Just in case, if you’re unfamiliar with firearms most community colleges offer firearm safety courses for cheap or free.

This fits. I denied an applicant recently because he had not yet acquired the level of fear necessary to succeed in the role. Lack of fear means stupid mistakes. I’ll take the battle-hardened veteran any day.

Meh I wouldn’t go to an event for donuts unless they’re really fancy. Panera or pizza is a “maybe” bordering on “unlikely”. One department at my workplace caters their optional events with a local fried chicken joint and their meetings have the best turnout because everyone wants that delicious, delicious chicken.

Just keep telling people that you’re swamped. “Aw man I wish I could go but I’m swamped. Thanks for inviting me though!” I’ve been in my corpo job for two years and have yet to attend any social events, except when catered and then I just sneak in and grab a plate then bail.

Unless there is free food. Never pass up free food.

Watch local social media to see if anyone reports losing money. If nothing, and you’re trying to set a moral example, donate it to charity.

Someday we’ll get the fabled Wind Waker HD + Twilight Princess bundle.

Meh. I was hoping for Windwaker to get a real release on Switch 2, not just become available as a GameCube title on Nintendo Switch Online

Friendly reminder that voting to authorize a strike is not the same as striking. Nearly every union contract negotiation involves voting to authorized a strike. It simply means that if an agreement cannot be met by x date, the union has agreed to have the option of striking. It’s very unlikely that a strike will actually occur.

You either work your way through life or you leech off of others. Those are the options. There are kids who grew up in war zones, sleeping through air raids and watching those around them die. They still work. There are kids who were in and out of foster care, kids who watched their parents OD, kids who were SA’d every night, kids who slept on the street. Few people have had the ideal childhood you’re describing. Those people still work. They get into therapy. They make something of their life.

Quit making excuses for your laziness. Get a job.

I would actually watch that if it were real

Perfect timing, I just started rereading Buckland’s blue book

It will take some time for your mind and body to level with the change. Be gentle with yourself. Soon this new reality will feel normal, and you will be OK again. I promise.

Hang in there, much love.

What on earth could someone do with 80,000 lbs of beef? You can’t exactly move that kind of volume on the black market. Storing that amount of beef alone would take a massive amount of space and cooling.

A lack of organization. There’s no one central voice organizing large scale protests, so you get hundreds or thousands of smaller protests that don’t attract media attention.

This reminded me of a joke I heard one time. “You know how they always say that aliens built the pyramids in Egypt? This is how you know Mexicans are the best workers in history. There are also pyramids in Mexico. Nobody questions who built those.”

I use wireless charging at night and at work. I have a stand that charges my phone, ear buds, and watch simultaneously, which replaces three cables with one and keeps my nightstand/desk free of clutter. I use cables only when I need to charge quickly.

Agreed, Finch is a great way to keep track of self-care and watch your little creature thrive through it.

If you learn to cook, you can have those foods anywhere you move.

Men don’t give a shit about who is in their bathroom, in my experience. Women, on the other hand, often stopped and harassed me when I was presenting female but cut my hair short (AFAB).