Late 40s, highly skilled, trans, unemployed for 2+ years.

I’ve been down to the final candidate selection a few times now and still haven’t been selected yet.

I’ve hired plenty of people. In general, final candidates are usually all fully capable of doing the job they’re applying for. In the end, the hiring manager just gets to pick the one they want to work with most.

I feel like when hiring managers look at me, all they see are problems and risks. Time consuming HR meetings, extra effort making sure people use the right pronouns, judgements from executive leaders who might see a middle manager not doing a good job at leaning into where the winds are headed.

I wonder, even if I spend 3 more years on a secondary degree, whether I’ll find myself right back in same situation (talented and surrounded by cowards unwilling to hire me), but now with $200k in new student loan debt.

Cursed timeline…

Cursed timeline…

Computer, delete that entire holiday.

Back when usb was first appearing on boards, some cases had their usb port cables broken out into individual pins that you needed to place in the correct order.

But I’ll admit those Bob Barker clips were pretty great.

“But this is an entertainment discord. People come here to chat video games and look at pp and bussy. Why do we need AI for that?”

real talk

As a reminder:

Angel, previously Angel Studios, previously VidAngel, was founded by Latter-Day Saint family (Mormon) members to produce content that was suitable to show their kids. They later made a business out of editing Hollywood films to allow viewers to skip or mute scenes they found objectionable (without the consent of the rights-holders), and got their pants sued off for it.

After a series of mergers, it’s now a publicly traded company worth over $1.5 billion and continues to produce content that aligns heavily with religious and faith-based causes.

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Sweet jesus, that was insufferable.

Spoilers to save everyone 20 minutes: a professor briefly describes a study meant to measure racial bias, then spends the entirety of the video pressuring 4 (nervous?) students to speculate on the study’s outcome.

He never says whether the study is real or not, or what the outcome was if it were real. The students spend most of the video giving hesitant answers because, obviously, they don’t know. Also, they’re probably not stupid and recognize there’s a high likelihood that the professor is setting up a cute “gotcha!” situation where the study’s outcome is not what one might expect, making anyone who defended the straight-forward answer the butt of a joke in front of all their peers.

The video ends with him finger-wagging at the students for being so hesitant to speculate, insisting that media and culture pre-indoctornates them to presume the study would prove racial bias.

Like, WTF bro?

Mounting the OLED cinema display right behind your ultrawide gaming battlestation, then putting your living room couch on the other side of the room is giving me an interior design headache.

The last time I saw this meme I argued that the grinch’s spot is better filled by the Reverend Billy and the church of stop shopping.

For fuck’s sake people…

Here’s the ad: https://www.adforum.com/creative-work/ad/player/34728882/its-the-most-terrible-time-of-the-year/mcdonalds

It was the migration from cooking demonstrations to celebrity presence content (Babsih tries every X, Babish ranks every Y).

Cooking demos keep the focus on the food; techniques, presentation, and results. Plus having an entertaining and charismatic host.

Now those videos lean on the now-recognizable host being entertaining and charismatic, and doing… whatever. And it kind of makes sense in a marketplace-y sort of way. I can watch anybody cook, but Babish has the corner on Babish content, so why not lean into that? Also I’m sure the guy gets tired of making the same content over and over again, so he’s trying to find something interesting that catches on.

I see Nat from Nats What I Reckon doing the same thing. And good on them for trying new stuff.

me receiving all those guys nudes

Let me be as clear as I can be.

Trump, a figure visibly and egregiously unfit for the role of leading the nation, was elected by Americans, twice, fair and square by the rules we’ve set for ourselves. But he’s just a figurehead.

Press “freedom” has been hacked by monied interests to capture the minds of a vast margin of the American voting public and brainwash them into distrusting any media but their own, which has taught them to believe lies, parrot talking points and armed them with thought-collapsing rhetoric to disrupt anyone who might help unfuck their poisoned brains. All this has been going on for decades, but the internet really just helped tie it all together, providing the perfect echo chamber that no one ever has to leave.

The net result is a captured government focused on destroying their greatest weakness: agents and sources of truth. Massive media consolidation destroys the national news-gathering apparatus and controls the entertainment diet to restrict subversive content, and the implosion of the department of education ensures more and more future adults will grow up never having had the benefit of a robust education.

So are we fucked? Maybe. But bumping off politicians isn’t the answer.

“don’t be a dick” is a casual and brief way of saying “we don’t tolerate anti-social behavior and will remove you if you engage in it.”

And it’s usually argumentative people with an agenda to disrupt and fracture communities who conflate rules of civility with overbearing mods who “can’t handle my truths”.

They are “certificates of authenticity”, a joke on the NFT ownership craze of a while back.

I couldn’t find any photos of them tho.

For context on the remarkableness of this outcome…

Solomon “Sol” Wachtler (born April 29, 1930) is an American former jurist, Republican politician, attorney, and author from the state of New York. He served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1985 to 1992. Wachtler’s most famous quote, made shortly after his appointment as Chief Judge, is that district attorneys could get grand juries to “indict a ham sandwich”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_Wachtler

That’s a surprisingly deep list.