That’s basically it. They’re just there just in case they’re needed and many people actually can’t stand working like that. There are a ton of jobs where someone only needs to be there just so any potential work gets done right away. But it’s shocking how few people actually enjoy getting paid to do nothing most of the time. It definitely takes a certain mindset.

I work a similar job right now. I’m support in a factory. I show up to work with the expectation that I’ll only actually be working for maybe about 20-30% of my shift. If a machine needs attention or a production coworker has a question then I deal with it, otherwise I read a book. Whenever one of our production workers gets promoted to support, it always takes them months to get used to not working. They always start out trying to take literally every call just to have work to do and nervously twiddling their thumbs while staring into space at their desk when they don’t. Eventually they start pulling out their phone but they always look so guilty about it and hide it as soon as a boss walks by. And these are internal hires who even have the advantage of having personally watched me fucking around on my phone sending memes to my boss all day at work every day without issue. We actually just lost an external hire maintenance guy because he was constantly woried that he wasn’t doing enough work and was going to get fired.

I feel you man and I’ve been there myself. It fucking sucks. Whenever mine got bad I always noticed that the more work I missed the harder it was to go back to work. It’s a viscious cycle. And it makes the prospect of going to work feel like trying to drag yourself through a pile of broken glass. Just hang in there and muddle through. Depending on how long ago you started your meds and what you’re on they could be still ramping up. It can take months for some meds to fully stabilize. The only thing you can do is hang in there and do whatever you can when you can.

Is a pack what you call a group of doughnuts? Don’t they have a special word like a murder of crows or a congress of geese?

A World on Fire - Bo Burnham

Ah, going with the quantum bogo sort then.

Piss harder.

I don’t think the goal was to do damage.

Exactly! Vitamin C is dirt fucking cheap. It’s even in fucking Mtn dew of all things. It is not hard to add vitamin C to various cheap foods and drinks.

My best guess is that this “trump loving super patriot” didn’t like elon and was trying to make a point on what elon was doing to trump. The best way they saw to do so was a flashy explosion out of a cyber truck infront of a trump property. Of course if they loved trump then they wouldn’t actually care about maximizing damage to trumps building so they prioritized showiness over destruction. People also light themselves on fire in protest all the time. This was someone who wanted the same without the pain of burning to death so he shot himself before everything went up. If you were planning on killing yourself anyways why wouldn’t you do it in the truck.

If your only aim is that the explosion looks impressive then he made a perfect bomb.

This is why I love working in a blue collar field. Who needs professionalism. “Sorry boss, brain’s fucked today. Explain it at me like I’m an apprentice.”

Honestly, assuming I can keep getting the stimulants I need to function I would be pretty valuable. I’m good at fixing damn near everything, I’m good with a rifle, and I am an eagle scout with all the survival training that entailed. Of course without my drugs you might as well call me “emergency rations” for all the good I would do.

You say that, but I have had a pet snake since I was a child and because I was a boy child I assumed they were male. But once I got older it occured to me that I have no idea if they’re actually male or female (because sexing a snake isn’t as easy as with mammals) and it seems more likely that they’re actually female. But I’m not certain either way and I genuinely don’t care. So I’ve since started refering to them as they/them. My dad still points it out every time I do it. “Oh, you have multiple snakes?” It’s kinda weird considering he’s so progressive in every other way.

That’s why I just default to using libgen.

Fuck all of this

Normally when people say this it is at least a bit of an exageration, but not in this case. That is some straight up nightmare fuel.

Heres a taster for those of you who don’t want to read the whole thing.

…bisection of his thoracoabdominal cavity, which resulted in fragmentation of his body, followed by expulsion of all of the internal organs of his chest and abdomen…

One caveat to the second one. Child molesters go into the woodchipper. As long as they’re a “nonpracticing” pedo who is going to therapy and knows that their attraction to children is wrong then they’re fine. It is a mental illness after all. But the moment they do anything to a child then straight to a woodchipper, do not pass go, do not collect $200.

If you just got done giving birth in a stable because some diety decided to knock you up without your consent then you’ve earned the right to be a bit of a bitch.

I downvote random posts all the time while scrolling. I like to think I usually catch it but I’m sure I miss a few. Whenever I get random downvotes on innocuous comments I just assume it’s from someone else doing the same.

It jammed because he was using subsonic rounds. Even in factory built firearms, subsonic rounds frequently don’t have enough oomph to properly cycle the slide. It’s pretty normal to have to manually cycle the slide when using those and judging by how luigi performed in the video, he knew that.