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  1. Comment on Looking for artists/bands/albums that feature a piano in ~music

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    Elliott Smith St. Vincent Menomena

    Elliott Smith
    St. Vincent
    Menomena

    3 votes

  2. Comment on What are some albums you can completely lose yourself in? in ~music

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    Why? - Alopecia Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Elliott Smith - New Moon Lucius - Good Grief Menomena - Friend and Foe Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso The Growlers - Are You in or...

    Why? - Alopecia
    Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
    Elliott Smith - New Moon
    Lucius - Good Grief
    Menomena - Friend and Foe
    Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso
    The Growlers - Are You in or Out?
    Beck - Midnight Vultures
    Any album by St. Vincent

    7 votes

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  4. Comment on Texas board votes to eliminate Helen Keller and Hillary Clinton from history curriculum in ~life

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    Historians of the future are gonna be so confused

    Historians of the future are gonna be so confused

    1 vote

  5. Comment on Texas board votes to eliminate Helen Keller and Hillary Clinton from history curriculum in ~life

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    Please, I'm already terrified enough without this

    Please, I'm already terrified enough without this

    2 votes

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  8. Comment on Are you satisfied in your career choice? in ~life

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    I've spent the last 8 years (and two months) working at what was formerly one of the biggest private label mortgage companies in the US. There were ups and downs, but as a college graduate in...

    I've spent the last 8 years (and two months) working at what was formerly one of the biggest private label mortgage companies in the US. There were ups and downs, but as a college graduate in 2010, a job that was willing to pay me 33k a year was enough to keep me and my girlfriend satisfied. Between both our jobs, we were able afford living together. The job was fun, too. For a little while. You knew it was like working for the death star, but the coffee was free, I could take smoke breaks, I could fuck off for most of the day so long as I did the work and nobody saw me fucking off. But eventually the increases became almost nonexistent and the industry was suddenly unstable. It's always been volatile, and frequently my company would let waves and waves of people go. Then they'd hire new people. Then they'd let more go. Then they would hire more. And then there was a time when things were relatively stable. There hadn't been a serious layoff in almost two years.

    I had endured much at this job. I found a niche position that, although it didn't offer me a lot in the way of pay, it offered me much in the way of personal freedom. For years, I could do most of my work either right as it came into my pipeline, or at the end of the day in one swing. Dead of Summer and dead of Winter were always slower, and there were times when I was doing way more work than the pay reflected. I dealt with supervisor and department changes. I dealt with gaslighting coworkers (one woman so insane she faked pregnancies, cancer, and car accidents), and misandrist dependent managers. I dealt with teammates being lost in droves. I dealt with cubicle moves and the entire office got a makeover. I gave most of a decade to this job. I sat in every wing on the third floor and one on the first. In November of 2016, no lie like a week after Trump's election, my job announced that most of our business sources were pulling their loans out of private label companies, including ours. They announced that 1400 people would be let go over the next year or so. And they weren't kidding. For the last 4 months of 2017 I came in every day and did nothing. Just got paid to be there. I was certain I'd be let go. They were changing systems and we had found out that the company was abruptly being bought at the beginning of this year. My team went from 22 people to 7. In like, 15 months. I don't know how I've managed to stay here this long and not be let go.

    About a week ago I accepted a management position with a paint distributor with a substantial pay and benefit bump. I start in a week. Now, that's a career decision I don't regret. I'm finally satisfied now that I'm leaving the mortgage industry

    16 votes

  9. Comment on Texas board votes to eliminate Helen Keller and Hillary Clinton from history curriculum in ~life

  10. Comment on Texas board votes to eliminate Helen Keller and Hillary Clinton from history curriculum in ~life

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    Fucking monsters. Only hope is that one day those people will be gone, their kind lost to time

    Fucking monsters. Only hope is that one day those people will be gone, their kind lost to time

    4 votes

  11. Comment on Texas board votes to eliminate Helen Keller and Hillary Clinton from history curriculum in ~life

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    Right! That was so strange, but the madness of evangelism is so commonplace now that I'm desensitized to it and didn't even really register it

    Right! That was so strange, but the madness of evangelism is so commonplace now that I'm desensitized to it and didn't even really register it

    5 votes

  12. Comment on Texas board votes to eliminate Helen Keller and Hillary Clinton from history curriculum in ~life

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    Perhaps the most troubling aspect was the decision to include "a requirement that students explain how the "Arab rejection of the State of Israel has led to ongoing conflict" in the Middle East"...

    Perhaps the most troubling aspect was the decision to include "a requirement that students explain how the "Arab rejection of the State of Israel has led to ongoing conflict" in the Middle East"

    Just seems like such a weird thing to add.

    14 votes

  14. Comment on Ex-Donald Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort agrees to plead guilty in deal with special counsel Robert Mueller in ~news

  16. Comment on Nardwuar vs. Superorganism in ~music

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    I JUST went and saw Superorganism in Philly last night and they were fucking awesome! I would recommend that everyone go see this band live. Their songs are good enough as is, but they are quite...

    I JUST went and saw Superorganism in Philly last night and they were fucking awesome! I would recommend that everyone go see this band live. Their songs are good enough as is, but they are quite an experience to behold in person

    2 votes

  17. Comment on Ex-Donald Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort agrees to plead guilty in deal with special counsel Robert Mueller in ~news

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    Let's hope this yields results

    Let's hope this yields results

    6 votes

  18. Comment on Reddit continues its banning spree, r/GreatAwakening has been banned in ~tech

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