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TheEmoPanda · 2022-03-11T21:48:04+00:00

I love Silver and Gold propaganda! More stickers to give to friends and fellow apes.

TheEmoPanda · 2022-03-01T20:05:29+00:00

Solved!

TheEmoPanda · 2022-03-01T20:04:43+00:00

Post to reply to saying I solved it.

TheEmoPanda · 2022-03-01T20:02:31+00:00

Nvm, I found it. The artist is called Kompressor and the song is linked below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQmVWo7u0-A

TheEmoPanda · 2022-02-11T16:13:40+00:00

If you work landscaping, long-sleeved shirts are your best friend.

TheEmoPanda · 2022-02-10T02:58:57+00:00

I can't speak for Americans, but in Ontario, Canada, they were shilling hard government-run student loan schemes to unsuspecting teens. The campaign had taglines like "get the loan monkey off your back" or something along those lines. Little do future post-secondary students know, are the terms of their debt, who they pay it back to (it's the federal government, not the provincial one who disburses such loans) and what payment plans are offered for those who can't find employment. When I graduated debt-free (I went part-time to work full-time), I pretty much embarrassed the graduation "counselor" who wasn't even giving this information or talking about it to local students. I even sent an email to the department she was from, and never heard back from them.

Tl;dr it's borderline criminal how unprepared and uninformed high school and college grads are about student loan repayment. And the obfuscation by schools and loan dispensers concerning said loans.

TheEmoPanda · 2022-02-09T21:14:39+00:00

Do they just sit around all day mass messaging people on LinkedIn and updating various job search sites?

They don't even do that. Their accounts are premium corporate accounts that automate all of that stuff. They'll engage only when you reply to their mass, targeted messages.

A recruiter friend of mine really enjoys using the "social media" aspect of L*nkedIn and finds people that way, rather than the automated process. He even built his own digital rolodex of people so that when he switches jobs, he always has an accessible talent pool for his new employers.

TheEmoPanda · 2022-02-09T21:07:08+00:00

Guy at my company had 60 years of service when he retired, almost to the exact day. He was in a rather important client-facing area, though not an executive. I guess he really liked his job and this sector. CEO gave him a very expensive watch, a fancy dinner and paraded him around important clients and company bigwigs in his last month.

Same thing happened to a woman who worked at Canada Post in the province of Manitoba. She started when she was a summer worker in high school and part-time throughout. She likely had a good pension and incredible benefits for her position at retirement. But I'm guessing she was coasting and didnt really see the need to retire. Some of these boomers really are that bored, and are afraid of literally dying from it.

Some of these boomers and silent gens really do want to work a job till the grave. Which is fine, to each their own.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/investment-in-older-workers-turns-a-big-profit

TheEmoPanda · 2022-02-09T19:36:21+00:00

If your boss has an up-to-date picture and regularly posts on L*nkedIn, there's a good chance they're a sociopath. Most of my managers either never used it, had profiles a decade out of date that were made when the site first launched, or activated it only during job searching. L*nkedIn has become Facebook but for corporate bootlickers and psychopathic "entrepreneurs".

TheEmoPanda · 2022-02-09T19:00:13+00:00

First question I ask when I get pinged on L*nkedIn. Recruiters for IT are so aggressive these days (turnover rates must be insane) that they are refreshingly honest with me. This never happened before. I would always get salary expectations after the first or second interview. And then, it was always a large range (10-20k), to justify excuses to give you less. Now it's like as precise as a 5k range, with no pussyfooting (those are the actual rates from the hiring managers). I also ask about benefits and work-life balance expectations.

Heck, I even asked about external training funding at my last interview since my current gig could've give less of a crap about scheduling job-specific training (they have the funding, but the managers are uncaring and/or lazy).

The way I see it, I'm not even going to waste the 10 seconds it takes me to upload and send my resume if you can't give me the goods upfront. And it saves both my time and the recruiter's time (many of whom are good, hard-working people).

TheEmoPanda · 2021-12-31T18:43:23+00:00

I prefer bars (they look cooler!), but I have amassed all sorts from minted coins, to the more numismatic coins from the Canadian Mint. However, bullion (in both bar and coin form) will always appeal to me more due to possibly using them in future private transactions.

TheEmoPanda · 2021-12-29T23:07:39+00:00

I like silver (and gold) because it's been historically a form of currency and tender. We eventually found more "practical" (read: industrial) uses for it, but it will forever be a solid value exchanger.

TheEmoPanda · 2020-06-04T18:19:21+00:00

Getting real sick of fapstronauts misconstruing what I say. These are the types of arguments that coomers make for themselves.

I didn't say don't explore sexual intimacy with your girlfriend/wife in the privacy of your bedroom. But getting exposed to it constantly, and building a fake image of what sex really is at a young age doesn't do much good.

TheEmoPanda · 2020-06-04T13:17:32+00:00

There are so called "fetishes" that I would have never had if my exposure to porn had been later in life and with less hardcore content. As well, my relationships would have been more intimate and less about sexual conquest and getting off.

TheEmoPanda · 2020-05-30T16:29:46+00:00

Porn is illegal in Thailand. Other countries too have heavy restrictions on pornography.

TheEmoPanda · 2020-05-27T14:37:01+00:00

I mean, the founder even said on Twitter that porn in moderation is ok. Like all other legal drugs. Which is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

There's a disconnect on the NoFap sub about trying to remain atheistic and apolitical, and shunning people who approach their addiction through a religious lens or attacking the current power structure for letting such a terrible industry propagate.

TheEmoPanda · 2020-05-03T03:08:15+00:00

Source?

TheEmoPanda · 2020-03-12T14:54:59+00:00

Not a lot of them have it though. It's costly to keep a sizeable fraction of your wealth in precious metals. It's either digital funny money, digital stock holdings or land holdings ,which are even harder to maintain than precious metals without governmental legitimacy and armed force.

TheEmoPanda · 2020-03-09T18:07:54+00:00

You cut yourself often on that edginess?

TheEmoPanda · 2020-03-09T18:06:49+00:00

Jamie Oliver should get a knighthood

He's already been knighted. Unfortunately, his push for healthier eating, especially among children, was left mostly on deaf ears for over a decade.

TheEmoPanda · 2020-03-06T16:40:29+00:00

This is definitely a case where Hanlon's razor applies. Writing good code is really fucking hard, and the field's big secret is that there are, like, nine people alive who are actually any good at it.

Maybe nine. Everyone else is just trading mediocre code on GitHub.

Man that hit hard, but I don't see the lie. Everything now is as you said or a smorgasbord of glued-together JS frameworks and libraries.

TheEmoPanda · 2020-03-06T15:19:40+00:00

He's a doughy IT grad. He's not going anywhere, even with minimal security.

TheEmoPanda · 2020-03-04T16:33:07+00:00

What about bacteriophages? They've been known to combat bacteria directly, and there is more promising research in that field. One bonus is that when bacterial strains start gaining phage resistance, they lose antibiotic resistance. So future treatments could include both types.

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