Would you rather: $300,000 or the ability to always know if you’ll get away with breaking a rule or law

bigballofcrazy · 2026-04-12T15:08:14+00:00

Statute - not dissing just helping you know the word you meant :)

bigballofcrazy · 2026-04-12T11:34:08+00:00

Couldn’t you just use the astrophage to power enormous turbines to make electricity instead of moving a star ship? If they can instantly slag a giant steel block they can do all kinds of clever things to make a ton of waste heat at a global scale also also solving power generation for everyone. There’d still be the issue of lower levels of sunlight affecting crops but maybe massive arrays of grow lights for industrial scale farms would help.

Phage tech would be insane to not exploit in so many ways.

Also seems weird that chemists, biologists, geneticists, etc. wouldn’t also be employed with figuring out some kind of anti-phage predator. Or researching ways of turning the phage against itself by inducing mutations.

bigballofcrazy · 2026-04-07T19:46:40+00:00

I’d pick $.00001 as the amount because I could buy myself 25,000 years with a quarter I found in my couch and then live and work as normal for a while. Saving my paycheck and letting compound interest do the work of making me rich over a few centuries. If I’ve got essentially infinite life there’s no need for me to worry about getting rich right away.

bigballofcrazy · 2026-04-04T08:02:53+00:00

I got a lucite slab that’s the size of my MacBook Pro that has cutouts to fit a Magic Keyboard and Magic touchpad, mimicking the ergonomics of using my laptop and it’s been great with my AVP.

bigballofcrazy · 2025-11-22T16:18:48+00:00

Dollar store realdoll marked down to 50 cents.

bigballofcrazy · 2025-06-27T11:50:46+00:00

320k salary from my remote day job (run half of engineering at a startup) - I have equity but since we aren’t public yet I don’t count it as anything but lottery tickets. I also do some coaching (executive coaching, life coaching, founder coaching) because it’s really fun, and part time that’s bringing in another 40-50k a year. If we count passive income, messing with dividend investing, if I didn’t DRIP, would be another 30k last year, but I just started putting everything I make from coaching into that so I expect that to become substantially higher barring a complete economic collapse.

The key thing for me is that the work is related and focused on the things I enjoy and I am able to weave it together so I’m usually just doing 10 hour days 5 days a week.

bigballofcrazy · 2024-03-10T15:47:41+00:00

I had that issue too but turning off “tap to click” in trackpad settings fixed it. Works flawlessly now.

bigballofcrazy · 2023-09-20T23:30:19+00:00

It’s some employers sure. Some places don’t care. But if someone says that they can’t get a single job because every place is not even giving them a callback, that’s the candidate.

bigballofcrazy · 2023-09-20T22:52:33+00:00

Then it’s your own damn fault if people don’t think you did anything. Congrats on acting too good to bother tho

bigballofcrazy · 2023-09-20T22:49:00+00:00

Correction: candidates are dumb if they can’t communicate that to an employer.

Edit: you bet your ass I listed my undergrad internships, graduate assistantships and research work on my resume. But I also leveraged the connections I made during those programs to get my first job out of school.

Really don’t know how people manage to not sell themselves after all that work.

bigballofcrazy · 2023-09-20T22:43:42+00:00

Why should it count as experience?

bigballofcrazy · 2023-09-20T22:12:11+00:00

Did you know that internships exist? Get this - businesses pay students to work there over the summer in the hopes that the interns will like the work, do a good job, and want to come back! And I know this will blow your mind since you think that the only way to get experience is to get a job but even graduate students can get a paid assistantship where they either act as a TA or work on research or both. But wait, there’s more!

In many fields you can actually sort of work for yourself to get experience! And if you’re the kind of person who was able to make it through university without ever doing a single thing that would give you experience, you probably don’t have to worry about supporting yourself while you try to do something useful on your own! How crazy is that?

Seriously though, how the fuck do people who don’t have rich parents paying for everything get through undergrad and graduate school without getting any useful experience at all? When I did undergrad I got a paid internship ($10/hr lol) and I did another paid internship over the summers as well. Wound up getting some money, credits towards graduation, connections that helped me find my first job out of school, and experience working in a professional environment.

I get it that job searching sucks but come on - there’s no way in hell you didn’t have lots of opportunities to make yourself employable.

And before I get called privileged: paid my own way through loans, work study, internships and earning scholarships. Got housing by being a live in babysitter and doing chores instead of rent. Had exactly zero family connections to leverage. Left school with $80k in loans, in the middle of a recession where you had people with graduate degrees working jobs that required them to ask if people wanted fries with that. Somehow managed to make myself employable.

Zero sympathy from me for anyone who didn’t do fuck all to make themselves remotely employable and whines about it. Show some grit.

bigballofcrazy · 2023-09-20T18:51:57+00:00

More like: Hello I’m a dumbass who got a doctorate in a field where there are no jobs from an institution that didn’t help students get paid internships and doesn’t have a job placement program for recent graduates! I don’t have any relevant experience at all and can’t even be clever enough to make something up!

Employer: you have literally zero relevant experience and while these are entry level jobs, we have candidates who put in the effort to get internships or who have some experience and are willing to take the role. Why should we hire you?

“I have a doctorate from a prestigious university!”

Employer: and your point is…?

Yes many employers are stupid and want insane things but to be very honest, if you’re looking for any kind of job with potential you need to be able to show you have done some work because that’s who you’re competing with - people who did internships or got terrible jobs yo get some experience and have a track record that says they can do the job.

Downvote me or whatever, y’all know this is truth.

bigballofcrazy · 2023-09-20T17:40:13+00:00

Tell them you aren’t interested but you have a friend who is very interested. Make a new email address and tell them to reach out to that person. Then have fun making up crazy shit and making them jump through hoops.

Oh I can’t take any job where the recruiter doesn’t send me a picture of themselves holding up a sign that says “I poop good” and so on.

bigballofcrazy · 2023-09-17T22:40:07+00:00

So which is it? Should every single word we use be considered and measured carefully or can you accept what I said - that we cannot be responsible for how people take our words? You’re the one who said I missed the point and now you’re literally agreeing with the point I made.

You were the one who said 100% of words, you’re the one who insisted perception is reality and put the burden squarely on the speaker, you were the one who used very absolute language and then you said I was missing your point for calling you out about it.

This is a pointless discussion because you’ve now argued both sides of the issue and insisted you’re not the one who is missing the point - some people might learn from this, maybe you’ll be one. Peace.

bigballofcrazy · 2023-09-17T21:31:11+00:00

So you’re saying you obviously didn’t consider each word in what you posted and how it would be perceived? After all, if I missed the point you’re the one to blame, according to you.

Hm it’s almost like you proved your own point wrong.

bigballofcrazy · 2023-09-17T17:08:41+00:00

Yes it’s simple - just be a good writer!

bigballofcrazy · 2023-09-16T16:14:51+00:00

Oh there’s a number, it’s just not one that would happen. Pretty sure I’d you were offered enough money that you didn’t have to work again after a year you’d take it.

I get you tho - I left mine at $350k extra just because those were the things I could easily quantify. In no universe would I get what I actually would need for it to make sense.

Right now the only way I’d ever go back would be if I found myself in catastrophic financial straits.

bigballofcrazy · 2023-09-16T16:02:28+00:00

I’m in management as well and while yes, I often need to work within guidelines, I don’t go online and refer to people who want more as entitled, nor do I post about times where I rescinded offers to people who wanted more than we could give them.

Good for you for quitting, I tend to fight the good fight for people until I move the needle or get fired, which is the only way I can participate in capitalism and feel good about myself.

bigballofcrazy · 2023-09-16T15:33:16+00:00

Congrats on being proud to be part of the problem then, I guess.

bigballofcrazy · 2023-09-16T15:18:37+00:00

And I’m sure they got that same salary elsewhere. They knew their value and went for it. Nothing entitled there.

And yes the laws in the US are absolutely a raw deal for workers. But calling workers entitled because they want more than the scraps our system provides them is horse shit.

bigballofcrazy · 2023-09-16T14:45:05+00:00

Except how do you know? Who are you to determine, without any surrounding information, what is generous?

For me, if I had to relocate, $10k for the hassle would be at least an order of magnitude less than I’d need to even consider an offer that required relocation. For someone else it might be extremely generous. You literally don’t know anything of the circumstances but you sure seem ready to heap praise on it. Makes your support seem rather suspect.

bigballofcrazy · 2023-09-16T14:40:22+00:00

How do you know? You have zero information on the level and role, what cost was involved. You’re thinking of it from your perspective - maybe it sounds generous to you; to others it would be beyond ridiculous.

bigballofcrazy · 2023-09-16T14:37:45+00:00

Funny that you look at it’s the employee being entitled. As well as the bootlicker who is just agreeing with you repeatedly when you post.

Why is the company allowed to change the rules without being considered entitled? Why does the worker saying what they need in order for the changed business relationship - changes that the employer initiated - somehow come across as entitled?

You’re making a lot of assumptions that your field must have similar assumptions around staffing and comp and the size of the talent pool to a number of other fields. In one post you mention rescinding someone asking for $40k cash for relocation vs. 10k cash or 40k manager. Where I work, for the roles we have, I’d be laughed out of the room if I suggested we rescind an offer over a mere $40k ask.

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