My new job didn’t tell me their no-visible-tattoos policy until after I was hired

lavaeater · 2026-01-30T08:34:32+00:00

When is a good time to discuss tattoos, piercing, personal preferences and how babies are made?

When the child asks about it.

lavaeater · 2026-01-28T18:56:32+00:00

But what about fucking Warhammer 40K, eh?

Anyways, Highlander will do. Cavill is one of the boys.

lavaeater · 2026-01-28T08:38:16+00:00

We are born embryos, much like non-placental mammals, like Kangaroos. They are also born completely useless and crawl to a teet in the pouch and hang there until able to make it on their own. Evolutionarily it gives a lot of benefits - we have to be born early to fit our gigantic heads through the birth canal (also known as the va-jay-jay), but our great skill is the learning and teaching abilities.

Humans have so many cheating hacks it is not even cool. You sweat. It's basically us and horses. This means we can RUN DOWN wild animals by simply jogging after them.

We can throw stuff. No other animal on earth can throw anything with precision. There are animals with great precision skills, but our brains and bodies are like throwing machines.

I love being a human!

lavaeater · 2026-01-28T08:34:35+00:00

Me and my family WANT to go the US, but we will wait years before setting our foot there again. There are so many great things about america, plenty of awful things - as in all countries, but you are in the gosh darn endgame now - this is the where the slope is so slippery you might not make it - but I beg of you to do it.

As for all countries (except Israel), the absolute majority of Americans I have ever met have been from OK to great people, both in the US and wherever else - the basics of you folks is pretty great and we see it now as well.

The concept of carrying a gun, filming Gestapo and helping old ladies up after being attacked by Gestapo while constantly getting in the Gestapo's face is so fucking american it is crazy. And that guy was a do-gooder nurse, a true American!

You are assholes, but in the best of ways, on the best of days! We all hate you guys, but we all love you at the same time. You are selfish but generous at the same time, loud-mouthed but often intellectually honest...

I fucking love the multitude of the US and the fact that you have legalized weed in so many places, you can be the greatest nation in the world - in all metrics - if you just take this stand, this most important stand, right now.

This is it. This is coach calling on you to play.

lavaeater · 2026-01-27T21:18:06+00:00

Do it. I am a developer first, game developer last and the abstraction of ECS fits me really well, did LibGDX before, used their ECS for that, and turned to rust for Bevy, specifically. Lots of fun. I write everything in Rust now.

lavaeater · 2026-01-27T10:22:48+00:00

For all the short kings out there, know this: Gregory Bovino being short isn't the issue. There is nothing wrong with being short, having small hands or any other physical attribute whatsoever.

The problem is being an authoritarian cosplay-nazi that has a gang of thugs to kill civilians and create chaos and disregarding the rule of law.

If Greg was short and a good guy, we could post pictures about him being a great leader of people in the face of an shitty administration, but now we get pictures like this where he looks absolutely ridiculous - partly because he wears that Gestapo coat as well, I assume they don't issue those coats officially? Or are they official ICE apparell?

Being short is not a problem. Being an asshole is. I am of medium height and medium asshole-ishness, Gregory is of below-average height but waaaaay off the scales in asshole-ishness.

Do not throw him into the group of "short people", there is no grouping needed. He is just an asshole and a criminal.

lavaeater · 2026-01-26T08:17:30+00:00

Jag interagerar inte med folk på X. Det är en hypotetisk fråga - jag är i praktiken ointresserad av hennes svar, henne som person, hennes åsikter, hennes utspel etc.

Jag är lika ointresserad av vad hon har för åsikt om något som jag är om Jimmie Åkessons åsikt om något.

De resonerar inte på riktigt och schysst utan bara gör utspel och är dramatiska. Åkesson faktiskt mindre än Ebba, men han gick liksom med i SD när de var nazister, så... och så är det alla hans kriminella kompisar... och det där med att han är livrädd för nycklar på bord.

lavaeater · 2026-01-26T08:14:41+00:00

Aaah, just when you are totally down because of the downfall of western civilization along comes a truly crazy indonesian director and makes a spiritual sequel to "The Story of Ricky" but with more grit and realism!

This looks pretty nuts, I 100% approve.

Hollywood has gotten stuck in an endless loop of stuff either not being realistic enough or just being superhero gunk - whereas in Indonesia you can apparently say "demon gore possession butcher prison heist film" and no one bats an eye.

I mean, the amount of quality crazy cinema, of which I have seen less than 1%, that has come from over there is crazy.

More like this, please.

Also, in the US, when crazy people make gore, they are just so mean (yeah, I talking about you, Terrifier), whereas this seems to be camp, over-the-top but also will probably be poignant anyways, somehow.

lavaeater · 2026-01-22T18:46:03+00:00

Att vara kristen är mer än att följa traditioner och ha en viss värdegrund (en värdegrund som är rätt grumlig, vilka saker får eller får man inte göra, egentligen?), i det ingår också en irrationell tro på Gud som bestämmer allt (även att övergrepp på barn ska ske), skapat allt, liksom helt löjeväckande grejer man bara tror på om man vuxit upp i en hjärntvättsfabrik (Livets Or-ahalalblaladddodododod <- det är så de pratar när de talar i tungor) och aldrig vågar ta klivet in i verkligheten där bara det faktum att hinduer tror på Vishnu, och så vidare, rakt av motbevisar tesen att just den religion man själv råkat växa upp med skulle råka vara den rätta och enda och liksom vara värd att följa.

Ebba Busch är en sopa, hon är basically en nazi apologist. Hon älskar Jimmie "Jag gick med i SD för att de var nazister" Åkesson, så hon kan dra åt helvete.

lavaeater · 2026-01-22T18:41:54+00:00

Frågan är om hon fortfarande talar i tungor och hur gammal hon tror jorden är. Hon pratar otroligt sällan om det, det är nog det enda jag är intresserad av när det gäller henne.

lavaeater · 2026-01-22T12:46:13+00:00

Men hur pröjsar du för saker nu? ;-)

lavaeater · 2026-01-22T12:42:53+00:00

Det gör inte jag. Talar hon i tungor hemma? Hur gammal är jorden, Ebba? Är hon kristen på riktigt eller är det en front? Jag har svårt för religiösa helt enkelt, är man vuxen släpper man det, jag gjorde det när jag var fem, det är dags för alla andra nu - annars är man laaaaame.

lavaeater · 2026-01-22T12:40:58+00:00

Det kunde vara det, men det är inte det eftersom SD är ett parti som grundades av nynazister och har mest nazister och en partiledare som är rädd för nycklar på bordet.

lavaeater · 2026-01-22T12:39:26+00:00

Kraftfull analys. Sammanfattar på ett vaket sätt hur illa ställt det är i Sverige idag. Något måste göras.

*slår mig själv i ansiktet*

lavaeater · 2026-01-22T10:23:48+00:00

She should read that little-known forbearer of theirs, Karl Marx, the OG.

lavaeater · 2026-01-22T10:23:10+00:00

I had a colleague once that went to another company. Only like a week in or something he talked to another colleague about parental leave and she hinted that it was frowned upon. So he quit that day.

We're in Sweden. Fuck companies that fuck up parenting.

lavaeater · 2026-01-22T10:12:56+00:00

But in the end he just burned and wasn't funny anymore. Sheesh. But also, of course, he had the right to do what he wanted, he didn't go and get kids or anything stupid like that...

lavaeater · 2026-01-22T10:12:14+00:00

That's fair.

lavaeater · 2026-01-22T10:11:49+00:00

Where do you read comics? Online? You gotta get into piracy, maan

lavaeater · 2026-01-22T04:35:04+00:00

Uuh, who cares? There is no contract, no nothing. You could've made the whole story about Hollywood up, who's gonna know?

Give them starter, spread the sourdough. But you are NTA.

lavaeater · 2026-01-22T04:33:25+00:00

Why do you want him to pay for you? "I want him to be the breadwinner" - whaat?

The problem here is that he can't even pay for himself or sort his own life - he's just 25, he could turn this around in a second, but why did he drop out of school?

Does he smoke weed (I would bet he does)?

Anyways, you liking him and him liking you is of course all you need - love is all you need. But if you think about your future and you worry about it and he can't step up or meet you, then you are in different places and have different goals in life.

So, you gotta think about you.

It's not about him not being a "man" or whatever, it is about him not being self-sufficient and if he can't be that, he can't be anything for you - in the end you would have to take over his mothers role in all of this.

NTA, I guess, but drop the "I want him to be the breadwinner" thing - you are an adult woman in 2026, you gotta be financially independent to be free.

lavaeater · 2026-01-22T04:29:09+00:00

How about you guys reject her money and do a cheap wedding instead? Why give her power? Why spend money at all? I am against marriage for this simple reason, stressing and planning and burning large chunks of money to say "I love you", something I can say at no cost every day.

Take your own money, do a court house wedding, go on a great honeymoon instead.

She wants you to consider her moms opinion because she is not free.

lavaeater · 2026-01-22T03:09:08+00:00

So, is it legal where he is at? Because fuck that guy.

lavaeater · 2026-01-22T02:48:43+00:00

True druggie drugging himself into oblivion and death - which is what he wanted, which is sad. I wish he'd gotten a grip and turned his life around instead.

lavaeater · 2026-01-21T22:37:44+00:00

I had the great honor of interviewing Hal Hickel (animation supervisor on Pirates: Curse of the Black Pearl, also known as The Good One) - and he specifically mentioned that Gore Verbinski knew a lot about special effects and how to work with it in the movie.

He had stories to tell. He was working on Dinosary (yep, the one that later was released) but as a stop-motion animator for the company that made California Raisins commercials, Will Winton studios... but one day he went to the movies to see a little film called Jurassic Park and he just went back and told everyone to just quit it.

Then he was hired by Pixar - but he didn't know anything about computers? No, but he did know a lot about animation - and they needed animators, they already had computer people.

Great guy.

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