You can of course quit now, but that will mean you’re job hunting while unemployed, which is a far worse scenario. You can also just put up with it, but it sounds like that’s a shit scenario too.

So the best course of action you can immediately take right now is go window shopping for a new job until you find something you like. Whether it comes by this week or six months from now, you have the luxury of having nothing to lose here and you have the best hand.

Even look at getting a new certification if you feel like it and if you can—ball’s in your court. Every time that little bastard undermines you, let it be the fuel that’s encouraging you off to greener pastures. Explain that in your exit interview, and remark on how they’ve come up with an interesting employee retention strategy.

I have a friend that says, “Well shit on my face.” whenever something amazingly unbelievable is true. The way they say it so stoically, naturally, like it’s normal, it’s usually responded to like, “I know right- what?!”

Americans still actively use telephony services?

I just don’t use the Phone and SMS apps. Haven’t for years. It’s old tech that’s only used by bots and scammers.

Get with the times. Just block them. You’re basically putting an ad blocker on.

In their defence, there is no defined point. There are people out there that are so anti-assumption that it can take them a while. They will eventually reach a point like, “Well if there were defined conditions, surely they have been met by now.” Basically it must be so full-scale that there can be no room left for doubt.

Unfortunately, such input is typically too little too late; it’s just agreeing with the obvious because it’s already so obvious.

Same. I’ll check out things around me like any normal person, but I rely on my hearing to tell my eyes to look for something specific.

I think too, some people have a very wild imagination. There’s no second thoughts getting in a car, despite the chances of being seriously harmed in one making the chances of being attacked in public comparatively inconsequential. You are just extremely unlikely to ever meet one of the very few people that would initiate unprovoked public attack. But parents, crime shows, and movies tell us otherwise—it doesn’t hurt to be cautious, anyway.

DV isn’t gender-specific (loosely 25% male victims, 75% female, but obviously that’s up and down on country)

Femicide is gender-specific with an estimated 0% male victims.

Big fan of We Lost the Sea, especially the album Departure Songs.

5/10. Understands what’s going. Could certainly be better, but fuck ups are uncommon.

If they unloaded the goods to another truck really fucking fast, maybe. Otherwise they’re just being recorded on top of a giant GPS beacon that’s alerting a system that something abnormal is happening so rally nearby law enforcement. It’d way easier to hold up a bookies, with a shotgun, Saul.

I can’t really imagine people wanting to hijack a truck that’s basically a giant camera and tracking system.

The Intel:

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Seems right to me. Think in centuries and not your lifetime. Your lifetine is more likely to span two centuries, so while the 1950s was just recently, you’ll be in the 2050s.

There is growing speculation that Russia might be willing to halt its invasion along current front lines in return for significant concessions.

Well, obviously. If the US isn’t already in cahoots with Russia and are just that dumb, there’s a good chance they’ll continue being dumb by throwing them a much needed line.

Well I’m clearly not capable of your levels of communication and unfortunately haven’t been for some time.

I foolishly thought of people’s real world experiences to explain a reality, when all you wanted was validation of your claim by—I dunno—an ATM receipt, or something… As I said, I am struggling to communicate on this level. I am so daft, you see.

Have a W-shaped cookie. You got me!

Yes, I’m not sure why you think that wasn’t clear. Fills me with doubt that you grasped much else of my comment. Oh, well.

Assumptions will rarely end up in your favour.

You perhaps didn’t read they were teen backpackers? Of all the travellers in the world, find me a majority in the financial position to book all their accommodation with the confidence that no matter what, it’s going to be great because that’s the assurance of such a travel style and the price tag it comes with.

It’s not like you’re going to find the best deals online in a place with a hundred places to stay. Or maybe you can and that’s the irony of your assumption.

Apart from work trips, I can’t think of the last time I had accommodation all booked. I don’t really see the point of travelling if you don’t make plans after being there a while and getting to know good info from locals. A lot of the time locations or weather just sucks, so I keep on and adventure somewhere else instead. That’s kind of normal outside of resort holidaying.

Oh, I will. I’m getting along in years and am about to pick up split boarding for backcountry. I could learn to just ski, but I’ve lived life surfing and skating, so I picked up snowboarding real fast and been doing that a while now.

Kinda always been into the idea of towing with a snow mobile too, so maybe I can afford that around then haha

Don’t act your age. Get to a point where you’re so dismissive of your age you have to think hard about what your age actually is.

If I stopped and started doing things based on what I’m meant to do at an age, I’d be a miserable piece of shit. I just do and think what I want. When I’m 60, I’ll still be learning and doing what I want because I rejected the idea that I’m too old or too young for something.

Rather than setting sights on what you want to achieve, set sights on what you never want to become. The rest just flows around that and happiness is always there because you’ve identified what unhappiness is and stayed clear of it.

lol, and here’s me thinking I’ll get to finally loosen these bootstraps one day. Wouldn’t be Millennial difficulty if something nice happened for once, so why should I expect reprieve in retirement age? Probably just be anxious af anyway because not being abused by another generation seems too good to be true.