I'm in a weird limbo with job applications.

Every church meeting I have to sit through (especially the ones higher up the chain), I find myself frantically checking Indeed for anything that might get me out of this bullsh!t.
Every real-world job interview I have makes me wistful for the halcyon days of church work.

Either way - somebody hire me dammit!
 
I find these days I often get online adverts for dating/hookups with moms. I am genuinely curious why Google thinks I would be interested in something like this. Even if I was looking for a date or a hookup (which I'm totally not), why moms specifically?
 
I find these days I often get online adverts for dating/hookups with moms. I am genuinely curious why Google thinks I would be interested in something like this. Even if I was looking for a date or a hookup (which I'm totally not), why moms specifically?
Something something stepmoms getting stuck in washing machines
 
I find these days I often get online adverts for dating/hookups with moms. I am genuinely curious why Google thinks I would be interested in something like this. Even if I was looking for a date or a hookup (which I'm totally not), why moms specifically?
Moms are great to date, they have snacks
 
Google and Apple News are a little too accurate these days. My stuff is for « older women avoid wrinkles by using…. » or stories about Elden Ring and Monster Hunter.
 
Society is going down the drain but despite appearances we haven't quite reached acceptable cannibalism yet.
Speaking of cannibalism, apparently being a cannibal fetishist is the one thing that will get you blacklisted from both Hollywood and your incredible generational wealth as Armie Hammer now sells time shares in the Cayman Islands since he was apparently cut off from the family fortune. Not even Kevin Spacey got blacklisted that hard.
 
So, I want to pay the movers as little as possible. I'm moving less than 2 miles away, and I really only need them for the big stuff. I'm moving everything I can in the car until then. These are some surprising things that fit in the back seat of my car:

* my coffee table
* bookshelves
* a brand new lawnmower from Lowes
* night stands
* end tables
* you and me after a couple of drinks if I get lucky.
 
Someone posted a job advert in a Facebook group I'm a member of. The job is a good match for my skillset, so I'd probably be a good fit. The starting salary posted is approximately 90% of my salary at my job right now, so there's a chance I may be able to negotiate it up to at least match my current pay. So I figured I might as well give it a shot, and I submitted my resume for their consideration.

I'm honestly not too bothered if I get the job, or even if I get an interview at all. I'm fine where I am right now. But for some reason my wife and my dad are both really invested in me applying for this new job. They kept haranguing me to send in my resume and then kept asking me for updates on how my application is going. (So far there have been no updates.) They couldn't really give me a straight answer for why they want me to change jobs so much either. As far as I can tell, they think my current job is too stressful and I work too many hours, but there's no indication this new job will be any lighter. Hell, it says "must be willing to work overtime" right there in the advert.

Also me leaving would put my current company in a huge bind, and to be honest I'm not really eager to do that.
 
I'm not sure there's much room in the budget for that, I'm fairly certain I'm already the highest-paid person in the company. That includes the CEO.
Maybe that's why your family feels you should move. If you're actually happy there then yeah, stay, but I assume the reason those close to you think you've had it with your job is because you've shown signs you've had it, and it never hurts to weigh your options.
 

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Quidditch rebrands as quadball and further distances itself from Harry Potter author

"U.S. Quidditch and Major League Quidditch announced the name change on Tuesday as well as their own rebranding as U.S. Quadball and Major League Quadball. The groups announced their intention to find a new name for the sport in December, citing what they called anti-trans positions of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling.

"In addition to distancing themselves from the author, organizers hope the name change will give the sport more opportunities to grow and not be inhibited by the trademark for 'quidditch' being owned by Warner Bros."
 

Dave

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I’ve seen some really stupid shit here in the south since I started my trip. But they made up for it with Blue Bell blackberry cobbler ice cream. Holy shit this stuff is good!
 
Quidditch rebrands as quadball and further distances itself from Harry Potter author

"U.S. Quidditch and Major League Quidditch announced the name change on Tuesday as well as their own rebranding as U.S. Quadball and Major League Quadball. The groups announced their intention to find a new name for the sport in December, citing what they called anti-trans positions of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling.

"In addition to distancing themselves from the author, organizers hope the name change will give the sport more opportunities to grow and not be inhibited by the trademark for 'quidditch' being owned by Warner Bros."
Maybe I'm just old, but this is the dumbest thing I've ever seen.

Not the rebranding, the sport itself.
 
I almost put this in the Weird Weather thread, but it doesn't really apply as "weird weather."

Anyway, whenever I heard about water shortages and droughts in the US, I was under the impression it was resulting from climate change. But from the sounds of it in this video, a lot of it (though perhaps not all) is due to infrastructure and improper water usage issues.

 
I had a dream the other day that I typed "demon in a cave" into DALL-E and it came up with some images. And one of them turned its head and looked at me.

I'd forgotten about it until just now, so I was compelled to go type "demon in a cave" into DALL-E
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You don't know how sad I am that I don't have the know-how to turn that into a gif where after like 60 seconds, of them turns their head.
 
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