I’ve got a couple dumb friends/colleagues too but just change the subject when they mention politics

Yes, I experience something similar working for one of the two major gambling companies in the US. It is possible to move and get a raise; several colleagues have done so moving to Black Rock or JP Morgan which both have high barriers to entry and are more demanding of your time.

I’m based in the UK so not sure if the job market is as toxic as the US with LLM CVs and HR/TA processing of said CVs. When I did recruiting a year or so ago I found a lot of CVs that people had generated from their LinkedIn profiles and they looked terrible: do not say you are a 10X developer rockstar on your CV!

At the moment I’ve been at the company for over 2 years so that affords me a lot of rights in the UK and in a climate where there are a lot of layoffs, I’d hesitate to move. Like a few years back I was being spammed with recruiters trying to get me to join Spotify months before they axed their entire data team - if I’d gone for it I would have been totally screwed and with a mortgage I don’t feel I can take risks.

I work in gambling and have done for over 3 years. I do it for the paycheck.

Edit: My last job was in adtech doing web attribution online and I initially thought at least the gambling customers are willingly signing up instead of just being spied on without their consent in many cases… Then I read some of the comments on my company’s subreddit and it made me wonder if certan customers were able to consent in a meaningful sense.

Where on the “knowing people” is understanding people can be too similar. Like Two Queen Bees arguing in a group is a classic but imo it happens to varying degrees in other personality types/facets like, "“Hey you guys both like guitar you’ll get along…” Awkward silence after 20 mins because some people put everything into their hobbies.

Want a feel if that is above or below water on the iceberg

more of a pedant

There are genuine integration issues in the UK so the anti-migrant bloc do have some valid concerns. However, there will be a non-insignificant amount of racists among them.

Weirdly, the “skipping the queue” rhetoric even works with fellow migrants. I have a friend from Iran who I used to work with that moved to the UK ~3 years ago; he’s way angrier about irregular channel crossings than the average Scottish person I know. I’d imagine spending a lot of money and years on a waiting list before being given a work visa was a grating experience though.

Their mode of entry into the UK was illegal but any asylum claims they make will be assessed as being potentially valid. I think you were saying the same thing but not sure.

The reason people are particularly pissed off is that Farage and co. have framed the debate as an issue of fairness. Essentially the charge levelled at the irregular migrants is queue jumping, which we don’t look upon fondly in our culture.

My dad had to remove me from the cinema when we saw Toy Story on release because I found Sid’s vivsected toys too frightening

Behaving in an emotionally disregulated manner, similar to how a child who has not developed as a person would do

These people should be hung, drawn and quartered

I have many social media type things and IRC hooked up to emacs which is also my IDE

Practical effects in Carpenter’s remake of The Thing are hard to beat

Popular people didn’t see themselves as popular, they just had a lot of friends from their perspective. Social structures are only really visible from the bottom-up.

There’s a director’s cut like version of Alien 3 that fixes many of the issues (and unfortunately creates a few new ones)

It’s definitely underrated due to a Seinfeld Effect like phenomenon where everyone feels like they’ve seen it - even when they haven’t.

I prefer El Topo to Holy Mountain as it has more of a uh script. Looks like they had a lot of fun filming the latter though!

Both of them are worth taking the time to watch though. Nothing else quite like them.

Shaun of the Dead is so good! I can’t believe I missed it from my list. Pretty much anything by Edgar Wright is amazing, I even enjoyed Midnight In Soho, which was his weird Giallo horror tribute.

• La Haine
• City of God
• Alien
• The Shining
• 2001 Space Odyssey
• The Exorcist
• Texas Chainsaw Massacre
• Blue Velvet
• 12 Angry Men

Edit:

• The 39 Steps (Hitchcock original)
• The Third Man
• Some Like It Hot
• Royal Tenenbaums

Edit2:

• Shaun of the Dead
• The Act of Killing
• Nosferatu (1979)
• Yojimbo
• Rashomon
• A Serious Man

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If you get a tattoo gun he can write a permanent apology on his skin

Pierce his other nipple