This is brilliant! I can’t bring myself to go back, even to visit, as I only use mobile and refuse to use that shitty app. But it’s great to hear people are fighting back.
If, for whatever reason, you actually want to do this. I’ll be happy to post it and credit your Lemmy account. I emptied my account, no comments or posts. And I will happily leave the worst john oliver fanfic on there.
I used to frequently transfer money between two countries, the process of which required talking to a human at the time. During one such conversation, the Customer Service Representative asked a new question: “What’s the purpose of the transfer?” This immediately took me aback, partly because I didn’t expect the question and partly because, much like your father, it’s none of their fucking business.
After stumbling a bit, I learned the magic phrase “personal use”. After that, every transfer I initiated was for “personal use” until such time as the bank automated the process and I no longer needed to speak to a human to transfer the money across an international border.
I have no earthly idea why “personal use” is acceptable, since it conveys no more useful information than writing nothing, but then it’s not my policy and I don’t care.
Long answer: us kids were starting high school and he knew college was after that, so he needed to figure out how to come up with some money to help us. He was good at math, so someone suggested he play the stock market.
He started off investing “fake” money (just his own personal ledger) and did pretty good. So he invested small amounts and continued to do well. He finally decided to borrow money from the bank, which is how the story came about.
He actually did REALLY well; paid off the loan, got a bigger one, paid that off, etc, until he had enough of his own money to keep investing. He beat the S&P every year, he had a talent for it.
But he really didn’t enjoy it, he said it was a lot of work to keep up with the markets and how they interacted with each other. He kept it up for a few years after we finished college until he had a comfortable nest egg and quit.
He only paid for half our college, as a matter of principle he wanted us to come up with the other half. I still have loans to pay off but it was a huge help.
Now he hates capitalism and doesn’t do any investing at all. He used to have some safe mutual funds but he’s jaded about the state of the world, he doesn’t want any part of the system.
Love it. Good for them for sticking to some kind of guns. Reddit’s behavior doubling down this past couple weeks has soured my taste for the place even more. Ready to watch it burn - although I have a feeling it will be a slow, simmering death.
Will be interesting to see what all plays out after July 1st
Drafting/tailgating is always something I’d fought companies on. If I’m responsible for physical security, arm me to protect myself when I go and challenge someone and things go sideways. Usually the conversation ends there, but one time I actually did threaten to take it a step further when someone tailgated me, and I told them to stop, or I will call the cops for them trespassing. That someone was a board member without a badge to the building. Good thing tenure and security policies override a board member trying to get me fired. They stopped pushing the aggressive anti-tailgating policy after that.
With security teams, I always find that they are gung-ho about implementing systems and policies, but evaporate when challenged to enforce them or actually do the real work related to those policies (like monitoring cameras, staffing for physical access security, etc.).
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