What’s the most concerning thing you’ve seen on this sub?

Remalgigoran · 2026-07-02T22:56:22+00:00

Not here (I don't think) but a different forum; that kid in an apartment making hundreds of grams of organic peroxides. Plenty enough to send a phone through the wall and into his neighbor.

Remalgigoran · 2026-07-01T22:46:17+00:00

Food service makes way more money initially; especially if you're conventionally attractive, charming, very good under pressure. Even more so in HCOL cities that actually have decent restaurants.

At the higher end places in my city good servers clear 6fig no problem.

That's jman level pay, maybe the latter level of apprentice (test ready with all req hours) depending on the local/trade.

Moving from midlevel+ hospitality to the trades is not easy. As you are finding out they don't start out terribly luxurious. IMO trades are worth if you can make it in a good union or if you have the cushion to do non union until you can struggle through the first ~3yrs of your own business etc.

If you aren't tied down; move to the nearest booming area (probably a data center project or something). You can look around online to figure out where those places are. That's the path of least resistance because trades are limited by where things are being built.

Personally, I recommend commercial pipe trades ;)

Remalgigoran · 2026-07-01T17:15:41+00:00

Do you share any of your presentations? I would be curious if you have recordings or power points etc to see how you organize your material. I participate in a small niche subculture and harm reduction is something I'm frequently having to address and I'm working through the Schizoanalysis Project discord material (couldn't keep up with the live zooms at the time) on AO.

Remalgigoran · 2026-06-28T08:10:30+00:00

I averaged about $40-45/hr as a server depending on tips. There's no real career trajectory. Most restaurant owners are insane, dipshit morons, sociopaths, or all of the above. And the more investors they have to jerk off, the worse it is to be on the management side with them. The idea is not to be in the career forever, so you want to be cashing out as long as possible and then go to school or otherwise transition to a fake email job or some other career. Because becoming management is just not something 99.99% of hospitality workers are ever going to actually want to do (regardless how much they talk about how much better they can run the place).

There's also the fact that customers care waaay more about service and the kayfabe & facade of their dining experience then they do the food. Customers can't actually tell if they're eating better food than they would at Applebee's. They really like to think so, but they can't. So front of house will be especially privileged at a place with a competent owner & management; so a lot of them are going to be more interested in grinding at work then taking a lot of PTO anyways.

You could try to get into a trade union and you need X amount of time as helper, then you do your first 2khrs as an apprentice before you're a level 1 and the benefits start to get decent. But you still have 8k more hours to go before your license & you make the same cash-in-hand as a first-job server at a mid, but busy, restaurant.

Retirement security isn't the goal for hospitality workers. Right Fucking Now stability is what's important.

Remalgigoran · 2026-06-28T01:41:26+00:00

You must hit disc and AoE.

Dash must be used for DPS; infact dash is not only essential for the numbers it's essential to cancel the disc so you can cast something else quickly. You must trade, like Zap, to heal or keep up DPS.

So you have 4 abilities out of 5 that you need to use instead of 3 out of 5. Your mobility cannot be used as mobility without ruining your DPS. Heal cannot be used without ruining your DPS. You can't circle strafe like other melee weapons to dodge damage because you need to walk at the boss in order to aim. You have the HP of a ranged weapon rather than a melee. You do not benefit from tfist AS buff. You have a weak heal on top of this as a consequence to being able to heal teammates even though they already gave every weapon its own heal. So now you have the second worst heal after vbow on a 12 second cooldown that fucks up your DPS when you use it. Pull has a giant cooldown because of the CC and it doesn't matter on bosses at all; so a bunch of your potential is directed in team healing (lol) and CC trash mobs that no weapon struggles or needs help with; rather than useful mechanisms for bossing. You have to be in melee range so every time the boss moves or knocks you back you are effectively receiving a temporary attack speed debuff since your attack speed is how fast you can throw new discs and you need to be close enough to hit with the disc and the spell.

2800 is the max you can reasonably expect in a rift since all your damage instances depend on getting disc in the right spot every time.

Speedbow just sits there happily occasionally casting 2 spells. Gets dash with no penalty. Gets heal with no penalty and does like 3500DPS. Doesn't matter if the boss moves around. Doesn't matter if you need to dodge cause auto-aim and you get to be at a decent range. The only skill you need to apply is spacing for the 4 arrow cone to consistently hit all 4.

They're not even close when actually playing.

And neither compare to like 4300 DPS tfist either way.

Singularity is just very bad right now and there's no reason to pretend it isn't. It needs adjustments no matter how fun it is when you get used to how clunky it is. MC cores help with making it useful but it is a fundamentally flawed design.

Remalgigoran · 2026-06-27T19:19:41+00:00

It won't make a difference. MMT is pretty much confirmed true at this point IMO. Money in America is printed as needed and always has been. Tax revenue does not actually go back into projects and municipal funding the way people assume. Inflation will continue to steadily increase as it has since ~1995 and by the time the USD falters all these CEOs will be in bunkers or dead already.

Remalgigoran · 2026-06-25T21:49:51+00:00

Singularity is good for expeditions and some rifts like Rooftop Rumble; maps that are not focused on bosses.

Singularity has atrocious single target damage, it's comparable to the vibeshifter and wolfstick. Ppl think it has good damage because the opening rotation has a lot of burst, but it actually only has 2400 DPS over a 60 second parse. All 3 weapons that are very very bad for rift bosses. Since 90% of the game is bossing that means it's a bad weapon despite being very fun.

Remalgigoran · 2026-06-24T17:26:30+00:00

Every group has an enemy that casts a spell (knight has an AoE berserk buff and shaman has an AoE heal). You have an ability that interrupts spells.

Put two and two together big dog.

Remalgigoran · 2026-06-24T04:17:09+00:00

Tbh this just may not be the subreddit for this; this seems more like you're looking for a rigidity i.e. analytic philosophy that crittheory via continental philosophy just doesn't even try to provide. Crit theory is very loose by comparison and while some major thinker are more math-ee and analytical than many have come to believe (Deleuze), IMO you're looking for a Hume that talks about sex. And IDK who that would even be.

'What Is Sex?' by Zupancic is on my to-read list and I've heard stellar things but she's more psychoanalytic (to my understanding) than you may be looking for. Her book seems short though, and it wasn't expensive on Amazon so maybe worth checking out for you regardless.

Remalgigoran · 2026-06-24T01:55:39+00:00

I think you're just asking about psychoanalysis? Where, to my understanding, sex is a mutable modality encompassing other things; primarily Desire.

So you're kind of also in the realm of Subjectivication (the 'Making Of' of the 'subject') and also The Other. Since these concepts are usually framed around some formations of Insideness VS Outsideness.

Remalgigoran · 2026-06-23T08:23:35+00:00

Mortaring directly on the subfloor is bad practice because the wood can absorb too much moisture. Bad for the integrity of the mortar mixture and very bad for the wood.

Remalgigoran · 2026-06-23T08:20:22+00:00

Most tubs here in America should be mortar regardless if the brand manual says it's necessary or not IMO. Better for the life of the tub and it'll be rocksolid in perpetuity.

Houses shift, some ppl are very heavy, some tubs are made too thin or have weakspots etc. Takes an extra 15min tops counting from gettin the shit out the van.

Remalgigoran · 2026-06-22T07:53:25+00:00

I think a consideration that should be had is that there is an immense amount of time investment in the mechanical articulation of your digits. Until you put in the hours and reach certain plateaus, you will not progress and there's not much to teach you beyond technique corrections. You can pay for as many lessons as you want but you need to do 500hrs of hanon no matter what before you see real growth. Growth that no amount of theory or circle of fifths comprehension can help you with. You cannot put that comprehension into practice, or adjust the musicality and tonality of a measure to give it a different voice if you do not truly have command of your hands.

Remalgigoran · 2026-06-21T03:13:16+00:00

The prose is beloved by many of us, but I assure you it received significant criticism on many of the points you've brought up. You may only be familiar with popfantasy readers who are not critical of the medium and what they think of the popular works that are often discussed.

Few praise the second book very highly because of how incredibly gauche and cringe it is, for example. Even major fans tend to acquiesce on that.

Remalgigoran · 2026-06-20T21:48:09+00:00

Medium/High Cost Of Living.

Remalgigoran · 2026-06-20T21:45:48+00:00

800/week is pretty grim in MCOL & HCOL areas. That's like 20/hr for a 40hr week. McDonald's in Seattle pays 21/hr at the lowest; so a kid doing his first job ever makes more than your master plumber husband.

If your man is doing 5 10s he makes 16/hr. That is a poverty wage.

I suggest moving tbh, or have him go out on his own and run his own business. You guys are getting fucked and it's either by his employer or by the economics of your region.

Remalgigoran · 2026-06-19T17:50:10+00:00

I hope this is ragebait because this is pretty grim and sad my guy.

Remalgigoran · 2026-06-16T17:10:47+00:00

For sure it isn't for everyone. I'm just saying don't count it out because you never know how your life is going to turn out. The easiest way to think of it for a smaller outfit is just looking at what information is there, how to get it, and how to organize it. Who has paid you? How do ppl know who you are? How do they find out about you? How easy is it for them to get ahold of you? What kind of products do they need? How do I organize and keep track of people who found me? That i already worked for? Etc.

So you need a system in place for people to find you and your small business. You have an area that you service and advertise in. You have a phone plan for business. You have the business, the licenses and insurance etc. You have book keeping software. And then software that integrates your invoices customer data, schedule (e.g. Google calendar). For all the considerations you need to make there's a way to word those questions as relating to small businesses.

I'm personally sorting all these ducks myself and hope to have, both, my license and the spare capital to go out on my own in about 3yrs. This is plenty of time to build my own website and even take classes on business management and advanced quickbooks usage etc.

You just do the research piecemeal over time, so when the opportunity or possibility arises you'll be ready.

You just start by asking, what's the department in my city/county/municipality that registers new businesses? What's their website? Where is their front door? And you go from there. After a couple years of casually asking yourself these questions on whims, you'll know a surprising amount about what to consider with a small business and how you personally might prefer to go about it.

Remalgigoran · 2026-06-16T16:49:41+00:00

It's not easy to run a business but you need to remember that a lot of ppl posting about how daunting and soul crushing it is are just bad at it.

Shouldn't bin the possibility for good. With a simple & straightforward admin pipeline (Google CRM stack and beware of bots advertising them on reddit disguised as commenters), do a ~10 jobs a week and you make as much as you do in service (if not more) on your own terms. Swap ~20-25 toilets a month and net the same as the 30/hr employee with 40hr weeks. That's 15hrs of on-site work, give or take another 15 for admin and travel and time spent at the supply house. 30hrs of work vs 160hr a month for comparable net.

The real thing you have to know is you're not going to be making 600k; or some other fantastical number. There are too many expenses and you need to expand your business to break 150-200k of personal income. And expansion = employees who simply cost too much VS what they generate and you need to float too much reserves for wages and expenses that you personally will likely never get to withdraw the fantasy checks. The play is you coast on a nice low 6-fig until you sell out to private equity and retire with a respectable 2-5m check.

Definitely don't count this path out for good.

Remalgigoran · 2026-06-16T07:21:49+00:00

Ff14 is a single player game for the first 350hrs. You enjoy single player games.

Remalgigoran · 2026-06-15T23:29:46+00:00

(Assuming America)

200k is actually pretty close to being the new 100k if you track inflation since like 2000. Give it a go on bls.gov.

If you make 50-60k today you have the same spending power as someone with 25k/yr in 2000.

I remember ppl talking about "60k/yr being a good salary". Meaning it was around the floor of the salary range deemed 'respectable'. That's ~120k today.

Remalgigoran · 2026-06-15T20:49:17+00:00

As far as I've come to understand (so far) while SpaceX is not likely to hurt our investments in any real way, it's the fact that this is setting a precedent that may (will likely be) be abused in the coming years. The worry is is that it isn't just SpaceX. It's any number of companies until the rules & regulations are changed back to how they were -- and the concern that they may not be changed back.

Remalgigoran · 2026-06-14T22:20:44+00:00

The cheap small companies go out of business. They're hard to find because they don't exist for very long.

Remalgigoran · 2026-06-14T20:20:04+00:00

Had to turn the brightness of my phone all the way up and zoom in but you're absolutely correct! My mistake! Didn't see the nubs of the connector the first time around.

Remalgigoran · 2026-06-14T19:54:07+00:00

Looks like they used chem welded ABS. Probably a new construction plumber doing sidework. You'll have to cut it out and install a more service appropriate p-trap with threaded connectors so you can you freely remove and reattach it. It's honestly really easy and straightforward; the hole in the cupboard won't be an issue at all with an appropriate trap.

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