not sayin nuthin, but soapbox on mobile is nice enough that I don't bother using an app. I just keep the page in my browser with notifications allowed.
Do conservatives worship him?
Seems like a dumb kid who got in way over his head to me. But I'm only a conservative because nobody's a liberal anymore.
Seems like a dumb kid who got in way over his head to me. But I'm only a conservative because nobody's a liberal anymore.
😄 same
(I'm keeeeeeding)
(my instance and several others have them but nobody uses them, it's not really part of the culture here)
(I'm keeeeeeding)
(my instance and several others have them but nobody uses them, it's not really part of the culture here)
Our lives have many facets. Any philosophy that doesn't acknowledge sometimes you just gotta enjoy some tiddays isn't worth the paper it's written on.
A lot of people don't realize how relatively easy it used to be a s how relatively hard it is now.
Not saying the work was easier, but getting to square one. Used to be that an apprentice would be hired either off the street or from an existing production job. These days it is expected that to get an apprenticeship you pay for a full college education first.
And you think that the problem would be over after that, but no.
Next you have to find one of the elusive apprenticeships. In order to actually get that, you're probably going to have to go to some place in the middle of nowhere because they're worth their weight in gold and they're not even going to bother advertising in places people actually want to be.
So and once you have one of the elusive apprenticeships, you think that the problem would be over after that, but no.
Next you better hope that the apprenticeship that you took is for one of the elusive employers who is actually trying to get a journeyman out of this. A lot of employers will happily keep you as a fourth year apprentice forever because you're just as good as a job but they don't need to pay you as much. A lot of 4th or 5th Year apprentices have to go out and get another job at another employer who will finally push them over the line to journeyman.
But, after paying your own way through college, finding an apprenticeship that is as elusive as true love, studying, fighting to actually get your certification, then you're finally certified, and as long as you're smart about it you can leverage that into a decent middle class living.
The thing that we need is apprenticeships, lots of them. And just like the college courses, the apprenticeships should have tons of them at first, and basically fire 80% of the people in the first year because they're just not cut out for it, but at least there will be a path from high school education to journeyman. Right now the tightrope that you have to walk is insane. That's the reason why there's so few of them.
Not saying the work was easier, but getting to square one. Used to be that an apprentice would be hired either off the street or from an existing production job. These days it is expected that to get an apprenticeship you pay for a full college education first.
And you think that the problem would be over after that, but no.
Next you have to find one of the elusive apprenticeships. In order to actually get that, you're probably going to have to go to some place in the middle of nowhere because they're worth their weight in gold and they're not even going to bother advertising in places people actually want to be.
So and once you have one of the elusive apprenticeships, you think that the problem would be over after that, but no.
Next you better hope that the apprenticeship that you took is for one of the elusive employers who is actually trying to get a journeyman out of this. A lot of employers will happily keep you as a fourth year apprentice forever because you're just as good as a job but they don't need to pay you as much. A lot of 4th or 5th Year apprentices have to go out and get another job at another employer who will finally push them over the line to journeyman.
But, after paying your own way through college, finding an apprenticeship that is as elusive as true love, studying, fighting to actually get your certification, then you're finally certified, and as long as you're smart about it you can leverage that into a decent middle class living.
The thing that we need is apprenticeships, lots of them. And just like the college courses, the apprenticeships should have tons of them at first, and basically fire 80% of the people in the first year because they're just not cut out for it, but at least there will be a path from high school education to journeyman. Right now the tightrope that you have to walk is insane. That's the reason why there's so few of them.
Protip: some furnaces have a summer and winter mode switch that'll change whether it recycles air from inside the home or it brings in air from outside. You can significantly reduce your energy costs by changing it to winter mode if it has one.
"What do you do when the security vendor gets hacked?" is something I ask all the time, and most people don't understand the question.
The Focus is a fully computer controlled contraption which will stop your wheels from spinning if it detects that they're spinning.
I was playing one racing game in VR, and it was in a Ford Focus. I tapped the gas slightly and all 4 wheels started to squeal.
I had to stop. I'm like "I've owned a Ford Focus, and this isn't a Ford Focus"
I had to stop. I'm like "I've owned a Ford Focus, and this isn't a Ford Focus"
https://youtu.be/7bsHOxQtBW4
I love me some eggnog. So much that every Christmas I intentionally don't buy it because I'll drink it all day every day and my body doesn't need that.
I love me some eggnog. So much that every Christmas I intentionally don't buy it because I'll drink it all day every day and my body doesn't need that.
I tried to warn people, the real world is harder than you think, humans are incredible for all the things they do.
Fbxl social is a pretty small instance, so the key I found to having a good feed is finding interesting people and following them, and then the more you follow the more you see, and the more other people follow you. It takes some upfront work, but eventually you end up with a good feed and some good engagement when you post. We're really relying on the greater fediverse to make the instance work.
"almost nobody saw it because it looked like garbage and people ended up being proven right but a few people who wanted garbage loved it"