u/Shadowchaos1010

It's happened to me a few times, including just now. I saw a post, wanted to leave a (hopefully) insightful comment, spend a while typing it up, read it over just to make sure, hit post, and... "This thread is locked."

At the very least let me leave the comment and lock the post when I refresh the page or something. I opened it, it's still unlocked and open for discussion, then next thing I know, I can't and my time is wasted?

The post title is a quote from Clarence Thomas in a video I'm watching right now. And it's not the first time I've heard those words verbatim this week from a right winger on YouTube.

Needless to say, it pissed me off, and I ended up renting in a comment. I wanted to share it here.

Progressivism *is* the basic premise of the Declaration of Independence.

Progressivism is what takes Americans and turns it from a joke built upon a gross contradiction that continues to be a lie and makes it a true statement.

Progressivism is the *fulfillment* of the Declaration.

It was written by a man who owned people but had the audacity to write "All men are created equal."

When Progressivism is about fighting for the rights of people who are marginalized so they are equal, what is that other than the fulfillment of a promise?

Jefferson said the rights came from God. Then man got in the way of God by depriving their peers of their rights because of their sex, race, creed, what have you. The government is stepping in to protect those rights, not because it seeks to undermine God, but because it seems to protect the rights He gave His children that people like Clarence Thomas want to infringe upon.

Happy Fourth, everyone.

I've been trying to find work for a depressingly long time. I've heard my fair share of (sometimes conflicting) tips on what to do. But even after all this time, there's another thing I just saw that, if true, baffles me, and is exactly why I made this post.

I saw a comment on a post from this subreddit a few months ago that mentioned that some types of ATS just can't properly parse PDFs. So even if you do everything else right, if you didn't throw them a docx, you're fucked.

Then I try to see what other peoples' opinions are, and I see a reddit thread that says the complete opposite, and that PDFs are preferred.

So with that conflicting information, do you do PDFs and just pray that the ATS can read them? Do you err on the side of caution and do docx unless otherwise specified and hope that a human isn't annoyed by the decision even if ATS loves it?

We all hear that we have to tailor our resumes and try to match keywords, but how deep does that go? Do you just want to copy-paste the job description and tweak it a bit so it actually matches the things you've done for maximum tailoring? Are ATS smart enough to understand when you slightly reword something it's looking for? Or would it hold that against you for not being the exact same?

No one formally taught me much of anything about ATS. It's just been people telling me "Oh, by the way, don't do this, because ATS can't read that," and it's maddening.

I guess I'm just asking for a list of more or less everything I'd need to know about how to minimize the chances of ATS not letting a human see my resumes ever.

Mainly the fact that I think it's sort of contradictory. I am by no means an expert on this topic, admittedly, so people are free to take anything I say with a grain of salt.

My initial thought is of my personal favorite Bible verse, Galatians 3:28.

>There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

The reason I like it so much is because, while it only lists three specific examples, I feel like it's very reasonable to apply it to every label or distinctions humans have ever given themselves ever. Basically "Those things you use to divide yourself and justify bigotry are useless, because God sees you all as His children and loves you equally."

Yet, at least to my understanding, the notion of being a Christian Zionist requires ignoring that altogether and fixating on the idea of "Those who bless Israel will be blessed, and those who curse Israel will be cursed."

To avoid accidentally talking too much about current events, if you have a part of the Bible say "Our differences mean nothing because God loves us all equally," to hold a certain nation in higher regard for any reason basically stomps all over it.

Then there's the Israel of it all. And I don't mean the country. I mean Jacob.

Could "Those who bless Israel will be blessed, and those who curse Israel will be cursed" mean Jews broadly, rather than the nation-state of Israel specifically? Technically speaking, wouldn't all Jews everywhere on the planet be "Israel" through Jacob? Then there's the fact that, as far as I can tell, the only time that's ever said in the Bible is to Abraham, and could easily refer to his descendants, wherever they are on the planet, rather than this specific country whose modern incarnation didn't exist until 1948.

And related to that, why does "blessing Israel" equate to rubber stamping everything its government wants? Could "blessing" someone not mean doing something they'll resent in the moment but come to appreciate in the long run? You know, like any parent that does anything that makes their kid upset, only for them to grow up and say "Yeah, you were right."

Even if God Himself did want to put the nation on some sort of pedestal, why is it impossible for people to think that denying them today might in some way bless them 50 years from now?

Another pair of thoughts just popped into my head, so I'll slap them on here at the end:

• Assuming someone is a denomination that believes accepting Jesus as their savior is a prerequisite for heaven, do they think the entirety of Israel is going to convert, or something? Or have they somehow convinced themselves that blindly supporting a country of people who they believe are hellbound for not proclaiming Jesus as their Lord is what Jesus wants?
• Matthew 25:40. A nuclear state that has one of the (for now) foremost superpowers in the world on a short leash is far from "the least of these brothers and sisters," so these people should be pouring their energy and support into people who have it far worse. Even if that somehow was at odds with the interests of the nation of Israel, not supporting those vulnerable people means not supporting Jesus Himself, no?

I've been trying to find work for a depressingly long time. I've heard my fair share of (sometimes conflicting) tips on what to do. But even after all this time, there's another thing I just saw that, if true, baffles me, and is exactly why I made this post.

I saw a comment on a post from this subreddit a few months ago that mentioned that some types of ATS just can't properly parse PDFs. So even if you do everything else right, if you didn't throw them a docx, you're fucked.

Then I try to see what other peoples' opinions are, and I see a reddit thread that says the complete opposite, and that PDFs are preferred.

So with that conflicting information, do you do PDFs and just pray that the ATS can read them? Do you err on the side of caution and do docx unless otherwise specified and hope that a human isn't annoyed by the decision even if ATS loves it?

We all hear that we have to tailor our resumes and try to match keywords, but how deep does that go? Do you just want to copy-paste the job description and tweak it a bit so it actually matches the things you've done for maximum tailoring? Are ATS smart enough to understand when you slightly reword something it's looking for? Or would it hold that against you for not being the exact same?

No one formally taught me much of anything about ATS. It's just been people telling me "Oh, by the way, don't do this, because ATS can't read that," and it's maddening.

I guess I'm just asking for a list of more or less everything I'd need to know about how to minimize the chances of ATS not letting a human see my resumes ever.

It just occurred to me that you could sit down a Black person, an Asian, and a Latino and say "Raise your hand if the following applies to your race":

- You were brought into the United States to be exploited for cheap labor

- Your presence in the country has been treated as some sort of existential threat

- How American you are has been questioned, even if you're a natural born citizen and/or your family has been here for generations

- Similarly, you've been told to "go back to your country."

- Discrimination against you has been enshrined in law

- You've been assumed criminal or subversive based on the color of your skin

-You have been victim of white-led race riots

Those are the examples I could think of of the top of my head where two or all three would have their hands up. Specifically, I was thinking (won't have perfect examples for all three for every one):

- Slavery/Chinese Migrant workers in the 1800s/Latin American migrant workers today

- Trump basically ran on "non-white people bad," but this country is no stranger to using the dangerous "other" as political ammunition

- The 13th Amendment, to my understanding, exists to address this/the case of Wong Kim Ark and the internment of Japanese-Americans/Once again, present day with Latino citizens feeling unsafe because some racist "law enforcer" assumes they're here illegally for speaking Spanish

- Jim Crow/Chinese Exclusion Act

- Internment/The aforementioned "illegal because Spanish speaker"

I bring all this up, and make this post, because I've been watching videos about discourse on Black people choosing to boycott Asian businesses in the wake of Rick Chow's not guilty.

For all our differences, in the United States specifically, as far as being fucked over by white supremacy goes, basically every demographic that is not white has a *lot* in common. Hell, I'm no expert in the history, but even certain ethnicities we call white would have their hands up for a number of those (Shoutout to the Irish and Italians).

So how far *should* the solidarity go? Obviously, it isn't there, but what other commonalities of having been dealt a shitty hand am I missing?

Less about trying to spark a flame war, I am legitimately curious about what historical vignettes of what have happened to people in this country that weren't covered in our compulsory education.

So, ideally, less a conversation about contentious current events, and more a history class that we were all denied when we were younger. I may be wrong, but hope that framing it as a discussion of "then" rather than "now" will help keep any discussion *mostly* respectful.

Basically the post title. I am not white, but I am American. So most news I hear about are things that are about America, or at least "The West" at large.

The west is just predominantly white, so no matter who the crazy people are, it's just likely that they will be white. When people in power want to be evil and ghoulish, it's just more likely they'll be white in nations that are mostly white. When religious conservatives are on their shit, it's just more likely that they'll be white. But when some of the most heinous shit I hear are from white politicians or white influencers specifically (basically all of MAGA and, in light of what I am aware of going on in Northern Ireland, Reform UK and anyone adjacent to them), it gets just a mite harder to not let a chip on my shoulder form.

I know for a fact that the evil shitheels in question do not represent all white people. I know that, no matter how many people do agree with them, they have to be a small share of the total population just because of how massive the planet is. That the mythical "silent majority" are not people I'd have reason to feel unsafe around. I know that, usually, people who are normal and well adjusted don't screech on the internet all day, so it's just easy to miss them.

But I think that, at this point, the notion of it not being enough to just not be racist but "anti-racist" is beginning to make more sense to me. At what point does silence equal either malicious indifference or silent compliance? Sure, you might not agree with the people who want to exile everyone who isn't white, even if they were born in <insert country here>, but since nobody can read minds, if you don't explicitly say that, how the hell is anyone supposed to know?

That's it. There's the complaint. The monster humanity has created that is the internet and social media is doing its job in making someone aware of how terrible they are feel suspicious of my fellows, even though I know I shouldn't be. The billionaire's division machine is working as intended.

All that aside, I know for a fact there will never be a day I definitely say "I can't trust white people." I just worry it'll become increasingly harder to believe in the goodness of my fellow man the more I see the worst of us allowed to be their worst selves without being properly called out or held accountable.

Am watching NicoB's Azure, and Wazy just made a comment that made me think of something I remember from when I finished Daybreak II last year.

He referred to the Pope as "His Holiness." But what I remember from the end of Daybreak II, at least, >!when Nina was talking about the Pope, she said!< "Her Holiness."

My brain goes to one of two explanations for that:

The Pope Wazy was referring to died, and the one >!Nina!< was taking about was elevated in the intervening years. The potential issue is that the leader of the entire Septian Church dying doesn't feel like something that would be completely glossed over, even if we've never been to Arteria. It happening in a time skip is the only way it makes sense to me. Between Azure/Cold Steel II and III, between IV and Reverie, between Reverie and Daybreak. Any of those. The news that comes with the death of one Pope and ascension of another happening during months players just never saw is an easy enough explanation.

The other explanation is just that it's another Hamilton situation.

People assume male, we find out they were a woman all along, patching games afterwards to correct the pronouns optional.

That's about it. A very minor detail, but would probably be a major event for the people of Zemuria, and it's just never mentioned.

I am still rather early into Horizon, so I don't know what else I might learn about the inner workings of the Church, but I expect *something* >!with Nina.!<

Just a little over a week to 26. I don't know what I would've imagined like to be at this age 10 years ago, but it certainly wasn't this, nor do I exactly know what to do.

Went to school, got the degree. Tried to follow the template, only to graduate to a rapidly worsening job market that, as you are aware, is likely not going to improve anytime soon.

I'm fortunate enough to have at least found part-time work to earn a bit of money over the years, but it's far from ideal, and I am not sure what hope there is for things to be any less shit anytime soon.

I doubt that trying to try and pivot to some other industry would free me from the "No one wants to train people" problem. Going back to school, for me, is a non-starter because I would rather not go into even more debt for a degree that might not land me a job.

I bashed my head against job applications for so long I believe it's created a mental block where even bothering feels like a waste of time because nothing will work, as that's the only message that's been sent to me for years.

Do I continue trying to hone my craft in hopes of things eventually looking up there so I'm better practiced and more qualified?

Do I try to pivot to something else that's more stable for now and hope that by the time I'm competent enough in it to get a job, the market hasn't shifted again and made that a dead end, too? And even then, what would that be?

How do I unpack the sunk cost fallacy of "This is what I want to do and I've been at it for years, so pivoting now means it was all a waste of time; wait it out until it's less broken"?

Since I have eyes and see companies all over injecting the job market with more experienced people applying for the same jobs as me out of desperation and actively trying to phase out entry-level/early career jobs so they can save money on AI, do I give myself some ounce of grace because it's all broken? Or keep trying anyway even though the already tough, demoralizing odds have gotten even worse?

For the most part, life isn't terrible otherwise. It's mainly this feeling of failure on the career front (the whole "graduate at 22, get a job, smooth sailing" thing) and a difficulty to reconcile factors wholly out of my control that have gotten in the way of that so far.

I do believe that everyone takes life at their own pace, and there isn't a one size fits all manner of how life is supposed to go. But still, it feels... frustrating, I suppose is accurate. Like the adulthood I was effectively promised by society my entire life has been indefinitely delayed with no real answer about what I'm supposed to do instead.