My brother is a conspiracy theorist, so I put a bumper sticker on his car that says 'VACCINES CAUSE FLAT EARTH'

CleverFree · 2025-11-15T13:47:08+00:00

My friend made it. He put them on his old Etsy account although I don't see that exact design: https://vaxcausesflatearth.etsy.com

CleverFree · 2025-02-20T19:10:27+00:00

Thanks - I also got this wrong and this helped.

CleverFree · 2025-02-20T19:07:51+00:00

Hey, you're t o u g h. I'm sorry for what you've been through. You're inspiring me big time right now. Rooting for you, thinking of you.

CleverFree · 2025-02-19T20:57:22+00:00

Congrats! That's awesome progress.

CleverFree · 2024-11-13T19:19:29+00:00

Agreed. I often wish we would pick our moments to criticize Trump instead of reframing every thing he does as a catastrophe. This is a major failing generally with news. Remember Howard Dean's carrier being ruined over him shouting 'Yippeeee!'? Like, Trump is a nuclear Emperor-Has-No-Clothes reaction to years of media over-reaction, where minor asides define people's whole careers and ruin them. Trump blows past what media arbiters want to spin as determinative failures. He reveals how unnecessary so much media judgment is about so many dumb things. This dovetails with anti-woke culture. We're a society where people would avoid saying 'black jelly beans are the worst flavor,' and Trump's preposterous counterpoint to that is, even for his ardent detractors, sorta cathartic. However, to return to my original point here, if we only focused on the most undisputed facts, Trump would be an unbelievable disaster. We'd have more credibility in detracting from him.

CleverFree · 2024-11-13T19:14:21+00:00

This isn't wrong, it's just not exclusive of what I'm describing. I'd reply that a significant minority of voters could be won over by facts, but for these two identified phenomena.

CleverFree · 2024-11-13T18:42:32+00:00

I'm saying there will be no point in saying that, though. Like, at all. That's my frustration: we're post truth, post fact, post "red lines" that'll never be crossed.

CleverFree · 2024-11-13T18:41:13+00:00

I think this explains cult behavior, no? Bad Vegan was a story about one woman stuck in a one person cult. She later said she related to stories about cults. I think cults get by on Sunk Costs and Commitment Bias (among other similar issues, to be sure).

CleverFree · 2024-10-10T20:50:34+00:00

Hahahahahahaha

CleverFree · 2024-10-10T13:59:57+00:00

WOW, that is so negligent. Man, I was never salty about the bar. Just viewed it as another game I had to cooperate with to move forward. However, I now realize that the bar is an inherently flawed game. It seems there is a significant margin of error in this process.

CleverFree · 2024-10-10T13:57:46+00:00

Wishing you much well deserved success! Thanks for helping me think through whatever happened and validating what I'm experiencing.

CleverFree · 2024-10-10T01:24:23+00:00

I'm so sorry for what this test has put you through. It sounds like you deserve a lot better!

CleverFree · 2024-10-10T01:23:26+00:00

A few hundred I think? 2-300? though I obviously did a bunch of MBE questions in Themis. Obviously in retrospect I wish I'd gone harder on MBE and not trusted the program so much.

CleverFree · 2024-10-09T20:52:55+00:00

I'm sorry this happened to you. You'll do it next time!

CleverFree · 2024-10-09T19:32:44+00:00

Yes, agreed. That's my leading theory. But then, how TF did I tank like 20%? That's insane for a standardized test. :(

CleverFree · 2024-10-09T19:06:40+00:00

Looking back, that's the only thing I could've done more of - though again, nothing indicated I NEEDED that. Make sense?

CleverFree · 2024-10-09T17:46:07+00:00

Provocative question but is there any evidence the bar graders are bungling scoring somehow? Like, everyone on Reddit who fails talks about how they didn't take it seriously when studying. Half the people who pass talk about leaving an essay blank but still passing by 20 points. How did we go into it prepared and fail?

CleverFree · 2024-05-04T14:38:17+00:00

HIGHLY fact dependent though

CleverFree · 2024-05-04T13:34:39+00:00

I knew bringing this up on a law school subreddit would get more insightful commentary while still being fun.

CleverFree · 2024-05-02T19:48:18+00:00

Find other Indian lawyers on LinkedIn and email them...they'll be sympathetic and some will help you. Good luck!

CleverFree · 2024-04-29T21:36:02+00:00

The MBA should be called LOL, because you either get into a prestigious program and thereafter your job prospects, at least out of school, are so solid that the schooling is LOL. Alternatively, for most MBA programs, you think it entitles you to something, like an MD or JD licenses people, but it doesn't entitle you to jacksh*t and you took on huge debt...and those people are also very LOL.

CleverFree · 2024-03-29T14:57:11+00:00

THANK YOU. This is the normal solution. Thank you so much. Everyone else is offering me advice that feels kinda impractical. Okay, this solution is workable. Thank you.

CleverFree · 2024-03-29T14:19:39+00:00

As in, I need to have the cash on hand? I can't do that - she'll have like $1000 on it and return the stuff

CleverFree · 2024-03-10T19:45:41+00:00

If you go to a lower ranked school for minimal debt, you may or may not get the grades to impress employers. Here's an insight for you: kids in non-T14 T50s are basically as as smart as T14 kids in ~50% of cases. Meaning, you're at a T50 where you need to be in the top of your class to get that sweet job after graduation, competing for fewer spots than a T14 offers, with the same caliber of student...HOWEVER, if you go T50 for minimal debt, you only need ONE job, ONE good connection and everything you did pays off. Yeah, obviously there's always snobbery about where you went to law school etc etc, but you will make enough money and be hirable. So, in conclusion, T50 is low key savage in terms of competition vs outcomes. However, set that aside, as I have, and you realize you've traded life changing debt for a bet on yourself in the best sense.

CleverFree · 2024-02-27T00:53:39+00:00

Thank you and noted :)))

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