[-] shawwnzy@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago

A ballet dancer who's going through some serious psychological shit, and the story of the movie is kinda a modern retelling of the ballet she's performing in

[-] shawwnzy@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

No, I'm saying teachers make considerably more than garbage collectors as in most places. I know they get next to nothing in deep red states but that's not the norm.

Also garbage collection is probably hard on your back and not suitable to do for a whole career, and is probably pretty boring, though some people like a boring job

[-] shawwnzy@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

Where do garbage collectors make more than teachers?

It's a decent union public sector job and pays decently, but so is teaching and that requires more education.

[-] shawwnzy@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago

Interesting, I've been told that it's illegal to sleep in your car in Canada when drunk because being in a car with possession of the keys is enough to show intent to DUI and get arrested.

I imagine it's something you could fight in court and win with a good lawyer, but it always seemed counter intuitive to me.

[-] shawwnzy@lemmy.world 31 points 7 months ago

The question is who would want one?

If you're a big graphics nerd, who really needs the highest quality everything, you probably have a PC. If you're an average consumer , the PS5 is fine. A PS5 Pro seems unnecessary.

[-] shawwnzy@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

Haiti didn't finish paying off its debt to France until 1947. (The debt was sold to Citibank at some point). That debt was partly buying the freedom of the enslaved population.

It never had a chance to get off the ground.

[-] shawwnzy@lemmy.world 28 points 9 months ago

I still engage in pretend play with friends in my 30s.

There's a rulebook and dice now, but same concept of fantasizing and making up stories.

We even do it outside in the summer

[-] shawwnzy@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago

Man that was a couple year streak I think,a new record

[-] shawwnzy@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Thanks for the well thought out reply, I'm gonna touch on a couple of your points:

I can understand this, however, these days you can make very real and career "advancing" connections anywhere(even online 😱)

That's often not true. Most jobs in my industry specify the maximum distance you can live from the office, and there isn't an official rule hiring managers would still usually hire the guy with an address in the same location instead of having to wait for them to relocate and all that. It might be unique to public jobs, but in my world hiring candidates from a different location requires you to foot the bill to relocate them, something that usually isn't possible unless they're some specialist.

Also anecdotally, when I lived with my parents in a small town ~7 years ago I didn't get any bites applying for jobs in cities.

If you don't have a career plan in mind, what are you doing in the city? If you know what you want to do, find a job in that field which can "fatten up" your CV.

My only career plan was "intellectually simulating office work", I got there eventually, but it involved scraping by in the city working odd jobs for about 3 years, plus an 8 month graduate certificate program.

I lived with roommates, and got really good at cooking with dry beans and grains, and has a modest amount of support from my family, but I eventually found a job I love.

And I got the interview through a connection I made at a in-person meetup group.

I know how hard it was for me ~5 years ago and I had some help from my family.

Rents are higher now, not sure I could do it with today's prices, definitely not without a bit of help from the bank of mom and dad. People who don't have that are screwed unless they get very lucky and find a good job right out of school.

[-] shawwnzy@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Most servers are there temporarily as they look for a high paying salary job, either directly or by getting an education.

And in most cases, you need to be in the city to apply for those jobs, to make the social connections that can help you find jobs, or to be where the good schools are.

Once you leave the city to go get a medium-paying job in a low cost of living area it makes it that much harder to eventually find the career a person wants.

Sure it's a decent life, small town livin', if that's what you're into, but people shouldn't be forced into that lifestyle because it's impossible to live in a city on an entry level wage.

[-] shawwnzy@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

I'd give him more credit, it doesn't take a genius to encourage people to subscribe to a philosophy and or vote for a person that will benefit you.

He knows what he's doing

[-] shawwnzy@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago

The back half of millennials might not have burned CDs either.

The iPod came out in 2001, my first car I played music with a cassette-tape to aux converter and a first or second Gen iPod, my second through a USB stick plugged into an aftermarket deck I bought from Walmart. Music downloaded from Limewire.

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