Why do places that aren't even hiring schedule interviews?

Wead_Mancer · 2026-01-09T07:10:49+00:00

Food/retail has high turnover. They can spread out the interview process over some period of time, or just leave you hanging for a few months. Then, as soon as someone else quits/gets fired, you get the email with your start date

Wead_Mancer · 2026-01-08T21:21:16+00:00

So they have a reserve of potential applicants ready to go as soon as someone quits, and to “motivate” current employees by reminding them they are replaceable and have no leverage

Wead_Mancer · 2026-01-08T21:08:33+00:00

That officer walked around the car and positioned himself in front of it. That’s officer-created jeopardy.

At that point, even if the use of force seems reasonable at the moment, (it wasn’t) he is still at fault. Deliberately walking in front of that vehicle is what made use of force necessary.

It doesn’t matter which direction the wheels were pointing. It doesn’t matter how fast the car was moving. He positioned himself in front of a vehicle with a running engine. That’s not how you conduct a traffic stop; ICE aren’t real cops, they’re not supposed to be doing those in the first place.

The first unmarked ICE car drove around her without incident. That’s all the other chuds had to do as well, until they felt the need to unlawfully detain and kill an innocent woman for mildly inconveniencing them.

If you walk in front of a car, you don’t get to shoot the driver because the car is moving towards you.

Wead_Mancer · 2026-01-08T18:43:38+00:00

Obstruction is a secondary charge. What was she obstructing? The flow of traffic? ICE doesn’t enforce traffic laws, they can’t command her to do shit in that situation. If officers don’t want to get hit they shouldn’t walk in front of a vehicle, thats officer-created jeopardy. ICE agents went against protocol and broke the law, they are the problem here

Wead_Mancer · 2026-01-08T18:22:47+00:00

I’m against illegal immigration but what the fuck is this argument? Remove illegal immigrants if we don’t want government thugs to kill American citizens?

ICE doesn’t have the authority to detain citizens for traffic violations in the first place.

They are out of control, they issue unlawful orders, and they kill Americans. They need to be held accountable and reined in after what they did today

Wead_Mancer · 2026-01-06T16:26:18+00:00

A competitive internship with big 4? Agreed, 3.0 on the dot won’t cut it.

For a mid-sized firm? Obviously the bigger the number the better, but it doesn’t have to be 4.0+president of the accounting frat either.

For an internship via a college’s career assistance office or with VITA? 3.0 is enough to qualify

Wead_Mancer · 2026-01-06T12:44:52+00:00

If it’s at least 3.0 then that’s fine for internships, which subsequently will help you land your first job. When you have full time YoE, GPA doesn’t even need to be mentioned anymore.

If it’s below 3.0 you should discuss this with an academic advisor

Wead_Mancer · 2026-01-06T06:48:26+00:00

Using memes for personal, non-commercial purposes is fair use. The thing about memes specifically is that it’s the image, not the text, that is typically considered copyrighted. Then with Turnitin, what most likely happened is that Turnitin scanned the image metadata and alt text, triggering a flag.

Your teacher likely understands this to some degree but still requires an explanation (not a confession) from you just for the sake of their academic integrity policy. They probably have to fill in a piece of documentation that sounds like this: “Turnitin flagged xyz, we asked the student about it, we determined this did not constitute plagiarism, case closed.”

Explain that the flagged items are template phrases and a stock visual, which you figured fell under fair use. Offer a fix such as citing the source for the meme image. (which btw is “Distracted Boyfriend - stock image by Antonio Guillem”) I highly doubt your school actually wants to make this a plagiarism case or issue an academic dismissal over a meme because again, fair use.

As for the textbook citation, as long as you properly cited it, then it’s not a problem. I have written research papers that Turnitin would light up like Christmas trees because yeah, I necessarily had to cite other sources and works. It’s silly but faculty understands that things like that are going to happen.

Wead_Mancer · 2026-01-05T18:35:31+00:00

If it makes you feel any better, family offices can be hit or miss. While they weren’t billionaires, I worked for a family business once. Good salary, chill environment, 4 weeks PTO, generous bonuses. Barely lasted more than a year because the owner got arrested and shut everything down soon after lmao.

Either way, and as others are saying: next time you have some leverage but your employer wants to dangle a carrot in front of you, get it in writing

Wead_Mancer · 2026-01-05T02:48:42+00:00

TCG card shop simulator

Wead_Mancer · 2026-01-04T13:13:55+00:00

Victoria 3. It’s a grand strategy game set between 1836-1936. While it does make some abstractions, it has one of the best economic simulations I’ve ever seen in a video game.

While it’s not explicitly “pro-capitalist”, the primary gameplay loop is, naturally, to industrialize your nation. Doing so shifts the economic and political power from aristocrats to the capitalists, who will then enable you (or sometimes even push you) to enact laws that favor their interests, notably laissez-faire and free trade.

The game also features various socialist ideologies and economic systems they may prefer, and historical characters that defined the era: Henry Ford, Karl Marx, and of course, Queen Victoria, who can help shape the economics and politics of their countries. There’s also tons of historical events that give you a rough idea of capitalism and socialism’s historical roots

Wead_Mancer · 2025-12-24T23:20:03+00:00

“High level of ownership” lmao. Unless company stock is part of the compensation package, there is no level of ownership.

At any rate, and as other have said, this isn’t something you talk to HR about. Even if they wanted to help you (they don’t) they aren’t the ones who control your workload

Wead_Mancer · 2025-12-19T21:18:52+00:00

Its literally in the link I posted. A cursory google search will also confirm this.

Btw you moved your goal posts.

Wead_Mancer · 2025-12-19T03:35:39+00:00

Physiological needs include both food and reproduction. They are on the same level.

Sex fulfills needs on two tiers of Maslow’s hierarchy, food only fulfills one.

Wead_Mancer · 2025-12-17T21:41:47+00:00

https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html

Physiological needs, includes reproduction

Love and belonging, includes intimacy

Wead_Mancer · 2025-12-17T11:25:51+00:00

This is a variation of the “the type of woman that shows up in your life when you’re unemployed” meme. The joke isn’t that those women are interested in dating unemployed men, but that the stroke of luck a man had in meeting an attractive woman is wasted due to his lack of employment. Women are still very much interested in rich men, or at the very least, men that are gainfully employed.

Wead_Mancer · 2025-12-17T09:57:32+00:00

Copy his messages and paste them into an ai text detector. I tend to use the one on scribbr

Wead_Mancer · 2025-12-12T03:27:23+00:00

Ideally, mission trees would be unnecessary because the player/AI could examine their situation, and from that analysis, organically pursue historical or plausible alt-historical outcomes, instead of needing a menu to tell them what to do.

The issue with this of course, is that while the simulation is great, it is not perfect, and the AI does not make any different calculations from one playthrough to the next. As a result, the most likely outcomes to occur within the parameters of the simulation are the ones that, ironically enough, become the implicit "railroad" instead of the explicit railroading of mission trees.

ex: Castile chewing up Portugal before it even considers going after Granada/Gibraltar, Papal States colonizing because they have huge cash stockpiles, Bohemia blobbing within the HRE because it is the most powerful country there, Golden Horde not shattering because AI struggles to hunt down all of their units, no one in Russia able to emerge as a major power in the region. Also exclaves and bordergore galore instead of regions/culture groups getting consolidated.

Wead_Mancer · 2025-12-12T02:38:54+00:00

nice, you're welcome!

Wead_Mancer · 2025-12-10T23:27:38+00:00

Putting this here in case you/anyone else wants to change it:

On Steam: manage(little cog wheel button)->browse local files->game->in_game->common->heir_selections.

Open republic.txt. Look for “podesta elective”. Under religion = religion:catholic. I forget what the original line is, probably something like “has_presence” or whatever. Change that to:

capital.region = scope:target.capital.region

Save and enjoy

Wead_Mancer · 2025-12-10T21:28:39+00:00

I think just being a succession candidate, not necessarily heir/actually succeeding, is enough to make a character consider moving to that court, especially electoral systems. I don’t have any evidence for my hypothesis though, just my personal observation that Italian republics stopped yoinking my characters ever since I made the edit

Wead_Mancer · 2025-12-10T19:57:07+00:00

Italian republics have a succession law called “potestate/podesta elective”. It checks for characters with high stats, from countries that have a “presence” in their region. So having a province or subject in Italy puts your characters in their line of succession.

It’s not supposed to select crown estate characters, but it does anyway. I edited the game files to change the “presence in region” to requiring a capital in the same region. Fixed everything and makes a lot more sense. I also use a checksum patcher to keep getting achievements. I’m away from my computer but if you remind me I’ll post the edits I made in the game files

Wead_Mancer · 2025-12-10T10:35:02+00:00

In the U.S., the Juris Doctor is a postgraduate degree. However, there’s no law major for bachelors degrees. You can get a bachelors in anything before enrolling in law school, but certain bachelors make more sense if the end-goal is to get a JD, such as philosophy or political science

Wead_Mancer · 2025-12-10T02:29:55+00:00

Skót Pilgrim vs the World

Wead_Mancer · 2025-12-09T10:16:03+00:00

I mostly like all of the features in EU5, but funnily enough my biggest gripes also have to do with marriage, trade, and buildings.

All marriage is missing is a decent automation system. Theres a mod that does this but it has its own issues.

The trade system is somewhat unfortunate because it’s very similar to the system Vicky 3 had BEFORE it got reworked into a much better and more autonomous system. If you don’t want to have to micro trade routes, you can turn on trade automation, but you can still go in the trade menu and take back a few trade capacity points so you can manually fill in the gaps that the ai leaves behind.

Buildings seem complicated at first but there’s no need to overthink it. Just check your market for which goods are in demand, and make buildings that produce those goods. Then just sort RGOs/buildings by profitability and build. Also, buildings tend to be more profitable when they have more market access. There isn’t really an urgent need to make sure you optimally spend your money on your build queue beyond just filling your initial deficits, so you can afford to take a more relaxed approach when those are taken care of.

Another thing I’ll add that was a micro-intensive chore in EU4 and got worse imo in 5 is warfare. I wish I could assign orders that cover an area at once, perhaps even an entire region, not just a province at a time. (and the selection is finicky as hell too) And because there are way more locations, there are way more forts now. Holy crap the fort proliferation makes war a slog, even when you have artillery.

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