tooks

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[–] tooks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I've always been anti-fascist. Now, according to President Lumpy DicknBalls, I'm a terrorist because I'm not a fascist.

Unpopular opinion (or fuck, maybe popular), permanent reassignment of the term "retard" to MAGA republicans. Get on it Marian-Webster.

[–] tooks@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When did we say he wasn't? Just because his camp isn't speaking the obvious doesn't mean it isn't abundantly true. I'll never understand how human shit piles seem to live forever, while death creeps up on the few remaining decent people in the world. Guy I work with who would literally go out of his way to help ANYONE with ANYTHING. Even helped me swap my car's alternator in the work parking lot one afternoon (we work in IT). Lived with cancer for 9 years, died last month at 59. Meanwhile, the Pedo Party 70+ crowd dismantles the world, laughing all the way to the bank, raping kids.

[–] tooks@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Love the idea, but I was wondering about their lifespan. Or misplacing/losing it.

[–] tooks@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago

Ha! Where I work, you can almost place an exact date on the promotion based on what they're driving. I bought my first new car in over 20 years back in 2024. People at work and in general immediately asking about my "raise."

When I tell them it was a necessary purchase after my 2008 Mazda with 257k miles decided to no longer be a car, they grin. When I continue telling them the investment was much more stomachable because I was able to use 3/4 of the $60k inheritance my parent's left me upon my mother's recent death (all they had to their name was our childhood house, which my brother and I sold, paid debts from, and split the remaining balance), the air leaves the Earth.

[–] tooks@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Unfortunately, we're a private university, so yes.

[–] tooks@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I fear Dems will see just how easily we've bent over for the current administration, and realize they can get away with it too. I've said it ad nauseam -- when did we decide to start trusting the government? Any government? I'm right in the middle of my expected lifespan, and I never once trusted my government. Why would I? They've done nothing positive for my generation, and every slight success is quickly dismissed or disqualified by the next dipshit with deep enough pockets to rule the land. This isn't democracy, and it never has been. The "people's vote" has never mattered. It's just another smoke surrounded mirror providing the illusion that democracy exists. Hell, the only reason the word democracy probably exists in our history is to make us believe that such an impossibility is reality. Mark my words and those of others, the only difference between the two parties? One is full of fascist, pedophile, sex offenders and the other is full of fascist, pedophile, sex offenders. The female leaders in both parties are just enablers, otherwise they wouldn't put up with the shit and take to the streets. Same for our more diverse leaders. If they rock the boat too hard, they're out a paycheck and some sweet, sweet insider trading. The whole system is dead, and I fear revolution is the only answer to the madness. But we've become too complacent and docile to fight. We're too busy trying to make ends meet to have the necessary reserve energy to fight for rights which probably never truly mattered in the first place. Just stuff written down that **we're **advised to follow or face penalties. None of the people in power ever follow their own rules or the rules commanded by the people. When I say we are doomed to the point of extinction, I mean we are DOOMED. There's just no way for even the lamest human to find any reliability, accountability, or faith in governments that have outwardly shouted that they're not to be trusted and could give a shit about your life.

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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by tooks@lemmy.world to c/workreform@lemmy.world
 

I work in higher ed. Upon the last big promotion cycle, I was passed over for a Director position. This position was instead given to a less tenured person with only a high school education. No certs, just the best friend of the boss. Meanwhile, I'm sitting here with three degrees, enrolled in a PhD program at the higher ed institution I work at. 🧐 Higher education not valuing the higher education of their employees. Doomed.

[–] tooks@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

To a degree, kinda. Primarily responsible for technology onboarding and training as well as consulting. Subject to whatever the suits want pushed on employees. Been doing it for so long, I can't think of any other work fitting to my current lifestyle (work to live) to know any better. Pays the midlife hell bills, leaving enough for leisure.

[–] tooks@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Made me gag. Well done!

[–] tooks@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago (3 children)

COVID played a major part in my mother's death, so I feel comfortable saying I welcome the hentavirus to our country. If all goes poorly, maybe it will take care of some of our more troublesome septuagenarians. 🤔

[–] tooks@lemmy.world 29 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I get paid to encourage people to use it at work. I'm a problem, creating more problems to solve my own problems.

[–] tooks@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I can't think of anything more irresponsible and selfish than procreation in the 21st century. Why would anyone want to end their own life and subject themselves to the stress of ensuring their craft human survives and becomes a relatively average coal miner.

 

Tore down our old DIY hardwood shed and assembled a new plastic resin shed. Used an existing wood frame from the old shed as the foundation. Wrapped the foundation in a heavy duty tarp to protect against moisture. Stays dry, critters aren't interested in living in it, looks ok.

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