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[scriver]

You have my old man nod of approval, that's the spirit

[Great Order]

Nope, end result of "Look, it's your fault that our product is shit, you should have known better. Please order with us again and ask for a custom size, that'll fix the issues!"

Unfortunately, there's not a lot I could do. If they were UK-based I'd be able to take them to small claims but that ain't happening and it's probably not worth the effort if I could. I'll just have to be content with warding away any potential customers.

EDIT: I've found another method of attack.

Tried them on (And holy fuck are they uncomfortable. The material's bad enough, but the stitching is stiff and digs in all around the groin area), and noticed that they don't actually sit like boyshorts.

Seems they sent me the wrong product. I did a bit of examining and comparison, and I'm 95% sure they're actually hipster briefs.

[Great Order]

So all that kerfuffle and...

They're willing to send the right product. No refunds. Ever. Under any circumstances.

Fuck it, I'll take them up on that. At least it costs them more and I can find some place to donate them to. I'll take some petty revenge over nothing.

[scriver]

Do it!

[Imic]

What's that quote from CS Lewis?  Ah yes:

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

I am framing this and hanging it somewhere conspicuous in my home

[Vector]

I'm stressed out. I'm doing a little better than I was before after having a big crash-and-burn mental breakdown. However, I had planned to become a research mathematician and with the present legal slide the way it is and the need to develop a national reputation, it genuinely feels as though within five short months the career I've been working towards for the past lifetime is all gone. It's not gone due to my incompetence or stupidity; or lack of discipline; or unsuitability; or lack of skill; it's gone because a bunch of fucks wanted political power and decided that people like me should have no access to public life.

OK, assholes. You demolished one of your own country's best and brightest after decades of very expensive training and education. Good fucking work.

I don't know whether I should become depressed or what. I can finish my degree and move to a safe city in California and find some kind of work, maybe even pretty satisfying work, but with my PTSD DX I've seen online that I wouldn't even be able to get the most basic security clearance. So realistically, I'm going to be working in education until they force me out, and then after that I'd be code monkeying. Or digging ditches, I don't give a shit.


I'm writing about this here because I want people to understand that the current situation is affecting people you know well in direct and unambiguous ways. Hi lurkers o/

[TD1]

I've heard bits and pieces about America's slide, but mostly revolving around 'protect the children.' Are they attacking adults' jobs now?

[EuchreJack]

I've heard bits and pieces about America's slide, but mostly revolving around 'protect the children.' Are they attacking adults' jobs now?

Yeah. Conservative states are eliminating Tenure to silence teachers and professors. They've also been organizing Parent Mobs to lobby school boards against anything progressive.
Vector couldn't get a job in Florida and be themselves, for instance.

California and NY are fairly safe, but safety is relative and subjective.  Both states now have expanded their State-funded Colleges to the point that private colleges are slowly but surely going out of business, unless they advertise aggressively as ultra-conservative.

[MrRoboto75]

There's that one trans (state?) representative they kicked out of congress.  Can't even rep her dudes.

[jipehog]

I've heard bits and pieces about America's slide, but mostly revolving around 'protect the children.' Are they attacking adults' jobs now?

Yeah. Conservative states are eliminating Tenure to silence teachers and professors. They've also been organizing Parent Mobs to lobby school boards against anything progressive.
Vector couldn't get a job in Florida and be themselves, for instance.

California and NY are fairly safe, but safety is relative and subjective.  Both states now have expanded their State-funded Colleges to the point that private colleges are slowly but surely going out of business, unless they advertise aggressively as ultra-conservative.

Can you elaborate, what is this 'America's slide' and why/how Vector would be affected in finding jobs in the exact science math department?

[McTraveller]

Basically a bunch of hyper-conservatives in power, and mob rule, violating protected class protections without penalty, in this case especially against nonbinary folks.

Basically “we don’t like your kind around here, good luck finding a job” stuff again. History repeating before our eyes.

[jipehog]

Can you be more specific, because for the past decade I have heard first hand accounts of different things from someone within the system and I wouldn't call her hyper-conservative.

[Great Order]

I think he's saying that Vec (Don't actually know their preferred pronouns so I'll stick to gender neutral for now), being NB, is in danger in any conservative (or hyper-conservative) state at this point since they're basically waging open warfare against gender minorities by restricting their access to jobs, treatment etc. etc.

And while NY or Cali or some other liberal state might be safe at the moment, the only private institutions are ultra-conservative (And thus unsafe) and if a Rep government gets power there or wins a national election then the public institutions are seriously at risk of also becoming unsafe. So nowhere to go after that.

[bloop_bleep]

Ok, but even private universities in the US are by-and-large nowhere near ultraconservative, other than those few weird ones started by the evangelical right. University towns are often considered to be where the liberals are concentrating in most regions, for example the Research Triangle in North Carolina which is driving the liberal shift of the traditionally Republican state.

I can assure you that the "woke liberal" strongholds like where I live, San Francisco, are only becoming more pro-trans. Your view of the country as a whole may be clouded by your local area. Come here, it's great.

[EuchreJack]

Other than the rampant crime wave, I think NY is reasonably safe for trans.  They're basically a protected class.
But then again, rampant crime wave.

But yeah, we're fairly short on job openings in Education. To be clear, I found only 27 jobs for math professors in the majority of New York (200 miles of New York City), and most were adjunct positions.

I had a good friend die as an unemployed adjunct professor.  It's not as dark as it sounds, he was old and he drank, it was his poor health and not unemployment that did him in. And he seemed happy enough, having a good run in education previously along with other hobbies to keep him busy.
But we don't have work in NY, sorry.