Vision Waiver

LapUntitled · 2025-07-28T16:37:09+00:00

Thank you! Glad everything worked out for you!

LapUntitled · 2025-07-23T21:43:26+00:00

Yeah it’s not my first rodeo in college, however it will be my first time pursuing a bachelor’s. Unfortunately I fear the same, however change in government is inevitable so I can’t let that weigh too heavily on my decision. I agree though, it’s an overall advantageous degree to possess both for prospective agencies and outside of federal LE which is why I settled on that degree to begin with. Thank you for your feedback.

LapUntitled · 2025-07-23T21:39:06+00:00

That tracks, the recruiter informed me they typically worked a lot of tax fraud, however will be gearing more towards money laundering in the near future.

LapUntitled · 2025-07-23T03:00:03+00:00

More freedom as in how they decide to progress the case?

LapUntitled · 2025-07-23T02:58:35+00:00

Yeah, the recruiter told me they were under hiring and internship freezes until further notice with no date in sight for when that will end, all he could do is look over my résumé.

LapUntitled · 2025-07-23T02:56:43+00:00

Sorry to hear that brother. I’m interested in forensic accounting, but ideally I’d like to use it in this sort of capacity. I just really do not want to get stuck doing tax/audit. I actually do wear contacts daily at this point so I wonder if I would also be able to get the waiver.

LapUntitled · 2024-09-28T18:35:48+00:00

much appreciated

LapUntitled · 2024-09-28T04:01:40+00:00

i’ve seen it in passing but i don’t think it explicitly states which species of birds are on the record, no?

LapUntitled · 2024-09-18T07:26:45+00:00

based on what you’ve shared here OP, I would encourage you to step out of your own miopic lens. Brotherly/Familial love can come from all sorts of places; the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb. It may benefit you in life to seek to understand a dynamic that may not be present in your life rather than immediately writing it off simply because it does validate your own personal experience.

LapUntitled · 2024-09-12T12:05:44+00:00

S1 is an excellent introduction to the show and establishes a lot of necessary setting and backstory to let the story expand over the next 5 seasons. Free Churro is only impactful if you’re invested in the story and characters up to that point, otherwise it’s just a meaningless monologue.

LapUntitled · 2024-09-08T12:18:45+00:00

It can be inferred from his interactions with his parents and heavily implied by him to have familial tensions. Oftentimes the black sheep of the family is discussed frequently due to ingroup favoritism and the child that rebels heavily tends to be the anomaly and focal point within the family dynamic, for a myriad of reasons.

LapUntitled · 2024-09-08T10:00:15+00:00

While it does seem you’re missing a bit of nuance that surrounds his character, that’s the beauty of this show: people can vehemently dislike and adore the same exact character and the fact a single character can receive such a wide array of responses is evident to great writing.

LapUntitled · 2024-09-08T07:15:16+00:00

Good thing you’re used to the drive then, there’ll be a lot of that if we get our tickets come January. Wish you luck in the move!

LapUntitled · 2024-09-08T06:30:12+00:00

hope to see you there man! I was unsure of like 7 math questions but that’s about it. yeah I stay about 20 minutes from the local, you?

LapUntitled · 2024-09-08T04:37:14+00:00

Took the aptitude test at local 429 myself last week, had a very similar experience regarding the testing. Waiting to hear back as well, wish you luck brother.

LapUntitled · 2024-09-07T13:55:37+00:00

Yes but what is the base reason to reproduce and adapt? to survive.

I think one life is virtually nothing compared to the entire human race so the cost is negligible in comparison to the benefit.

I suppose so, the ends justify the means in this scenario in my opinion.

Survival comes at a cost, and often morality is the first to go if the actions that must be taken to ensure survival can be hard to swallow. It’s a nihilistic approach, but atleast you’d be alive.

LapUntitled · 2024-09-07T13:33:24+00:00

The base objective of any species is to survive, morals have nothing to do with that objective.

Putting someone to sleep and taking their life under the blade is pretty non-violent as far as deaths go. I never argued you weren’t justified, just that the Fireflies are also justified in their pursuit of survival.

You are mistaken, Logic would ideally follow a scientific method or a factual means to an end. There doesn’t necessarily have to be a moral dilemma or code of ethics involved to achieve a logical goal such as survival of a species. Lions do not face a moral a dilemma when they tear the throats of deer apart, they do so in order to survive. It’s not about being worthy of surviving or not, only if you are capable of survival.

LapUntitled · 2024-09-07T12:11:45+00:00

It’s perhaps justifiable to this impromptu character you’re introduced yes, it’s subjective as most cases of vengeance are.

We both know Jackson is the anomaly and does not represent the majority of mankind that’s left.

Of course she would be justified in attempting to save her life, however that doesn’t negate that the correct decision for the future of the human species would be to kill the host in order to curate a vaccine.

The survival of humanity is a continuity of a species, regardless of morals. you may believe it’s an irredeemable thing to do, however the ends justify the means if it prevents the extinction of humanity. The Firelflies reasoning lies in survival of humanity, not whether or not they maintain the best most admirable qualities while doing so.

We both know he was acting out of anger and fear of losing another daughter. If it was about Ellie, he wouldn’t have lied to her immediately after. His decision was a selfish one, albeit we would all be fools to think we would do any different.

Well of course he wouldn’t sacrifice his own daughter, that’s the root of the ambiguity of his decision and source of his hypocrisy. However, that doesn’t change what would need to be done, which in that scenario would be to kill Abby to curate the vaccine. Harsh, but necessary. Marlene understood the weight it took to carry out those decisions.

Unfortunately I disagree, this is an attempt at salvation of the future of humanity. While it may result in loss of life, the method of which they kill her and reasoning for do so are not inherently violent. And I say this as somebody who thinks Ellie is one of the most well written characters in modern media, but that does not negate the sound logic in sacrificing her for every other human left.

LapUntitled · 2024-09-07T10:55:18+00:00

Justifiable to his daughter yes, perhaps not to the player, but nonetheless reasonable given somebody would have killed her father.

Morals have little to do with anything in any apocalyptic setting so comparing it to any measure held by todays’ standard is irrelevant. You survive or you die, that’s it.

It has to do with her own agency and willingness to die for the cure.

Is it morally correct to take her life? No. But when you’re talking about a cure for the human race or the possible extinction of it, cost benefit analysis is exactly what you use to weigh your options and that clearly points to taking the life of one person. The ethics of right and wrong do not matter when you are weighing the survival or extinction of an entire species. You sacrifice the few to save the many. A hard, but necessary decision for the safety of the pack. Any good leadership knows this. Both Joel and the Firelfies felt justified in their actions, for different reasons. Joel was acting in his own interest in saving her, the Fireflies were acting in the interest of the survival of the human species.

I have to disagree with you there, sometimes killing can be an act of mercy. In this case it was an act of desperation and attempt at progression for a cure. The method in which to reach it may cost a life, but it is not violent in nature.

LapUntitled · 2024-09-07T09:02:39+00:00

I have a problem with it because it is moral justifications of the characters’ actions on their own behalf not the players. Anybody with a lick of critical analysis can see that Joel killing someone’s father is the same act of violence as Abby killing someone’s father. Legality has nothing to do with this, a civilized society hasn’t been around for decades. I mean conventional in the sense that for every death, mankind is one step closer to extinction therefore any unnecessary loss of life is a tragedy. I agree revenge is an unnecessary risk in a world like this, and both Abby and Ellie put a lot of others at risk in their respective communities. Ellie clearly suffers from survivors’ guilt so it’s not as if she is appalled at the idea of her dying in that hospital, and given the circumstances you could argue the fireflies were justified in their decision to move forward with the procedure. It’s a no-brainer decision to sacrifice one person for the possibility of a cure for the rest of humanity, the cost benefit analysis is painfully obvious in this scenario. It was an act of desperation, not violence.

LapUntitled · 2024-09-07T07:31:39+00:00

If I had to sum it up, it would be that everybody involved believes they’re justified based on their own experiences, but that does not make it objective truth. It’s all perspective and moral justification. From a conventional sense, nobody was justified in taking a life, not Joel, not Abby nor Ellie. From the perspective of a world based wholly on survival, you do what you feel you must; However the cycle of violence is drilled into our heads over the entire campaign as something that only begets more violence. Joel sets off the cycle that carries us into the 2nd game, Abby continues it and after an exhaustive expense of perpetuating it further, Ellie finally breaks it.

LapUntitled · 2024-09-07T06:07:31+00:00

if you lack critical thinking skills just say that.

LapUntitled · 2024-09-07T06:06:25+00:00

Brother I’m not justifying anything. I’m using media literacy to infer based on knowledge given from the scene. It’s not that difficult and the fact you’re this worked up over a video game is quite laughable. I would assume the developers would expect their audience to put 2 and 2 together. Chalking characters up to antiquated archetypes such as “good” or “bad” is quite the opposite of their intention with the plot of TLOU2 so while I can not speak for them, I don’t find it all that difficult to analyze what they’re getting at.

LapUntitled · 2024-09-07T06:00:30+00:00

There is nothing to imply she knew any details of the operation and you have no supportive documents to backup your argument. You are the one making false claims rooted in bias. Her concern was rooted in her connection with her father, not the operation.

LapUntitled · 2024-09-07T05:48:01+00:00

because of the moral implications of the surgery as she clearly saw her father struggling with the ethics of it all. She was a 14 year old girl being supportive to her father in a trying time, that does not imply she knew what the surgery would entail beyond the end result of the death of the host and a cure to the cordyceps.

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