The other worker friend is a wreck. He works in a warehouse. Used to live in trailer that was destroyed by a tree. Moved in with this parents, who are knocking on their 80s.
Third worker friend had a heart valve transplant in his 40s.
Fuck people sending the young into "the trades".
Sure, someone must keep the lights on, but do think it's a career.
Embed this noticePete Zaitcev (zaitcev@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jul-2026 11:35:28 JST
Pete ZaitcevI knew a guy once(*), who got married to an older woman when he was 18. I don't remember just how much older, but I think she was in her early 30s. They stayed together for a couple of years, and separated. But before the divorce was finalized, his wife got cancer and died. So he came into possession of her ashes, as a full-on widower who's either not legal to drink, or just over.
(*) Technically still do, but he's an obnoxious shitlib, so I started to avoid him some 10 years ago.
"moot originally hired me to deal with a bot on /r9k/. Turns out it was a guy with an inoperable brain tumor that reduced him to a husk of a being who could only make the same posts over and over again every day.
"There are a lot of people out there who need to get an MRI.
"He'd post slight permutations to get around the ROBOT9000 filter, then bump the thread for days by posting gibberish posts then deleting them. At one point about 40% of the threads on the board were his. Just bumping his stale threads for hours, trying to get interaction. Felt bad for him. Not really his fault. Just a kid with a brain that betrayed him."
@sun Comment? Does moving to another continent count for re-engineering, or is bycycling the key? Or all vive coders have to marry Japanese women to survive? https://x.com/yishan/status/2074685075724316743
@sun I told you that I knew a girl in college who later had kids a 52 (sic). She and her husband worked at it for more than 20 years. All sorts of treatments etc. Ended with an IVF.
@sun My wife is from the same culture, so we can remember something that's been gone for more than 30 years, sometimes 50 years. "Remember the roll for 13 kopeks". "Totally".
@sun Remember how the entire media refused to cover John Edwards' love child, and the National Enquirer boke the overthrow? They sent a reporter to ambush him when he was leaving after visiting his mistress and son in a hotel. The orders to journalists to keep silent were leaked, and the most famous of them ended with "Keep rocking!" Notice that the supposedly conservative media complied too. Something to remember when shitlibs talk about Fox News.
@sun@vriska It sounds like the dumbest idea ever, on par with boomers moving to Hawaii and getting screwed by locals, but I'm sure you're going to think it through.
@sun@vriska I think you fail to realize that every bureaucracy, including NOAA and NIST is between 20 and 200 times larger than it needs to be. But each of them seek and hold one tiny vital function hostage, and then force cuts to affect it. Most famously FAA does that to air traffic control. This even happens in layers! In particular, whenever there's an ATC crisis, FAA forces a slow-down at major airports, but the completely unnecessary towers like KAEG continue to operate as if nothing is happening. Not just many such cases, but every case is such.
I only sell on eBay. It literally is the only decent platform there is, at least in the U.S.
Craigslist is conclusively dead.
Amazon is extremely restrictive in what it allows to sell, and I mostly sell gun parts.
Buyers at Facebook Marketplace are as bad as buyers at Craigslist were before it died. Maybe even worse, in line with the overall dumbening of the public with time. And, it's restrictive too, at least officially. Hoodrats easily push their solvent traps there, because they don't care.