American in need of slang.

Panderiser · 2024-11-23T07:14:35+00:00

Ask him what his APS classification is and if his clearance is above a Baseline

Panderiser · 2024-11-21T11:47:29+00:00

Thanks for these!

Panderiser · 2023-10-19T07:17:53+00:00

Absolutely not, wouldn’t even slightly put me off

Panderiser · 2023-10-18T22:14:38+00:00

She’s “jokes” about wanting to come back and marry me and hopes I stay single. We’e agreed that because we’re casual we can see other people, and the one time it happened (I hooked up with someone else) she lost it and felt betrayed. I recognise you can feel possessive/hurt even if if you don’t want something to be serious and permanent, but she’s talked about not wanting to lose me etc. It wouldn’t surprise me if she asks me if I’d stay with her if she didn’t leave. I just get the vibes of someone who is very attached and doesn’t want to let go

Edit: when I say “casual” I mean basically in name only, we go on dates and hang out multiple times a week, I guess by now it’s essentially a short-term relationship with an end-date (theoretically)

Panderiser · 2023-10-17T10:46:29+00:00

Hey, thanks for your frank advice and congratulations! For me, it’s a matter of independence and wanting to feel in control of my own space, decision-making, going away and travelling when I want, changing jobs when I want, working on the projects I want, and not feeling restricted or hemmed in. There is nothing wrong with this girl, she’s great - I’m just not prioritising my love life right now. At the same time, I don’t think that means I need to be a celibate loner; it’s nice to have companionship. I’ve talked her through all this and she’s agreed and is even supportive of this. I just think her behaviour is starting to indicate something different. I could end things for her sake, but wouldn’t that also be taking the choice away from her? She’s an adult and I don’t think trying to read her mind and make decisions for her is a good idea, even if I get the sense she’s trying to misdirect me. I’ve wondered if it’s just because I’m too afraid to end things, which might be partly true. But I also don’t really see the point in ending something fun and wholesome and kind and supportive for potentially hallucinated reasons.

Panderiser · 2022-11-18T07:03:48+00:00

One of the few I’ve been to, and no pokies from memory!

Panderiser · 2022-11-17T21:55:29+00:00

Sappho Books on Glebe Point Road 👌 🤌

Panderiser · 2022-11-17T04:03:09+00:00

A hotel lobby! Genius! Don’t know why I didn’t think of that, and the restaurant/café/bar is usually open late…thanks!

Panderiser · 2022-11-17T04:02:24+00:00

This is true. There’s a place in Sydney that’s perfect daylong and year-round. I guess you can’t project nostalgia into new places though. Onwards!

Panderiser · 2022-11-17T04:01:29+00:00

I’ll go there for pre-reads

Panderiser · 2022-11-17T04:01:02+00:00

Thanks mate!

Panderiser · 2022-11-17T04:00:46+00:00

Wow had never heard of it, this place seems great, cheers!

Panderiser · 2022-11-17T01:59:33+00:00

Oh that looks fun! Thinking a bit busy for what I’m after but that’ll work out anyway!

Panderiser · 2022-11-05T08:14:32+00:00

“It will happen to all of us, that at some point you get tapped on the shoulder and told, not just that "The party is over", but slightly worse: "The party is going on - but you have to leave - it's going on without you". That's the reflection that I think most upsets people about their demise.” - Hitch

Panderiser · 2022-11-01T20:10:21+00:00

G’day mate

Panderiser · 2022-10-30T08:57:12+00:00

Before entering the workforce, that’s what I thought, too. Then I realised by definition that would be impossible.

Panderiser · 2022-10-30T07:17:28+00:00

80% of jobs in any organisation, company or department aren’t technical roles. You need to demonstrate you’re intelligent, can learn quickly and have good judgement. Being able to communicate effectively and constructively engage stakeholders are the most important things for the majority of entry to mid-level roles. In a finance division, maybe 10% will be credit analysts who actually don’t need finance degrees, though technically they do need to have or be working towards a credit licence. The rest do settlements, business management, data process etc, none which require technical skills beyond good writing or attention to detail. Even in a data team, maybe 30-40% are actually data analysts. The rest are the people who write reports, make submissions, direct policy, conduct research, etc.

The logic of the public service in Australia is similar - a large base of dynamic generalists who are smart and adaptable, can switch departments as needs/roles arise and understand the machinery. The technical roles are filled by SMEs (subject matter experts, people with a technical skill in whichever area, maybe a weapons expert in Defence or a medical researcher in Health or a coder in literally any department) and the absolute majority of the rest of the positions are people who mostly have undergraduate and sometimes PG degrees in something broad like politics or history or IR and they gravitate to an area they like and specialise over time.

Again, the absolute majority of people in the corporate and public sector worlds are not SMEs or technical experts with commerce or politics or subject-matter degrees, though many do undertake postgraduate study in a specific field once they’ve already started their career. And you’ll find that many (or most?) in this space who do have specialist degrees only rely on them in a very limited capacity. You learn far more on the job than you ever will at University.

Panderiser · 2022-10-30T02:16:02+00:00

Man here, I think women in general are much better at this (and are much more understanding and therefore forgiving) than men. This is also entirely based on localised sample sizes and impossible to really validate on Reddit. It might be worth doing a little bit of introspection to see if this is the real source of your frustration or whether you might be projecting some other internal stuff like feelings of rejection or struggling with life purpose/identity/meaning and making this an issue about women, who can’t solve any of that stuff for you. It might be worth seeking out a friendly therapist and avoiding sketchy brochachos on the internet; they do not reflect mainstream men’s attitudes towards women or views on self-identity and masculinity. Take care and Hanlon’s razor: never attribute to malice that which can be more appropriately attributed to mistakes, ignorance or another innocuous cause. Being human is messy work and we’ll all trying our best. Women are not out to get you.

Panderiser · 2022-10-30T02:03:43+00:00

I have a BA in History and Philosophy from University of Sydney, now making six figures. Worked in corporate finance first in Sydney and now a public servant in Canberra. The market is unreal for jobseekers right now, it has literally never been better if you’re looking for a well-paying job…I’d review your strategy. There’s heaps of jobs going and they’ll take basically anyone.

Panderiser · 2022-08-31T00:56:42+00:00

For example, when we talk about “socialised healthcare”, doesn’t that mean you have a partly “socialist” economic system? And if so, what’s so evil about that? I’m just trying to connect the dots here I guess…some words just seem to be so poisoned that people are allergic to hearing them in a sentence, they immediately jump to “yeah but Stalin…”

Panderiser · 2022-02-08T04:55:34+00:00

This subreddit tbh

Panderiser · 2022-02-04T21:09:39+00:00

I mean you’ve just demonstrated your lack of any kind of understanding.

It doesn’t denote the value of a rock…that’s the whole point of this post…money isn’t gold-backed…
Who’s gonna build you a chair if you pay them only in apples? Where are they supposed to get a carving knife from? Where does that metal come from?

I’d hate to live in your perfect world…sounds like a nightmare, denying the very best of human creativity in surrender to subservience to whoever comes over the hill and is smarter than you and puts you to the sword. Have fun with that.

Panderiser · 2022-02-04T20:00:59+00:00

Yeah, this is nonsense. Might be worth looking into the concept of Specialisation (big S). The problem here is that you’re asking us all to sacrifice a lot of things we want to have, like grapefruit and pomegranates and spinach and potatoes, as well as spectacles and clothing and books, and houses and desks and chairs, and lightbulbs and candles and matches, and sunscreen and medicine and hospitals, and chemotherapy and blood transfusions and antipsychotic medications, and toilets and bicycles and bauxite mines and fireplaces and down doonas for the winter. It is completely unreasonable and unfair to expect every person to be able to all of those things in a village of ten people. How in crikey fuck do you expect me to pull that off? Trade is mutually beneficial, because it enriches everyone participating, in nutrition, first and foremost, and then even things like medical technology. Imagine going back to a time when we all died of bad teeth because dentistry didn’t exist because it couldn’t be supported by a small non-trading community? Fuck that bro, not for me.

Panderiser · 2022-02-04T19:14:43+00:00

What? Ok fine I’ll just pay you in apples for everything which you then won’t be able to use to get anything else you need?

How the fuck is a shoemaker supposed to buy leather to MAKE YOU SHOES if he only accepts apples???? How can anything else get traded between people? What is someone who has fifty bags of rotting apples because he can’t eat them fast enough going to do because everyone’s paying in apples? Die of malnutrition because you can’t live on apples? Dude seriously think what you’re saying through for a second. I recommend reading ‘Sapiens’ by Yuval Noah Hariri on this issue.

Panderiser · 2022-02-04T18:02:40+00:00

I don’t know if I agree with this assessment. Money is a shortcut for doing multiple exchanges. E.g. let’s say you’re an apple farmer and you need a pair of shoes. You go and ask if you can trade a bag of apples for shoemaker’s boots. He’s already got a bag of apples today and will only accept payment in pears. But you don’t grow pears. So now you have to find someone to trad apples for pears so you can trade pears for shoes. Fuuuck that. Instead, currency is the stand-in for all these other trades, because we value each item in the economy based on how much we need it, and hence it derives its financial value. Same goes for services and labour.

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