Both things that were highly forbidden even to talk about.

Ended up having lots of bad risky sex in uni.

All I see is *************

Ah the ol “toilet plunger lodged 1.3m in the rectum” caper.

That’s perfect! Now marketing companies have way better data on the addiction market segment which is handy because there’s still enough time to tailor custom ads for their psychological profiles which will push them towards products and political positions if we slip them in their social media feeds for at minimum 3 weeks!

Hero.

I was in charge with creating, designing, configuring, and running an e-commerce site on Shopify as well as responding to customer emails and orders. This was for a start-up. First orders would get a promo code for a 15% discount on a next purchase.

CEO tells me we need to get rid of stock fast as possible, so make a storewide discount on certain models. I go and do that.

We receive a bulk order of 50 of the discounted units while also using the 15% off promo code we sent out to early purchasers. Realized I should have put in a rule that doesn’t allow discounts to stack…

CEO and other members all unanimously voted to get rid of me a couple of hours later.

Oh man if you OP is trying to make Ottawa fun they can just forget about it. I lived there for over 10 years and I’m convinced the city doesn’t want to improve or be more fun. I left that place.

It’s okay to admit it, was just curious. Realistically the US political system IS a dichotomy. The only options that have a realistic chance of being elected are either Republicans or Democrats.

So you’ll be voting for trump then?

Derived from video game lingo and also the concept of “resource-maximizing”.

Ruminating on fake emotionally charged social altercations in my head.

It just kept happening. I couldn’t stop. Just felt the absolute need to “prepare” myself for bad events/fights with people so that I’d be “better prepared for it”. What a load of shit.

The mind is its own worst enemy sometimes.

Because streaming services are enshittifying and too many people are sailing the seas as a result. Can’t let that happen.

Fantastic and we as Canadians can give up on our goals of going full electric by 2030 because the population is priced out of these vehicles. Starting price is just shy of $50k cad for most available EVs.

My last job laid off over half of their staff. They hired a bunch during COVID after getting relief grants and then laid off whole departments once ChatGPT started to get popular. First it was marketing and communications. Had a work buddy who had some health problems there but he passed away a week after being laid off from a heart attack.

Then it was HR, to be replaced by ChatGPT as a bot. It started giving incorrect information so they hired 2 teams of consultants to work on that.

Then when that wasn’t working a third crew of consultants were hired but we never got a straight answer to what they were working on. Turns out they were working on a report to senior management of additional efficiencies the company could make? And guess what they concluded? More cuts!

So the company cut the IT department 15% and they figured it would be fair if they did it at random. I was one of the “lucky” 15%. I was asked to help train one of the consultants on one of our internal programs so I walk into the meeting room but it’s my manager and two security guards and she says “Your employment with company is complete, your position has been eliminated. Vacate your desk and hand over your laptop and badge”.

Very cold, no emotion. This was a woman who would joke with me on Teams and shoot the shit all day. Both security guards walked on either side of me out the door with my backpack. Felt like I was being arrested.

Found a job two months later. Blew through my entire savings and lost a friend of mine (yes heart attack but I still hold firm that the layoffs triggered it - he has money problems at home with kids. They didn’t deserve this). No severance pay but I was able to collect a little bit of employment insurance so I could still afford food to eat.

This has kept me from reaching out to all of my old friends. They ended up hanging out amongst themselves just like old times but I figured if they wanted me there with them too they’d invite me. Since they haven’t, they’re probably fine with me not being there/dont want me there. Oh well. Still makes me sad about missed interactions but I guess it is what it is.

I used to be toxic (maybe I still am?) so this is my punishment for it.

It’s nice to see people have hope. Mine was beaten out of me years ago. I haven’t really ever been surrounded by peer groups who thought similar to me politically so this all just seems beyond impossible.

I’m in rural Canada and you’d think we were the 51st state of the US. “F Joe Biden” flags on lots of houses and trucks driving around with two big blue Trump/Vance flags in the bed. These people are fired up. They’re not even American.

I pirated solid works because my university’s engineering program required what we PAY for it to complete our courses that absolutely required it.

I asked my mom if she ever made mistakes and without skipping a beat she just says no. Looked at me like I was asking something very strange. I was maybe 13 or so when I asked.

I’d almost bet money that in a year or two they’ll make it so that the latest version of windows cannot be installed in virtual machines

They don’t want you to have dual boot. They want you to choose.