me, after being extracted: bad news guys, I totally blew Dave’s cover.
my boss: Wait, what?
me: Yeah, like they had knives and shit and it was kind of stressful so I just told them that my contact’s name was David Johnson. Really sorry about that.
boss: We don’t have a David Johnson working for us. Are you thinking of James?
me: Okay, so this is super embarrassing. I know he told me his name when we first met but I forgot and at this point it would be weird if I asked him for his name again, right? So I just kind of go with “sir” whenever I have to talk to him. It might be David though. He looks like a David.
I would be the worst spy of all time because on one hand I overshare like hell, but on the other hand I also have THE shittiest memory so it’s really a lose/lose scenario for everyone involved.
- It’s set to premiere next month, October 13. ‘The Korean remake, titled “Leverage: Con Artists” (literal title), will tell the story of Lee Tae Joon, an elite insurance investigator turned scam strategist who recruits the best “players” in order to catch the real criminals who think they’re above the law.’ (x)
- Lee Dong Gun will play Lee Tae Joon, a man of principle who becomes the leader of a team of con artists. He was once known as the “Grim Reaper” of con artists due to his role in evading every trick in the book with his intelligence and insight, but after an unexpected incident, he will bring together the best con artists he once caught with his own hands to bring down society’s true criminals and show an authentic “implementation of justice.”(x)
- Jeon Hye Bin will take on the role of Hwang Soo Kyung. Although she’s a terrible actress on stage, Hwang Soo Kyung becomes an Academy Award-level actress when it comes to real-world scams. She is a top scammer who is also able to speak four languages fluently, and her mysterious relationship with Lee Tae Joon piques viewers’ curiosity.(x)
- Yeo Hoe-hyun plays Jeong Eui-seong, a timid and whimsical character who has skills like no other when it comes to computers, CCTVs, cell phones and anything digital. However, he’s blind when it comes to current affairs. He’s talkative and nosy, but a good source that connects the fraud team to everything.(x)
- Kim Sae Ron will be playing Go Na Byul, a former national fencer and now top class thief who specializes in opening locked doors or safes, evading lazer obstacles, running, and sneaking in with her unequaled agility and flexibility. Though she has an impulsive personality and nonchalant way of speaking, she is lovable in her own unique way.(x)
- Kim Kwon isRoy Ryu, a security specialist and a fighter whose strength makes him into a human weapon. When he was young, he was adopted by a family in the United States and became a mercenary specializing in various forms of martial arts. He only cares about getting rewarded for his skills and does not trust other people or believe in things like justice or loyalty. However, he sometimes shows an unexpected soft side like when he adopts a puppy abandoned on the battlefield.(x)
Someone presents you with a troubling fact. Say they tell you, “we should close the border because 28% of immigrants are violent criminals.”
If you’re a skeptical person, your first response may be to look for ways that statistic might be misleading. Are police enforcing laws more harshly against immigrants? Does the definition of “violent” include some not-actually-very-violent crimes like resisting arrest? What is the base rate of violent crimes for citizens with the same age/gender/socioeconomic status distribution as immigrants?
This isn’t wrong, but it should be your third response.
Your second response should be to question if that 28% number is even real or if someone just pulled it directly out of their ass.
I’ve seen so many well-intentioned people screw this up. They start earnesty debating, and in doing so, accidentally give more credibility to this fact that the other side completely made up. In posting “yes, 28% of immigrants are violent criminals, but you have to look at the underlying social factors,” you’re spreading the lie and your weak defense doesn’t defuse it that much.
How to Lie With Statistics is a fascinating book, but never forget that the easiest and commonest way to lie with statistics is just to straight-up lie.
I’m not sure that pointing to people pulling things out of their ass as bad really works after claiming that it is someone else’s homework to support your claims that you yourself made.
It’s not somebody else’s homework. It’s nobody’s homework. Sometimes stuff gets said and never Officially Proven and that’s where it ends. Oh well. When I decline to support a statement, I don’t expect the other person to believe it or spread it; I expect them to go away.
Which is actually 100% consistent with my number one advice for people receiving claims they don’t want to deal with. Sure, then the other person wins. They win the non-exclusive right to scream “I WON!!!” into the uncaring void. Hope they enjoy it.
TIL astronaut Jack Schmidt discovered he was allergic to moon dust, which is a thing millions of other people have probably gone their whole lives never knowing.
Keep thinkin bout Andrea Dworkin saying that all PiV sex is rape and always painful and women only enjoy it cos of False Consciousness like. Sex isn’t supposed to hurt ma'am and going “oh well it’s biology” is the most defeatist shit ever. Naturalising women’s experiences of pain is messed up
Keep thinkin bout how Andrea Dworkin told her entire audience that women who sleep with men are providing aid and comfort to the enemy, encouraged them to kick such women out of feminism and lesbianism, and was then fucking married to a man for over a decade while still fucking identifying as a lesbian. Like, No Woman Has The Capacity to Consent to a Man… Except Me, Andrea Dworkin. Apparently everyone who isn’t Andrea Dworkin is just too stupid.
Like I’m not saying lesbians can’t do whatever the fuck they want and still call themselves lesbians. Unless that thing is being a fucking hypocrite and telling women they don’t belong in the feminist or lesbian communities for doing the exact thing that you, a feminist lesbian, are doing.
Keep thinkin’ ‘bout how Andrea Dworkin is a terrible human being.
The Lawns to Legumes program will be holding at least 20 workshops around Minnesota to teach landowners how to make their yards more pollinator-friendly. Efforts are also being made to change local ordinances that require short, grass-only lawns.
The program also provides funding to homeowners within the habitat of the endangered rusty patched bumblebee, who can apply for up to $500 to help convert their yard to bumblebee habitat.
According to Dan Shaw, senior ecologist for the Board of Water and Soil Resources:
“There is research showing that even small plantings can provide a lot
of benefit for pollinators, especially if we have enough of them and can
create a matrix of the habitat, it can provide a lot of benefits for
different pollinators.”
You like being red! It’s a nice color! But you’re surrounded by greens and blues all the time, and it would be nice to find some other people like you.
So, you look for red spaces. It turns out that there aren’t many, but there are plenty of spaces for yellows and oranges. You share some experiences with them - especially the oranges.
At some point you find a group advertised as a place for all warm colors, so you join. After all, red is a warm color! It seems great at first. People talk about how nice it is to be the color of the sun, and you agree - the sun is more yellow than red, but it’s reddish!
They talk about how they’re the color of buttercups; of school buses; of gold. The yellows sometimes talk about what they share with greens, and you’re a bit uncomfortable, but you let them do it because it’s important to them. Everything seems to be about the yellows. They talk about oranges too, but the yellows seem to care an awful lot about making sure that nobody assumes that all of them have some red like the oranges do. It’s a little strange that they fight so hard to prove that they aren’t like you.
One day, you happen to talk a bit about being red, and mention some of the experiences you share with purples. Some of the yellows are a bit uncomfortable (just like you were all the times that they talked about shared experiences with greens), and ask you not to talk about that anymore.
You’re frustrated. This was supposed to be a space for all warm colors, and you would like to be able to talk about your experiences as a warm color.
You keep encountering yellows with a habit of referring to yellow experiences as warm color experiences. They act like yellow and oranges are the only warm colors. It makes you feel like other people don’t care about you; like you don’t matter. This frustrates you even more.
When you tell yellows about your frustrations, some ignore you. Some deny that anything they’ve done has hurt you. Some tell you that they’re orange, not yellow, so they can’t have hurt you. There are even some who insist on calling you a “warm color with no yellow” instead of a red. You grow even more frustrated.
You don’t want to fight. You want to build a strong alliance of warm colors.
Me: oh yea, sorry about that. Let me apply “harder” this time. I’ll be sure to write my contact info extra “hard” this time. I’ll make sure to touch up my resume and make it hella “hard” this time around too.
preach
Adults: You just need to hit the pavement, knock on some doors, call the hiring manager!
Every job application ever: PLEASE NO UNSOLICITED VISITS OR PHONE CALLS.
Fact: Our reception pool forwards the names of people who call unsolicited on to HR, who puts the names on a DO NOT HIRE, CANNOT FOLLOW DIRECTIONS list.
This is what is the most terrifying about re-beginning the job search.
Fact: My brother was a store manager at AT&T for several years, and handled the hiring process. People that would call and call about the job wouldn’t get hired because, “They seemed to be the kind of people that would constantly need attention on the job, or wouldn’t make a good fit in customer service, because they don’t have the patience to wait for us to call them back.”
Meanwhile I’ve always been taught to do exactly those things because it “shows that you care and take initiative”
Here’s how I got my new job:
Made a profile on Indeed.
Crammed that fucker with every damn skill and job I have ever had. That time I ran roller-coasters for a month? On there. “Property Managing” my mother’s rental for six months because she was too lazy to drive over? On there. ALSO. If you are skilled in, say, Photoshop, don’t JUST put Photoshop as a skill. Also put Adobe Suite, Adobe Photoshop, etc. Put every possible term for your skill under the skills. Google skill lists and start slapping them in there if you have even a tiny bit of skill in them.
Downloaded the Indeed app on my phone.
Set up a saved search to show me all full-time jobs paying $15 or more per hour in my area, and set it to only show jobs with instant apply. I did not narrow it down by field or anything else. Just full-time, my area, $15/hr.
Wrote up a three sentenceish generic cover letter that was basically “I am good at customer service, client management, and handling the variety of tasks this job will involve. I will be available on X date and would love to speak to you about this position at your company.” But slightly more professionally put.
Just fucking clicked apply on everything. Anything that sounded like something I’d be willing and probably able to do. Like, I wasn’t applying to mechanic jobs or anything. But front-desk at a mechanic shop? Sure. Towing dispatcher? Sure. Print shop coordinator for some fancy real estate agency? Sure.
The beauty of Indeed’s mobile/quick apply is that once you’ve set up your profile on there clicking apply is literally all you have to do for about 75% of the quick apply jobs. Some will have a couple additional questions like how long you’ve done certain things, or when you’re available to start. Some have random fun questions like your favorite superhero (usually startups). You click that button and off your resume goes.
I spent about an hour every day doing this, submitted several hundred applications in the process, and heard back from…maybe 20. Got an interview at 4 or 5. Got hired at an insurance company that pays RIDICULOUSLY WELL. Took about a month.
Do I want to sell in insurance? Not particularly. But this job will support me, my art, my ability to buy a house, and PROVIDE RESIDUAL INCOME ONCE I RETIRE. Which. If I play my cards right I could do in as little as ten years.
Your mileage may vary with this technique, but given the way job hunting is set up now carpet bombing an application site like Indeed is always worth a shot. I will note that when I came across a job I thought sounded extra interesting and more in line with the fields I wanted to be in I’d save the application instead of applying, then take the time that night to put together a better full application.
Good luck. Job hunting is terrible.
This is all solid advice. One more piece of advice is be on the lookout for any career groups. If you manage to join any they can be a huge help whether it be making connections or just helping to keep your head on straight.
I noticed when I was a kid that adults seem to forget that everything is real, no matter how young you are. A seven year old doesn’t feel like a helpless infant, they feel the oldest and most mature they’ve ever felt. And they will when they turn eight, too. And nine. Twenty. Thirty. Fifty.
You never feel as young as you are, because you’re always the oldest you’ve been. You can only look back and equate childhood with ignorance and silliness, because there were things you didn’t know then. But there are things you don’t know now, too, that someone older is looking down at you for.
I promised myself I would never forget that, growing up. I put it in a time capsule when I was nine because I wanted to be certain. And sometimes it slips away, and I catch myself scoffing at people younger than me, but you have to fight that. You have to hold on. You have to keep a little bit of your younger mind inside you, so you don’t forget.
I think that’s important.
Remember that you’ll always change, but know that the person you’ll become isn’t going to be any more real than the person you are, or the person you were. They’re still going to feel like You.
the virgin “LOL i was so cringey XD” vs the Chad this post
I take issue with using incel jargon like that. I mean, we were talking about propaganda just before, and how good propaganda has a lot of layers of implied assumptions baked in, and this is a perfect example. “Virgin” as a shorthand for negative is terrible.
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The layers of propaganda of that comment in this post (/187617619679) are fascinating. You have the one that was pointed out, but also, while the commenter tried to point out that mocking cringiness is bad, they did that by using “XD lol so random” as an example of something to mock, i.e. cringy. Both the mocking of that kind of humor (that was used primarily by young teens), as well as equating being virgin to something bad, ultimately leads to the unspoken conclusion that being young and inexperienced is bad. Which was exactly what the OP was speaking against. (If you can please make this anon) (And sorry if you receive this twice, my Internet’s weird)
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you’re right, and you should say it! i honestly didn’t notice at all, which is excellent work on the writer’s part, though i’m sure they also didn’t notice what they were implying either.
part of the dangers of propaganda is the way it propagates, which is to say, the way it is spread an subtly improved or altered by the people spreading it, usually without anyone noticing that’s what’s happening in the first place. that’s how a positive and uplifting post like that can be turned into something shaming and unpleasant in 10 words or less, you know?
anyway, none of us are immune to propaganda, etc and so forth.
don’t let the people who have hurt you ruin the things you enjoy. you used to watch that show with your ex? if you love it, keep watching it. your former friend introduced you to your favorite band? don’t stop listening to their music. it might hurt at first, but eventually it’ll stop feeling like it’s their thing and start feeling like your thing again.
not to be like “oh my psychology teacher said blah blah” but in my psychology class, we are learning about classical conditioning and pavlov’s dogs. and you can, of course, become conditioned to associate a stimulus (your favorite band/show) with another stimulus (your former friend/ex). but the thing is, when you keep interacting with the former stimulus without the latter, then a process called “extinction” happens, where you stop associating the stimuli when it keeps occurring without the other. so, this process of reclamation actually has a scientific basis!
SEIZE THE MEANS OF DOPAMINE PRODUCTION!
I laughed so hard I actually made a poster and put it on my wall
