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CapuccinoCoretto

@ CapuccinoCoretto @lemmy.world

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  • How do I actually find a job that isn't retail?

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    Have you considered the "other" economy?

    • Prostitution or pimping
    • Drug selling (B2B naturally, not retail lol)
    • Drug manufacturing
    • Panhandling
    • Arms Trafficking
    • Terrorism (eco, political, religious,)
    • Religion (start your own church. There is a low barrier to entry here as a street preacher, plus you can combine this with some of the others, but you can work your way up to megachurch pastor with your own jets.)
    • Mugging/Home Invader/Burglary
    • Crime Enforcer a.k.a. the kneecapper
    • Politician
    • Spy/snitch (private/corporate/government)

    It's really about understanding yourself. What are your needs? What are your natural strengths? When you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.

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    Edit: A seriously helpful answer that ties into this. I've worked closely with retail executives. It's awful for you on purpose. Their business model is built on low barrier to entry and suffering. You are right to stay away. My above joke was not only meant to be funny. Who doesn't need a giggle at times like this? But it was also to get you to think in different ways. Making a living is not the same as getting a job with an employer. That's only one way, and it often sucks. Think entrepreneurship (non-criminal). Think lemonade stand. Not as stupid an idea as it sounds - Martha Stewart got started selling pies outside a plaza. Lateral thinking can help you here. Get outside of your own assumptions and consider a broader perspective.

    • Start your own cleaning company. Residential or commercial.
    • Daycare, Nanny, Au-pair.
    • Food services
    • Personal shopper
    • Home care PSW.

    Edit2: Tough crowd. Humour is difficult.

  • US military is poised to blockade Iranian ports, while Tehran threatens ports in the Mideast

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  • US military is poised to TACO Tuesday!

    Or

    Enter Player 4 - China has joined the game!

    I love a good taco, but I also have a lawnchair and case of beer ready in case we kick of WWIII and I want to watch the impossibly bright lights.

    🎵🎶

    And the band played on

    As the helicopters whirred

    Drunk on the lawn in a nuclear dawn

    My senses finely blurred burned 🎵🎶

  • How come some Corporation or some Business don't sponsor a protest? Like McDonald's sponsoring that No Kings protest. Or a hotel giving free room and board to protestors and so on?

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  • "No Kings but the Burger King(tm)" could get traction.

  • England schools ban fried nuggets in food standards overhaul

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  • My chicky nuggies! ReeeeeeeeEEEEEEeeeee

  • Why do I almost never see people flying drones?

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  • They are huge in real estate photography.

  • Garden of gethsemane

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  • I disagree and I don't think you got it, but I updoot for good faith, some fair points, wit and humour. I'll always drink to that. ;)

  • At the edge of our definitely-flat Earth

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  • Heresy! Where are the turtles? It's turtles all the way down.

  • NDP's Leah Gazan calls MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ critics 'bigots'

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  • It's not fundamentaly different than the Heritage Foundation trying to find ways to bring back lynchings. People pick a position that suits their narrative and groups eventually evolve extremists. It exists everywhere. This only appears absurd because you're getting a rare glimpse of LGBTQ+ and neurodivergents trying to self govern.

    It's not absurd. It's inevitable. These groups have never had a voice before, let alone the freedom to try and self-assemble power.

    You judge a nascent phenomena in human civilization with a lense that was forged, refined and normalized watching the dominant power groups who have had fewer of the particularities of these minorities and a lot longer to work out the kinks of governance.

    The real kicker here - tell me this well intentioned but unproductive spectacle here is "nuts" while I look at the dominant form of conventional politics in the news daily. It makes me want to pull out a lawnchair, sit naked on the frontlawn, crack a cold one and wait for the nuclear blastwave to free me.

  • Garden of gethsemane

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  • c/wholesome

  • Garden of gethsemane

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  • Hmmm. Upvote or downvote? You make solid points. You are defending a position in good faith. Yet "mental disorder"?

    Your mentality and eagerness to stake a position and defend the bastion hurts as much as helps.

    catholic sins were only defined later

    You are making an artificial distinction. Catholicism can be, but shouldn't be viewed as a thing with a start. It's part of a continuum. Judaism>Christianity>Islam. Catholic sins weren't defined later. Like all culture, they evolved from earlier sins. Even calling them Abrahamic Religions as we do is making the same error. The tradition didn't just emerge, it evolved from predecessors and it has descendants.

    natural law is the law of nature, that exists and has nothing to do with religious nonsense but instinct, which originated from evolution.

    Aside from the above linking culture, specifically religion to evolution in a real tangible way, please consider that natural selection over time takes random mutations and selects for reproductive fitness. It doesn't care about what is "good" it only cares about what is most advantageous until new offspring can extend the continuity. We tend to think of this in terms of physiological of biochemical traits, but that's a narrow view too. Our minds are a product of evolution. Our thinking is a product of our minds.

    "Sin" is just part of a evolutionary cultural continuum that started somewhere in the roots of cognition where "actions>consequences" evolved and branched into "sin" and "karma".

    Creatures with evolved complex cognition need their complex social constructs to evolve to survive as well. They become condensed, efficient, easily axiomized artifacts like "the golden rule", "religion", philosophy, ethics, morality. All part of a continuum where divergence, convergence and speciation occur.

    Religious and atheists are seperate cognitive sub-species who can choose to compete, fall into a predator-prey relationship (e.g. inquisition or communist religious purge) or we can coexist in our respective niches or, like all the best stuff in nature, become symbiotic and make the system better for all.

    In short, not Religion vs Evolution. Religion as evolution. 😉👉

  • NDP's Leah Gazan calls MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ critics 'bigots'

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  • It's not nuts. It is uncalibrated and counterproductive. It's also what I've called the "curse of the intellectual", and why they rarely become polliticians, let alone successful ones. It's what happens when ideas are carried further than their utility justifies.

  • NDP's Leah Gazan calls MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ critics 'bigots'

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  • Good point. It has utility as a shibboleth. Careful though, a weapon like this can burn friend and foe alike.

  • NDP's Leah Gazan calls MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ critics 'bigots'

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  • Remember when the neo-pronoun thing landed on:

     
            co/cos
    e/em/eir
    e/em/es
    hu/hum
    ne/nem
    ne/nir
    per/per
    s/he/hir
    thon/thons
    ve/ver
    vi/vir
    vi/vim
    zhe/zher

    I'm all for being inclusive and a completionist. But the community had to learn the difference between what belongs in academic and reference litterature, and what belongs in casual conversation. A well intentioned idea was badly introduced to the public causing blowback and faned the flames of the culture wars and energized the maga chuds. It's weakness was not its specificity. It was trying to start at the end and forcing the language everybody's been learning since birth to be rewritten. It's unweildy.

    To your exact point. Naming each group IS important. Specificity and identity has a power of its own. Let the acronym grow! But know where it belongs. This is already past the point of needing a shorter simpler umbrella term for conversation and is going into reference material.

    When even your allies are getting tripped up, it's time to rethink and pivot.

  • The job market is so bad, workers now think they have worse odds of finding a role than during the pandemic

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  • Capitalists say the system is working as it should. The poor are civilization's crumple zone and air bags. They get destroyed in the event of a crash to protect the (rich) drivers.

  • D.C. Grand Jury Orders Reddit to Turn Over Data on Anonymous ICE Critic

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  • Be grateful they are incompetent.

  • France to Ditch Microsoft Windows as Europe's War on American Tech Rages On

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  • This is called Leadership.

  • US warns EU over regulation, says fines on American tech giants could have consequences

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  • Threaten me with a good time will you?

  • Canada is a Warning to the Rest of the World!

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  • I am usually skeptical about you tubers, but this one was good. Clear thinking right on the spot.

    One observation that surfaces from this video and has merit for Canadians to watch as policymakers decide what to do about the obvious unsustainable nature of the Canadian housing market:

    Problem: the housing ladder has been pulled up and Canada's youth effectively can't access it. How can aging Canadians' housing assets maintain that value if future generations can't support its value?

    Solution 1: Restoration - Policy supports gently rebalance to where housing declines eventually catch up to a reinvigored youth workforce and the population has a continuum of property succession. I.e. we lower the property ladder back to within reach.

    Solution 2: Acceleration - We continue the disastrous path of the last 25 years and continue down the path of financialization of housing. Pension Funds, REITs, Hedge Funds end everyone between large corporate players to wealthy mom and pop investors will consolidate housing forever. I.e. The property ladder is burned forever.

    Where things get interesting, is considering the global demographic decline of aging populations, both options aren't far away from a major reckoning in absolute terms. #2, in my personal opinion is the more vulnerable. Holding onto declining housing asset and rental prices inside a demographic collapse is going to hot-potato hard. We would see a period of crushing rentierism, tearing the social fabric of the country resulting in severe withdrawl symptoms when such egregious malinvestments reveal their consequences.

    Edit: spelling and clarity.

  • Canada is a Warning to the Rest of the World!

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  • Hard disagree. That was a delightful accurate, sober, honest and concise assessment of where we are.

    Your bias, however warranted against AI, is throwing the baby out with the bath water.

  • Opinion: The U.S. isn’t happy about Canada’s quest for digital sovereignty

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  • Good. Surefire proof it's the right thing. Double down hard.