Do you have a drivers license, clean driving record, and don’t use drugs. Then City Public Works or Garbage Collection both pay well, have low entry requirements, and provide on the job training for tons of equipment that translates well to a bevy of warehouse and construction positions if you decide to move on afterward.

If any of the three above are a problem though you might look into a Plumbing or HVAC apprenticeship. These tend to be more flexible on things like drivers licenses, driving record, and even criminal record. It’s basically on the job training for a couple of years until you pass your Journeyman exam. Some places start at min wage until you reach Journeyman, but depending on location (and need) it can be $15-17 starting and goes up to about $1000 per week once you get the Journeyman license. This applies to Electrical and Glaziers as well but they are also quite a bit more dangerous.

I try to participate on the lemmy.world community but it’s pretty slow.

Hot and Scaled are my main sorts. I alternate a couple of times a day. They get me the most interesting content.

I only check the first 3 pages of Active twice per day.

Edit: New is once per week and I generally regret it.

Pathfinder_Kingmaker. I spent ages talking about builds and strategies on that reddit sub. I still miss guiding new players into the games. The BG3 community is the closest I’ve found but it doesn’t scratch quite the same itch due to 5e’s simplicity.

Pathfinder does have a few active communities but they are all for the tabletop. The one for the game on Lemmy.world is dead as a doornail.

Honestly sounds like they dodged a bullet. Tesla doesn’t sound like beneficial employment.

Sadly I think both would want it, though as you said for different reason. To our detriment either way sadly.

Great Author sadly disqualified due to date for the thread.

My only hope for her is that she has more to put out before she passes. Damned good author.

Children of Time and Shards of Earth are great and Tchaikovsky will only get better.

Upvoted for Bujold and Cherryh. That said I prefer Bujold’s Sharing Knife.

Based on the company I have to check out Tepper.

I love it too, but American Gods is it’s wellspring.

Honestly, Stardust is probably my favorite of his.

American Gods and Neverwhere are classics. Neil Gaiman’s place on this list is assured and well deserved.

Haruki Murakami is probably the best fit for the time limit you’ve requested as his first book was published in 1979, he’s considered to be one of greatest living authors, and Kafka on the Shore is a classic.

That said my nomination would be Brian Jacques. His children’s series Redwall is a long running classic on par with Winnie the Pooh and Alice in Wonderland.

I’m pretty much convinced that no one else in this thread has gone more than 48 hrs without eating. Of the four on the wiki I’ve tried only urchin has a different flavor dead to alive, all of the others have been texture or experiential differences.

Eating something alive does feel different.

You and I clearly have a different definition of a good evening.

sluuuuuurp ;)

Like I said couldn’t think of a better term. Maybe life affirming, similar to screwing after watching an execution. The taste of death making everything sweeter? I’m not really sure on this one, but it falls into that dodged death camp. It can be pretty intense.

Watching someone eat is sensual. None of the food described in the wiki article would be a deal breaker.

As strange as it sounds all of these are life preserving(? couldn’t think of a better word) acts. Humans are predators.

I’ve eaten 4 of these and didn’t consider them too bad. None are libido killers, I enjoy watching my lovers eat.

As someone who has rocked one or another burner flip-phones for over a decade, I would like to politely disagree.

Smartphones are handy conveniences but not absolute necessities.

Minimum prep: peanut butter toast with banana slices.

Little prep: fried eggs with toast and preserves.

Both are super easy to make and only take like 5-10 mins. It will take longer for the coffee or tea to brew.

Andrey Vinogradov - Traditional Hurdy Gurdy music. It’s got a sound all it’s own.