I bought guns when I was a conservative because I wanted to fight what I perceived as a tyrannical government.

I retain those same guns as a progressive because I fear the government has now become tyrannical and will need to fight it in my life time.

Like most businesses, they’ve done the math.

Whatever PR value they lose is nowhere near the amount of value they think they will retain.

¿Por que los dos?

I’ve gone backwards. When I had nothing but time, I did fedora bleeding edge. Moved to ubuntu for almost 10+ years. Moved to Linux Mint last year and debating moving back to Ubuntu.

It depends on how she enters the industry. The vast majority of women enter via the “casting couch” or amateur “professional” route. If she has the right agent, she’ll get the same rate across the “usual” companies. She might get the most from the first shoot (maybe by $100-200) for the “privilege” of shooting her first video.

The companies are very familiar with each other and they work with the agent. So if they find out they weren’t the first, the companies might not work with the agent again.

During the pandemic, I was watching a lot of porn and wanted to learn the business side of things. From what I learned, a girl’s first shoot is often the most money she’ll earn for one shoot.

They can earn more but often require riskier sex (e.g. multiple men, more kink, anal, etc.) but for vanilla boy/girl scenes, it’s usually it.

Women can often make more if they become famous enough that the demand is there but it’s kind of like high school basketball players thinking they’ll make the NBA.

One thing that did surprise me was that there is not as much exploitation as I thought there would be. There is, of course, some exploitation but, much like any industry, there are shitty people everywhere. Most of the adult industry are pretty good people trying to do good things.

We need more Lower Decks memes.

Last time I tried to find a way to play it I went down this deep rabbit hole of pirating where it wasn’t clear what I was downloading. If you have a source where I can try my hand at it again let me know.

I liked it too but was never good at it as a kid though I imagine I’d kill it as an adult.

gestures at housing prices

If people could download a house they absolutely would.

What it is now:

• 5 stars = it was fine
• 5 stars plus glowing review = it was great
• 4 stars = it could have been better
• 1 star = terrible
• 1 star plus review = so terrible that I had to write something OR I’m a gigantic gaping asshole that likes to complain

I die on this hill for a different reason: the store holds the customer responsible for scanning or incorrectly scanning your merchandise. There was an article of a store calling the cops to arrest someone who accidentally forgot to scan something on the bottom of their cart.

Self checkout is a way for companies not only to get rid of a job, but to shift shrink liability to the customer.

If you’re going to make me scan my own merchandise, then the store should wave my liability if I get it wrong.

Rush Mount-more

I appreciate the encouragement but I realized long ago that the adage “love what you do and you’ll never work a day in your life” doesn’t hold out for me. I love coding, but hate doing it as a job.

I may enjoy woodworking but would hate doing it as a means to make money. The moment it becomes the sole way of making a living I get stressed and anxious.

For me, a steady and reliable paycheck would be better than a paycheck I have to chase, even if it means I get paid more and get to be my own boss. And I don’t have the capital to do the fun stuff (eg just woodworking) while someone handles the boring and annoying stuff (ie customer engagement).

The most I’d consider is selling premade/stencil/templated wood stuff on Etsy but don’t think it’d bring in enough money to make it worthwhile.

My therapist has been encouraging me to not neglect myself. Especially since this layoff process has been very long. So I usually devote at least a few evenings to job searching and networking and then other evenings to just things I want to do.

The anxiety is still a hard fight.

I’m about to get laid off and I’ve been thinking of returning to woodworking. I got all of the tools that I’ve used one or twice on specific projects. But with some time to actually dedicate to it, I might pick it back up.

Or my anxiety of not having a job will rear its ugly head and make me glued to my laptop.

The kinds of psychos that work at companies that measure performance by number of commits and PRs, successful or not.

There are websites that block copying to the clipboard. I wish browsers would block event binds to system keyboard shortcuts.

The question I often ask clients who think this way is "How much would it cost if it did fail? Let’s say this happened today. What would be the cost to replace it NOW and not only that but make sure people who are working can still do so with the interruption?

Now how much would it cost to schedule the interruption and manage the fall out in a way that is controllable?

For some, the catastrophic failure points to “hey I fixed the thing!” And the incentives for that kind of person are different from the person whose job is to mitigate risk.

It sounds like your boss is the former. In which case it’s going to be fun when it fails.