I think everyone in this thread agrees with each other.

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Can you have this conversation slowly over time? Ask a few questions about their plans, maybe make a suggestion, mention other old parts who have handled planning in a mature way, and don’t make a deal out of it if they don’t want to take your ideas. I’ve found that sometimes you can plant an idea and people will warm up to those ideas and even decide it was their idea. Which is annoying, but gets the job done.

But yeah if you go into this expecting them to change a lifetime of emotional programming, you’re gonna have a bad time.

Oh hell — you already did 2 years of school and they want 2 more at their school? ☹️

That is fucked. Aren’t apprenticeships usually paid? They expect you to pay for it instead?

Also, sometimes it’s hilarious.

2 Live Crew - Shake that ass bitch

Papa Smurf Can I Lick Your Ass

If he’s not awake by then, give up.

I’m reading online that people get 3-8 shaves out of a blade, but they’re incredibly cheap (some are less than 10 cents per blade) so I use a new blade every time.

Lol yep, I’ve cut myself with an electric shaver before too. But I did eventually get used to DE safety razors. Recently I’ve been using a slant blade razor, it’s nice and easy and I barely ever cut myself anymore.

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tl;Dr?

And then it couldn’t perform for a few minutes — for another good degauss you had to wait a bit for another good one, like an orgasm

2 aunts love to pretend everything is fine, they excel doing that on funerals and weddings, then stab you in the back as soon as you’re not within ear distance, either need drama to feel important or have way too much free time.

Okay? If shitty people do shitty things, let it roll off you like water off a duck’s back.

It kinda sounds like you let what other people do affect you deeply. Maybe work on giving fewer fucks about people’s drama and giving more fucks about what’s important to you. I know that’s easy for me to say, but it is an attitude that can be cultivated.

They rejected my free app because it was just a web app, and apparently an iOS app should be more than that. That’s their prerogative, but now they let these in. I should have AI rewrite my web app as slop and resubmit it.

Jiu-Jitsu. It’s fun, it’s good exercise, there’s lots to learn, and you make friends fast when you’re rolling around sweating all over each other.

Cops are allowed to lie to you relentlessly. Even if they do something illegal like questioning you without reading you your rights, they know you’ll have to fight it in court. Things are stacked in their favor pretty strongly. Even if you end up fighting them in court over a Miranda violation, that’s a problem for the prosecutor, not the cop arresting you.

Be relentlessly polite to the cops while admitting nothing. They usually don’t deserve politeness but it lessen the chance of them harming you.

If I start applying elsewhere, do I even mention this?

When applying to jobs, it’s usually not a good idea to badmouth your former employer. No matter how true your statements are it can come across as you being whiny and having a bad attitude. It sucks that we have to lie like this but it’s not like employers are totally honest with us so turnabout is fair play.

Anyway come up with something ambitious-sounding like you wanted to contribute more/in different ways, you wanted a new challenge, etc. Make it sound like you’re excited for the new job, not fleeing the old one. Save telling the truth for anonymous online forums and friends.

I wash my workout clothes on the roughest setting. Probably shortens the life of the clothes but gets the stink out.

I will die on this hill: Dude, Where’s My Car is actually a good movie. People just can’t see past the premise to realize it’s executed extremely well.