#NETWORK ADVANTAGES

[phoenixyfriend]

Wrote over 1k on the train on my way in to work. Topic is trade imbalances and why they're a poor choice of dictating factor for tariffs

(Still not done tho)

As usual my goal is to explain it in a simple enough way that the average 9th grade student could at least somewhat understand it. Not ELI5 so much as ELIF: explain it like I'm a freshman.

[lgbtlunaverse]

Thinking of the Nie disciple that told Nie Mingjue it was Meng Yao who stayed behind to clean up corpses on the battlefield today.

Nie Mingjue didn't just randomly stumble upon poor lil meowyao eating bread in the novel, he was already looking for him to thank and reward him for his work.

That's what makes it so fun that nieyao's first conflict will end up being about someone else taking credit for Meng Yao's work.

And I'm sure that Nie Mingjue's actual opinions on plagiarism are a lot more nuanced, all we really get from him in this scene is "well you shouldn't kill someone over it!" which leaves a lot of room for what punishments he thinks are appropiate. But I bet that it isn't occuring to him in this moment that the only reason he knows Meng Yao at all, the only reason he got such a capable deputy, is that he noticed someone was taking care of the dead and cared enough to want to know their name. And then the Nie disciples didn't lie to him. The disciple he asked could have said "it was me, Zongzhu" to rise in the ranks himself, but he didn't. He went and asked others, who all also could have taken the credit, but they didn't. Someone saw Meng Yao working and decided to be honest about it and that simple decision is the catalyst for Meng Yao becoming Nie Mingjue's deputy.

Meng Yao can't just work hard to get results, others have to acknowledge that work. If they don't, it's as if he didn't do anything at all.

[alectoperdita]

admittedly this is "old man yells at clouds" energy, but I think it sucks that modern fandom often only conceives of community in the form of discord servers

[wakingfromthewater]

I read a human interest article that unfortunately has depressed me for days because the big turning points in the author's experience were like. Someone I knew offered me a ride cross country. I had a friend from college who was willing to be my roommate and found the apartment. In college I went to a networking thing and the person reached out and hired me. I don't want to sound like I'm discounting the fact that the author was tenacious and talented and hardworking, they definitely were. But the things that made the difference came from personal connections. And I just sat there and thought, if it was me I'm sure I'd find somewhere to live, but I'd be out the transportation money and I'd still be working in the coffee shop.

[starwarsanthropology]

i need to know more about tomo pls i love 'dog with separation anxiety' characters

Ok ok I gotta put this under a cut because hes. rotating inside my head always. Going to put a link to his whole little page i posted bc this gives you Some basic information as to his Vibes.

Tomo is a Corrie medic! He’s got a few different like. personas he puts on depending on context. I talk a lot about his Weird Little Unhingedness persona bc thats when he’s letting is all out without hesitation or shame, which is really fun, but he’s a brother first, then a medic, and then a pathetic little creature.

As a vod and a brother, he is very, very loyal and committed to his siblings. His core guiding motivation is to make things better for them, but because of how he thinks this tends to be an individual focus rather than a group focus; he’ll individually get everyone a blanket before pushing for a new project to get everyone blankets, etc. 

When he’s off duty and relaxed, he tends to be a friendly, nice guy. Will bend over backwards to help a vod, even one he doesn’t know, with minimal questions asked. Not a whole lot of respect for rules and authority; if you can’t indicate the practical reasons behind a standard or regulation, he will probably ignore it at his convenience. HOWEVER, he is also Definitely younger sibling coded and can be a bit of a shithead as a treat. Kind of a doormat and seems easy to bully but once he realizes he’s being teased or bullied he’ll go from the NOOOO!!! NOOO!!! younger sibling tears to I’m A Medic And I Can Tolerate And Shut Down So Much Bullshit on a dime. Likes people, likes to be around people in general, will worry and fret and scold if you’re being a bit reckless but also the biggest enabler in all of the med corps tbh. Believes in happiness and autonomy as a primary element of wellbeing and this drives a lot of that enabling; is the most likely corrie medic to go out of the way to let u keep a scar you want even if it makes his job fixing underlying structures more difficult.

He’s actually quite good at being professional when hes Being A Medic, and honestly can be a little ruthless, in terms of not hesitating to make calls (because that’s how you get people killed). His specialization is in orthopedic and reconstructive/plastic surgery, which in practice means he’s NOT out of medical much when on shift; if he’s called onto site, things are really bad. On a good day he has no emergency cases, but most of his emergencies are cases where there needs to be immediate and dramatic surgical intervention to prevent fatality. Amputations, skin grafts, major muscular trauma, broken bones; he sees a lot of really nasty shit, in his emergency capacity. In a non-emergency capacity, he still sees a lot of unpleasant and upsetting things, because he’s, yknow. reconstructing things and overseeing recovery from skeletal trauma, but it’s much much safer and less stressful. As a result of all this, he has a really strong stomach and a skewed sense of when gore, blood, or guts gets upsetting.

Also in his capacity as a medic, but off-regulation, Tomo provides a lot of suppourt to trans vode with gender-affirming care! He’ll do just about anything that’s not hazardous; he refers for tracheal shaves and bottom surgeries that require significant specialization or more advanced/specialized equipment than he has. But fillers, FFS, top surgery, horomone access? He’s gotchu.

Also; he knows he's cute. He knows people see him kind of as a pathetic little creature. He ABSOLUTELY weaponizes the shit out of this as a medic. he can cry on command because he learned the magical efficiency of just BURSTING into tears on someone avoiding the medbay. If you aren't guilted/made uncomfortable enough to comply he'll just get someone to drug you and haul you off lol

He’s a really affectionate, friendly, and easygoing guy overall, but the part of him that i talk about most often is his Little Freak setting. This is a manifestation of extreme seperation anxiety. He’s good at respecting verbal boundaries but is a Stage 5 Clinger. He will follow you into the bathroom if ur having a conversation and not notice until ur like excuse me that its weird. He’s really scared of loosing people, either to death or just to the vast distances of the galaxy, so he really really wants to be like. tangibly tied to people. This is where his cannibalism schtick comes from like he cannot imagine a closer intimacy than the physical substance of one’s self being intergrated into the other through consumption…. carry him with you forever and vice versa….. woah…..

@mamuzzy also pulled a GALAXY BRAIN take putting him w Mereel in that one art. Rotted my brain hard for them as a cringefail couple where their respective toxic traits slide off each other like water off a duck. I have a Lot of meta for that im not going to elaborate on too much beyond tomos tendancy towards clinginess being satisfied by mereel pinging him when he’s away, mereel being unbothered and indulgent of his weirdness, and tomo being game enough to help mereel that mereels habit of social engineering and manipulation to get what he wants doesnt have a chance to get toxic bc tomo is already willing give mereel whatever he wants with the ironclad exception of endangering his patients, which he is too stubborn and protective to be manipulated directly about anyway.

I decided that they met bc mereel needed to change his apperance for smth, hooked up w tomo (convenient emotionally vulnerable mark! yippee!) to gain access to medical supplies, was asking about a kind of filler (intended use for joint injuries but off-label use as a filler) to figure out if he can self-administer it and Tomo was immediately like oh i can administer it if you want to try! It’s easy to dissolve if you don’t like it! Mereel agreed, Tomo put in the temporary fillers, and they both walked away from the encounter satisfied and with each other’s contact information in their pocket.

It is very important to note that while Tomo IMMEDIATELY recognized Mereel was interested in the filler’s capacity to change facial structure and apperance, he did not realize Mereel wanted apperance-altering interventions for a mission until months later when someone pointed out he is a black ops specialist and got together with Tomo to use his skills n specializations.  He had fully been working on the assumption that Mereel had just been interested in gender exploration even after they had an established pattern of Tomo administering temporary cosmetic procedures for Mereel’s missions

ANYWAY thank u I love him he is so deeply strange. just an odd little dude.

[pikslasrce]

im going to do it for real this time (drop out and get a job)

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[technicontrastron]

Meta depeered the big pink T because german courts ruled they actually have to pay their contractual fees for access to Telekom's network. I'm actually with Telekom on this one.

Data volume transported in the internet is getting larger and larger and the ISPs pipes have to build more and bigger pipes to transport all that data. As long as Meta pays nothing the costs for this expansion has to be solely covered by the end user's internet bills, or cross subsidized (which means it will be underfinanced). And Meta's business case is partly at fault for this - "but the user requested the data by opening the app" sure but they're also building addictive algorithms to keep them opening the app and shifting the focus to content requiring more network resources like image and video.

But Meta wants to peer for free, because "good access to Meta's network is a competitive advantage". And they correctly assumed that "tech savvy" end users in 2024 germany will foam at the mouth and side with FAANGs over their own interests (not that Telekom is not a big corporation but you know what i mean) and put 100% of the blame on an ISP for "charging twice for the same packet".

[quenthel]

do ppl really have "university graduate" in their tumblr bios?? like uhm hello... is that a flex? is this linkedin?? kind of a weird place to showcase that but ok

[mayasdeluca]

Why are people mad at sneak peaks lmao

They have existed forever? They do it for all series and mostly when it's not the main plot. Also you can just...ignore and wait?

Okay? Just because they've existed forever doesn't mean they aren't annoying to some people? Especially when they choose to do it just hours before an episode airs. What is the point of that? Other shows will at least release sneak peaks a few days before the show to get you excited for an episode coming up. That makes sense. What doesn't make sense is releasing an entire scene of an episode that we're going to see in a few hours.

And yeah, people can ignore it and wait but then they also have to avoid all social media platforms for that time period because all the people who feel the need to post every spoiler imaginable and ruin it for everyone else instead of just watching it and keeping it to themselves think it's necessary to spread it and talk about it as if everyone wants to be spoiled. That's an incredibly selfish attitude.

[irawhiti]

really funny sentence but, as per the direct request and recommendation of my government assigned job network, i am currently skinning a mouse

[lightnersdream-archive]

every year they have ot do some kind of stream that has me staring at a wall

[tropiyas]

kill em with kindness truly is my motto i do think i’m slightly sick in that regard. when i need motivation to do well at work or as a roommate i will give 120% with the intent of making sure that they will feel my absence when i’m gone

[deathinfeathers-a]

//It never stops being funny to me, how Lute managed to endear herself to 90% of the prominent political figures ruling over hell within the span of less than a year. People just look at her and go "Hm yes what a delightfully tempermental and whimsical thing you are, I think I'll keep you."

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