The Way of Kings (Stormlight Archive) - Brandon Sanderson
When I first bought it, I got through about 3 chapters and then shelved it. A couple of years later I was looking for something to read, I saw this book being praised and remembered I had a copy. I ended up getting hooked and sucked into the cosmere.
You need the right conditions to build shitty housing.
Too wet? Can’t build. Too cold? Can’t build. Too hot? Can’t build. Clear blue sky, with temperatures around 19c with a nice cool breeze? Well you can’t build on a day like that, you have to enjoy the weather down the pub.
I remember when I was in college and they specifically took us to another campus, they were talking to us about university. It was basically sold to us as if “it’s practically a free loan, you’d be silly not to get it.”
We were all around the age of 17/18. If a bank or any other service had done that to us there would have probably been massive repercussions, maybe there would have been something brought up about us being miss-sold a product.
Looking back I feel it was very predatory given we were so young and essentially in a vulnerable state while trying to decide our futures.
Congratulations 🎉
I look forward to my student loan getting written off (plan 1), there’s no chance of me paying it all off, especially given the interest is almost the same as my monthly payments…
I’m so glad I’m not the only one that upvotes people being down voted for their opinion - provided it isn’t hurtful to others. I don’t want to find myself in an echo chamber, so I feel it’s important for other opinions to be thrown into the ring.
I know it’s not what you asked for, but I highly recommend PC Part Picker. Whenever I build a new PC I find it really useful for seeing other builds, as well as it doing the hard work of finding prices for me and checking compatibility between components.
I use Boost for Lemmy (paid) as that is what I used to use on Reddit, but I’ve been seeing the odd message recently of people saying it has been abandoned as there have been no updates. It still functions perfectly fine for me.
This was my first time watching The Traitors and I enjoyed it all the way except the final.
I’m disappointed Leanne won, but pleased Jake won. Alexander didn’t deserve to be banished, the poor guy was dealt a bad hand the whole way through.
Leanne was far too aggressive in her defense that no one dared to judge her except Alexander.
Charlotte got what she deserved after immediately double crossing Minah. I was team Minah all the way through, you could tell she was just having fun but she made a huge mistake trusting in sisterhood with Charlotte.
I feel like they need to have measures in place to have the faithfuls work together more, at the end it feels like it’s in the faithfuls best interest to whittle the numbers down the smallest possible for they get more money in a split.
Maybe they slap a festive Xmas hat on it? Can’t say I’ve ever got one
How about capping the amount they can earn above their lowest paid employee? For them to rise they have to take everyone with them
Unless they can evidence you are watching live TV or BBC iPlayer you still don’t require a TV licence!
The best thing to do is just go to the website they give you and fill out the form to say you don’t watch broadcasts and they leave you alone for a couple of years.
When the API changes came in on Reddit it appeared to cause quite a few people to shift to Lemmy, but not that many. I’ve said this before in other posts but the onboarding experience for Lemmy is awful for your average joe. From what I’ve read it was the same situation for Mastodon and that is why Bluesky took off instead.
There needs to be a clear concise point of entry for new users to the Fediverse that empowers users to quickly customise what they want to see. Most people don’t care about how the Fediverse works and its benefits, they just want to consume content.
If I were technically capable and had the drive to do so I’d create a single onboarding site that would ask the user a few preference defining questions, chuck them on an instance that is relevant and apply some filters so they don’t get spammed with anime posts if that isn’t their thing. Oh and maybe show a couple of mobile apps.
Safety razor is the way to go! Take it slow and let the weight of the safety razor do the work. It’s so much cheaper than the multi blade razors too!
Software development. I’m still not very good, but I’m better than I was at the start of the year.
Ah my bad. I thought the song was written by Brandon Flowers after catching his girlfriend cheating on him in a bar in his hometown of Las Vegas.
https://www.radiox.co.uk/artists/the-killers/what-is-the-killers-song-mr-brightside-about/
During lockdown in April 2020, the frontman looked back at the video and noted: “It’s just a song about betrayal. I was betrayed and I was able to turn it into a masterpiece”.
Mr Brightside by the Killers. The tune was good and felt energetic when it came about, but it’s about a guy being cheated on. Having had someone cheat on me around the time it came out it hit really close to home and I just don’t enjoy listening to the song.
The problem with being in the UK is that it’s so overplayed and I just have to tune it out.
I’m truly impressed by the photographer not being in the photos.
Once upon a time someone gave me some chocolate that was tainted with Marmite. Whoever invented that wanted the world to burn.