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Comment on What kinds of part time jobs did you do when you first entered the job market? in ~life
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Comment on What kinds of part time jobs did you do when you first entered the job market? in ~life
chocobean LinkOlder millennial: I only ever worked part time before graduation, at a "designer dessert cafe" working minimum wage + tips. It's basically fast food minus the hot fryer, and tips were probably...Older millennial: I only ever worked part time before graduation, at a "designer dessert cafe" working minimum wage + tips. It's basically fast food minus the hot fryer, and tips were probably better because dating couples mostly don't want to be perceived as cheap. Tips were good, but minimal skills were learned other than "customer face".
Now that I don't have money problems I most value experiences earned, esp while they're paying for it.
In this day and age, if I were in your shoes or starting over again, I would definitely get myself into roofing, painting, plumbing, construction esp foundations and framing, or anything like that that will come in handy for the rest of my life and somewhat prevent me from getting ripped off hiring contractors. Look over the shoulders of electricians kinda thing.
Software I can do on my own, and I can get by with help from good people online no matter what language they speak or what time zone they're in. "Hardware space" problems I'm limited to shitty youtube videos all trying to gain subscribers and dependent upon the whims of algorithms in an SEO'd to heck landscape.
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Comment on Nova Scotia’s billion-dollar lobster wars in ~enviro
chocobean (edited )LinkGood for them. The lobsters will be fished clean and nothing will remain, that's for sure. Same with the little baby eels, the halibut, and the cod that went before them: human greed will...When he found out that his group had closed the deal to purchase Clearwater, he wept with joy. “I put our people in a much better position in the game of business—making sure that we play to win,” he told me.
When Paul was five, he was sent to a residential school near the Sipekne’katik reserve, on the rolling terrain north of Halifax. At the time, the government was sending Indigenous children to these schools to assimilate them into Canadian society, and abuse was widespread. A former student later wrote that classmates had been locked in closets and tied to chairs for days. “What I went through was an experimental camp that the government put together in order to get the Indian out of us,” Paul told me.
[...] an old plastics factory, is the site of the former residential school that Chief Paul attended as a boy. At least sixteen children died at the institution, and many others remain unaccounted for.
Good for them.
The lobsters will be fished clean and nothing will remain, that's for sure. Same with the little baby eels, the halibut, and the cod that went before them: human greed will obliterate them all.
The only difference seem to be "who" will make that money before it's all gone. Is it Chinese investors, white mega corp, the Arcadian, or the Indigenous? Considering that these Canadian shores had always been theirs, that there had always been treaties broken and never upheld, the unfathomable horrors they went through during residential school years and the continued lack of enforcement when things are set on fire and people's lives are threatened -- how can anyone bedruged them for learning to play the White Man's game and winning at it?
What a brilliant move to buy up Clearwater. Honestly Canadians have never had a better shot at conservation -- it's still a tight gamble but between existing practices stemming from ye olde Chain Of Being ideals where species are inexhaustible and meant for man to "subdue" vs netukulimk, I'm glad we're gonna collectively roll the dice with the bands.
Edit, in case anyone hasn't heard of Canadian residential schools, it is officially recognized as a genocide. Many mass graves of children are still being uncovered across the country. It was a hundred year long campaign to eradicate many nations of children:
These abuses, along with overcrowding, poor sanitation, and severely inadequate food and health care, resulted in a shockingly high death toll. In 1907, government medical inspector P.H. Bryce reported that 24 percent of previously healthy Indigenous children across Canada were dying in residential schools. This figure does not include children who died at home, where they were frequently sent when critically ill. Bryce reported that anywhere from 47 percent (on the Peigan Reserve in Alberta) to 75 percent (from File Hills Boarding School in Saskatchewan) of students discharged from residential schools died shortly after returning home.
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Comment on Nova Scotia’s billion-dollar lobster wars in ~enviro
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Comment on Frozen human brain tissue was successfully revived for the first time in ~science
chocobean Link ParentAlso reminds me of Dr Who :) There's another time travelling character who traverses backwards in time and meets the Doctor in reverse order, so that the last time they part is when one of them...Also reminds me of Dr Who :)
There's another time travelling character who traverses backwards in time and meets the Doctor in reverse order, so that the last time they part is when one of them meets the other for the first time. Tragic love story 🥲
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Comment on Frozen human brain tissue was successfully revived for the first time in ~science
chocobean Link ParentI don't understand why conservatives are the way they are and I don't understand how any of their policies could lead to what they say they want. :/ Presumably the school textbook version of...I don't understand why conservatives are the way they are and I don't understand how any of their policies could lead to what they say they want. :/
Presumably the school textbook version of conservatives are those who hold to a sort of older tradition and are resistant to change even at the risk of missing out on new opportunities, at least they are more concerned about holding on to what's currently there.
But in real life they don't preserve natural resources, they don't value hard faught for workers rights, they don't uphold the law when it comes to big corporate cheaters.....they ruin the things that make their present so darn good. I don't understand them at all
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Comment on Mastermind speedrunner bakes twelve actual cookies in under four minutes, forces site mods to make a whole new category in ~food
chocobean Link ParentRight? I was thinking four minutes sounds like plenty of time for 12 cookies even with clickless....maybe it's 12 trillion cookies in four minutes? The reality is far more bizarre than I had even...Right? I was thinking four minutes sounds like plenty of time for 12 cookies even with clickless....maybe it's 12 trillion cookies in four minutes?
The reality is far more bizarre than I had even imagined :) I'm sure this record will be broken again quite soon
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Comment on Frozen human brain tissue was successfully revived for the first time in ~science
chocobean Link ParentOh that's a good point -- if given the opportunity before expiring at a ripe old age maybe more of us would give it a go.... I wonder if that would be a more compassionate alternative to those...Oh that's a good point -- if given the opportunity before expiring at a ripe old age maybe more of us would give it a go.... I wonder if that would be a more compassionate alternative to those seeking medically assisted suicide .... Roll the dice one more time so to speak....
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Comment on Meryl Streep: it’s ‘hardest thing’ for men to see themselves in female characters in ~movies
chocobean Link ParentTwo more currently airing anime characters come to mind whose social anxiety has nothing to do with generic shyness: Dot, from Pokemon Horizons, and Kiwi from Jellyfish Cannot Swim In The Night...Two more currently airing anime characters come to mind whose social anxiety has nothing to do with generic shyness:
Dot, from Pokemon Horizons, and Kiwi from Jellyfish Cannot Swim In The Night (夜のクラゲは泳げない) . Both do live streaming with a very different and outgoing, energetic persona.
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Comment on French post office releases scratch-and-sniff baguette stamp in ~design
chocobean Link ParentOh! Thank you~ That's not as many as I thought there might be. Great link, I'll have to read up on inclusion criteria next :)Oh! Thank you~
That's not as many as I thought there might be. Great link, I'll have to read up on inclusion criteria next :)
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Comment on Frozen human brain tissue was successfully revived for the first time in ~science
chocobean Link ParentThat's a very interesting take! Pessimistically, what if the future has more of the current bad? As a risk adverse person, what of the current good that might be lost? Is it the excitement of...That's a very interesting take! Pessimistically, what if the future has more of the current bad? As a risk adverse person, what of the current good that might be lost? Is it the excitement of seeing more, and the confidence that whatever's present and lost will be preserved via history so you won't be missing much?
I wonder if it's because I'm primarily risk adverse? I would not take the deal myself and cannot imagine what could possibly entice me to do it at all :D how fascinating
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Comment on Frozen human brain tissue was successfully revived for the first time in ~science
chocobean Link ParentOoooh ~ kind of like, if we have teleporters, is the person coming through the other side really you? (Long ramble follows) Obviously I don't have any proof, but I wonder if we actually exist on a...Ooooh ~ kind of like, if we have teleporters, is the person coming through the other side really you?
(Long ramble follows)
Obviously I don't have any proof, but I wonder if we actually exist on a different kind of dimension, that our physical bodies + current consciousness are just the shadow, or a projection from the other side. When we sleep, the projection appears static to other people awake, meanwhile we're experiencing something else "in reality" or sort of a mix, which get remembered all weird when we the projection wake up. Sort of like watching a live stream and the audio/video pauses a bit while the streamer deals with their mom bursting into the room.
Near death experiences might be flickering a bit or has a dimmer on or the aperture closes slightly, and the image is interrupted briefly.
And then when we really die, the projection is no longer displayed in our dimensions, and other projected alive people lose the ability to reach us temporarily. And maybe we awaken to our true lives, in a sort of "well that was a good game, time to get up, stretch and eat dinner" type way.
Currently, you and I are just a projection. Just like how a 2d person cannot understand a 3d person, all of our dimensions are just a Flatland projection of reality. We can't fully understand who we truly are on the real side: we've just been told to be kind because some of us say there's a bit more after the end, or else be kind precisely because there's no more.
It might explain near death visions, how rarely we can speak with the dead, how they're (probably) aware of what's going on here, and how we can be resurrected etc.
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Comment on Meryl Streep: it’s ‘hardest thing’ for men to see themselves in female characters in ~movies
chocobean (edited )Link ParentAhh.....maybe that's why I couldn't relate to Turning Red at all either, despite being female and East Asian Canadian. It's [part of who I am] and lack of social awareness + subsequent lack of...Ahh.....maybe that's why I couldn't relate to Turning Red at all either, despite being female and East Asian Canadian. It's [part of who I am] and lack of social awareness + subsequent lack of shame/embarrassment over how awkward I actually was/am.
I always had a hard time understanding why gender matters when making friends
as a childto this day, and then by the time other kids hit puberty, I was among the band/honour roll geeks. The cluster of us boys and girls just continued to be friends (with a ton of them cross dating among the group).I'm curious: thinking back as an adult, did you go through "blunder years" that are hard to emotionally look back upon, or even now you just take it all in stride without stress or embarrassment? Were the other kids charmed by your confidence and charisma?
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Comment on French post office releases scratch-and-sniff baguette stamp in ~design
chocobean Link ParentLol that's exactly what I was thinking of as well. As least the baguette probably smells better than day old cabbage sitting in the sun, and not actually derived from stale baguette, and not prone...Lol that's exactly what I was thinking of as well. As least the baguette probably smells better than day old cabbage sitting in the sun, and not actually derived from stale baguette, and not prone to spontaneous combustion nor likely to attract slugs ---> frogs ---> snakes ---> mongooses at the post office.
The French baguette was given Unesco heritage status in 2022.
Huh..... What other foods have also been given the status and which ones not yet given but are totally deserving?
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Comment on Frozen human brain tissue was successfully revived for the first time in ~science
chocobean Link ParentI think this is the same news, or at least the same team? On a more philosophical front, would you undergo a freezing medical treatment? Even assuming you're 99.9% certain you'll be brought back...The researchers also applied their technique to three-millimeter cubes of brain tissue from a 9-month-old girl with epilepsy
I think this is the same news, or at least the same team?
On a more philosophical front, would you undergo a freezing medical treatment? Even assuming you're 99.9% certain you'll be brought back without side effects, and assuming your assets will grow with compound interest during that time, would you choose to "pause" your life and come back to a whole new world, one without your loved ones, where you will know exactly zero people and have zero friends and family, and one where your skills and knowledge are likely entirely obsoleted? What if your partner goes with you -- what would be the risks and are they justifiable to risk someone else's (quality of) life?
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Comment on The lonely work of moderating Hacker News in ~tech
chocobean Link ParentOh I see, thank you for the added info. What a curious pre existing cultureOh I see, thank you for the added info. What a curious pre existing culture
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Comment on The lonely work of moderating Hacker News in ~tech
chocobean LinkI wish these gents nothing but peace and kindness and good things to come. Moderation is a thankless and soul crushing job when the community doesn't agree with the necessity or the importance of...The important question is, what’s the best way to handle it if we want to have an internet forum that doesn’t suck? Experience teaches that the answer is: the patient supply of correct information by people who do know about a topic.
I wish these gents nothing but peace and kindness and good things to come. Moderation is a thankless and soul crushing job when the community doesn't agree with the necessity or the importance of its moderation. On the other site I've seen sub-communities that clearly crowd around their mods and cherish them and help them with their jobs: for better and for worse actually, since they could be crowding around terrible people moderating to maintain terrible ideologies. But it seems to make the mods happier. I've also seen places where they resent and resist moderators with a constant flurry of "well I didn't vote for you".
As for the quote from Gackle at the end of the article, I want to applaud his patience, and wish him and Bell every happiness at their job. Personally I think it takes more than patience and correct information: a cold bureaucracy where things are always meticulously correct, with threads tirelessly pointing out every informational flaw can still be a kind of hell. Their jobs are nearly impossible if people primarily go to HN to brag, to be right, to one up, to out shine, to "um ackshually" one another.
It's sadly ironic that the pair failed out of the boisterous, brag hard startup culture only to end up caring for that very kind of crowd.
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Comment on The lonely work of moderating Hacker News in ~tech
chocobean Link ParentHuman buying, or even human labour buying comments can pop up in web sub cultures where wealth and privilege are flaunted or just taken for granted.....I remember being part of a baby/parenting...Human buying, or even human labour buying comments can pop up in web sub cultures where wealth and privilege are flaunted or just taken for granted.....I remember being part of a baby/parenting forum that regularly featured wealth flaunting threads talking about purchasing human labour in uncomfortable ways....
From this article, a comment by the proprietor of NGate about HN culture:
"Almost every post deals with the same topics: these are people who spend their lives trying to identify all the ways they can extract money from others without quite going to jail,”
Would you say that having the compensation be part of every post make TeamBlind even more focused on the American Psycho-ness of its money crazed users? What was the origin nap justification for even having that number instead of say, job title?
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Comment on ‘Mitzvah night is cancelled’ Inside the sex strike that has infuriated husbands and shaken the ultra-Orthodox world in ~life.women
chocobean LinkYikes on a bike...... This woman isn't the person asking for a divorce but if my husband tried a stunt like that he'd better believe the next person at risk is him. Holy moly the absolute...After Gittel, a 40-year-old Orthodox woman from Flatbush, began refusing sex to her husband of 20 years, he bought a sex doll and parked it in his bed. “He buys her/it lingerie and says he’ll buy her/it jewelry if I don’t start opening it up,” she told me. But she wasn’t deterred. “If I can deprive him of using me, for a good cause, I’m in. And I’m a Bais Yaakov girl and I encouraged my friends to withhold sex too.”
Yikes on a bike...... This woman isn't the person asking for a divorce but if my husband tried a stunt like that he'd better believe the next person at risk is him. Holy moly the absolute entitlement and dehumanization happening here....
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Comment on I am a witch. Well, a well witcher... in ~talk
chocobean Link ParentI saw Goody @GoWestYoungMan talking with the witcher! Does that make his wife the warlock is that not how it works?I saw Goody @GoWestYoungMan talking with the witcher!
Does that make his wife the warlock is that not how it works?
counter: it's an extremely valuable life skill to learn how to reject mass marketing and learn how to be happy being frugal.