I used to work at a really shitty metal factory as an engineer. I’d have to help get the lines going again after our weekly shutdown, and it was always a 24-30 hour work day, once per week. So 5 am until 5-10 am the next day. Very little for breaks (though they did feed us), almost never any sleep. That drive home after was harrowing. It probably would have been safer if I was drunk
For all my hard work and dedication I got rewarded with fucking nothing because that’s how capitalism works
hungover as fuck
Still drunk from 2004
Roll tide?
Idk what the other dude is talking about. It definitely exists some places.
Source: live in Copenhagen, don’t own a car.
I don’t think you’re a bad person, because you’re questioning this.
I will say, it’s weird that I’ve seen you and 1 other recent account that has a similar story, both of which are new and posting a lot about Russia. If you’re legit, I hope you can learn about your heritage and also unilaterally denounce what Russia/Putin is doing to Ukraine.
A super fun counter argument I heard once is that if it’s intelligent design, surely it’s not for humans. The universe is BIG with lots of empty space, lots of massive elements to it. Surely it was designed for something much bigger than humans.
Interesting. I haven’t at all had the experience that saying that is detrimental to me social, from locals or foreigners
American, permanently live in Denmark
It can, but both my Fairphone and old pixel could have a physical sim and an eSIM. I daily drive both with my old US number and my current EU number. Can’t have two active eSIM cards at once though
I mean, I’ve certainly never seen it done
With lettuce but not with a sheep
The term snake oil is actually especially fitting for this, due to its origins.
In Britain in the 1700s there was a somewhat common recommendation for using rattlesnake oil from the fat of the snake for skin diseases/rheumatism. The efficacy is debated but it’s got some amount of potential for change (if not help).
This turned into people in the US selling mineral oil as “snake oil” as a total panacea. So a product that actually could do stuff being used as the poster child for a completely useless product that can solve every issue ever, buy as much as you can today.
Snake oil indeed.
Marketing
Definitely part of it. I’m a huge nerd, but years ago raced motorcycles in the US. The demographic makeup difference between that and going to a local MTG event is insane. Seriously, out of hundreds of people at a race track at a time and a decade of doing this I know 2 openly gay people and 0 trans people.
Not sure you could go into my local MTG shop without seeing that many gay/trans people. It’s lovely, but I think highlights the bias in what hobbies people will lean towards or how honestly they’ll be about themselves depending on the social situation
There are dozens of us, dozens!
Super happy about Mamdani as well, especially as a NYer. The state of the US has been really rough for years but just especially ramping up recently. It’s cool to see the opposition to it rise up, and I love supporting it as much as I can from afar.
Men jeg er så glad for, at jeg har flyttet til Danmark
Well Jimmy Carter won’t be exactly aligned with me on a Foreign affairs issue so I think we might as well just support Putin
^Average pre US election .ml poster
I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or not. I mean, Trump is just the marketing of a president. All sizzle, no steak. He has appeared in debates but it’s a huge stretch to say he’s shown up well in them.
In fact, a lot of politics are purely a popularity contest these days, aren’t they?
American who lives in Scandinavia now:
Yup. Bernie Sanders would be pretty center here imo
Or kpop? Maybe against demon hunting?
Sounds a little demon-esque to be anti demon hunting
Sounds like an awesome president.
I have the same story (with a huge failure at a metal factory) that I had a dozen times made a big scene about how terrible an idea it was. The corporate guy who suggested it decided to email god and country that if only (my team specifically of) engineering had supported us more it wouldn’t have happened like that. I was fuming, spent half the night furiously detailing and outlining my proof of how we supported him, bad idea, etc.
I ended up drunkenly scrapping the entire write up and just reply alling “fuck you (name)”. Perhaps my proudest work moment, tbh.