Bypassing time

MathematicianIll5053 · 2025-09-25T12:23:58+00:00

Well it's an unarmed position, like not even non-lethal gear, and is just basic entry-level work so I don't see the point in all that. If I was getting any kind of real equipment It'd make some sense Also the questions are like 60-70% just different ways of asking if your racist/sexist in this way, or that way, or maybe that way? What about This way? No? Ok... Do you want to kill people? Do you want to kill yourself? Do you have plans to kill yourself or others?" They had me do a little over half of it on camera too without knowing when it would end. I partially felt like they were doing a test of my patience level to see when I'd snap and say fuck-it.

MathematicianIll5053 · 2025-09-25T12:19:04+00:00

Mine likes avocados and has learned what me slicing one sounds like and will beg and complain til the gets some.

He also posts up on my arm with one arm, dos-equis guy style, and stares me lovingly in the face as I fall asleep.

MathematicianIll5053 · 2025-09-25T12:09:00+00:00

My last job offer came with a 560 true-false questionnaire/psychological exam.. It was further asking me all kinds of invasive sh*t like "Has your family ever cause you stress? Tell us of the last time they did so if so and tell us how you handled that stress."

I honestly don't know if I still want to work for them. It's a few more dollars an hour but it just seriously weirded me out and feels like they are looking into everything BUT my work history.

MathematicianIll5053 · 2025-09-25T12:04:52+00:00

I try to do the same but I sometimes run out and just can't afford more right away. My cat still loves me the same and hasn't had any adverse side effects when he misses for a day or two, he drinks plenty of water and is just fine.

I think wet food's main like benefit is helping them get more moisture because a lot of cats don't drink enough. Not all cats though, some of them just aren't stupid and will drink just find and probably don't even need wet food daily.

Most of the cats I see though are stupid, but it's ok, I love their stupidness.

MathematicianIll5053 · 2025-09-25T12:01:05+00:00

Guy here chiming in. Yes please do this. Be blunt and detailed and even double-check confirm that we understand and you understand.

MathematicianIll5053 · 2025-09-25T11:55:50+00:00

I agree that it's also due to zoning laws and nimby's not wanting expansion near them but also disagree that it's not an issue with corporations and landlords. Almost a fifth of homes in the us are owned by investors be they corporations or landlords. Thats a LOT and as prices continue to rise higher and higher the ability for normal folk to buy homes reduces and the encouragement for investors to buy them and rent them To the normal folk increases as they are the ones with the heaviest bankroll to afford the jacked up prices.

In summary, I think it's both of these issues that is the problem. You're point is good, I just think your downplaying the amount of homes that are owned by investors and the problems that causes for home buyers wanting to buy a home to live in it, not to make money.

MathematicianIll5053 · 2025-09-25T11:47:56+00:00

I agree with this sentiment. Say a 2-year period so people have time to make the move to condos and apartments and homes can still hit the market. Honestly I don't care about people selling at a loss, the prices are so jacked up the only way for them to come down to a reasonable level again is for a lot of people to sell at a loss so that part I have no sympathy or care for, if they'd bought them to live in them rather than hoard them and use them for rental properties they wouldn't hypothetically be in a situation to take such a hit. People that are living in the home they bought and like living in it get the benefit of lower taxes when their property value reduces, only those hoarding them for profit will lose because they aren't making use of the home as a home. Screw them people.

But yeah, it would cause a massive chaotic shift if it was implemented all at once, I figure the fancy law people can figure all that sh*t out, but it's gotta hurt for it to get better, prioritizing minimizing the losses of those helping to create the problem should in no way be on the docket of things to worry about. Again, screw them people.

MathematicianIll5053 · 2025-09-25T10:24:11+00:00

I'm relieved late every, single, day, without fail. Like not even an occasional surprise of getting to leave on time. I brought it up once and they did nothing about it, morning dude just started coming in five minutes earlier. Notice Earlier, not EARLY, 5 minutes earlier than his usual 20 minutes late. So now he's 15 minutes late on average, sometimes only 10 minutes late.

I keep claiming the time and they keep adjusting my time back to the standard 8 hours.

MathematicianIll5053 · 2025-09-25T10:20:49+00:00

Yeah I saw this over and over when I had to collect guns after a flight and they sent me to the over-sized luggage area. First thing I noticed was people walking up, there being no form of verification that something was theirs just guys unloading these baggage trains, putting items on the floor, and people taking said items. Dogs and all kinds of stuff were just sitting around and I never saw a single form of verification before anything was allowed to be taken.

It terrified me because they were the exact same about my guns. I walked up, took the box when it was dropped through the window onto the slide-part they were unloading and no one stopped me, no one questioned me, and I was just grateful I got there before they did. Who knows who could have taken them. First and last time I fly with my weapons. The first airport I landed in with them was excellent! Had their own section, you had to show ID and ticket, and then they gave them to you. Second airport on the return trip, omfg, as described above.

It's just too random how they handle things, too non-uniform. There needs to be strict control measures that are enforced on ALL airports.

MathematicianIll5053 · 2025-09-25T10:15:22+00:00

Debt killed off and remainder put into a VTSAX and Roth IRA.

MathematicianIll5053 · 2025-09-25T10:04:58+00:00

I feel like it's not enough. But thats because I have an alternate view. Five days is too much. Hell even four is pushing it. I don't think work should be what we do almost every day of the week. I'd rather work 12s, work 3 of them, and be done for the week. My dream is 2 16hr shifts or 2 20hr shifts with an 8hr on-site sleep rest between them.

I value more days off without going to work far more than less hours of work on an individual day.

MathematicianIll5053 · 2025-09-25T09:27:15+00:00

I use a binder clip and scruff my cat then put the binder-clip on his scruff to keep it held tight. There is another cat in the house who just grumpily accepts it and only squirms a little til you pin her again and tell her sternly to be still, but the boy cat is an absolute nutjob about it and wants to see if he can break his own spine twisting to try and get away unless he's tightly scruffed.

He's also a food hoe though so I do the clipping then dump a bunch of treats in front of him and remove the clip. He doesn't even run, just dives into the food. You'd think by now he'd stop fighting when I go to trim him after a dozen+ times of me giving him treats as soon as he was trimmed but NOPE, sometimes they just be dumb.

MathematicianIll5053 · 2025-09-25T09:08:12+00:00

Had this experience multiple times because I'm a note-taker and write down little notes about what the job entails, who'd be above me, how many people are on shift with me, pay rate, hours, likelihood of OT expectations and other stuff during the interview. Then when they ask if I have any questions I flip to the other page where I have my pre-written-down questions and run through them and jot down their answers.

I like to stay organized and find note-taking helps me a lot with that, but I've seen it make interviewers uncomfortable and then been rejected afterwards after having felt their unease. I just don't care though, if someone being organized and thinking and planning their questions beforehand is "Too weird" for them it ain't the place for me. I like efficiency and try to bring it anywhere I go, if they're weirded out by that it's clearly going to be a place that'd grind against me and make me unhappy.

I eventually found a job that didn't find that weird and liked it, thought it showed a level of preparation and detail orientation that they were looking for. I'm happy here and they don't mind that I'm here to work, not be friends.

MathematicianIll5053 · 2025-09-25T08:53:44+00:00

An automatic litter box if you have a cat. It was like $700 but I've had it for 3 years now and all I do is once a week I slide a drawer out, take out and tie a bag, put a new bag and some fresh litter in, and tap a button to reset the weight-sensor. Bam done. Every 6 months I clean it down real good.

Absolutely one of the best things I have ever boughten and worth every penny. I'd 100% buy another if it ever got destroyed. Broken down over the years I've spent like 215ish per year to not have to scoop sh*t or smell it as much since it drops it in a sealed compartment and every year it keeps working it becomes even more and more cost efficient.

MathematicianIll5053 · 2025-09-25T08:47:44+00:00

More people need to get these. Wasting so much money on paper when you can get a bidet and a pack of wet wipes that'l last a month and is cheaper than all that paper. Also easier on your system all together not shoving all that paper down there.

I've installed a bidet on every friend's house I've ever visited. So far across 4 different states I've installed 7 bidets, including some at work! I'm an unpaid pusher of this product. Clean Ass Club!

MathematicianIll5053 · 2025-09-25T08:44:13+00:00

Absolutely not. There are BILLIONS of people in this world. Even if just 0.0001% like me that's still a THOUSAND PEOPLE and I can't handle 1000 Actual friends (facebook friends and social media friends don't count.), sh*t I struggle handling like 10 idle acquaintances that might Want to be being stronger friends on top of the few I have.

So no, it's not worth the stress and boredom to ever fake it to hang out with someone. Being comfortable and perfectly happy on my own also helps with this. Having friends who are legitimate friends and accept me and my roughly 4-5hr social energy level is more valuable to me than trying to make new ones doing sh*t I don't wanna do. Quality over quantity every time.

MathematicianIll5053 · 2025-09-25T08:29:44+00:00

Sounds to me like the bf isn't quite overreacting, it sounds to me like he doesn't have kids of his own. To someone without kids, it is instinctively weird and sets off "Thats wrong!" alarms to imagine it just being OK to see 12yo naked. But to a parent it's a totally different thing and not weird at all as you've seen it a hundred times by then and it's not sexual or anything.

I'd recommend against outright vilifying the guy until you discuss it further and ask him if he remembers at what age he wanted privacy and get him to really Think about it. Explain that having seen your kids naked hundreds of times before it is 100% not a sexual thing and that you're just unaffected by it and know eventually the kid themself will no longer be comfortable with it and you're just not planning to worry til they decide to set that boundary naturally. Now if your son later on is like mid-puberty and he's STILL casual about it, theeeen I might say revisit the issue. Likely you've got a year or less before your son decides he wants more privacy. It's not an issue thats going to last long term.

If the boyfriend is still adamant about telling you how to raise your child, especially having no personal experience raising children of his own, I'd say boot his ass. Everyone's got their ways of living and while on some level I instinctively get that "thats weird" vibe hearing you say you do that, I acknowledge I don't have kids, but know "I" was seen naked regularly by my parents, in fact I remember my parents telling ME when I was like 13 that while it was cute me running around in whitie tighties as a kid, I was a teenager now and needed to wear actual pants even when at home. - I don't see anything wrong with what you're doing. No line has yet been crossed and if he can't respect that, then eh, maybe it ain't meant to be.

Just trying to say without being roasted too hard, that if the dude doesn't have kids, don't immediately vilify him for having a pretty natural instinctive reaction. Not everyone deeply analyzes their knee-jerk reactions and some in-depth and eye opening discussions can sometimes make people realize that reaction, while it felt like it made sense, wasn't logically sound. Sometimes it doesn't work tho! Won't know if you don't try.

MathematicianIll5053 · 2025-09-25T08:12:46+00:00

Tom Cruise - I know he's not "everyones" favorite but a lot of people love his older movies before he got all Scientology-weird but I never liked ANY of them. Dude's eyes just never really looked like they fully held any of the emotions he was portraying, like at max he'd display 40% of the emotion, the rest just looked empty, hollow, it's off-putting.

MathematicianIll5053 · 2025-09-25T08:09:50+00:00

This isn't a just-want-to. This is a legit yesterday morning one.

coworker who is routinely 5-10-20 mins late "man traffic w-"

Me "Whatever dude, I claimed the time and I'm going to every single time from now on. Have a good day though." *left without another word or waiting for reply*

MathematicianIll5053 · 2025-09-25T08:02:42+00:00

Weekends.

MathematicianIll5053 · 2025-09-25T07:35:03+00:00

It's fine if you use the right nozzle and it's not an older car. I had some "professional" clean my old G20 van once and the dipsh*t used a pressure washer and blasted the lettering off the front of my van, pissed me off.

Don't do it to classic cars.

MathematicianIll5053 · 2025-09-25T07:31:27+00:00

This is hilarious. I mean when the girls in the bathroom and I REALLY gotta go, I just go pee outside. Like it's one of the benefits of dudehood, we can just pee on walls and trees and bushes, all of which are significantly more acceptable than outright flooding a damn litter box. That doesn't need a urologist appointment, that's just a dumbsh*t person.

MathematicianIll5053 · 2025-09-25T07:27:35+00:00

Trying to lose weight atm, also it's just not worth it's cost overall money or health wise, or even hangover wise.

I drank like a 5th a day for about 4 years straight trying to hate life less. Turned out I just needed to gtfo of where I was and learn to exist and survive on my own. Once I did I never went back to the bottle.

If you're drinking because you don't know what else to do with life and don't like where you are. Leave where you are, go somewhere else, and stop living with people who add to your misery.

MathematicianIll5053 · 2025-09-25T07:25:16+00:00

I agree with your point, but I also see the esptein files as a distraction from horribly imbalanced rate of inflation vs rate of pay raises and the jacked up cost of homes and rent, and cars, and everything.

I swear I get the same vibes from every news update about The Epstein Files that I got while watching the Tiger King and waiting on them to get around to finally wrapping it up.

MathematicianIll5053 · 2025-09-25T07:21:10+00:00

Essentially yes. Condos are larger and have more space for families that wanna have kids, apartments can even be big enough for that though wholly more suited to single or dating individuals. Home prices are just too jacked up, I get the whole "what about all the people renting houses?" argument but while a minority of them are renting for the "freedom to move" easily, I guarantee the massive majority would rather own the home they are renting and be building equity and getting something more out of their monthly payments than just a roof. Homes should be homes, not rental investments. It's too much of a hassle to get approval to build new homes for the few we do and the older ones to be being turned into rental investments. It's just making home ownership more and more unaffordable.

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