Alabaster_Mango

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[–] Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca 153 points 2 days ago (12 children)

Wow, like not even a little bit right.

The secretary responded: "Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country."

[–] Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I'm not a business group, can I also criticize?

[–] Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (8 children)

If you don't get paid time off do you have to take it? Up here in Canada most full time jobs (at least all the ones I've had) have two weeks paid vacation after the first year. Here's an Indeed article being way more clear than I could be.

Min wage hourly doesn't come with guaranteed time off, but I think the pay gets added to each paycheck? Don't quote me, it's been ages since I was an hourly guy.

[–] Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca 164 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Same energy as the boy wolf girl wolf post, lol.

[–] Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I didn't say your advice was wrong, I said your mindset was weird to me. I will never knock people going into more manual jobs. The world needs janitors just as badly as it needs doctors.

Your argument was that their lack of drive is caused by their comfort, and the cure is to toil the days off. In my experience I've seen plenty of people in all quadrants of the "comfort vs drive" graph. For example: a friend of mine is worked to the bone in a warehouse, but doesn't have any drive to look elsewhere. Also, at my last job some of the cushiest positions with very little required work were constantly used as a stepping stone for even higher paying roles with seemingly more responsibility. My friend has a surplus of labor but lack of drive, while the ladder climbers at my last job had plenty of comfort and drive.

So, in my opinion, I do not think the amount of labor/exhaustion someone experiences in their job has a guaranteed effect on their drive. Your comment makes it seem like you do think that, so that position is "weird" to me.

[–] Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago

Hello! I also have little drive or ambition compared to the standard portrayal in popular media. Lots of people act like what you're "supposed to do" is keep grinding, push for promotions, be a type A or whatever. Nuts to that I say.

Back when I graduated high school I didn't know what to do either. I come from a small small town, and I'm good at math, so everyone said to become an engineer as that's what all the "smart people" do. The schooling sucked for me, and I didn't really want to pursue the kind of career that an engineer would have. I ended up flunking out of the first year. That killed my mental health and self worth. I do not recommend.

What worked for me (but maybe not everyone) was to find topics I found interesting, and see what kind of jobs are available in those areas. I ended up going for electronics engineering technology (a technologist is kinda like a diet engineer) because I think it's cool stuff, it was a shorter two year course, and there are a reasonable number of employers in my area who are hiring. I'll probably never be "rich", but I make enough money to not worry about food or housing, and I have time for my hobbies on the side.

My biggest takeaway from my career so far is to not fall for "grind culture", and to maintain a separation of your work and life. Do not make your job your whole identity. I've seen plenty of grinders burn out and hate their jobs/lives. I've also seen people who want to change careers, but they're so caught up in their work that they don't have the time or energy to change.

If you're unsure of what to do, shoot for something that will make you comfortable. Reasonable average pay, decent employment opportunities, and good work/life balance. Once you have that you can do some more soul searching over the next few years. Not everyone knows what they want to do at 20. The rest of your life is a long time, so don't feel like you have to set it in stone now.

[–] Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca 29 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

That is a heckin' weird mindset to me. Comfortable people can still have passions and drive. You don't need to suffer to want something different. Plus, some people like working hard labor jobs, are they wrong to do so?

[–] Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Oh, I've seen this one!

spoilerEpisode Plot: Bart won a radio contest where the prize was money or, as a joke, an elephant. He went with the elephant, much to the dismay of the radio hosts and Marge.

Joke: They ended up needing to take the elephant to a sanctuary. Once there it started head butting other elephants for seemingly no reason. When asked why, the park ranger guy said something to the effect of "Some elephants are just jerks". Homer then started head butting the ranger for no reason.

[–] Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca 33 points 3 weeks ago

I love from-the-hip judgements like this. Absolute (and completely unfounded) confidence in something you don't know. Glorious.

In the future, you can throw the image URL into a service like TinEye and get results like this. If you sort by oldest you can usually find some context.

[–] Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca 41 points 3 weeks ago

54% of the time it's right 98% of the time

[–] Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 weeks ago

I took a bunch of pictures of me and my cat just before we took her to be put down (cancer sucks). I obviously looked pretty upset in all of them. Like, three months later my phone put together a slideshow of misery to celebrate the occasion.

 
 

I've been playing a bunch of Rusted Moss lately. It's a Twin Stick Shooter Metroidvania, which is appreciably different from the Hack and Slash type I normally play. Getting used to mouse-and-keyboarding a platform heavy game took a bit. And boy are there platforms.

While elements of Metroidvanias are there, this game leans way further into the platforming. I would say it's closer to Celeste than Hollow Knight. Imagine Celeste, but instead of a magic dash and climbing gear Madeline had a gun and a chatty grappling hook.

Anyways, I've been enjoying the heck outta this game and wanted to share. While you're here I will accept any and all Metroidvania recommendations. Except for Cookie Cutter probably.

 

So many books have characters remark "it was well past moonrise", or something else equally ridiculous, to show the passage of time at night. ~~The moon cycle is a month long (~27 days), not some paltry 24 hours.~~ If you know any authors please spread the word. Together we can stamp out this astronomical disillusionment!

[EDIT]

A smarter than me commenter below pointed out that, due to the way days work, it does indeed rise and set once a day. Hard to do a complete rotation and keep a celestial body in the sky. Womp womp, I am silly.

I should have instead argued that moon rise and set are not linked to sun rise and set, and that the moon doesn't exclusively rise and set at night. It is possible to have the moon out during the day time. They are on different schedules is all.

 

Sgt. Fern Spellman couldn't stay for any more questions as there was a report of a caricature artist welding a pencil two streets over.

Seriously, I don't think that thing was sharp at all.

 

This looks great. I love the raccoon take on classic RPG classes like Mess Magus (Wizard) and Dumpster Diviner (Cleric). You can get the PDF for as little as $10USD.

Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with Wet Ink Games. I just like raccoons and TTRPGs.

 

An older Air Fryer that used a halogen bulb for the heating element instead of a resistive coil. Here's Mr. T selling one.

 

My precious kitty loved laying in cat food flats and on pizza boxes.

 

You ever just want to eat a stack of meat? Want it covered in cheese and sauce? You're in luck! Check out Versato's. If you've ever had Vern's Pizza then this is similar.

These pizzas are heavy, and they are very tasty. The prices may seem high, but keep in mind that there's a lot of toppings per slice.

 

Happy National Indigenous Day!

Aysanabee is an Oji-Cree musician from Northern Ontario. I dig the heck outta this song.

Here's a Radio Edit without the spoken words if that's your thing.

Also here are YouTube links for the Full Version and Radio Edit if you don't like spotify

 

I had one of these growing up, they were great! I also got the Pokémon Pikachu 2 GS version when it came out. Personally I preferred the Digimon D-3 Digivice virtual pet, but they were all fun!

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