Nothing dodgy. Also probably not what you’d consider a significant sum - maybe a few grand max to start? Hopefully the actual number will be increasing semi-soon: I’m a few months away from finishing a nursing degree, which will pretty much double my earning potential.

Right now I’m a surgical tech, which sounds fancy to some people, but still boils down to ‘just a tech’ (or as I like to describe it: surgeon’s bitch). We make enough to pay the bills and live fairly comfortably, but not so much that the check engine light isn’t fucking terrifying; and actual home ownership still feels like a pipe dream. Once I become a nurse, the amount of cash earned that won’t immediately disappear to living expenses will increase quite a lot, so that’s when I’ll be able to really start building both my existing account and potentially a foreign one.

At first glance, Revolut looks like a good option - I’ll dig a bit there!

Accountants / financial advisors etc - idk if the amount I have now would be worth paying for their advice… I think of them as managing huge sums of money. I also think of them as like used car salesmen types who’s goal it is to take my money, not help it grow. But again… idk shit about any of this - my brain is still living paycheck to paycheck even though my means have advanced beyond that.

You know those apple slicer things that look like a wagon wheel pattern blade with a circle in the middle so you can core it and slice it in one swoop? We found one for watermelons. No shit. In hindsight, I’m guessing it was supposed to be more of a funny novelty than something actually used, but… we used it…

It made it about half an inch into the melon, then shattered like it was some kind of ACME explosion. Bits of plastic went EVERYWHERE, my melon was now wearing a crown of blades, and I was just standing there with a handle still in each hand trying to process wtf just happened, like Wile-E-Coyote still holding the steering wheel of the car that just blew up around him looking straight at the camera like “well that just fucking happened…”

0/10

Aw fuck. I didn’t anticipate this leading to actual responsibility.

Well, what’s done is done: I’ll fill this role to the best of my ability.

OH C’MON MAN!

…Drax = protein, nebula = minerals, groot = fiber.

Did god not have the power to give us free will without also giving us evil?

• Had the power but opted not to: god is himself some part evil

• Didn’t have the power, did the best he could with the tools he had: god is not omnipotent.

Pick one.

My wife, and a personal code of ethics.

Everything else lands somewhere between “trust but verify” and “it/they will kill me and everything I love the second I let my guard down”.

Any song that just repeats the same shit on loop for the entire duration.

For example “Say” by John Mayer just says “say what you need to say” 42 times then it doesn’t even have an actual ending, just fades out. It’s definitely not the only song that follows this model.

Music by nature has some degree of repetition, but jfc make more than just two measures before you publish it as a song.

If we’re going full sci-fi, I want to fall asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow, then go STRAIGHT to REM. …and actually stay asleep long enough for any of that to mean jack.

Apparently LoTR - which gets major bonus points for depicting its male protagonists as consistently not toxic - fails the Bechdel Test, HARD.

Enjoy this compilation of every scene from the trilogy that holds up to the test:

https://youtu.be/7fshOP7x0GM

I wouldn’t go to a Nazi wedding either.

The thing about the right wing is that it always boils down to the cruelty being the point. People play it up -just- being a difference of opinion like we’re talking about whether or not pineapple is good on pizza; when the opinions in question are that brown people are inferior, trans people people don’t deserve rights, a woman’s life is worth less than a fetus, etc: there’s no valuable dialogue to be had. Ban the fucker and don’t look back.

The closest thing to valuable dialogue you’re going to get with that garbage is the bullshit veneer they slap onto their vitriol to make it easier to sell - the whole white knight bit about protecting babies or bathrooms or some other nonsense that conveniently lands the same outgroups into a bind every single time. If you think any of that shit is in good faith, you’ve fallen for a trap before the conversation even starts.

Diversity of thought is great, up until we start turning to hatred/bigotry for a fresh perspective. Those are not welcome here, nor should they be anywhere else.

I think what he meant was we need positive change. Burning our own country down is definitely change, but… well, I guess it’s what the (fucking traitorous) voters wanted, so… buckle up.

Pretty much everything I was told about employment when I entered the work force (2005ish). New workers seem to have wised up a bit, seeing us go through the hoops with nothing to show for it, but all the absolute bullshit about hard work paying off, take care of your employer and your employer will take care of you, etc.

…and it’s hard to shake off that programming when you hear it your entire childhood from older folks who apparently actually did benefit from that advice.

Hearing Gen Z’ers and such say things like “act your wage” or complain about the rug being pulled out from under them without needing to stand on it for 20 years first is fucking awesome! The younger workers aren’t just bending over and taking it in the hopes things will get better someday like we did. Gen Z is going to go down as a major contributor to workers’ rights.

Been using this in nursing school - a lot of our content is done on horribly designed websites, and it’s pretty common to hit submit and… Naw it didn’t take: all your shit just disappeared.

So, save with single file first, then submit, and if it fucks up then I’ve got a backup to copy and paste a replacement out of.

There was Antz… I don’t remember much from it, but iirc it was the same kind of theme?

The last movie I saw in theaters was Interstellar… just pulled up the release date, and holy shit, it’s been a solid decade.

…not really feeling the urge to change that either. All I remember theaters being is a sticky fucking mess where a bag of skittles and a drink will cost you like 5% of your net worth; from there you pack into these disgusting seats, invariably right behind some 6’11" 400lb dude in a fucking cowboy hat and, surrounded on all sides by people who have never heard of the concept of shutting the fuck up for 90 mins…

Forcing someone out of lifesaving healthcare and shooting someone in the back is functionally the same thing. When one of those things happens once, and the other happens constantly every day, we gotta consider the two relative to each other: Brian Thompson was more violent than his killer thousands-fold. The killer’s act doesn’t even amount to a rounding error in contrast to Thompson’s. Any posts stating support for health insurance CEOs or decrying their forceful deposition is advocating for violence and should be reported immediately for its clear violation of Lemmy’s TOS.