copandballtorture [ey/em]

I ran this by an engineer and they said the same thing

I’d pick someone who is nice to animals and service staff

Came here to say electrician. Or anything related to utility (gas, electric, water, Internet, transportation) maintenance. These are often “we need someone 365 days a year” jobs, because they are literally the ones maintaining infrastructure for the rest of us, but those jobs also pay well and are in demand everywhere there are people.

If you’re not qualified for that stuff, consider starting with something like Flagging/traffic control. You’ll start as the poor sap holding a sign in the rain, but you can study and eventually become the person who designs/approves the traffic control plans, etc etc. Pretty much all utility work requires traffic control.

Surveying/Right of Way/GIS, if you’d rather work in a cube

I feel like a spectator at this point. Fully aware of how the system operates and powerless to affect change without grave consequences. Materially, I’m secure. Not reproducing, so I don’t have offspring to care about their future. Fuck this timeline, maybe I’ll get to return at a cooler time.

It’s sci-fi with good character development and moral conundrums. It doesn’t take itself too seriously and doesn’t rely on flashy graphics. The characters are supportive of each other. Like if you took utopian leftist drama kids and told them to make a sci-fi show about humanity trying to do it’s best.

Poverty nostalgia?

Exactly!

Been thinking about the Klingon and Hirogen species recently (and I guess Ferengi to a lesser extent). How do cultures so devoted to hunting, killing, pride, and honor, have the infrastructure in place to become space-based empires? Like, it takes millions of people doing boring jobs like math and engineering to make space travel possible, but if they’re all motivated by murder and glory, how do they accomplish anything on a grand scale?

Considering how many I’ve blocked, there’s gotta be

It’s easy to act like your “left-wing” is united when you ban every other left-wing party

(yes)

I went to Millennium, a fancy vegetarian restaurant in San Francisco (now it’s in Oakland) with a friend’s wealthy dad, who treated us. It was about $200 for the 3 of us. The food was good, but not good enough to go back. Just give me a $5 bean and cheese burrito, please

Cars aren’t good at going slow. They need a “chill mode” setting where light pressure on the accelerator for 2 seconds doesn’t move you from 20-30mph before you realize it. I like going the speed limit and have a hard time only going 20 on some roads because it’s just so dang easy to accidentally bump up to 30mph. Automatic transmission problems

“This Perfect Day” by Ira Levin was good enough when I read it 15+ years ago.

“The Dispossessed” by Ursula Le Guin does a lot of world building (in short, anarchist separatists fled Earth to terraform the moon to be barely hospitable) and a fun glimpse into a would-be anarchist society