Why let publishers gatekeep you? Indie publishing is easier than it’s ever been (not joking). You do probably have to make a deal with the devil (Amazon), but it’s definitely doable.

I’m an SE, have the issue where I complain to friends making more than half what I make and they just scoff at me because I should be happy that I make money/have a job/etc. Complained to a therapist that I need to quit because this job will kill me, told don’t do that the market is bad and you make a lot of money.

All the bottling up left me even more burned out because there’s truly no end in sight and no one to listen to my woes about this “amazing job” that’s absolutely killing me.

I feel this so hard, no one really sympathizes when you have a “good job” that’s making you miserable, and it feels foolish to just walk away, so you end up feeling stuck. I’ve been at my current job for over 14 years now and even though it keeps getting steadily worse*, and I keep getting lonelier (and older), I can’t think of a better alternative, so I just stay put.

*Nowhere near as bad as OP has it, though; I recently let my GitHub copilot license lapse because I never use it, and no one has criticized me for doing so. But that, too, only contributes to the too-good-to-leave issue.

https://hexbear.net/post/249555

The OP gives the correct side. The other side is basically, “Fuck you, I’ll do what I want.” (Yes, really.)

The Kingston Trio version of Where Have All the Flowers Gone always hits hard. It’s a Pete Seeger song originally but I believe it was the Kingston Trio that tacked on the extra final verse, and I think it adds a lot

Obama?

Ack nvm I guess he won his Senate race in '04, my memory was faulty here

Would prefer '28 tbh. Long shot, I know, but it has been done in the recent past (edit: sort of)

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They remain the gold standard, and unbreakable, and always will. Problem is, you need to distribute the pad(s) to the people doing the communicating beforehand

Personally, I like it. And I’m not the only one here who does: https://hexbear.net/post/8317101

PS: it is my opinion that the people shitting on it here in this thread absolutely do not get it at all

It actually is, yeah: https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/49387821/lionel-messi-viral-lamine-yamal-baby-photo-incredible-playing-world-cup-final

Yes, but if you’re looking to have a long-term burner smartphone separate from your main phone, grapheneOS is pretty much the only secure option I’m aware of (although ‘long-term burner’ is a bit of an oxymoron, admittedly, given that a true burner is one-time-use).

You might want to read up on what grapheneOS is…

https://grapheneos.org/

But how easily can he be f00led?

Rachel actually was the first person to accuse this person of scamming; her post is what led to the rule changes in the mutual aid comm. I have never seen anything to suggest that Rachel is anything but genuine–her requests have never been claims of emergency medical issues but rather ordinary stuff.

How long do you have before you need to be there? I’m at the low ebb of my funds at the moment, but will be able to contribute soon if timing allows

Thanks for posting this. I recently submitted some of the same information you’ve documented here to an admin, who shared the info with the rest of the team; they determined that it was appropriate to ban BaileyDee and CassandraD, and have since banned KodyGerba and KeralaDee as well (both other alts of the same person).

To any donors out there reading this: please know, if you were among those who gave to this person, that you are not alone. I myself gave this person a total of $275 over the course of a few months a couple of years ago, when they first started posting here.

already exists

We already figured out the cure for AIG: upwards of $100 billion in float provided by the US Treasury

Bump. Sure is a shame the mods allow scam posts to stay up alongside this genuine need, but apparently it’s Not Allowed to actually call that out, and reporting that other post (the scam), as I did, apparently accomplishes nothing