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I'm unsure about how the word 'feminism' is getting thrown around in this article. I can call a circle a triangle all I want, but at the end of the day it's still a circle.

Oh my god it's the drama I can't handle. A notable anecdote for me was when one randomly shone a strobe light at me. I'm epileptic.

Have you thought about how people would pay for it for the writing/blogs of deceased loved ones?

The business is definitely there, a lot of art students have to turn their digital blogs and documents into physical books too for exhibitions

If you search for legal help with bad glassdoor reviews, most legal firms even advise not to go after glassdoor through the courts.

There's a lot of problems like this in the UK along the England/Wales border. Postcodes only roughly correlate to other administrative sub-divisions but this nuance gets lost in some computer systems and there are massive administrative differences across the Wales/England border, including student finance rules, access to healthcase and so on.

Sounds like you're looking for a secretary rather than a manager

Definitely looks that way in the UK - I've been watching my local housing market like a hawk because I'm looking to buy soon. Houses are staying listed a lot longer, a fair few getting reduced, and newer listings are coming in at more reasonable prices (as much as over £100k is reasonable for a 1 bed flat miles into poverty stricken suburbia).

I think people are feeling more risk adverse cost of living etc and want to hold onto money and stay put where they are.

Same to be honest. I can't imagine baiting anyone into something like this. One of the things you learn when you get more experience with the legal system is when, why, and how to avoid engaging with the legal system.

In the EU you're probably looking at the equivalent of $300 on average for a letter like this, and you're more likely to have the disposable income available to do it.

Something like this you can easily do yourself and imo wouldn't be worth the money, however getting a law firm involved in small tasks is a good way to test them with something simple to see if they're any good, and build up a working relationship with one incase you need them for something more serious or time sensitive later on. It's generally a good life skill to get comfortable working with lawyers because at some point all of us will end up in a situation where we need one, and that's really not the point at which you want to deal with that learning curve.

I think having some sort of regular wage hit my bank account over 24 months instead of 2 years of savings would have made a lot of pyschological difference. Not seeing a number go down like a timer takes the pressure off.

UK potentially

The health of the student union is a very good litmus test for the culture of the university. Anyone looking to study at university in the UK should check out the student union and try to gauge how independent it is from the institution and whether they're actually active as a union or just an extension of the university's student experience department.

Can you find out much about the history of the SU at the intitution?

The names of previous people elected into officer positions?

What sort of jobs do those people have now?

Do you get a feeling like they might have used the officer roles to maneuver into those jobs rather than to actually advocate for students? (hint: SU Officers doing their jobs properly will be in conflict with faculty staff and see the worst of the institution, and therefore are not very likely to want to hang around after graduation)

Are multiple officers taking credit for the same achievement (campaign, event, milestone)?

Is there a good spread across demographics among the officers?

Do they get training? What do they say about their training?

What's going on on their social media? Does it feel like it's being used to market the university?

Source: was an SU rep

Artists are more likely to deal with cash because a lot of the way they operate is way more similar to (or often, idenitical to) the local handyman or emergency plumber or marketstall holder than the concept of 'artist' pushed on us through the media (although that isn't necessarily a myth, just very much not the norm and a sort of absolutely minute spin-off of the whole industry).

They also do a lot of negotiating and haggling. Art as a business can get quite complicated financially even at low levels of income so we end up back at the whole thing about how at a basic level budgetting is easy if you physically have the money in front of you

This is really interesting - I wonder how much the set-up of someone's compensation package correlates with how much someone is willing to go back to the office. Mine's almost exclusively performance based and so I tend to want to work from home. The people going into work getting antsy about other people not being there are people who treat work more like a hobby or have a more basic pay structure. I actually prefer being in the office but we're in a sort of death spiral of the place having turned into a social hub and me feeling like I'm being left to babysit people at my own expense.

This is definitely a thing I've observed (marginalised groups being missed out of the photos). Why weren't they able to make it? Was it because they were only asked last minute? Is it because they keep getting cut out the loop? Some sort of passive protest? A deliberately awkward schedule?

This is really helpful thanks, you've articulated it so well it seems like it was obvious the whole time

I had this exact issue. Over time your irl social network (like your wife) cotton on that you're not in the loop and they'll contact you to tell you about things they think you're interested in. So not only is there better curation going on but you're also strengthening your bond with real people around you.

"...narp?"

Yes you're right I am confused. Do you know if there's some sort of internal market within the post office, similar to how GP surgeries run in the NHS? Or some sort of franchise system? I think that's what's thrown me a bit. I've heard individual post offices being talked about like they're 'owned' by a specific person and typically the people referred to are business types who have multiple things going on

No one you know has been sent to prison over TV licences. The TV licence people disproportionately target vulnerable people. If you're not living in a homeless shelter or leaving local authority care you're probably not going to come into contact with them.

For those of you who don't know the context here:

The Royal Mail was founded as a public service in 1516 by Charles I and was privatised in 2010.

The Post Office was founded as a public service by Charles II in 1660 and I believed privatised in 1969.

The Royal Mail are the people moving the post around, and the post office is where you go to post something if you're not going to put it in a post box, as well as do a lot of other things like renew your passport, change money into different currencies and you can even bank cash there.

ID verification will help rule out a lot of casual stalkers but it won't help with the slightly more experienced ones who know how difficult it is to prosecute. "Oh they must have stolen the tracker to frame me!" "I accidentally dropped it in their bag" and similar WILL be a case's undoing in court. If you make people register what the tag is for as part of the verification process, actually have a human check the answer on the other end when they submit their answer that it's specific enough, and periodically make them re-verify this (eg every time they cange the battery, have a pop up "are you still using the tag for xxxxx") means only the most meticulous planner can use it to stalk. At which point the tracker is realistically no more of a vector than the victim's laptop.

You can't convince the police or a judge that you dropped the tag in someone's car if you're supposed to be using it on your cat's collar for example.

How are you arriving at the .000001% statistic? What is your methodology here?

My grandad used to do this! I thought he was the only one.

My mother had a really obnoxious attitude towards the television. Probably because of this I don't have a TV at all and am always suprised by the amount of people who immediately notice when they visit my house.

What do you mean by "actual stalking report"?

ID verification is the way to go IMO. So much stalking isn't like in movies, it's just seemingly normal people seeing how far they can push things and get away with it. And potentially some way to get people to register what it's being used for, as well as a way to register it missing. That would be very useful in a stalking case to cross-reference with how a the alledged stalker claims the tracker ended up in someone's bag/car/etc and could potentially be the break through that gets the conviction

I agree, but it's also worth noting sometimes the opposite can be true and it's more helpful for some people who don't want to smoke to drop the "ex-smoker" "quit" and similar language and start saying things like "I am not smoking at the moment" instead. It takes the pressure off and makes it seem like less of an all-or-nothing thing. And also means if you do mess up and have a cigarette, you've not failed, you've just had a cigarette and now you can go back to not smoking.

Not posting this to be contrarian, just on the off chance there's anyone reading this whose trying to quit and is looking for a new angle to try. If you can't quit, don't quit. Just don't smoke. This is what finally worked for me.

There's a lot of industries and institutions that have all but gone under the last decade or so because of this. More to come too I suspect

It depends on a lot of different factors.

Locally and even regionally buses go routes trains aren't going but they get caught in traffic and are a lot slower than trains even if it's a clear run. Buses also tend to be less pleasant but cheaper. You can always force more people into a crowded train but buses get to full capacity and have to drive past people waiting for them.

Northern Ireland has a pretty effective coach system that mirrors what would be expected of a train system, but you don't usually get that sort of thing elsewhere. But then Northern Ireland (and the north of Ireland) has some insane gaps without train coverage. https://maps-ireland-ie.com/ireland-train-map

In England getting a coach is basically often what you do because you can't afford a train so they often run maybe once a day, or maybe a few times a day on some of the bigger routes. They often opperate at really odd hours and for travel to neighbouring countries coaches are better than train because they coordinate the ferry for you.

Anecdotal but I've just had a company write to me by post because they didn't recieve my last email I definitely sent them, and I'm going to have to write back to them by post.

I suppose it's like, they're not going to be able to buy TikTok are they?