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«A Memento Mori with a skull and crossbones» ~ Philips Gijsels, (1650)

db-v0id-deactivated20260530

i need to have a lesbian love affair that ruins me forever this summer. or next summer. or any summer i’m open to options and constructive criticism.

offshoreoilrig

it's lowkey so cringe but i literally need a sense of duty and honor in my life

beardedmrbean

Next up someone is going to claim that the Narnia series isn't kids books.

Kids books is probably not the best way to word it, you can enjoy them at every age, including your childhood, as you get older you may find new truths in them, but they're still good for any age.

cookingwithroxy

I want you to understand this. I NEED you to understand this. My mother read me the hobbit as bedtime story, and I started pushing myself to read before pre-school so I could in fact read the hobbit for myself instead of having to wait for bedtime.

I didn't do so right away but jesus wept I PUSHED myself to learn to read SPECIFICALLY so I could read The Hobbit! It is, in fact, a children's story! And children only see page count as 'there is a lot of this fun story to read!'

hunter-rodrigez

Like... come on man, 310 pages isn't even what I would've considered a particularly long book as a kid.

now-for-wrath-now-for-ruin

......I read LOTR as a 9 or 10 yo dyslexic child. It took me a week or two of non-stop reading to finish each book but I was so obsessed with them because of the films I just powered through. And I learned to read very late, like only couple of years prior reading LOTR. It's wild to me that someone could think it's unheard of for kids to read Hobbit.

hungrynikita

“You read a 310 page book as a child?” Yes, and then I devoted my full attention to annoying my dad until he caved in and took me to the library to get more by the same author. Repeatedly. This isn’t a humble brag, it is EXTREMELY common even in the current screen era for kids to read books of this length.

When adults act astonished at the idea of children reading it comes across as a defense mechanism. Don’t come on an English-speaking website and act like you’ve never heard of the Harry Potter franchise. You know perfectly well that kids who want to read will read, and the same is true for adults. You didn’t and don’t want to read, which is your choice! But nobody needs to pretend this an issue of children’s capacity to read rather than your own personal choice to deprioritize it.

alfedena

Entry level jobs haven't existed since the 2008 crash. 90% of hiring managers won't hire recent graduates. A quarter of job listings are ghost jobs. Companies hire part time so that they don't have to give benefits. Federal minimum wage hasn't increased since 2009. The True Unemployment Rate is 25%. Master's are the new bachelor's. For most the job search takes over a year. 75% of resumes are never. actually seen by the hiring team.

vergess

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Imperialist core entry level jobs have been replaced with outsourcing for the working class and internships for the wealthy.

The lack of entry level jobs means that recent graduates are not hired because they are expected to know in advance how to behave in the workplace rather than being trained when they begin working.

Actually as many as 1-in-3 job listings are fake, because this allows companies to claim they are "actively recruiting and growing" even when they aren't, which looks good to investors and can lead to government benefits as well.

In the US, hiring several part time jobs allows companies to save about 30% on benefits compared to hiring one full time job. This is directly because of the US's predatory healthcare system and lack of the worker protections common in other imperialist core economies.

The US minimum wage has been static for my entire adult life, in part because efforts to pin the minimum wage to cost of living metrics are constantly stonewalled by wealthy political groups.

The US labor participation rate is around 80% of abled adults, which yes, does mean about 20% of abled adults are not working, but perhaps much more damningly, this is actually very high participation compared to a lot of US history, and yet the cost of living and pay are so mismatched that quality of life is reaching impressive lows.

Masters degrees are being devalued as a consequence of the prior devaluation of Bachelors, that itself caused by the destruction and devaluation of compulsory public schooling in the US. This combines with the absence of entry level positions in deeply fraught ways.

I am unable to corroborate the claim that US job searches average greater than a year. However they do average well over 7 months, and the US's notoriously spiteful and underpaying unemployment system cuts off support much sooner than that. If you can even get unemployment support in the first place.

And finally, yes, 75% of completed and successful applications will be automatically rejected by machines without human oversight. That's for complete applications on the company's own site with resumes attached. Just plain resumes, and applications completed on third party sites like Indeed, have much worse numbers than even that.

junkfoodcinemas

Jurassic Park (1993)

#notice that this is a night time scene and yet everything is perfectly visible 🤔#<- prev #bring back LIGHTING

kiefbowl

it's like actually insane how many men go online and admit to abuse and then are shocked when people are like "wow that sucks dude." and they're always like "what?? people can't change?? you want me to lie about it?? none of you will forgive me??" like dude you forgot that the internet is kinda not real for a second and we don't know you and you could have kept that shit to yourself but thank you for letting us know! so we can block! fucking narcissistic weirdos omgg