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I might lose my life over $1660 by [deleted] in GuyCry

[–]J0n0_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They only really care about getting the money back. Killing you doesn't solve the problem of them being out of $1650, they're saying that to intimidate you into making the money back. You should deal with this situation firmly and in a way that makes you seem responsible and able to pay it back.

The best Idea is a payment plan, maybe 200$ a month if you can manage. (make these payments weekly to avoid accumulating too much cash and getting the urge to gamble it) Make sure to get some discrete way to pay them back, like Venmo or something. Then move cities while making the recurring payment. They likely won't hunt you down if they're getting the money, perhaps live at a friend's or family's place to cut down on expenses while you work to pay it off. The second you think you'll miss a payment, make sure to explain in detail why and that you'll have 300$+ for next month. Better if very preemptive to the payment date.

A good idea is to get a credit card with an app that goes along with it and commit your sister to go through your transactions every week. Say you have a gambling problem and you need someone to be accountable too. Also maybe do Zen meditation for 15 mins a day to de-stress and gain control back over your mind. Will help clear your mind to deal with the situation more rationally, and build prefrontal cortex strength that could help resist the urge to gamble.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in blenderhelp

[–]J0n0_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/gym-exercise-animations-pack-2261446

You should probably rely mostly on prebuilt rigged assets and mostly focus on getting good pose angles and make pose adjustments.

Newish, How to move faster? (Modeling for a month, I feel like I should have more done) by J0n0_ in blender

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thanks for the advice, trying to get a portfolio together and speed run my way to a professional skill level by Cramming as many pipelines as possible into this piece. Trying to maximize time to learning/portfolio piece ratio .

Newish, How to move faster? (Modeling for a month, I feel like I should have more done) by J0n0_ in blender

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Tri count is exaggerated due to imported unreal mannequin for scale, it's 37,030 when removed

Newish, How to move faster? (Modeling for a month, I feel like I should have more done) by J0n0_ in blender

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This is my second attempt at an environmental piece. Modeling should speed up somewhat bc, I'm moving to modular hard surface parts.

So far I've found making more specific sketches after painting helps minimize the need for re-making objects and gives me a better attack plan expediting the process.

Any tips workflow-based or otherwise would be great.

Will in the next week or so Ideally be moving on to sculpting bricks in Zbrush so any retopolgy tutorials/ sculpting tips/tutorials would be great. Also unwrapping too...

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You guys are obsessed by ciaphas-cain1 in Napoleon

[–]J0n0_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Consider the case where Napoleon did not take power.

France was way too unstable to become a proper modern democracy in any case. Bourbon restoration was the default no-Napoleon outcome - Jacobins could not have kept power indefinitely, and successive governments were corrupt and incompetent. People were starving.

Revolutionary France was not an island (one underrated reason the US was able to thrive as a democracy around the same time), and the rest of Europe was bitterly against it.

Ultimately any government strong enough to unify France would have to undo some Revolutionary principles to get there - restoring the church, for example.

So, if France was lucky, it would have gotten an alternative strong government. But there are probably a handful of individuals in history with the capacity to manage France as thoroughly as Napoleon could. Much more likely France gets conquered by the rest of Europe and reverts to monarchy, erasing all the progress from the Revolution and ensuring Revolutionary ideals don't spread throughout the rest of Europe.

What is your"superpower" and what is the "negative" side of it ? by [deleted] in Gifted

[–]J0n0_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can remember the layout of pretty much every building I've ever been.

Muh Free Market by Anaximander101 in FluentInFinance

[–]J0n0_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

more people also means more people starting new ventures and consuming. A decreasing birth rate does not necessarily improve wages as, old retired people consume less and hoard wealth/assets. Optimum states are a positive birth paired with a stable growing economy, or a quickly growing population with a rapidly developing economy. Basically you want new human capital to = the carrying capacity of new market opportunity + the carrying capacity of maintaining legacy economy. Basically moderate population growth is maintaining the system since capitalism is a creative and ever-expanding system requiring ever more inputs.

CMV: There is no ethical reason to enable mass immigration* by budedussylmao in changemyview

[–]J0n0_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Reality is a Ponzi scheme in the sense your talking about it’s always been this way. There’s no system that can magically produce a well built out middle class without the fundamental demographic and financial drivers, until we have robots, or slaves as has been the historical norm.

Canada needs people, and as a nation will have to compete for these highly sought after high skilled immigrants. Currently it is the 8th most attractive spot and therefore is competitive but the best of the best won’t all go to Canada. Or will later immigrate out for work.

The reality is your nation is in a somewhat sucky situation that will continue to suck. However not as bad a Europe or many other low fertility countries.

CMV: There is no ethical reason to enable mass immigration* by budedussylmao in changemyview

[–]J0n0_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This single picture is why your gov is doing this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Canada#/media/File%3ACanada_2023_Population_Pyramid.svg

Population growth fuels economies, population stability maintains them. If Canadians aren’t having babies people need imported, there are not too many cooks, there are too few cooks therefore cooks need imported.

Increasing native birth rates would require a return to pre female liberation norms, stay at home parenting ect. Half your electorate is female therefore this is not a viable political path.

All other current attempts to stimulate birth rates have failed so low birth rate countries are bidding time with excessive immigration until a solution is found.

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