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shalafi, to memes in Skirts are breezy and comfortable. Fuck off.

Wore women’s camo leggings with an olive-drab utili-kilt. Damn that was comfortable. But wearing a kilt in the woods and the heat? Just didn’t feel right to me, and I’ve tried a couple of different kinds.

shalafi, to memes in Skirts are breezy and comfortable. Fuck off.

Just commented, nah, women do not like the kilt look, not any I’ve dated. I’m not so hot on them myself. One of those things that sounds like a good idea, doesn’t really work out. OTOH, very nice with leggings and combat boots. Warm!

Guys, if you want to try one, get a knock-off Utilikilt. Loads of pockets, manly looking (I think) without the formal pleated look. I never have a chance to wear the pleated one. :(

shalafi, to memes in Skirts are breezy and comfortable. Fuck off.

Meh, middle-aged white guy here. Got 3 kilts and they’re not so great. Kinda fun in the woods. Went to a party last winter with camo girl leggings and it was super nice. But usually, nah.

The women I dated were hardly conservative, or they wouldn’t be with me, and not a one liked 'em, visibly turned off. YMMV.

shalafi, (edited ) to lemmyshitpost in Save thousands

No joke y’all, plan shit like this now, not tomorrow, not next year. And I don’t care your age or health. If you die tonight, the funeral industry vultures will swoop on your grieving people and fuck them over.

Working on end-of-life stuff with my new wife (both of us 52), and she doesn’t like it, but it’s getting done. If I eat it tomorrow, she’ll be buying a casket, plot, headstone, whatever the hell she’s told to buy.

Get a will drawn up, get a Living Will signed and notarized. Hell, just look up “end of life documents” and get to work if you love the people you might be leaving.

And if you’re married, FFS get life insurance, preferably whole life. It’s hilariously cheap if you’re young, and I mean stupid cheap, like $10-20/mo. cheap for fat stacks. Study on it a bit, don’t get jerked around! Had a good friend over the other night who sells and explained much.

Tried to get us on a plan that immediately pays out funeral expenses. Sounds great! Nah, we’ll self-insure that small bit. Instead we’ll setup a joint account and auto-pay $100-$200 a month until we’re feeling good about it. $10-20K? Can’t afford that? Who cares?! Pay $25/mo., whatever, it’ll stack if you’re young.

tl;dr: The funeral business gets away with this shit because we don’t plan, and that’s on us. And if you want a casket? Sure, take a plan as pictured.

shalafi, to memes in title

If you’re offended by a cigarette butt on the ground, holy fuck, you should have been around in the 70s. We have come so far and so fast.

When I was a kid, chunking your fast-food trash, any trash, out the window was perfectly normal. The sides of highways were covered in trash.

Further to go, of course, but I’ve seen solid progress.

shalafi, to asklemmy in What are some good questions to ask your boss during your yearly review?

Solid! This reads like old-school wisdom from /r/sysadmin. Those folks really helped me kick start my career.

shalafi, to asklemmy in What are some good questions to ask your boss during your yearly review?

Any chance of getting hands-on experience? Spin up some VMs to play with?

shalafi, (edited ) to asklemmy in What are some good questions to ask your boss during your yearly review?

Don’t have any MS certs myself, but the conventional wisdom is this: Answer how you think Microsoft wants you to answer. If there are two correct answers, go the Microsoft way.

I know that’s a little nebulous at your experience level. Wish I had some examples, been a few years since I looked at it.

shalafi, to asklemmy in What are some good questions to ask your boss during your yearly review?

NoneYa has the best answer you’re going to get, focus on it. All so very true for us techs.

They’re correct about moving on to get paid more. I’ve received massive pay bumps moving from my last two jobs. Hell, if I included benefits, this job doubled my last one. You’re expected to move every 3-5 years so your skills don’t stagnate. Some places won’t hire you if you’ve been in a job for 10+ years. They figure that’s all you know how to do, that one job.

And it’s not just tech! When we moved here, my friend took a job at an oil change place. So wildly under his experience we were scratching our heads. He just kept hopping jobs, excelling, and doing it again. Got up to $80K pretty fast, now he’s well over $100K, finally settled down I guess.

You’re in a great place! It’s where most of us start. Technical learning aside, you also get invaluable experience dealing with people. That will take you far in any field. If you’re not doing it already, use your coworkers to learn more! People starting out are passionate and always experimenting with tech outside their immediate needs.

Build relationships and learn from each other. Those relationships are key in helping you move to bigger and brighter jobs. One of our top managers brought in great people he worked with in the past. Our new VP just brought in a couple of new directors who I’ve talked to and have high hopes for. Keep in mind, even in a big city you’re quite likely to run into your current coworkers down the road.

Go forth and kick ass!

shalafi, to memes in Wishing you guys a happy civil war 2

Knowing it would be appealed, no matter the ruling, the lower court found it was an insurrection. The next court had to take that as a factual finding. They could not argue or retry that question. It is now a legal fact.

Brilliant move! That judge took one for the team, called a coward and a traitor. And you see what we have here today. (insert wasted.meme)

shalafi, to memes in *Grabs popcorn*

Lemmy isn’t arguing politics. There’s only one opinion around here. Express the slightest nuance and get buried, blocked or banned.

(Feel free to check my post history.)

shalafi, to asklemmy in What groups you are unwillingly associated with? How you handle it?

I do hear a good bit of Spanish when my wife is speaking Tagalog. Don’t know why I found that surprising. And yes, both her maiden and middle names are Spanish.

Funny how people expect them to have “foreign” names. Nah. It’s all, Amy and Rob and Antonio and Phillip and such.

shalafi, (edited ) to lemmyshitpost in I'm shuddering

You may consider foregoing children. Much like Thanos, wet socks are inevitable.

shalafi, to lemmyshitpost in I'm shuddering

Wife says the same. Apparently socks are an automatic desiccation switch for her.

shalafi, to asklemmy in What groups you are unwillingly associated with? How you handle it?

Like what? I’ve barely known any Mexicans and am just now learning about Filipinos. Great cultures in either case.

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