I am well aware of the consequences of my decision, lol.

It’s a small price to pay.

I would go into red dwarf and age at the normal speed and then go to the backwards time dimension and grow younger. I like pop out 10 years younger, 10 years from now and just really annoy the shit out of everybody.

Small bird or larger

I just used the cheap peppermint star candies that are like 2 for $2.99 now

A trick I was taught very young was to suck on a mint candy, and then when you actually have your test, to also bring a mint candy with you.

The story I was told is that mint causes the blood vessels in your face and head to dilate, so your brain gets a little more oxygen.

Then the olfactory and taste sensation being the same from when you were studying to when you were actually being tested on the topic can help your brain remember the information and recall it when it’s needed.

I cannot prove that this has worked, but for me at least I’ve always been extremely good at tests doing this and maybe that had some part in it.

As much as is reasonable, until your kids are able to financially support themselves.

Obviously, not everybody is going to be able to do everything, and many of those that can shouldn’t, but if it wasn’t for the support I received as an adult, I don’t think I would have made it.

That being said, my younger sister got easily three times the amount of financial support that I did, and she’s still a shiftless lazy do-nothing loser, so not everybody will actually benefit from it, but if your kids can make it and you can afford it, you should as long as they need it.

In my defense, I never said “just quit your job”.

I said, start looking for another one. There are other jobs out there. There’s nothing that forces you to work for, meta, or google, or alphabet, or whatever the hell they’re calling themselves.

If you are working for a company that you find personally immoral and you are bound to them because of financial reasons, then I will stand by the statement that one of the best things that you can do is to find a way out, and one of the best ways to do that is to replace it with a different job so that you do not financially suffer through the transition.

I don’t really get how anyone would interpret that as a blind “quit your job”.

The idea of being a slow and ineffectual worker is a well-known concept in the CIA’s counterintelligence operations manual.

It is a known and tried and proven method of destabilizing government organizations and institutions.

Apparently, I’m coming off as a dick, and that’s definitely not my intention. I’m sharing the information that I have.

If it doesn’t get received well, oh well. That’s on me for not communicating it effectively.

Maybe stop huffing fatalism. its not good for you.

I gave clear and simple things that can be done by anyone with a minimum amount of effort to improve things. That’s all it takes to be moral, to be willing to improve things.

Are you stupid?

When Mr. Incredible could not be a full-time crime-fighting superhero, he still superheroed by helping people navigate the labyrinthine madness of insurance agencies.

Be like Mr. Incredible.

I mean, if you find yourself in that situation, the ideal scenario would be that you exit that situation as quickly as possible.

So far, no free Americans are required to work for an evil corporation. And as far as I’m aware, most other countries do not force their laborers to work for evil corporations.

So looking for a new job is an option.

The next best scenario would be that you do everything you can to work ineffectively and waste their resources in just such a way as that they cannot fire you so that you, bit by bit, contribute to toppling their evil system.

Reaching out from time to time, initiating conversation, sending a random stupid meme, something, anything to just keep communication and contact functioning.

I don’t use it at all directly, but occasionally an answer generated on Reddit will pop up on a search I’m doing on a different site

I’d be surprised if there wasn’t an FFMPEG command to run in PowerShell to automatically convert all of them.

If you have the lid closed, you’re looking at 3 to 15 watts to have a laptop running in the background doing some basic server shit.

Maybe a little more under high load, but those are going to be intermittent and not constant.

I’m just saying it’s not that much more electricity usage, and the recycling more than offsets the CO2.

I know no one is going to take my idea and run with it so there’s not really anything to be gained by shooting it down, lol.

That being said, your issue could be solved with a combination of regulation and divestment.

Regulate that certain subjects have to be taught even if they are loss leaders for the university otherwise the university loses accreditation, and then for the people who want to learn artistic things like pottery and music that might cost the university more to run than they can make on it, create new schools that focus on that rather than keeping them in the university system, but attach valid degrees to them by requiring the mandatory core classes to be taken at the local community college or university of the students choosing.

Maybe you can subsidize them somewhat by making them non-for-profit systems and doing fundraisers for the arts and requiring that universities in their communities include them in their annual donor drives as a separate option.

It’s not a perfect solution, but its the first of many possible ones that I can think of, I’m sure that if we were appointed as the committee to fix the American College system we would make many more and better all-encompassing solutions and solve the problem in a matter of years.

I put a $50 pre-order down on the new slate electric vehicle.

Hopefully it pans out, and in like two years I’ll be able to buy one, but if not, I mean it was only 50 bucks and it’s investing towards a more electric theoretical future, so it’s like I won’t cry too much about it if I lose it, but I hope I don’t.

shit my copium supply is running low

That is true, but I feel like we could do better.

Community colleges should be as close to free as is reasonable, and normal universities should be federally limited to charging no more than, say one year of the maximum average income for a particular degree.

If the college wants to teach something like everyone’s perennial mocking favorite underwater basket weaving, then that should be done as an elective and paid out of pocket by the student.

Even if you were to pick something like being a doctor, the fact that you might make a quarter of a million dollars a year and end up having to pay a quarter of a million dollars to do it is infinitely better than working minimum wage for the rest of your life.

If your views are not compatible with the moderator or community’s views and they keep getting removed, you are free to go and find a different instance.

Nobody’s getting paid to work here, so the only people that do the work are the people who volunteer their time, and chances are if they’re constantly exposed to the same stupid shit over and over again, they’re gonna get grouchy, they’re gonna get grumpy, and they’re gonna just start blanket banning anything that even slightly aggravates them.

You can say it’s power-tripping, and you can protest it when it’s unequally applied to you. That’s fair, But you just have to live with it because this is not a business, this is not a customer service oriented situation, this is a “make the community as comfortable as possible for as many people as possible while maintaining your sanity” position for the mods.

I am not a moderator. I would not do moderation tasks because I see how stressful it is. I am also not apologizing on their behalf or trying to sugarcoat the situation.

It sucks for you, getting your posts removed. It sucks for a lot of people not getting to interact with those posts, but it’s a take what you can get sort of thing.

The good thing is, if you absolutely do not want your post to be removed, you are perfectly welcome to spin up your own lemmy instance and federate it and then share your post with the entire fediverse without any sort of moderation whatsoever.

Even with that though, the other instances of the Fediverse can defederate with you if they find your whole thing to just cause more headache and hassle than it’s worth to them.