#Remote regions

[anachrosims]

Alright--with the impending Snowmageddon in the southeast US, I just had to deal with an office full of girlies in the northern US who JUST CAN'T BELIEEEEVE how big a deal the weather is for us in the south.

I don't want to hear a PEEP from y'all about WOW THIS IS A NORMAL DAY IN WINTER FOR MEEEE! Sister, we don't have the infrastructure to deal with this kind of cold and snow. When pipes, electricity, and roadways get fucked up, people can and will DIE. Check your attitude and instead, offer helpful tips, or keep your pikachuface-based snark outta your mouth until we're through to spring.

The jet stream doing weird bullshit like this is the new normal with climate change being what it is. Put up and help out, or kindly, shut up, and keep your thoughts to yourself.

EDIT: And to my southern fellows affected by the cold and/or the snow: Please be safe. PLEASE be safe. Here's some links that might help y'all:

What to Do Before it Gets Ridiculously Cold | Weather.com

11 Severe Cold Weather Safety Tips You Need Right Now | Farmers' Almanac

(PDF) Cold Weather Safety Tips | National Weather Service

Safety Guidelines: During & After a Winter Storm | CDC

[thistransient]

I have a heinous sunburn, my tailbone region is bruised and abraded, my stomach issues resolved after 800mg of anti-dysentery pills, I have a newfound and passionate appreciation for hot water and paved roads, and we finally made it back to the city today. This was probably one of the most unwise yet exhilarating things I've ever done in my life. Also I saw more yaks.

[hey-heigo]

officially finished all my academic requirements :)) time to avoid thinking about the rest of my life

[salts8tr]

*Covered in blood with a cigarette in my mouth* i got my new blueray player working

[theridgebeyond]

the way my stomach DROPPED when I saw “immigration enforcement in schools” on our upcoming staff meeting agenda.

this is the Bad Place.

[passengerpigeons]

Newfoundland trip in fall fell thru (this happened a while ago but i wasn't gonna post thru it) I wonder what I could do instead. I do not make the money to go outside of like north america. maybe like lake superior again. but like WI/MN and possibly even ON area Lake Superior.....

[deepsixsquid]

Me: Hmm, I'm definitely gettin better, but I feel like I need another step, I should go back to X rank and try to push things

X rank: Teams that are hellbent against cooperations, too busy arguing over who's leading, always gotta have one, or two, people screamin "This Way!" at every given opportunity, even when nothing is happening, overly punishing loses, minimal gains, forever stuck in the lower levels, etc. :3

Me: [Stares into the camera for an uncomfortable amount of time] Welp, by golly

[providencehq]

YOU WRANGLE COWS????? do tell me more

Sometimes but always unofficially! It's part of my job only so I can to certain sites and get data/measurements/etc. Cattle get into areas of certain allotments or fenced regions (usually a spring) and you have to round them up and them out to do whatever it is you need to do. It's all on foot since that the only way our crew can do it, no horses or roping if that's what you're thinking (I'm shit at roping and even worse at on horseback.) Wrangling is sorta a catch all term for getting up and moving cattle along.

The only reason I do it often is because it's the only way to get to certain sites I need to be able to do my job. I'm something along the lines of an ecosystem/habitat health monitoring tech along with a bunch of other duties. We just mess with cattle to get them to move out of the way so we actively get our data and be out of there. Also because I am an ecologist/scientist through and through and I don't talk about my work except on instagram, have some photos of my boring field sites aka no identifiable landmarks to get an idea where I work at. I

[butmakeitgayblog]

This is so random but I got curious and wanted to see if Alycia grew up near where I live so i googled it and she went to highscool in newtown. which is like so funny because if anyone else lives in Sydney they would jnow we all call it like the gayest place in sydney 😭. like its got a reputation for people dressing really cool there and a lot of thrift stops and gay people in general. Its got no relation to anything its just funny she grew up in a place surrounded by gays and now her whole fanbase consists of thirsty sapphics theres no escaping us 😭.

Well wasn't her HS a performing arts high school as well? Performing arts, always filled with us

types

[virtue-boy]

also literally stated in the excerpt:

"A sociologist studying gender in veterinary schools, Dr. Anne Lincoln says that in an attempt to describe this drastic drop in male enrollment, many keep pointing to financial reasons like the debt-to-income ratio or the high cost of schooling. But Lincoln’s research found that “men and women are equally affected by tuition and salaries.”

Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping? (Celeste Davis, Oct 6 2024)

"White flight is a term that describes how white people move out of neighborhoods when more people of color move in.

White flight is especially common when minority populations become the majority. That neighborhood then declines in value.

Male flight describes a similar phenomenon when large numbers of females enter a profession, group, hobby or industry—the men leave. That industry is then devalued.

Take veterinary school for example:

In 1969 almost all veterinary students were male at 89%.

By 1987, male enrollment was equal to female at 50%.

By 2009, male enrollment in veterinary schools had plummeted to 22.4%

A sociologist studying gender in veterinary schools, Dr. Anne Lincoln says that in an attempt to describe this drastic drop in male enrollment, many keep pointing to financial reasons like the debt-to-income ratio or the high cost of schooling.

But Lincoln’s research found that “men and women are equally affected by tuition and salaries.”

Her research shows that the reason fewer men are enrolling in veterinary school boils down to one factor: the number of women in the classroom.

For every 1% increase in the proportion of women in the student body, 1.7 fewer men applied.

One more woman applying was a greater deterrent than $1000 in extra tuition! (…)

Since males had dominated these professions for centuries, you would think they would leave slowly, hesitantly or maybe linger at 40%, 35%, 30%, but that’s not what happens.

Once the tipping point reaches majority female- the men flee. And boy do they flee!

It’s a slippery slope. When the number of women hits 60% the men who are there make a swift exit and other men stop joining.

Morty Schapiro, economist and former president of Northwestern University has noticed this trend when studying college enrollment numbers across universities:

“There’s a cliff you fall off once you become 60/40 female/male. It then becomes exponentially more difficult to recruit men.”

Now we’ve reached that 60% point of no return for colleges.

As we’ve seen with teachers, nurses and interior design, once an institution is majority female, the public perception of its value plummets.

Scanning through Reddit and Quora threads, many men seem to be in agreement - college is stupid and unnecessary.

A waste of time and money. You’re much better off going into the trades, a tech boot camp or becoming an entrepreneur. No need for college. (…)

When mostly men went to college? Prestigious. Aspirational. Important.

Now that mostly women go to college? Unnecessary. De-valued. A bad choice. (…)

School is now feminine. College is feminine. And rule #1 if you want to safely navigate this world as a man? Avoid the feminine.

But we don’t seem to want to talk about that."

[digitalartstrategy]

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[backpackingspace]

Me: ah yes I am going to be responsible (tm) and start reading/studying reference books for work now so that come March I am not scrambling.

Me: who is not a fucking scientist

Me: with untreated adhd

My dissociating ass with possibly fucking actually brain damage that specifically impacts my ability to remember/learn things

Me: reads two pages of a reference book: great i have negative idea what any of that meant or how to summerize that to my guests in a way that is both understandable and entertaining why do I fucking bother

[zedtreeosposts]

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[worldcitiesday]

About the number of people choosing to leave the capital cities.

The number of people choosing to leave the capital cities in Australia and relocate to larger regional centres hit a 12-month high in the first quarter of the year and currently sits at 20% above the pre-Coved average, driven by millennials frustrated with ‘big city problems’ and high house prices.

The Sunshine Coast topped the list for the fifth consecutive quarter, recording 11.8% of net capital to regional migration, making the region country’s most favoure direction for the relocation, according to the Regional Movers Index (RMI) which is a partnership between Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) and the Regional Australia Institute (RAI).

The number of people choosing to leave the capital cities in Australia and relocate to larger regional centres hit a...

Outflow of people from capital cities hits record high.

[partyinsidethetardis]

hi! random question i hope you don’t mind, I saw your tag in that iwtv post and was wondering if you’re talking about the dvd/bluray? i’m european as well and was about to order the dvds, but if i can’t watch them..💀

Hiii yes ofc

i ordered it off Amazon US, so they’re region locked to that region, and since my bluray player is european i can’t play the cds💔💔💔 I’d forgotten that i ordered s1 from Amazon UK, and apparently that is the correct region for me (don’t know if it’s the same for the whole of europe or just northern europe)

i just ordered s2 from Amazon UK instead so hopefully (probably) it’s going to work when I get them🤞🏻🤞🏻