You don’t need to know all of logic to be a math major! It’s only one of the many paths one can take when studying math. I went for “creating pretty pictures” and ended up in numerical analysis, a branch of math concerned with creating algorithms to compute the solutions to a wide range of problems, often application driven such as air flow, temperature, biological systems and so forth!

During the last evening of a short campaign, my character got unreasonably upset about their pet being killed and as a level 3 ranger climbed on top of an undead dragon and started stabbing it. Rolled an absurd sequence of nat 20 to make it happen, but all luck has to run out, and rolled a 2 at some point. The dragon yeeted me to the skies and I flew away, smashed against a tree, with just the time to yell to my party “I regret nothiii”-SPLAT.

I loved that short lived character, loved the death he encountered!

I might come across as abrasive myself in this comment, you are free to completely discard anything I write.

You were fired after only 8 weeks from a position as ER nurse. Aren’t ER nurses quite difficult to find? 8 weeks is a pretty short time. So the managers considered, after such a short time, that it was better to loose you than to keep you. That having you in their team was a negative. And they didn’t warn you, so they thought that either you would not heed the warning or that your behavior was too serious a liability for them that they would skip the warning all together.

Considering this, I would encourage you to find their point of view on the matter. Even if it seems to you that everything was good, did you overlook communication? Did you act as a lone wolf in a team? Did you overlook to show off your own contributions? Each one could have significant ramifications.

The examples you give are quite extreme, did you communicate about them correctly or could you communication look like pointing fingers? Did you follow up on them in the way that is usually used in the team? Did you make an enemy of a key player?

I know work politics can be exhausting. In this direction, I don’t have advice other than learning from every experience.

There is a full couple of years in media history, roughly corresponding to the decade after 9/11 where so many shows and films show the successes of torture… I was disgusted then, I’m disgusted now.

Weirdly, at least for breast cancer, it seems now that early stage cancer is more prevalent than full blown cancer. (Number of early detection has increased over the last years but the number of late detections has been stagnant)

This bring to two possible conclusions:

• there is a natural way to recover from early stage breast cancer (and not from late stage) or at least stay at that stage for ever

• early screening is a bad idea because it brings patients to undergo treatment while the might have healed on their own

Unfortunately, we still have no idea how to distinguish people that benefit from early detection from people that don’t.

That’s a more precise take: out to please the people that they can exploit

Side thought: “obviously” narcissists are more socially acceptable, their whole playbook is built around pleasing people. “Obviously” autism is less socially acceptable, they say things directly and clearly, without any sugar coating. That’s not how you gain popularity.

Sorry it sucks…

Reference please?

They check if you can afford it “right now”, but the situation could change: a kid, an emergency, inflation, loosing your job, inflation… have i talked about inflation? Or the loan rates could change too

That assumes your means are constant and your spending isn’t, but this situation is the opposite: long term spending items (mortgage, car debt, significant inflation…) and means that dropped by losing jobs or pay raises that do not match inflation.

It seems to me that a lot of US people use credit cards to smoothen over larger purchases, so if you buy say a guitar for your hobby it doesn’t come all for this month’s budget but you plan to pay it off over multiple months. Often, credit card companies also encourage this behavior, giving short term low interest loans. But the overall market in the US is way more volatile than in Europe, so in the months you are paying off (your guitar, that fancy holiday, the tickets to a show…) you could lose your job, or the interests on your house mortgage could change significantly. And you are screwed.

Overall, Europeans tend to dislike credit unless it’s in the format of a mortgage, while it is a much more widespread form of payment in the US (and many other places). So, to most of your questions the answer is: most people have some credit card debt at all times.

I’m okay breaking the rules if that’s how the language is usually spoken, but It’s still interested in learning the rule

Both your experiences sound similar to my partner and I: they are neurospicy, I am extrovert. We found what works for us: they decide date and plan, I invite people and coordinate. They plan the menu and are in charge of cooking, that gives them the excuse to “go to the kitchen” for as long as they need at any point and, as already said, a structure to interact with people.

Popcorns don’t need an air popper: a pot with a lid and some oil+salt.

Warning: you need to keep the pot at a high temperature for quite a while, so avoid using non-stick pans because they are going to die quickly.

Frozen spinaches haven’t gotten a lot of attention in this thread yet!

Depends on how poor is poor and the cooking budget, but they stay good for a long time and you can add a bit to basically any dish: omelette, rice and beans, tomato pasta. Tasty, simple and flexible

An Italian home cooking staple is pasta with butter and sage. Just melt the butter with the sage and gently fry while boiling the pasta

I moved recently and the overall lack of ethnic stores is driving me up the walls! They are usually both cheaper and better quality than anything you find at the supermarket… I guess I moved to white-as-butter-land :/

Thanks for sharing your story. I’m glad is going better now, and wish you luck for the next pay bump too! (God, what a horrible system, having to bet on joining the military… sorry you had to go through that)

Or, sometimes, their are that weird brand of «  great at teaching but totally forgot this is not a graduate class »… there are quite some proofs like this in my uni now, and convincing them, every semester, that asking for active research results in a 1h30’ test during the fourth semester is NOT reasonable is a pain every time.

On the positive note, all their students are great at the subject matter and significantly more advanced than expected… if they didn’t give up completely

Not only for any number of fucks there is a corresponding complex number, but the basic operations (+, -, x, /) work in the same way for fucks and complex numbers

Overall, if two things are isomorphic you can consider them «  the same »