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I don’t know about truly NSFW, but I’ve known a few firehouses whose crew pose for calendar pictures and then use the proceeds for a party or expenses. Maybe call your local fire station?

What the hell, that sounds like an amazing day.

Honestly, being willing to jump to a new platform is possibly the most effective way to stop platforms from fucking you over too hard.

And most importantly - there isn’t millions of dollars spent to market it to people. You have to go out of your way to learn about Mastodon or federation in general, and as you say, their reputations precede them.

That was fucking insane. I remember being dumbfounded to learn that the clearance agency had fired all of the investigators from that contractor, only for a new contractor to rehire them all and win the contract to process clearances again. Horrorshow.

In my experience, if you’re white, male, and have a semblance of your shit together, you’ll be done in 6 months or less. I’ve seen minorities stuck in the process for years, despite having the squeaky-cleanest of records. (On the flip side, I heard a rumor that someone in the building recently got their reinvestigation processed successfully despite having recently received their 3rd DUI…) The exception to that is if you’re in the military, as the government will have a record of anything you’ve ever done, and if you’re an officer then you probably already have a clearance to begin with.

Well, you could start by taking a break asking every single person on this thread how their life is terrible. That would make my life marginally better.

Many who love to talk about how great America is also have not left.

Here’s a handy list. Just keeping scrolling til you get to the US, and until you get there I’d most likely be happier living there.

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I understand you feel like that’s vindictiveness, but hear me out - given that rural, agricultural, and Rust Belt states swung wildly towards Trump, I don’t think it’s unfair to instead think of that as justice.

Ostensibly because the presidential election is the one that they really cared about this time around.

The Amazon reviews thing I assume is referring to Fakespot, which Mozilla bought some time ago.

But I’m confused about their “AI’ed it up” comment because from the very beginning Fakespot was using ML to determine the tone of reviews and whether or not they were lying about the product/paid reviews by the seller.

We’re playing with a wireless keyboard, we had a bad time playing the first game with controller. I really wish they had a “sticky drag”, where you could click on a box to pick it up and then click again to drop it into a slot.

Also (according to friends who’ve worked in restaurants), the difference is demi-glace. And butter.

The wife and I are on the penultimate chapter of Rise of the Golden Idol, which has been an excellent sequel to the first.

On my own, I finished up Plague Tale: Innocence, which was… okay. The stealth elements were alright and the puzzles were somewhat enjoyable, but it dragged a little bit and I was a little annoyed with the combat (the final boss was pretty good). I also 100%'d World of Horror, which took me absolutely forever.

Remember that her brand of conservative is always projecting. She assumes that everyone is as compromised as she and Gaetz and the rest of the merry band of morons is.

True and true.