My kids started school and I had a need to print lots of medical forms and other paperwork, I bought a brother laser printer. Because it was basic and functional and didn’t try to force me into an ink subscription that gave them permission to disable my hardware.
I’m guessing stuff like Gerson Therapy where you fast only consuming fresh vegan juice and nutritional supplements while you give yourself organic coffee enemas to cure your cancer.
Just be useful, it’s society.
There are a lot of people dissatisfied with the quality of the type of work they do. Most people talk openly about how they do just enough work to meet whatever productivity goal they have and avoid doing anything else, and it isn’t because they don’t want to be useful to society, it’s because if they do, they will have even more useless busy work to be responsible for until they can’t keep up at which point they are replaced by the next try hard hopeful.
It’s one of the few things I enjoyed about kitchen work, you are making a tangible good that is useful inherently and can create a positive impact on people both physically and emotionally.
Compare that to the call center work I used to do. I waited for a computer to beep me at which point I improvised as close to a script as possible to sell people Bank of America Privacy Assist Premier. Do a quick search about the lawsuit they underwent, we were encouraged to take anything vaguely affirmative and sign them up for a service that provided no benefit. You know what I got when I beat quota? A higher quota average for everyone. You know what I got when I couldn’t because obvious scam was obvious? Let go for the day.
It was incentivized to sell just enough for your quota, then waste as much time on a single call as possible to avoid having to con more elderly people and raise the quota for every worker.
The interview sections of the movie office space highlights and satirizes this feeling. Everyone desperate trying to inflate their importance or stroke the right ego to keep their inherently useless job to ensure systemic violence wasn’t perpetrated against them in the form of homelessness.
The crux of the conflict in the movie hinged on that absurdity when the protagonist and his friends try to create a virus to siphon money from the company since they were getting shit canned for superfluous reasons anyway.
Thank you, Mom. That’s all I wanted to hear ❤️
As someone who was an ironic internet nazi in my youth, it's been a long hard road to recovery and self love, but sometimes I am a little obtuse when it comes to certain dog whistles. How is this a fascist meme? Is it the overall gatekeepy bit of We (the people who could read technical information about errors and understand them) are superior to Them (the oppsie poopsie soft skulled idiots) and deserve to have a higher place in the societal hierarchy? Cause that's about the only way I can barely make this fit into that definition.
Thanks in advance for your perspective on the matter ❤️
Save the money and waste, just tape some coins to the bottoms of the feet. The bottom doesn’t have to be that much heavier.
I had a co-worker compliment my nails and give me a tip on how to achieve a cleaner look over all on them. Made me feel really nice, and seen. Most of my coworkers just stare at my hands and try to avoid saying anything, but she said they look gorgeous.
Edit: a random adult cashier just complimented my nails and asked me where I got them done AFTER she got a look at them up close. I could've DIED I was so happy!
Ever since Catalina and 32x support dropped it became nearly impossible to tell someone with a straight face you could game in a macOS environment. I used to love flaming pc and Xbox gamers with the knowledge that Halo was originally developed to be a Mac exclusive, and loved pointing out the long list of good ports for the Mac like Fable: the Lost Chapters, Spore, Warcraft, Call of Duty, etc.
I recently found a fan recreation of a RTS game from around this time called Lego: Rock Raiders (The remake is called Manic Miners if anyone is interested). Would’ve been really cool to have similar fan remakes for StarCraft and Warcraft but with some of the actual code to port the engine up like GZDoom.
I’ve noticed similar but different. For me it’s like, I don’t have to feel trapped expressing myself with the limited tools I had as a male. I don’t have anything to prove to them, or I guess myself anymore. It feels like I don’t have to ‘perform’ anymore.
I still slip into some of my old habits, like striking a nerve or stubbing your toe, it’s hard for me to not react too “over the top”, but Its been a lot easier for me to catch myself.
There’s been more acceptance of other people and a better sense of empathy.
My sense of misanthropy I used as a safety blanket and defense mechanism is slowly falling away.
I used to absolutely hate pop music, I didn’t really know why, it feels like religious repression now. It’s like a part of the membrane that kept me separate and jaded is thinning, and I actually find that I like a lot of things that I used to just have knee jerk hatred for.
It’s been weird deconstructing the defense mechanisms I made for myself in a less safe place and time and trying to figure out WHY they got built in the first place.
I never understood why I wasn’t one of the guys but could ‘never’ be one of the girls, so I just kinda threw everything out with the bath water and burnt all the bridges “that’s fine your music is shit anyways 💅”.
Yay, more cringe!
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I think that fundamentalist views come from a lack of knowledge of the religion itself. Seems kinda suspect that your pastor went to seminary and learned that historically the Jews didn’t come from Egypt but the land of Canaan, had zero cultural exchange with Egypt, and did the same things they called the canaanites evil for (looking at you sacrificing your daughter Jepthah), but with a straight face will preach the exodus and plagues to an ignorant congregation.
I was so Christian it became incompatible with modern Christianity, and I’m not the only one.
The truth doesn’t fear the light, or being asked questions and cross examined, and Christian’s fear nothing greater to the point they have to pretend the ultimate evil big bad is creating the questions, and not the lies they told us for centuries.