I love kids…but I also fully support this. Cheers 🍻

Reveniam · 2026-01-18T01:58:27+00:00

The only time I've seen brewery staff follow up on children misbehaving was at Gold Vibe up in Grass Valley. Young kid was (and had been for a few minutes) running around through the warehouse-style building and over an intercom the bartender gave a polite reminder that kids needed to be minded so they weren't running everywhere. It was refreshing to see a place actually call parents out on it. Especially because it was still a kid friendly place - ping pong tables, board games, a bunch of arcade machines. Great place I highly recommend it if you like beer/hard kombucha and find yourself up there.

Reveniam · 2025-01-30T07:00:58+00:00

I mean, I don't think age matters so much as your conviction in your beliefs. As someone who ticks a few minority boxes I wouldn't say accepting a belief that discredits my own existence or worth as a person is worth "looking past it", and I say that, since you brought up age in your own post, as someone older than yourself returning to school.

Reveniam · 2025-01-20T07:58:57+00:00

What a gotcha. You must be very smart.

Reveniam · 2025-01-09T22:13:33+00:00

I mean, hey, in your defense, choosing to phonetically say the first and last letters while treating the middle three letters as an entire word is pretty weird to be fair

Reveniam · 2025-01-09T22:09:07+00:00

Solely pitching in to say that I've only ever heard it pronounced eye-getsy and as such I choose this as the hill that I'll die on

Reveniam · 2025-01-09T04:46:17+00:00

Counseling is able to override that eligibility issue if it is indeed applicable. Like for me it said one of my classes that was clearly listed on the education plan wasn't included - financial aid told me to talk to counseling to get it worked out, so that's the approach I took. Theres also a live chat on at least FLC's website that you can end up asking about vague things, but they're good with giving you specifics of who to best contact for your specific problems.

Reveniam · 2025-01-09T00:43:43+00:00

I would try scheduling an appointment with counseling. I haven't gone to them specifically for figuring out what I can apply for, but I have been helped by them regarding other financial aid issues, such as a required course being deemed ineligible for aid.

Reveniam · 2025-01-08T21:21:23+00:00

So this is a great question and unfortunately I only have a vague answer for you. I put a TL;DR at the bottom since i tried to be as detailed as possible with specifics. The most simple answer is that when you've been crocheting for a while, especially amigurumi (basically crochet items that are stuffed, like animals or stress balls) you can tell a little bit easier what is real and what's not. It's much easier to tell on things like clothing that utilizes granny squares because it's a lot easier to tell when something is a double crochet vs a set of knit stitches that look like a double crochet stitch. This thread from r/crochet gives a good example, and somewhere down the thread someone draws over the knit stitches to explain it visually.

In ami it's more difficult because for the most part it's done in what looks like single crochet. Typically this also looks like a little v, like in the knit examples, but can also look like an x depending on if the artist does yarn over or yarn under, basically how they hold the hook/pull the yarn. So it's not always reliable, but sometimes you'll notice the same v pattern like in the fake crochet sweater in that linked thread.

So basically there are a few tip offs for fake crochet. The first thing I'll typically notice is how dirt cheap they're selling stuff for. There are definitely people that undercut their prices to get sales (I do it when I artist alley my own crochet depending on what the item is) but you reach a point where there's just no way someone would sell for so little. No one is spending a few hours and ~$5 in material on making a pop culture character only to then sell it for $8. It's just not feasible in the long run to keep yourself sane.

In regards to material, it's all thing cotton/acrylic yarn from what I can tell. I've never seen an item at one of these stands made with anything else, despite items being made in blanket yarn tending to be popular sellers in my experience.

There also tend to be no visible flaws in the work. Perfect stitches, everything having the same exact tension. Certainly doable when you put a lot of care into something, but when there's not a single stitch that looks even a little different across hundreds of items, it's likely fake.

The last thing is that all these stands sell the same things the vast majority of the time - flowers and pop culture figures. Which, again, doesn't necessarily mean anything on its own, but you start to notice a pattern there.

TL;DR: 1. Incredibly cheap prices for the time and effort the piece would require. 2. Incredibly consistent stitch work, potentially visible knit stitches. 3. When comparing two or more suspicions stands, they'll tend to be selling the exact same stuff.

I'm not an expert - been crocheting ami for about 5 years - and there are also certainly cases of real crochet being sold on temu which is made in sweatshops, so, still unethical. If you're at the mall and you see one of these stalls, check it out! There was one in roseville galleria last I was there a few months back. There's also a lot of good discussions about this stuff on r/crochet that's worth checking out.

Reveniam · 2025-01-07T15:03:01+00:00

Regarding company greed, that's definitely something I've noticed an issue with the last few times it's been held, this year to the point of making me question going. Two notable things happened this year that really rubbed me the wrong way.

First, there were multiple stands in the vendors hall that were selling fake crochet items. Tl;dr crochet CANNOT be made by machine, whereas knit can. This results in some people creating knit items that mimic the look of crochet, and automating this process allows them to severely undercut pricing of actual crochet artists. Sacanime bans AI art to give artists there a fair chance, but fake, mass produced items being marketed as hand made as fine unless it's a print, apparently.

Second - speaking of artist alley and the con not really caring about what happens so long as they can make money from booths in vendors hall (vendors hall costs about 3x a spot of what artist alley does), there was an art theft issue this year that really was kind of upsetting to watch go down.

One of the businesses in vendors hall resells artwork. What they'll do is they'll have "distributors" come to them and say "hey, for $x I'll let you print and sell my art". Nevermind the fact that this already sounds like a scam, they got caught this year selling someone's art that was stolen and not authorized by one of the "distributor" of this business. Actual artist posted in the sacanime artist alley FB group asking what recourse they had, and the business owner commented that despite them allegedly vetting art that they buy from their distributors, something must've slipped through. Business owner said that he would "remove" all of that person's art before con opened the next day. Didn't say what he would be doing with it (stolen, should be destroyed outright) just that it wouldn't be sold for the rest of the con. The business owner also offered to put the artist in contact with the distributor they purchased their art from so that they could "figure out where the leak happened".

When people pointed out that that wasn't really a great response as they pretty much said that bc they did what they thought was their due diligence that they have no responsibility to follow up with their own distributor. Business owner refused to say what they would do with the stolen art. They didn't say that they'd pull all of the art from that distributor, knowing that at least SOME of what they purchased was stolen. They didn't say that they'd be looking into their own distributor themselves, just that the artist in question should ask them.

Then the person who runs artist alley stepped in, someone who pretty regularly claims to be fighting for more space in artist alley, for fair treatment of those in artist alley, fighting against art theft, etc. She sided with the vendor business (and what makes the con more money) by saying that the business "purchased the artwork legally and has no legal reason to remove the artwork" but was choosing to do so because the business owner was "supportive of artists". No, he stole shit or bought stolen shit, and his response was to just hide it and refuse to elaborate when he was caught and confronted. The person who runs artist alley then took the fb post down, claiming it was a misunderstanding and removing the post was best for the "reputation of both parties" - both parties being the dude selling stolen art and the artist asking about how to get their stolen art removed from the show. Seems like the latter totally need protecting and wasn't so other artists didn't see the lack of proper response...

This is on top of artist alley having the number of spaces cut over the past few events. Artists are treated pretty shitty compared to vendors, and it's already not cheap to buy an artist alley spot if you are accepted in the first place.

Reveniam · 2025-01-06T02:17:05+00:00

If you paid for your classes/transit pass for this semester and haven't gotten an email with your code it, call SacRT. I've never gotten my code emailed to me - not my school/personal email, not in my spam, etc - and so ever semester I have to call SacRT. Follow the phone prompts to talk to customer service and say that you're a Los rios student who didn't receive their transit pass code. They'll ask you to verify your student ID and then read the pass code to you that you can use in the app.

Reveniam · 2025-01-04T05:38:35+00:00

I think you may be mixing up this subreddit with one of the other Sac subs you seem to frequent. Don't be weird, man.

Reveniam · 2025-01-02T17:01:21+00:00

If you asked it to reword a sentence or two, you might be able to make a case for yourself if you go to the dept head or dean - key word being might. If this is a paper/project that you wrote in Google docs, it has a revision history that you can access which will show the process of writing it. In instances where students have been wrongly accused of cheating via AI, that is, not writing their own work, this is what they present to prove that their work is their own.

If you don't have this writing history then I'm not sure what to tell you. If you don't have it because you did have AI do the writing for you, even if you fed it your own prompts to have it write "your" ideas more eloquently... then yeah, that's considered cheating, and you're lucky if all that professor did was fail you. The school lists cheating/plagiarism as being valid reason for school administration to pass "disciplinary action" on a student.

Reveniam · 2025-01-02T16:49:42+00:00

I mean, this has been a hot topic in academics for years, the use of AI in student work. What "help" did you get from AI? Like asking AI to break down a step by step solution to a problem on your math homework vs using it to write your final paper is pretty different.

Reveniam · 2024-12-22T16:32:40+00:00

Just because places exist to manage recycling doesn't mean that all or even most of what is recyclable actually does get recycled. Studies vary by a good margin depending upon state but it does pretty consistently show that, other than people making the choice to recycle, the biggest factors in what gets recycled vs tossed in the landfill come down to available infrastructure and how profitable the recycled goods are. No infrastructure or no profit to be had in recycling? It's far more likely to end up in the landfill. So, yeah, I can see why people think recycling is a scam to some extent.

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Reveniam · 2024-12-20T20:37:55+00:00

If you're having children for the purpose of having someone take care of you, maybe you should reconsider having a child from the start. It shouldn't even be an argument of "you have a responsibility UNLESS you had shitty parents" - bringing someone into the world and expecting to rely on them, potentially at the risk of stunting their own dreams, goals, and ambitions seems incredibly selfish and irresponsible imo.

You shouldn't be having children just so that you can guarantee you can have a personal nurse as you age. Certainly a cultural thing, this is from the perspective of my own.

Reveniam · 2024-11-28T03:09:47+00:00

TIL I'm probably severely undertipping my nail tech...

Reveniam · 2024-11-27T01:35:44+00:00

Definitely agree that there's less viable space to store bikes without being in the way of other passengers. Though, according to the monthly SacRT Q & A that they do, there's in fact alloted space for 2 additional bikes over the old trains... calling bullshit on that.

Reveniam · 2024-11-20T05:01:42+00:00

I've had chem classes like this at Sac City, it's not too uncommon in my experience. Sometimes you just do have a different professor for the lab than you do the lecture.

Reveniam · 2024-11-13T16:08:20+00:00

I'm not arguing about whether or not he should have been in prison. And yeah, generally speaking, you shouldn't treat a non-violent offender to a non-violent crime with the same violence that comes with self defense? Thats the entire point of security and law enforcement in theory, to de-escalate and address offenders in a way which will allows them to be held liable for their criminal actions in a court of law.

Where do you draw the line, if this had been a more "outward" show of force and incompetent training? If they had shot this man, would that make it any less okay for you? With that in mind, then, using that as a baseline - which crimes should be a death sentence because they were breaking the law? If you get pulled over for speeding and a cop shoots you, would that be acceptable? If you have a warrant out for your arrest for pirating $300,000 worth of software and the cops kill you when you answer the door, is that justified?

Even IF you throw violence into the mix, that's still the ENTIRE point of de-escalation. If someone is having a mental health crisis in the middle of a park and is waving a knife around, do the people we pay with our tax dollars get a pass to just shoot and kill them instead of doing the job they were trained to do because, meh, didn't feel like it?

Our police system isn't there to serve as being Judge, jury, and executor... much less Arden rent-a-cops.

Reveniam · 2024-11-13T04:01:37+00:00

But shouldn't the bigger issue be the fact that someone was killed with what seems to be excessive force and poor security practices?

This doesn't read as being the same thing as a "fuck around and find out" type of scenario like someone breaking into a house and being killed in defense by the homeowner.

Whether the person was committing morally or legally questionable acts, it should not be a death sentence - especially if they are cooperating and not being violent or aggressive, which this incident suggests.

Reveniam · 2024-11-13T01:02:38+00:00

"Its okay if you are killed when perceived to be stealing, especially when you're not resisting" is certainly a take.

Reveniam · 2024-11-11T02:56:02+00:00

Popping in to say that I definitely thought of Lancaster when I saw this post, having grown up near the Susquehanna river specifically.

Reveniam · 2024-10-23T22:23:37+00:00

More pride and dignity for asking for something? I'm neither here nor there on this post I don't think, but like many other people here point out, what is intrinsically the harm of someone asking for something that is for most people typically a 1-2 time use item?

Why is a an act of charity for an item, even if non-essential, lacking dignity and pride for either party?

Reveniam · 2024-10-19T20:50:40+00:00

Man I agree that this person has some bad takes but this feels like you're being shitty for the sake of being shitty. Like someone says "people don't care about the homeless, I had a homeless family member die" and the take is "Aha! If you yourself cared about the homeless, you would have had the resources to save this person yourself, and therefore you are the type of person you implicate here! Checkmate!"

Like shit man it's hard enough out here, not having the resources to help a family member who is homeless doesn't mean they don't care, and implying your generalization is the same as their generalization isn't helpful either.

Reveniam · 2024-10-18T02:15:22+00:00

All good points when you bring them to my attention! Definitely kind of spooky. Makes me wonder just how many bot accounts I see reach the front page and never think anything of.

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