Not op but:

Never heard it explained like that before. Very good comment. Will find a better term in the future.

Im terribly grateful to you m’lord for selling me this golden goose, and I believe very much in it, but Sire the thing is, the golden goose you sold me, well it isn’t laying golden eggs m’lord.

Still love the goose though.

To be fair I took a course of Indian cooking classes and now I’m no longer English.

My little tips: Look up the company: try understand its business, look up its share price, see if they have a press/news/blog section for any recent contracts they may have won etc.

Read the JD to pick out all the skills/values for STAR style answers e.g. if they say “must have great communication skills” make sure you have an example of when you used communication skills to solve a problem, explain why the problem was hard to solve, and the impacts of you solving it.

Think up 2 good questions! Not wages or holiday pay or whatever, but something relevant to the job/company. I like to ask about workplace culture and things.

I wouldn’t discuss wages at the interview unless prompted, I’d do that down the line, but make sure you know your worth, and go a bit high to negotiate down to what you’d be happy with, if they do bring it up in the interview.

Otherwise best of luck comrade! Work hard on the interview. Get the job. Then slack off immediately, do the bare minimum at work to get by!

Living here, frankly I’m suprised it isn’t more.

For what it’s worth, if you can I would highly recommend joining a sports team, preferably for a fairly mixed gender sport, like ultimate frisbee or something where there are both genders represented even if not on the field together. To a lesser extent I’d recommend any other mixed activity, even if not a team sport per se, they will provide similar benefits, e.g. a climbing group or a running club.

Team sports give lots of benefits, its exercise, camaraderie, shared goals and personal improvement and eventually mastery (with practice). This is a mental health win win win. And a happier more confident and assured version of yourself will find it easier to make connections in anything you do.

It should also help social isolation. It’s a great organic way of meeting people in real life which is so important, way more so than internet stuff. And even if the love of your life isn’t in the group, perhaps someone in the groups cousin or sibling or friend is. Perhaps they see what a nice person you are and think you’d be a great match for the other single person in their life.

I’m not saying the apps don’t ever work, I’ve been to two app originated weddings. But I’ve been to a lot more weddings where people met on their sports social night, or were introduced by their mutual friend from the hockey club etc.

“My wife who is clearly more intelligent than me has come to a different understanding of the world than I have. As I’m reflecting no further on the previous statement, this causes friction in our relationship, however I am not well enough armed to beat my wife in a battle of wits. Please can you come and show her a piece of your superior conservative intellectual firepower in my place. Really humiliate and embarrass her, enough to change her mind so she is accepting of my world view. I hope then she won’t embarrass me by walking all over my arguments that I half remembered from YouTube clips in future.”

Yeah can’t argue with your anecdote, though it doesn’t match mine.

I also agree that raw milk shouldn’t be sold to the public as it’s a dangerous gamble, and capitalism dictates that its production will tend to be more dangerous than less.

As someone who grew up around a small farm, raw milk is not inherently dangerous. We drank plenty of it and it was always fine. However, it’s safe with caveats, if the milk has been collected in a hygienic manner from a well managed farm with good controls (to avoid contamination with salmonella, e-choli etc) and if it’s been collected from healthy cows. Cows can pass diseases through their milk the same way human mothers can through their breast milk. Probably the biggest ones to be aware of (in the uk at least) are Tuberculosis and Brucellosis but there are plenty of others.

Those are some pretty big caveats. And if they’re not met then there is a reasonable chance raw milk can make you pretty sick (or dead). You may be happy to trust someone else to have the checks and vigilance to be confident in raw milk, but I’m not sure I would, especially from a faceless large dairy corporation. With large commercial herds, there is no way the farmer/s know each cow and its condition when they have so many head to look after. And financial pressure doesn’t push towards erring on the side of caution…

My libertarian world view is entirely consistent.

You should, meeting real humans in real life is much better than apps that are designed to keep you, lonely single and desperate!

Thank you for the speedy correction.

Reminds me of the apocryphal internet law: The fastest way to get the right answer on the internet - post the wrong answer and wait to be corrected.

Thank you. Reminds me of the apocryphal internet law: The fastest way to get the right answer on the internet - post the wrong answer and wait to be corrected.

Also classic leftist favoured quote - it’s less a quote as it is an exert of most of chapter 25 of Grapes Of Wrath.

I didn’t know the quote so I looked it up. Presume you mean this one?

The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.

Though it could be a few, turns out Steinbeck had some bangers.

Loving that he did a test with a stick, the truck crushed it and he went ahead and put his finger in it anyway. Real brain of the year guy here.

Yeah but are they calling Elon afab? Or a trans woman? Either which way what is their point? I truly don’t understand. These people are completely cooked.

I don’t understand

Both busses are driving towards doing a genocide, I want to go the opposite direction of not doing a genocide. Which bus should I get on in this tortured metaphor?