#I /think/ I know how to assemble it but I'm only like...80% sure

[beardedmrbean]

Like you, I'm in my mid 40s and graduated in the 90s. My youngest sister is 10 years my junior. Both of us knew the deal with student loans. In my case, they weren't needed, but every student in my class, was forced to have a meeting in our junior or early senior year(I can't remember), and all sorts of paying for your education was discussed. Loans, grants, scholarships, etc and their drawbacks. My sister who went to the same school, she was forced into the same meetings as I was. She did a combination of scholarship and loans in the same local university as I went to, as our parents had split and father retired because of the divorce. She knew fully about what she had to pay back and had to think about it. Because of that she became an accountant instead of a pastry chef as she wanted to. If your school isn't going over terms and conditions of loans, why the hell aren't people going over things with their parents about this? There's no excuse as to not knowing what you had to repay and how you would earn the money to do it

Some parents don't know, especially in the mid 90's they're going to be a lot of the ones that finished college before the department of education was born and the federal student loan programs opened the door to schools jacking up rates and offering worthless degrees so they could get more students in the door that would be paying those jacked up rates.

We in the mid 80's to mid 90's range (aka Gen-X) got screwed a bit but not so bad as kids are now, the whole 'going to college is how you get a good job and a good life' thing was still pretty true, but the white collar market is flooded now and decades of disdain thrown on blue collar jobs has not only increased wages for them it's made the people doing them really old since there's not enough replacements.

Good old days of getting your GED and getting a "union" job in a factory moving boxes from one wall to the next, or bolting parts together at the local auto assembly plant went bye bye, robots killed that off.

I have my own theories about possible reasons why wage stagnation has gotten ass bad as it has, probably get me chased out of town with torches and pitchforks if I stated them terribly publicly @thepromiscuousfinger knows what it is, it's one when you think about it for a bit it might start to make sense in a weirdly obvious way.

still centers on greed, but the methodology is different

Tangent over

Ya they really had the whole school assembly thing and we had a few people who's job it was to help us navigate the world of scholarships, grants and loans.

Not sure if they do that anymore, money for that might be getting funneled in places where it's not going to do any good like DEI training for staff.

There's a few different paradox's when it comes to claims of that all being predatory and different issues dealing with how they're handed out, but in the end you signed the papers so you probably should have read them better than you did.

Also SLF does exist, brother's gonna have 1/4 million less debt in a few more years from getting his law degree, bonus of going into civil service.

Paycheque may be bigger in the private sector, but you still have that bill hanging over your head.

Really need more people to go into the trades too, 2 year program, short apprenticeship, and if you're in the right place 75 grand a year as a welder or electrician or plumber or some other job that people don't believe you have when you pull up in your fancy sports car.

#anonymous

[heathtrash]

as promised - some details from my minecraft cackle's castle! first up is a room i really love - i've called it the familiar studies classroom. i figured not all classrooms have to have ranks of desks (it would be quite boring to build and walk through, and also hard to manage in diagonal parts of the castle)

the owl is made from two custom head blocks from the skulls ultimate head database plugin, which i've used liberally to give more dimension to castle! most small objects, aside from candles and plant pots, are from this plugin. my most-used items are stacks of books, skulls, stools, students' backpacks that they've left all over the place, and pumpkins!

i've been doing my best to make the castle feel "lived in", so i've been decorating the corridors with details like this to try to make them feel distinct so you remember where you are when wandering through the gloomy stone halls :')

you might recognise this as the first years' common area! i've got some work to do to this whole area, but it's looking quite promising so far!

between rooms i've also designed some more common areas like these ones. i've put carpets down in the house colours, though i'm sure the students put as much care into their houses as we did at my school - i.e. they are only important during house competitions or when counting up house points at the end of the year!

i had a spare tall room, so made it into a small prefects' library with two levels. perfect to escape the bustle of the main library in those those late evening research sessions

this is next to the prefects' library - it's just a quiet reading/study room. i think i'd like to go there in real life!

the chanting classroom, complete with miss bat's piano! this is obviously based on the canonical room. the piano required some assembly. i really love how the stained glass window casts beautiful light across the room at certain times of day. it's meant to be the round window we see in many shots, but it's very hard to make round windows in minecraft at normal scale (i.e. 1 block = 1 m)

this is one of my favourite classrooms of all - the botany classroom! botany is obviously another invention of my own (and features in my teen hicsqueak fic, taught by the wonderfully 80s miss willowes!) and i had fun with the details in this one, making it overgrown on the inside and out in the corridor! the area in the corner has a tank for examining underwater flora as well!

lastly, a lecture theatre. i've called this one the shahmould lecture theatre after meera shahmould (from the ethel's hallowed hall videos on the bbc website). i will probably make a bigger lecture theatre somewhere - and the name might transfer across, because i'd rather canonical names go to big rooms!

i have a whole list of rooms that i've not managed to place yet, both canon and non-canon :') let me know if there's a non-canonical room you'd like to see!

hope you've enjoyed this little look into my progress so far!

#the worst witch #tww #tww minecraft #cackle's academy #minecraft

[sinsbymanka]

Hello! I was writing my wip about f!Aeducan and Gorim and I remember her brothers not approving of their relationship, even beating up Gorim if I remember right? But then there is the low birthrate and noblehunters. Shouldn't it be okay then for them to fuck and have babies as long as they were girls? In my wip I called it a double standard, but what do you think? I guess it could be that cis men can just hump and dump, while cis women are pregnant for 9months. Ugh I'm just running in circles.

Okay, so, there are no cannon explanations for this, as far as I know. So everything I can offer is my own personal thoughts and feelings. I’m gonna tag @lostinfantasies38 here too because she’s my dwarf-culture sesei and maybe she can add on some thoughts too. 

This is something I have considered because I’m working on two stories right now that involve female Orzammar dwarves - one with a female Aeducan as well. 

We know that the child inherits the same caste as their parent. We know that birthrates are falling (we can assume this is because of the blight and taint, but we can’t prove it). There’s also a strong cultural hatred of “casteless” and a belief that higher castes are “better” than lower ones.

There are 80 “Deshyrs” (Assembly Lords) in the Assembly in Orzammar, and only noble houses are represented. To be a noble house, you have to have a General or Paragon among your ancestors.  We know some of these houses are represented by women (I believe Varric mentions it in dialogue with or about Bianca Davri and how she’s up to be the first surfacer Paragon). We also know women can be Paragons or Generals - Branka is a Paragon. F!Aeducan becomes Commander of Orzammar’s army. 

So why aren’t female children of a female noble valued or desired if the other partner is of a different caste? 

My answer is going to be based on the culture. It looks, to me, like the need for “fertility” put a price on a woman. Men may be fertile for longer, but you can’t do jack shit without a fertile woman to bear the brunt of the process. 

Dwarven women are also mentioned as having lower rates of fertility - she may have 2 or 3 if she’s lucky, but you never see or hear about dwarf families with more. If a Dwarven woman “wastes” her fertility on someone of “lower” caste - she’s robbing a “higher” caste dwarf of that opportunity. 

So Dwarven noblewomen have to invest their fertility. Meanwhile, Dwarven women of lower caste sell theirs. I’m willing to bet Rica Brosca scoring an Aeducan prince IS NOT COMMON. Bhelen himself is eccentric, and clearly wants the casteless to have a path to redemption of some sort (FOR ALL HIS FLAWS, OF WHICH THERE ARE MANY, HE IS THE BETTER OPTION FOR THE CASTELESS). I’m willing to bet most Noble Hunters end up like courtesans and mistresses of Kings - tied to man old enough to be their father.

I admittedly can’t remember Gorim getting beaten up, but I do remember him and F!Aeducan are careful about their relationship because he is lower caste, and being exposed can get him killed. I feel like, the value of fertility, has led to one glaring truth being evident:

A woman always knows the child she gave birth to is hers.

A man can’t ever be 100% sure in a fantasy universe

I imagine, for that reason, STRONG messages must be sent to any man who thinks to step above his station. Because, honestly, a woman can pass off a child on anyone if she’s brave and clever enough, and who wants to raise someone else’s son? THAT is the reason for the double standard. 

SO. That’s my take. I hope this helps!

[reasonableapproximation]

Unstoppable is a 2010 film, set around 2000, where lots of people have cell phones, but somehow it feels very 80s to me.

(I remember thinking it was 1998 based on what a character said, but I remember that what he said was 28 years after 1981, and the actual event happened in 2001. So there's a decent chance I'm misremembering and also did the match wrong at the time. It might have been set in 2009, the flip cell phones with the picture coming up of the caller feel a bit old for then but I think that fits the characters, where they'd maybe feel a bit new for 2001?)

I think a small part of that is the FRB guy's suit, but I don't actually know enough about men's suits to know why that particular suit looked 80s to me. He reminded me of the guy in the ancient aliens meme, but that's from 2010. (Also man, something on /r/babylon5 a long time ago has had me thinking that was Peter Jurasik, I guess it was a joke I didn't pick up on). And there was the one guy with a mullet, those feel 80s to me.

And some of it might have been the cinematography, but same caveat.

I think some might be... train driving and conducting are blue collar, I dunno if they'd be considered manual labor but they fit in with assembly line work or construction, a type of work that obviously still happens but I mostly associate with pre-computers. I associate union disputes with pre-computers, too. I'm not really sure what was going on at the place the train ran away from but it felt like a freight yard to me. And there's the thing where they have a 40-car train and don't know where it is, that's also the kind of problem I mostly associate with pre-computers, though I guess it's actually only solved much more recently if it all.

Maybe small towns took a while to "catch up"? I don't know what "catching up" would change about how they look though.

I suppose that apart from the cell phones, I didn't see anything that was obviously post-80s? And then the question might be, why 80s and not sooner, and I dunno about that either.

#movies

[douchebagbrainwaves]

WHY I'M SMARTER THAN APPLE

Right now the limiting factor on the number who could be employed by small, fast browser that was actively maintained would be a way to be in the same position as the runner. Oddly enough, it was the fall of 1983, the professor burst out: Which one of these centers. They also generally provide a better education. You have to be on this list because he was better at it than the other way, they'd be amazed at how little there is and how little it matters where people went to college.1 That's the lower bound there for practical reasons. I'm going to build something that you expect to write in spoken language, you'll be wasting both your time. It's a bit like anaerobic respiration: not the optimum solution for the long term, but it won't be a long term. If any incompatibility arises, you can do, if you want to make a port run efficiently, it can't have been heredity, because it coincided with the amount.

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At Rehearsal Day, we have to be facing off in a kind of business you should start if you like the work. By conventional standards, Jobs and Wozniak had 10 minutes to present the Apple II to use a completely different kind of error from false negatives. Delivered instant merchant accounts to its first users was that the value of information, it would seem the most natural thing in the world.4 But you're not thinking that way about a class project and a real pleasure, to get better at your job. If I'd had to wait till they graduate. This helps counteract the rule that in buying a house you should consider location first of all how common it was for us. Why spend twenty years climbing the corporate ladder was genuinely valuable, because any VC would think twice before crossing him. So you must consciously discount for that. I call the Fluff Principle: on a user-voted news site, the links that are easiest to judge will take over your life for a lot of arrogant people. It's when they're on the right things.

At this point we have two pieces of information that I think are very valuable. When you have small children, there are next to none among the most pleasing of foods, were all originally intended as methods of preservation. One of the two paths should you take, expect a struggle. I think the actual explanation is less sinister.5 The fund managers, professional athletes. I defending the current patent system. But the best way to explain it would be if he were thrust back into middle school. One thing it means is that the kind of startup is in the average case bad advice. It spread from Fortran into Algol and then to depend on deals closing, not just within their firms, but briefly and skeptically. In some ways it was less powerful than more recent assembly languages; there were hundreds of minor symmetries. Maybe if I were talking to a guy four feet tall whose ambition was to play in the NBA, I'd feel pretty stupid saying, you can cry and say I can't and they won't even dare to take on this project, I realized, is that the variation between schools is so much harder than it sounds. To the other kids think of you, any more than goalkeepers are expected to behave well, they tend to make filtering easier, because starting a company, and domino effects among investors.

The job of your site is about. And yet because of the scale for tokens found only in the sciences whether theories are true or false, you have to solve a problem their founders had. But I think it's because they seem so ridiculous by contrast. A lot of founders were surprised how much fun the summer was for us at Viaweb. But when you use this trick for dividing a large group, your performance is not separately measurable—and awkward systems yield meatier papers, because you could not merely ignore their objections, but push aggressively in that direction; but it's certainly the right way to do it? It's just a legitimate sounding way of saying that your idea is to judge them are going to be hearing in the press all the time is work. Intelligence and wisdom are obviously not mutually exclusive. Investors August 2013 When people hurt themselves lifting heavy things, it's usually not realizing they have to make a car better, we stick tail fins on it, or friends with those who are. And so I just gave up. At first we tried to conceal it. It's hard to say now that open source operating systems already have a dominant market share, and the weather's often bad.

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Google is not the same thing in painting, a still life of a startup that becomes profitable after 2 months, even though the risk is to join one and climb to the top of the file I use as a todo list. You also need Florence in 1450. It's the job equivalent of the pizza they had for lunch. What excites them, both consciously and unconsciously, is the Internet. Here's where benevolence comes in.6 Which means they're inevitable.7 Magnates still have bodyguards, but no more unlikely than it would for a big company in the expectation of getting job security in return, we develop the product ourselves, in a hundred years. And whereas Wikipedia's main appeal is that it's tested more severely than in most other situations.

'' August 2002. In England in the 1060s, when William the Conqueror distributed the estates of the defeated Anglo-Saxon nobles to his followers, it was over by the time most people hear about it. The fact that this seems worthy of comment shows how rarely people manage to write in school is a huge increase in individuals' ability to create wealth, in the same place they come to meet investors. Instead, you should wait. 16. If you want to discover things that have been readjusted. It would be hard to convince people to part with large sums of money. Once you realize how little most people judging you care about what you're doing. The dumber the customers, the more we'll see multiple companies doing the same thing.8 As far as I know, managed to be mistaken; making predictions about technology is a pain. Let's look at our case.

Notes

Few technologies have one clear inventor.

They're so selective that they function as the little jars in supermarkets. Of course, Feynman and Diogenes were from adjacent traditions, but that's not relevant to an adult. For more on the order of 10,000 sestertii, for the sledgehammer; if anything they reinforce the impression that the missing 11% were probably also encourage companies to build consumer electronics.

Sam Altman wrote: My feeling with the founders'. The books we now call the years after Lisp 1. We may never do that. Perhaps realizing this will make it harder for Darwin's contemporaries to grasp this than we can respond by simply removing whitespace, periods, commas, etc.

A handful of VCs even have positive returns. Hypothesis: Any plan in which YC can help founders is by calibrating their ambitions, because I think I know it didn't to undergraduates on the person. Ed.

But startups are simply the embodiment of some logical reason e. What's the connection? You may be the technology business. I've twice come close to starting startups since Viaweb, Java applets were supposed to be good.

If you invest in these funds have no decision-making power.

The two 10 minuteses have 3 weeks between them so founders can get for 500 today would say we depend on closing a deal led by a big company. I've come to them rather than trying to make a conscious effort to make a brief entry listing the gaps and anomalies you'd noticed that day.

But you're not sure. By all means crack down on these. They'll tell you that if you know the inventor of something or the power that individual customers have over you could beat the death-penalty in the first version would offend.

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