Reddit will pay a million content farms to repost memes before they pay a single moderator for [squints at paper] running their website

Well, are MLMs dead? Audible book spamming? The nigerian prince scam? Hell, mail scams are still running to this day.

As long as there’s a hook, I doubt cryptomoney scams are going to be leaving any time soon. It is rare we’ll see scams of the same magnitude as before, but they’ll always be around in those sorts of communities. Just a matter of principle, whenever money’s involved.

You could probably go back to buying pokemon cards, though. The fact that crypto’s greatest investors have a vested interest in not having their cash vanish into thin air, it’s best used for it’s purpose-- as currency-- unless another FTX fumbles the bag.

I had once heard described that fahrenheit’s best feature is that you can go “oh, 1-100, ‘sheesh, that’s really cold!’ to ‘hoof, that’s pretty hot!’” and yeah, while I was in the US where most temperatures (RIP Florida) change all the time, that sure was convenient.

However, living in a country that always stays in the 80-100 range, the ‘oh fuck, the water’s freezing’ to 'oh fuck, the heat death of the sun is upon us’ range is a MUCH more useful scale to knowing if we’ve been struck by some sort of apocalyptic event today

Absolutely wild and extremely accurate advice. Hats off to you-- and extremely sorry for your loss. Baring the pain is hard, and harder to lie about.

HR knows everyone lies, but really it’s a thing about how to market yourself… and we all know marketing’s mostly wading through vaguely legal BS anyway. Any proper white collar job these days wants a golden goose employee that eats crap and craps gold-- them’s the works.

Adding onto the YSK, any personal project can be properly spun into a good employee gap as long as you can at least back it up. Podcast, github project, spin up an LLC, started selling porcelain dolls locally or something. If you’re no good at spinning up a story, just being able to make the person on the other end of the line believe that you have 1. a fast capacity to learn, 2. are flexible with learning, and 3. are willing to take extreme duress and go-gettering, it gives you a bit more rope to work with than otherwise.

Again, sorry for your loss. One can only wish we lived in a world where even the slightest employment gap wasn’t looked at with a microscope. Hopefully with the years we might live in a world where this lessens. The HR at my current company I consider pretty solid, hopefully the ‘european model’ spreads.