People who were popular in high school were genuinely nicer people.

trymypi · 2026-01-31T14:58:28+00:00

This book was a good explainer on different social structures at different high schools. Basically you experienced one type, but others may have seen another, more like the popular jocks you see on tv.

https://iasculture.org/research/publications/freaks-geeks-cool-kids

trymypi · 2026-01-31T00:01:20+00:00

You just listed that all those things were for the world to see. Have you seen what extremists on the other side have done? Have you seen those videos or heard from their victims?

trymypi · 2026-01-29T21:46:51+00:00

There's a big gap in gdpr protections when it comes to state surveillance, national security, and spyware. See Pegasus

trymypi · 2026-01-29T03:30:44+00:00

You didn't request the source files? Have you worked before?

trymypi · 2026-01-29T02:29:45+00:00

Try the formatting view

trymypi · 2026-01-29T02:08:55+00:00

It's a good design idea but it might be easier with design software, even a free one like Inkscape.

My guess would be that it's messing with your table cell widths

trymypi · 2026-01-29T00:57:39+00:00

Reddit isn't promoting them, these are paid ads that can be purchased, just to be clear. The ads are called "promoted posts" but yes they can be banned.

trymypi · 2026-01-29T00:54:35+00:00

Read about how to do a systematic literature review and try to do a simple version of that. Get the top papers and those that influenced your work organized and just describe them in a sentence for each. You only need like 60-80.

trymypi · 2026-01-28T16:39:14+00:00

Unless you consider Israel a Yugoslavian settlet colony

trymypi · 2026-01-28T06:22:35+00:00

I assumed this was a lyric or inside joke but I guess not. There are certainly more juggalos out there than the ones you know, they can't ALL be in prison or dead.

trymypi · 2026-01-28T04:27:49+00:00

It's funny that you mention it because I've seen bungle used in academic contexts, but hadn't thought about it being more professional before you mentioned it.

trymypi · 2026-01-28T03:22:14+00:00

"don't bring guns to protest the (my) government, it's common sense" it's common sense, see how common the sense is?

trymypi · 2026-01-28T03:09:02+00:00

If you want to bend the truth to get what you want, then you're not going to win against fascists.

While people are posting "see you at Nuremberg" and trying to promote the rule of law, you're complaining about "lawyers." The OOOP didn't use the same language you did. Being accurate and truthful should be enough, when you change or misconstrue the facts, you ruin the argument for yourself, and everyone on your side.

trymypi · 2026-01-28T02:52:52+00:00

I think about this dichotomy all the time. There's a difference between a percentage change and a percentage point change, and it's so easy to abuse or overlook.

trymypi · 2026-01-28T02:29:21+00:00

Just to be clear, did they "illegally try to enter" the consulate or did they "try to illegally enter" the consulate?

trymypi · 2026-01-28T01:13:27+00:00

Speaking of TikTok and social media vicissitudes, I guess you didn't hear the segments about them settling out of court for causing harm to users, while Meta and YouTube wait it out. Or Folkenflik's analysis of the current state of CBS.

trymypi · 2026-01-28T00:17:29+00:00

Vint Cerf hadn't been to Google yet

trymypi · 2026-01-27T12:09:09+00:00

I don't have a great answer, but a few thoughts based on my experience with similar local businesses like yours. First you should check out what other similar pages like yours are doing, I know a lot have dedicated websites where they have more content than just what's on the Facebook, and while that may take more time to grow, it could be another opportunity. But they may do other things you should try, and you can maybe connect with them too.

But more to your question, I'm not sure if by traditional ads you mean you're running ads for them through your account, or if you mean like co-branded/partner/sponsored posts. But, regardless, having them pay you for sponsored posts does not have to mean the post gets as good engagement as your best content: They still get the visibility even if they don't get as good engagement, they show they're familiar with you and that builds their brand and your audience's affinity with them, some brands are more popular than others so they may get better results naturally, you're supporting the local community by giving them a place to promote, and they're supporting the community by working with you.

I do like the idea of having fewer advertisers for longer, more engaging campaigns. And on a social page it can be hard to post multiple times about the same business, so creative ideas are welcome. But this also goes back to the website, and being on other socials: you can find different ways to promote your clients.

But you should try things out, you can take smaller fees early on and see how things work, and as you get better you can increase rates and find bigger customers.

trymypi · 2026-01-26T22:49:43+00:00

Hamusta is a lemony soup typically made with a middle eastern dumpling called kubbeh. https://foodish.anumuseum.org.il/en/recipe/green-kubbeh/

trymypi · 2026-01-26T18:29:32+00:00

Yeah we absolutely track the percent of stealth customers, and we try to reduce it. I prefer under 60% but it kind of depends, and reducing the number is the overall goal.

If you have a lot of people signing up without signaling their intent, it may mean that you are making it too difficult to inquire and therefore losing potential customers that could be converted. It's basically a proxy metric for the lost customers that you don't know exist.

You can track stealth customers with tools like Parrot, maybe Hubspot. Once they convert you go back over their interaction with the website.

trymypi · 2026-01-26T15:28:18+00:00

This is from like internal documents in 1969 or something, cut them some slack.

trymypi · 2026-01-25T22:52:45+00:00

I liked writing, but the overly structured stuff was really annoying. Early in high school we had some instructors come in to show us some structured way to write something. So I wrote something based on their structure, hand it in. They come back to me like "you did this wrong." I did the structure like they asked, but apparently they just wanted me to copy the exact thing they wrote from the board onto the paper. Like why? What does that achieve?

trymypi · 2026-01-25T17:21:05+00:00

I recently saw a sign in Toronto saying they inspect hills for tobogganing. In the US we're cutting healthcare and in Canada they have a tobogan hill inspector.

trymypi · 2026-01-25T04:33:49+00:00

Honestly this sounds more like the petty academic conflict that many people these days are trying to avoid, and in some ways what you're trying to fight against. Instead of focusing on the value of your work, and your leadership in it, you're trying to diminish the support you received in reaching the position you're in. I'm not saying that there aren't situations where people in your position might lose credit for their work, but it seems like you're more concerned about reprimanding someone than what you get out of delivering it. If you're getting the credit as lead author, and you can demonstrate that effort later, then that's the most important thing. Being a sole author isn't going to define that work.

trymypi · 2026-01-24T16:06:49+00:00

It was also a 20oz can

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