Skoobie
Mail Carrier, Autistic, Parent, Pagan, and a very cool dog.
Nonbinary with no preferred pronouns. Engaged to a bisexual sponge.
Like billionaires all came from some weird reverse orphanage 😂
Reddit won in the since that Sparta lost. Nobody tells the story like they’re LOSERS. Sometimes, being the protagonist in a tale is more important than winning.
Was a telemarketer for 2 weeks once. Mostly calling for donation type stuff on behalf of March of Dimes and the like but sometimes they put us on scripts for the NRA. I had gotten used to plenty of no’s and was already on the verge of quitting when this fellow said yes.
Phones are already a bad job for me as I am both a people pleaser and get stage fright, so imagine my reaction when the prompt after his agreement to a $25 donation was to ask him for $50, and then $100, and well you get the idea. The final prompt it gave me was for a $500 donation in exchange for a lifetime NRA membership and a leather jacket and I’ll be god-damned if this guy didn’t agree without breaking a sweat. I quit within 48 hours.
Now I’m a mail carrier and am much happier.
EC is great when you’ve got too many people to tally votes efficiently. So basically it’s only use since the advent of the telegraph is to ensure mega cities don’t disproportionately affect rural locations via election results. With EC, rural states have more weight than they otherwise would. I still think we should switch to a popular vote for elections.
Years before the Cambridge Analytica fiasco, I left Facebook and vowed to never join any platform Zucks touches. Dude just gave me the creeps. One of the best times I ever listened to my vibes.
They covered this in Hitchhiker’s Guide. The answer is a towel. A towel is just about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can carry.