Apathy Tree

Bullshit Jobs 

Yes! Its a 2018 book by David Graeber

Wiki link above to give a decent synopsis

Any two adults on one of those things would have that happen. It’s inevitable. Adults have a much higher center of gravity, and are heavier in general, than kids, for whom the equipment is scaled and for whom the spring resistance is set. It starts to fall over, and keeps going until someone loses grip, at which point the other person is launched regardless of relative weight differences. Its all about that spring.

This is an “adults on kid stuff are funny” thing. Doesn’t have to be more than that. Any adults who fuck around on playground equipment should have a general understanding of this, what with it being a near universal experience.

Which came first, the background or the cameras?

They are mostly coming down in my wider area, though some towns looking to replace with something else.

Nearby bigger more toursty town just put them up and everyone is super pissed.

Also have found some in the middle of nowhere, like next to farm fields on relatively busy country roads that have minimal incidents. What justification they can come up with other than just tracking people, who knows, but at best its lazy law enforcement for traffic, so still not popular. And very obviously new.

This is why cbt (therapy, not to do with testicles) didn’t work for me.

Autogaslighting. Can’t do it, get nothing from it.

Well shit, I do that with google maps anyway (only one that seems to work decently for me, but they don’t need to know specifically where I’m going.)

Does it have the “avoid highways” option? I have an EV now and I started to avoid highways as a result, and then I realized its just so much more peaceful and hardly takes more time, and now all my driving avoids highways.

I’m aware of that and don’t care, that’s the problem of whomever is poorly and impersonally doing hiring.

If they don’t want thousands of applicants, there are tons of recruitment strategies that avoid that problem, like job fairs, employee referral bonuses, direct recruitment, and working with agencies for placements, to name only four off the top of my head.

If they want to send their ad to the wolves, they won’t get good results, but they will get a lot of them. They are also probably an exceptionally shit place to work because they can’t even recruit talent because they are “suffering from abundance” without resorting to screening out people who can’t do data entry or have better things to do than jumping through hoops.

Yeah cool. Good for them. Easily fixed problem, but everyone wants unicorn workers, so they don’t need any training, and that requires casting a very wide net and screening out the catch they don’t want.

Fuck ‘em.

Why cant they just warehouse the books until the copyright expires, then? Why don’t they go slower? Because they don’t want to and don’t care about the damage.

Don’t stick up for them, they aren’t gunna pay you for that year you spent trying to hold water for them. Nobody is cuz we don’t want that either way.

I got frustrated and eventually just skipped any that did this. If my resume isn’t sufficient, why do you accept it at all? Just don’t take the resume, or don’t take the form. Pick. Not both.

Not worth it. The places that did this never called me anyway. Never.

What’s a disposable barbecue? I’m kinda guessing through context that you mean charcoal rather than gas powered?

I went to vote in the primaries recently and flipped off the flock cameras all along the way because it was the first time I’d passed them in a while. I was fully expecting to get a ticket for the double-bird and not having my hands on the wheel. Instead, I went for a walk about a week later to discover all the flock cameras have been removed. My town ended the contract!

They are considering other options, however… A rose by any other name still triggers allergies… So I’ll for sure be looking for when city halls are happening. I guess I’ll also be going around town talking to locals about it, same as I did when deflock.me first dropped.

I’ve had this user tagged as “anti-science troll” for ages.

Last time was from just a comment chain under a post but it was just as bad as this whole thing.

If you can get these materials you should try these cooling packs. The materials should be cheap enough to give them to everyone you know.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqxjfp4Gi0k

I might just do the ps5 one cuz I genuinely never use that fucking thing. I play disc games (as in wont pay for digital) and there just aren’t a lot for ps5…

“Wrecked EV battery” usually actually means batteries that were in damaged shipping containers. Perfectly good and never used for anything, but not sellable for car use anymore.

At least all the ones I looked at were like that.

Keeping them held snug against the body over a lifetime, reduces sagging near the end.

Interestingly, this was thought to be the case for breasts, as well, but up to a certain size (at which point support becomes necessary) its best to leave them be other than specific activities like exercise, because it forces muscles and skin to tighten to support them which keeps them from sagging longer. It’ll still happen, of course, either way.

My parents held a seance with a “medium” (a grifter my mom knew), trying to contact the spirit in the house named Edward (the man who built the property and lived there until he died in a fire he started while drunk).

I was 10-12 or so and it was really dumb. They recorded the session on a boom box (this was the 90s) and importantly I rested myself on it throughout the whole thing so I probably ruined the whole thing because the only notable anomaly on the tape was a heartbeat, and it was probably mine.

However, as a result of all the chatter around the supernatural, I had “unexplained occurrences” for the next couple weeks due to being attuned to that sort of thing which I’d normally have blown off. Im not religious, not spiritual, and don’t really believe in supernatural phenomenon, other than “we cant explain this but it definitely happened” sort of stuff. Many of the things I experienced the following weeks I’ve been able to explain as my knowledge of the weird natural world expanded, so…

Technically you always taste the contents of your bowels, you just aren’t conscious of it.

Your digestive system has tastebuds all up and down it, just like your tongue. Unlike your tongue, they very thankfully aren’t hooked into sensory processing parts of the brain. Instead, they are used to help determine everything’s good. If they detect something is off, bacteria byproducts, spoilage, etc, they cause the purges to happen (vomiting or diarrhea depending where in the digestive process it is, sometimes both!!)

But thats basically why you can sometimes feel very spicy food move through and burn along the way.

How was it? Delicious?

Exactly what I do. I fucked up long ago and had to grind an end boss for weeks to not replay the entire game (saved with basically nothing in inventory).

Now I rotate save files, always keep stacks of consumables, etc. and absolutely never use awesome or unique items. Because you never know.

The sad part is I’m much better at games now, having had 30 more years to practice, so I rarely even need those crutches… unless theres an easy to use hotkey for it, I probably wont use them much. The situation that convinced me to be abundantly cautious has literally never happened, or come close to happening, again, and not at all because I changed strategies.