IamtheMorgz

This is the best thing I've read all week.

While this is indeed a list, it pales in comparison to what you can do in or near a large city.

I enjoy a ton of things on your list but there's stuff you just can't easily do outside of a metro area. Especially stuff you need a specialized teacher for.

If the job requires you to be at your desk then presumably that means you have work to complete. Judge people for what they get done, not how often they mindlessly move a mouse and this wouldn't be a problem!

This is ridiculous! We will never have a teenage president because you have to be 35 to run. Proof the whole thing is rigged.

Lawyers usually take around 35-40%

Attacked for being the "wrong kind of straight couple"? I'm not saying it doesn't happen but I don't know that I've seen any actual attacks for that. Plenty of people preaching that women should stay home in the kitchen or whatever, but on average, social media alone has tipped that scale, I think.

You seem to be under the impression that straight couples in media are only ever married with 2.5 kids with a working father and stay at home mom but that really doesn't seem like it's been the case for a while.

While polyamory is probably still underrepresented, I'm not sure about your other examples. Also polyamory often includes at least one LGBTQ+ relationship so I'm not sure it makes your point. And a trans person in a heterosexual relationship falls at least half into LGBTQ+ by definition.

Most rom coms aren't about married couples with kids. Most sit coms show relationships where both partners work. The old trope of the dad who knows nothing about his kids is pretty dead at this point. Divorced and widowed couples show up a lot, too.

I don't think you're wrong that all kinds of relationships and gender expressions should be represented, but comparing it to the overall lack of LGBTQ+ rep out there... Well, one of these things is not like the other.

Also, my sister works and her husband is a stay at home dad. When people hear this they say "oh" and move on. When I mention my nephew is trans... Well the reaction is different. Very different. As stupid as it sounds, media representation plays a huge role in exposing people to things they don't get the chance to see often in their own lives (especially if you're from a small town). It's good for people to see trans characters they like and relate to before they find out about my nephew. I actually use it as a gauge to decide if I should tell people at all.

So long as straight is the assumption (or default), we are gonna need these kinds of spaces.

Will the other Friday be shorter, too? Because otherwise they're getting an extra hour out of you every other week.

I do this at my job (my choice). I do 7 to 4:30 with a half hour for lunch. I don't actually take the lunch when I'm in the office since there's no place other than my desk to be, and thankfully my supervisor is fine with me just leaving at 4. When I'm at home I try to actually be away from my office for that time.

I do like 3 day weekends and when I'm WFH I don't even notice the 9 hour days. Idk if I'd do it for a job I had to be in the office every day for, but hopefully it will work for you.

This is why work from home is so valuable to me. They don't pay me well enough to have a commute under 45 mins because the cost of living in the city is high as heck. And there's no public transit option. So basically that's 1.5 hours a day that I'm not losing to being stupid traffic

Technically I come in at 7 and leave at 4:30, but it's a 9 hour day (30 min unpaid lunch) and I get every other Friday off in exchange. Also most days I work from home. No way in heck I'd ever go in for something like that.

OP, start job shopping. Longer hours are a sign the business isn't doing all that well and they're trying to squeeze out some more labor. Or a sign they're doing well but are not interested in taking care of people by hiring enough staff and would rather you burn yourself out.

You're definitely right about the reasons why, but it's extremely frustrating to have this kind of situation when we could probably just find another way to find it and treat water like a basic human right!

In a similar vein, I was trying to find something on Facebook (yeah, I know, but it was a funny work thing) today and went to use the search function to look for the FB page in question (searched the exact name) and if you just hit enter the new AI assumes you're asking it a question. It's FB! It's not a search engine! Why is it trying to give me a phone number for the police department I'm looking up to see their insane post?! I want to see the page! The page with the name I searched! On the app I searched in! Now you have to click a separate button that specifies you're looking to search through FB.... In the FB app!

This AI crap is already k.i.l.l.i.n.g. me.