chaircher

you would like Geowizard's crossing a country in a straight line series on youtube

Be in tune with your local community. I get wind of problem clients AND problem partners or suppliers long before we're even on each others' radar.

Try and surround yourself with people you trust so when someone says "xxxxxx is super unprofessional" you know they're being legit and they're not just trying to cover their own back or running saboutage.

My main mistake was not paying attention to adjacent businesses and underestimating how destructive they can be. Who's in your office block? Who did you graduate with? Try and identify problem people in these groups and pivot away from them

may be regional dialect

I try to look for work that causes the least possible harm rather than try to find something that causes no harm, because that's almost impossible. And also, if you find that job, the competition for it is so fierce can you really claim that by you having it you've put any more good into the world than if the next person had it?

Don't be disheartened. Like anything else in life you have to sort of slowly pivot in the right direction. If you've only just started thinking about this sort of thing and you're serious about it, it's going to get real uncomfortable. But it's totally worth it.

This is why I lost interest in a career in accademia and set myself up in industry. I saw one too many situations like this where people assumed they'd be stopped by the institution if they took things too far and they were not.

I was trapped by a 'bug' that meant the verification code system was broke. After a couple weeks of no luck I coincidentally set up pi-hole on my laptop and it seemed to de-bug the page or do something to otherwise break the loop that had me stuck, which resulted in me getting my account back. At the moment I'm using insta on mobile again as I'm not convinced I can repeat the fix a second time but am keen to move my business off there and somewhere else

might be to articulate the privacy issues. As in, the cameras aren't just technically on his property but they're filming his whole life

How long have you been doing this and has it caused you to get locked out your account at all? I used to use instagram on desktop only but the account kept getting suspended, which stopped happening once I reverted back to using the mobile app. Anecdotally heard this was happening with other people too. Would be useful if mobile web was a work around?

No, because the same selection bias that chooses horrible and incompetent adults will choose horrible and incompetent teenagers. Have you seen the state of student politics?

Plagerism is rife in academia.

Once too often I've filled someone in on why we need to talk before we actually talk, only for them to use the email to cause grief before the actual meeting.

I did also once have a manager who chronically used "we need to talk" for every conversation out the usual routine and got everyone stressed out for no good reason.

Best thing to do is to not work in ane enviornment where things are so toxic to begin with.

Live somewhere for a long time and in a close knit community. Eventually you hear through word of mouth long before you even consider applying.

No but you need to figure out how you could have found out about this disfunction in the interview process and apply it to your new job search, else you risk ending up in a similar situation again

"I’m not entirely sure the migraines even existed. On a few occasions, Jack admitted to me that he faked being sick to get out of school. It’s plausible that Jack made them up to get out of school or socializing, and his well-meaning but enabling parents let him do it."

Oh come on man, occam's razor. Debilitatingly painful and difficult to treat medical condition in childhood results in social isolation and an opioid addiction. A kid faking being ill once doesn't discount an entire life ruining disability.

They stop working once everyone knows about them. If your attacker knows your codeword it stops being a codeword

A lot of these people prefer the stability of knowing their income over a long period of time, rather than focusing on maximising profitability and therefore losing time working on their craft and also introducing instability longer term. My job is similar to this sort of thing and I have gone down the maximising profit route, and even though I've not pushed it to an extreme it can be difficult to stay disciplined about it. You lose a lot of time to it, as well as intelectual bandwidth - you're bouncing back and forth between business brain and craft brain a lot more. Crafts people also tend to be more community orientated which likely reflects in their pricing.

They are presumably a lot better a getting reviews they don't like taken down

a great example is doc martens, and then infuriatinly once we'd all jumped ship to solovair they went the same way

Where I lived a lot of the service industry was closed most of 2020 / it was open but no one went in, but it was the first year where I saw widespread hygiene issues at supermarkets, commonly finding out of date or spoiled food.

Everyone thinks their family will never battle like that, or if they do think that they mis-evaluate who the risky party is or how bad it will get. Get a solicitor/lawyer ASAP and more importantly, be wary of ANYONE who tells you you don't need one or who leaves you feeling under time pressure about things like organising the funeral or deciding how to split the estate.

When you want to cancel something and it looks like they might start giving you grief, write to them via physical mail on signed-for delivery. Specify in the letter they are to respond to you by writing only.

If at all appropriate label it as a complaint or send it via the complaint department and do some quick research in advance on how to escalate the complaint outside the company. Then find a way to let them know that you know how to do this in the letter, for example by writing something like "the ombudsman states you have x weeks to respond to me before I can escalate this situation with them".

Companies cannot dictate to you that you cannot write to them. They try very hard to stop you, but it does not hold up. When you do write to them it shows you won't be fooled by their crap and they will stop messing you around. If you can't find a contract address on their website, google their head office.

I am under the impression this varies wildly from country to conutry but am unsure - maybe someone else can chime in to confirm/deny?

For me I mostly avoid blends for the same reasons outlined above but they are a good compromise, and sometimes you do just have to compromise. It's great when you can find items with non-synthetic blends like a silk/linen knit jumper I have which is the best of both worlds.

Good quality silk can go in the washing machine at 40 degrees in wash bags (although where I live it is not normal to use tumble driers, we just hang clothes outside or on radiators. So I do not lose any time by hang drying silk because I do it with all my clothes anyway). Never had the shrinking issue with cotton interestingly, but do find cotton/elastic blends are not as durable as more synthetic options. Cotton is something that can have wildly varying qualities and be constructed in completely different ways. I hate wool to be honest. And most linen I have come across has been weirdly see-through? Although linen is good upholstery material in my opinion.

Facebook are very good at having convenient errors like this

Yes and there's a trap where once you learn one version of this you can go too far the other way trying to balance your personality out.

And it can also be the case that you're doing both at the same time - thinking about the community I am from, people treated other people like that because they were being treated like that themselves.

A few points:

Synthetic clothes (ie manmade fibres like polyester) are mostly made of plastic which is really really bad for your skin and your hair, especially if you have eczema.

Non-synthetic clothes pack more bang for their buck when it comes to protecting you from the weather - a thin wool jumper does so much more than a bulky polyester one, a cotton top will let your sweat out which is so much better for both summer and winter, and so on.

Synthetic materials are often used because they are cheap so it serves as a good (but heavy handed) litmus test about the quality of garment, because if they've cheaped out on the material they have probably cheaped out elsewhere in the process.

Fire resistance - I wore a synthetic dress near a fire recently and as embers fell on me it literally just melted holes into it.

If you're interested do what I did - find all the cotton, linen and silk in your wardrobe and priortise wearing those clothes for a month. Then you will start noticing the synthetic clothes feel uncomfortable. Wool is also non-synthetic but a lot of people find it difficult to tolerate. Don't forget it's not just clothes, it's bedsheets too

1.Curate your relationships more harshly.

2.Ready meals are better than no meals.

3.It is not your responsibility to rescure people from situations they put themselves in because they want to be rescued.

4.You don't have to pay your dues by working shit low wage dead end jobs for no reason - just apply for what you actually want to do.

5.Job stability is an illusion.

6.Be wary of people who encroach on your goals and achievements.

7.You are not a side character or an audience, and your life is not a stage for other people to trample across.

8.Wash your damn hands and don't hang out in enclosed spaces with people with contageous illnesses.

9.Buy non-synthetic clothes only.

Is this woman involved in gamergate? I genuinely don't know anything about the tweet author or any of the context which is why I've asked for more info

You might have posted on the wrong comment thread? This one was me asking for context for a bad-faith read of a vague tweet

Is there any more context to this? Because the tweet is vague and assuming it's about posts like this seems like a bit of a jump unless you've got further info about it