BiggestBulb @ BiggestBulb @kbin.run

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I'm going to be real - I completely empathize with your sentiment, but I feel like comparing two jobs to actual slavery is off-base.

Is it fucked that you need to do that to survive? Absolutely, it's completely horrible. The current capitalist hell scape we live in is just miserable, and there's sadly no end in sight. It really seems like the 1% are trying their best to screw over the other classes. They even lie about the statistics of the situation to try to make it sound better!

However, even with all of that...

It's no comparison to slavery as we know it. That's more akin to what our (read: United States) prisons do - pay people almost nothing (if anything at all) to do brutal work for hours and hours.

Traditionally, even the current slavery-esque system that the prisons have is way better than any slavery beforehand - no one gave a shit if your foot was infected, if you were a slave, you had to work or you were beaten / killed in many cases. Prison also pays you most of the time (albeit for criminally small amounts of money).

There was no end in sight, no opportunity to apply for other jobs, you couldn't say "fuck it, rent be damned" and quit and you damn-sure didn't have luxuries such as a fridge or plumbing.

There are lots of places still like this today - North Korea, China (Xinjiang), dotted places across South America and Africa (whom I unfortunately cannot remember at this time), Saudi Arabia and the UAE come to mind. In North Korea, as well, you almost never make it out of their system and a lot of the time your family is taken in with you for your crimes. There are countless atrocities happening with the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, China, and there are undoubtedly prison camps in Russia holding Ukrainian POWs.

The idea of working two full-time jobs is not fun, but it's not exactly on the same level as slave labor. At least you can quit a job and maybe end up homeless, where you likely have a shelter of some kind and / or can seek assistance of some variety. It's not ideal, don't get me wrong, but it's better than outright being maimed and killed.

If you "quit" a job in a slave camp in pretty much any of the places I listed above, you'll be tortured for days on end and left to die a horrific death (if you aren't just outright shot). No one will come to help, and no one will care. It's just not the same.

You could always wear a wig!

Thank you for the heads up! The DS3 will always hold a very fond place in my heart - countless hours on Littlebigplanet 2, Battlefield Bad Company 2, Battlefield 3 and Gran Turismo 6 were had on those awesome controllers.

Very, very real haha

No way to help, but:

TL;DR - my job sucks. Not enough to actually get sympathy from much of anyone, though.

More info if you want it:

My manager thinks he's the smartest man alive and is instantly better than everyone else on the team, but he's literally making every single bad choice he can.

I asked him a question about a specific implementation detail comment on an RFC the other day and he kept reiterating the plan for the overall feature.

Like, bro, I literally know the plan, just tell me whether or not the field is able to be used in the URL now. It was just abundantly clear that he had no idea what the answer was, but chose not to say "I don't know" and instead just kept reiterating the basic plan.

There was no miscommunication on my part. I'm successfully working on the ticket. He just didn't want to say "I don't know". He opted to waste my time as well as everyone else's on that call.

This, on top of pay issues (IE, them paying me very late), means I'm actively searching again. This job has been the biggest thorn in my ass for way too long.

It's hard to get sympathy from people, though, since I also get paid very handsomely. I've basically realized I need to just stop mentioning my job with people from my hometown. That's fine, though, again the main issue really is my manager. Other than him, to be real, my life is amazing.

Tuesday - the day right after you started working again, and not the day you can slack on. Also, super far from Friday's reprieve

Welp. I'm glad Stux was already updating earlier. Honestly, Stux probably knew before just about everyone else

Thank you, and cool bot!

"It's Tuesday, my favorite day of the week

No obligations that affect me significantly"

-Tuesday, Psychostick

Seems to have worked well for ya, lemme try

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itelmen_language

@wikibot@lemmy.world

Maybe this won't work since I'm on kbin.run?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itelmen_language

u/wikibot

I'll have to try this, thanks!

This sort of stuff is why piracy is important.

If you like Save Me, I also highly recommend I Won't See You Tonight Part 1. It's very solid and pretty ubiquitously referred to as one of their best songs

I feel like this is a based take (as a Death Magnetic fan myself). My favorite is still the Black album, but Death Magnetic is a very close second

This is gonna be a really spicy take - Nightmare by Avenged Sevenfold. Pretty much every song is a banger and Save Me is a masterpiece. The singing is on point. I debated Waking the Fallen, but sadly I feel that some songs on that album just aren't up to the same quality (and Nightmare is much more approachable).

As for albums after Nightmare, Hail to the King was okay, The Stage was good but flawed (we got so many songs, but the mixing wasn't very good imo) and Life Is But A Dream is.... Just not good - again, in my opinion as a long-time fan.

Before Nightmare, self-titled was okay (certain songs like Unbound kinda pull it down for me, but they're not straight SKIPS per se) and City of Evil was amazing but not quite Nightmare quality in my opinion (just because of Matt's nasally singing, especially in songs like Seize the Day). WtF I've already went over, and Sounding the Seventh Trumpet honestly only had a few good songs in my opinion.

The things I tend to gravitate towards:

• Flatpak
• Firefox of some kind (lately been loving Floorp)
• Keeper Password Manager extension on Firefox
• try to install some form of backup
• git (if not already available)
• nvm (Node version manager, usually I install the latest LTS)
• Go (sometimes I write Go programs)
• Steam (if I plan to play games)
• Sometimes I'll install Zsh, sometimes Fish, then oh-my-zsh / oh-my-zsh
• Fastfetch (Neofetch is so slow?)

I still play once in a blue moon, but only the tiniest amount haha. I'd say you should check out the subreddit for Discord links - there's a "Royal Para Regiment" Discord with quite a few people that seems to be very active

I unfortunately can't afford that. It's not bad enough and hasn't changed at all over 5 years, so frankly the doctors here would likely just say "yes, just don't look that direction anymore"