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Vox Nihili posted:We're going to be paying ~$1,650/month for infant (think 10-18 months old) daycare. (State-sponsored) daycare here is 8 CAD$ a day, and the 8 dollars can be included in tax refunds. Thanks Québec
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Taima posted:some of this kinda stuff is about doing cagey transactions. buy something shady and then get told “buy this listing”. 
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Jan 13, 2024 18:06
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wrt to blood there is an ancient legal norm in Anglo world that people should not be able to sell body parts
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Jan 13, 2024 18:06
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corporations, however
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Jan 13, 2024 18:07
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Smythe posted:u can tell what ppl are supposed to look like. those tribal guys in weird natgeo "precontact" or w/e villages are thin as hell. thats what default ppl look like i think. without all them burgers. im of "normal" weight btw People assume medieval knights were buff as hell but they were mostly twinks
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Jan 13, 2024 18:22
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Xaris posted:lol i missed that. drat thats pretty bad. bonds are stupid as gently caress but they're the primary vehicle for capex and major rehabs yeah I'm dumb as poo poo but that seems like a  precursor to me
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Jan 13, 2024 18:24
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Orvin posted:How much of it is younger people in tech that have never seen a significant downswing? In the ZIRP era, places just zombied on, or were eventually bought out. So there were never mass layoffs, just occasional small rounds of people being let go due to mergers and acquisitions and poo poo. But a new job was always just around the corner. It's not just young people. Almost everyone forgets in between recessions, even people who got wrecked last time around. I know lots of people who barely clawed their way out of 2008's hole just within the last few years and none of them are at all worried about... anything. You've made it, so that means you're safe forever now and you can just coast. That's how life works.
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Jan 13, 2024 18:28
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this gets a lmao
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Jan 13, 2024 18:28
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Judging people who are streaming their layoffs and mad about it because they're not yet numb to the cruelty of the system is lib, sorry Solidarity even with the youngs
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Jan 13, 2024 18:35
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Only in capitalism can people - not necessarily here on SA - get angrier at the  of people streaming their layoffs rather than the layoffs themselves.
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Jan 13, 2024 18:36
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The polite thing to do is quietly disappear so nobody has to feel bad about it
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Jan 13, 2024 18:37
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it’s the same logic of telling people it’s rude to talk about salary
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Jan 13, 2024 18:37
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Twerk from Home posted:Just echoing that I also used to donate blood but had a really bad experience where they hosed up getting a needle in. Why don't they just pay people for blood? one concern is safety, that people would lie about their health for money, but it's kinda a bullshit concern. that's the reason they always give about why it's illegal to compensate though. the other concern is that economically, once you start doing it, you have to keep doing it because people adjust their internal valuation of it - e.g. why would I donate blood for free when someone paid me for it before
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Jan 13, 2024 18:39
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Only in capitalism can people - not necessarily here on SA - get angrier at the
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Jan 13, 2024 18:40
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Oh, you're losing your livelihood by being laid off? Well, that's OK, but how dare you impugn the sacred institution of layoffs by disrespectfully streaming on TikTok! Have you kids no shame?!
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Jan 13, 2024 18:40
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loquacius posted:Judging people who are streaming their layoffs and mad about it because they're not yet numb to the cruelty of the system is lib, sorry you can have solidarity and still laugh at someone getting owned hth
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Jan 13, 2024 18:40
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BRAKE FOR MOOSE posted:one concern is safety, that people would lie about their health for money, but it's kinda a bullshit concern. that's the reason they always give about why it's illegal to compensate though. the other concern is that economically, once you start doing it, you have to keep doing it because people adjust their internal valuation of it - e.g. why would I donate blood for free when someone paid me for it before i have lied many, many times to sell plasma
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Jan 13, 2024 18:40
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is anyone in this thread actually saying it's bad to stream your layoff
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Jan 13, 2024 18:44
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The best thing about selling plasma is that afterwards you usually get a free cookie and some juice, like you're in 3rd grade or something.
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Jan 13, 2024 18:44
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piss guzzler 420 posted:i have lied many, many times to sell plasma the first and only ltime i went there they asked me what i had to eat and i said a couple peanut butter sandwiches. they turned me away and said it could only be red meat lol. i came back ten minutes later and said i ate a steak
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Jan 13, 2024 18:44
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loquacius posted:Judging people who are streaming their layoffs and mad about it because they're not yet numb to the cruelty of the system is lib, sorry 
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Jan 13, 2024 18:44
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piss guzzler 420 posted:you can have solidarity and still laugh at someone getting owned hth yes Paradoxish posted:is anyone in this thread actually saying it's bad to stream your layoff no
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Jan 13, 2024 18:45
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Rectal Death Alert posted:We had some posters like that as well. Before the big tech layoffs started last year the impression was you could just leave your job for a 10%-20% raise on the same day and if anyone ever dared fire you you have multiple backups that will hire you on the spot for at least what you were making. Forecasted layoffs and unemployment were immaterial as The World Is For Computer Touchers. We will only see their demand and value grow into the future and anyone can walk into a $200,000/yr Google job because Someone Is Always Hiring. and now that you have big paying names/roles on your resume, no "stable" companies want to hire you for jobs paying 65-80k because they'll assume you'll leave for a now nonexistent, higher paying role
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Jan 13, 2024 18:46
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loquacius posted:Judging people who are streaming their layoffs and mad about it because they're not yet numb to the cruelty of the system is lib, sorry yeah it’s unironically good that the zoomers are hyper social about this poo poo instead of swallowing their losses in personal shame. it may be refracted through the circus of social media but the impulse is purer than making fun of them for it.
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Jan 13, 2024 18:46
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i say swears online posted:the first and only ltime i went there they asked me what i had to eat and i said a couple peanut butter sandwiches. they turned me away and said it could only be red meat lol. i came back ten minutes later and said i ate a steak lol hell yeah
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Jan 13, 2024 18:46
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i say swears online posted:when I was poor and desperate I sold plasma once. I got a $20 debit card that had an $8 activation fee and started degrading at $4/month. that experience was so horrific I'll never do that or donate blood again. gently caress 'em for how much they profit off my body. literal bloodsuckers When I donated plasma in college for some quick  they hosed something up royally because blood was spraying out of the tube they had hooked up to my arm before they hooked it up to the machine and it went loving everywhere (like for a second but that's all it took)Now I have an off chance of randomly passing out whenever I have to give blood for something, neato Before this when I would donate blood I had em gently caress up the coffee-stirrer-sized needle insertion a few times and leave the arm w huge bruises for weeks. Maybe that's basically unavoidable with those huge things I dunno I guess I could still donate if I could get my vagovasal syncope thing under control but I can barely think about blood/needles without starting to feel a little lightheaded now
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Jan 13, 2024 18:46
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Paradoxish posted:is anyone in this thread actually saying it's bad to stream your layoff not everyone has the privilege of being fired by computer
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Jan 13, 2024 18:47
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triple sulk posted:and now that you have big paying names/roles on your resume, no "stable" companies want to hire you for jobs paying 65-80k because they'll assume you'll leave for a now nonexistent, higher paying role ugh a friend got laid off last spring from an online glasses company similar to zenni. he's a graphic designer that helped put together their monthly coupon emails. they gave him a crazy nine-month severance and he just played call of duty the whole time. now that the paychecks have stopped he's getting serious about jobhunting but it's a bad time to start. i'm linking him good government jobs that pay 60k with excellent benefits (better than the tech companies now) and he'll just respond with 'lol'. i think he wants 90k minimum
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Jan 13, 2024 18:49
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I actually don't think you can have solidarity with someone while making fun of their shirt or telling them they're spoiled, no, that's not what that word means
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Jan 13, 2024 18:50
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90k to write emails.. jfc
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Jan 13, 2024 18:51
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RealityWarCriminal posted:90k to write emails.. jfc I don't think that's what graphic designers do but could be wrong.
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Jan 13, 2024 18:54
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Do they still have the rule against selling blood for profit so you can only sell the plasma in your blood and then they have to put the un-plasma-ed blood back into you? That's the part that seems really unpleasant to me. I've donated blood many times, and it's fine, but gently caress them putting it back in me.
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Jan 13, 2024 18:55
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Salt Fish posted:I don't think that's what graphic designers do but could be wrong. yeah he's not good with words, he kinda moves pictures around
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Jan 13, 2024 18:58
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PostNouveau posted:Do they still have the rule against selling blood for profit so you can only sell the plasma in your blood and then they have to put the un-plasma-ed blood back into you? That's the part that seems really unpleasant to me. I've donated blood many times, and it's fine, but gently caress them putting it back in me. If they kept your red blood cells you’d go anemic after a few sessions.
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Jan 13, 2024 18:58
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loquacius posted:Judging people who are streaming their layoffs and mad about it because they're not yet numb to the cruelty of the system is lib, sorry
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Jan 13, 2024 18:59
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PostNouveau posted:Do they still have the rule against selling blood for profit so you can only sell the plasma in your blood and then they have to put the un-plasma-ed blood back into you? That's the part that seems really unpleasant to me. I've donated blood many times, and it's fine, but gently caress them putting it back in me. yeah it looks like a 70s circular slide projector. it'll cycle out the good stuff and put the lovely blood back into you. it's really gross and disconcerting and Not Worth It. literally the only benefit is being a cheap drunk later that evening
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Jan 13, 2024 18:59
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The sensation of the blood getting pumped back into you is very strange yes
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Jan 13, 2024 19:00
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i say swears online posted:ugh a friend got laid off last spring from an online glasses company similar to zenni. he's a graphic designer that helped put together their monthly coupon emails. they gave him a crazy nine-month severance and he just played call of duty the whole time. now that the paychecks have stopped he's getting serious about jobhunting but it's a bad time to start. i'm linking him good government jobs that pay 60k with excellent benefits (better than the tech companies now) and he'll just respond with 'lol'. i think he wants 90k minimum I know nothing about government positions, but my experience with a lot of midrange, extremely boring companies is that there's definitely a bias against candidates who have previously worked in tech, and this is coming from companies that technically probably fall under that umbrella, too. I don't know about salary expectations necessarily, but I've heard a lot of people hiring for dev roles saying that they don't think people who have worked for SV companies have "real" experience. There's almost a blue collar/white collar mentality when you get below a certain compensation level.
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Jan 13, 2024 19:00
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i say swears online posted:yeah he's not good with words, he kinda moves pictures around In his head, like Andreessen? Interesting
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Paradoxish posted:I know nothing about government positions, but my experience with a lot of midrange, extremely boring companies is that there's definitely a bias against candidates who have previously worked in tech, and this is coming from companies that technically probably fall under that umbrella, too. I don't know about salary expectations necessarily, but I've heard a lot of people hiring for dev roles saying that they don't think people who have worked for SV companies have "real" experience. There's almost a blue collar/white collar mentality when you get below a certain compensation level. that's interesting and something i've never experienced or heard talked about. could be true, but i'm not in tech or government IT. you'd think the tech crowd could interview well at least
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