Why wouldn't he ask for fast on the day before the feast of Our Lady?  Is it a european thing to fast on feast day?

I just accepted a 2nd job today so it is possible to get a job.  I only applied on Monday and I'm already hired so it doesn't necessarily take months. 

Now the downside....it's 40% less pay and no benefits.  This is probably the new normal for now because most of the jobs I've looked at are paying much lower than they did 2 years ago.  I took this role just to keep income coming in but it's not even enough to cover basic bills so I will have to use savings.  And I'm still looking for a 3rd job.

I found this job on ZipRecruiter.  It wasn't even listed on LinkedIn.

You casually gloss over the downside.  Yes, depending on the position, it most certainly can and does usually take months (if it's possible at all) to make a lateral move at your current position and current pay.

What's happening is that there are many mid-level IT folks out there who are taking the entry-level jobs for much lower pay, since it's all they can get.  Yes, the employers will hire them and are happy to have them for these jobs, since they're making significantly less than they used to.

Those who are truly entry-level ... right now they have practically zero chance.

Same thing happened to engineering in the mid 1990s after Bush Sr. made some huge defense budget cuts after Desert Storm.  I had a younger brother who had just graduated top of his class in Mechanical Engineering.  He couldn't find ANYTHING, since all the entry-level jobs were being taken by mid-level engineers with years of experience, for entry-level pay, since they were desperate.  Then the senior engineers started accepting the mid-level jobs, squeezing the mid-level people out of climbing back out of the entry-level jobs, etc.

You can't extrapolate your position, where you're in a very specific discipline, and having to take a 40% paycut with no benefits into claiming that the job market is fine.

It's most certainly not, and it's a disaster despite your personal anecdotal claims.  Numbers that look at the entire industry and not a few execeptions, they bear that out.

Then, WHILE this is going on, MANY IT jobs are quickly going to be replaced with AI.  Many AI bots can do a FAR better job of simple Help Desk and Suppport tasks than most people, and they can remember and learn, and draw from the knowledge base.  I'm not talking about the little crappy plugin bots you see on websites that can't do anything, but the higher-end products like ZenDesk ... their capabilities can replace the vast majority of Help Desk pretty much right now.  You can even grant access to AI agents to unlock accounts, change passwords, etc. ... based on the same criteiria that human agents can use.

Next step is that AI is getting MUCH better at writing software, at coding.  MANY lower-level "coding clerk" types in the field are easily reaplced.  Microsoft introduced their CoPilot product along with automated AI agents just a couple months ago, and these things are amazing.  You can go in and assign programming tasks to these thing and they can run off on their own, figure it out, and submit code changes as "Pull Requests" as if they were regular developers in DevOps.  I am actually piloting an R&D at my company to try this out, and I'm certain that I can outperform a team of 10 developers by myself orchestraing these AI agents.  Easily.  Now, right now the AI is NOT bright enough where it can be effective without someone orchestrating them who really knows development and can call them on mistakes or misunderstandings or fill in missing requirements, etc. ... something most low-lever "coding clerk" developers simply cannot do.

What I see happening is that huge numbers of lower-level, from entry- to mid- level developers will be replaced, leaving Application Architecture or System Architecture level skills in demand, and possibly experiencing a fleeting uptick in pay.  It's similar to factories where are alot of jobs are being taken over by robots.  Well, you still need people who really know the process (better than an average workers) to orchestrate the robots, and then others to maintain them, perhaps tweak their programming etc.  Those types will be in more demand and will see an uptick in pay ... until THEIR JOBS too are eliminated by the advancement of AI and automation.

Similarly, I'd give it another generation, maybe 5 years, where even the Application Architecture types (like myself) will no longer be needed, and you could simply have business people (Business Analysts) dictating requirements to AI, even in just natural language, and the software will get written.  Business Analyst types will not necessarily see an increase in pay, since they needn't have superior technical proficiency ... or any at all really.

Of course, the ultimate goal, as both Musk and the demon Harari have stated will be that the vast majortiy of people will no longer be employable, as AI and automation can do a MUCH BETTER job at their tasks.  Now, this SHOULD lead to some kind of Utopia, plenty, abundance, etc. ... where everything should be able to become much cheaper, and, as these guys suggest, average citizens would then receive a Universal Basic Income, but would have no work.

So, these guys fret that without jobs, people would lack meaning in life.  Now, most of us would love to have the free time to do much more meaningful things .. study, acts of charity, pray more, work on hobbies, arts, etc.  So that would be a great situation.  But we know that's NOT their goal.  Once we're no longer useful, they'll find different ways to exterminate us, while also a the same time destorying souls.  They talk about how people would lose meaning without jobs and so they would have to be anaesthetized with drugs, entertaingment, things like video games, etc.  But they're not going to do that.  They will exterminate us.

Now, of course, the goal with UBI and also digital currency will be a control mechanism.  If people get paid via some biometric identity a digital currency from a central source (vs. different companies, and in cash, etc.), if someone does not comply with the latest government mandate or makes some comment on X that is "not nithe" (aka against the usual suspects), they can simply turn off your ability to buy and sell, and turn off your UBI, making it so that if you don't comply with mandates, including jabs and whatever else they throw at us, or you don't comply with the propaganda, you will be cut off and starve.  95%+ will cave, just like most caved at the flu virus during the fake Plandemic.  That was a dry run to test compliance.  If they release something with even 10% mortality (for real), if you walk outside to your mailbox without 5 masks on, you would immediately get lynched on the spot.  Or if people are starving, and your choice is to suck up to the Jews, for example, or starve, most people would suck up to the Jews, and then the next thing and so on.

THAT is where this is all going, and the leader of this agenda is Satan himself, and the goal is nothing other than the destruction of souls.  All other agendas and all other bad actors are subordinate to and subservient of these goals.

Some aspects of the Sacraments are of Divine Institution, others of Ecclesiastical / Papal institution.  Former canot be changed.  Latter can be, AND the Church can actually impose them in such a way that failure to comply would invalidate the Sacrament.  So, for instance, requiring that thoes baptized Catholic must have a priest with some (at least pastoral) jurisdiciton witness their marriage, or otherwise it's null and void.  That's not of Divine Institution since ... there can be exceptinos, such as the unavailability of a priest, etc. as per Canon Law.  I personally do not believe that Quo Primum made the Mass and the other Sacramental Rites absolutely irreformable.  But that's entirely beside the point.

Novus Ordo Ordinations, the origin, history, and the intent of the Rite ... they're all identical to the factors that rendered Anglican Orders "absolutely null and utterly void" .. in addition to having changed the essential form.  Pope Leo XIII's teaching is crystal clear that the NO must be considered at least to labor under postiive doubt and quite possibly to be simply invalid.  There's no question, however that this causes positive doubt in an objective sense, which for all practical intents and purposes means that we are to treat them as invalid.

Borat's opinon is also off topic, since she's arguing from principles that the SSPX do not hold, namely, the disciplinary infallibility of the Church.  On top of that it begs the question that there's certainty regarding the legitimacy of the V2 papal claimants.

So it's a waste of time to keep debating this individual, who really doesn't even qualify as a real Traditional Catholic, but is some smells and bells Motarian type.

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Instructions

• Place coconut oil container in a bowl of hot water to liquefy it (depending on your room temperature, this may take up to 15 minutes).
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• Store the finished product in a lidded glass jar.

Notes
Adding more baking soda helps keep your paste firmer in warm weather. Adding less baking soda makes it less firm, which makes dispensing it easier in the winter if your house is cool.

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Um…what? Which “resistance” clergy! Or is this an inside joke I don’t understand? 

There's a lot dear dear Seraphina, that you dont understand....