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@Auspice said in How to pronounce FYI?:

lso, jesus, I think we found what all of MSB can agree on: FYI must be Eff-Why-Eye.

That one asshole is gonna come along and ruin it now, just you watch. Otherwise, mark it on your calendars!

@insomniac7809 said in How to pronounce FYI?:

physically abusing your ex-girlfriend

I'd pop a cap in Sancho and I'd slap her dad around.

Edit, because I realize this is an inside joke -- I know that's not the actual lyrics, but I have a friend who sings it just like this. It's adorable.

Lindell's "Universal Principles of Design." 2e

@Alamias said in The Work Thread:

@Auspice Development I have been doing for 20+ years. I can do the SCSS/HTML/JS/Angular/React..etc with no problem.

Doing the actual design work (Typography, color schemes, UI/UX) I have been doing less than a year, with no training what so ever. I wish I never agreed to it (but if I didn't I wouldn't have a job...so...whee fun.)

So when my ex was big into photography and I suddenly had to learn lots of things about it just so that I could help him out with the business side of it, I looked into a lot of digital design books. I also found most of them pretentious and unhelpful because they were so vague.

But I did find this one:

http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=A6CD0240119364D4298BD9825A48A768

This book was seriously helpful in presenting the hows and whys of certain things like that, what works, what doesn't, WHY (importantly). I really found this one to be pretty invaluable when it came to just getting the basic, fundamental building blocks I would need to expand out from there.

Maybe it'll help you too.

@Tinuviel said in Dead Celebrities 2019:

It's definitely not mail. Armour, sure, but not mail.

That looks an awful lot like a slightly modified scale mail to me.

I dunno, man. Looks like mail to me. Even leather is historically armor.

@AeriaNyx

Part of it may actually be your performance. Not the lack thereof, but the exceptional quality. If you are indispensable in your current position, you are just as likely to be passed up for promotion as those not qualified.

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@ZombieGenesis said in Dead Celebrities 2019:

Barbara March played one of my favorite Star Trek baddies(along with her sister B'Etor).

For a warrior race, they sure do like leaving their chest exposed to whatever weaponry happens to pass by. So much cleavage.

About to go full nerd here...

Klingons typically only wore spinal armor to protect themselves from cowards. No self respecting Klingon would wear much chest armor. Cleavage for everyone.

And yet we always see the Klingon males in what appears to be a full chest piece.

@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Do you have a credit union by chance? If not, open an account with one (if possible; thankfully most let you get a savings account with just $5) and try getting a loan through them. They tend to be better than most banks.

I already thought about that. The two credit unions that I would have access to either:

a) require you to be a Honda employee or a family member of an employee (dating one apparently does not count), or
b) require you to be an actual state employee, versus just a contractor (seriously, as many credentials as I have, why am I always a contractor?)

So those are both no-fly options.

I'm seriously getting to the point where I'm going to google something and see if there's something out there that I can just get approved for. Even at an ostensibly predatory interest rate, it would still be cheaper.

Ok. So.

I need help.

I'm a guy. Yes, I sometimes date other guys, but I am not what one would consider 'feminine' at all.

As I get older, I find myself wishing that I knew how to make myself just look better in general. And while Youtube has fifty thousand tutorials on 'natural' makeup, they have like, two major problems:

1). They tend to be geared toward a very specific type of facial structure that I do not possess.

2). The overwhelming majority of them are a bunch of shiny white dudes, and I cannot see what they're doing or what it's supposed to do. Problem somewhat solved if I watch it on POC, but then they're using very different things that will not match up to me at all (somewhat pale olive-skinned dark hair dark eyes spanish with a rounder face). ETA: OR what they're using is so outlandish and obvious it is very clearly never going to be what I'm going for. I'm not looking for drag makeup writ large, ok?

Is there an 'absolute basics' tutorial out there somewhere that shows you:

a) What these different things do in a way that's actually somewhat visible, and
b) gives you the general principles behind the thing so that you can learn to construct some manner of routine for yourself?

Thanks!

@gryphter said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Why in the hell am I battering myself against this joyless, soul-killing job only to not afford my life?

So, I feel this. Here's my situation:

I drive to a job that is forever far away.
I drive a 15 year old truck that gets 15 miles to the gallon.
I spend as much on gas in a month as most people spend in rent.
I applied for a loan on a new car, doing all the math to show that getting a new car, including the freaking car payment and insurance AND GAS, would save me roughly 400 a month. Sweet deal right?
Nope. Bank says I need a cosigner. Nobody I know will co-sign a loan, or if they can their credit sucks.
So I continue spending ridiculous amounts of money, and not being able to move because I cannot save money. so I remain in this situation seemingly forever because I have no money to put into anything that would raise my credit enough to not need a cosigner.

Feeling trapped and not knowing why you're doing what you're doing is awful.

ETA: I literally took charts and graphs and formulas and projections and such to the bank with me like I was trying to start a new business. Still no dice.

ETA2: My relationship with my s/o ensures that I can receive a fucking fabulous discount on Hondas too. I even included that, showing that it would be thousands of dollars cheaper than for everyone else, and that the three smaller loans that I've had through that bank all got paid, on time, without a single missed or late payment. STILL NO DICE. WTF, BANKS? Do you not want to make money or what?

@ZombieGenesis said in Dead Celebrities 2019:

Barbara March played one of my favorite Star Trek baddies(along with her sister B'Etor).

For a warrior race, they sure do like leaving their chest exposed to whatever weaponry happens to pass by. So much cleavage.

@Ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Client: Why does she look like a unicorn?
Me: Would you care if she won your case?
Client: No.
Me: Then meet your new attorney, Twilight Sparkle, and watch her do her thing.

Now I wanna go watch Gany work for a day.

@Rinel -- Gany's right. That is absolutely a reasonable accommodation, and the law is absolutely on your side. But more importantly, as the legal profession moves increasingly toward the digital realm, many attorneys don't even work out of offices at all, and function perfectly fine. (@saosmash might disagree with me here) So what difference does it make if you're in a particular room, working from a particular computer, at a particular time? You're still doing the job. I'm sure that you keep your clients informed, and if you're winning cases for them, I doubt that they really give a shit if you stay in a particular building (unless they're very old, and even then, you're still winning cases). So, do you.

@Ganymede said in The Work Thread:

I suggest North Dakota or Alaska.

Spain is the ultimate goal.

@Ganymede said in The Work Thread:

Where do you work? It sounds like a shitty place to work.

For the government. So, you know. Yes? But I keep running into that 'you don't have three years of experience' barrier. Even though I have a four year degree, all of that other shit, and am coming up on two solid years of experience.

The bonus of this job is that law school is literally right across the street, so. I can just walk over when I'm done.

One of these days I'll make actual money.

@Lotherio said in Dead Celebrities 2019:

@Ghost said in Dead Celebrities 2019:

1 cell, 10 politicians, 1 kabar knife, and 1 egg mcmuffin.

Ten enter one leaves this is thunderdome. Can we crossbow anyone we like while we're observing thunderdome?

Why would you crossbow the one you like? That seems counterproductive!

@Rinel said in The Work Thread:

places that literally have their support staff committing the unauthorized practice of law (another unnamed public defense office)

My usual creative end-run around this is to walk into the attorney's office and say, "Ok, so, such-and-such case. I figure that we're looking at blah-blah-blah, and we should let them know about this-and-that, making sure they understand the whoosit about the whatsit, and if they try and drag us off the path, we just tell them that it's outside the scope of our representation. Nod if you authorize me to say all that."

@saosmash said in The Work Thread:

I'm a solo attorney practicing alone without admin support. I desperately miss having an assistant of any kind.

winces That is my second-to-worst nightmare. Why are you completely alone? I would be frantically searching for someone to partner up with. If for no other reason than to have someone to talk to about things that doesn't risk ethics violations and help me put out fires.

You have my deepest sympathies.

@rinel and @gryphter

So, I'm a paralegal. I know how this goes firsthand, too.

Re: imposter syndrome: nobody in the law, outside of very highly specialized attorneys that only practice in one field, know what the fuck they're doing, and even then they're half-assing it most of the time. Today, I got a brief from opposing counsel, and my attorneys were all 'this doesn't look good'... until I went to take a look at it and realized they were citing a version of the CFR that literally hasn't been valid in over a decade, but because nobody actually fucking checks citations, they would have gotten away with it -- if it hadn't been for the fact that I literally just read that obscure little portion last week for another case.

Which brings me to Gryphter's thing -- everyone is getting paid well below their pay grade, now. I have two college degrees, a professional certificate, my CP/CLA (Certified Paralegal/Certified Legal Assistant) and ACP (Advanced Certified Paralegal) credentials in Discovery and Trial Practice, and I make half of the average salary of someone in an entry level position in my field, probably without those last two (which are fairly important) and tend to command an even higher salary. And I do the lion's share of the actual casework, too. The research, the briefs, the filings. The attorneys largely just take what I wrote and go talk about it in court. Why? Because they have a doctorate and took a test and paid a fortune to be able to do so and that somehow means they know more and make a zillion times more than me.

Even though I literally wrote almost everything they're saying. AND I'm the one that tends to catch the major fuckups on both sides.

(UPL is bullshit, by the way. Sidebar.)

But yeah. The only way I'm getting a better anything is if I go and negotiate it at a new company. But I really love this position. It's almost exactly what I wanted to do. I would leave it for maybe one or two others, but only because they're even more specialized in the areas that I'm passionate about.

It's a shitty place to find yourself.

@Auspice said in RL things I love:

https://cleancause.com/

Sparkling Yerba Mate.
I never would have thought to try it, but a coworker shared some with me yesterday (Lemon Lime flavor) and today I bought one after work (Raspberry).

These things are fucking delicious. Y'all can have your LaCroix and shit. I'mma drink this.

I would be down for some blackberry and peach.

Also, I can't remember where I saw this but it still makes me laugh so here it goes again:

@Auspice said in RL things I love:

LaCroix