The playbook as I understand it is that they offer a community improvement for free at first to get you hooked and then once everyone is entirely reliant upon it that’s when they do the rug pull.

So there is a good chance that Google search will improve for the next 6 to 18 months while they are doing this just know that this is a temporary reprieve from the enshittification solely to prime the engine for the enshittification to get massively worse.

On my 18th birthday I was homeless and living in a truck.

But it was okay cuz I was out of a terribly abusive situation and my mental health was improving.

And I went to my friend’s house only to find out that they had all been arrested for robbing a McDonald’s.

Truth is, I had known about the robbery after the fact, they had told me about it two days before my birthday.

I had cautioned my friends that they should not go out and spend the money they had stolen right away, if their activities change and it made them look suspicious, it increased their chances of getting caught.

This was a small time deal, they each got like $600.

They went out the very next day and blew it all.

They were arrested that night after the detective that McDonald’s had hired to follow them kept track of all of their purchases and showed up at their door with the police in tow.

It’s so pathetic it still makes me cringe.

So anyway I spent my birthday alone in my truck. It made me sad because you know that was the day I officially became an adult and all these years later I’m kind of still alone so I guess maybe it set a bad precedent that I could not overcome.

I bought a massively oversized NASA t-shirt the last time I had to go to JCPenney’s and it’s so fucking comfortable that I’ve literally worn holes into it.

My ex-girlfriend complained that so many of the pictures that we had taken together had me in this shirt. It was just a comfy shirt and I still have it but it’s probably time for me to find a new one.

I do not have a vagina, but I have noticed that by myself 1 roll of tp will last 2-4 weeks, but when I have feminine company it becomes more like 1+ roll a week.

It’s mind boggling how you need so much more tp than us guys do, not that I blame you cos it’s different down there.

Maybe I’m more concerned that in 10,000 years of civilization no one has developed a better way. We have “spray with water” and “copious amounts of absorbent material”.

Where’s the 3 shells at, people?

Internecine, meaning “destructive to both sides in a conflict”.

Petty bickering like that divorce where they had a judge adjudicate the distribution of their beanie baby collection was internecine.

That means the item right before the last item, right?

Up until like 2022, changing your job every one and a half to three years was the best way to increase your base salary and total lifetime income.

I’ve changed jobs every 3ish years for the last 12 years and when I started I was making $15 an hour and now I’m making $67 an hour.

My friend who I met at the $15 an hour job has only changed jobs every 7 years, he’s now making $27 an hour.

We have similar skill sets and graduated from the same college except he was 2 years ahead of me, although, I did move to a higher cost of living area which is probably good for like $20 of the difference.

I’ve had 50. It depends on the person and the jobs.

Some jobs are minimum wage BS jobs that people are doing just to stay alive, if you burn out on a BS job in 6 weeks that’s nothing to be ashamed of.

I also typically have worked multiple jobs at the same time. I’ve had two full-time jobs and a part-time job while going to school and not sleeping for more than 5 hours a night for like 9 months.

Are you going to hold that against me, or does it show that I have the drive and initiative to accomplish my goals no matter how difficult they may be?

Sure, I bounced between jobs a lot when I was in my teenage years and my early twenties, but once I hit college and built a career and my employment history has been Rock fucking solid, typically 3+ years between job changes.

I would say that my last 14 years of employment weighs a lot more heavily than my first 5 years of employment.

I bet there’s probably some sort of energy improvement for the orbits to roughly line up the way they do, sort of how geese will fly in V formation.

The sheer number of union strikes and Union formations that have taken place in the last 2 years.

You should be in a union if you work for any publicly traded company.

If there isn’t one, you should be forming one.

A company that is publicly traded, IE it has stocks on the stock market, has every incentive to underpay every single employee they have and is only vulnerable to collective action.

It’s literally a case of being the change you want to see in the world.

If you’re smart enough to know all of the reasons why you’re not a good leader, you should go be a leader and then work on your problems in the process.

The outcome would be better for everyone if we had self-aware leaders who are working on their flaws instead of the p-noid zombie self-serving self-gratifying leaders that we currently have.

I’ll take it into consideration but like I’ve said I’ve dated a few people and some of those people have had hobbies and their shit together for the most part but the ones that did not have a full-time job to support their hobbies on top of that have always been concerningly quick to start relying on me to financially support their hobbies, which is its own issue.

I think if I were to bend that rule again that person’s hobbies would have to be closely interlinked with my hobbies so that the financial requirements would not increase.

There’s definitely a part of me that blames myself for this.

At the same time though I feel like Tim and Kat have to share some of the blame.

We were all late teens early 20s at this point. This was not some 6th grade shenanigans. Being told that the two of you look good together and obviously like each other shouldn’t be the end of the relationship.

I had two friends, Kat and Tim, who were vibing on each other super hard.

Both of them were afraid to make the first move.

One day I got drunk and I saw them kind of flirting and it got the best of me and I just said hey guys, you two are obviously a great match for each other, why don’t y’all go out on a date and see where it goes?

That in itself wasn’t that bad but in my mildly drunk stupor I didn’t think about the fact that we were all standing in front of all of our friends and they were both shy and because of me saying that they immediately distance themselves from one another and never got together.

If I had kept my mouth shut and just let things progress normally they might have ended up together.

Tim’s life really sucks right now and his life would probably be a hell of a lot better if I had just kept my fucking mouth shut.

I think there are some people who just go around downvoting everything without reading it or comprehending it.

In my opinion if you’re going to downvote something, it should either be so audaciously bad troll posting that it’s self-evident or you should follow up your downvote with a reply.

Possibly. The thing is I’m not trying to sing like death metal or anything I just want to be able to put the occasional scream onto a song like Dave grohl does.

He can transition from clear vocal to distorted vocal and back cleanly, and I would like to be able to replicate that for my own music.

Womp womp

I suppose. What process should I share the media through?

That’s exactly the kind of information I was looking for!

I’ll give it a try! You mentioning it made me realize that every time I’ve tried to scream I have been tensing and putting a LOT of compression on my voice, which is probably why I can get so loud. I’ve definitely not tried it without compressing my voice.

Thank you!

I have had many singing lessons, they focused more on proper intonation and breath support, vibrato control, scale memorization, stuff like that.

I even paid for a good chunk of my college by participating in choir. I’m a dramatic tenor and there’s a recording out there where we’re singing Leonard Cohen’s hallelujah and in a crowd of 80 singers I can be clearly heard over all of the other singers.

Loud voice. No scream.

I just want to know how to scream.