Ironically this would get you permanently banned on reddit.

Most of the fast food places near me also clearly have fans pushing the smell of the food out their window, you can smell it from 20+ feet away. If you’ve had a long day, you’re tired and hungry and suddenly you smell something super tasty and there’s a nice, pleasant looking fast food restaurant that can satisfy that itch in a matter of minutes, it’s not hard to see how that can be super tempting to a lot of people.

wow DHS really thinks that shitlibs on twitter are anarchists

I believe they are mostly anarchists. The music is instrumental, but the art work, song titles and spoken word passages have a very obvious anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist message. Their last album had these “demands” in the liner notes:

• an end to foreign invasion

• an end to borders

• the total dismantling of the prison–industrial complex

• healthcare, housing, food and water acknowledged as an inalienable human right

• the expert fuckers who broke this world never get to speak again

There are vocals in one of the GY!BE side projects, Silver Mount Zion, where the politics are much more obvious and transparent. They’re worth checking out too IMO though the vocalist (Efrim) is an acquired taste.

Some leftist and leftist-ish artists off the top of my head:

Refused

Dead Kennedys

Crass

Chumbawamba (yes, that band)

Discharge

Parquet Courts

Idles

The Coup

Gang of Four

CCCP Fedeli alla Linea

Minutemen

Propagandhi

Billy Bragg

Phil Ochs

Reagan Youth

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Thee Silver Mount Zion

Rudimentary Peni

Panopticon

I already have some computer skills, I’ll try to brainstorm some ideas about fake companies/websites I could make and “jobs” I can have. It sounds like a lot of work though, I’d have to make fake social media profiles, fake linkedin profiles, etc. Did you find that you had to put in a lot of work to make your company look real or was it just enough to have a website and maybe a defunct twitter account or something?

Do people do reference checks via email these days? I could probably even register a cheap domain for a fake company and use that if I was gonna go that route.

I appreciate all the advice people have given me. I’ve read every post here even if I haven’t replied.

Among some of the other things people have suggested, I’m thinking of lying about building/troubleshooting PCs independently and being an event photographer. I think the latter would be the easiest to argue was no longer doable under covid and I have some knowledge of both things. I just don’t know if I need to create some sort of online presence for both of those or how I would provide references. Do ya’ll think those are good ideas?

I’m also thinking of making up a story about my grandmother being ill (she was actually quite ill) and looking after her, but maybe that’ll sound weird? Do younger people look after their grandparents? Maybe I should make it about my parents instead…

Then maybe I can pick a place I have “worked” that’s out of city/province or even in a different country - this one I’m going to need to do a bit of research on. Maybe a stupid question, but can employers look up your work history with a social insurance number? I know they can look up your criminal history and shit, don’t know if they’ll see my credit (it’s bad) or history with disability services, etc.

I also took longer to long to finish a 4 year program at college because I was in a disability program that let me do half the course load. Should I lie and condense this into two years?

Oh damn, I wouldn’t even know where to start to make a RoE type document from another country.

Do temp agencies care about gaps in your resume?