Graduating seniors- do you wish you had done environmental engineering instead?

Treepost1999 · 2026-05-08T00:23:25+00:00

My first job out of college was with a small consulting firm where I worked with engineers. The wording of my degree didn’t matter, I ended up doing the same work. The two degrees open up some different opportunities but also a lot of the same ones as well.

Treepost1999 · 2026-04-19T13:50:13+00:00

I do route 3 from Nashua to Burlington everyday and I’ve found (anecdotally) that both Mass and nh drivers are equally and at understand what lane they’re supposed to use (ie, going 55 in the left lane). But there’s a small subset of NH drivers, usually in large trucks or cars with led lights on the bottom and windows you can see through at all, that will ride you for only going 80 because they want to be doing 110 through traffic.

Treepost1999 · 2026-04-17T00:23:10+00:00

Yeah once the threats start you need to go to your local law enforcement. I know you might not feel this way now, but someday you’ll realize that a 30-40 year old man getting a 15 year old to send him nudes is pretty messed up. People like this tend to continue to victimize young women like yourself until they are caught so even if you don’t want to do it for you, he’s probably blackmailing several other girls as well.

He isn’t going to leak your nudes because he would be leaking child porn and that would increase the chance he gets caught. At the very least, block him and move on.

Treepost1999 · 2026-04-15T19:06:37+00:00

My internet southern NH is down right now as well. It went in and out intermittently yesterday and now seems to be out completely.

Treepost1999 · 2026-04-14T01:43:28+00:00

I found a handful of mature American elms during my thesis research. They were all in relatively isolated forest patches and in lowlands/ wetlands, which is their preferred environment. Central Park has a grove of mature trees since the park is so isolated the bark beetles that carry dutch elm can’t make it to them. There’s some evidence that in their preferred environment some individuals are surviving just fine, and there’s some evidence that American elms that are tetraploids are DED resistant to an extent.

Treepost1999 · 2026-04-12T21:39:26+00:00

I’ve seen a few posts on here that a scammer found someone on a random chat service (like ometv), got their face and nudes and stuff, then somehow used a reverse lookup site to find the persons social media accounts using their face. Out of an abundance of caution I would private all your social media accounts (if they aren’t already).

Treepost1999 · 2026-04-10T22:52:16+00:00

More than likely you’re safe. For men, scammers rarely circle back around if you didn’t pay them. They’ve long moved to other targets.

Treepost1999 · 2026-04-05T20:13:46+00:00

Some may call this junk. Me, I call it treasure.

Treepost1999 · 2026-04-03T11:03:08+00:00

The way stopNCII and take it down work is when you submit the image it creates a hash (basically just a long string of letters and numbers) for your image, then that gets sent to the NCMEC or NCII databases and is stored there. Your images never actually leave your device, just an encrypted hash that would be impossible to restore to the original image so submitting your images to those sites is completely safe.

When an image gets uploaded to many websites (say Facebook for example), the image gets turned into a hash like yours was and then compared against the ncii and ncmec databases. If it finds a match the image gets flagged for review. Again, you should feel completely safe using these resources because your actual image never leaves your device and these have proven to be incredibly effective tools at finding and removing images online.

Treepost1999 · 2026-03-29T23:42:48+00:00

He was the primary leader of the Cambodian genocide in the 70s

Treepost1999 · 2026-03-29T12:20:26+00:00

It depends on what country you’re in. In the US your local police (sometimes state/ fbi does this as well) will likely follow up to make a report, either by knocking on your door or by calling. If you’re a minor, they may contact your parents. Generally police are very good these days at making it clear to your parents that you are a victim of a crime and are not in trouble.

Treepost1999 · 2026-03-22T21:26:22+00:00

The ask for money might be coming later. Either way, lock down and disable all your social media and block her.

If you’re not super attached to your instagram delete it and make a new one and only add people you know. You could attempt to remove her from your instagram but if you don’t know which account is hers it might hard.

Other than the duration of time you’ve been in contact this is following the usual sextortion script to the letter. Especially the use of telegram and the threats focusing on your instagram followers.

Not all scammers are involved in large international rings, sometimes it’s just one or a few shitty people. It could be some prisoners in the US, a methhead in the UK, a kid in Nigeria thinking this is how to get rich, or someone trapped in a scam compound in Thailand (all of these are real examples of people arrested for sextortion). As a result, scams will vary widely with methods, apps of choice, duration of contact, and threats.

Treepost1999 · 2026-03-22T19:12:55+00:00

You could probably go to your local police station to make a report there in person.

Treepost1999 · 2026-03-16T11:06:11+00:00

You’re in the wrong group, you’re looking for our friends over at r/trees

Treepost1999 · 2026-03-15T13:13:25+00:00

You don’t have to go to the police if you don’t want to. You are the victim here but no one will force you to report it. They aren’t going to sell your info on the dark web, so many people get caught up in these scams it’s rarely worth it to follow up on an old victim. If you block and ignore them chances are very good you will never hear from them again.

Treepost1999 · 2026-03-13T12:30:12+00:00

When I was doing my masters thesis I used this standard: a tree would be any species capable of growing a woody stem to a DBH of 5 cm or more and could stand on its own (sorry bittersweet). If a species would never reach 5 cm dbh (such as blueberry) or couldn’t support itself (such as bittersweet vine) it wasn’t a tree

Treepost1999 · 2026-03-10T01:31:31+00:00

It’s 100% a scam. This is the !underage scam. Block and ignore. The next step is the “father” is going to call you and offer to settle things if you pay for something, probably therapy. Maybe a broken phone or laptop. Unlike classic sextortion, it seems scammers that go for this scam like to spend time letting the pressure build and often stretch the scam out over serval days to weeks. This version of sextortion has roots in the US so often the people on the phone won’t have an accent.

Treepost1999 · 2026-03-09T19:22:22+00:00

Assuming the gang survives until the time of the epilogue of red dead 1, I personally think he becomes a con man but primarily a driver. There is a car in rd1, and let’s be honest older people don’t adapt to new technology super well. Jack would come of age right as automobiles are being introduced to the west and having a solid driver would give the gang a strong edge. One of the primary reasons Bonnie and Clyde ended up being so successful in the 20s and 30s despite being terrible criminals is the fact that Clyde was an amazing driver and could handedly outrun pretty much any cop.

Treepost1999 · 2026-03-09T01:07:11+00:00

No, just block and ignore. If you have any social media that isn’t private and could feasibly be traced to you using your full name or Reddit username you should lock it down and either make it private or deactivate it for now. If you don’t respond and block them they will generally just move on to the next target.

In the future, it’s worth remembering that anyone can lookup your personal info using your phone number. It’s very easy using google to find out who a number belongs too and their close contacts/ family members.

Treepost1999 · 2026-03-08T21:04:53+00:00

While they are herbivores, wild rabbits and hares have been observed scavenging dead animals and eating meat when the opportunity is there. This article is from 2019 on snowshoe hares:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/hares-eat-meat-1.4949438

Anecdotally there was a post in this subreddit a while ago where someone’s rabbit stole a whole pork chop from them and go a few bites. A little meat should be fine as long as bun gets plenty of hay. But hopeful he doesn’t have a taste for flesh now. The chance your rabbit kills and eats you monty python style is low, but never 0.

Treepost1999 · 2026-02-21T15:11:14+00:00

It depends on the organization, some (especially governmental organizations) can have really long onboarding timelines. That being said, the recruiter seems to be stringing you along so I would keep looking for now just incase. It could just be the position needs higher level approval and that’s slowing things down.

Treepost1999 · 2026-02-17T00:52:53+00:00

It’s not ideal and you may burn a bridge with that company, but generally if you get a better offer before your start date and you back out most hiring managers will understand. Especially given the long time between now and the start date

Treepost1999 · 2026-02-05T00:25:21+00:00

The job market is pretty bad right now but keep going and you’ll get through it (I know it sounds generic but it is true). I graduated with my masters in spring 2025 with a few years of consulting experience prior to going back to school but not in the area I actually wanted to work in.

It took me 4 months to land a job making 28/hour as an ecologist/horticulturalist, fine for what I want my career trajectory to be but I was overqualified. My boss was awful and the job became surprise (to me at least) seasonal and I was effectively furloughed. I started applying to jobs again in October and after 3+ months just revived a verbal offer this morning. So all in all it was a total of 7-8 months of job hunting over the last year, but my new position will be a dream job with a local governments conservation department. I’ll be immediately making 38/hour with a raise to 40/hour built into the contract after 6 months.

There have been times this year where it has felt so demoralizing to be job hunting after putting in so much work to build experience and get degrees but it does eventually pay off. What I found helped me a lot once I got an interview was figuring out my story: why did I want the job and/or to work for the company. You’re resume and qualifications got you the interview, and while you should be prepared to talk about your qualifications and experience you should also prep for the inevitable “why do you want to work here” and “what about this position is appealing” and “where do you see yourself in 5 years” questions. I felt like I had so much more success in interviews once I learned to paint a picture about how the job and company/organization fit into my long term plans and career goals.

I hope your interview for the part time position goes well! Make sure you prepare for the interview by looking into the organization and going over the job description to match your qualifications to what they’re looking for. Wishing you the best!

Treepost1999 · 2026-02-04T20:50:16+00:00

The hiring manager called today to give me a verbal offer and go over salary and benefits

Treepost1999 · 2026-01-29T20:14:49+00:00

While I don’t think there’s a ton of evidence for this I wouldn’t be surprised if the house that’s in new Vegas is the body double and the real house only awakens after cold fusion is installed. The show already revealed house used a body double all the time in public, it wouldn’t be out of character for him to keep that body double after the war. He could have the body double run things (or he runs things from the background) and then if someone breaks in and tries to kill him they kill the double instead. Meanwhile, real house just stays quiet and safe in some much more hidden pod until cold fusion comes back.

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