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yofuckreddit
16d ago
I spend more time than average in fast food subreddits. I have just been tickled pink by one recently submitted to /r/jerseymikes. For those who don't want to click through, it's a meme image of the ham they slice for their sandwiches with the following text:
"Is that ham processed? If it's processed, I don't want it".
Ma'am, that is an eleven-pound whole slab of deli ham. It has no bones, fat, or connective tissue. It is an amalgamation of the meat from several pigs, emulsified, liquified, strained, and ultimately inexorably joined into an unholy meat obelisk. Goad had no hand in the creation of this abhorrence. The fact that this ham monolith exists proves that God is either impotent to alter His universe or ignorant of the horrors taking place in His kingdom. This prism of pork is more than deli meat. It is a physical declaration of mankind's contempt for the natural order. It is hubris manifest.
We also have a lower sodium variety if you would prefer that.
In any case, I don't care about it being a loogie in the face of the Creator or an affront to my GP when looking at my blood pressure. I'm very opinionated about what makes a good sandwich, and I think Jersey Mike's absolutely crushes the nationwide competition. I still recall vividly my first taste of a true Italian (complete with prosciutto!) from Lenny's in the Memphis airport 20 years ago that changed my life. That place is now a shadow of its former self, but it's interesting how times have changed. These places couldn't even survive in ideal locations in the southeast back when I was a Subway sandwich artist and now they're thriving. Awesome, because my palate was built for thin ham.
(Side note - the humorous caption above is in fact mostly incorrect for at least Boar's Head. Their process involves using whole pieces of meat but forming them through force as opposed to ultra heavy processing.)
yofuckreddit
24d ago
DO: Help single parent families with money and support structures (without actively incentivizing the status)
So much easier said than done. By helping, you incent. Hell: People grift Foster parenting, which is the worst way to get gubment money you can imagine. In comparison SNAP, TANF, and Section 8 seem like goldmines.
yofuckreddit
26d ago
landlords take a higher percentage of your income, taxes eat away at more, income inequality leads to your boss making more off of your back, and working harder is not really something that gets you promoted anymore.
I'm in an extremely advantageous position compared to most, but I still feel that meaningful progress is becoming increasingly difficult.
Progress towards what, you might ask? I'm not sure I know myself. FU money perhaps. Feeling safe enough to take a lower-paying job at some point.
How much of this is a cage I've built on my own. OP discusses the difference in men's and women's ability to lead a simple lifestyle. I've actually lived on my own as a bachelor for probably only 2 weeks of my life. It was fucking amazing how simple it all could be. Even with a job and a dog as complications. The only "gear" I needed was the apartment's gym nobody ever used and my gaming PC. Plenty of social time. Losing weight and getting stronger. Entire living space immaculately cleaned.
Children make things more complicated. I spent two precious hours of "kids asleep" time last night trying to repair electrical issues in toys, only to realize I was missing necessary parts replacements that would be 2 days later on Amazon. $30 here and there, but every week, another system, another shipment of plastic wrapped in cardboard. It's hard not to occasionally take a hard look at all of it and feel a deep sense of ennui.
Will speak as a fan.
MMA is really the only bloodsport I watch. First, I love the progression from the prelims to the main event, with the latter often being not worth watching at all. It's very fun to watch in a group with 8 light beers and a pizza showing up.
What it's not: A way to fantasize about my own fighting capability
What it is: A way to observe the pinnacle of human achievement in pain tolerance and performance. Making our bodies into weapons is an insane counterpoint to modern western living. Sure you can get like... 60% of that experience by being a traditional athlete, but nothing comes close to the insane violence in MMA. It gets my blood pumping, and even the women's events are a type of masculinity that the elites have done their best to smother everywhere.
yofuckreddit
28d ago
Finished Cryptonomicon. 5/5. Neil Stephenson has an interesting approach to relationships and sex. It stands out a bit because many books that feel like this (and Anathem) just skip them entirely. I think Cryptonomicon did a better job overall.
As I read it I thought "this is great but it was clearly written just a couple of years ago" given it's references to crypto currency. No - 1999. Amazing.
I lust, I yearn, I ACHE for late 90s hackerdom like you wouldn't believe. Two pieces of art have sparked my imagination in a way to have made me wish I was born 10 years earlier or smarter: this and the movie Primer. Halt and Catch Fire not bad either.
I also have some simple, base pleasures that I know are bad for me. The Japanese being wrecked in WWII is one of those things, and so that was an unexpected and happy bit of catharsis.
Now digging into Circe which has also been excellent so far!
yofuckreddit
25d ago
I am an LDR vet(unfortunately) and have to echo that getting into meatspace as a goal is key.
How much emotional damage have you all inflicted on you? I ask because my first girlfriend was sourced the same way yours was. I was in the same position. The difference was that I was ~15 years old, so the years I wasted on a sub-optimal relationship could at least be considered "below the line".
In terms of showing affection and truly feeling it, I've found it helpful to actually think about what they do for me and what is awesome about them. You can forget these things when involved with someone for a long time.
If you're struggling too much to do this, it may have less to do with aspergers and more to do with them not being great. I'd need to know more about her to give more specific help.
yofuckreddit
25d ago
I feel like I'm perpetually in a whole at work: always many presentations/experiments behind where I should be, so I over-schedule to try and catch up and then end up not actually doing what I said I was going to do and falling further behind.
I'm not sure how many hours you're putting in. If you're in a position with high agency, people at the company are going to continually pile work on you. I have this feeling but I've also set hard limits about the number of hours I work and delay scheduling. Two sayings:
- "Better to whole-ass one thing than half-ass multiple things"
- "Slow is smooth and smooth is fast"
Just start pushing out deadlines and making people get in a real queue. They'll start doing their own jobs at some point. It may not be as good as what you'd do but it'll be something.
yofuckreddit
4d ago
I am giggling like a schoolgirl. I'm sure the X team is feeling some heat, but to paraphrase Elon: If we're judging likelihood based on entertainment value, this was always going to happen.
yofuckreddit
16d ago
Pikmin is such a strange game for me. I was obsessed with the visual design and marketing, read so much about it.... but never really played it. The time limit wrinkle was such a big deal and one of the things that I thought was interesting. To this day it's still the game with the highest obsession/time-played ratio.
Strategy games in particular always have an interesting tension with QoL features that aren't apparent unless you're really into the genre. In Company of Heroes 1 and for most of 2's life, for instance, AT guns would fire at infantry despite being almost totally ineffective. Tank destroyers would do the same. Members of the community argued almost entirely against these units being smart enough to prioritize what they were best at automatically. The compromise was a toggle that allowed you to control the target validity algorithm. FWIW it's a feature that I'm still stunned anyone put up with not being in the game to start.
Provided advice to a guy in almost exactly your situation. He's doing a lot better now after investing ~3 years in his crappy job.
- $50k is low. If you're competent and patient, you can improve this.
- You can determine your relative skill by:
- Exercising via leetcode or codewars to see where you stack up
- Interviewing elsewhere
- If you are too lazy to determine your skill or exercise your skills outside of work, do not under any circumstances go get a masters.
- If you move out of your parents and towards your job, make sure the place you're moving to provides other benefits (economic, social, health [getting outside])
- Believing "a career" is antiethical to human life does concern me. Expecting growth from yourself in exchange for huge swaths of your time is not asking too much. Nor does a career have to be an endless treadmill of progress. Moving out of your parent's house and having a reasonable 401(k) is an OK place to stop striving. I'm sympathetic to there being limits to how much you should try, especially given progressive tax rates
You're correct that the industry will shrink for people who can't beat AI. I am still hiring, but have lost patience with people who cannot operate independently. The clock is ticking far more slowly than the world would have you believe, but you'll definitely want to muster up some energy to evolve.
You mentioned not having a plan, not thinking about money. You'd be surprised how easy it is. If you're starting at ground zero, can I suggest I will teach you to be rich? It's 80% correct and a short read.
yofuckreddit
12d ago
Prostitution is still considered low class enough it's not really an option for someone so public
yofuckreddit
23d ago
I agree with you, man. But you're talking to a depressed guy who doesn't really understand a retirement account and hasn't mustered the energy to move out of his parent's house.
What these platforms give you is simple setup and a quantifiable number of where you stand. When you contribute to an OS project you're trying to determine the starting quality of the project, how much "cache" it has, the value of your contribution.... much more complex.
yofuckreddit
27d ago
Like No_One, I really enjoyed both Snowcrash and Neuromancer but did find they were a bit heavily stylized for my taste.
Claude suggests both Altered Carbon and The Windup Girl - both of which I've read and think are less 90s style but share some elements of the sub-genre. Both very good!
yofuckreddit
16d ago
I hate to say it but I just disagree, and I say this as a big fan of JJs who will never turn one away.
I had the privilege of nerding out for an hour and a half with a dude driving a 720s whose vanity plate read frkyfst Both places use the same suppliers for meat, but the cuts are thicker at JJs, along with those for veggies. Their misfire on a bread redux, along with them now being on version 3 of the sublime kickin' ranch shows how much jacking of the formula the PE firm has been doing. The new toasted subs are absolutely hot garbage and destroy crew throughput. I have appreciated one or two of the LTOs though.
In comparison, I've found the bread at JMs to be more consistent and the veggies more generous. I have to beg the guys on the line at JJs to give me a reasonable number of tomatoes.
yofuckreddit
16d ago
It's been a pretty short time since the buyout relatively speaking, but that's a bummer.
For anyone with the app, I believe the code jmmissesyou is an evergreen code for $2 off a regular.
yofuckreddit
29d ago
They're still the same price I paid for it 5 years ago, and honestly the money I've paid for repairs would be totally fine if I had tried to be efficient (splurged a bit). Getting one on the right foot has been awesome.
It's not a perfect car. But the feeling when I step back inside of it after a long stint without it never gets old.
yofuckreddit
15d ago
None that I know of, but the locations nearest to me are a drive. It's like a burger CFA in my opinion. The kid's burgers are the same size as their normal ones so if you're looking to save some $ that's the play.
yofuckreddit
23d ago
I think that'd be the difference. Your approach is great for actually getting better and building confidence. For benchmarking, I'd argue it's not providing as much value.
I'll mention that I went on a camping trip in the mountains a couple of months ago. I brought along a friend whose endurance broke down at a very specific (low) point and could go no further. Rain that was not in the forecast came down.... heavily. Very heavily. It was the most extreme thunderstorm of my life, and I was in a tent in a flood plain at night. I was so exhausted that I slept but when I woke the next morning I felt lucky.
The point being perhaps that even a relatively intelligent and well-equipped pack of adults can fuck up and roll the dice. I wish the girls wouldn't have been camping there, but a quick google suggests this is a 500-year rainfall. It just sucks.
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