I didn’t realize they were being boycotted again. Oh well, back to job hunting.

I get the sarcasm, and the downvotes, but I have always viewed my employer more of a customer. My product that I am selling is my time, passion and skill. So with that in mind, what can you bring to the table? What’s your skill set?

If you have a CDL or can get one, almost everyone is hiring. Company driver pay is generally in the $55k - $120k range. Though your first year or 2 will probably be less. Downside is you’re probably away from home a lot, and are held personally accountable for any damage you do. Literally, I could quit my current job, and be hired and getting payed by a new company within the week. Historically the average has been 2 days.

If that doesn’t float your boat:

I know of several towns within a 50 miles of me, that don’t have local electricians, plumbers, HVAC techs or even a handyman. You could charge as much as the traffic will bear.

Everyone in the local area is looking for every type of mechanic and can’t find them.

Nurses are always in demand (and very much not respected enough). Pays well too.

If you prefer working with Unions, the Boilermakers and Pipefitters will both train you. Both have more work than people last I heard.

Farmers and Garbage collectors both are having their help either deported or leaving the country, so they are probably hiring.

But ya, if you’re looking for a nice comfy office job, that would indeed be a tough row to hoe. Everyone wants the comfy jobs, so they’re scarce and the pay is shit. There is a reason I drive a truck.

The TSA workers have the same simple solution to a shit boss everyone else has. If the BS out paces the pay, walk away.

If it’s actual art (digital or no), yes. Each person is distinct even if they are faking someone else. With enough data, a profile can be built. It’s how the real artist behind fake original paintings can be Identified.

People are just really bad at random, and are not precise enough to physically copy someone else.

Digital copies are another matter, but might still be traceable with a large enough dataset.

Kinda, but not really. And only if you are creating and logging into these accounts via a method that conceals your personal IP address. Without that, at best, you are simply obscuring your identity.

And even if you are properly concealing your ip address, If you interact with the rest of us enough, a profile could still be built up using writing or art styles as the identifier, eventually becoming detailed enough to identify the user.

Jk Rowling and Steven King both had alts that were linked to them that way. And it wasn’t a government that did so, but their fans.

Well crap. Knew it was coming but still.

Anyone know of a good weather service that doesn’t rely on NOAA?

So. Not my state, but I’m pretty certain that that might run foul of the US Constitution. Even with the current Supreme Court.

Really obscure stuff can be a bit of needle in a haystack. Some places you can try are Archive.org, YouTube, Usenet, and bittorrent (I have good luck on Pirate Bay, but YMMV).

Depends on the decade.

For a long time, many companies treated the SSN as a sort of secure password that only the individual would know. Some companies still do. Others, like schools and the military, just treated it like what it is. A unique id number. If you know name, address and SSN, it’s possible to do a lot of different things that can create headaches for the person who was targeted. New credit cards, bank accounts, loans, transferred utilities, rental agreements.

Because the social security number has become the default way to uniquely identify an individual in the US despite the fact that it was never intended for that function.

What could possibly go wrong! /s