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My personal irritant for today is that I camped all last weekend so I didn’t have time to prepare meals for the week, which is fine because I’m in the office this week and their cafeteria is pretty decent Except they’ve been pushing people back into the office and now the cafeteria is falling on its face and keeps pumping out lovely food or just straight up running out of food before 12:00 which is the earliest I can get away from my desk for lunch 
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wandler20 posted:My take here is you can't do anything good without being criticized for it in some way. You sound like a boss. His charity is content. Content he makes money off of. Money he gives a very small percentage of to the people driving his content. It's a new skin of the standard rich people exploiting poor people dynamic. Including the arguments that he has the appreciation of the people he's exploiting and that he gives generously to charity. Nothing about Mr. Beast is terribly unique. It's just a new form to a bunch of very old lies.
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Mar 23, 2023 19:00
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I dont think he is really exploiting anyone though? Watching a youtube and being entertained by it isn't exactly exploitation
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Mar 23, 2023 19:02
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The Puppy Bowl posted:You sound like a boss. His charity is content. Content he makes money off of. Money he gives a very small percentage of to the people driving his content. No. Not him. ANYTHING. You could rescue a kitten from a burning building and SOMEONE will find a way to criticize you for it. It's just how certain people are.
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Mar 23, 2023 19:03
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Oh cool more selective moral outrage in the chat thread zzzZzzz
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Mar 23, 2023 19:04
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SundayMoney posted:I actually just got called and was offered the job I interviewed for yesterday and even got $2 more an hour than I thought I was going to get. So yeah I'm extremely excited and just waiting for the official paperwork to come to me. Hell yeah, goons getting paid 
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Mar 23, 2023 19:09
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^^^ I missed that. Congrats SundayMoney! Amy Pole Her posted:Oh cool more selective moral outrage in the chat thread zzzZzzz Selective moral outrage. As opposed to general moral outrage? Anyway, I'm not outraged. This sort of thing is the water we swim in. Capitalism runs on exploitation. Hell, I'm a labor rep. I deal with this stuff everyday. The only unique problem of Mr. Beast is a bunch of young people are buying into his charity as an excuse for embracing grindset mentality nonsense.
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Mar 23, 2023 19:12
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I'm starting to learn to make sour dough so I'd been following this very basic recipe and getting frustrated. Today I did an autolyse for the first time and oh my god what a difference Autolyse your dough, folks
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Mar 23, 2023 19:19
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Intruder posted:Autolyse your dough, folks Ewww, pervert. I don't know what that is
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Mar 23, 2023 19:22
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Oh my God, who doesn't autolyse? That's bread baking 101. You should probably describe the process though, for the layman in the chat.
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Mar 23, 2023 19:24
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I didn't because I''m learning to bake bread! So I'm taking bread baking 101 basically  It just means to mix your flour and water and let it rest for awhile before adding your starter so it can develop some gluten networks Intruder fucked around with this message at 19:27 on Mar 23, 2023 |
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Mar 23, 2023 19:25
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The Puppy Bowl posted:grindset mentality nonsense. I'm an old who is not hip to the kid's lingo these days, what is grindset mentality please also i have no idea how much of MrBeast's money he gives away, do we actually know?
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Grindset means working yourself to the bone while you're young because you're young and you can handle the hours so you work like 80 hours a week and share a 500 sq foot loft with four people or some poo poo and don't try to date or get married or start a family until you're in your mid 30s I hate grindset mentality or rather I should say I hate what my understanding of it is, could be off e: I guess my picture of it is a bunch of people kiling themselves with work at a time in their lives when they should be enjoying living and probably aren't even making all that much for the work they do with a dream of retiring at 40 Intruder fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Mar 23, 2023 |
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Mar 23, 2023 19:29
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Leperflesh posted:I'm an old who is not hip to the kid's lingo these days, what is grindset mentality please Basically, go above and beyond. Always give 110%. When you commute to work, why aren't you also ubering someone near there? When your boss tells you to produce X why don't you produce 3x X?
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The key part is everyone who does that will make their first million by 21 and can retire wealthy by 35. It's foolproof. The only reason everyone doesn't do it is because they're dumb and lazy.
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It's the protestant work ethic turned all the way up and rebranded to GenZ. Always be working, maximize your time, grow your brand! Why don't you have three jobs? What's your side hustle? It's just lovely tiktok/youtube business mindset bullshit.
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Also it seems like a lot of the people who post grindset poo poo are trying to make their living from grindset posting, so their main "job" is posting about how hard people should be working. Performative grindset poo poo is also great because it gives poo poo like the executive who posted her calendar showing being scheduled for like 18 hours a day, but then parts of it were finding a creative way to re-brand taking a 90 minute lunch. Tangential grindset poo poo is the articles about people who became millionaires at 27 that always bury having college and apartment paid for and being given an executive-level job straight out of college at their uncle's company. e: I, on the other hand, showed up late (vet visit for the cats), plan to leave early, and will spend a full hour today filling out a requisition for basic lab supplies because our ERP system needs to think for 30 seconds between every new line and many of the fields within a line. Some of us are just built different
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Blowjob Overtime posted:Performative grindset poo poo is also great because it gives poo poo like the executive who posted her calendar showing being scheduled for like 18 hours a day, but then parts of it were finding a creative way to re-brand taking a 90 minute lunch. I love those because it's always people trying to paint getting drunk with a client at a high end restaurant and charging it to the company as "work"
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Intruder posted:I love those because it's always people trying to paint getting drunk with a client at a high end restaurant and charging it to the company as "work" That's old school. The new poo poo is writing two emails and sitting in on 3 zoom meetings carved up into 19 distinct calendar events.
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Let me tell you, Microsoft's video editor loving sucks. All I want to do is stitch a few videos together and it either takes for loving ever, or I have to close and reload the program multiple times for it to work. Fun stuff.
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OK I get it, we used to call that burning the candle at both ends or overachieving or especially when it's involuntary, permanent crunch time. My parents kinda thought I was lazy and should do that when I was in my 20s but instead I just lucked into a computer job and was successful without having to bust my rear end like that, so I sure showed them! LMAO 7 years of part-time school to get a 4 year degree, they were sure my third semester of archery was a sign of failure but actually it was transferable credit that counted towards my degree haha my very first job out of college at a tech co only paid $40k but my mom with a masters and 30 years of experience as a speech pathologist co-running a private practice was also only making just over 40k and that was eye-opening for all of us
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If you enjoy what you are doing grind away. I loving despise my job
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Pron on VHS posted:If you enjoy what you are doing grind away. Username/post combo
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actually there's another kernel of truth I just realized; the more you can do your career in a way that spites your boomer parents, the better if you can make a living basically going no, gently caress you dad, then you've won, even if you're barely scraping by
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Leperflesh posted:OK I get it, we used to call that burning the candle at both ends or overachieving or especially when it's involuntary, permanent crunch time. My parents kinda thought I was lazy and should do that when I was in my 20s but instead I just lucked into a computer job and was successful without having to bust my rear end like that, so I sure showed them! LMAO My father knew I was lazy and pushed me hard to get into programming. I now realize because he was also lazy and he was right to do so. Thank you Dad. <Cats in the Cradle Hook starts playing>
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Leperflesh posted:actually there's another kernel of truth I just realized; the more you can do your career in a way that spites your boomer parents, the better I guess I'm lucky because my parents never cared what I did they just wanted me to be happy and successful and did everything in their power to help get me there even through my youthful fuckups
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I thought about becoming a teacher like my dad (well he was a teacher and then in administration), but he actually talked me out of it because he figured I didn't have the patience for it. He was probably right, although everyone once in a while I still get the urge to quit my job and go teach, but like at the community college level or something.
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anyway, I'm having fun on google bard today Bird in a Blender posted:I thought about becoming a teacher like my dad (well he was a teacher and then in administration), but he actually talked me out of it because he figured I didn't have the patience for it. He was probably right, although everyone once in a while I still get the urge to quit my job and go teach, but like at the community college level or something. I thought about teaching before I had kids, after I had kids I realized I could never in a million years be a teacher because I get so frustrated I'd be the worst teacher
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Kalli posted:My father knew I was lazy and pushed me hard to get into programming. My dad was a programmer by education who then spent most of his career doing non-programming things at a massive corporation he despised. He actively pushed me away from programming despite my interest in it, so now I'm a chemical engineer who does as much computer touching stuff as possible. Unsure if it worked out for better or worse, but whatever, tough to complain about where I'm at.
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Leperflesh posted:my very first job out of college at a tech co only paid $40k but my mom with a masters and 30 years of experience as a speech pathologist co-running a private practice was also only making just over 40k and that was eye-opening for all of us Ha, my wife is a speech path. Grad school at NYU, multiple hundred thousand dollar student loans, works with needy, underserved kids literally changing the trajectory of their lives. Makes less than her high school grad husband. Made a hell of lot less before I took a pay cut to work for my union. Pron on VHS posted:If you enjoy what you are doing grind away. I loving despise my job Very true. I work much longer and harder now in my new career and am happier for it despite the lower pay. The only problem is that my new high intensity career aligned with becoming a dad. I had much more time to work myself to the bone when I was 21-25 and no good employer wanted me.
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Blowjob Overtime posted:My dad was a programmer by education who then spent most of his career doing non-programming things at a massive corporation he despised. He actively pushed me away from programming despite my interest in it, so now I'm a chemical engineer who does as much computer touching stuff as possible. Unsure if it worked out for better or worse, but whatever, tough to complain about where I'm at. My mother on the other hand is massively type A, and constantly harrangued my father into getting higher paying jobs, which moved him into an endless array of startups from like 2000 on. So he was working his butt off for this string of companies that all flamed out / got purchased and he'd move onto the next one. Meanwhile her constant pestering raised a socialist and a weed smoking goat farmer, so maybe she should just take the L on hustle mentality.
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And weirdly the chill programmer and goat farmer children she has are way more productive than the high finance or corporate law kids she might have hoped for.
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goat farming is the ultimate in grindset mentality in that goats grind grass in their teeth
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Blowjob Overtime posted:Are you going to it from the "Continue Watching" or "Recently Watched" (whatever Disney calls it) on the home page? I think that's where I started the long episode from without realizing it was so long, but maybe it would be there if I dug into the actual show page. We usually have a few things on rotation spread between different services, so I almost exclusively use the continue watching function across all of them. I think HBO shows how long things will be from that menu, but I'd need to log in irl to document my specific gripes with each service. I usually go into the Mandalorian “page” or whatever because it always has the last episode I watched on “continue watching” main page because the credits are like 6 minutes long and as far as I know there’s no way to clear it except navigating to the next episode manually. But then the problem just repeats itself.
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Farming is definitely way more work then I'll ever do for sure. Over Christmas, she was telling me about how they got a horse that none of the billion horse rescues wanted, because he won't let anyone ride him, and also hates all other non-horses, so it just stays with their pony in a corner of the farm and tries to attack any goats that wander over to him. Plus side it's stomped a number of coyotes to death, so that's cool.
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Intruder posted:I guess I'm lucky because my parents never cared what I did they just wanted me to be happy and successful and did everything in their power to help get me there even through my youthful fuckups My parent's weren't like "Leper you must become a doctor or a lawyer", my stepdad was a pipe fitter; they just wanted me to be a hard worker and successful, but from their narrow boomer perspective, working 30 hours a week and taking night classes wasn't that, because I wasn't rapidly earning a degree that they recognized, I wasn't pounding the streets to find a better job, I was not cutting my hair and dressing for success, all that poo poo. At my first job, a tech startup in SF, I had to patiently explain that no, I was not going to wear a suit to work, I would stick out like a sore thumb, my boss wore jeans and a t-shirt and the receptionist had a pink mohawk. Also my younger sibling was a colossal fuckup and while she was getting fired from jobs, faking going to school, having to move back into their basement, etc. it may have slowly dawned on them that actually I was fine but they'll never say a word out loud to that effect and honestly I hope they don't because it'd make my younger sister feel bad if she heard about it. Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Mar 23, 2023 |
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Kalli posted:Farming is definitely way more work then I'll ever do for sure. Guard horse. That is sick as hell.
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I once grinded hard when I worked at Boeing to put in extra time finishing projects, work got noticed, got an exceeds expectations. I was 'awarded' with a 3.4% salary increase over a standard 3%. Said "gently caress that" and have proceeded to do the bare minimum for work since then.
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