I used to have to as part of my job as an insurance adjuster for litigated claims. We had to respond to specifics in the court filings for our coverage decisions. It suuuuucked at first, but it’s mostly a boilerplate repetitive structure, so it’s not that big a deal once you get used to it, it’s easy to skim.

I used to work in the call center of a regional office for a giant company. I got the opportunity to “apprentice” with another department, which basically meant I would shadow the same employee for an hour or two a week for six months and then I could apply for a transfer and they’d hire me preferentially unless I seemed like a fuckup. The department was staffed with 90% former biglaw attorneys who didn’t want to deal with the rat race anymore and located in the main office. I felt like this the first time I showed up in my nice jeans and a fancy-to-me top to this incredible marbled building full of people wearing suits more expensive than my car.

I got that job, by the way, and less than two years later, it had demoralized me to the point that I left “per mutual agreement” and went back to school to move to an entirely different industry. I did also make enough money in that time to finance a move abroad, including living expenses for three years, visas, bringing my cat with me, and grad school though, so I’m not exactly mad about it in the end.

Didn’t you just post a question asking about this and everyone answered either neutrally or with the smart cat?

I’m sorry, but the choice of “wack” is the least believable piece of evidence that the police have claimed.

You’re telling me that a 26 year old with a political agenda used a misspelled 90s/2000s quasi-mobster-coded slang word in his manifesto to describe killing someone instead of all of the words that don’t have that connotation?

Sure, Jan. It’s definitely not a 45 year old NYC cop with a chip on their shoulder

People can be ignorant and even sexist without being manosphere. Neither of those strikes me as super Joe Rogan or Ben Shapiro-ey.

But yeah, we’re living in two separate worlds, and when a person ignores what half of us experience, it’s no different from a white person saying that black people just need to be polite to the police, the way they are. (As a teenager, I was regrettably that white person. But I’ve grown, and so can others in that situation)

On Lemmy? You probably get the absolute worst of it on /c/[email protected] , but you do a good job moderating if it’s here, because it never sticks around long enough for me to see it on there!

Rubio looks appropriately disappointed in himself.

It is!

“But I think it may be confusing some of our young people about antisemitism, because they learn about big, strong Nazis hurting weak, emaciated Jews,” she added, “…so when on TikTok all day long they see powerful Israelis hurting weak, skinny Palestinians, it’s not surprising that they think, ‘Oh, I know, the lesson of the Holocaust is you fight Israel, you fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people.’”

Bro, what fucking lesson did you take from the holocaust?

Yes. You probably shouldn’t actually try to outsource your kidney function to oysters

I think they’re making the joke that you could outsource body filtration to the oyster.

I’m assuming you’d at least fuck your throat though, because it’s not staying alive without the shell

This is related to my cat, not my dog, but I really like the question and there’s not a lot of engagement yet. I’m happy to remove it if it’s a sore spot.

I don’t know if I’m just 100% anthropomorphizing her or if she’s actually very in tune with me, but I’ve noticed that when I go to explain why my cats doing what she’s doing, my explanation actually says more about my emotional state than I’m even always aware of. Like, when I start to think that my cats overwhelmed, I should take a deep breath myself.

It could just be that we mirror each other and are very in sync, but it could also be that I just read my own motivations into her actions.

And the value it provides is enough to prop up the entire car insurance industry with incredibly inflated salaries at the top, and pay for a good portion of the damage caused by car accidents plus a fuckload of attorneys paid trying to avoid the rest of the damage.

Yeah, I was at least 2000 words into the wiki thinking that I could be down with the church hating Tolkien nerds, before it became obvious to me that they’re, like, ultra racist. I’m sure there are dog whistles, but they went over my head. This is a pretty descriptive line explaining why varg doesn’t call himself a Nazi anymore:

Among other things, he did not wish to be associated with anti-Slavic sentiments.

Nope, but I can see a photo of him blowing Clinton doing him in, as in destroying his support, after which all his charges coalesce on top of him

I wanted to be a naval pilot engineer at four. I’m colorblind, terrified of heights, not fond of authority, sloppy, and scatterbrained as hell. It’s quite possibly the worst possible job for me. To be fair, part of the reason was that I hated the word “bellybutton” and thought anyone who said ”navel” instead had the right idea, so it’s not like I really understood that part of it.

Ah yes, that’s the aspect of this situation you need to fix, the employee!

There are also people who are just crippled by test taking anxiety. That’s probably not a good indicator for their driving ability either, though

He’s probably gotta eat that much, though, and nothing makes eating less fun than needing to long term (so not just fries and milkshakes) bulk.

“Son, you know that’s just a metaphorical nickname, right?”