I don’t like talking about politics with Americans. They have their own political language that barely makes sense. It never gets anywhere because I think I’m just talking to whatever media or social media channels they got trained off.

One could be called a socialist, a capitalist, or even a Nazi depending on who’s reading the comment, despite all being fundamentally insane conclusions to land on contextually.

I know you’re certainly not all like that, but compared to the rest of the world, the percentages are much, much higher; enough to not even bother.

You can of course quit now, but that will mean you’re job hunting while unemployed, which is a far worse scenario. You can also just put up with it, but it sounds like that’s a shit scenario too.

So the best course of action you can immediately take right now is go window shopping for a new job until you find something you like. Whether it comes by this week or six months from now, you have the luxury of having nothing to lose here and you have the best hand.

Even look at getting a new certification if you feel like it and if you can—ball’s in your court. Every time that little bastard undermines you, let it be the fuel that’s encouraging you off to greener pastures. Explain that in your exit interview, and remark on how they’ve come up with an interesting employee retention strategy.

3, 17, 20. Depends on the season.

I have a friend that says, “Well shit on my face.” whenever something amazingly unbelievable is true. The way they say it so stoically, naturally, like it’s normal, it’s usually responded to like, “I know right- what?!”

Roundabouts are quite simple. Don’t drive into oncoming traffic.

If someone has fucked up on a roundabout it’s because they have not managed to do this, and god help them on a more complex scenario such as regular intersection.

DEI must but trendy again

50% of the post here are. Echo chambers rely on most users never reading the article.

Americans still actively use telephony services?

I just don’t use the Phone and SMS apps. Haven’t for years. It’s old tech that’s only used by bots and scammers.

Get with the times. Just block them. You’re basically putting an ad blocker on.

Apparently most

In their defence, there is no defined point. There are people out there that are so anti-assumption that it can take them a while. They will eventually reach a point like, “Well if there were defined conditions, surely they have been met by now.” Basically it must be so full-scale that there can be no room left for doubt.

Unfortunately, such input is typically too little too late; it’s just agreeing with the obvious because it’s already so obvious.

Same. I’ll check out things around me like any normal person, but I rely on my hearing to tell my eyes to look for something specific.

I think too, some people have a very wild imagination. There’s no second thoughts getting in a car, despite the chances of being seriously harmed in one making the chances of being attacked in public comparatively inconsequential. You are just extremely unlikely to ever meet one of the very few people that would initiate unprovoked public attack. But parents, crime shows, and movies tell us otherwise—it doesn’t hurt to be cautious, anyway.

DV isn’t gender-specific (loosely 25% male victims, 75% female, but obviously that’s up and down on country)

Femicide is gender-specific with an estimated 0% male victims.

Rapping off a single piton is as insane as climbing 67km from a town without a PLB.

I don’t know, and don’t really want to know how much money i’ve got sunk into my acct, but it’s a lot

Oh you can know. It’s a viewable page within the menu. I’ll leave it to you to search up on where.

Call your carrier to blacklist the IMEI. Done.

It has always worked this way, well before the smartphone era.

The only way to overcome is to find a country the phone works with and has carriers not part of the blacklisting networks. Doesn’t make for a very practical resale market…

So, now that’s out of the way, what control is Google actually trying to sneak in then?

Kermit on behalf of the frogs here, I have some questions…

It makes getting home feel all the more pleasant!

I’m constantly in situations where someone needs to know but no one tries, so I take it on and level up.

It’s the “doer” classification. Certainly not the best person for the job, but no one else is doing it, so gotta try. Over time, a new skill is built.

Patience and persistence are beneficial traits to have. I don’t think they’re natural, I think they’re forced but become natural-like after repeatedly experiencing their inevitably rewarding outcomes.

They’re not though. I think someone’s brain associated side muffler mounts with a random outlet pipe halfway down.

On its side, it’s more similar to some rudimentary boilers. But eeally, it’s just random scrap metal put together to represent resourcefulness from human pollution with little further thought from the artist.

“Give me back my child!”

“Non.”

LE BRRRRRRRRRRRTTT