southsamurai @ southsamurai @sh.itjust.works

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Well, ya have to, I stole the old one ;)

Jokes aside, that's a pretty damn nice one too.

Okay, I gotta say something here.

For all of his failings, and there are many, the thing that embarrasses me most that he is president is how horrible he is at speech and writing. Like, motherfucker, you had access to the best education you could get over the last seventy years, and you couldn't be bothered to take a fucking class or two and write shit like this? My fucking twelve year old niece is better than that

Oh yeah, I've picked up some Brit slang and completely stole "no worries" from the Aussies

I'm super prone to using "bloody" when I want to curse but shouldn't. It usually slips past other americans. Taking the piss is another fave.

Hey! Pittsburgh! The only city I actually enjoyed visiting!

Eh, I fucked up, what can I say

Weedeater, weed whacker, or trimmer. In that order of descending use.

I almost always use the first one, weedeater.

I tend to ask how bad that worst act was. Some shit, ima judge your ass for even if it was only once, no matter how much you say you changed, because you might be faking the change to keep from being noticed.

But the standard is pretty fucking high if it wasn't personal to me. Like, if I saw you kick a dog that wasn't even remotely aggressive, ima judge your ass, but be open to you changing. Eventually, if that's the worst you've ever done and you at least pretend to have changed well enough to not repeat it, I'm not going to hold that over your head forever.

But you kick my dog? Assuming I can't get away with burying your ass, you better hope we never run across each other in the woods when we're both 100, because it'll be your last day on earth. No forgiveness, no benefit of the doubt.

But really big shit? No, Hitler never gets to be forgiven, period. Yeah , he's dead, but ima judge that motherfucker until my last conscious moment

Now you brought up a specific example. It happens to be an example that I would absolutely never, ever trust the person again. Three reasons first, abuse of position. He already proved he will ignore professional ethics as well as general moral ones, as well as laws. That's hard to change in people. Not impossible, but hard.

Second, he got away with it. That means his regret is dubious. If he truly regretted it, why's he divulging it that way instead of taking steps to make him less likely to be able to repeat things?

Third, people that diddle kids don't tend to stop. They just tend to pause. It's impossible to nail down exact numbers because there's some that never get caught. But the recidivism rate is high, and it is very rare that someone willing to do that can stop with just one act.

So, no, I couldn't believe that any good he did balances out there near certain fact of the only reason he didn't diddle every single kid he could have was because he didn't think he could get away with those. He absolutely would have fucked every single patient that met his victim profile if he could have.

Also, it's okay to say pedophile, the word police aren't going to spank you.

Tbh, I can't think of any situation where I could weigh any amount of good acts against fucking a single child and that one bad act not taint everything else. And it doesn't have to be literally fucking, I'm speaking figuratively here. There might be some act that was so irrelevant to the victim that it might not matter if the good was good enough, but I doubt it. I can't think of anything at least.

Amen to that :)

Damn, now I wish I had a bike business so I could hire you.

Well, thanks :)

There's a part 2?

"Lost" millions

Don't forget Hollywood accounting. It can look like a loss and still enrich emotions everyone involved without the studio losing a dime in reality

Good fences do help make good neighbors. And, good neighbors can obviously make a good fence even better.

It's about how you say it though.

If you can manage to not be weird about it, you can turn the concept into corpospeak ans do just fine.

Paraphrasing, because it's partially going to depend on the interviewer. "Your company has the market position to offer a pay scale that matches my quality as an employee" can end up nailing an interview.

Saying "I don't care where I work as long as I get paid", less so.

Yup.

But in the field of work I did, I had multiple advantages.

First was the high turnover rate. Most nursing facilities and home health companies have trouble keeping staff. So, chances are high that if you apply, you're getting hired unless you're absolutely horrible.

Second, I had experience out the wazoo by the point where I realized the above. Which meant not only did I have a good work history, it was also a history of sticking at a given employer, so I knew I could almost guarantee being hired even if there were applications stacked deep.

Third, I was visibly strong. Men were much rarer in my area as nurse's assistants back then, so we tended to get snapped up fast for what is a physically demanding job. Since I'm a big ol' fella that looks like he can throw people around easily, I could have gotten hired most places even if I had a shitty work record and been an asshole to whoever was doing the hiring.

Luckily, I'm not that kind of asshole (and was less of one in the ways I am an asshole back then), and I am instead charming as fuck in person. Which was my other advantage. It doesn't show online, but if someone isn't biased against sasquatches, they tend to respond well to me.

So, after the main company I worked for folded due to the administrator embezzling it into the ground, the first interview I had when they asked that I was able to be honest and say "look, this is what I do. I take care of people. I want to get paid for doing it, and word is that you pay the best in the area. Hire me at whatever your pay cap is, and I'll be your best NA. Might take a few weeks before you believe that, but you will."

On screen, that looks cocky and snide. But in person, it got a smile and an immediate hire. At the pay cap, and a promise of full time hours as long as I wanted them. Worked there until my body finally gave out.

I really wish there had been a way to export all the teamspeak records, because we were cracking each other up left and right.

I did go through and copy/paste some of the Skype conversations, but that was just for some of the silly poetry and such that I wrote to her, and after I put it into a .doc file, I cleaned it up, and I can't remember if any of it had dates listed if I hadn't.

This is why people keep diaries lol.

That sub was always prone to lengthy back and forths with mods because their standards are set essentially barely below what a masters or PhD student could be expected to produce.

It's worth it, because it was/is the single best sub for finding both bredth and depth of information. Them insisting on high standards is what made it worth going to.

But holy Hannah, it does make it difficult to contribute with niche interests if you don't already have some degree of knowledge about how historiography is done. My background was nothing near that, and I had no interest in spending a week or more doing edits until I got everything up to snuff the one time I ran across a question I could answer.

I did try a couple of times, but the kind of research and reporting I'd done was always more casual, with next to zero need to cite much of anything beyond a quick note.

My steam ran out after maybe the third attempt to get things up to standard. Never actually made the comment, because I respected their standards and didn't want to give them extra work removing unacceptable comments when it was easier to just message a draft.

Which, I kinda think they might be better off implementing that as their default, if there's a way to make it manageable. It would be way less hassle for users too.

Since there are other subs with less stringent requirements for history questions, I'm glad there's a place online that average folks can interact with experts at a high standard.

But dayum, I can imagine the chaos and annoyance on your end lol.

Eh, that seems like a shit ton of clutter for no real benefit.

As it is, if someone wants the info, it's easy to get, but doesn't add more junk to the UI

Thanks for that. My eyeballs retreated into my skull and made their escape through my ears. They just texted me from florida.

No worries :)