Alabaster_Mango @ Alabaster_Mango @lemmy.ca

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Neat, someone else played this game! I really enjoyed it myself. Dropping a comment so I remember to read the whole post after work.

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

I was involved in a very vicious street fight. It was incredibly violent and frantic, with blood everywhere. It was more of a free for all instead of me taking on like nine dudes. I'm not a violent person at all, so it was really distressing. Some big guy lifted me up and slammed me against a wall, so I reached out and gouged his eye with my thumb. It was awful. I could feel the shape, and it was all clammy. It was so against my regular self that I burst awake. I thought it was still going on though because I could still feel it on my thumb. Turns out my hand was in my shorts, and the clammy eyeball shape was a part of my male anatomy.

you PACK miette? you stow her body like the laundry? oh! oh! jail for mother! jail for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!

Yeah, 100%. It's just that usually when something like this gets a large-ish negative reaction it's because people associate it with furries or some other "taboo" fetish/lifestyle.

I also find that furry stuff gets way more hate than it deserves (which is none hate). I say boo to that! So long as stuff is consensual and nobody gets hurt (who doesn't want to, lookin' at you BDSM), then let people enjoy things.

Side note: It's hilarious how for years people were cheering on Captain Kirk for banging green alien chicks, but cat ears and a tail is a no-go. Cross-species stuff is cool so long as they're from another planet? What if it was planet Yiff? On the topic of aliens, do we even know if Superman has a human-like penis? Maybe Kryptonians bust onto egg clutches, who's to say?

Anywho, people are silly and really like policing other people's likes.

Eh, I say let the furries have their fun. Like, they're going to do stuff like this anyway. Might as well sell it to them.

What do you want to say/see that you cannot? Which rule is rustling your jimmies the most?

Wow, I figured we didn't have laws like that here. A few years ago we had a bunch of honkies drive on down to Ottawa. They had a website with their plans, and they literally said they were going there to overthrow the government. If you want here is a Wikipedia article about them

They got some house arrest

Edit: I have added a Wayback link to the MOU.

I don't have kids, so I don't really have a dog in this fight. I think it's reasonable to feel weird about someone doing something you're not used to. So long as they're happy, nobody is getting hurt, and nobody is a jerk about it, everything should be fine. Like, if both guys know about one another then cool, if she's two-timing both then maybe a discussion needs to be had.

Bit of a tangent: It's weird to me how against things like polyamory or swinging North American society seems to be. I've seen people talk about cheating with less confusion and apprehension. Is it so alien that more than two people can consensually enjoy each other's company? Archie comics have been a staple here for years, and those crazy kids are deffo in a proto-polycule.

I follow the "Adjective_Noun" school of unique usernames.

Every triangle is a love triangle if you love triangles

Nor to Alberta 😔

Are there no 12' skellingtons in the states? My town is filthy with them. I've never felt so safe as I do right now with all these gigantic bone daddies.