DerisionConsulting @ DerisionConsulting @lemmy.ca

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In the Netherlands, where lemmy.world is based, or some other country?

Depends on the person.

Even if you didn't get injured, or sexually assaulted as part of "hazing", or pick up a drug habit, playing a sport at a professional level will often ruin you.

During high school you spend all of your non-school time training, so no after school job and your grades probably aren't great.
Then you get to university, where you play the sport without being paid, and you one again can't really have a job or focus on your studies.
Then you get drafted (or just hired for some league) into the sport, and you play until your body isn't good enough anymore. You are then discarded with no job experience, no training, and possibly moving teams/cities every couple years so you don't really have any non-sport contacts.

If you get into a league that pays insanely well, you are likely fiscally fine. That's like the NHL, or the NFL. If you only get into the CFL, the WHL, the "minors", or you play in a women's league or a sport that not enough people care about, you probably were not paid enough to survive once the game is over.

So, what do you do with no job experience, no contacts, shrinking savings? You get a job that you can leverage your celebrity, like real estate or car sales, or something that you can also do if you have a criminal record or no CV, like roofing or landscaping.

Edit: not that there is anything wrong with any of those jobs, but starting to learn a new job at 40 isn't fun. Also, if your body isn't in top-shape anymore, roofing and landscaping is brutal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMCMR3N6QyM
It's just too catchy.

Abortion by Jizz and the Mammograms (aka Sienna D'Enema aka Jeff McCubbin)

Yes.

If you've worked in construction, you may know people who ruined their lives playing pro sports in leagues that don't set you up for life. An example, the CFL.

He should leave the organization that uses threats of eternal damnation to sexually abuse children.

If your wish to change things is the only thing that makes you want to go back, be honest with yourself, do you actually have the ability to change anything?

I had to stop Picard's first episode because I burst out laughing when the superhero jump up the stairs happened.
I finished 2 seasons of Discover before I stopped watching.

I don't think I'll go back and try to finish either series, but I could stand DISC way longer.

I agree that it's not the year of the linux desktop, and that people who think it is are very naive, but you don't need to tell anyone to use the terminal for anything for many distros.

Chick tracts are a very conservative cartoon series.

University is the first time a lot of people are away from the influence of their family, while also being exposed to other ideas. A lot of people leave the ideas that their parents try to instill in them once they run into people raised with different ideas than them. It kinda clicks that what we are taught as children in our small communities may not actually be correct.

I remember as a child, churches praying for kids going to university, and their parents being upset after the church services that their kids have "fallen away" from the faith. After the services is key point because women aren't allowed to speak during the services, so a mother being upset that her daughter wasn't a fan of that is bonkers.

Five and a half.

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

Ooof. Reading the reviews makes this game look like it's not worth free.

However. Every time I open the research menu I see parts of my army locked behind a paywall. I can stomach an entire faction like Tau being DLC but the Chimera? or the Landraider? You gotta be @#$% me! Here is your spaghetti but the sauce and cheese cost extra! Get that outta my face!

Oh its just 1 DLC to complete your army. NO! its 3.
Reinforcement, Fortification and Assault. Nearly $6CAD each. I don't mind that there are only 2 ways to win a game. Kill everyone else or quests. I can't recommend a game that splits your army and puts part of it behind a pay way.

What most game developers would a call an update Games Workshop calls Micro transaction.

yes, everyone on earth.

Bing API is down, which has killed some things.

They only think that spending public money on social issues is literally the devil.

I thought that I've seen Natpo take money from the rich to post ads disguised as articles about how good those rich people are for donating to things, but it was hosted content from other "Post Media" outlets. So, it's still basically them, just not them-them.

The PBO found that the program had paid for 17,849 people to find housing placements and for an additional 5,399 people to find emergency housing

So the conclusion is homelessness has risen, but it would be worse without the money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnipeg_general_strike

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oka,_Quebec#Oka_crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Soap (the people fighting back against the police)

and I guess the Flu Truck Klan

Because that's how capitalism works without strong enough regulations. You need to grow every year, and at a certain point you can't really do that without expanding into a new market or buying a competitor.

In exaggerated capitalism, one company grows until it owns everything. Its goal is to extract as much as possible from the population.

Damn it, I knew I should've invested years of my life into cookie lore for a brand not sold in my country!
Probably more useful than 40k lore, but less useful than LotR lore.

You need to be specific about which type of elves this is.

If we're talking LotR, elves are immortal.
If we're talking 40k, Eldrad is 10,000+ years old.
If we're talking WoW, it's a couple thousand years.
If we're talking D&D, elves live like 750 years.
If we're talking Shadowrun, Elves lit's all over the place.

Fuck off spambot

There are some that were wrong to begin with, I remember 622 bothering me.
https://xkcd.com/622/

But it could also just be that in the comic, the professor is wrong.