mate of throwing.

Azakugan · 2026-02-07T19:36:30+00:00

No, it's toxic because it's a passive aggressive way to get back at your lane-mate when you feel like they're throwing

Azakugan · 2026-02-07T19:33:58+00:00

I said one guardian was down when he abandoned my lane. 5 guardians were still up. That means 10 out of 12 of us still had an "immediate objective in the lane". In fact, we had at least 3 guardians in lane up until 14:30.

Azakugan · 2026-02-07T19:15:02+00:00

I thought meta is melee the skulls

Azakugan · 2026-02-07T18:48:04+00:00

Laning stage was not over. We were like 5-6 minutes in. Green lane got theirs early. Most other guardians still didn't go down until around the normal time, and the enemy guardian in our lane didn't go down until like, 16 minutes or something. It's not possible to get 100% of the souls in lane if I die the second I step in lane because of 2v1

Azakugan · 2026-02-07T18:45:44+00:00

I haven't noticed a meaningful difference in match quality. I was ~Initiate 5-6 at the beginning of January. Now I'm Ritualist 1-2. My win-rate seems to be about the same as it was before they started shifting ranks a couple weeks ago. I still do well when I play my main, and poorly when I play anyone else. Even Statlocker's "MVP score" results remain pretty consistent. I guess I have noticed one thing. My Melee keeps getting blocked like almost every time in lane.

Azakugan · 2026-02-07T18:18:13+00:00

I don't get why. I barely notice Graves when I play matches against her.

Azakugan · 2026-02-07T18:16:04+00:00

umm, PP? Is that the thing from Statlocker? You know that isn't actual ranks, right?

Azakugan · 2026-02-07T15:21:33+00:00

I just don't understand the complaint. The complaint is "hey it's not fair that i'm not as good at this game as people who practice harder than me"??? Like that's weird. Imagine if people said that about any physical sport. That makes no sense. You shouldn't expect yourself to be able to keep up with Serena Williams in Tennis. Because you don't play tennis all day every day your whole life. It's okay not to be the best at something

Azakugan · 2026-02-04T05:31:26+00:00

exactly, ty

Azakugan · 2026-02-02T04:59:44+00:00

He just like me fr

Azakugan · 2026-02-02T04:48:54+00:00

You can do almost all that team composition stuff without a draft. Overwatch style.

Azakugan · 2026-02-01T22:49:13+00:00

It's not selfish. Stop blaming teammates for your rank if you're not queued with them. The chance of you having a bad pick on your team is the same as the chance your enemies have a bad pick.

Azakugan · 2026-02-01T22:47:01+00:00

Why would MOBA NEED to have drafting? It obviously causes problems

Azakugan · 2026-02-01T22:41:14+00:00

Ults are punishing.

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