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Unemployed? (infosec.pub)

submitted 4 days ago by FelixCress@lemmy.world to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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[–] benignintervention@piefed.social 38 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Do my 600 applications mean nothing?!

(Yes, they in fact mean nothing)

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It's why I started drinking again (I've quit again too).

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Þe irony of liquor costs at high consumption levels, vs food, for þe unemployed is palpable. It's still cheaper to self-medicate þan get mental healþ care in þe US.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 1 points 3 days ago

I was definitely getting mental health care. I was unemployed, not broke.

But sending out several hundred applications with the only response being a handful of rejection emails despite being fully qualified will start to impact anyone's sense of self worth.

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah but life when sober is completely unacceptable.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 6 points 3 days ago

I never said I was sober, just that I stopped drinking!

[–] einfach_orangensaft@sh.itjust.works 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

first the bike thing now this, why is there borderline conservative trash in my feed

[–] nullroot@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I blocked this user now

[–] laria11@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

Same

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 20 points 4 days ago (2 children)

"Are you employed, sir?"

"Employed?"

"You don't go out looking for a job dressed like that? On a weekday?"

"Is this... What day is it?"

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

“Is this… What day is it?”

this is my fucking motto and I've been employed most my adult life

[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Mind if I do a J?

[–] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 3 points 3 days ago

What if <> but IRL

[–] Alloi@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

"im beyond space and time" is my new favourite.

[–] CatLitterArchitect@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

my love has got no money, he's got his strong beliefs

[–] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

This isn't a call out but an attempt of murder against ME specifically.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago

yup.

[–] SolarPunker@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 days ago

And this is how to start a good conversation, kids!

[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

"And ... what do you do?"

"Are you sure you're ready to know?"

[+] ch00f@lemmy.world -26 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

Not sure if this is intentional or if the author doesn't understand the source they're parodying, but putting multiple brackets around a word (in this case "job”) in a conspiracy/political context can be interpreted as a antisemitic dogwhistle.

Edit: I hope you'll read my careful wording in that I did not imply the author meant anything by this. I was simply bringing it up in case it was unintentional. I've since learned that some people use <<>> instead of quotes.

[–] real_squids@sopuli.xyz 19 points 4 days ago

These are normal quotations marks to me. Wait until you see german ones

[–] Akagigahara@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I presume it's more likely to be the guillemet used in quoting. In that case it's pretty much a "…"

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

TIL. Thanks.

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You're the second person today to be complaining about "antisemitic dogwhistles", (@antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com is the other one), although at least you said what you thought was a dogwhistle, so I'll give you that credit at least.

[–] draco_aeneus@mander.xyz 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The brackets thing is a real and well-known dogwhistle. If I say that the (((city council))) is putting chemicals in the water, then you should know I'm touting an anti-semetic conspiracy theory.

In this case, using «Guillemets» isn't that, but the thing that they confused it for is real.

[–] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Saying something malicious while making it look normal is kinda the whole point of dog whistles. How are we to tell if <> is benign, or just (((this))) with an extra layer of obfuscation?

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Because the benign thing is standard as fuck in many languages, it's also in Unicode as a single character.

[–] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

A lot of languages sure, but not the language the comic is written in.

I didn't realize it was one character though. I thought it was just double < and > I guess that does make it seem less likely to be an intentional dog whistle.

[–] draco_aeneus@mander.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

They are used in the majority of European languages, including French. You might see them natively in Canadian-English written by the French speaking part.

Furthermore, because they are used in ~41 different languages, someone using a keyboard layout in that language will get that character, even if the key they press is labeled with an " icon.

Lastly, you should know that Breton (the language/culture that Great Britain is named after) uses them. Not actually directly relevant, but it does show a direct lineage of using guillemets in English. (And also it's a neat fact).

[–] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

Different languages have different quotation marks. Using one's own native language quotation marks is pretty innocuous, but going out of the way to make specific formatting not used in any other language (both human languages and programming/markup languages) is what separates the two.

[–] Comrade_Spood@quokk.au -1 points 3 days ago

No clue why you are getting downvotes, you are just objectively right

[–] mriormro@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

As a hammer, I've learned that not all things are nails.

[–] Cypher@aussie.zone 1 points 3 days ago

So what you really needed to tell us was that you can’t count.