#budgeting helps only so much

[scrawlingwithstyle]

So for my Personal Finance class, we had to figure out if "Pokémon Trainer" is a viable career option (using someone else's research, thank god), and it turns out that you'd be working at a 76% deficit.

Meaning unless Ash has a ton of money squirreled away at the beginning of his journey, by the time he makes it to the Indigo League Championships, he's already 1,174,550 Pokémon dollars (about $4578.43 USD) in debt.

So it's not really a career, and more like a rich kid's hobby, since you'd need about 1,500,000 Pokémon dollars (at minimum) to make it through 15 months of training, and you only earn about 325,450 if you win literally every battle you enter.

[street-corner-felines]

Zero Day (2002)

[honestlyvan]

Let me be absolutely clear -- the problems with Tumblr will keep getting worse if the disabled minority and the trans people and the people frothing at the mouth at the opportunity to yell at a transphobe, keep @’ing staff and the developers on this site, tell them to kys, because in the meanwhile the transphobes and racists and white supremacists will keep using the actual tools Tumblr provides for blocking and reporting, further poisoning the datasets used for moderation, and encouraging the idea that using the official tools does nothing to basically ensure the only statistically meaningful data available to Automattic is poisoned, poisoned all the way down, poisoned beyond usability.

Hatespeech and bias needs to be reported for it to be considered statstically significant to act on from a developer point of view. Suicide baiting and spamming any of the official means of communication will get you eliminated as a spammer, even if you’re peppering legitimate criticism within your ventpost about how you hate the new thing. You are playing the TE/RFs game.

[mironovs]

i hate how entitled I end up feeling bc this is my sentiment but . Really really resenting that my parents aren’t going to help me with school or rent or anything while they super can

[sskk-manifesto]

Ep 5!!!

[bunnyb34r]

Well five hours, two breakdowns, and two phone calls later, I have insurance!! :D

I was having a breakdown bc I tried to apply on the marketplace and they were like no you're too poor, you can't afford it. You get Medicaid.

I don't WANT Medicaid bc none of my drs take it, I would be paying more out of pocket with them than if I paid for my own, and it's only taken at shit places in my experience.

So finally mom figured out where you can buy it and the lady was like sure how much can you budget monthly? And I got a pretty good plan I think idk it's Molina, and the lady said I can get reduced payments if I call her again during the first two months. And I'm covered starting july 1st 🥳 yayyy

Oh and the coverage seems really good for the price (and compared to medicaid) like everything is pretty much covered thank god for less than I'm paying now for copays 😭

[evrytingbagel]

yes im mentally ill yes i have an IS obsession. and what about it!!

[darchildre]

In non-fishpeople-related Lovecraft news, I also reread "Cool Air" and "The Music of Erich Zann" today. Here is the moral of both of those stories:

If you are in a group-living situation (like a boarding house or an apartment building) and one of your fellow lodgers is kinda weird but not hurting anybody, maybe that's actually none of your business. Maybe you should simply leave them alone.

[mantisgodsdomain]

We are just now realizing that still being on the short list of kitten fosterers means that we're going to be having to handle weaning five 3-4 week old kittens that need to be fed every few hours while also having university four to six hours a day and honestly, that's not going to be very fun. We'd say "maybe we should have taken on less art challenges this year" but honestly we've been having a great time with the art challenges it's just the 4-6 hours of school that's been rapidly eroding our soul

[eerna]

it’s so fucking wild how the writers are essentially asking fans to do that mindless streaming bullshit music stans do so they can keep their jobs like JDJFJFFKF???? 😭

RIGHT???? This is peak consumerism hell. Nothing matters except numbers nothing at all

[what-even-is-sleep]

Trying to get ahead of an unsustainability cycle that might be starting up this week,,, (I start work).

[amatres]

to keep from ever having to design shoes, im going to just headcanon that layla keeps losing her shoes no matter where she is

[patrice-bergerons]

My sister's long time boyfriend broke up with her over text (because he is 25 and has to figure out his life apparently) and it's very frustrating because she is heartbroken and even though we are both in Europe I don't have a valid schengen visa, she doesn't have a UK visa and so we can't visit each other.

But! We are as a result fulfilling our long time jokey plan of going to Istanbul telling absolutely no one and staying at a hotel next week which will be something.

[sskk-manifesto]

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[ligbi]

is anyone else in a field that feels like climbing up a falling ladder?

went to school for MIS (computer science but less programming more business) graduated 14. First job 15-18, another 19-20, and then 21-23. every time I job hunt I see positions that I had seen before but the amount they offer seems so much lower than they had offered? sysadmin seems like a position I could have sword was averaging 120k/year in 18, and now I'm seeing a listing for not even 60k.

I know every job is working their employees to the bone for as little as they can get away with while the world burns down but god you do everything right- go to school, go local to keep loans low, get a degree in something that can pay you instead of something you like- and you still get screwed

we need universal healthcare, ubi, and a fix to the housing crisis, as well as making all jobs 30hours 1.5x for any hours post that, and capping maximum pay (15x the lowest paid employee's salary is extremely generous. 30k for employees? You still get almost half a mil a year you greedy fucks)

[hugesword]

ok so. i actually want to talk about this a bit. yes it’s incredibly frustrating and as someone who would NOT be considered skinny it bothers me too. but a large part of the issue that prevents these things in games is that drastically altering the physical model has repercussions in other areas, such as how each individual piece of armor in the game would fit your character. things like horns, tails, eye and skin color (and yes, even genitals) have absolutely no effect on how armor fits on your characters body. drastic changes in body shape would also potentially cause problems for all of the animations for your character.

this is NOT to say that fatphobia isn’t a factor, of course it is. it always is. it’s more of an explanation of why this is so incredibly common in gaming when other customization options are so broad. in a game like BG3 the problem is multiplied exponentially, because each RACE also has different body types that already have to be accounted for on the hundreds of different pieces of armor in the game. the workload would simply be monumental.

and before anyone gets up in arms about modders being able to do it, a modder does not have to create literally every single aspect of the game. they can pick the one piece they were disappointed was missing and polish it to perfection, because they don’t have to work on every OTHER element that makes a game complete and functional.

Baldur's Gate 3 is a game where you can have purple eyes, horns, a tail, and fully animated genitals BUT you can't be fat