I recently wrapped up two lengthy interview processes (2 months for each).

Both companies were aware I was in multiple interview loops

One company was super transparent about the process, where I currently was in the process, all sorts of updates and notifications of delays etc. This loop took a long time since it was for a senior level position on a foundational team & product for the company.

The other company was playing it fast & loose. Lack of updates of where I am in the loop. Outside of the first meet & greet where I used a tool to find time on the interviewers schedule, I was chasing people to find out when the next interview step would be. After what I thought was the last “vibe check” interview with their CFO, I was told I’d hear from their HR shortly. It took 10 days and two check-in emails before I finally heard from HR and scheduled a meeting, which turned out to be more interviewing. I’ve yet to hear back from them, and I fully expect that they want me to chase them.

Needless to say, when the first company presented me with an offer that had everything in it I was asking for with a nice little cherry on top, I accepted the offer with very few questions or hesitation.

Treat me and my time with respect just as I will treat you and your time with respect. I have skills you need to deliver products & services and you have means of generating income from the combination of my skills and my peers to grant me an income. If you don’t treat me & my time with respect, I’ll go elsewhere, or even decide to become a competitor.

1. Wrong spectrum disorder.
2. As someone with ADHD I wish I could get by without Adderall or similar stimulant. Even with stimulants, life is a fucking challenge. Struggling to listen to conversations that are important to you to only wind up thinking about another task or interest and getting lost in thought.

Hell, just yesterday I walked inside while gardening to grab some tools from a toolbag that was left inside, while repeatedly saying out loud what I was doing. Got to the bag, and completely forgot why I was inside even though I had said why 3 seconds before and had to close my eyes and focus for 10 seconds before it came back to me. And this is a regular occurance that happens a dozen times or more a day WITH MEDICATION.

The side effects of aderrall aren’t the most pleasant either. But the benefits of having some level of control of my brain, reducing the number of times thoughts drift away, and much much more, I take them. And I am somebody with mild-moderate ADHD issues.

Han has died.

Just your garden variety bigots and assholes then?

Also, I think you should read up on what facisim is and why it’s being so widely used right now as highly oppressive rhetoric is being pushed from many far-right leaders throughout the world.

Public humiliation. Letting them know their behavior is atrocious and it’s alienating them from their communities.

Free speech doesn’t mean you can say whatever you want without social ramifications.

I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, “no. get out.”

And the dude next to me says, “hey i’m not doing anything, i’m a paying customer.” and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, “out. now.” and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed

Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, “you didn’t see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them.”

And i was like, ohok and he continues.

"you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it’s always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don’t want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.

And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it’s too late because they’re entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.

And i was like, ‘oh damn.’ and he said “yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people.”

And then he went back to ignoring me. But I haven’t forgotten that at all.

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But at least you know how to sell stupid.

Resources (gold, zinc, iron, uranium, and oil) and large amounts of unused land for pet projects (think another super prison bigger than gitmo).

Good!

I was getting tired of going to corporate marketing parades disguised as Pride Parades.

I wish this was the reason they were backing out though.

In this case, since the slurs were a aimed at a white UK reporter by an unhinged white woman, it was jingoism.

Do houses even go for that cheap anymore?

After all the inflation, housing shortages, corporations buying housing, air bnbers, I figured houses across the board have become unattainable across the board.

Presidential decree it terrorism.

Hey now, there’s no need to be redundant.

It would be hilarious if Greenland intercepted them and deported them.

I was ewwing a Tesla as an Uber btw. Not you.

Ewww.

Also, have you ever tried to get into the back seat of a Tesla? It’s like they didn’t even think about adults getting into the back seat of that thing.

Daaaammmnnnn. A closed, and bankrupt toy company makes better cars.

https://youtu.be/eYwnU1DuJOo&t=13m16s

Most distros have a great getting started guide.

If you have an Nvidia card, make sure you’re looking at distros with Nvidia support and are using the correct installer version for Nvidia support.

Some great distros to look into with above in mind:

• PopOS
• Ubuntu: Nvidia requires a few additional terminal commands unfortunately.
• Mint
• Fedora
• A handful of others that I’m sure you’ve seen mentioned

Also avoid Arch linux unless you’re ready to dive into the deep end of linux. As much as I thing it’s a great distro, and abstracts away a lot of the difficulties or Arch, Garuda Linux, should probabaly be avoided as well until you’re more comfortable with Linux due to its Arch roots (even if the docs are robust, they dive deep on tech concepts and require tons of requisite knowledge).