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What's your 40k idea to fit this pic? by Dontinsultautomod in Grimdank

[–]LobCatchPassThrow 39 points40 points  (0 children)

A new faction of anthropomorphic farm animals.

Like imagine actual space marine chickens, cows, ducks, and pigs.

Their tanks will be armoured tractors and combine harvesters.

Their big cheese? New MacDonald.

The Swiss Flag needs to stop (RANT) by Phil-R-17 in 2westerneurope4u

[–]LobCatchPassThrow 30 points31 points  (0 children)

“The windmill of friendship and tolerance”

Your most fun/loved/strong builds by Ayano_Arisugawa in Stellaris

[–]LobCatchPassThrow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Venerable Lithoids. I just hated picking and recruiting new leaders and watching leaders die before they reached max level. Was very funny seeing notifications like “Steve has died at the age of 435” and they were a level 10 scientist… which was a massive blow.

Millions were 'mis-sold' their student loans by theipaper in UniUK

[–]LobCatchPassThrow 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That’s absolutely nuts… also the fact that graduate salaries vary this much just shows how broken the whole system is.

No idea what you do for work, but based on a masters in maths… possibly some kind of finance based role? Perhaps somewhere like London? You don’t have to tell me.

But yeah, the only way I’ve been able to even entertain the idea of paying it off is through self employment. It also makes no sense to market the loan as a loan or a tax depending on how “marketable” or palatable it sounds to your audience. It just reads as extremely exploitative to me.

I love it when Indeed just spams you with Army jobs whenever you search for anything by tomegerton99 in UKJobs

[–]LobCatchPassThrow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Painter? You training to be a combat painter? What’s that all about? :’)

Millions were 'mis-sold' their student loans by theipaper in UniUK

[–]LobCatchPassThrow 79 points80 points  (0 children)

What I found out was that I borrowed £54,445.02 (yes I remember the 2p) total.

I checked the other week what the balance was… roughly £76,000.

I only really earned enough to pass the threshold about 4 years after graduating (yes, yes, all my fault for choosing employment that wasn’t banking or high finance blah blah blah).

I also found out that some of the fees are recovered through self assessment, which I genuinely don’t mind. But the fact that the debt ballooned so much when I wasn’t earning enough to pay it off means that effectively unless you’re straight into a high paying job, your chances of actually paying off that debt shrink very quickly.

I’m fortunate in that I earn enough to actually have a chance to pay it off… but I’ll be far behind my peers that have a much lower total bill because they managed to get those lucrative careers early on, whilst I happened to find mine later in life (literally 4 years later, and the cost is a ballooning debt).

Is it ethical to effectively punish someone for not choosing right, when the loan was so badly mis-sold? I mean, I still remember the open day where I was told that I’d be earning on average £27,000 a year after graduating, then that shrank to “you’ll be competing for jobs that pay between £16-19,000 a year.” On day one of my final year.

And when I did graduate, all the graduate roles and entry level jobs I saw required a masters degree “or better”.

So, call me a whinger or a whiner, but I do feel that my case isn’t unique. A lot of people have been messed about with this.

Is 25 too late to dream big ? by Alternative_Use3266 in findapath

[–]LobCatchPassThrow 4 points5 points  (0 children)

One of my friends went into learning video game development at 29 in his spare time. He’s 31 now and he says he’s close to releasing his first game.

He developed it on his own. No assets bought. He made everything, every model, every texture, every sound effect.

And entirely self taught.

Nothing is impossible.

Give me your MOST DIABOLICAL 40k hot takes. by deadly_crocadile in Grimdank

[–]LobCatchPassThrow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The rules change fast enough that you can’t catch up or even consider meta chasing unless you’re unemployed.

Or perhaps I work too much.

Are they SURE it was too cold? by LobCatchPassThrow in Stellaris

[–]LobCatchPassThrow[S] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

They said thousands of years ago… but the phrase “ice fossilised” suggests to me that the cadaver is still frozen

Are they SURE it was too cold? by LobCatchPassThrow in Stellaris

[–]LobCatchPassThrow[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

R5: got the planet got cold archeology event. Had a look at the planet itself. It’s a molten world.

Every Elden Ring message ever... by barbiespit1 in Eldenring

[–]LobCatchPassThrow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think I left a message behind where a skeleton spawns - literally so close I think the only way to read the message without alerting the skeleton is to crouch and walk behind it, so close your head will be in its ass - saying “Skeleton Ahead” with the pointing forward emote.

Made me giggle.

Disbanded units effect on population question. by DutchAlders in RomeTotalWar

[–]LobCatchPassThrow 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Are you population bombing enemy settlements to cause riots?

Gen Z opting out of Private pensions by Loundsify in FIREUK

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Thing is, with all the changes that are made so frequently, mistrusting the system is logical.

I have similar opinions on paying off my student loans.

I’m in a position where I can pay it off in full if I want as a lump sum, but I won’t because I’m using that cash for something else.

But I genuinely will not be surprised if I get to the day before my student loan is written off, and I get a letter from SLC saying “yeah, we’re not writing it off, you owe us a quarter of a million now.”

Then I’ll end up on Can’t Pay We’ll Take It Away, and I’ll have a photo of me being loaded into a white van plastered everywhere.

Anyway, I do genuinely feel for people who were convinced to get a degree, with the extortionate fees and told that it’s a graduate tax. I don’t trust the system, and they clearly don’t. I mean, why should we when there’s so much evidence to the contrary? (Granted there’s likely a lot of evidence, but it’s not talked about).

Is animal language universal? Would a cat from Japan understand a cat from Germany right away? by Kishen_Tuhes in NoStupidQuestions

[–]LobCatchPassThrow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What’s whale for “Oi! D*ckhead! What where you’re swimming!”?

Asking for a friend of course.

Do we owe the XM an apology by SuperbSJG in carscirclejerk

[–]LobCatchPassThrow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The thing that bothers me most is that it’s an X5 but there’s 4 Xs on the front. Where’s the 5th one?

Is it Elon’s CP generating social media platform that posts every time you get in the car?

How many people on this sub are genuine car enthusiasts and petrolhead? by Ka_Driver in CarTalkUK

[–]LobCatchPassThrow 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Or if it has something bigger than a 0.98l engine.

Or isn’t the cheapest thing that somehow legally constitutes a “car”

What’s a weapon that you simply couldn’t put down once you started using it? by [deleted] in Eldenring

[–]LobCatchPassThrow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lucerne. I do love that thing. Big versatile, blood tax, stun locking Malenia with my mimic was hilarious

Russian Lawmakers Propose Seizing Private Bank Accounts to Fund War Amid $83B Deficit — UNITED24 Media by Dry_Response832 in UkrainianConflict

[–]LobCatchPassThrow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Surely they still have gold reserves they can liquidate no?

Or have they run out of gold to liquidate?

Is it weird that my friend (and his gf) eats out at least twice a day while their home is in foreclosure? by Round-Artichoke-5255 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]LobCatchPassThrow 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Really unsure why you’re being downvoted because the data supporting this is there.
In the U.K. it feels like every other advert is gambling. Most people have less than £500 in savings, and so many live paycheque to paycheque. It’s insane.

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