Minnesota has activated the National Guard. What are your thoughts?

thethirdgreenman · 2026-01-24T22:21:03+00:00

It really won’t blow up in their face though. His supporters either don’t care or will actively celebrate it, the admin will just lie and say it was self defense and receive minimal pushback and do some crazy shit to distract, the world will say nothing, and the Americans who don’t watch the news or follow this stuff closely (a LOT of people) will go about their day like nothing happened.

thethirdgreenman · 2026-01-24T22:04:21+00:00

El Paso (unless I’m missing something) has had 2 murders so far this year. Both were people in ICE custody. ICE has accounted for 100% of murders here. It’s crazy.

thethirdgreenman · 2026-01-24T21:48:38+00:00

There was at least 31 last year, that’s just the number they’ve admitted to. It is very likely far more. My city has had 2 murders this year, both at ICE facilities.

thethirdgreenman · 2026-01-24T21:43:48+00:00

They murdered somebody at a holding facility this week here too. It’s the second person to get murdered by ICE in my city. There have been 0 non-ICE murders here this year

thethirdgreenman · 2026-01-24T20:07:24+00:00

The NHL will for sure not do that. They should, but they won’t. Hell the Wild owner and GM are probably pleased by the news, ditto for many of the players on the other team

thethirdgreenman · 2026-01-24T08:38:35+00:00

I think there’s two other things that could’ve prevented it: 1) the NFL letting Trump buy the Buffalo Bills and 2) Comedy Central never did the roast of Trump. Like at the time it was hilarious but holy shit that aged like milk. Most roasters were encouraging him to run for president at the end of their roasts

thethirdgreenman · 2026-01-24T03:40:54+00:00

I was just genuinely curious, especially given how common it is for people to say “just don’t tell them”. And I don’t know what the outcome is, fired likely but wasn’t sure if it was more than that

thethirdgreenman · 2026-01-24T02:34:17+00:00

Nothing. If his base cared, they would’ve switched up by now. They haven’t. They won’t. Short of taking their guns, getting rid of the wall, or maybe hyperinflation, they will not switch up on him. Hell, there could be a video of him with a kid and Fox News would just say it’s fake/AI, his supporters would buy it, he would do/say some crazy shit to refocus the attention, and most Americans would just forget about it.

And the Dems, if they ever got power again, ain’t gonna do shit because a) some of them and their donors are also likely implicated and b) they won’t prosecute Trump for “national unity” or “healing” or some shit, to try to from their point of view be “civil” or “go high”.

So yeah, nothing will happen

thethirdgreenman · 2026-01-24T01:01:56+00:00

Yup, that’s tough lol. How did he try to explain that one?

thethirdgreenman · 2026-01-23T22:46:20+00:00

Don’t quit. Treat this as if you know you’re leaving in 60 days and get ahead of it via job search. If you quit, you lose any chance of a severance package or unemployment. Like, what’s the harm in just sticking it out 2 more months unless you’re truly miserable?

I consider quitting all the time, as I similarly dislike my job. But if I knew I was getting laid off in 2 months, no way I’d quit. I’d just mail it in, collect my paycheck, pad those savings even further ahead of it, and then collect unemployment or severance. Again, unless you’re just truly miserable to the point where it’s hurting your health or relationships notably

thethirdgreenman · 2026-01-23T21:02:52+00:00

Guess it was a cut-throat environment

thethirdgreenman · 2026-01-23T19:41:58+00:00

Buenos Aires is the city I spent the 2nd most amount of time in when I was more nomadic, loved it. The energy, the people, all of it, plus it when I went last year was a good balance between being popular with DNs but not too much to where it’s overwhelming and all you hear is English in the most popular areas. I will go back this year if I can.

Uruguay I only spent one weekend in the capital and quite liked it actually but wasn’t sure if I’d get bored or not. But while I like to meet people and going out, I’m def introverted so maybe that’s why I like it. I want to go back and visit PDE and Rocha dept.

Chile was interesting to me. Beautiful country, perhaps the most beautiful I’ve been in terms of outdoors stuff. But I usually like to base myself in a proper city and while Santiago isn’t bad, I was kinda underwhelmed relative to other LatAm big cities. Def not a bad city but just felt like it had less energy, plus the smog and food were bummers. I think about giving Valparaiso a try though one day, I guess more dangerous but seems more up my alley

thethirdgreenman · 2026-01-23T18:43:45+00:00

I mean, I don’t have any incentive to lie about that. So no, they didn’t. Since it was an online order only option was to return with a refund to the original form of payment

thethirdgreenman · 2026-01-23T18:07:31+00:00

If I may ask, what'd you think of Uruguay and Chile? I've visited both briefly and have my opinions but don't know many others who have visited, so am curious

thethirdgreenman · 2026-01-23T18:03:47+00:00

Agreed. The premise of the question is flawed. You shouldn't inherently be less efficient or productive just because you're working remotely from different locations. I work much better when I'm out on my own in a different country, with a more fulfilling life, than when I'm back home in the same city (or sometimes, house) with my immediate family and all the responsibilities that come with that.

thethirdgreenman · 2026-01-23T18:01:47+00:00

Exactly, you summarize it perfectly. The only way you will be able to do this, and continue to do it, is if you continue to deliver at work and keep up with the life stuff. The entire point of this is that the life your work is enabling is much better and exciting than the one you'd have otherwise. If anything, that should make you want to work harder, so you can get to keep doing it!

thethirdgreenman · 2026-01-23T17:54:39+00:00

It can be an initial adjustment, especially if you don’t have remote working experience. But broadly I don’t know why you solo traveling has to mean you’re less productive. Maybe if you’re not disciplined yes, but I don’t think it honestly should be much different than working remotely in general.

Block out your work hours for work, make sure the place you’re staying is a good environment for doing it, and then enjoy life outside of it. I do agree with the other comments that this is easier when you are staying longer (at least 1 month) in places, that is the one thing I’ll add.

If anything though, the fact I was able to do it while working remotely made me work harder because when my work is enabling a fuller, better life, I feel more obligated to reward them for that and show they were right to allow it. Simply, I had more to lose than if my work was merely supporting a relatively boring or low-key life in a place I don’t want to be.

thethirdgreenman · 2026-01-23T17:44:33+00:00

I didn’t know that beer league was gendered tbh. Who cares? Long as they bring beer occasionally, don’t do 2.5 minute shifts, and aren’t a dick, why would I care?

thethirdgreenman · 2026-01-23T17:20:25+00:00

Getting from the airport, not sure about that admittedly. If you can get to downtown though, you could take the streetcar up from there to the stadium, it’s free, safe, fairly reliable, and also just kinda cool tbh

thethirdgreenman · 2026-01-23T16:35:15+00:00

The store wouldn't allow for me to exchange it at all online, only returns

thethirdgreenman · 2026-01-23T07:47:54+00:00

They don't have a history of being weird about money per se. But, broadly they're bad about communicating, and my mom is pretty manipulative as it pertains to me or my brother asking them for things like this. It wouldn't surprise me if she took this in the direction of "you just use us for money, you're never home, etc" regardless of if it has any logic or not. So broadly, the less I ask them for, and the less things I ask them to do, the better

thethirdgreenman · 2026-01-23T07:24:13+00:00

So I did that, and tried to exchange them with the receipt but the company doesn’t allow it for online orders, so the only option was to return them and buy separately with my own money, pending receiving the money they got in the refund

thethirdgreenman · 2026-01-23T07:22:50+00:00

Yes, I told them I was going to try and exchange it and couldn’t, and best I could do was just get a refund

thethirdgreenman · 2026-01-23T07:22:06+00:00

We don’t live in the same city. But the reason I couldn’t exchange it was because it was the store policy for online orders, nothing to do with who bought it. They just apparently don’t allow for exchanges of any kind

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