I am 110% in favor of breaking the two party stranglehold. It’s long overdue. It needs to end yesterday.

But hot fuck, this is LITERALLY THE WORST POSSIBLE TIME to vote third party. I read here and on Reddit that people are promising to vote third party because Biden hasn’t personally solved the middle east conflict or whatever, but doing that in the presidential election amounts to screaming “fuck yeah I love Trump and everything he stands for”.

Vote Biden or vote Trump. There is no third choice. Doing literally anything else is a vote for Trump.

I’m a moderate. I tend to take a lot of what I read online with a grain of salt (as everyone should, but you know how that goes).

A few months ago I decided to try X again and see for myself. I thought “what if this is just exaggerated hysterics, and the site really isn’t that bad.”

No. It’s not exaggerated. It’s not hysterics. X / Twitter really is that bad of a dumpster fire. You can say “I don’t like Nazis” and a billion bots will accuse you of being a woke radical leftist.

Sold my well-aged account to a scammer, haven’t looked back.

You think I’m jumping through mental hoops for telling people to use an ad blocker?

Here’s a complete list of all the times someone else’s hair had any impact of any nature whatsoever on my life:

…wait what

Haha whoops, my bad. I always get that confused with Eraserhead.

The Stuff

Saturday the 14th

Terrorvision

Sssssss (note: not Ssssss, fuck that cheap knockoff)

Lawnmower Man (read the book first, then watch the movie, then go WTF did I just watch)

Nothing but Trouble (although this is more of a comedy. It is very clearly poking fun at Centralia and Pennsylvania)

Look Who’s Talking Now

That’s a really good idea!

I’m sure some do, but I also don’t hang out to watch “10 most fatal crashes (#2 will amaze you)” and “here’s a 10-minute SEO-optimized video to tell you something that would otherwise take 20 seconds to read” videos, which are probably typical “creators”.

The pessimist in me says to look out for a bill authored by Google to make adblocking illegal.

“These brave content creators, who produce such culturally significant shows as ‘Ow my balls’ and ‘Matrix 1999 [full rip]’, are being literally murdered by hackers who use adblockers. These pirates use their hacking technology to steal this content and threaten our very way of life. While we regret resorting to legislation, we are left with no choice but to show these thieves the harsh reality of the criminal justice system.”

I see a lot of people saying “but that’s how creators get paid”.

Listen: I didn’t put ads on my video. YouTube did. I can’t take them off and I don’t see a cent from them. Block away.

Good luck! The best advice I can give for IT these days is to not be afraid of learning and certifications. Far too many people get complacent in their skillset. I started at an ISP help desk back in 2006 and today I’m senior management. 99.9% of the people I passed on the way here had a mentality like “well I used to install stage 1 Gentoo back in 2003 so therefore I am a master Linux admin” and just refused to take on new projects / new areas.

You’ve got this!

I concur. A tie in an interview is almost always overkill, especially for help desk work. OP is perfectly dressed for what I’d expect for front-line IT. Hopefully their help desk has a more relaxed dress code, but it’s always good to go in looking professional.

And then they turn around and host tons of fight subs showing video of people getting the tar beat out of them. If that’s what adults want to watch then more power to them but so much for the whole “no mentions of violence are allowed” rule.

You have been banned for this content.

Reason: threatening violence

About 3 months ago I was banned for saying “People have the right to use like force to defend themselves against an attacker, including using deadly force. It’s not a happy outcome. But neither is being a victim.” It was a comment on an article about a homeowner who killed a burglar, so context is king. /r/news banned me and reported me for “threatening violence”. Then I got an account warning (whatever that means) by Reddit.

When I contacted the admin team, I got a ban for abusive reporting.

%reddit%.com is now blocked in my DNS. Fuck those fucks, they don’t even deserve my ad revenue from searches.