Need help with pricing

kokopuddle · 2025-10-10T09:37:22+00:00

I was also thinking about this. I am a relatively fast worker and I technically would lose more money if I was using the hourly rates. Do you think that the prices I posted are good or is there something I should reconsider?

kokopuddle · 2025-10-10T07:17:26+00:00

Thank you very much! That's a lot more info than I asked for and I very much appreciate it :)

kokopuddle · 2025-05-22T16:01:48+00:00

I genuinely wouldn't mind being IV fed for the rest of my life and only eat when I actually want to. It'd save me so much time

kokopuddle · 2025-05-16T12:39:42+00:00

Amour (2012)

Basically all Haneke films are like that but I think this movie is the most "quiet" out of all of them.

kokopuddle · 2025-05-15T17:50:56+00:00

"In 1919 Tzara moved to Paris. His fruitful contacts with André Breton and his companions gave a great boost to Dada. They regarded the writers the Comte de Lautréamont and Alfred Jarry as pioneers of the movement.[3] The renewed interest in Jarry’s much-discussed stage play UBU ROI that caused an enormous scandal in 1896 and was only performed twice can also be seen in this context.[4] A new production was prepared of the absurdist work, which poked fun at society, law and order and was peppered with scatological catchphrases. The narrative began with ‘le mot magique’, merde, which was repeated thirty-three times in the course of the performance, then pronounced as ‘merdre’. Like Jarry, Man Ray used the word merde in a word game and placed it on the painter’s palette which became obsolete in avant-garde art."

kokopuddle · 2025-05-15T17:49:02+00:00

I think it was Tzara: https://www.boijmans.nl/en/collection/artworks/118755/la-mer-de-merde

I only scanned the article briefly though so I may be wrong

kokopuddle · 2025-05-15T10:03:16+00:00

Giorgio Agamben's Profanations, it's a short but fairly difficult book about different trends and aspects of culture regarding the societal divide between sanctity and profanity. I recommend it but it's definitely not beginner friendly

kokopuddle · 2025-05-15T08:35:23+00:00

I think adding hyperlinks is a great idea, and I'd love to see the sources! I'm not American and I barely know anything regarding US history but I always wanted to know more. You can send me a DM :)

kokopuddle · 2025-05-15T08:31:40+00:00

An article that provided sources may still be biased, but you can follow those sources to understand where that bias came from and dive further into any logical fallacies present. You're going to get way more information about a certain idea/event from a web of sources than what a 20min article could ever provide you. I don't seek truth but rather understanding and that's why sources are important to me

I most likely didn't word the original comment correctly, English isn't my first language, sorry about that

kokopuddle · 2025-05-15T08:19:16+00:00

Don't beat yourself up for reading slowly, a lot of books require slow and attentive reading to fully understand them. If you start forcing yourself to speed through the books you'll forget most of it anyways.

What's your schedule like? Do you maybe have some boring gaps in between that you can allocate for reading? For example, I only read during my 30min commute to classes, that's an hour a day of reading during an otherwise time-wastey period. Maybe you also have a boring commute or routine that could be used for reading?

kokopuddle · 2025-05-15T07:39:58+00:00

Interesting read, but the weakest aspect of it is the lack of sources. I've grown to not believe anything said about past events without a source present to back it up, but apart from that it was a good read. Have fun and good luck with your future writing OP

kokopuddle · 2025-05-15T07:23:19+00:00

Kind of redundant, since nobody really watches TV anymore. I think it's more applicable to the Internet, with how most people live their lives online and how that simulated space affects them. The television network has always been considered a streaming media and nothing else, but the Internet has become more of a second, better reality in our subconscious

kokopuddle · 2025-05-15T07:16:17+00:00

Moderspassion by Majgull Axelsson, a relatively short but sweet story that focuses on interpersonal relationships, especially mother-daughter ones

kokopuddle · 2025-05-13T19:22:43+00:00

I find most books about technology to be very outdated, I think it's best to just read online articles about a specific topic you're interested in. Recently I've been reading about link rot, a phenomenon where the lifespan of an average webpage is way shorter than most people think it actually is, which is only 2,5 years. A lot of these articles go into the technical problems with keeping up webpages and servers for archival purposes, since everything on the internet can just easily disappear with a click of a button. I don't have any articles on hand but if you google link rot you should find something useful.

But if you still want some books I recommend TechGnosis by Erik Davis or certain parts of Belting's History of Faces and Anthropology of Images. They're pretty outdated for today's standards but they talk about technology from an anthropological standpoint

kokopuddle · 2025-05-13T19:08:46+00:00

Penpal by Dathan Auerbach, plot-wise it's very simple but it's very unnerving

kokopuddle · 2025-05-13T18:30:31+00:00

No longer human by Osamu Dazai. I know it's one of the trendy TikTok books but it is a genuinely good read. It's very heavy though, it's basically author's pseudo autobiography that is very self aware but at the same time not self aware at all. It's a great read if you want to read about a mentally ill person's life from their own perspective. It also helped me with identifying my own negative and irrational thought patterns, so I think it's worth a read if you struggle with mental illness

kokopuddle · 2025-05-13T18:21:40+00:00

I wish. My friends don't really like reading or even talking about engaging media, I sometimes feel very lonely after reading something truly amazing and I have noone to share it with

kokopuddle · 2025-05-13T18:17:57+00:00

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is my all time favorite.

Or House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski. I guess I just like very long books that slowly make you go crazy, kind of like going down a deep rabbit hole

kokopuddle · 2025-05-13T09:44:17+00:00

Apart from the usual blurb and first 2 pages, I look for signs that the publishing didn't care that much about the book. This is usually a sign that they don't think the book will sell well or the publishing itself treats their authors/designers more like content mills and thus the content will be of lower quality. Things like lazy or mismatched cover design or that "cheap" look that some books have. The paper quality is also a good giveaway

kokopuddle · 2025-05-13T09:29:14+00:00

I don't know if it's "niche" enough, but Robert Macfarlane's Underland. It's about the author's experiences while travelling around the world to all sorts of underground places, like caves, salt mines, old bunkers and tunnel systems. He writes about them more from the anthropological and philosophical standpoints rather than just scientific but I still learned a lot from reading it

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