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Heloin
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Postby Heloin » Thu Aug 06, 2020 7:57 am

Ethel mermania wrote:
The Huskar Social Union wrote:But i am Rojava Free State


At least Rojava Free State as he should have been.


I AM SPARTACUS!

I'm Rojava and so is my wife.
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Ethel mermania
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Corrupt Dictatorship

Postby Ethel mermania » Thu Aug 06, 2020 8:06 am

Andsed wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:
I AM SPARTACUS!

Good for you. No idea how your Spartacus when he died in battle but aight. Ready to be crucified?

I am married, I am prepared
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Dumb Ideologies
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Mother Knows Best State

Postby Dumb Ideologies » Thu Aug 06, 2020 8:23 am

As people are talking about jobs, mine might well disappear due to a likely upcoming merger from somewhere between two and six bodies in government cost-saving.

We've got savings but I'm not confident of finding another job as I got into the place I'm in via a placement scheme under the old welfare system nearly a decade ago having absolutely tanked every interview I'd done. They basically had me as free labour for a month with the government paying the wages and they were impressed enough with my work ethic to hire me. I've then moved upwards and sideways through the organisation the past 9 years, with managers approaching me and telling me to apply for things and the interview would just be a formality.

In a negative economic market and with a welfare system that's now much less about working with people to help find suitable jobs but more about pushing people to apply for anything regardless of suitability and fining them if they don't show sufficient enthusiasm the prospect of being out of work is something I've been losing a lot of sleep over.

I naively assumed that the tradeoff for being in the public sector was lower wages but that if you worked hard you'd be more or less guaranteed a job.
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Ethel mermania
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Corrupt Dictatorship

Postby Ethel mermania » Thu Aug 06, 2020 8:48 am

Dumb Ideologies wrote:As people are talking about jobs, mine might well disappear due to a likely upcoming merger from somewhere between two and six bodies in government cost-saving.

We've got savings but I'm not confident of finding another job as I got into the place I'm in via a placement scheme under the old welfare system nearly a decade ago having absolutely tanked every interview I'd done. They basically had me as free labour for a month with the government paying the wages and they were impressed enough with my work ethic to hire me. I've then moved upwards and sideways through the organisation the past 9 years, with managers approaching me and telling me to apply for things and the interview would just be a formality.

In a negative economic market and with a welfare system that's now much less about working with people to help find suitable jobs but more about pushing people to apply for anything regardless of suitability and fining them if they don't show sufficient enthusiasm the prospect of being out of work is something I've been losing a lot of sleep over.

I naively assumed that the tradeoff for being in the public sector was lower wages but that if you worked hard you'd be more or less guaranteed a job.


We are sort of in the same boat, the company is looking to push more work on the contractors and lay folks off. As I am vested in the pension I will get payout if I get laid off. I am also a little better off as contractors have unoffically offered to hire me if they could.

Look internally for transfers. Already having the knowledge as to how your organization operates puts you in a big advantage as compared to others. Take confidence in knowing that.. I know interviewing is hard for you so I would recommend practicing just to make you more comfortable doing it.
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The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
--S. Huntington

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 

--H. Kissenger
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Borderlands of Rojava
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Postby Borderlands of Rojava » Thu Aug 06, 2020 10:51 am

Infected Mushroom wrote:
Borderlands of Rojava wrote:Came home and my brother wasn't here. After his breakup with his girlfriend I was worried he did something stupid, but thankfully he is strangely at ifreeze. He replied to my text saying "gotta go back to ifreeze, b-." I said "when will you be home? 11?" No answer.

I realized last night that it's only us. After Melissa fucked him over, I realized that fact.


Are you Rojava Free State?


Guess.
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Postby Borderlands of Rojava » Thu Aug 06, 2020 10:51 am

Heloin wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:
I AM SPARTACUS!

I'm Rojava and so is my wife.


I'm Obama.
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Kannap
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Democratic Socialists

Postby Kannap » Thu Aug 06, 2020 1:10 pm

Borderlands of Rojava wrote:
Infected Mushroom wrote:
Are you Rojava Free State?


Guess.


Hmm, probably not.
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Postby Atheris » Thu Aug 06, 2020 1:19 pm

Ethel mermania wrote:
The Huskar Social Union wrote:But i am Rojava Free State


At least Rojava Free State as he should have been.


I AM SPARTACUS!

I'm Batman.
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Mother Knows Best State

Postby Dumb Ideologies » Thu Aug 06, 2020 1:45 pm

Atheris wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:
I AM SPARTACUS!

I'm Batman.


But he's a coronavirus superspreader. Eek!
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Borderlands of Rojava
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Postby Borderlands of Rojava » Thu Aug 06, 2020 1:50 pm

Kannap wrote:
Borderlands of Rojava wrote:
Guess.


Hmm, probably not.


WRONG!
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Kannap
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Democratic Socialists

Postby Kannap » Thu Aug 06, 2020 2:02 pm

Borderlands of Rojava wrote:
Kannap wrote:
Hmm, probably not.


WRONG!


Contrary to popular belief, I'm right.
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Ethel mermania
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Corrupt Dictatorship

Postby Ethel mermania » Thu Aug 06, 2020 2:22 pm

Kannap wrote:
Borderlands of Rojava wrote:
WRONG!


Contrary to popular belief, I'm right.


Evidence

viewtopic.php?p=37492294#p37492294
https://www.hvst.com/posts/the-clash-of ... s-wl2TQBpY

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
--S. Huntington

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 

--H. Kissenger
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Atheris
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Ex-Nation

Postby Atheris » Thu Aug 06, 2020 2:26 pm

Kannap wrote:
Borderlands of Rojava wrote:
WRONG!


Contrary to popular belief, I'm right.

This has the exact same energy as this scene from AAI.

Image
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Heloin
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Postby Heloin » Thu Aug 06, 2020 2:41 pm

Ethel mermania wrote:
Kannap wrote:
Contrary to popular belief, I'm right.


Evidence

viewtopic.php?p=37492294#p37492294

Indisputable proof right there.
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Ethel mermania
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Postby Ethel mermania » Thu Aug 06, 2020 3:13 pm

Heloin wrote:

Indisputable proof right there.

Thats what I said.
https://www.hvst.com/posts/the-clash-of ... s-wl2TQBpY

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
--S. Huntington

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 

--H. Kissenger
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Scandinavian Liberal Paradise

Postby Abserdia » Thu Aug 06, 2020 5:42 pm

Oh my god.

[sung to the tune of California Dreamin' by the Mamas & the Papas]
Black lives matter

Recommend me shoegaze and ambient music.

So long, Frank Lloyd Wright
I can't believe your song is gone so soon...
I barely learned the tune
So soon, so soon
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Postby Borderlands of Rojava » Thu Aug 06, 2020 6:03 pm

My brother said to me "Albanian music is the new country and western." I said "that's some fucked shit, the idea of Albanian country music."

How does that even work? Those genres are so different, like just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.
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Postby Sundiata » Thu Aug 06, 2020 6:47 pm

Borderlands of Rojava wrote:My brother said to me "Albanian music is the new country and western." I said "that's some fucked shit, the idea of Albanian country music."

How does that even work? Those genres are so different, like just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.

I agree but sometimes progress comes from the least expected places.
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Left-wing Utopia

Postby Andsed » Thu Aug 06, 2020 6:52 pm

Okay I am just convinced the Romans had the thickest plot amour ever. Like the Crisis of The Third Century should have collapsed the empire but somehow it survives to 1453(yes I count the Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empire.) The writer Roman favoritism is so blatant. :p
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Postby West Leas Oros 2 » Thu Aug 06, 2020 6:54 pm

Borderlands of Rojava wrote:My brother said to me "Albanian music is the new country and western." I said "that's some fucked shit, the idea of Albanian country music."

How does that even work? Those genres are so different, like just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.

On the subject of random crazy shit, I've been listening to Yugoslav Synthpop recently. It's actually pretty good.
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Postby Borderlands of Rojava » Thu Aug 06, 2020 6:55 pm

West Leas Oros 2 wrote:
Borderlands of Rojava wrote:My brother said to me "Albanian music is the new country and western." I said "that's some fucked shit, the idea of Albanian country music."

How does that even work? Those genres are so different, like just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.

On the subject of random crazy shit, I've been listening to Yugoslav Synthpop recently. It's actually pretty good.


I once listened to Albanian rock. It was a song by this one Albanian singer, she was hot ngl. It was from the 90s...damn, so they were straight up dodging bullets back then.
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"The devil is out there. Hiding behind every corner and in every nook and cranny. In all of the dives, all over the city. Before you lays an entire world of enemies, and at day's end when the chips are down, we're a society of strangers. You cant walk by someone on the street anymore without crossing the road to get away from their stare. Welcome to the Twilight Zone. The land of plague and shadow. Nothing innocent survives this world. If it can't corrupt you, it'll kill you."
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Postby Borderlands of Rojava » Thu Aug 06, 2020 6:58 pm

Couldn't find the song I was referring to so ima just post some Chicana synthpop by Snow Tha Product and say we straight: https://youtu.be/LVhhJxf6yEM
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"The devil is out there. Hiding behind every corner and in every nook and cranny. In all of the dives, all over the city. Before you lays an entire world of enemies, and at day's end when the chips are down, we're a society of strangers. You cant walk by someone on the street anymore without crossing the road to get away from their stare. Welcome to the Twilight Zone. The land of plague and shadow. Nothing innocent survives this world. If it can't corrupt you, it'll kill you."
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Postby Aeritai » Thu Aug 06, 2020 7:14 pm

https://youtu.be/OKDR1Q19BzU

Apparently people had trouble opening milk cartons in the 70s?
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Ethel mermania
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Corrupt Dictatorship

Postby Ethel mermania » Thu Aug 06, 2020 7:26 pm

Aeritai wrote:https://youtu.be/OKDR1Q19BzU

Apparently people had trouble opening milk cartons in the 70s?

It was a dark time, Many still had rotary phones.
https://www.hvst.com/posts/the-clash-of ... s-wl2TQBpY

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
--S. Huntington

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 

--H. Kissenger
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Infected Mushroom
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Corrupt Dictatorship

Postby Infected Mushroom » Thu Aug 06, 2020 7:40 pm

Borderlands of Rojava wrote:
Infected Mushroom wrote:
Are you Rojava Free State?


Guess.


... yes?

(Was I correct?)
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