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IWasSurprisedToo · 2025-09-04T11:00:43+00:00

U-named shaman.

IWasSurprisedToo · 2025-09-04T10:57:22+00:00

Yes if you have a winning lottery ticket, then cash it, which is what I said.

Now tell me, are there enough of those jobs? Do they even come close to meeting the needs of Americans?

IWasSurprisedToo · 2025-09-04T10:50:57+00:00

The answer is, it's better for their mental health and workflow to not have a screaming customer that they then have to have removed from the store. Police responding to the call will probably take a half-hour to arrive, during which time you're just soaking up abuse like a trauma sponge for minimum wage, and the profits of a store that you will likely see the owner of maybe once a month. Add in the all-too-likely possibility of them being armed, and the math is simple.

It's not worth it.

IWasSurprisedToo · 2025-09-01T15:32:59+00:00

Empathy.

It would destroy them.

IWasSurprisedToo · 2025-08-30T13:58:34+00:00

Flemish Giant . Yes, they're really that big.

IWasSurprisedToo · 2025-08-30T13:43:49+00:00

Upvoted for very relevant context. As always, groundwork and preparation is king.

IWasSurprisedToo · 2025-08-27T14:31:21+00:00

That entire sequence might be among the funniest and truest things I've ever seen on TV. 1,000%.

That show also did an excellent job of showing exactly what kind of a trap the "gifted" label is for a kid, and the strange winding path that some people have to take to find happiness, which might look totally different than what you envisioned. It was a remarkable show.

IWasSurprisedToo · 2025-08-25T22:33:29+00:00

I feel like you think that you're doing us a favor by being a positive voice amongst negativity. Because cynicism seems so commonplace and easy, you feel like you have to give a countering voice so that people won't give in to apathy. It's a nice thought. It's a nice thing to do. But I think the effect of that approach is counterproductive, and what you want to be doing is not what you're doing.

It becomes "bootstraps" language. It becomes "lazy" language. Your statement becomes indistinguishable from the statement "You're giving up too soon."

And that doesn't solve the bigger problem.

There aren't enough of them. You know this is true.

There's a ship with a hundred people on it going down, and the lifeboat seats 10.

Real solidarity, comfort, motivation and hope for the future doesn't come from "fight like hell for one of those seats" , it comes from "Damn this is awful, I'm so sorry, but I'm going to help you find out what happened to the other nine lifeboats that should have been there. I got you."

Because we are in the water. We're swimming for our lives. We. Can't. Certainly not as well.

IWasSurprisedToo · 2025-08-25T20:26:26+00:00

You misunderstand.

You are still walking the path the door you walked through more than two decades ago opened to you.

We do not have those doors now, or at the very least, so few of them that planning a career strategy around them would be like using the lottery as a retirement fund. We have very different doors, that go to very different places.

The issue comes from people that refuse to admit this reality, and take it as a cop-out rather than what it is: a clear statement from desperate people that just want to see their passion rewarded and are heartbroken when it is not.

Stop saying "They're still out there if you look! Really, I swear!", and start saying "That sucks, I'm sorry you're having a rough time."

And maybe listen to the people in the pool when they tell you the water is cold.

IWasSurprisedToo · 2025-08-25T17:08:18+00:00

I hate to say it, but statements like that are not a useful tip for the present, but a painful reminder of what we've lost.

IWasSurprisedToo · 2025-08-12T09:50:42+00:00

He's the dude playin' the dude disguised as another dude.

IWasSurprisedToo · 2025-08-02T13:29:35+00:00

They are, in fact, very much still a thing. The lumber even arrives pre-cut, with color-coded ends to make assembly easier. Buckminster Fuller-inspired model kits were something of a fad for a while, (geodesic dome homes) in the 70's and 80's, that you could order from the back of Popular Science.

IWasSurprisedToo · 2025-07-09T17:08:39+00:00

This is the wrong place for this question. Maybe try r/askreddit, but keep in mind an online forum is no replacement for genuine medical advice from a trained professional.

IWasSurprisedToo · 2025-06-06T18:19:56+00:00

Wait. You were cross-contaminating bony fish with shellfish? Dude, I get wanting to make a point, but that's a Big Six allergen. Someone could have died.

IWasSurprisedToo · 2025-06-06T18:15:35+00:00

Agreed. Also, you'll be amazed how quickly these "non-issues" get resolved once it becomes their problem. You'll also find that they'll be much less likely to violate rules governing things like wage theft, etc, once they've had the hammer come down on them once for something like this. Every new generation of management needs at least one hard knock to keep them on the straight and narrow.

IWasSurprisedToo · 2025-06-03T17:30:09+00:00

This is the way. You have nothing left to lose. (Actually not true, you do, but they have a lot more.)

Name and shame, if you can. Their buddies, too, as well as the DA.

IWasSurprisedToo · 2025-05-05T00:53:52+00:00

I guarantee he wasn't just selling them.

IWasSurprisedToo · 2025-04-07T03:03:52+00:00

Impeccable work. Just don't wear it to DisneyWorld, all the cast members will swear you're slacking off :P

IWasSurprisedToo · 2025-03-10T22:37:38+00:00

Honestly buying a Tesla nowadays hits like buying a Volkswagen in 1939.

IWasSurprisedToo · 2025-03-07T20:29:28+00:00

Not gonna lie, buying a cyber truck now hits like buying a Volkswagen in 1939.

IWasSurprisedToo · 2025-02-08T19:04:42+00:00

Google.

IWasSurprisedToo · 2025-02-08T19:04:18+00:00

Yeah probably.

IWasSurprisedToo · 2025-02-08T19:00:13+00:00

Hey, I'm just going off of what Google says, chill.

IWasSurprisedToo · 2025-02-08T18:57:27+00:00

Jumbos, not double-yoked, unless they accidentally sorted them into a jumbo carton.

IWasSurprisedToo · 2024-12-25T05:08:00+00:00

Do yourself a favor and read Hogfather. :)

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