I’m pretty sure I’m officially in burnout because of work. Last shift, I had a guy take 40 or so stops off of me but still got done when I normally would. Had I not gotten help, I’d have been out until 7pm. That shift was exceptionally bullshit though.

I hate that I’ve been writing code on and off for 10 years but haven’t had a programming job long enough to be worth looking at. I have a portfolio and active github(both linked on my resume) but am consistently getting denied interviews. I just want to make websites because I’m decent at it. But no one local or remote wants to even bother with me. And like, even if I do land a decent paying software job, at this point retirement isn’t even an option. I’m now mostly just looking for something that is steady enough to live off of until I die.

I have 4 mobile apps on the Play Store. I have over a dozen websites I’ve made in the last year, 3 of which are actually live and being used. I’m not sure how big of a portfolio I need at this point to even be considered. I think next week I’m gonna make a fake resume that claims I worked for years at several now defunct companies doing web stuff and see where that goes. Idk. Life just sucks. Ever get the hint that you should just accept your shitty existence for years but still try to ignore it? Not great on your mental health.

A combined income of $75k isn’t enough to live off of and save for retirement. It’s practically a poverty income once you have kids.

What is the amount you interact with the kid, compared to the grandparent? I’m recently learning through my wife via still trying to tackle gentle parenting, that often times, kids will act out for attention. If the grandparent is using YouTube as a babysitter and not engaging meaningfully with them, this might be part of the problem.

I do this but it’s because I get fired once every 12 to 18 months.

You got a ton of answers and they are all right lol. So I’ll just say welcome aboard, comrade!

Will check this out, thanks!

That’s actually why it’s in my library lol. I grabbed it but never made it to the discussions.

Awesome! Gonna pass it along and also add it to my own library as well! Thanks!

Angela Davis’ Women, race, and class

Gonna pass this along and also grab it for myself. Thanks!

That’s sort of what we gathered. I think it’s off the table as a rec for this subject at this point.

I don’t think Federici or de Beauvoir will help you because they are more about systems of patriarchy rather than individual acts of misogyny.

I even said as much when we were talking. Gonna run The Will to Change by them. Thanks!

I’ve given up on the bootloader/rooting/custom roms thing a long time ago because of the frustration.

The echidna thing is just because of their spiky cars and that there’s a fact on one of the commentaries that one of the cars has the exact number of spikes on it that an echidna has spines because someone in the fabrication team is a huge nerd.

That’s honestly not that surprising considering George Miller.

I’m not gonna pull up the wiki but I believe the canon is that they all live in a sunken city or airport and that’s why they have access to all the car parts which provides trade and barter networks. I’m just not quite ready to eat dog food and bugs.

I just want a legitimately functional GNU/Linux device with decent app support that works on US networks

Oh no, don’t do the thing we want you to do… that would be awful…

I’m already shitposting fodder as it is so I’ll probably join the Buzzards.

For your first one, just follow the crowd with chants and try to network with people to find like-mindedness. If you strike of a convo and find people with similar politics, you’ve made a connection.

The usual rules are:

• leave your phone at home if you can. If not, turn off biometrics.
• cover your face
• stay hydrated
• keep an eye out for plainclothes cops and don’t engage. They generally look like bored dads.
• NEW: protect other comrades if you can. Our(US) 50501 shitlibs are targeting anarchists and communists at their brunch protests.

Your comments are always appreciated

dm me if you need help with next week’s mega.

I hate to say it but I’m really thinking I need to just move away from the PSL. Our chapter is dead in the water as it is and there was some early drama that threw a wrench in the initial onboarding anyway. I wanted to find someone to step up so I could focus on more hyper-local project. We have situation where our local government is tyring t erase our uhnoused instead of giving them proper help, and we are working on the food co-op and a few other projects. There isn’t a lot of us in this group so it’s taking a huge effort of all of us together just to do these few things.