Yeah, right? About the only thing I miss is the free time.
Not quite the same thing, but in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams has the alien character Ford Prefect, who came to study Earth under the original impression that cars were the dominant life form. Hence his name.
I got my Associates degree (meant to be a two year degree) at 28. Most of my co-workers don't even have degrees and most of us are making just shy of 6 figure salaries in tech.
I have a friend who didn't complete their BA (meant to be 3-4 years) until they were 29. They manage the prop department and stage techs for a "big deal" live theater and performance center (that industry is small, so can't give more specifics than that).
We're both in our mid-30s, so this wasn't multiple generations ago or anything.
Farther back, my father has no degree and is an accomplished nuclear engineer. Has held leadership positions on numerous engineering regulatory and oversight groups. Tagged along on a business trip with him a few years ago and every morning at the convention space/hotel breakfast, there were around 10 new people each day coming up and going "Hey, are you [name]? Your work on [governing standard] is great!" or something similar. I knew he was good at what he was doing where he worked, but I hadn't realized how well he was known in the wider industry.
TL;DR- No, it's not embarassing. Success comes in many different forms.
I have a hard time believing this isn't a shitpost project.
Lol, yeah. There's almost always something. I (and I think most millenials) had the housing crisis/economic crash as we entered the age of employment.
Beyond AI tools in IDEs, the reputation of the site's attitude towards new question posters definitely doesn't help. Neither does the site's pivot towards AI that alienated a bunch of the power users. The reputation issue isn't new though, and I'm not sure of when the AI pivot started.
I'm also not sure if it's a great metric. Personally, anything complicated enough for me to want outside help with is usually so far into the specifics of my work environment that it's not safe to ask about online. It'd either be too revealing or devolve into the classic "I refuse to answer your question because I refuse to believe your starting scenario and limitations". Otherwise it tends to be stuff I can sort out by piecing together stuff from blogs, documentation, and tangentially related stackOverflow answers. Not always easy, but easy enough that I'd rather work through it myself instead of asking the internet for help.
Don't read/clear your replies and you too can achieve this glory:
You could fit two fleshlights in it! One sideways in the head and one in the torso. Bikini Bottom fun with friends!
Pardon me, I'm going to go scoop my brain out with a melon baller and bleach it.
It's only going to increase as midterms get closer. Much like 4chan, just because lemmy isn't run by business and political interests sure as hell doesn't mean it has any further resistance to astroturfing than social media that is.
As long as it's easier to make accounts and posts than it is for moderators to moderate, you'll see shit like this.
Even if it's astroturfing that aligns with your beliefs folks, please keep your eyes open for it.
Sucks is an understatement.
Look, there's enough to go around. If anything, the horrid state of the Democrats should only highlight just how fucking bad the Republicans are.
Like, the bar was set down a mine shaft by the Democrats to begin with. What do you mean the Republicans reached the fucking planet core?
I don't know how you can look at all the pictures and video clips of Biden creeping on girls, read testimony from some of them from the past who have grown up, know that Epstein's Island wasn't some politically partisan affair (how the fuck did Trump suck off Bill Clinton at an Epstein event if Bill wasn't there)... and decide that of all fucking people, Joe fucking Biden deserves the benefit of the doubt on being a pedo.
Hands down he was better than the sack of fat and bronzer we have now. That doesn't mean he wasn't an obvious as fuck pedo.
It is in fact possible to understand the horrors of the Democrat fuckstains while understanding the Republicans are monumentally worse.
Someone gifted this to my wife and I after our successful IVF. Still haven't put our photos in it, and everytime I see it I giggle.
Miracle Love Baby sounds like some magical girl anime shit.
Honestly? That's rookie numbers.
Preface
I'm not trying to call out the mod action of removing my post from the comm so much as I'm calling out the complete lack of mod action leading to the comm becoming shit and having the current top post by scaled, hot, and active being a post that explicitly targets another lemmy user.
That out of the way... !mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world has clearly been slipping from the purpose of the comm for a while now. Most of the posts are actually infuriating and/or political. I understand that what qualifies as either of those can be different for different people, but I feel most of this shit clearly isn't mundane or simple enough to fall under the label of just mildly infuriating.
Here's some examples from the first page right now, sorted by scaled.
While I could have sworn the sidebar had a no politics rule, it doesn't at the time of me writing this up, so politics are arguably acceptable, although I personally feel these all clearly don't match the theme of the community, violating Rule 7.
Sidebar, and expanded rule 7
A few other posts have been made calling this out.
Mod harder and [META] What actually constitutes "mildly infuriating" content?
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Beyond all that mess, we have what was the final straw for me.
Rule 1 (and less so 5), and the current top post by scaled, hot, and active.
I cannot accept that a post to mildly infuriating that targets a specific user while not even removing their username is respectful, and I personally consider it harassment (while it may not violate rule 5 as there is no call to action). Removing the username is usually the bare minimum even in the fucking reddit brigading subs, for plausible deniability.
And regardless of whatever arguments can be had about interpretations of the community's specific rules, it's a dick move. Just block the guy. It reminds me of the god awful reddit dogpiling and brigading. I don't want any of that to come to lemmy.
So I reported it, then saw the recent posts asking mods for action that got no response. I then looked at the mods.
So I did something dumb as hell. Roughly an hour after I reported it, I made my own post (now removed from the comm). I find people who make call out posts about others, and the absentee mods allowing it, mildly infuriating. Yeah, childish as shit. What's done is done.
Modlog:
Removed for "doesn't fit community", but what do you folks think? Does it really not fit when the top post is what it is? Personally I think both should be gone, lest that comm descend further into shit.
Either way, now that I have this yell into the void out of me, I'm blocking the comm. Maybe I should have made my post in actually infuriating? (kidding)
That is a threat.
From some back to school flyer.
I have so many great memories from childhood vacations to Mystery Flesh Pit National Park. I cant believe the disaster happened all the way back in 2007.
At least someone has been collecting and documenting everything they can find from the old place: https://www.mysteryfleshpitnationalpark.com/
I still can't make it all the way through the disaster report.
Definitely a repost, but it fits the season
Depends where you're talking about. Unfortunately most of the US states haven't figured out how to make going to the DMV (department of motor vehicles) not suck tremendously and how to keep it from taking up most of a day, so many places only do those checks whenever you have to renew the license plate tag/registration, and it's done at the DMV itself. Usually once every couple of years.
Some states allow those inspections to be done by other approved locations. Different states have different timings on how often it's required, and they all have differences as to what is actually tested and what is passing and failing.