He/They. Trying out some different instances. If you see this handle on another instance, it’s probably me, unless someone else also stole it from Campaign: Skyjacks.

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Cake day: October 24th, 2023

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  • I think my experience has been the opposite. Last time I got a job I applied for was 2005. Granted, I was with that company for 14 years, but since 2019, literally every job I have gotten (4 at this point) has been because recruiters reached out to me, while probably 95% of jobs I proactively applied for never even bothered to interview me. I’ve even seen job listings I applied for expire and get relisted without them even talking to me, which felt utterly humiliating.

    It’s weird, simultaneously being in-demand enough that people reach out to offer jobs to me out of the blue, but at the same time being unable to even get an interview on my own. Really makes me think this phantom jobs thing is true.









  • The vast majority of us have nothing to do with it. It’s dumb senate rulemaking that has metastisized over the last 250 years. It does only take a simple majority to pass legislation in the Senate, but it takes 60% to end debate on a bill (this is called “cloture”). In the past, Senators would take advantage of this by simply talking incessantly until a cloture vote was called just to get them to shut up so the Senate can move on with business (a maneuver called the filibuster). At some point, the Senate decided to streamline things by allowing Senators to simply signal their intent to filibuster, so that they can just not call a vote for that bill and move on to other business. And now, since it takes literally zero effort to filibuster a bill, almost every bill gets filibustered, giving us the de facto 60 vote requirement.

    Seriously, this country needs an enema, and the Senate is where you’d stick the hose.