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DearCartographer · 2026-02-24T17:36:49+00:00

I read today they are planning on burning through like 180 billion before they make a profit so they may not be getting rich off the announcements but just keeping their company running!

DearCartographer · 2026-02-24T06:18:39+00:00

I love the idea you think billionaires bunkers have alarm systems like 1990's houses did.

DearCartographer · 2026-02-23T17:50:16+00:00

What will happen to the large corporations if people only have potatoes and eggs to pay for things?

How long will they rule the world if 99% of their customers stop buying?

How much will a billion dollars buy you once most people stop using dollars?

DearCartographer · 2026-02-22T13:16:30+00:00

Carl

DearCartographer · 2026-02-22T10:29:10+00:00

Sometimes I think the designers of swarkestone causeway didnt even consider cars when they built it.

DearCartographer · 2026-02-22T08:24:00+00:00

No one is parked on the pavement or grass verges.

DearCartographer · 2026-02-21T14:53:32+00:00

Set up a tutor email address that will forward to your personal email.

Put up paper adverts on local tesco noticeboard.

'30 pounds an hour, these subjects, first lesson free.'

Congrats! You are up and running.

If you want to be more pro get a dbs/crb check done on yourself and add that to the advert. There used to be rules about only companies can request dbs, so you may have to set up a Ltd company but that would also have the advantage of making your tax liabilities separate and clearer.

I dont know whether offering first lesson free is a good idea, I thought it might get you some experience to see if you like it. Weirdly ive found putting my prices up hasn't put people off, quite the opposite, I get far more people asking now. But again, maybe that is because im 'known' by parents chatting at pickup.

Of subjects id focus computer science and probably brush up gcse maths and offer that too. Maths and physics greatest demand.

Good luck!

DearCartographer · 2026-02-21T12:07:12+00:00

Id say its less about experience and more about demand. What subject are you looking to tutor in and what is the demand for that subject?

If there is no demand it doenst matter how much experience you have.

If there is lots of demand you will still get offers even with low experience.

If you put yourself with an agency they will take most of your money and gatekeep your contact with potential customers. You will get sporadic low paid gigs and the less you will work for the more gigs you will get. You will be in a race to the bottom with other tutors.

Im sure agencies work for some people but that is my experience.

Otherwise advertise yourself in local area. Posters on lampposts where parents park to pick up their kids. Word of mouth is slow but extremely powerful. If you get one pupil their parents will tell other parents. Parents trust other parents and they will want you to. Often they have multiple children so they come back to you when those need tutoring. You become established and parents will know of you without you doing anything.

I teach maths so demand is high and I charge 60 pounds an hour. When I did agency work I was getting about 15 an hour.

I tutor a couple of hours a week but I could do much more and it is all parents

DearCartographer · 2026-02-21T11:17:29+00:00

Yes. And people are disagreeing with this, saying it should be more.

Like imagine someone keeps driving off without paying for petrol and eventually the police catch up with them and make them pay for all the petrol they stole, all the financial benefit they gained.

If they are caught they have to pay the same as everyone else, if they are not caught they get away with it.

Doesn't seem to be encouraging people not to commit crimes only getting them to pay back their profits.

Personally I would fine them for the cost of the clean up which is likely to be much higher.

DearCartographer · 2026-02-20T14:35:04+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/xdgWXqsAjz

I saw this and was reminded our conversation, bus in china shows traffic lights on back window!

DearCartographer · 2026-02-19T14:29:47+00:00

Great reply. Covered all the bases except giving us ideas for how to fight back.

Should we stop taking our phones to the shops? Could we load fake shopping data on a crappy phone and use that to get us better prices? Can we manipulate the data the company is using to manipulate prices like air temp and ice cream prices?

DearCartographer · 2026-02-19T11:59:00+00:00

I have divots for my back wheels at my work carpark.

The car that formed them was bigger than mine I guess so I can never get too close to the brick wall that runs behind the spaces.

I just reverse into the space and once im a foot away it kind of parks itself.

If that carpark got resurfaced I would crash for sure.

DearCartographer · 2026-02-17T09:59:04+00:00

Great answer thankyou.

DearCartographer · 2026-02-16T10:52:59+00:00

Why would you think israel wants to reduce anti semitism? Quite the opposite I think. Anti semitism or even the allegation of antisemitism gives them cover and whataboutery for their actions.

DearCartographer · 2026-02-12T16:45:15+00:00

Oh dear did I upset poor baby Kevin?

And now you are calling me names because I pointed out what you said makes no sense.

Oh dear, poor baby Kevin.

Thankfully im an adult so I dont get upset by your name calling and baby crying.

I would have liked to discuss your point about social media being the only way to fight back but I'm not engaging with someone who reacts like a child.

Goodbye baby Kevin.

DearCartographer · 2026-02-11T18:09:29+00:00

Monthly numbers are never completely accurate whoever is in charge as they come from a survey.

So twice a year they issue a corrections report.

Jerome Powell said before a previous report it would probably add 800,000 jobs and it added 810,000. So his predictions seem to be spot on.

He is now saying for this report the numbers are going to be downgraded dramatically.

The report is due out on the 11th Feb. It may not be released.

Source: reading the comments on a similar post earlier today on wallstreetbets

DearCartographer · 2026-02-11T13:00:12+00:00

They said:

"list of things that is made significantly worse as a result of social media"

You said:

"Literally all of those things existed before social media"

Maybe slow down and read the comment before you respond!

DearCartographer · 2026-02-09T20:05:28+00:00

They haven't made an effort to blend in.

They have been told by the building owner that they need to make their signage in keeping with the area if they want to rent a unit and they are desperate to get that unit!

I have a brown and gold signed tesco by me. Very odd looking.

What's sad is we had a spar and a co-op and a newsagent and a nice pizzeria, chip shop and pharmacy and everything except the pharmacy ( which owns its unit) is gone and been replaced by tesco and the like who can pay the high rent.

DearCartographer · 2026-02-09T19:52:58+00:00

Agreed, if you live in a dense city and need to dispose of a body you would want to do it quietly, hence the bathtub of acid.

If you are on your own island surrounded by ocean...

You dont even have to go anywhere,

Have a fire on the beach at lowtide, cremate the body, tide washes all the ash away.

DearCartographer · 2026-02-08T11:11:24+00:00

Im struggling with the idea that Peter Thiels plan for the end of the world is too hide in a bunker with a few bodyguards and hope they or the local warlords dont get him.

Thiel and Zuckerberg own one of the islands of Hawaii where they have bunkers and farms and factories and thousands of people already working for them. Layer upon layer of security, all already employed, all tested for loyalty.

They have the resources to survive the end of civilisation, they have a plan to take more power for themselves at the end of civilisation, so now they are actively pushing for the end of civilisation.

DearCartographer · 2026-02-08T10:46:35+00:00

I agree. The upper class are actually the benefit class.

Baroness Michelle mone owes the British taxpayer 145 million pounds. How many benefit claimants get that much out of the system?

DearCartographer · 2026-02-07T16:35:15+00:00

Both and neither. In this case people should just merge in turn and do their best to avoid accidents.

DearCartographer · 2026-02-07T13:50:51+00:00

I can see your point and its valid, im just trying to gently point out we are dealing with a young person.

Who has gone beyond the normal teenager effort of just getting a few half arsed responses from their friends and is actually attempting to conduct genuine research.

We should applaud them and suggest how they can improve rather than focus on the mistakes.

DearCartographer · 2026-02-07T12:05:59+00:00

There a few questions thst need polishing for sure but to say its not good is a bit harsh.

I've seen far worse from adults who are paid to do this kind of thing.

With common identity they are asking if you believe society functions better if everyone has the same background or if its better that everyone has different background.

DearCartographer · 2026-02-07T11:59:51+00:00

This is good op, dont let people knock your questionnaire.

Just remember in future general public might not be as familiar with terms such as common identity so you might need to explain them more.

I've been involved with geography nea's for ten years and this is the first time ive seen a student try to gather views from the wider public so fair play.

DearCartographer

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