WideningGyro

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[–] WideningGyro@hexbear.net 1 points 18 hours ago

Who said the second one? I never heard that

[–] WideningGyro@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"Never be housebroken" is just like "you'll never be clean/acceptable/part of polite society" and I think the cigarette one means something like "you shouldn't be able to slide a piece of paper between the two parties on the topic of immigration" but I'm not sure.

[–] WideningGyro@hexbear.net 18 points 4 days ago

Thank fucking god

[–] WideningGyro@hexbear.net 30 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Can any brits weigh in here, what's the vibe? Are average british folk really falling for this shit? It seems so obviously like a politically motivated attack that the lib in me can't help but think this kind of clampdown will hurt their cause (the power of optics!)

[–] WideningGyro@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Taiwan will never align with China because China (says it) wants to take it over for "face" reasons. If the CPC just went like okay, that whole Taiwan, China thing was stupid we just don't want you to spread propaganda against us, it will probably go farther.

What do you base either of these assertions on?

[–] WideningGyro@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Unfortunately not native to where I live, so I'd feel bad putting it in my garden, but that's great. Especially if it's providing for other species of bees than honeybees.

[–] WideningGyro@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Growing up, the lavenders in my parent's garden were known to us as the "butterfly plant" because it used to be absolutely covered in them, all spring/summer long, along with bees, bumblebees and fake bees. I genuinely can't remember the last time a saw a plant that was covered in pollinators like that.

[–] WideningGyro@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's "stochastic". Which I'm guessing you both know, but since I'm incapable of humor and a stickler for details, I'll just say it anyway

[–] WideningGyro@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago

Yo can you just tell me what page of the Black Book? Just want to check your sources real quick

[–] WideningGyro@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Is daytrading a viable side hustle? I was always told it was essentially gambling.

[–] WideningGyro@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago

Hey, multiethnic, multilingual armies that fall apart overnight are a proud European tradition!

[–] WideningGyro@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Talking to other Danes is so frustrating. They will agree with you on basically every critique and point of contention, then turn around and say they're living in the best country in the world, or that we should be "grateful" or some shit. Can't imagine any other population in the world is as high on its own farts.

 

IIRC the one I played ca. 2006 was called Globalia. It was super nerdy shit where you had to structure your posts like official government statements, very "model UN" kind of thing.

Shoutout to my based younger self getting to play Cuba and immediately allying with Al-Qaeda and trying to get nukes (they kicked me out for this)

 

Hi comrades,

Long time lurker, very rare poster here. To make a long story short, I'm a humanist MA in my 30s who burned out of my first "real" corporate job. Struggled to find anything else, and started to worry that all the normal jobs my education qualified me to get were the same types soul-sucking office busywork. I quit, took a break and started working with kids (where I live government-subsidized childcare is a thing, so there are a lot of opportunities), but I'm again feeling burnt out. It's way more engaging and meaningful than the office work, but now my issue is that I don't feel intellectually stimulated at all. I'm in this fucked up limbo where on one hand, I've been conditioned to believe that my education is worthless in material terms (which it kind of is), and at the same time, I also know that I'm pretty smart, really good at doing research and have things to say - I just have no idea how to utilize these skills barring a return to academia - which kind of feels like running away (back to the ivory tower, I guess).

My question is this, are there any jobs that; a) provides an actual meaningful and valuable service, b) is still accessible to someone in their early 30s who wasted a lot of years not improving their CV, c) actually requires some conscious thought. Other than that, I'm open to anything. High pay is not a priority to me. If it also involves learning a skill that might be useful in a less than optimistic future, that's also a plus.

TL;DR: classic failed humanist with barely any CV. Tell me what to do, please.

 

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