Sergio
@Sergio@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Anon picks up some food for his family 1 day ago:
That’s an awesome skit. I heard a rumor that Jordan Peele was considering making a whole movie about that Wendell character.
- Comment on Unmatched Southern military genius 2 days ago:
I don’t think Lee could be expected to come up with an answer
Great point – it was a difficult problem. The Germans in WW1 came up with assault tactics that involved infiltration tactics, storm troopers, mission command, and artillery “creeping barrages”, but they had a rich organizational structure developed over decades to allow such experimentation. The Confederate Army was basically created just as their war began.
- Comment on Unmatched Southern military genius 2 days ago:
iirc the dream wasn’t to secure Gettysburg, it was to destroy the Army of the Potomac.
It wasn’t as easy a call as it sounds now that we know the disposition of both armies. Longstreet’s assessment was more accurate about how much the rate of fire had increased the lethality of the kill zone over the past decades, and Lee should have listened to him. I suspect Lee was mostly guided by his sense of how it would impact the morale of each army - because that was crucial to which army would break first. He might also have overestimated the effectiveness of his artillery. Turns out he was wrong.
- Comment on Do dogs and cats have dominant front paws? 3 days ago:
Pigs often have a dominant side … and it often corresponds with the direction their tails spiral.
Wat. There’s some kind of cosmic message there but I don’t know what it is.
- Comment on How do I realistically get out of the US? 3 days ago:
iirc we’re right in the middle of hiring season for college students who graduate in May.
- look for job fairs. these are events to recruit college students. sometimes they’re held online. Check out your school’s career center to see what job fairs are scheduled. if you’re at a small school, look at the schedule for nearby larger university. back when they were all onsite, you could usually sneak in, dunno about virtual.
- once you get to a job fair look for big international companies. ask about opportunities to work overseas. emphasize your CompTIA certs and ability to speak Spanish. it’d be easier with an undergrad but an associates is doable.
- consider going to Latin America, since you know Spanish.
- wait, did you say your grandfolks were Venezuelan? check out the Latino alumni club of your college. If your college is too small, check out the club of the nearest large university. If they have a “diversity lounge” with counselors go there and ask for an appointment. a lot of times companies make contact with those counselors for referrals. (I know a lot of companies are closing their DEI efforts but fam this is a cycle that happens every 5-10 years and the Latino/Black/etc people who work in those companies still make an effort to ensure fair hiring even if we have to review resumes in our spare time.)
Anyway, this is something to try alongside the schooling approach.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
This is too insightful to be a shitpost.
- Comment on Dunkin' added achievements to their mobile app 5 days ago:
And NOT having a smartphone will be even more suspicious… “What are you trying to hide? you must have a smartphone hidden somewhere… where is it?”
- Comment on **It hasn't even started!?** 5 days ago:
Sure. But when you wake up you’ll be several years older, on a ventilator, and handcuffed to your hospital bed until you set up a payment plan.
- Comment on Anon goes on a first date 5 days ago:
The bad ending:
> learn not to talk about anime and gaming
> change hobbies instantly for a woman
> long-term relationship but miserable - Comment on For work-sore hands 5 days ago:
Ice Cube - No Vaseline
- Comment on Behold, the peak of Twitter (formerly renamed to X) 5 days ago:
- Comment on They believe in life after death 5 days ago:
“Preorder now for 30% off!”
- Comment on Why does it seem like Americans have become so hateful and destructive in the past years? 1 week ago:
A bit subtler than that. We still have the largest economy and the strongest military, but the problems we’re facing (both individually and globally) can’t be solved with those tools.
So we’re “great” but we can’t solve these problems… why not? Someone offers a scapegoat or similar “common sense solution”. And if you believe in it then everything makes sense. But for it to make sense you have to get angry.
- Comment on Par for the course 1 week ago:
dude that’s awesome… it should be a meme or something…
- Comment on Got my boy Crassus on speedial 1 week ago:
Explanation of the post title:
The first ever Roman fire brigade was created by Crassus. Fires were almost a daily occurrence in Rome, and Crassus took advantage of the fact that Rome had no fire department, by creating his own brigade—500 men strong—which rushed to burning buildings at the first cry of alarm. Upon arriving at the scene, however, the firefighters did nothing while Crassus offered to buy the burning building from the distressed property owner, at a miserable price. If the owner agreed to sell the property, his men would put out the fire; if the owner refused, then they would simply let the structure burn to the ground. After buying many properties this way, he rebuilt them, and often leased the properties to their original owners or new tenants.
- Comment on If this was all before you were born you just can't realize the how great the newest technology is 1 week ago:
As I recall, portable CD players skipped a lot. Not sure if they ever fixed that, I went straight from cassette tapes to MP3 players. Now those were a real game changer.
- Comment on Bro is lighter than light 1 week ago:
STEALTH 100
- Comment on Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Sprint to Remake Meta for the Trump Era 1 week ago:
Some training materials that Meta created for the new policies were confusing and contradictory, two employees who reviewed the documents said. Some of the text said that saying “white people have mental illness” would be prohibited on Facebook, but saying “gay people have mental illness” was allowed, they said.
- Comment on Mandela Effect 1 week ago:
One said says Nelson Mandela was in The Smiths, the other side says he wasn’t. Obviously the truth is somewhere in-between.
- Comment on Anon meets a woman 1 week ago:
> on a long plane flight
> hear the woman next to me say she’s worked as a hair model.
> fascinating.
> go back to gaming on my 3DS
> eventually fall asleep. wake up and see the woman next to me had fallen asleep too
> MFW technically I slept with a model - Comment on We overpaid you and need you to pay back $.23 1 week ago:
This is the kind of dad joke we need more of.
- Comment on Checking in 1 week ago:
- Comment on some folks need to see this 1 week ago:
Uhh… “Irony is like humor: if you have to ask about it, it’s not working.”
- Comment on In fact he is still the president. 1 week ago:
That’s not literally true. ~/s~
- Comment on What's the endgame when the rich have all the money? 1 week ago:
!creepywikipedia@lemmy.world
- Comment on There's fucking ads in board games now 1 week ago:
Well, I agree that we should collectively move away from plastic crap, so let’s hope that happens.
- Comment on There's fucking ads in board games now 1 week ago:
(different person here)
The contradiction is that if you buy a new object every time you do end up with lots of objects sitting in your cellar or attic looking like a dumpster. And nobody’s keeping a checkerboard for a century – your heirs will just throw it in a landfill.
If you make something yourself, at least you spent some time constructing it during which you learn something and keep your mind active. Ideally you use things you have laying around the house and when you’re done the thing can be re-used for a future project or recycled. And every once in a while you make something that’s a little different and you have something new.
But if it makes you feel any better, your side is winning. People are indeed buying Super Soakers instead of just using a hose. And to convince them, there are ads everywhere.
- Comment on Anon goes on holiday 2 weeks ago:
Other kinda fun places
- Comment on There is a fee to close my HSA account 2 weeks ago:
You know, I can look up the definitions of HSA and FSA and things like that, and I can have the definitions right there in a document on my screen, but they still don’t make any sense to me in terms of how they relate to me specifically. A lot of times they seem like they depend on me predicting things in the future that are unknowable, like my future health or how and where I will be billed for something. And that’s assuming I also look up related terms like APY and deductible and figure out what those mean. If I ask any HR people they’re like “just contact the provider for an explanation” and I’m like yeah, I totally want to deal with the phone menus and hold times of some faceless corporation, just to have them pull some BS like OP’s talking about.
Sorry about the rant. I guess that’s what I find mildly infuriating.
- Comment on Anon admits they were wrong 2 weeks ago:
That’s right! Now I can put “Markdown” on my resume!
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