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Yep I actually asked them to pay for a $2500 certification and they did which includes 4 full workdays of training, so I'm pretty stoked about that. The training will skill me up so I can help with some extra work they need help with. It's a decent place to work overall but I am open to an opportunity if one shows up

Oh gotcha yep totally agree

I'm on a team of three and the two other ppl both quit in the same week a few months back. I am no longer breaking my back trying to cover for 2 extra FTEs. I'm taking Fridays off work every week from now until 2025 and the entire two weeks from before Christmas through New Years. I didn't take any time off work for like 3 months, I'm stressed out, tired, and cranky, they haven't hired anyone, they ignored my preferred candidate we interviewed for one position, and they won't even post the 2nd until 2025 at the earliest. Fuck it

My friend (who's an engineer) is so fed up with a neighbor doing this he's building an electric dog whistle that'll automatically go off. Seems a bit petty to me but 🤷

I totally understand that sentiment, being myself someone who voted for Harris as the better candidate, but I think the results show it wasn't abstaining anti-genocide voters who caused her shortfall. Millions of people who voted blue in 2020 didn't vote or in many cases actually voted red on Tuesday, way more than the few pro-Palestine abstainers likely amount to. And I doubt many ppl who care about Palestine would've switched and voted for Trump.

As much as I'd love a simple, singular group to blame for Tuesday's horrible result, it's way too early and multifaceted of an issue to do so imo. Depressingly, I think it's moreso just uninformed voters who thought that since inflation wasn't as bad from 2016-2019 that Trump would be better for consumer prices, and they didn't really think about it any harder than that.

And she lost a race against the clock by starting her campaign in the eleventh hour. Those Google search trends showed that somehow a nonzero amount of voters didn't even know she was the candidate and Biden had dropped out.

So many different variables in the mix make this election hard to compare to prior elections like 2016.

Wow what an icon. Rip.

I mean, the ballot said Trump on it, so he would read that much at least. I also know they manufacture toilet paper with his name and face on it as well, that might catch his interest enough to get him wiping himself instead of relying on some young staffer to change his diapers

Yeah that film was bizarre; I liked aspects of it but overall thought it was too weird

Yep this is the downside of being a discerning film lover with a friend group that watches movies together. I had this experience recently when we saw Longlegs (2024) in theaters. One friend LOVED it (he has notoriously bad taste), two friends thought it was decent, and I thought it was mediocre.

Agreed. It came across as preachy instead of entertaining, but it seemed like it was trying really hard to be entertaining.

Yet another reason to not do auto-updates in an enterprise environment for mission-critical services.