Hey! Did you make it there OK? Have you learned to play cricket yet?

• Talk to a trusted friend or relative.
• Ask them to help you set small goals like: 1) identify a couple mental health providers or life coaches or similar, 2) give some of them an initial call, 3) pick 1-2 to follow up with.
• Ask your trusted friend or relative to help you stay on track to accomplish those goals.

I’m just here to point out that Shaggy 2 Dope of Insane Clown Posse has a full Luigi costume

• https://media2.metrotimes.com/metrotimes/imager/insane-clown-posses-hallowicked-2024-show-in-detroit-was-a-glorious-faygo-drenched-mess-photos/u/zoom/37749825/2t2a0125-2.jpg
• https://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/insane-clown-posses-hallowicked-2024-show-in-detroit-was-a-glorious-faygo-drenched-mess-photos/Slideshow/37749699/37749865

“Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business…” - 1 Thessalonians 4:11 (NLT).

That was surprisingly good, an effective use of form.

it’s not that revolutionary

I’ve heard that it has innovative easy-to-use video editing software. I kinda wanted to try it out, but not badly enough to download and install it.

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.

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.

This is too insightful to be a shitpost.

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?”

Had a similar experience with a grad-level math class where the prof just handed out a sheaf of handwritten mathematical proofs. The class involved reading the proofs out loud and the prof explaining them. Excellent class.

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.

Ice Cube - No Vaseline

Nice!

I’m on Hooon’s side. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

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Killer comic. Last panel’s a little weak though. Maybe it should break the fourth wall, like the guy looks at the reader and is like: “This is causing all the world’s problems.”

Now you’re trolling even HARDER!

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.