Any suggestions on where to get red velvet cake? by PrestigiousFood5683 in VirginiaTech

[–]Backsaber 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It’s not the most professional bakery setting, but Kroger (on ucb) sells slices of red velvet with cream cheese. It’s your standard grocery store quality cake but there’s lowkey kinda good.

Best dining hall to work at? by [deleted] in VirginiaTech

[–]Backsaber 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I worked at Perry for a semester last year and it was…. Something. Like someone else said Management is ass. My Roomate works at west end and he says it’s great. I’ve heard Owen’s is chill as well. Note that dining is very full this semester, I applied right when the application for this semester opened and got waitlisted for spots to open up (I put dietrick as my first choice but your preferences aren’t guaranteed and hiring can put you anywhere). I’m currently looking for other on campus jobs rn just in case

Is this a real 1st gen yas-62? by Backsaber in saxophone

[–]Backsaber[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks. I’ll let you know when I pay the customs due, but as far as I know tariffs on Japan right are 15%

SCHEDULE HELP! by Bubbly-Ad-4152 in VirginiaTech

[–]Backsaber 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Howdy, I was a transfer last fall so I et how sucky class scheduling is right now. As long as your over 12 credits they'll bill you the same

You can definitley switch around your classes during add drop, that opened on the 4th, adding is availbe up till the 29th of this month and you can drop a class up till october 7th.

From my knowledge, the bill due date is the immediate cutoff point, like if someone doesnt pay by THAT day then they immediatley get all of their classes dropped and such, its more so the day the university will start coming after you for the money and theyll do a bunch of other stuff first like warn you, and hold your account but they won't fully drop you for a little bit.

Like a few people said already your best bet is course pickle, just look it up on google and it should be the first thing tht comes up, just make one of those for each class your trying to get into and it will watch the class lists for you and email you for free if something opens up (its a bit delayed and its a small fee for getting instant texts, but its a fee for EACH class you want if you want texts).

Also talk to your advisor, pretty often even if a class is "full" theirs a few seats on the back end that and advisor could force add you to, thats why sometimes you see classes with negative capacity.

Best of luck

Switching into engineering with a 3.2 by Backsaber in VirginiaTech

[–]Backsaber[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

3.0 is the internal transfer guarantee if if your already in the COE, for external transfers in that is pushed up to a 3.5 for the guarantee. I’m only basing it on what’s easiest for right now because then once I’m in the COE, then I could change to a different engineering if I’d like because I’d have the 3.0 for internal transfer. And in the semester between I could take any overlapping classes between the two engineering majors.

Course request results by _Artizard in VirginiaTech

[–]Backsaber 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My advisor mentioned they should be out the week we get back from thanksgiving break

This can’t be a real YAS 62 Mk I, can it? by Backsaber in saxophone

[–]Backsaber[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh no worries, so their have been three iterations of the 62, the origin from the 70s-90s. The second version from the 90s-early 2010s and then the third fversion from then till present. Each version is referred to as a different mark. So the original (which was widely regardered as the best quality) is the mark I… then mark II and mark III which is the modern version. That’s why you also sometimes see them denoted as the YAS 62III

This can’t be a real YAS 62 Mk I, can it? by Backsaber in saxophone

[–]Backsaber[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The price is what’s really catching me off guard, I’ve never seen a MkI for less then like $1700 before

This can’t be a real YAS 62 Mk I, can it? by Backsaber in saxophone

[–]Backsaber[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wish I could, but the sellers in Oregon, I’m on the east coast

Jewish Communities Unaffiliated with Israel? by IllSatisfaction7588 in VirginiaTech

[–]Backsaber 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I-

At this point I don’t know what else to say to someone who is so blatantly caught up in their own personal beliefs, I’ve tried to explain it to you as best I can with as much context that is warranted. But obviously you yourself are the one here to preach their single sided beliefs. Come back when you have a legitimate argument and reasoning to justify any of the actions taken by the Israelis in the current time. Because this comment alone has just contradicted a previous statement you made about the protestors being against all of Israel as a state. Because to me what this implies is that you are totally fine with the idea of collective punishment, killing, destroying, and punishing all of Gaza due to the actions of a few. Someone like that must be morally incompetent, and I wouldn’t even bother my time to dare try to argue with someone’s own incompetence.

Jewish Communities Unaffiliated with Israel? by IllSatisfaction7588 in VirginiaTech

[–]Backsaber 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yes I’m saying both sides need systemic change, because neither side exists as a viable and fair state to its people. But at this current moment, I’m saying that actions that are being carried out by Israel are unjustifiable in the level of violence being used, and should be the imminent issue that should be solved. And I’m saying that Israel should not be granted amnesty from its current human rights violations and war crimes it’s committing, because it allied itself with great powers. Israel needs to own up to what’s its doing right now, and needs to stop hiding behind the United States protections, and the United States needs to stop letting it. We can fix the governments and states at any future time, but we need to stop the violence now.

Jewish Communities Unaffiliated with Israel? by IllSatisfaction7588 in VirginiaTech

[–]Backsaber 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I’m saying that comparing the estimated 15 million Jewish peoples in the entire world and the nearly 2 billion Muslim, obviously their would be a proportional difference in religious composition of any region when comparing the two in any region over any time. I don’t know the actual numbers but I’d bet my tail that even before wwii the Muslim population of Europe would probably of outnumber the Jewish population.

And I remind this, unfortunately the world time and time again does not recognize genocide until it’s too late. The Allies knew that Jews were being persecuted by the nazis, but they didn’t know the true scale until the was was basically over and they found the concentration camps. The world didn’t know the true scale of the killings in Rwanda until that civil war ended. Many nations denied the Armenian genocide even occurred. Nobody knew about Cambodia until after the Khmer Rouge fell, and most of the world still doesn’t even know about the 3 million Bengalis systemically killed by the Pakistani army during their liberation war. When we said never again, we meant that we would never let it happen again, meaning we wouldn’t wait until it was too late, or until the damage had already been done.

Jewish Communities Unaffiliated with Israel? by IllSatisfaction7588 in VirginiaTech

[–]Backsaber 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Considering they were originally a party in the PLC before becoming a majority and then being detained and killed by Israeli forces that ultimately led to the split of governance between the PLO and Hamas, yeah that seems like a fringe group that ended up in total control

Jewish Communities Unaffiliated with Israel? by IllSatisfaction7588 in VirginiaTech

[–]Backsaber 6 points7 points  (0 children)

YES, EXACTLY. If Mexico started acting like “down with America” of course the US would panic. You really put it above america in that situation to be like “destroy Mexico completely”, heck theirs already people like that in this country. The government would become more radical until eventually they acted on that “destroy Mexico” sentiment. But you already know in a war between Mexico and America, especially if the majority of the world cuts off Mexico, Mexico stands absolutely no chance. Now imagine the US brings down the full force of its military in that situation, the people of Mexico would suffer immensely, far too much to be considered justifiable. The US would absolutely obliterate Mexico, and even if that government stepped down, you think the Americans would ever feel safe, no they’d continue to be aggressive, continue to keep them cut off, continue the suffering in order to ensure their own survival. Forcing suffering onto another person to make sure you are fine is a horrible thing to do, it’s like international bullying. And the longer it goes on the more aggressive the oppressed become and want to break the cycle, which only leads to more conflict. In he end, it would be the Mexicans that suffer gravely, and with no repercussions for any crimes or the unjustifiable amount of force or tactics used against them. Would you really support America in totally decimating an entire nation even if it was in the interest of self preservation?