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[โ€“] Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

I hate my fucking shithead neighbors who want to make everything tino a problem. Last night their kids were playing with our gate door so I went down and locked it without saying a word. Well, the little shit fucks came back and started slamming against it and yelling obscenities. Their parents nowhere to be found. They just let their cum goblins run around amock without teaching them any sort of decency or manners. I'm almost ready to throw a few of them into my cauldron and make some kid stew. ๐Ÿ˜ค

[โ€“] devolution@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

White conservatives and anyone who is related to them that has the nerve to ask for leniency for "their" family members.

[โ€“] hamid@crazypeople.online 0 points 1 hour ago
[โ€“] Clbull@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

At the moment, everything.

This time last year, I was meant to be buying my own apartment and finally moving out from my parents' home. Then I got laid off, spent seven months struggling to find work and then landed a temporary purchase ledger job which I fucking hate. Partially because the commute takes me about 2 hours each way, partially because I work an 8-5 shift and have to get up at stupid o'clock in the morning on office days, and partially because we use Oracle Fusion which is the biggest crock of shit I've ever used.

Unfortunately that means I have to live with my elderly mollycoddling parents for even longer. Renting somewhere is out of the question because Bristol is the second-most expensive British city to live in, and I basically can't get a mortgage without a full time job.

Sometimes I question why the fuck I chose to go towards accounting. I have a History degree, I'm fully AAT qualified and I'm halfway through my ACCA and I'm earning ยฃ13.50 a fucking hour, or just ยฃ1.29 above minimum wage on a zero-hours contract. I can genuinely earn nearly as much from stacking shelves, flipping burgers or pouring pints, not that there's really many hospitality or retail jobs available. Office days genuinely take 13 hours out of my day. 8 of these are working, 4 of these are the commute and 1 is the lunch break I get.

My future is uncertain and I feel like there's no point in bothering. Best-case scenario, AI is truly a bubble that's going to burst, crash the stock market and leave us in a recession. At worst, it takes all our jobs and the rich leave us to starve.

Despite a brief relationship with a woman who finally popped my cherry (we're still really close friends and I'm grateful she took my virginity), my love life is practically nonexistent. Online dating is an absolute void where I only seem to match with GPS-spoofing South-East Asian and African women either pulling love scams or trying to find a Western spouse and the means to a green card. Two ladies messed around with my feelings and led me on big time this year. One practically threw herself at me one evening (TLDR, she got very flirty, she kissed me with tongue, among other things) then put me straight in the friend zone as soon as I got home. Another had more-or-less been using her ME/CFS as an excuse to not date me, not meet up with me and keep me at arms length, yet had been seeing other people behind my back. And she had the gall to virtually cry on my shoulder because some guy who said he'd "wait for her" had enough and ghosted her.

I have a lipoma on my neck which is going to cost me a lot to remove, and good luck actually finding the time to get the consultation and surgery/liposuction booked. The NHS won't do it because it's not cancerous, even though this thing has grown to the point where it's 5.5cm in diameter and sticks out like a sore thumb.

[โ€“] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 19 points 7 hours ago
[โ€“] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

The fact that horrible fascist and billionaire ghouls living in their 90s+ while people that did nothing heinous or actual good in the world are dying of cancer, heart attacks, aneurysms etc.

It's not fucking fair and and Billy Joel was right when he said only the good die young

Makes we believe that there isn't any omnipotent being out there or perhaps this universe is the bad place

[โ€“] Wilco@lemmy.zip 18 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

I hate that people dont just hit "fuck it" and go full French revolution on billionaires when they see them.

[โ€“] Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

What are you doing when you see a billionaire?

[โ€“] Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I've never seen one in person, so probably walk by cluelessly.

[โ€“] plyth@feddit.org 2 points 5 hours ago

The French revolution was against the Aristocracy, not the Bourgeoisie. The masses know their king and lords but which Capitalist do they know besides Bill Gates and Elon Musk?

[โ€“] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Tbh, I don't think I have ever seen one in-person

[โ€“] laranis@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 hours ago

Surely someone has a list?

[โ€“] Jhex@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago
[โ€“] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 8 hours ago

If I listed the things I hate, we'd be here all day

[โ€“] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not poor, but I hate that I don't feel financially secure enough to do more whatever I want. Working alone isn't enough anymore to save a house but at the same time to have fun.

[โ€“] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

Yeah, the house prices has gone up so much it's crazy. And rent, I can't believe how different it was 5 years ago. I wish I could have free time to do things while not having to worry about so much

[โ€“] truite@jlai.lu 5 points 12 hours ago

Chards. When people replace spinach by card.

[โ€“] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 11 points 19 hours ago

The people who think they can just cure mental illness like depression by saying things like "have you tried not being sad?" or "have you tried smiling more?" instead of actually being sympathetic and understanding.

I don't have any mental illness that would attract those people, but I still find they have very punchable faces.

Also, since I am out of practice since I haven't played for over a decade, I am currently absolutely hating Ulala from Space Channel 5 because of Sega Superstars Tennis, xbox360. Specifically because of the vs mode on normal difficulty and her getting her useless ability way too quickly and my ability being useless because the game decides my shots deserve to go directly to the other player with zero chance of going where I want it to.

[โ€“] vortexal@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

AT&T. We recently had an issue where our internet stopped working properly. My mom had to call them four times before they actually fixed our internet. The first time, she was put on hold for about 40 minutes before either the call ended itself or they hung up. The second time, she actually got through to someone but they didn't fix our internet and instead told us that our current internet package would soon be phased out and then spent about half an hour basically forcing her to getting something called "AT&T Air".

The third time she called, my mom told them that she didn't want AT&T Air and that if she can't use the package we have now, then we'll be switching ISPs. The woman on the phone said that she'll cancel the new package and put her on hold for about half an hour but she never did actually cancel the package or fix our internet, and she also never returned so my mom just hung up on her. The fourth time she called, the guy on the phone ran a diagnosis on our internet and finally fixed it within a few minutes. We have no idea why it took so long for them to do this but we're glad to finally have working internet.

But even though we do now have working internet, we are still thinking about switching ISPs. Even though they did send the equipment to use AT&T Air, we are not going to use it and we are going to send it back and try to get them to actually cancel the package. We aren't sure exactly when we are going to switch ISPs but my mom stated she wants to wait until after the holidays to do so, which probably means no sooner than January.

[โ€“] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

not sure how it works at ATT but usually for ISPs they contract multiple call centers for support.

it sounds like the first three times were to the same call center vendor and the fourth was to an actual ATT company support center. this routing happens randomly or based on time of day (Tod).

these vendors have incentives to collect the most calls, and resolve them as quickly as possible. they also have a hidden incentive to convert as many support calls to sales calls.

a "completed call" is one where the caller ends the call after a goal has been achieved. this means if you hang up before the goal is achieved it's not counted against the vendor and shows as a "disconnect" even if you were on hold for six hours. many operators will identify what you want, deem you as a nuisance, and place you on hold long enough to get you to hang up and make you someone else's problem. they have the incentive to convert you to sales and get paid a bonus for these sales.

it seems like your mother was handled by a veteran contract operator that upsells and dumps.

next time, tell them you want to speak to someone in cancelations and you will be transferred to someone inside the ATT customer service center. from there you can get transferred to an operator that actually works for ATT.

[โ€“] Muaddib@sopuli.xyz 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The white capitalist state

[โ€“] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

wouldn't there need to be a black capitalist state for there to be a white one?

I think it would be fair to just call it the capitalist state for now.

[โ€“] Muaddib@sopuli.xyz 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Where I live we have an indigenous communist nation and a white capitalist state. One stole the other's land and you'll never guess which

[โ€“] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

a white capitalist state would never stand without a personal army. there exists sympathetic members of the community that are helping the capitalist state gain and hold onto power.

capitalists don't care about race, only control and money. everything else is just a tool to continue increasing profits and maintaining control.

source: I live in a capitalist melting pot where the rich feed off the sacrifices of a multicultural state. the white poor people just don't realize they're victims too.

[โ€“] Muaddib@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

White people invented capitalism and they brought it here. The indigenous people are overwhelmingly communists. Forcing capitalism on us is racism. It is white supremacy.

[โ€“] wer2@lemmy.zip 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Gambling loops put into most mobile games, especially when targeting children.

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