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[TheBiggerFish]

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[Itnetlolor]

Apply to job (with about 10 other applicants tagging along), charge a proper rate ($20/hr), no response for nearly 2 weeks (no markups of interviews or hires with any of the other 10 applicants either).

Change rate to something impossible to refuse ($5/hr) to see if the job's still relevant; catch their attention somehow. Declined in less than an hour since price update.

Stay classy, employers. And thanks for helping me research the psychology of unresponsive clients.

EDIT:
At the crappy rate of employment I'm getting with freelancing (regardless of pricing), I need some more social experiments to run on (potentially) unresponsive clients, or at least to troll them into backing up their "Communication is a priority" double-standard they spout.

[flabort]

Apply to job (with about 10 other applicants tagging along), charge a proper rate ($20/hr), no response for nearly 2 weeks (no markups of interviews or hires with any of the other 10 applicants either).

Change rate to something impossible to refuse ($5/hr) to see if the job's still relevant. Declined in less than an hour since price update.

Stay classy, employers. And thanks for helping me research the psychology of unresponsive clients.

I'm guessing where you are the minimum wage is less than $12?

[Itnetlolor]

Apply to job (with about 10 other applicants tagging along), charge a proper rate ($20/hr), no response for nearly 2 weeks (no markups of interviews or hires with any of the other 10 applicants either).

Change rate to something impossible to refuse ($5/hr) to see if the job's still relevant. Declined in less than an hour since price update.

Stay classy, employers. And thanks for helping me research the psychology of unresponsive clients.

I'm guessing where you are the minimum wage is less than $12?

Actually, it's freelancing using an online resource/freelance website. So location is only relevant regarding time zones. And sorta, yeah.

EDIT:
Just checked back a moment later, and they're finally interviewing somebody.

[Bohandas]

Have a very short short story:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

"A liberal muslim Jewish homosexual ACLU lawyer professor and abortion doctor was teaching a class on Karl Marx, known atheist

'Before the class begins, you must get on your knees and worship Marx and accept that he was the most highly-evolved being the world has ever known, even greater than Jesus Christ!'

At this moment, a brave, patriotic, pro-life Navy SEAL champion who had served 1500 tours of duty and understood the necessity of war and fully supported all military decision made by the United States stood up and held up a rock.

'How old is this rock, pinhead?'

The arrogant professor smirked quite Jewishly and smugly replied '4.6 billion years, you stupid Christian'
'Wrong. It’s been 5,000 years since God created it. If it was 4.6 billion years old and evolution, as you say, is real… then it should be an animal now'
The professor was visibly shaken, and dropped his chalk and copy of Origin of the Species. He stormed out of the room crying those liberal crocodile tears. The same tears liberals cry for the 'poor' (who today live in such luxury that most own refrigerators) when they jealously try to claw justly earned wealth from the deserving job creators. There is no doubt that at this point our professor, DeShawn Washington, wished he had pulled himself up by his bootstraps and become more than a sophist liberal professor. He wished so much that he had a gun to shoot himself from embarrassment, but he himself had petitioned against them!

The students applauded and all registered Republican that day and accepted Jesus as their lord and savior. An eagle named 'Small Government' flew into the room and perched atop the American Flag and shed a tear on the chalk. The pledge of allegiance was read several times, and God himself showed up and enacted a flat tax rate across the country.

The professor lost his tenure and was fired the next day. He died of the gay plague AIDS and was tossed into the lake of fire for all eternity.

Semper Fi! Support the troops!"

This is very similar to an urban legend I heard about Albert Einstein (who in this version ironically played the part of the navy seal rather than the jewish professor)

[Bohandas]

Cartoons were never meant for children.

Those are fun tidbits, but anyone who freaks out about it is seriously over-reacting. Almost all of those sorts of jokes only make sense if you are able to decode the reference. If you e.g. hint at blowjobs or something, the kid has to already know about blowjobs to get it. In other words, kids aren't going to learn anything they don't already know about sex from those examples:

girl: "your fast, maybe too fast"
guy: "why thank y- ... heyyyyyy what's that supposed to mean!?"

Sure, we adults get what "he's too fast" means, but only because we already get the reference. Man, it would enlightening to see how a kid actually explains that line

Also they missed the "lays with his wife" like from the Adventure Time episode "The Duke"

[TempAcc]

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Found this in my old image folder. Apparently, according to the kinsey scale, I'm a tentacle monster.

[Putnam]

i don't really think a one-dimensional scale works for sexuality

[TheBiggerFish]

Where's this from, anyway?

[hops]

"You are (5,4,6,9,2,5) in the Nyarlathotep scale."

[flame99]

i don't really think a one-dimensional scale works for sexuality

Eh, the Kinsey scale is more just a broad stroke to try and pin down the separation between hetero, bi, and homosexual from my understanding. Less as an actual quantification of sexuality.

[TheBiggerFish]

Sadly it isn't known at what number 4th dimension sausages become inefficient.

In 1998 it was proven that the Sausage Conjecture was correct for dimensions equal to or larger than 42.

The funny thing is the bit where 42 cropped up.  Randomly.

[Bohandas]

https://reason.com/archives/2009/06/18/a-scary-thing-indeed

[Flying Dice]

https://reason.com/archives/2009/06/18/a-scary-thing-indeed

That's brilliant. The outraged comments are a nice touch, too.

[IcyTea31]

Oh my, I didn't even notice there were comments on that. One has to knowingly click a small javascript link to see and read them. That's brilliant!