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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_(given_name)

It was Neopets for me.

Even in STEM. Who gets the Blue Origin job, the person with a 4.0 and zero references, or the person with a 3.5 that partied with Bezos in college?

Yeah, if we were putting billionaires against the wall, GabeN would probably be near the end of the line.

It depends on the quality of the coffee for me. I usually buy the cheapest coffee, brew it strong, then mix roughly 2c of coffee with 1/4c of milk, 2 teaspoons sugar, a bit of salt to cut the bitter, and call it breakfast. Tea isn't as filling, and energy drinks are expensive, so I'm here to desecrate coffee instead.

Honestly, this is why I'm always peeved when I hear parents telling their kids that school isn't a social club. I followed that advice, only to find out that the real world cares more about networking than test scores. Whoops.

Yessss, I came to the comments to see if somebody else posted it.

CONSUME

Beavers are also fish.

Feels good to be on an instance with Anubis

I grew up in red state poverty, moved to the west coast, and people up here genuinely do not understand what it's like to live somewhere that sees travel as a bougie thing. I talk about how my parents couldn't afford to send me with my class on the senior trip to europe, the first question that gets asked is why I couldn't get a job and save up, not understanding I was childcare and housekeeping for my family while the adults worked. It's not just coming up with the travel costs, it's also coming up with the money to hire out replacements for the services I provided for free.

I'm privileged I could test high enough to get into a school that had a senior trip to europe, the public school barely got normal field trips. It's not hard to understand why the person in OP would assume exchange students have access to a higher quality of life than them, they can clearly already afford to travel.

God bless the grass that grows through the crack, they roll the concrete over it and try to keep it back. The concrete gets tired of what it has to do, it breaks and it buckles, and the grass grows through.

-Malvina Reynolds

And saying that they get a $250 bonus in front of your mom is lowkey asking if she could make a better offer. My family is mixed race, and cops are absolutely corrupt as hell.

Every space wizard needs a magic wand!

I've only played Witcher 3, and I thought it was obvious that it's Ciri's story being told from the perspective of the supporting cast, and that is an incredibly cool literary device.

Do you have unprompted creativity in other areas?

Like, I struggle with traditional writing, but I make miniature dioramas. It's occasionally unprompted; I recently bought frozen shrimp and thought the lid was sorta window-shaped, so now I'm making it into a window seat for a 1:12 scale treehouse library diorama. I wasn't planning the diorama first, the whole scene came to mind unbidden, and now I'm making it.

I feel like it's the same thing as what you're describing, but I don't know if you see it as different or not.

It was this:

Someone seeing a banal object, devoid of story and history and just merely existing, and then succumbing to emotions over loose connections to human characteristics is what I don’t relate to.

Seeing creativity as "succumbing to emotions" sounds like you think its a bad thing that your parents told you not to do.

Yeah, I don't like the Dems, but I like the idea of a single party Republican state even less.

Its sort of sounding like somebody got irritated with your creative process when you were a kid, and now you're trying to reconcile that with other people being allowed to emote and create "for no reason".

I've been sleeping as 20 since I got chickenpox as a kid. The itchiness was completely unbearable, and I never liked how much pajamas bunch up when I toss and turn anyways. Now I only wear them on the rare night that it drops below freezing.