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@Eris @ChristiJunior @dave @oddtail @shebang "surely these people are reasonable, acting in good faith, and will leave us alone if we just give up a little bit of ground to them!"
@matrix i have a distinct memory of playing it on an ipod at a funeral wake and accidentaly turning the ringer on and it playing loudly and that memory is stuck with me for some reason

@LukeAlmighty @graf “I believe this might be because of unemployment benefits.”

The problem for someone like your friend is that the most basic thing about US unemployment benefits is that if you’re offered a job comparable to your old one, you’ve got to take it.

In theory, of course, and you’ve got to document your efforts, like sending out resumes, implicitly “asking for interviews” as you posit. But I think insincere behavior like ghosting the company at any point would be just as problematic. In theory, again, our individual states’ unemployment systems have to be totally overloaded right now, even if they’re pretty automatically accepting “lost job because of COVID” claims.

Maybe they’ve computerized to the point where you’ve got to “check some boxes” every week or so, but I doubt for very many people there’s real human beings paying attention, doing followups with companies etc.

I used whether or not you read Freakonomics and really liked it to filter out a lot of people

Commedy from 1984 vs hipster from 2015...
youtube.com/watch?v=r_wpnUYhyB

youtube.com/watch?v=v1MVqwvOqv

I haven't realized just how clownish this world realy is.
(sorry, I wasn't able to find the english version. The movie is Il ragazzo di campagna)

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