Wow, like not even a little bit right.

The secretary responded: “Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country.”

I’m not a business group, can I also criticize?

If you don’t get paid time off do you have to take it? Up here in Canada most full time jobs (at least all the ones I’ve had) have two weeks paid vacation after the first year. Here’s an Indeed article being way more clear than I could be.

Min wage hourly doesn’t come with guaranteed time off, but I think the pay gets added to each paycheck? Don’t quote me, it’s been ages since I was an hourly guy.

Same energy as the boy wolf girl wolf post, lol.

I didn’t say your advice was wrong, I said your mindset was weird to me. I will never knock people going into more manual jobs. The world needs janitors just as badly as it needs doctors.

Your argument was that their lack of drive is caused by their comfort, and the cure is to toil the days off. In my experience I’ve seen plenty of people in all quadrants of the “comfort vs drive” graph. For example: a friend of mine is worked to the bone in a warehouse, but doesn’t have any drive to look elsewhere. Also, at my last job some of the cushiest positions with very little required work were constantly used as a stepping stone for even higher paying roles with seemingly more responsibility. My friend has a surplus of labor but lack of drive, while the ladder climbers at my last job had plenty of comfort and drive.

So, in my opinion, I do not think the amount of labor/exhaustion someone experiences in their job has a guaranteed effect on their drive. Your comment makes it seem like you do think that, so that position is “weird” to me.

Hello! I also have little drive or ambition compared to the standard portrayal in popular media. Lots of people act like what you’re “supposed to do” is keep grinding, push for promotions, be a type A or whatever. Nuts to that I say.

Back when I graduated high school I didn’t know what to do either. I come from a small small town, and I’m good at math, so everyone said to become an engineer as that’s what all the “smart people” do. The schooling sucked for me, and I didn’t really want to pursue the kind of career that an engineer would have. I ended up flunking out of the first year. That killed my mental health and self worth. I do not recommend.

What worked for me (but maybe not everyone) was to find topics I found interesting, and see what kind of jobs are available in those areas. I ended up going for electronics engineering technology (a technologist is kinda like a diet engineer) because I think it’s cool stuff, it was a shorter two year course, and there are a reasonable number of employers in my area who are hiring. I’ll probably never be “rich”, but I make enough money to not worry about food or housing, and I have time for my hobbies on the side.

My biggest takeaway from my career so far is to not fall for “grind culture”, and to maintain a separation of your work and life. Do not make your job your whole identity. I’ve seen plenty of grinders burn out and hate their jobs/lives. I’ve also seen people who want to change careers, but they’re so caught up in their work that they don’t have the time or energy to change.

If you’re unsure of what to do, shoot for something that will make you comfortable. Reasonable average pay, decent employment opportunities, and good work/life balance. Once you have that you can do some more soul searching over the next few years. Not everyone knows what they want to do at 20. The rest of your life is a long time, so don’t feel like you have to set it in stone now.

That is a heckin’ weird mindset to me. Comfortable people can still have passions and drive. You don’t need to suffer to want something different. Plus, some people like working hard labor jobs, are they wrong to do so?

Oh, I’ve seen this one!

I love from-the-hip judgements like this. Absolute (and completely unfounded) confidence in something you don’t know. Glorious.

In the future, you can throw the image URL into a service like TinEye and get results like this. If you sort by oldest you can usually find some context.

54% of the time it’s right 98% of the time

I took a bunch of pictures of me and my cat just before we took her to be put down (cancer sucks). I obviously looked pretty upset in all of them. Like, three months later my phone put together a slideshow of misery to celebrate the occasion.

I was involved in a very vicious street fight. It was incredibly violent and frantic, with blood everywhere. It was more of a free for all instead of me taking on like nine dudes. I’m not a violent person at all, so it was really distressing. Some big guy lifted me up and slammed me against a wall, so I reached out and gouged his eye with my thumb. It was awful. I could feel the shape, and it was all clammy. It was so against my regular self that I burst awake. I thought it was still going on though because I could still feel it on my thumb. Turns out my hand was in my shorts, and the clammy eyeball shape was a part of my male anatomy.

you PACK miette? you stow her body like the laundry? oh! oh! jail for mother! jail for mother for One Thousand Years!!!

I feel like I’m coming off poorly. I thought we were just chatting, but you seem upset. For clarity, in case this is what offended, I felt like I was being petty and semantic here.

Those walls of text are all you, buddy.

Yeah, I have a bad habit of being verbose in these.

I did not say the title was written by AI, I asked if it was or not.

My bad. It was not my intention to sound accusatory. I’ll change the wording.

stop framing my saying “short people” as a pejorative instead of the descriptor I clearly used it as.

I’m confused here. I’m in no way framing it that way. How else would you like me to say it? My argument was that “nearly life-sized” could mean a scaled replica vs a 1:1 carving of a shorter person. I wasn’t saying that it was socially incorrect to call them short.

as a child, I was infatuated with Pompeii for some reason. I had a giant color picture book detailing the history of the people and the culture leading up to the disaster.

That’s pretty neat. We were really big on Egypt in my household for some reason. I did see some TV specials about Pompeii, but as a kid it always spooked me.

Doing so stepped on a lot of toes, apparently.

I thought we were just chatting. My toes are fine. You did make a pretty bold assertion out of the gate, and that does sometimes invite discussion. Sorry if you felt attacked or anything.

I didn’t say this earlier, but thanks for the article about the rock relief carving. I figured carving is carving, and the medium wouldn’t matter. That’s what madee take a second look at the photos and see the maybe seam and stuff.

Saying “short people” is waaaaay different than “nearly life-sized”. There is more to size than height. Proportions matter too. Shorter people aren’t also narrower, for example. It makes sense to me, but if they said they found statues of short people I wouldn’t get the same vibe.

I agree that people aren’t all the same height, but there are averages to go off. That’s why things like chairs and doorways work for most people.

The more I look at the photos the more I think they are indeed statues. There is a big ol’ void beneath the dude that suggests he’s standing on dirt, and not carved from a stone that was originally there. They also seem to be two different statues that were placed side by side. You can see a seam in between them. I suspect that they were carved separately, but with the “wall” structures around them with the intent to be put in an alcove or something.

At the end of the day though, this is all kind of petty and overly semantic. I don’t think this was written by AI, and you do but you have doubts. A sample size of 2 isn’t all that great. I just wanted to share some neat stone carving things that were found in Pompeii, not debate about the grammar of the article.

Edit: Changed some needlessly accusatory language.

I feel like “nearly life-sized” means they were scaled down, and not just short. They don’t have the remains, but they know the average heights of people from the same time and place.

Also, per Wikipedia:

… relief carving is a type in which figures or patterns are carved in a flat panel of wood… The figures project only slightly from the background rather than standing freely

Based on these being slightly more three dimensional, I probably would also have called them statues. I am not an archeologist though, so you may be on to something.

Yeah, 100%. It’s just that usually when something like this gets a large-ish negative reaction it’s because people associate it with furries or some other “taboo” fetish/lifestyle.

I also find that furry stuff gets way more hate than it deserves (which is none hate). I say boo to that! So long as stuff is consensual and nobody gets hurt (who doesn’t want to, lookin’ at you BDSM), then let people enjoy things.

Side note: It’s hilarious how for years people were cheering on Captain Kirk for banging green alien chicks, but cat ears and a tail is a no-go. Cross-species stuff is cool so long as they’re from another planet? What if it was planet Yiff? On the topic of aliens, do we even know if Superman has a human-like penis? Maybe Kryptonians bust onto egg clutches, who’s to say?

Anywho, people are silly and really like policing other people’s likes.