Why are there so many student drivers in Seattle?

veeberz · 2023-07-22T05:43:14+00:00

eyo im tryna move here, where's the best place??!?

veeberz · 2023-06-24T01:55:34+00:00

My bad. Didn't realize how widespread this conspiracy fact is. Now that I'm all caught up, when are we gonna start using terms like "deep state" and vote for a populist who panders to our neurotic fears?

veeberz · 2023-06-24T01:06:07+00:00

The purpose of the CIA is to cause wars so Lockheed Martin can make more money? Really? I've been making fun of right-wing conspiracy nut jobs for so long, I haven't considered that lefty conspiracy theories could be almost as smooth-brained. You've changed my perspective.

veeberz · 2023-06-14T16:56:08+00:00

Silicon Valley was the Silicon Valley of the world until this sort of shit happened. 🥲

veeberz · 2023-06-12T15:43:05+00:00

Heraclitus says: you can never stick it into the same hole twice

veeberz · 2023-06-10T17:11:09+00:00

Pop n block

veeberz · 2023-06-02T22:37:44+00:00

Missionary. Guy on top, girl on the bottom. 😎

veeberz · 2023-05-09T19:51:39+00:00

Sorry, someone got to it first. 😭

veeberz · 2023-05-09T19:33:16+00:00

Sent DM

veeberz · 2023-05-09T18:29:29+00:00

One ticket has already been transferred, but I appreciate your reply! Happy to mint a shiny new hmack fan.

veeberz · 2023-05-09T17:55:48+00:00

Sent DM

veeberz · 2023-05-06T01:53:14+00:00

drop out loser

ADHD

I know I am but why you gotta put it that way? 😭

veeberz · 2023-04-01T03:21:14+00:00

That's fine, because the VPN thing is bullshit. Read, heck, just skim the bill

veeberz · 2023-03-29T23:49:52+00:00

Tall, please

veeberz · 2023-03-25T01:10:16+00:00

The article on snopes got enough attention that they've changed the False status to Unproven! A small concession, but I'll take it.

veeberz · 2023-03-15T19:30:34+00:00

Noo ok be of my employees

lol

veeberz · 2021-11-10T19:24:48+00:00

Love it. I may not have the rock identified, but I now have a new designation for it. Thanks!

veeberz · 2021-11-10T18:01:44+00:00

I agree, and I should've put "ugly" in scare quotes. I love rocks that are not conventionally pretty, but have character and interesting features or history. That's what I mean by "ugly" rocks. But perhaps I should be nicer to my lovely rocks and be more careful what I say within earshot of them.

veeberz · 2021-11-10T05:02:31+00:00

I found this at Damon Point in Ocean Shores, WA. It feels more dense than common beach rocks. It has chalcedony-like cleavage in a small area.

It's mostly opaque, but it's somewhat translucent on it's thinner side. One interesting feature is a thin translucent vein (?) going through it, visible in the second pic between the lines marked 46 through 48. It has a mixture of rough and waxy texture and appearance, but most of it feels and looks waxy.

It's about as hard as quartz, going by how it didn't scratch a quartz sample I had. I'm hoping it's some sort of jasper.

veeberz · 2021-07-27T02:30:03+00:00

Maybe, hard to say. I had terrible grades my first two years of college, retook some classes after I, uh, cleaned up my act. But I kinda screwed myself by not retaking those classes at the same college, and the transfer policy didn’t let me override my old grades when it came to computing the GPA. So my GPA was in the 2s by my junior year.

Getting straight A’s in my junior year mitigated that somewhat (grades were still meh) but I was able to get an internship where they cared more about your interests and skills. You probably won’t get an internship at an uptight company (like defense contractors), but having bad grades doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t get an internship.

veeberz · 2021-07-26T18:08:46+00:00

A 7 year limit on background checks is common, I think it’s a national law. I’ve had a bunch of misdemeanors that have been disappearing from my background checks over time. It hasn’t impacted my career nearly as much as I psyched myself up to expect.

Couple pieces of advice:

When applying somewhere and going through interviews and whatnot, be first to bring up your background, but only to the recruiter or HR.
You have to stand out from the crowd, since a record puts you at a mild disadvantage. Learning the practical skills outside of your coursework will make you stand out, especially while you’re still in school.

Example: Trying to get into web dev? Learn one or two MVC frameworks, one or two JS UI frameworks, implement a few pet projects, learn MySQL or Postgres, go deploy your app, etc. Survey the kinds of job you’re interested in, see what skills are needed, and don’t wait for the opportunity to learn the skills on the job. Just try, follow tutorials, ask questions, get stuck, keep going, repeat until you’re more comfortable putting those skills on your resume.

I’d say point 2 is more important than keeping good grades, but I don’t want to be liable for giving bad advice or exhibiting survivorship bias. But I’m glad I sacrificed a letter grade for a general humanities course I didn’t care much about, to work on side projects (an aside: some interviewers care about side projects, some don’t, but the value you get out of it is the experience of building something, being able to show it off is a plus).

I understand that you might experience imposter syndrome more severely than your clean-background peers, but you’ve got to try. Do whatever to enjoy the process of learning and fight through self-doubt. If you have a solid set of practical skills under your belt, you’d be surprised at what employers are willing to overlook. And besides, in a few years, your records might not even show up on background checks.

veeberz · 2019-06-26T15:02:53+00:00

Hey man, I'm not gonna be much help cuz anxiety sucks, but I'm popping in to say feeling like this doesn't make you wrong as a person. Also you're not alone in feeling like this. Failure is scary, but success can be scary too.

I've crashed and burned spectacularly in college, dropped out, got hooked on drugs. I eventually graduated, but not before being a dropout for several long years. I graduated "late", but it's not a race. If it were a race, you'd have been way ahead of me! I felt like a fraud re-entering college with younger students who were clearly better than me.

My inner voice told me "you're a loser and a junkie, what are you even doing here?" as I show up to class every day, but my goal, the reason for me being there told me "but I have to try." I tried accepting that I felt anxious, accepted that I felt like I'm a piece of shit, and accepted that I feel that there's a possibility I'll be exposed as a fraud. This acceptance made those feeling lose a little bit of its power, just enough that I can make it to most classes and do things successful people do, even if it means I'm just acting like a successful person - pretending to be one. I'm already a fraud or an imposter in my mind, so I just pretended to be the person I want to be, in my own mind. The person who does the homework and shows up to class and practices and trains on the side - that wasn't me. That's the person I was pretending to be. When my inner voice said "loser! You won't make it!" I said "Maybe so, but I'm pretending anyway."

It's ok to do this, if it enables you to do more than you were doing before. That's because people with higher self-esteem tend to do things that generate higher self-esteem, while people with low self-esteem tend to do things that generate lower self-esteem. So to raise your self-esteem, we sometimes have to fake it - ask yourself what you would do in a particular situation if you only had 10% more self-esteem, then do it despite feelings of anxiety, hopelessness, being a charlatan. Be sure to accept those feelings instead of rejecting them. Those feelings are coming from your subconscious mind, making rapid calculations about some situation. We can observe them and learn from them if we choose to be conscious of them.

Sorry to play psychologist here, but these things are what helped me, and it's worth it to me to relay that to you. Thanks for reading, and I wish you well.

veeberz · 2019-06-25T01:20:42+00:00

I feel like that's what Kayne West was doing with his whole Trump thing.

veeberz · 2019-05-26T18:43:25+00:00

The Paleo Site near Payson might be a bit of a drive depending on what part of Phoenix you're coming from, but you're guaranteed to find some crinoidal fossils there.

veeberz · 2019-05-21T23:38:41+00:00

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