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Willa Rogers posted:Someone was telling me about a new longterm care/asst. living community in the northern burbs of chicago & how it was for the richies & boy they weren't kidding. arranged marriages amongst widows and widowers to get that sweet second person deal
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Aug 14, 2023 16:20
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schedule a phone screen, recruiter doesn't call at the scheduled time, i follow up to ask where they are, they say they'll be calling me shortly, "shortly" passes, still don't receive a call love to interview
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Aug 14, 2023 16:21
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euphronius posted:those jobs are horrible i mean yes but instead of working three jobs at various fast food restaurants the key difference here is you end up in an upper management in 10 years
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Aug 14, 2023 16:22
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when I lived 2.5 miles from work I’d bus in and walk back. on my walk back route, within a single year there were four bicycle fatalities. three of those were from sharing the road with cars and one was from hitting (presumably) unexpected stairs from using a pedestrian path (presumably to avoid sharing the road with cars)
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Aug 14, 2023 16:22
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anime was right posted:i mean yes but instead of working three jobs at various fast food restaurants the key difference here is you end up in an upper management in 10 years I don’t think the odds are good at that. more likely you are flushed out in 5 years with not much going on. idk tho
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Aug 14, 2023 16:24
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riding a bike on the street means relying on strangers to give a gently caress about whether you live or die. that's also true of driving and walking. you've just gotta hope that no one randomly decides to murder you for no reason with their car for the rest of your life.
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Aug 14, 2023 16:26
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Lacrosse posted:I live right next to my old elementary school, I could have walked there in under 5 minutes but my mom made me sit on a school bus for an hour instead. If that doesn't make sense, at the other end of our street the school bus would start its route picking up all the rural kids which I'd have to be out waiting by 6:30am to catch it. goondolences. many parents are psychologically unable to learn.
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Aug 14, 2023 16:26
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euphronius posted:I don’t think the odds are good at that. more likely you are flushed out in 5 years with not much going on. idk tho 5 years of 200k salary is still p good
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Aug 14, 2023 16:27
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RealityWarCriminal posted:5 years of 200k salary is still p good Well, first you have to subtract the $25,000 a year that you spend on doordash
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Aug 14, 2023 16:28
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euphronius posted:I don’t think the odds are good at that. more likely you are flushed out in 5 years with not much going on. idk tho
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Aug 14, 2023 16:29
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RealityWarCriminal posted:5 years of 200k salary is still p good i don't think i could stand dealing with MBA brain moron consultants for 5 years for any amount of money
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Aug 14, 2023 16:29
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:riding a bike on the street means relying on strangers to give a gently caress about whether you live or die. that's also true of driving and walking. you've just gotta hope that no one randomly decides to murder you for no reason with their car for the rest of your life. sometimes there are absolute freaks out there too. last summer I was biking in a normally safe area and then a car passed by me and took a very dangerous sharp turn to the side while blasting the windshield fluid because the driver was trying to hit me with it? what the hell.
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Aug 14, 2023 16:30
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Back in the mid 00s I used to ride my bike on a 6 mile commute to my summer job and then again back. Took a mix of riding on the road and the sidewalks depending on traffic and the surroundings. The majority of the cars were sedans with great sight lines. Nowadays the vast majority of vehicles on the roads are SUVs and truks. Like, looking out the window just now here, I saw about two dozen vehicles pass by before I finally saw a single sedan or hatchback.
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Aug 14, 2023 16:30
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Griz posted:i don't think i could stand dealing with MBA brain moron consultants for 5 years for any amount of money esp when you are writing reports to fire people
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Aug 14, 2023 16:30
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RealityWarCriminal posted:5 years of 200k salary is still p good good luck getting in if you aren't a nepotic failson
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Aug 14, 2023 16:30
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euphronius posted:I don’t think the odds are good at that. more likely you are flushed out in 5 years with not much going on. idk tho A lot of them end up in business school. Others parlay the experience into other things. Consulting is a pretty good gig for a while. The really dark side seems to come when you try to do it as a lifer. The schedule isn't good for having romantic relationships or raising a family.
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Aug 14, 2023 16:31
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Twerk from Home posted:You will find that now bus stops are a mile away, there are no sidewalks, and you have to be at the stop before sunrise: This story about it blew my mind: quote:The last bus riders weren't dropped off until 9:58 p.m. Wednesday, according to an email from JCPS spokeswoman Carolyn Callahan.
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Aug 14, 2023 16:38
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lol i finally get on the phone for a screen and the recruiter said they were already likely about to hire someone. what a loving waste of time
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Aug 14, 2023 16:46
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malicious maga truck drivers are the least of your worries if you can commute on routes where you never have cars needing to queue up behind you as a biker, it's probably fine as soon as you actually share the road with cars in this manner, you're going to have cars tailgating you out of ignorance and plowing you with way too great a frequency in any situation you need to accidentally or intentionally suddenly stop
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Aug 14, 2023 16:47
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SKULL.GIF posted:Back in the mid 00s I used to ride my bike on a 6 mile commute to my summer job and then again back. Took a mix of riding on the road and the sidewalks depending on traffic and the surroundings. The majority of the cars were sedans with great sight lines. Nowadays the vast majority of vehicles on the roads are SUVs and truks. Like, looking out the window just now here, I saw about two dozen vehicles pass by before I finally saw a single sedan or hatchback. A lot of people also don't fully understand just how invisible they are to newer pickup trucks or even larger SUVs. The blind spots are huge and even a good driver will struggle to maintain enough constant situational awareness to recognize when a cyclist is moving into one.
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Aug 14, 2023 17:01
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Grey Fox posted:this is correct, you get weeded out if you're not willing to do bad poo poo that they can hold over you so you can't cross them Why do you think so many lottery winners lose all their money so quickly. /s
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Aug 14, 2023 17:02
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FlapYoJacks posted:No, you were part of what is informally called “the latchkey generation.” It’s not normal anymore and in fact is quite bad. being a latchkey kid meant your parents trusted you or at least trusted you more than paying for daycare
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Aug 14, 2023 17:03
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Relevant Tangent posted:being a latchkey kid meant your parents trusted you or at least trusted you more than paying for daycare I was a latchkey kid, and my parents didn't trust me at all and were physically abusive. They just worked long hours and didn't have a choice.
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Aug 14, 2023 17:07
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Like accidents happen and all that and just driving a car is more dangerous than people are willing to admit but I really don't like the idea of getting pasted by someone looking at their phone or screwing with their touchscreen which every car apparently must have now If there was any kind of bike infrastructure around here and thus like a modicum of driver awareness for bikes I might consider it
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Aug 14, 2023 17:08
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euphronius posted:those jobs are horrible In '08 my roomate got a consultant job in Chicago with Deloitte and spent his entire first year flying to (and living in) Dayton, Ohio M-F, then coming back for the weekend. Just completely awful way to spend your 20s. He's real wealthy now so I guess it worked out but man that was depressing to see.
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Aug 14, 2023 17:11
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FlapYoJacks posted:I was a latchkey kid, and my parents didn't trust me at all and were physically abusive. They just worked long hours and didn't have a choice. i'm sorry your parents were shitheads
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Aug 14, 2023 17:12
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i am harry posted:Jesus loving Christ mate There's a reason why I moved out 
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Aug 14, 2023 17:22
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Relevant Tangent posted:i'm sorry your parents were shitheads 
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Aug 14, 2023 17:26
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Starting at the age of 10 I was allowed to bike independently in the mid 90's with no hard limit but generally stuck to a max of 5 miles, and honestly it wasn't that bad, but where I grew up the idea of biking in the street with cars was completely foreign. Outside of neighborhood streets, fairly wide sidewalks are the norm here and where everyone back then, and mostly even now, would bike around here. The very idea of biking in the street with cars being the norm was foreign to me until I was in my mid-20s. The idea that 9+ year old's are latchkey kids because they're left alone at home during the summer or after school is laughable. That was the age my wife started doing paid baby sitter jobs. The streets really are dangerous but acting like its a guarantee you're going to get run over by a bro-dozer reminds me a lot of the stranger danger panic where some people thought a very rare danger was waiting around every corner, or the modern equivalent where some people act as if any child left alone outside is going to be pounced upon by child traffickers even in random suburbs. I wouldn't let a kid ride in the street, outside quiet neighborhoods, but on mostly empty sidewalks? Sure. Elem7 has issued a correction as of 17:32 on Aug 14, 2023 |
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Aug 14, 2023 17:26
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the bus situation seems absolutely insane, I did some looking around to see why it was such chaos and what a shock, it's tech: quote:The district had 600 bus routes and 13,000 stops under a new plan created by AlphaRoute, a Boston firm that used artificial intelligence to cut the number of bus stops in the district by nearly half.
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Aug 14, 2023 17:27
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Scrub-Niggurath posted:the bus situation seems absolutely insane, I did some looking around to see why it was such chaos and what a shock, it's tech: every time
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Aug 14, 2023 17:34
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Relevant Tangent posted:i'm sorry your parents were shitheads Air Force and Army lol. The day I cut them off from my life was one of the best days. My wife repeatedly said that it made me so much calmer not having to deal with them. Instead of blaming themselves, they blame my therapist for making me realize they were not good for me and, in fact, were abusive shitheads growing up (physically) and then mentally as an adult.
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Aug 14, 2023 17:35
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Relevant Tangent posted:being a latchkey kid meant your parents trusted you or at least trusted you more than paying for daycare Or your parents couldn't afford daycare, as in my case. I got a key to the house at age 6 so i could get off the bus after school and walk home since both my parents were at work or sleeping between shifts.
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Aug 14, 2023 17:35
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Elem7 posted:The streets really are dangerous but acting like its a guarantee you're going to get run over by a bro-dozer reminds me a lot of the stranger danger panic where some people thought a very rare danger was waiting around every corner, or the modern equivalent where some people act as if any child left alone outside is going to be pounced upon by child traffickers even in random suburbs. I wouldn't let a kid ride in the street, outside quiet neighborhoods, but on mostly empty sidewalks? Sure. I live in a historically redlined, poor neighborhood that was under-invested in by the city for decades. We don't have sidewalks, let alone storm drainage. It gentrified super rapidly, I've talked to some of the older homeowners who bought for $80k in 2010 but now the old houses go for $600-800k and a new rebuild in the neighborhood sold for $1.3 million. Still no sidewalks, though. We actually had a big, ugly, long lawsuit in the city where the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals found that sidewalks are unconsitutional: https://www.nashvillescene.com/news...6549ab92de.html quote:The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against Nashville on Wednesday, overturning a lower court’s decision and setting up potentially expensive claims from property owners against the city’s sidewalk fund. Judges Eric Murphy, Alice Batchelder and Helene White sided with property owners’ arguments that Nashville violated plaintiffs' protections guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment’s “Takings Clause,” which prohibits the federal government from seizing private property without just compensation. Murphy, a Trump appointee and member of the Federalist Society, authored the ruling. Twerk from Home has issued a correction as of 17:48 on Aug 14, 2023 |
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Aug 14, 2023 17:42
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spending my childhood in a trailer home in the middle of nowhere mostly sucked but the one unambiguously nice thing about it was that I could go run around or ride my bike or whatever and not have to worry about getting pasted by a car (there were maybe 6-8 other humans living within two miles of us so there were never any) or getting the cops called on us by neighborhood busybodies for being outside (no neighborhood) at one point we had to move into a rented house in a suburb for a few months for marital-problems-related reasons and I remember going to play outside like we had been doing daily for years and getting the cops called on us by one of the neighbors within 30 minutes, lmao
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Aug 14, 2023 17:43
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The first few days of school, which started aug 3, my kid got home 3.5 hours late. They put a bunch of kids on the wrong busses and had to bring everyone back. From now on he only gets home over an hour late because they run multiple loads due to driver shortages. I wonder how much the transportation contractor scrapes off and pockets.
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Aug 14, 2023 17:46
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sidewalks are unconstitutional is a hell of a phrase
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Aug 14, 2023 17:47
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I love suburbs with big lawns with rocks and boulders along the perimeter so you can't even step a bit on the grass to get off the street (because there are of course no sidewalks lol). I used to see people jogging along the roads and wondered how many of them got hit at some point
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Aug 14, 2023 17:49
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in the real boony suburbs there are drainage Culverts along the roads which you can fall into
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Aug 14, 2023 17:51
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Ammanas posted:no apparently every vehicle on the road is a lifted pickup driven by a tiny dicked maga maniac whose mission is to murder cyclists that's not true. most of them are crossovers
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Aug 14, 2023 17:53
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