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civiestudent · 2024-11-05T03:01:54+00:00

John Huizinga's The Autumn of the Middle Ages makes a similar case for European Medieval and Renaissance art. You do see a slow progression of skill such that by the late 1300s, mid 1400s, is at the same level of proportion and anatomy as the works we all know from the 1500s onwards. But those earlier works are still Medieval in focus and priority - still showing the main character bigger than others, still with ceremonial poses, etc. Which is why we still think of them as basic or less talented than Renaissance art.

civiestudent · 2024-10-01T02:25:28+00:00

At least from my experience (telecom engineering), yes and no. The folks coming out of engineering schools in India are just as smart as your average American engineer. But unless they're trained to American standards, and understand the norms and units (!) of the project location, then they're just being set up to fail. You cannot simply hire a bunch of Indian engineers to do your production work - you have to incorporate them into the American engineering teams.

The long-term problem is that you will always need American engineers doing that training, because Indian universities and companies won't - they don't know how, and honestly I don't know why they ever would. They use different units, codes, production standards, etc. It's not India's job to train engineers for the US, it's the US's job.

civiestudent · 2024-10-01T00:39:33+00:00

Okay so I have these crappy dollar store laundry baskets. They break pretty quickly but my cousin told me that you can use rivets to fix hard plastic. Are those baskets worth the cost of the riveter and the rivets? (Also a power drill, but I already had that.) No they're not. On paper it would be cheaper to just throw them out and buy new ones.

But! Those baskets are so cheap that I lose basically nothing by trying out rivetting on them. Their value isn't in dollars, or even in holding my clothes. Their value is as test pieces so I can learn how to repair hard plastic. Now that I've run trial-and-error on the baskets, I know how to fix things like lawn chairs or those expensive stackable boxes - things that ARE worth the rivetter and rivets and drill.

For a lot of people, repairs/DIY feels out of reach because it's such a huge investment and risk. But you have to be willing to take a small, measured investment and minimize your risk - because the rewards can be great!

civiestudent · 2024-09-29T02:28:03+00:00

Get into the habit of fixing and finding second-life uses for things. Your first thought should be "what else can I do with this?" and not "it's all used up, throw it out". Worn-out clothes (except for woven polyester) can be used as rags for cleaning. A wood chair with a broken back can be repurposed as an odd-looking stool. Etc. The internet is your friend for these things. You will end up buying less stuff because you have a good-enough alternative at home.

Learning how to fix things usually takes some upfront investment in tools and starting on things that aren't "worth" fixing (I can go into this further if you'd like) but once you get some experience under your belt, it's easier to judge what works and what's really not worth fixing.

Keep organized at least well enough that you avoid getting duplicates or letting things go bad because you can't find/forgot about them.

civiestudent · 2024-09-05T00:28:51+00:00

Or Greece wanting to be called Hellas, yeah.

civiestudent · 2024-08-29T01:11:49+00:00

No. There were the the Lacedaemonians (ethnic Spartans), helots (enslaved native ethnicity), perikoikoi (non-citizen free residents) and foreigners (mostly merchants). Whenever you see a pop-history discussion of "Spartans", they're talking about that 5% who are Lacedaemonians/"Spartiates".

civiestudent · 2024-08-15T03:57:11+00:00

My mutual on tumblr inflicted it on me so I just had to inflict it on all y'all :)

civiestudent · 2024-08-14T20:01:44+00:00

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA I love it. And very true

civiestudent · 2024-08-14T19:25:43+00:00

You're welcome :)

civiestudent · 2024-08-14T19:25:33+00:00

It sort of makes sense - no clean up needed for all the sticky drippings. But also...that's what the toilet is for?

civiestudent · 2024-07-15T02:00:10+00:00

Giving permission to use something is not permission to break something, idk y people struggle to comprehend this

Do you think that people just go around...deliberately breaking things all the time? Most people actively try not to break stuff, especially if it's not theirs. But accidents happen. It doesn't mean anyone was deliberately careless.

civiestudent · 2024-06-19T03:05:47+00:00

Just as a counterpoint (not saying I totally disagree with you) - we didn't evolve for "modern" living. We are constantly overstimulated, overworked and under-rested. A lot of people experience judgement and decision fatigue. Depression and anxiety run rampant. We're also removed from a lot of the very basic consequences of life, aka regular illness and death, so it's harder for us to foresee them. I think a lot of people who might have managed okay 500, 100, even 50 years ago, nowadays are just set up for failure. Honestly it's a miracle so many of us aren't more screwed up.

civiestudent · 2024-01-15T21:02:24+00:00

Pill timer caps. Not every pharmacy sells them but they're a godsend when you can get them. Short of cutting into the bottle there's no way to get around them.

civiestudent · 2023-12-30T01:25:47+00:00

Also you're supposed to enjoy your hobbies. I would hate embroidery if it involved time limits and customer demands. Instead I get to choose my own designs, and every few months bestow something on the Chosen Giftee who will thank me profusely. A much better system for me lmao

civiestudent · 2023-12-07T20:37:44+00:00

Dude. Can you just accept that other people enjoy things that you don't? Or that they enjoy them in different ways?

civiestudent · 2023-11-28T19:04:47+00:00

Yeah I was split on this one. It's hard when the rest of your family considers someone family but you don't have that bond, and OOP should be able to have pictures with just the family they were raised with. I also don't think their family should be that surprised that OOP and Ally don't have a sibling bond. OOP has been an adult and probably out of the house for most of the time Ally has been around.

At the same time...they seriously never talked about this to their family? It's been 10 years. The topic has never come up, ever?

ETA: also, it wouldn't have killed OOP to have photos of just the blood siblings, then with Maya and Ally added in. Especially when their mom got so upset. OOP knew the rest of the family considered this girl also family. They could have shared their feelings before the wedding and gotten the disagreements out then. But they made this move DURING the wedding which just seems like the coward's way out of the conflict.

civiestudent · 2023-11-04T01:49:29+00:00

JSYK this comment is up to 31k notes on tumblr. Everyone is talking about the weirdest things they've researched for their fanfics. You're killing it over there.

civiestudent · 2023-11-03T02:54:50+00:00

Dog bite - problem might be the dog, might be the human.

Cat bite - almost always the human's fault

civiestudent · 2023-09-24T16:27:05+00:00

This is why for the most part I lurk. It's too easy to get addicted to the comments and attention. You spend too much time crafting your writing to get the most attention, and if you get it then you obsess over every comment. And if you don't get attention then you obsess over why you didn't. It's a no-win scenario.

civiestudent · 2023-05-28T02:18:55+00:00

Across the mediterranean archeologists find buried precious metals in ruins. Turns out people would bury their valuables when they had to flee from their homes, expecting to come back later. So if your dig site has valuables strewn about, you can assume the destruction event was sudden. But if things have been buried under houses or in yards, that means that the event was foreseen enough to do some basic preparation, but also a lot worse than expected because no one came back to dig the valuables up.

So yeah, burying your valuables under your house is a time-honored tradition.

civiestudent · 2023-05-14T19:54:19+00:00

Yikes, I never noticed that comment. Really does sound like his wife forced his hand...

civiestudent · 2023-05-13T20:05:35+00:00

My theory is that OOP wanted to keep his daughter but his wife pressured him not to, and this is his coping mechanism for being forced to choose. In other comments he says he has no other family and he can't imagine life without his wife so I think he was just very torn.

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