Honestly having the time to take those courses was why I even left my last job to take this factory job, but then COVID happened and everything got put on hold and the “omg recession” cycle started.

Unfortunately no, the shitty factory job gives nothing but some pie before thanksgiving. At least they give something I guess lol

I’m 39 and feel like it’s definitely too late for me. I’d be 42+ by the time I’m done and with the way the economy is and the job market in general I don’t think there would be any positive for me to go through that expense.

I basically just missed the boat, all my friends went to school for computer science when they were ~20 so they’re safe now and make an absolute killing. If I were to try that now I’d just join the like millions that can’t find work in that field… For the last 5 years every single day the news has been “omg a recession is coming, it’s coming, it’s definitely coming like tomorrow! Be afraid, it’s coming!” So I never left my shitty factory job, but now I just feel stuck…

We need to start fully treating them like people. The Reich wing is pushing for the death penalty, great, Plantir and Nestle and the like can be the first to be executed.

I haven’t smelled it in a while, but I don’t think I remember it smelling rotten. It wasn’t pleasant but also wasn’t really disgusting, it was just odd.

I don’t know what it is, but I can smell a somewhat metallic type smell on some specific people’s breath. It always smells very similar between different people. They generally aren’t very healthy, but no one seems to know what I’m talking about.

Quitting my previous job as an HVAC service technician. The pay was way better than I’m making now and it probably was a mistake, but I was miserable every single day…

I had no set schedule and my weekends weren’t my own because I was almost always on call. I live in an overpopulated area so every day was just sitting in hours and hours of traffic which just adds to the length of my day, there’s no 9-5, it was “if I need to be at X by 8 then I need to leave at Y” and the day wasn’t over until the work was done. Then add on the hours of traffic and worst case scenario pull into the driveway and get a call saying you need to go back out… Then there was the wonder of never knowing what’s coming up next. Start in Connecticut, ok next call is in Brooklyn NY… Ughh… Ok done in Brooklyn, ok surprise now go to NJ! Ughhh…

Now I work in a factory doing 8-4:45 and it’s so much better. I know what the day will bring and I know when I’m done. I’ll just never be able to afford a house lol

You can apply the perfect amount of any condiment to a sandwich with your mind.

You can communicate with phytoplankton in French.

Eating vegetables makes you repellant to a T-Rex.

True patridiots… So freedumb loving, Democratic Republic protecting, that they punish the people for selecting their local leader by a vote…

Yeah I keep up on those too. I was just mentioning unexpected things outside of normal car maintenance that I had to do.

I absolutely love hearing a woman speak with a French accent. Second best is an Australian accent.

While it hasn’t paid for itself yet literally, getting a hybrid electric/gas car has been amazing. I only fill up roughly once a month and it costs ~$20. I’ve already had it 6 years and the only thing I’ve had to do is bring it in for the occasional recall notice for system updates.

It became “my thing” around when I turned 19. I had previously been exposed to a bunch of conspiracy theories that I never really bought into by a friend and in trying to learn more about it all I ended up following politics more, eventually learning my way out of the conspiracy land and instead watching the decline of the US for myself instead of having some internet weirdos say it’s the Jews or the annunaki…

It’s unfortunately more of a sick addiction now, I feel like I need to follow what is happening even though it just makes me extraordinarily depressed, seeing how no matter what we as a population will always be lead to make the wrong decisions and how there are so many people that revel in hatred and inflicting pain on “others.”

The more I learned about politics the stronger my support became for my candidate:

I sing songs to my cat, usually remixes involving “my wittle kitty” or “monkey monkey cat.”

I’m a “grown” man almost 40 I swear. Lol

I’d second Mint suggested below. I mentioned this on another thread today, but if you’re really concerned about being able to play whatever games you want then just dual boot (use a secondary drive for Linux, not a partition) and upgrade to Windows 11 then install O&O shut up as it will allow you to disable all the telemetry and AI bullshit then just search your installed apps/programs for one drive and delete the app.

I use Mint for everything except gaming. It still runs a lot of what I tried with Lutris and a little tweaking, even got a game working where I just dragged the fully installed folder from Windows over to the Linux drive, but I have some things that work better on windows so I just neutered windows and only run that when I want to play something.

Cats already like heat, but on entering the atmosphere they convert to their liquid form and their heat capacity increases greatly! Since they’re now liquid the impact doesn’t affect them as much either! Cats really are amazing.

This is perfect because at first glance you’d think wow that’s a heavy cat, it broke the roof!

In reality though it’s a normal weight cat that has been traveling through space at 40,000mph and rocketed through the atmosphere crashing into the roof. A meowteor…

Ok I’ll see myself out

I vant to count!

Von, tooooo, threeee!

As someone similarly unfamiliar with Linux I’ll say I just made the move as well a few weeks ago and haven’t had any issues so far! Ive even started playing with wine and lutris to get games working, with a little tweaking I was even able to drag the files of an already installed game from Windows over to Linux and then get lutris to run it. I was pretty surprised to see it worked lol

I work in the warehouse for Antifa Co. Hillary Clinton and Obama sign my checks!

In Spanish class in highschool I spoke about a trip to the beach and said “me madre y tu padre” lol

So apparently my mom and your dad went to the beach together…