Yeah dude the grind to try and get a tenure track job is soul-crushing. I put out over 1000 applications over the course of four years. I had about 15 interviews, 2 second round interviews, and at the end, no job. I can get adjunct work fairly easily, but it comes with no health insurance or stability, and it’s paid pretty badly. The adjunctification of higher ed has meant that a lot of otherwise good people have no future in academia, me being one of them. It sucks because I worked for fifteen years studying, teaching, and publishing on very some absolutely esoteric shit, and ended up with less job security and benefits than a Walmart employee. It took a lot of therapy, because this is the one thing I wanted to do with my life. But I know now that it’s time to move on, and that I can do good somewhere else if I get the right skills.

I’m an endlessly adjuncting philosophy professor. Going back to law school in the fall at age 38.

Consoles are great if you want the same thing you can get on your computer but with worse graphics, shittier framerate, and a terrible device for input.

One thing I’ve been annoyed with after switching to Firefox is the iffy password manager performance. It’s so common for it not to remember a password that it should, or, weirdly, for it to only remember the password once I’ve typed the whole username in and hit tab.

Are you me in my early 20s? Enjoy it, dude!

I’ve been working every day since January. Every weekday, every weekend day, every day. But finally on June 15th I’ll be down to one remote job and can go sailing for a few weeks straight. I’ve finally sort of got my finances in reasonable shape, I’ve paid off my car, and have a little breathing room.

I was in a fourth floor walk up. It was fine until in one year I broke my foot and my dog’s back was paralyzed. Going up four flights of stairs on crutches sure sucked, as did carrying a 50lb dog up and down three times a day.

This is a good way to get a visit from the mailer daemon.

It’s not ethically okay to ignore it, but you’re also not morally obligated to solve it, only to do your part!

I’d interpret “next Saturday” as the one on the 11th, and “this Saturday” as the one on the 4th.

Oh shit, I’m gonna have to remember how my past me did this the last time around.

Am I wrong or are the cabinets way too low? How would you even fit a dish rack with dishes on the counter?

Simple: pirate adobe acrobat and ocr them yourself.

Obligatory capitalism is bad too (but at least I’m in less danger of getting vanned in the middle of the night for insulting random great leader - attemtping to undermine the social order or whatever they called thoughtcrimes.)

Maybe you are, currently, in the United States of Europe. But this is really more a function of liberal democracy than capitalism. You could get vanned for saying the wrong thing about the great leader in quite a few capitalist countries. You’d be in high danger of having pretty terrible things happen to you for saying the wrong thing in the US until pretty recently, and the US has been capitalist pretty much since its inception.

I just have to guess that you’re a million years old

There aren’t enough of them. I like having long comment threads to read with a feisty dialogue. It’s not as fun when every post has 12 replies.

The fact that it’s stupid is a perfectly good reason to downvote it.

Hiding posts. Half my feed is the same stuff I’ve seen already. I want to be able to hide that shit.

Excellent points.

My wife realized she wasn’t happy being married to a man and left me to date women. There was a lot I think I could have done, but I can’t change my gender. Feels bad.