pandemicsoul

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by pandemicsoul 4y ago
The idea that the COVID era is "easier" with social media is a fantasy.
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by pandemicsoul 4y ago
It's not intended as some kind of compatibility survey. The way it's supposed to work is both people answer all the questions – as opposed to one person asking the other personal all of them. You're also supposed to stare int
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by pandemicsoul 4y ago
Sure, this is great if your biggest concern is password security vs. password breaches. No one using pen & paper is creating new passwords for every site they register for, so they're probably just reusing the same few passwords (o
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by pandemicsoul 4y ago
I'm not going to bother reading this because it's obviously click-bait, but I just want to relate that when I was in high school in the 90s, I remember being in a class where a guest speaker gave a talk and tried to convince us al
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by pandemicsoul 4y ago
Very small anecdotal experience, but I was in Montessori school for grades 2-3 (in the late 80s) and it ruined my math education. When I should have been learning the standard ways to do basic math, they were teaching me nonsense like &quot
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by pandemicsoul 4y ago
Mastodon was not made for the moment when Twitter collapsed. It was made as an alternative to (a fully working) Twitter for people who hated the toxic environment. So all of their marketing materials and onboarding process are geared toward
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by pandemicsoul 4y ago
Sure, but even still – there's limited space on my resume. Imagine I've brainstormed 20 short "responsibilities and accomplishments" statements I can list for my last job. Of course I'm not going to list them all, b
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by pandemicsoul 4y ago
I assure you, in the nonprofit space, cover letters are extremely important for contextualizing experience.
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by pandemicsoul 4y ago
The interesting thing to me about this, and many other responses here, is that it's so blind to the reality beyond the tech space about how hiring actually operates for a job seeker. If you're in a position like, say, "softwa
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by pandemicsoul 4y ago
The comments on this post do not pass the vibe check. There's absolutely nothing wrong with a company taking extra care during a layoff to make sure that under-represented minorities are not the hardest hit by it. Throwing around the w
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by pandemicsoul 4y ago
Oh good, another service where people can plan genocide and exchange pedo content!
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by pandemicsoul 4y ago
> If I were a full on Nazi I would get the same treatment as I would if expressed that I'm glad my son doesn't want to be a girl. If that were true, either no one would be on social media except perfectly politically correct pe
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by pandemicsoul 4y ago
Not to mention they also cause accidents. People who see a red-light camera flash often hit the brakes, causing people behind them to rear-end them. There were a number of red-light cameras removed in the U.S. once it became clear they were
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by pandemicsoul 4y ago
I won't presume to speak for the owner of this newsletter, but I do receive it, and I'd just say: "I don't want to see messy spaces." The whole point of seeing other people's workspaces is for inspiration – wha
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by pandemicsoul 4y ago
The biggest problem with these services is they never last. It's easy to set up something like this, but there are so many of these services and so few non-technical people understand the need/purpose of them, they don't get
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by pandemicsoul 4y ago
Lots of company don't allow you to enter the + symbol in their signup field.
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by pandemicsoul 4y ago
Incredibly bizarre to me that the press release doesn't include a link to the product. Especially considering that Cron is already a ubiquitous name for something else entirely.
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by pandemicsoul 4y ago
No, it's based in SF.
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by pandemicsoul 4y ago
Yeah, I did not mean to imply that postal banking would just be for high-risk customers. There are no postal banking plans where that's a restriction – everyone would have access to it, including many who are too far from a bank to hav
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by pandemicsoul 4y ago
Postal banking would be a good solution. It would allow the post office to offer basic banking services for folks like this that can't access it at commercial institutions.
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by pandemicsoul 4y ago
I was on reddit and someone called bitcoin a "useful savings account" and I was like, "NO, STOP. Do not tell people this stuff is for savings!" I was downvoted to hell and people were like "lmao noob." Got into
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by pandemicsoul 4y ago
Oh I see what you were saying – they're not donating anymore. Got it!
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by pandemicsoul 4y ago
The Netherlands begins education about sex and sexuality in primary school and it's not only been shown to lower the incidence of sexual abuse – as children can identify it when it happens to them and are more able to communicate with
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by pandemicsoul 4y ago
There are a myriad of news sources stating that Disney did, in fact, donate to multiple legislators who voted in favor of the "Don't Say Gay" bill – that was how all this started: They refused to speak out against the bill at
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by pandemicsoul 4y ago
That was my first thought! The concept works fine for a bathroom with multiple people if they're all trying to go at once. But if you're using this at home, the best place for it is actually outside the single-user bathroom.
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by pandemicsoul 5y ago
I run an online club with about 20-something email addresses. We're almost certainly moving to Migadu (which doesn't charge per account and seems reputable, according to lots of folks here) and then downgrading our account to the
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by pandemicsoul 5y ago
I live in the Bay Area and it's fascinating to me how BART is just a miserable piece of shit when it comes to noise. Head to Oakland and visit any of the areas where BART is above ground, particularly in East Oakland, and stand there f
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by pandemicsoul 5y ago
God that shit infuriates me. I used to live downtown in a city and only realized after moving into my apartment that I was close enough to hear a crosswalk beeper nearby. Now, I know that it needs to be there for blind accessibility, but I&
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by pandemicsoul 5y ago
People will still be hobbyists with loud cars and motorcycles, though (at least in the US). We literally just need to legislate a package of laws that says people can't make loud noise with their vehicle, repeated offenses result in th
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by pandemicsoul 5y ago
Yes. Are you trying to imply that the Great Resignation was not the result of the outside influence I mentioned – in this case government intervention (lockdowns, unemployment insurance expansion), and a global pandemic that removed hundred

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