Realistically more suffering than enjoying, because they want someone to comit to them, but not comit themselves, ever bound in a cycle of emotional on-off turmoil.
Or more frequently, somebody who thought they were dating but didn’t explicitally ask and somebody who’s got zero intention of dating but isn’t going to make that clear as to not lose the benefits.
I thought it meant that the two people were together because of the situation they are in and when it changes they are going on their way. Like anonymous sex but sometimes dinner and a movie.
Legit, fear of being “killed” by the system stops me from slowing down. One time in my life I quite a job due to stress without my next move planned out and it was real rough. I’d love to be able to slow down, to the point I’m finding myself missing the pandemic work from home life. I wanna leave my current job, but I need to make sure I have something else lined up first, and who really knows if that will be better.
I wanna ignore all the noise around me and just find myself, but I’m afraid of the wolf.
On the other hand, it’s possible to do what’s needed without constant anxiety. Even without anxiety, leaving a job without plan could be identified as being a bad idea, depending on the situation.
In countries that take acceptable care of their citizens (which I definitely wouldn’t count the US as, if that’s where you’re coming from), many more people live with an inappropriately large amount of anxiety than with too little.
Best of luck! Not sure where you’re at, hopefully somewhere they got some kind of unemployment. In my country at least, there are no unemployment benefits that I’m aware of at least, so had to strictly figure out budgeting and luckily I had managed to keep some savings and was able to live with family.
I tried to do a bunch of personal projects, YouTube, a small company with a friend, but a lot of things just going nowhere. I pretty quickly got part time work to make ends meet, literally going to a place walking distance from my home that was related to but not quite the field I’m in, and while they couldn’t afford me full time that work got me into a financial position where I could keep my head above water, and I continued to do my own sort of freelance work in my field where I could get it
Honestly, I was really naive about how easy getting a better job would be. I had recently gotten my Master’s, had a good amount of experience from my previous job, so I thought I’d be in a shiny new job in a month or two. Month five was when I got the part time stuff going.
But I was kind of amazed at how, when I kept telling myself I got no money to spend, I found ways to not spend money, so I got WAAAAY better at saving during that time. But also, I don’t wanna go through that stress again where every little unexpected expense, car repairs, family emergency, etc, made me feel so hopeless, like if my value kept doing nothing but going down, what was the point of me doing anything?
Getting out of it was honestly a good amount of luck, my freelance stuff led to me meeting my next employer completely by chance and it just so happened they were looking for someone with my specific training. It was honestly kind of insane.
tl;dr:
Was naive, wish I had things planned better. Seeing all your savings drain away is soul-crushing. Think I learned about myself figuring out personal projects. Getting work feels like just luck of the draw in the end.
I woke up the other night and turned on the light and my cat immediately ran over to my bed and stared intently at the corner above my head. She does this a lot randomly and I laughed until I looked up and saw the two-inch long cockroach sitting there.
Hold it, hold it… so vampires’ reflections don’t appear in mirrors, but most phone cameras don’t use mirrors, just like ‘mirrorless’ (non-DSLR) cameras, the light goes directly through the lens and onto the sensor. So they should be visible on any newer cameras without the traditional mirror redirecting light from a viewfinder to film or digital sensor.
In traditional vampire lore, the inability for vampires to cast a reflection in mirrors is often attributed to the idea that they lack a soul. This concept has been widely popularized in literature, film, and other media.
Traditional film cameras use a mirror to reflect the image onto the film (in the case of SLRs), while digital SLRs use a mirror to reflect the image onto a digital sensor. If we follow the lore strictly, a vampire wouldn’t appear in these photographs.Modern smartphone cameras, as you correctly pointed out, do not use mirrors; they use digital sensors to capture images directly. If the folklore’s basis for invisibility in photos is strictly tied to the presence of mirrors, then theoretically, a vampire would appear in a smartphone photograph.
However, the interpretation of vampire lore varies. Some versions might suggest that it’s not just mirrors that prevent their appearance but any form of reflection or reproduction. In that case, even smartphone cameras might fail to capture them.
Not an expert, but CMOS sensors (which are the ones used in cameras? I think?) do not use silver, do they? It’s practically all silicon. (CMOS = Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor, where the semiconductor is Si, the metal is Al or more recently Poly-Si and the Oxide is SiO2 obtained by oxidizing the Si)
Unless Si also prevents vampire images from being seen? Does vampire lore explicitly say that all materials were tested and only Silver has anti-vampire properties?
I could be wrong on any of the info I just told you, even a cursory Google search can fail me.
Don’t the sensor connectors contain silver in the micro wires though?
Does vampire lore explicitly say that all materials were tested and only Silver has anti-vampire properties?
I don’t think so. I think it’s just old world mythology that silver is pure, and therefore the purity won’t reflect the evil of the vampire. But every element is pure, so it doesn’t make a lot of sense.
I’ve always used Al and Au in mine but I’m in a research institute and so I can’t speak for what people use in real cameras, but it does appear that Ag is somewhat used in wire bonding, so you can be right!
But every element is pure, so it doesn’t make a lot of sense.
Was this purity in the sense of “absence of impurities” or “absence of evil”? Because if it’s the latter I’m pretty sure I’ve met a few Si wafers with evil agendas.
Classically, mirrors used silver metal, and black and white photographs used silver halide. So strictly speaking, a digital or even color film camera would work.
It’s about the soul. Vampires don’t cast reflections because they are soulless. Cameras have been criticized for stealing peoples souls. Ergo, a camera would suffer the same fate as the mirror: no soul to capture or reflect.
But I mean it’s just made up lore. That’s admittedly stretched thin.
This frickin comic, it gets me every time. It is a lot like that. I try to reason, be rational, consider options, but I get nothing back. It's like trying to hail the Reliant, all I get is static.
Same here, it hasn't gotten old for me yet! Hahah, I'm sure you get this a lot, but I saw your username and assumed I was looking at a Risa post (or at least a post in the startrek.website instance), hence the Trek reference.
Thx for posting this comic, it's nice to be reminded you're not the only one, ya know?
Yes. Yes I do get that a lot lol I never thought that would end up being a consequence of me branching out into other communities after establishing myself in Risa. You’re not alone though, don’t worry about that!
Oh I totally get it. That’s why I love this comic series so much. Was genuinely one of the first times I could go “oh wow, someone gets it.” I have most of the comics saved to my phone which is why my posting of comics to this community is skewed in their favor. Also I just kinda love them and wanna give the artist more attention.
From an outside perspective Trump was a shit show.
I don’t really care about your internal politics, but what I can say is that he had a massive impact on America’s credibility in the world. If you can just leave and rejoin the Paris climate agreement or unilaterally end the Iran nuclear oversight program, why should anyone really trust you on anything?
Joe Biden did a lot to repair this loss in trust, but it’s hard work and will take longer than one presidential period. Much longer than it took to damage your credibility in the world.
I (an American) was thinking a similar thing. What’s the point of treaties and agreements if all it takes is one asshole President to say “nah, we’re not doing that”?
What’s being referenced is that the symbol of Trump’s party is an elephant. They’re the ones who basically set all this up. The other party holds to treaties they don’t like and such
You speak to one that emigrated as a result of what Trump did to America, so I have no quarrel with you about that. I am just amused by the German version with elephants in China shops since the Republican icon is an elephant.
6 months? Don’t let the demon fool you, evil beings such as them live for centuries, it’s probably about 75 years old. They spend the first century of their life honing their craft, and then unleash it upon the world. Prepare yourself for your day of reckoning.
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