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[Silverthrone]

I've been crying a lot over random things lately. I teared up while watching a documentary about influenza in History class. I got a bit too passionate about a scholarship essay and burst into tears while writing it. Heard a nostalgic song and bam, tears.

Why am I so vulnerable lately?

It can happen for a lot of reasons. Various forms of stress and fatigue, for instance, which might be grounds for easying up the pace, if you think that it might be that. It happens, I can certainly get rather misty eyes to some songs if I am in a particularly sentimental mood. If it is causing you distress, ease up and take stock of the situation.

... ... Sooo ... ...

I just had a fun chat with my 18 year old cousin, the evangelical catholic furry gal who draws surprisingly good nonsexual art for commission.

It is a rather amusing combination, indeed. It is not entirely unheard of, but nonetheless. One would be surprised.

I do find that the ordinary art is usually the better, come to think of it. In general, too, to some degree, not only in regards to furfriendery. There is a lot of pleasant art out there. Landscapes, portraits, sketches, doing art's work, and bringing a depiction and impression across. Naturally, prawns (that is well done) do that as well, but ordinary art is better at it, on the whole. A lot of the time, the pornographic art is predictable, and rather boring. Even if the artist is good; particularly if the artist is good, I will say, for it is a shame to see skill employed without imagination. Because it is so easily reduced to samey old dolls arranged in position, and so many time with no amusing background or context. It gets awfully like a factory production line. I suppose that is the disadvantage of having a near-unconditional point of appeal, as it were.
That ramble aside, I must say, if she is getting commission at only eighteen, then she is likely very good indeed.

I can't answer for the US or anything, but Civics in Finland is stuff like how taxes and inheritances work, how the government works and why, that kind of stuff, from what I vaguely remember from junior high.

I always roll my eyes when people complain that they weren't taught how to pay their taxes or other useful 'adult skills' - when you're that age, you will not care about the stuff, and will not retain it. I don't remember more than a few scattered facts of the whole thing.

I believe that was how it worked across the pond, as well, except hidden under the alias of 'societal orientation', what in goodness' name that was supposed to mean. I do remember most of it, and it is not hard to fill in the gaps when reality (that damned bastard) comes knocking on my door. But I do not doubt for a second that it was a case of 'in through one ear, out of the other' for quite a few of people. They ought to have voluntary brush-up classes, I think. I could use a mathematics refresher...

I can't answer for the US or anything, but Civics in Finland is stuff like how taxes and inheritances work, how the government works and why, that kind of stuff, from what I vaguely remember from junior high.


I always roll my eyes when people complain that they weren't taught how to pay their taxes or other useful 'adult skills' - when you're that age, you will not care about the stuff, and will not retain it. I don't remember more than a few scattered facts of the whole thing.

Y-you're not American/European?!
I had always thought you were from there D: Because of how well you write and many other things!

_{Pssst, miss, Finland is in Europe.}

[Arx]

... man, I wish my memory was working better, or I paid better attention back in that hole in the wall hardware store or something. There's apparently a couple of non-gas options that work pretty well, I just can't remember what they were (and, being fair, I think one of them may have been mildly illegal). Might be worth it to poke around shops that carry stuff, see it they happen to have a recommendation or two. Do remember it might be worth spraying a line around the house with the regular stuff, too. Sometimes the things are coming in from outside more than they're managing an indoor infestation.

Bit of borax on the carpet works quite well, IIRC. Might be thinking of that?

[Lenglon]

Civics is still taught in america, but not at all schools. I was taught it in high school by a teacher who just happened to the same one who ran our debate and mock trial teams, and our civics mostly explained the what why and how of constitutional law and the roles of the different branches of government. It actually was a facinating class that I enjoyed and I managed to retain most of it. Which is good because I didnt get much of any of that stuff anywhere else in my educational career.

And Tir, our educational system is extremely flawed in America. our teachers and educators are often held in contempt as a result of the poor results we've had from them, and an educators pay is extremely low and their hours very long. This drives away the best and brightest teachers, so most of our teachers do poor work, but due to buearucratic BS, it is extremely difficult for a teacher to be fired for doing a poor job teaching, though abuses of power over children can get them removed near-instantly. this locks us into a vicious cycle of poor education, and throwing money at the problem has been unsuccessfully attempted many times.

[Frumple]

@Refresher courses: Most schools I've seen do have refresher courses of one sort or another. They just tend to be somewhat derogatory in title patterns. Remedial something or other, stuff like that. Intro classes can work about the same way. Occasionally you'll find local outreach stuff, too -- libraries hosting tutoring or study whatsits intended for adults, that kind of thing. Job outreach junk also tends to be fairly likely to have connections to something or another along those lines. Basically it's not all that unlikely that there's local resources of one sort or another floating around... increasingly there's online stuff, too -- free online courses (pretty sure there's actually a thread for that somewhere back in GD's depths, school or library associated stuff, and so on.

And maybe, Arx? I remember there were folks talking about it, but there's zero chance anything is going to jog my memory as to the details. Can recall there was at least passing mention of fairly stand-alone chemicals (maybe diluted?), but that's it. Was sometime last year, and my memory's not nearly what it was a year or two before that, heh.

[Greiger]

I had to take remedial algebra like twice.  2nd time It was called something like statistics.  Problem with algebra was that I knew the formulas and order of operations and all that but I would make a single silly math mistake like multiplying by 7 instead of 8 or something (because calculators are evil and forbidden) and getting the whole thing wrong.

Once I got into statistics I got A's on almost everything  It was all easy.  And then apparently the college decided that "If he can ace statistics clearly he knows enough math to be a computer engineer."  And they gave me an override.

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And the wtf that brought me here, a friend of mine claims that Nintendo has stopped manufacturing Nintendo classics.  WTF Nintendo doesn't that thing still basically print money?

[Lord Shonus]

It was hacked to be a generic emulator box within something like a day. If Nintendo stopped manufacturing them, it was probably for this reason, as it would cut drastically into virtual console sales.

[Greiger]

Lol what virtual console sales?  A bunch of neo geo games hardly anyone remembers?  A quick look at the switch's virtual console brings up literally nothing interesting in the terms of retro games.  And their library of retro games on the 3ds is extremely lacking last I checked.

[Harry Baldman]

Y-you're not American/European?!
I had always thought you were from there D: Because of how well you write and many other things!

Though only narrowly so, I believe Finland nevertheless counts as a European nation.

[EnigmaticHat]

I had to take remedial algebra like twice.  2nd time It was called something like statistics.  Problem with algebra was that I knew the formulas and order of operations and all that but I would make a single silly math mistake like multiplying by 7 instead of 8 or something (because calculators are evil and forbidden) and getting the whole thing wrong.

Once I got into statistics I got A's on almost everything  It was all easy.  And then apparently the college decided that "If he can ace statistics clearly he knows enough math to be a computer engineer."  And they gave me an override.

That's kinda funny that a school with a computer degree wouldn't let you use calculators.  Considering computer programming is basically "make a calculator to push the buttons on several other calculators" repeating infinitely.

[scriver]

Y-you're not American/European?!
I had always thought you were from there D: Because of how well you write and many other things!

Though only narrowly so, I believe Finland nevertheless counts as a European nation.

We tried our best,  but we couldn't shake it off

[Silverthrone]

Remember, my friend; land first, Europe second. We are, quite simply, all jolly well stuck with each other on a patch of the world that is lovely, beautiful and much too small.

It is little wonder why everyone with the time and the ships to spare went out in the world to find some elbow room.

[Digital Hellhound]

Yes, Tir, Finland is in Europe* and I am very much Finnish. And very much European. I must've mentioned this at some point, but maybe not! I kinda assume a sense of Finnishness just generally radiates off me.

*Even if we are, technically, just one country away from bordering China.

[Digital Hellhound]

I meant more as in 'mentioned it to Tiruin specifically', but yeah. Good ol' conscription.

[Silverthrone]

Yes, Tir, Finland is in Europe* and I am very much Finnish. And very much European. I must've mentioned this at some point, but maybe not! I kinda assume a sense of Finnishness just generally radiates off me.

*Even if we are, technically, just one country away from bordering China.

If there ever is some sort of a Nordic Dwarf-meet or some other reason to meet up, what do you say of some vodka? Well. I say 'some'.

(And none of that Absolut swill either, consider that a promise. Koskenkorva makes the competition rather tight, but I believe that I can find its match.)

As for conscription, well... They summoned me, took one look at me and sent me back home. That was fairly manageable, but it was rather mortifying when they turned down my application for the voluntary basic training program for dummies. A chap got to know when he is not wanted, I suppose. I ought to re-apply some day. I can manage the field kitchen.

[Digital Hellhound]

Yes, Tir, Finland is in Europe* and I am very much Finnish. And very much European. I must've mentioned this at some point, but maybe not! I kinda assume a sense of Finnishness just generally radiates off me.

*Even if we are, technically, just one country away from bordering China.

If there ever is some sort of a Nordic Dwarf-meet or some other reason to meet up, what do you say of some vodka? Well. I say 'some'.

(And none of that Absolut swill either, consider that a promise. Koskenkorva makes the competition rather tight, but I believe that I can find its match.)

Sure. I'll bring the salmari - that is, salmiakki Koskenkorva. It is delicious, though apparently less lethal to foreigners than actual salmiakki candy. Oh well.