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  • searabbit@piefed.socialtoAutism@lemmy.worldBullshit jobs?
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    8 days ago

    I’m having the exact same experience right now. I had to quit my last job in consulting due to severe health issues due to untreated narcolepsy. I’m now working part time at a coffee shop and it’s amazing how rewarding work can be when 1. You actually get training because a consistent quality product is important when you’re literally feeding people and 2. As you said the work is easily quantifiable and rewarded so the whole job isn’t BSing your bosses and clients into giving you more money, which I’ve always struggled with… like morally. I don’t know about you, but for me, the perfect job would be part time entry level unskilled job and part time career job (or self employment). I think that would be most fulfilling.




  • searabbit@piefed.socialtomemes@lemmy.worldHe was very mature about this
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    12 days ago

    You just explained the connotation and presented it as a difference in definition, but an ultimatum is just attaching consequences to a “hard boundary” or “deal-breaker.” Usually, the consequence is just walking away from the relationship. I know in real life it often does turn abusive, and you can have an abusive ultimatum, “have sex with me or I will hurt you,” but it’s not inherently abusive.

    Even your examples are ultimatums but said more kindly.

    “I feel neglected when you play video games so much instead of spending time with me, what can we do to find something that works for both of us. If we can’t find a solution, I worry about the sustainability of our relationship”

    The boundary is “being in a relationship with someone who plays video games so much” and, assuming the status quo is not acceptable, what turned it into an ultimatum is “I worry about the sustainability of our relationship.” I.e., I’m going to break up with you if you don’t play less video games than you are now. Just because you would like to stay in the relationship and keep playing video games at the same rate does not make it abusive. What would make it abusive is if there’s a pattern of manipulation that puts the ultimatum in a negative context.







  • Yeah they’re definitely pointing fingers when it’s actually our (the US) responsibility to make sure food imports are safe. But they don’t want us to make the connection between budget cuts to the FDA and CDC and this outbreak. It is interesting that taco bell has been the fall guy as another Mexican-adjacent franchise when this is a huge produce supplier across fast food, grocery stores, and restaurant middle men suppliers.

    And on Michigan, they suffer from detection bias. They have much better systems for tracking outbreaks than neighboring states, so on paper it looks like they have 20x the confirmed cases of Ohio (similar population), but in reality they’ll likely have less total cases since they caught it early and sent out a public health alert which means it’s already on doctors’ radars when people come in with diarrhea. Funny how we love to shit on China for hiding or under-reporting data that makes officials look bad, but we are just as bad or worse about it.