Rime posted:

Since everyone is quitting I negotiated concessions to come back and do this last chill job up in Canada, and go home once a month to see my partner instead of once every eleven. I'll negotiate more extreme concessions next week, what are they gonna do, say no when we need to hire 800 field techs next year to build this poo poo on schedule? In this job market? Ok, LOL.

Admittedly it is extremely hard to give up a job which my posting enemies fundamentally cannot publically admit is utterly pointless without in the process admitting that poo poo is past hopeless and were hosed - just to instead go make lovely marvel films or trundle rocks off cliffs above highways or *shudder* go back to Tech. The amount of bullshit eco-green-world-saving moral high ground I get to throw behind my doomsaying nowadays is compared to the rank hypocrisy I'd be living in my alternative résumés.

More deeply, I don't think I can live with myself if I don't spend the rest of my life raging against the dying of the light with my meager skillset, despite knowing full well everything that is wrong with this approach, so I'm trapped here because the growth-capitalist societal structure being clung to and enforced by the types in our mirror thread denies all opportunity for any alternative path forwards and this is what I can do without risking the premature termination of my life or riding it out in ADX Florence. Obviously I'm not saving the world, but everyone thinks I am, and I cannot psychologically handle idly sitting on a beach burning out till civilization implodes like some Liberal would. Years of protesting and sign waving and activism achieved a world which is demonstrably worse every year, so here I am pretending megawatts at my fingertips is a solution - because the crowd loves it and it assuages my horrific existential guilt of living and consuming in the first world if I don't think too hard.

Tune in tomorrow for when I post about how everything is bullshit and I'm quitting it all to spend the remaining five years of my life unemployed, because we're clearly totally hosed and nothing matters lol.

blatman posted:

i was just catching up on unread posts and when i realized you were the one posting that garbage i thought i was having a stroke

Rime posted:

Since everyone is quitting I negotiated concessions to come back and do this last chill job up in Canada, and go home once a month to see my partner instead of once every eleven. I'll negotiate more extreme concessions next week, what are they gonna do, say no when we need to hire 800 field techs next year to build this poo poo on schedule? In this job market? Ok, LOL.

RC Cola posted:

Lmao. Lol.

Mola Yam posted:

rime have you never seen a movie

don't you know how "one last job" always ends

blatman posted:

i was just catching up on unread posts and when i realized you were the one posting that garbage i thought i was having a stroke

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

what’s goku got to do with anything

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

what’s goku got to do with anything

bowser posted:

D&D are like the relatives who insist that if you just take the right blend of turmeric and milk thistle your terminal cancer can be cured. At best you know they mean well so you smile and say you'll look into it. At worst you pray the grim reaper hurries up and comes for you before they start talking about crystals.

CODChimera posted:

thread seems to be moving a lot faster than the old one. i suppose thats to be expected as conditions continue to deteriorate

Mike the TV posted:

and yet posting is not carbon neutral, so we are moving up the timeline with every post

Mike the TV posted:

and yet posting is not carbon neutral, so we are moving up the timeline with every post

RIP Syndrome posted:

Hmmm. How about a posting offset thread where you can post to offset the carbon from your other posts?

Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:

don't some forums like fyad decrement your post count each time you post? in theory posting there should work

Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:

don't some forums like fyad decrement your post count each time you post? in theory posting there should work

Hubbert posted:

CO2 ppm, DOW Jones, thread post count ...

Number must go up

Crunchy Black posted:

Seems not great
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/07/brazil-grain-train-amazon-indigenous-soya-beans

quote:

“The ‘Grain Train’ is going to happen,” Brazil’s infrastructure minister, Tarcísio de Freitas, told the hundreds of mostly male spectators who had flocked there in a caravan of high-end SUVs.

...

Mauro Mendes, the rightwing governor of Mato Grosso state, where the railroad would start, derided the meddlesome leftists supposedly trying to torpedo the plan, including the US senator Bernie Sanders, the Mexican actor Gael García Bernal and Greece’s former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis.

“Are we really going to lose to these guys? No! We’ll win this war – and we’ll fight with all the weapons necessary,” Mendes told the summit in Sinop, remembering how Native American communities were devastated by the construction of the US transcontinental railroad in the 19th century.

“We will build the Ferrogrão without killing a single Indian!” Mendes proclaimed to loud applause.

CODChimera posted:

thread seems to be moving a lot faster than the old one. i suppose thats to be expected as conditions continue to deteriorate

RC Cola posted:

Lmao. Lol.

bobmarleysghost posted: