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      They just repost from elsewhere and tax slrpnk traffic by choosing to upload locally at the cost of pixels for viewers, and upticking bandwidth of people they will never meet that host said instance.

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    I never thought anyone would consider wicked to be an offensive cunting word.

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        I was seriously doubting myself, if “wanked smart” is something people say. Truly incredible censoring, if it makes you think of a much ruder word.

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          Makes me wonder if it was for engagement bait somewhere along the repost chain. I don’t want to believe that somebody thinks “wicked” is worth censoring.

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            It’s typically because the big social media sites will soft-censor your post, if it contains words that advertisers don’t enjoy being displayed next to. Soft-censor, as in the algorithm will mysteriously not show your post to a whole lot of people. So, it’s also hard to say, whether some advertising company genuinely thinks “wicked” is a double-plus ungood word, or if the social media operator blocked it out of caution, or if the person who shared this screenshot on another platform just censored it, because they couldn’t be sure that it wouldn’t get them soft-censored.

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    The thing that smells like bullshit is “he had every certification under the sun”.

    Getting certified is not an expression of smarts, but of money / privileged access. Good but poor techs in their 20s are self-taught.

    Where did he get the money for a ton of certs, while being unable to afford a car?

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      A lot of vocational schools will pay for your first attempt at certs, it’s the only reason I gave comptia the time of day and got the incredibly overpriced a+ and net+ certs.

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    Job requirements to have a car are discriminatory to the indigent. Most cases, a company could provide a vehicle but chooses not to. Love when companies code it with “access to reliable transportation” knowing full well that in most cases, the bus is not frequent enough to be reliable. Access to reliable transportation should be a right, ie public transit should be way better.

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      When I was a mere lad, I was outright rejected for a stockist position at the local supermarket because I did not have access to a car at the time.

      Said supermarket was literally across the street from my house. I could have done a handstand and walked over there on my hands if I wanted to. When other employees couldn’t make it in because of snow, I could have showed up still. I mentioned all of this to the manager. “Policy is policy,” I was told.

      This was needless to say a one of those formative experiences for me. Policy is policy, but petty authority is petty authority, and worth exactly as little as you think it is.

      That store is now out of business, and went under only a handful of years after I failed to get hired there. Maybe I dodged a bullet, maybe I didn’t. Insofar as I was ever made aware the reason they tanked was not necessarily due to staffing issues, but we can always hope and dream anyway.

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      The keys are attached to your bootstraps, you’ve just got to pull them hard enough. Everything works precisely as Founding Father Jesus intended.

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    This mostly tells me tech jobs are just not that great anymore. Every cert under the sun for tier 1 that payed so small it took awhile to be able to buy a cheap car. Tech became known because you could grab an entry level with just a bit of tech know how or a cert and could quickly move to better pay with a littler experience or credentials.

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    Okay, I love the warm “feel good” vibe but this post is giving some terrible advice: Never, ever, EVER loan anyone your car. Ever.

    Even if you can afford a brand-new car and don’t have to worry about the car being wrecked, if the person you loaned the car to gets in to a fatal accident and kills another driver, you WILL be dragged in to the mess.

    It’s just not worth the risk. Never loan your car to anyone, for any reason.

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        It’s not a “car fetishisation” thing, it’s a “this car cost me literally thousands of dollars and I can’t just go buy another one willy nilly if some idiot wrecks it” thing.

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            And if one of your buddies ends up killing someone in an auto accident while using your car, I guarantee you’re going to feel much worse than an idiot, insurance be damned.

            That’s okay, you can tell the dead person’s family members that you definitely never lend your car to idiots. I’m sure they’ll understand.

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                I wish it kills your mummy, yacunt

                Why, what did she do to piss you off so badly? Go to college and get an education? Better go blow up a school over it, eh? 😂

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                  My mum went to college too, you racist fuck. And so is my wife.

                  See you’re not better than trump and his hate of arab. You’re just as racist as the other americans. You’re like the other nazis, you pretend to care about women and gays as long as it allows you to be racist.

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                this is an insane take and I am not going to continue this “discussion”

                ^ Translation from Clueless to English: “I do not understand how deadly motor vehicles can be, and I’m fortunate enough to have never been in a car accident.”

                Sweetheart, the only thing here that’s ‘insane’ is that you don’t realize that a car can easily kill someone. Go take a driver’s ed course, you desperately need one.

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    This is beautiful.

    We need to be like this with each other because the money monkeys at the top of the money monkey hierarchy are incapable of caring about actual work skills.