ApollosArrow @ ApollosArrow @lemmy.world

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Really hope this is fully televised.

I agree. We first need to get the broader communities with activity before they can branch out. If things are too spread out, it will limit growth

I loved the original idea. You’d join with a college email and you got to find other people at your school. Once they opened the flood gates it was never the same.

The 3D was what really threw me off. I was a day one backer and was loving all the artwork. Once the 3D hit, it kind of soured me on the project. I still ended up backing it, but I never finished the game.

iPhone SE - 2.14.0 - looks sharp everywhere to me.

More common than you think unfortunately. The internet has given anyone the option to find their mental echo chamber.

My parents are hispanic immigrants (both citizens) who voted for trump, are republicans and also hate immigrants. They believe all the Obama drinks children blood stuff, are antivaxers, and since my older sister is with them, she is now also an antivaxer so her children have zero shots of any kind. (Good luck to them in the future if they want to travel)

One of them believes aliens speak to them. I’ve seen a group in my family go to cult like events where they all dress in the same white uniforms and talk about the universe.

This next year is going to be both entertaining and terrifying all at once. Probably a lot of democrats sitting with popcorn.

Man, this sounds like it would be from the onion. He’s undoing himself.

I skipped a week on politics and I am confused. Something like this feels like it would be the opposite of what Trump wants. Aren’t they bffs?

Yeah, I’d love to see an additional line with user count as well

Is it just being replaced by other equally bad habits? I just found out that disposable vape pens are a thing. Those have plastics and electronics inside. I have no idea what the numbers there are.

While I like the idea of connecting his wings to norse mythology, I don’t think we need that Captain back. He’s saved the world various times. We can let him rest (And I’m sure he had other adventures in the other timeline he lived in). There are plenty of other versions that can come along.

Yeah they are really helpful at night when it’s dark. Mine is just set to a solid amber color.

I have some older 30in screen TVs floating around still and they feel very bulky compared to my modern day TVs. I can’t imagine how large this thing is in person.

This was a great watch. I figured some people in this community would find this interesting since it was used to play nintendo games.

This was an amazing watch. I’m going to crosspost to a few places to get more eyes.

That could be a really interesting solution.

The reason I posted this was because I have been on .world and didn’t realize it’s run by people in Europe (wasn’t a thing I assumed I would need to know). Different countries will enforce different rules on their instances. The whole removing comments about jury nullification threw me off. I want to start building up some communities, but I’d rather at least my account be centered around an instance I can trust.

It would likely be manually curated by an individual asking the people that run the instances. It would hopefully not be interpreted.

Because THOSE schools are expensive.

- IN STATE VS OUT OF STATE -

I went to a SUNY (State university) about 18 yrs ago and it was $3,000/semester. Today it’s $3,500/semester, so it didn’t go up by much. I stayed in state so it was lower for me. If you are not from the state it was $10,000/ semester (still on the lower end). Compare that to other people in other schools taking the same major as me. It was about 20,000/ semester for in state. We all ended up at the same jobs, I just didn’t carry the debt.

For the US, staying in state helps a lot. Unfortunately I think the grand idea of moving away and dorming is pushed onto kids by the media. Another comparison, my wife, who also went to school in the same state as me, went to at a CUNY (City University) and it was $1,800/semester. It was a pretty great school and campus, but not a school you’d see in the movies or tv shows. We both chose to stay within our means and not put a burden on ourselves or our families. Today we are very successful with no debt.

- SCHOOLS AS BRAND -

One more thing that drives price, is that schools are also brands now, and you are paying for that. There is peer pressure to get into schools with better awareness. Same reason a kid would rather wear apparel from nike vs walmart. My niece just started college this year and was brainwashed into picking a school she couldn’t afford. They took out a loan and the school end up being horrible for her. She dropped out during the last semester and I was told all the money spent this year was a wash. She’s now going to end up going to the school her family originally recommended to her. There are plenty of schools in the states that are good and wont cost an arm and a leg.

- CLASS FLUFF -

For the sake of keeping kids in school they pack in so many additional unneeded electives. I think I had to take 11 within my first 2yrs and each of my classes was 3hrs long. Some days I would have 9hrs of class. That is not including the down time in between those clases, so I could be there around 11-12hrs on a single day. If you want to keep a part time job to help pay for college, then that may mean you have to take additional winter and summer classes. In a lot of places this isn’t covered during the regular months so you have to pay for more. This fluff is one of the ways they keep bachelors and masters programs to run for as long as they do and at the prices they do. Some of these schools do run expedited programs where if you have previous electives that transfer over, you can do your degree in half of the time.