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…yep, eight employers over three decades?..pretty sucky but also pretty ubiquitous, and every time you hop jobs you start over from zero again…

…stateside standard for private-sector salaried positions is ten working days per year (combined illness/vacation) which begin accruing after a six-month probationary period; some employers increase that to fifteen or twenty days for long-tenured staff after several / many years of continuous employment, but it varies…

…for hourly positions, you’re paid only for actual hours worked…

…government positions tend to be much more generous with holidays, vacation, and sick leave, although compensation is typically lower than the private sector; large corporations often fall somewhere between those two extremes…

…we did stateside, too, before shoot-first-qualified-immunity paranoia ran rampant through law enforcement culture…

…my cars are named mehve, pejitei gunship, teto, and ohmu after aircraft and creatures from nausicäa of the valley of wind…

…i’ve worked with an acoustics consultant named dick boehner…

…they are paying bounties on extra-judicial arrests…

bounties.

for arrest without trial.

…barring decisive impeachment and conviction in eighteen months, there is no way this doesn’t end in blood and fire…

…drakes…

…yeah, the slob in that picture is pretty much me and i’m 220 on a bad day: seven-hundred-pound boss fights are much larger…

…no offense taken at all, we share the same point that individual mileage may vary; as i’ve aged, though, i’ve noticed fourties and fifties sneak up on pretty much everyone across the spectrum…

…depsite my resolve that general fitness and activity prove a differentiator, i’ve come to accept that nobody escapes senescence…

…i use optical PCM for all my stereo sources; unfortunately with multichannel audio its bandwidth is sufficient only for lossy compression…

…hey, you do you: the only thing i noticed by my late thirties was that working all-nighters hit me a little harder than it used to…

…TOSLINK can’t handle atmos bandwidth; you need eARC for uncompressed multichannel digital audio…

…fourties are when the little injuries start; nothing debilitating, just minor tweaks from time to time which surprise that your resilience isn’t quite what it was twenty years ago…

…fifties are when they sneak up to get their revenge…

…israel’s long-term strategic campaign of zionist lobbying and mossad kompromat are why USA political support remains unwavering…if the epstein records are ever fully released, israel stands to lose mighty leverage across the political spectrum in so many governments…

…sounds like he’s campaigning for even more folks to vote for mamdani…

…well ted’s one of their own: a regressive immigrant from out-of-state…

“Wait a minute, Doc: are you telling me you built a time machine - out of a Cybertruck?!”

…i shopped a saab 9000 back in '99: ventilated seats, man, pure luxury…

…could it be because they’re only affordable to first-time US homebuyers with generational wealth?..

…that’s how we brushed with baking soda when i grew up: pour a little pile into your off hand, wet your brush, dip, scrub, repeat…