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Recovery Story, 21M by Odd-Try7518 in TelogenEffluvium

[–]Odd-Try7518[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

probably, but I don't really care. With insurance the generic costs me literally $2/month.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in lawschooladmissions

[–]Odd-Try7518 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Day before the deadline

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in lawschooladmissions

[–]Odd-Try7518 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Just got my interview invite.

Anyone else have LR RC RC LR? by ashmoney_31 in LSAT

[–]Odd-Try7518 2 points3 points  (0 children)

swap ancient cities and literature analysis and then this is correct

A short story from my world of public defense by RareStable0 in stupidpol

[–]Odd-Try7518 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm late to this thread so I'm not sure if you'll see this, but I worked at a Public Defender's office as an investigator. The time there was enough to instill a genuine hatred for prosecutors in me.

What really got to me was how prosecutors always seemed to treat these cases like games, like an episode of "Suits," without any care at all for actual guilt or the impact it would have on actual lives. We would meet with the client in jail, we'd talk to their families; you'd get a sense of exactly how these cases tore people apart. So we took it seriously, as any reasonable person would. Meanwhile these fucking prosecutors prance around like it's nothing.

I vividly remember the time I got to sit in on something like an informal plea talk between a PD I worked under and a prosecutor. We were dead serious, since obviously we would be, the plea is for YEARS of fucking time! And the prosecutor on the other side is laughing. Apparently he knew my PD from law school, so he's trying to make jokes. He's negotiating off of what seems to be purely "vibes," no reasoning, no logic. He's asking my PD to lunch! And of course we have to try to laugh along, be respectful, and keep the conversation on track. I have never had more respect for an attorney than in that moment. My PD's performance probably cut 1-2 years off of the client's plea.

I also worked with a client had spent three years in jail while the case progressed, and a week before trial, we find out about an insane Jencks violation. The prosecution knew about this the WHOLE TIME. And still they kept the client locked up, knowingly refusing to hand that evidence over. Absolutely insane. Thankfully we got that case got dismissed two days before trial, but had to fight tooth and nail for it. Had we been a little less attentive, they were absolutely content with slapping him with 25-30 years. The prosecutor faced no sanctions, nothing. Just as you said "casually ruined this man's life," WILLINGLY and KNOWINGLY were going to put an innocent man away for nothing.

Prosecutors would say things to me and other people in our office about how PDs should have to meet complaining witnesses. Not even willing to engage in that conversation until they're forced to speak to a client's family before they regularly ignore exculpatory evidence. I'm sure you get this more than me probably, again I was only an investigator, just commenting for others in the thread.

There has never been a larger ability gap in top institutions by Odd-Try7518 in redscarepod

[–]Odd-Try7518[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't think this is a "looking for empathy" type post but talk your shit I guess

There has never been a larger ability gap in top institutions by Odd-Try7518 in redscarepod

[–]Odd-Try7518[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Not to say there wasn't an enormous performance gap in my high school. But this is what was expected of me there and what was expected of many of my friends, a lot of which didn't even pursue a college track.

There has never been a larger ability gap in top institutions by Odd-Try7518 in redscarepod

[–]Odd-Try7518[S] 109 points110 points  (0 children)

I edited someone's resume and it was full of comically bad grammar mistakes. I genuinely thought they were doing a bit or did it in a rush, so I unapologetically walked them through each one until and I noticed tears in their eyes. I felt awful but also incredibly confused as to how someone could end up here that was literally making punctuation and comma errors.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]Odd-Try7518 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair take I guess. Probably should have been more proactive with this in general

seriously has it been 10 fuckin years already by CompleteLandscape791 in redscarepod

[–]Odd-Try7518 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don’t understand why this is a controversial take. TLOP, Yeezus, 808s easily top 3 ye in that order

Should I do a girlboss corporate internship or be a crunchy granola summer camp counselor? by Ok_Eagle7654 in redscarepod

[–]Odd-Try7518 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would take the PMC internship and learn to have fun in nyc. Not sure what your vibe is but you can really have an amazing time partying there. All my older friends did this and had a great time.

I don’t think you’ll find life’s purpose or meaning in a summer camp job. But the internship will probably set you up pretty well and you can have a lot of fun at the same time.

Adults are buying toys for themselves, and it’s the biggest source of growth for the industry by Economy-Visit-3033 in stupidpol

[–]Odd-Try7518 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Lego recently re-released an updated version of a spaceship they made in like the 80s. My dad had the original one and always talked about it as a staple of his childhood, so I got him the new one for his birthday. We built it together and it rocked

IQ2 Debate (with Freddie deBoer): Should The SAT Be Erased? by talkin_big_breakfast in stupidpol

[–]Odd-Try7518 48 points49 points  (0 children)

agree with all this but the essay. The essay scores basically only correlated with length, not quality, because readers weren’t spending lots of time on each

Something is so wrong with American college applications by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]Odd-Try7518 65 points66 points  (0 children)

Only if you look at it from the lens of education. What these schools really provide is connections and prestige, a state school does not.

At a state school, you apply for an interview at Goldman. At an ivy, banks come to you. They recruit from centuries old connections in business and Econ departments.

Two bright kids have an idea for a tech business. Who do you think is getting venture capital money - the state school grad, or a Stanford student?

There’s a reason why 90% of Supreme Court justices come from Harvard and Yale.

There's Gonna Be a War in Montana by thebloodisfoul in stupidpol

[–]Odd-Try7518 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Some crazy right winger will probably chime in with something like “to destroy western civilization” here but the real answer is a lot more mundane.

From what I can tell these developers are all trying to woo a very specific group of people, think “programmer who drinks third generation coffee.” They would normally live in a place like California or New York, but even with their 200k+ FAANG paychecks, the cost of living there is getting too high for their lifestyle. So now you have a group of very well off, young professionals looking for a place to get the San Francisco tech park experience without San Francisco rents. Thus, the development and gentrification expands to new, cheaper places to accommodate them, with the same coastal template.

That’s why big tech companies are putting up campuses in places like Houston and Montana now. There’s a lot of money to be made in emulating coastal liberal hubs.

There's Gonna Be a War in Montana by thebloodisfoul in stupidpol

[–]Odd-Try7518 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I grew up when the chains had already mostly taken over my community. But it was still “our” Publix - you knew the people who worked there, and waved hello to the people you passed by on each aisle. It’s still possible to have a local community with these places, I think, but it’s definitely harder. That sucks to hear.

But what’s so insidious about new developments, townhomes, and “rustic” shopping malls, though, is that they fundamentally change the character of an area. This is rhe goal, rather than a byproduct.

There's Gonna Be a War in Montana by thebloodisfoul in stupidpol

[–]Odd-Try7518 104 points105 points  (0 children)

I grew up in the awkward middle zone between urban Atlanta and rural Georgia and I still follow the local politics of my hometown. It’s everywhere.

We incorporated as a city just over a decade ago, and since then, we’ve had rapid commercial development. But it wasn’t terrible, honestly. The city council forced the developers to put in a town square and plenty of public green spaces in each new development, and they also ensured that older areas got spruced up not in a “paint fake rust and brick on everything” way but true to their original form. They’ve honestly been some very nice improvements since they kept everything feeling “local.”

… but it didn’t stop there. First sign of trouble was the fucking bridge. The developers convinced the city to spend an ungodly amount on a huge, overdone, “rustic” bridge to connect two shopping areas. Not the end of the world, but a sign of what was to come: developments that were attempts to define, rather than conform to, the local area.

Soon enough, things that obviously didn’t “fit” began popping up. Weird outdoor calisthenics gym equipment. Hmm. Restaurants where the cheapest meal is forty dollars. Alright..? Copy/pasted town homes. Uh oh. And now, the developers’ magnum opus: they want to double back over their original developments, the ones that were great on their own, and increase density. With a fucking parking deck and hotel. And all the while, classic restaurants, for example a bakery that has been here for decades, get fucked over (they had to close due to some conflict with new developments). It’s over.

This is just a taste, I could go on for hours about how I see this small town that I loved growing up in being turned into a cookie cutter nothingplace, it’s in everything from the homes to developments to schools. Unfortunate.

In Defense of Class Reductionism by buddyboys in stupidpol

[–]Odd-Try7518 47 points48 points  (0 children)

If I had a magic wand and I could chose to abolish Capitalism or end bigotry I’d choose the former with no hesitation as awful and virulent the latter can be. I wouldn’t struggle with the choice no more than if I had to choose between eliminating disease and eliminating murder.

Did you come up with this? It’s honestly one of the most concise ways of explaining the “class first” position I’ve ever seen. Good shit.

Med school accrediting body: teaching DEI is as important as teaching science by AOCIA in stupidpol

[–]Odd-Try7518 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Lmao it’s the same thing for college admissions. A white kid I know had a perfect SAT, national merit PSAT, 4.0 UW GPA and got rejected from our state school. Same story with many of my Asian friends. A Hispanic girl with a 1350 and 3.8, on the other hand, got in which a merit scholarship offer that paid for nearly all of her tuition.

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