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Cake day: October 9th, 2023

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  • Yeah, the “weakness” question is crappy. “Growth Area” is a better phrasing. People start to say things like “I talk too much” “I have poor communication” or try to spin it; “I’m so attentive to details, sometimes I have trouble with time management”. None of that is helping you.

    The best way to answer is talk about something job related you’re looking to improve at the job.

    Maybe you’re interviewing at a bakery. Pick something off the “menu” and say something like I’ve never had the opportunity to learn how to make a traditional baguette or something. You want it to be specific enough to not look stupid, you don’t want to apply to a bakery and say I’ve never baked cookies from skratch (unless its as an entry level assistant or something)

    If I were asking the question, I’d simply say “what are you looking forward to learning at the job?” It accomplishes a few things A) tells the applicant the company is probably invested in their growth B) If the applicant is selected, it gives some insight into where to start the applicants training C) if the applicant says “I dunno I know the job already” it shows the applicant isn’t interested in learning.


  • I can see an international trip costing money, either funded by participants or fundraiser.

    Sounds like you had a cool time traveling, in the states you’re lucky if they have the funds to bus some kids to the public library

    There were a lot of after school stuff that had travel, mainly sports and music. The foreign language dept sometimes was able to an abroad trip with like 7 students.

    But the history class that wants to go to a museum can pound sand.





  • Don’t people buy stuff on OF, more than just a sub? Is it easily available for download in a common file format or is access stuck on the website even though you bought it?

    I agree that straight piracy of content is bad. Piracy is primarily a service problem, TV and movie piracy was down in the mid 2010s until all the streaming services divided. Music piracy is basically gone thanks to early iTunes and even more so with today’s streaming services. OF piracy will always be a thing because people want their free porn and the parasocial relationship they don’t get on the regular free sites.

    If corporations refuse to just sell us the file and can randomly revoke access or change the content (like Amazon’s been doing with book), then the community will find ways to strip out the DRM and other protections just to preserve the content they bought.

    I don’t have a problem with github removing of projects that aim to circumvent purchasing content, but projects that simply “unlock” purchased content should be allowed to thrive.

    Edit: I should add, if corporations can’t be bothered to respect what the word buy means, why I should I bother to provide them money? morality is a two way street, if one side is dishonest and shady, do they really have a right to whine when others steal from them?

    Edit 2: in case it wasn’t clear the “dishonest and shady” one is the corporations. Its to the point were I pretty much only pay creators directly (patreon, etc) where I know good chunk of my money goes to the artist not the publisher/middle man. If I’m buying a movie or something its either a DVD or getting screen caped on the first watch for archival purposes.