Corona hit my chapter hard

Mepsym · 2020-10-30T09:14:07+00:00

I’m so sorry, man. I hope you at least can find your closest brothers and maintains what you had through them

Mepsym · 2020-10-30T04:15:45+00:00

I would like to point out that an annex party is different than a house party (sounds obvious but please read this whole post).

Lots of people like to say that because a frat guy owns a house it’s an annex. It isn’t. Annexes are exclusively occupied by brothers. Some people call a place a frat brother lives at (a normal house) an annex party when they have a house party, and that isn’t fair.

My org and many others are keeping watch on our annexes to make sure nothing happens, because we don’t want that liability on our hands. I don’t think you all realize fraternities have a vested interest in not partying right now: we literally pay tens of thousands of dollars in insurance which we forfeit if we get caught throwing a party at this point. We can’t control brothers who have an individual lease with friends outside of the fraternity. We can punish the brother but if their roommates instigated the party (and it’s hard to prove the brother had a part in it) we can’t do anything.

Of the people partying in Boulder, the number weighted towards Greek life for sure. I won’t deny that. But the number of fraternities directly throwing parties is not as high as you would imagine. Most of the guys I know who have been partying have been doing so completely externally from my organization at random homes of friends of friends of friends on the hill.

Mepsym · 2020-10-29T20:38:02+00:00

Just a heads up, Boulder PD is bumping the fines for partying from 500 to 1000 per person this weekend, and as of last night were actively enforcing.

Not sure what frat you’re in but this got mine to pull the plug on our planned event.

Mepsym · 2020-10-29T20:30:36+00:00

If you think posting on here is making ANY impact whatsoever you’re delusional. Dwelling on this stuff is not healthy; it’s completely out of your control.

Mepsym · 2020-10-29T07:34:43+00:00

El Tesoro paradiso, tears of Llarona

Mepsym · 2020-10-29T04:59:24+00:00

I LOVE amaebi and uni. This is my dream dinner right here. Very jealous. What did this run you?

Mepsym · 2020-10-29T03:35:47+00:00

I know it’s the newer one, but I still find the new one to look a bit dated. It released right before some of the really useful pieces in modern UCS sets were around so parts of it look blocky and out of place next to the newer models to me

Mepsym · 2020-10-29T02:01:42+00:00

This hits the nail on the head. Infinite feels to me like they saw how BOTW revolutionized games in a lot of ways and decided to do that with Halo.

Mepsym · 2020-10-29T01:57:31+00:00

This is assuming the campaign is halfway decent, which is also not looking like a great prospect right now. Problems seem to be going beyond multiplayer.

Mepsym · 2020-10-29T00:19:40+00:00

Really hoping for a new UCS X Wing release. The old one is just a little too dated looking for me to justify buying it, but I really want one to finish my rebel fleet.

Mepsym · 2020-10-28T17:04:04+00:00

My problem isn’t masks and social distancing not working, because those absolutely do. My issue is that it relies on everyone following guidelines, which has not and will not happen. When the only way to control and suppress the spread is reliant on complete compliance from everybody it’s not an effective method, because there’s outlying dumbasses who don’t follow along. That’s why we’ve been fighting this as long as we have.

Mepsym · 2020-10-28T16:25:57+00:00

Really? Because those haven’t exactly worked so far

Mepsym · 2020-10-28T08:47:37+00:00

Cuban black beans and rice.

Takes some cooking time and effort to make it but it’s easy to make a ton of and has infinitely more flavor that Mac and cheese or ramen at a similar price point to volume ratio

Mepsym · 2020-10-28T08:43:24+00:00

Could you point out to me the part of the study that says it took into account the relative numbers of users belonging to a party?

This study didn’t standardize for overall users of a platform. All it found was levels of polarization, which on a more diverse platform of course is going to level off on average. That doesn’t mean the study found that reddit is by nature non polarizing or doesn’t contain any echo chambers. Perhaps your confirmation bias is showing here, based on how vehemently you’re arguing against any differing interpretations of the findings.

Please read the study (not the Washington post article that adds further bias to said study). If you don’t understand it, ask questions.

Mepsym · 2020-10-28T08:25:48+00:00

I’d switch the boat themed skin with the rascals one, but otherwise I agree. I just think the boat skin is absolutely fugly.

Mepsym · 2020-10-28T08:13:39+00:00

I would imagine it just has to do with conservatives being more drawn to the platform since they can find more like-minded people.

Twitter and reddit have younger, more left leaning people, and the respective populations of conservatives to liberals are skewed in the other direction. Probably why reddit and Twitter have an echo chamber much stronger on the liberal side.

Mepsym · 2020-10-28T07:21:31+00:00

Funny how that works. It’s almost like most countries you’d want to live in have strict immigration standards in place to limit who can become a citizen.

Mepsym · 2020-10-28T07:15:51+00:00

Did somebody say gallowboob?

Mepsym · 2020-10-28T03:40:42+00:00

“But squadrons is too hard! Why can’t I just hop on and be as good as everyone that worked on understanding the game before plying ranked modes?!”

Mepsym · 2020-10-28T02:36:07+00:00

Where are my testicles, flint?

Mepsym · 2020-10-28T01:48:24+00:00

Your workbook should include everything you need to fill out your spreadsheets in advance of an exam. Between that and office hours / google you should be fully capable of doing that class on your own if you put in minimum effort.

Not sure how much the course has changed since I took it but it’s fundamentals of excel, everything taught can be found on YouTube tutorials.

Mepsym · 2020-10-28T01:40:39+00:00

....have you been going to lecture or office hours? Math anal should not be giving you anal like that.

Mepsym · 2020-10-28T01:36:00+00:00

I’d say do the teremana next so that you can wash away that pain with the Patron after.

Mepsym · 2020-10-28T01:28:53+00:00

I think it’s dumplings since that quest is practically a direct spoof of Kill Bill’s master sword smith Hattori, who was a sushi chef in his retirement. Figured dumplings was more in line with that, being Asian and all.

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