Have my arms wrapped up with saran wrap and masking tape. Trying the baking soda + vinegar paste scrub method; seems to generally have good reception. I had no idea poison ivy could get this bad. It must have been when I was crawling up that steep surface, or possibly from the thorns of some of the plants I kept tearing through.
If you've never had it before and weren't aware, as I was, let this be a valuable mistake to learn from. Treat it as soon as possible, carry treatment with you if you may be exposed (camping, hiking, regional/national park). This is so bad. :' [
Been wanting to ask this but I thought it might be insensitive. Srs tho, what's the haps?
She found a rich Black cowboy to take care of her. Not joking, he took a liking to her at her job (waitress, IIRC) and she moved in with him. He seems like a great guy that's compatible with her, cool with her drug use, nice towards and seems to genuinely care about her son and dog, treats her like a queen.
I replied with this analysis:
Hopefully it works out well and he does turn out to be a good guy.
Honestly, if you were a black man, particularly in the south, think of how bad most black women in your area, that you grew up with (unless he had wealthy parents as well and grew up in the suburbs or something), would seem to you. At the same time, it is going to be much harder to get a white woman, at least a good one, one on your level that you would probably have no problem attracting if you were the same race.
Biological reality is an ugly thing. Another aspect related to that is that you have a man to bail you out, and it is much easier for women in general. Statistics back it up and what I mean is that the male distribution curve is more extreme. Of course there are more men at the top, but there are also many more men at the very bottom of society, with less support/help available to them, and who experience the worst events.
Honestly, well, I try not think about the ugliness of life anymore.
Most the UCs are on the quarter system actually, Cal being the notable exception. Ususally doesn't make a difference since they tend to turn bigger courses into stretch courses (a class where you get a combined grade for two quarters/semester)
I did not know that. I thought they generally only had a summer semester with some accelerated/compacted courses.
CLEP should be abused to its fullest but an AA doesn't matter for shit so I'd say just grab all the credit-by-test that you can and enroll directly. Depending on what major you were interested in the first 2 years may not be as easy as you're thinking. For STEM degrees all the calc gets loaded onto those first two years and I don't think that'll be something you can blaze through, especially if you don't have strong foundational skills (I think you mentioned doing poorly in some courses in highschool because you didn't care).
I did poorly because I purposefully did the bare minimum except when assignments interested me. My personality profile is completely wrong for formal education.
My highschool principal, a former higher up in the military, told me I was the most self-destructive person she had ever met. Some of my English teacher's loved my work. My socialist (in his own words) history teacher, a UC Berkeley graduate nearing retirement, spoke to me after reading a paper that was part of a graduation requirement and told me it was the best paper he had ever read, written at a pot-graduate level, and he realized how frustrating it must be to not have people I could relate with. I smiled, but didn't respond, which I regret. No, he was a boring guy that thought he made far more of a difference than he actually did.
But, yeah, it's probably the lack of a math background that may have really fucked me up in some ways. I don't know if hyper-systemizing strength can make up for that and cause a natural affinity. Although, I did post an excerpt from about autism spectrum disorders a while back that mentioned mathematicians had the highest average autism quotient scores.
I also read some of the paper you posted about computer science and how only a small fraction seem to be suitable/have a natural propensity for it, and that they may have found an accurate method to test for this/predict performance. It would be interesting to see how I would perform, but my impression of it is that I have no interest in it. It reminds me of something Kaczynski said in his manifesto about fulfillment, how the major advances and discoveries have largely already occurred, with people now hyper-specializing, causing a type of lack of fulfillment (not everyone's satisfied with, happy, to be a cog contributing to the function of humanity and inching it forward).
Then why rush it? You know study grinding to test out of something isn't intellectually stimulating even if the material is new (I can speak from experience).
Neither are the vast majority of classes.
Ugh, business. Are you serious? <womens/latino/black/ME>studies are probably the only worse majors out there. I don't just say that out of bitterness over their high average (although I'd be interested in median numbers) incomes, they're literally some of the stupidest people you'll meet on a college campus, It seems like the exact opposite of what you'd enjoy, even if think it'll make you into some kind of misanthropic gordon gecko type it won't, business proles don't even have the ambition to be evil,
It reminds me of something Thiel may have said, or someone similar, how he noticed that in Ivy leagues those in business school/business majors would be intelligent, as expected (averages), but there would be no remarkable people there. The film
American Psycho probably represents some aspect of this well.
Yeah, business majors tend to be a pretty poor choice in terms of earnings, actually, and no doubt the people tend to be dumb. Then again, I'm not interested in a legitimate career or other people. Like, in the classes specific to your major, computer science, did the other students generally really make that much of a difference? You love the subject, so the discussions may have been enjoyable for you, but
within the classroom environment I don't see myself having much interest in people (Never have, although I'm trying to change from being the type of person that feels others are just part of the background.). It would just be something that could be genuinely helpful and I would enjoy reading about. Ideally if you really want to learn about something you're an autodidact and learn far more on your own than you do in a classroom, but I've considered that there are benefits, I could definitely use the increase in psychological well being from being around people and some structured environment, a bit of externally induced discipline.
You really have a negative viewpoint of business majors. Most don't even go into fields that really require their degree, or at least do jobs where they actually run businesses. Forget about the managers and other types, think of them as something like code monkeys.
plus success depends on "charisma" (conning people with real brains into doing things for you
by and large they're only a moral cancer upon our society because they're the right combination of incompetent and convincing as to be able to waste astounding amounts of human resource.
Christ you're salty. Who needs a shaker, people should just ask you to rub your fingers together over their food. You don't understand economics/how the world works. I'm not saying I fully disagree with you, but your viewpoint is too far to one extreme. What if they simply fill a role that arises from the ugly reality of human nature, group/social behavior? Besides, think out side of your field, your social circle/environment and past that molds and skews your perception. Are most people that good, are they really that productive at work? How much time is generally devoted to actually working? How many are making a significant positive contribution, a difference? Although you do have a leftist mentality and are in the pinko capital of the US, probably experience some jadedness/resentment, which makes business types seem worse to you and overlook, not understand, some of the necessary function they provide. Charisma matters. Think about the fundamental value of human communication, the evolutionary roots, eons of a process leading to this remarkable complexity, how so much of the world has been built upon sounds we make with our mouths and vocal cords and symbols we created. Societal organizers fulfill a necessary function, and as someone who has proselytized the merits of central planning and the necessity, desire, to steer the idiot masses, you clearly should understand the truth of what I'm saying.
Many of the most remarkable and important people in modern history have been business people. Show some respect. The vast majority of computer programmers are simply cogs who have produced nothing remarkable and you know it. That's right, I said it. Outside of your field, try talking to someone about what you do, what you've accomplished, and see the reaction you compared to someone who runs a successful business, even if it isn't novel. To non-autists it's
boring and you know it. You may be under-appreciated and the general population may lack understanding, but even if that were remedied this would still be true.
And aren't you working in
finance and have recently, multiple times in the past in fact, talked about floating around the idea of one day starting a business or doing something related to
high frequency trading? After everything you just said, do you not see how hypocritical that is. And what about the salary you're making and your projected peak salary? Remember that time you mentioned thinking about a worker in a food service position and it leading to you questioning our economic system? I swear, fucking stempremacist techbro future neo-yuppies.
I'm not aiming for mediocrity, I want to refine a brand new field (Well, nothing new under the sun, tbh): criminal arbitrage, entrepreneurial crime, or just plain old black market business, but on the leading edge of it. The returns on investment are capable of being
massive. I intent to out earn you within the year (In terms of monthly income), and rub it in your face when it actually happens. You need to learn your place and be taught a lessen in respect, gratitude, and manners,
code monkey.
