#empiricallyoptimistic

[tatzelwyrm]

empiricallyoptimistic answered your question “I know that a couple of ppl who follow me are playing Stardew Valley...”

Minus defend, Stardew covers basically all of those keywords. And you have lots of choices for what to focus on, but the different skills/resources all play on each other, ie mining success will help you with farming automation, etc.

thank you! Sounds ilke the mechanics are deeper than I initially though, which is good! :D

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empiricallyoptimistic replied to your post “i am thinking very very seriously about trying to become a teacher...”

I don't think teaching locks you out but might have to go back for a master's in engineering in between. State requirements for teachers are all different: many require masters degrees and/or specific courses and certification. In some you can start teaching and then fulfill the requirements over the next few years while teaching. Start by looking into the requirements for the state(s) you want to teach in. Also know that teaching jobs are scarce

Thanks! 

At the last career fair, I talked to the public schools for the county I went to school in, and they were there specifically to recruit STEM teachers, and when I said I was interested in teaching physics I think she actually said “oh well you’d definitely be able to get a job with us.” I know it’s not that easy but I’m pretty optimistic because of that. But yeah I think Georgia requires that you take a certification test and an ethics test. But I personally am worried that wouldn’t be enough for me and I wouldn’t feel prepared for the job?? 

I will definitely do more research!

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empiricallyoptimistic replied to your post “how hard is it to get a friend to just trim the back of my hair? has...”

How long is your hair now? If the back of it still has like a gradient of ends down your head then it's pretty tricky

nah it’s still pretty short. I just like it a lot better when it’s clean-cut and very short; it looks neater? I feel like rn someone could probably just cut off the ends in a line and then touch up anything that looked weird?

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empiricallyoptimistic replied to your post “Would it be bad to tax unhealthy foods and subsidize healthier foods...”

It is- i.e. the WIC program is like food stamps for healthy food only, for families with young children. Many states also have a soda tax. Is it a good thing though? Why should choosing how you eat be a privilege for richer people? I'm not saying all possible measures like this are bad, just bringing up some nuance

that is definitely true, but currently choosing how you eat IS a privilege for richer people, who can afford Whole Foods/fresh stuff, organic stuff, etc, whereas a lot of the serious obesity and health problems in the US stem from lower income neighborhoods often only having cheap unhealthy food available, and lower income families buying more fast food and unhealthy stuff because it can cut down on costs and prep time.

I’m glad there are at least some programs in place to get healthy food to people who need it. 

anyway in my knowledge, corn is heavily subsidized which leads to high fructose corn syrup being super cheap, and also unhealthy fed cows (who are just fed on corn stuff) being super cheap to raise, which is why fast food and sugary/syrupy foods are cheaper and more available. meanwhile fresh produce and fruits/veggies are hardly subsidized at all.

so like in socialism world it would be GREAT if choosing to eat unhealthy/healthy was a universal right but in some kinda “capitalism lite” america (which i feel like is feasible to achieve) i would super support making healthier fresher foods more available and i think a great way to do that would be to subsidize them using money from unhealthy shit that rich people buy?

I also have NO economic education and everything I learned about this was from a very biased documentary!! so I’m sorry!

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empiricallyoptimistic replied to your post “does anyone have a playlist (or song recs) of good songs with a...”

This year by the mountain goats

tbh that is the exact song i was listening to and thinking “i need more of this” when i made that post :)

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I have long dark brown hair which I bleached like a year and a half ago. It did make my hair a little drier and less smooth. It's mostly grown out now and there's no lasting damage to the new hair that's grown in.

That’s EXACTLY what I wanna hear, thank you so much!

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empiricallyoptimistic replied to your post: how many housemates does it take to ch...

Please change it!

the stars will honestly have to align

I think about it during the daytime

while I’m at home

when I have enough energy to find the lightbulbs

they are where I think they are

I don’t lose motivation after finding them

I am able to get a chair in there

stand on said chair

change the bulb

the likelihood of all these steps happening in the correct order, at the correct time is very slim, as demonstrated by the fact that the bulb has been burned out for like a week? maybe more? now

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there is at least 1 (one) mountain goats song that uses the easiest three mandolin chords (G,C,D), and it’s one of my weird faves- Alpha Desperation March