a typical confused teenager. lots of cringe... beware!! I AM A MINOR | he/they | i probably exist | aspiring writer, artist, composer, and decomposer my worldbuilding projects, doodles, and the characters in my head reside here
Good day (or night!) to y'all! I'm bureaumantic and I humbly welcome you to my new pinned post! The old one was a bit outdated and I figured if I was renovating the whole thing, I may as well just make a whole new post!
Among the state of the art, sleek, and modern lines of this post, you may find many intriguing sections such as the [MASTERPOSTS], the [ABOUT ME], the [GAMES] and uh, wait. That is, uh, actually the extent of our collection for now... B-but I assure you, that, uh, is subject to change as soon as possible! Y-yes. For now, let me show you around!
COMMISSIONS ARE (not) OPEN!
-[ MASTERPOSTS ]-
organized by order of me making them oldest to youngest
elstre masterpost - low fantasy ww1
eternal bureaucracy masterpost - the office afterlife connecting all of my other worlds together
ghelter aquatic desalination corporation masterpost - SCIENTISTS research BITEY INFECTIOUS FISH people in UNDERWATER SECRET LAB AT 3 AM (GONE WRONG) (FACILITY COLLAPSED) (COPS NOT CALLED BECAUSE IT'S A HIGHLY ILLEGAL OPERATION)
cold water factory masterpost!! - losers in the middle of nowhereland work in a pointless factory and they're like miserable
evry fantasy rpg masterpost!! - basically its like, originally it was a satirical fantasy game with ai npcs but then humanity abandons the game and the ai naturally evolves and now it's like ww2 and there's comedy hijinks but also its naturally evolved to a point where stuff still matters idk how to explain it, just read it !!!!! if you want idk lol
patrol base nowhere masterpost!! - losers in the middle of nowhereland v2. this time theyre part of an infinitely large empire that has abandoned them in a snowy pointless patrol base where everything breaks and everyone is miserable
rostov mining and transportation masterpost!! - sci fi megacorporation gets way in over its head and becomes a government and proceeds to dip into the red forever, but then goes down the ai techbro path and next thing it knows its waging eternal war
-[ ABOUT ME ]-
As mentioned before, you may know me as bureaumantic or by my real name which I will not be disclosing on this blog, thank you very much! Here are some things I feel like are important to know if you wanted to get digitally acquainted for whatever reason!
Here's a link to my neocity!!
I am...
a MINOR!
he/they!
non-denominational Christian!
biologically Korean but consider myself an American! (I have been told multiple times that, online, my "texting accent" [if that makes sense] sounds Australian. I am flattered but that is untrue.)
Some other things to know.... My favorite number is blue and my favorite color is 42. I am in high school so I do have to balance that with my hobbies! I am an officer in multiple clubs, but I am most proud of my position in my Army JROTC unit, where I am a Cadet Major and the Executive Officer!
also i love getting asks please send me any. any you want pretty please with a cherry on top. i love rambling about my lore and drawing stuff people thought would be cool or funny and also just talking to people about like pretty much anything that's cool or fun or interesting (what fits those criteria is up to you) please please please thank you!!
-[ GAMES ]-
pilgrims (command prompt, windows) - a text based command prompt game about managing a colony of pilgrims and trying not to go crazy and starve to death
play bingo (roblox) - fantasy london blitz where you ignore the booms and play bingo
Ok so my kid had an ear infection, right? As kids often do.
The doctor scraped out a bit of earwax to have a better look inside.
I was sent a bill for $200 PER EAR for this 5 second procedure which I did not give permission for them to do.
That was key- they did not ASK me if they could do this "procedure". And, as I OWN a medical practice (it's me. The medical practice is me, sitting in my house on video calls) I knew to call them when this bill came in to be like "You did not obtain informed consent for this procedure, and it was not en emergency procedure. You had full ability to gain my consent and didn't. I'm not paying."
And the massive hospital who owned the bill said "yuh-huh you do have to pay."
And I said "I own a practice. I know these laws. I do not owe you money for this."
And they conducted an "internal review" and SURPRISE! Decided I totally owed them money and they had never done anything wrong ever.
And so I called my state's Attorney General office, and explained the situation because, as I mentioned, I know the law. The AG got in touch within a couple days to say they were taking the case and would send the massive hospital conglomerate a knock it off, guys letter.
Lo and Behold, today I have a letter where said hospital graciously has agreed to forfeit the payment.
"How not to get screwed over by companies" should be part of civics class.
Know your rights and know who to call when they're infringed on. This whole process cost me $0 and honestly less effort than I would have expected.
May this knowledge find its way to someone else who can use it.
This post is super cute and all but like.... This isn't practical advice. I called the AG???? And they got involved over a $200 bill. Maybe because you yourself are a medical practitioner. Not just your knowledge but also your status.
Civics class wouldn't help most people in this case because the AG will not take on all these cases and most people cannot afford an attorney in this instance or more importantly, the hit to their credit.
The issue is not education over the system, it is the system
I agree the system is a mess but I think education does matter because people seem not to know that this is actually perfectly routine AG office stuff. I’m not the only person who’s done this- this is just what they do?
Were they going to get into a lawsuit over my $400 bill? No obviously not. But they printed up a letter on fancy letterhead to say to stop and it worked. They followed up with me the next day to be sure, and so ask how much money they had saved me.
They use dinky cases like mine to track habitual misbehavior of large scale companies to build cases they could actually go to court over.
And because people are shocked- I never spoke to the AG of my state directly. He operates mainly by overseeing a whole crew of people. And this is what those people do.
This didn’t happen because I’m special because of my tiny therapy practice.
This happened because this is what the AG office is for.
“The problem is systemic” doesn’t mean “and there’s nothing you can do”.
This is a systemic problem but that doesn’t mean there are no resources to help.
Thank you for clapping back on this. I'm here to reinforce. Yes, you CAN call your state Attorney General office when an entity is doing something illegal, even if it's "only" for $400. You think they don't care a hospital is doing a crime because it's not a big enough crime?
Then you've been trained well by "The System".
Yes, that System you say can't be fought? Where did you get that idea, huh? Who taught you that "small" acts of illegality don't matter? Who made you think that there's no point in fighting back because it will all come to nothing?
Might it be the same entities that benefit if you believe all that?
Gonna pause and let you ponder.
Never. Ever. EVER.
EVER.
Let companies or corporations or hospitals or organizations or any business big or small get away with screwing you over without a fight. Maybe you personally don't win every fight, but you lose 100% of the time you don't try. You'll win more often than you think you will. I know cuz I've done it.
So have others. Attorneys General offices bring lawsuits against businesses all the time. They do so because citizens contacted them to say "someone is doing a crime" and the crime doers did not stop when told and got into way more trouble than if they'd just stopped. FAFO. The Find Out can't happen if you don't even bother to report the Fucking Around.
On that note, as OP said, please know your rights! And, in a situation where you don't but suspect something is hinky, ask! The people of the internet can help! So can librarians! So can many others. Find out what is and is not okay for them to do. If it's not okay, report them! See something, say something.
Additionally, pay attention to State Attorney elections! Here in Minnesota, our AG Keith Ellison has made it a POINT to go after slumlords, has created an entire UNIT in the AG office dedicated to wage theft, and gone after debt relief for people who were conned by those scummy fake universities. And despite MN being a blue state, one of his elections was a fucking NAIL-BITER.
Absolutely fight the system, absolutely go to your AG office if you’re being screwed over, and also pay attention to the people running for AG in the first place.
Government of the people, by the people, and for the people only works if the people make it work. That's you! You're the people.
"Don't bother doing anything because nothing will happen" confused cause with effect: it's really "Nothing will happen if you don't bother doing anything." Yeah, I know, it's a travesty that they don't hand you psychic powers when you take your oath as a civil servant, but until we fix that clear defect in our democracy: you're serving the public, too, when you report fuckers like this.
in class and we were told to pull up chatgpt on our laptops to experiment with and the guy in front of me pulled up a deli menu and started looking at sandwiches
The cops very clearly planted evidence on him because they had to make an arrest because all eyes were on them and whoever actually did the deed was making them look stupid.
Why would the real killer hero have kept the weapon on his person and traveled two states over while carrying it and a manifesto in his bag, conveniently turning the crime into a federal matter? The same guy whose bag they found in a park, filled with monopoly money? Why did the police turn off their bodycams, take Luigi's stuff, drive a block away, turn their bodycams back on, go back into the restaurant, and then arrest him?
From the moment of his arrest, even left-of-center media has been presuming his guilt without examining anything (e.g. calling him "the killer" instead of "alleged" or "accused") and then when I say he didn't do it, the nearest person chimes in with some quip that tells me they think he did do it but should go free anyway. Don't get me wrong, I would have the same attitude if he had done it. But he didn't. It makes me feel like the only sane person in the world, even among my staunchly leftist friends.
How to Podfic: A Highly Biased and Incomplete Tutorial
So, a while ago, some of my friends and fellow cast members of the @sansukhpodfic asked about how to make and edit podfic on their own. I created this tutorial for them, as a supplement to the resources already posted by the Sansukh mods. In the wake of the most recent @auralphonic episode asking for technical advice on podficcing in Audacity, I thought I would polish this up and post it.
This tutorial explains how, once you have permission to record a story, you go about turning it into a podfic using Audacity. It focuses on technical and logistical details, rather than artistic advice, and is cobbled together from my own experience, my knowledge of the mathematics behind signal analysis, and other people’s tutorials. There’s lots of communities and resources out there that give advice on the artistic side (Auralphonic, for example, has an episode for newbies), which I recommend checking out.
Disclaimer: There is no one standard method of doing this! This is the method I have found gives me the best results, personally, but there may be better ways to do this. I strongly recommend checking out other resources for comparison.
It seems that, somehow, my actual blog's been terminated, probably after getting hacked while I was asleep. I've contacted Staff about it, but I'm not holding my breath for them to get it done any time soon, so I've made a second account to try and keep in contact with all the lovely folks here. Hope you're well! With any luck, you'll be back to your regularly scheduled programming of 'whatever I decide to do here on any given day'
oh my goodness! i hope you get your main back soon.. best wishes
commonwealth soldiers are paid the highest wage in the world
this notorious propaganda poster circulated throughout the Sicebon Commonwealth and was responsible for a significant number of new recruits entering the Army of the Commonwealth---particularly during periods of economic hardship (which was frequent) and foreign wars (also frequent).
while the contents of the poster are technically true---commonwealth soldiers were indeed paid the most out of all other soldiers in the world---the poster also leaves out a significant fact: the sicebon commonwealth was the only nation in the world that still maintained a system of stoppages. stoppages are portions of a paycheck that are automatically taken out in order to maintain a soldier's necessities---food, uniform expenses, and punishment fees. stoppages, a holdover from the days of musketry, are no longer used by any other nation except the Sicebon Commonwealth.
when accounting for stoppages, the actual amount of money that commonwealth soldiers receive almost always decreases below the minimum wage of every other nation in the world (the commonwealth has no minimum wage laws).
thinking about that one wordless calvin and hobbes sunday strip thats just calvins dad ditching his work to go play in the snow... its going to make me cry
”#I LOVE that the comic keeps the lens on Calvin’s dad to the degree of not even showing Calvin’s excited face when his dad surprises him, #You can see the joy and excitement of the moment in his pose and reflected in his dad’s expression, #it’s a great little artistic decision, #I realized what gets me about it it’s the hat covering his dad’s head and hair so the dad just looks like Calvin. #you don’t HAVE to show Calvin! You already see him in the dad becoming a kid for a moment you only have to draw that once”
forget about resting bitch face, I have resting bitch voice. people get mad at me for sounding sarcastic when I'm not being sarcastic and then don't believe me when I say I'm not being sarcastic because I still apparently sound sarcastic when I say I'm not sarcastic
