Either within Blaine, within Bellingham, or between either town?
Does it run regularly enough that it's basically a city bus system distributed between small towns, or are the routes sporadic enough that it mainly gets ignored/rarely used by locals?
I'm trying to sign up for NativeCamp but am at a standstill.
The introduction video directs me to download the NativeCamp for iOS to use the beauty camera. When I download it all I see/get is the learner-facing NativeCamp app, with no Beauty Camera in sight.
Am I missing something here?
Is this a wild goose chase? Very sporadically something will appear on USAJOBS with the IRS, VA, Bureau of Prisons/Federal Penitentiary, or the US Marshals Service that pays significantly better than the job's state counterpart, but that particular job market, even pre-DOGE, seemed very much few and far between in the area compared to state work. Is it better to simply scrimp and save and look into moving to Tampa/Jacksonville/Miami/etc. if you want federal work on a General Services pay scale in Florida, or is this a viable path in Tallahassee?
Is this doable?
I'm currently in a state government role that pays about 34k USD annually, which is an at least 20k USD pay cut from my last federal job. Since nearly half of my money right now is going towards rent, is it feasible that I will ever be able to move for a GS-09 role in a relatively LCOL area (eg cheaper rent, etc)?
And if such positions do exist, can anyone point me to them? I know that I applied for a GS-09 Investigative Analyst role with USMS in a relatively LCOL (comparatively) small city, but was turned down from the job during the interview due to the interviewers perceiving me as someone who was interested in investigative analysis, but clarified that the job title was a mislabeled/glamorized administrative role.
My mother and father were both financially struggling at various points in the 1980s but they managed to get out of the mess, eliminate debt, and build a nest-egg by working as ESL teachers in Saudi Arabia with relatively minimal credentials.
When I look at what's going on today it seems like this is an impossible dream? Is there a contemporary equivalent?
I have been to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, but while I was there I wondered what day to day life is like among "majority-minority" parts of Israel, with particular curiosity about Nazareth, a city I am only familiar with in its modern from from Wikipedia and idle Google Maps "walks".
The Government Publishing Office is currently hiring for a proofreader/typist. The job application on usajobs? States the applicant will need to fly to DC…. for a fitness test. This isn’t an 1811 job that involves tackling armed smugglers on the run and putting them in handcuffs here. What’s with the fitness test requirement? To prove all your fingers are intact?
I was vaguely reminded of how God Emperor of Dune resolves. You’re introduced to this rebel versus tyrant/oppressor dynamic but at the end the rebel directly interacts with and seeks guidance from the tyrant/oppressor toward a shared goal.
Frankly this made both of these stories very weird to me as I was expecting the resolution to entail more confrontation rather than exhaustion paired with a reluctant alliance of necessity.
It used to be a fairly common occurrence as I remember it, in cities that had both a sizable Jewish and Muslim community, for Muslim and Jewish leaders to regularly host interfaith events at each other's places of worship; plus, to share a general acknowledgment of both being marginalized groups that needed to stick together in a world that still carried some implications of Compulsory Christianity in civic life.
However, I've seen fewer and fewer mentions of interfaith events that bring Muslim and Jewish communities together over the past 3-4 years.
Have they in fact declined significantly, or is it just selection bias from me seeing less of this?
I was reading online about South Africa because I don't know much about it and was really curious about learning the cultural differences between Zulu, Xhosa, etc. It also made me wonder if people belonging to those groups identify more with their ethnic group or with the country they're a citizen of (South Africa).
I felt like asking about this more broadly to people who live across the African continent. Do you identify more with the country you're a citizen of, or with a specific ethnolinguistic group you belong to?
I once applied for an advanced degree programme by distance learning at UNISA, though I ultimately didn't enroll. I noticed in the part of the application form that asks you to list your demographic information, one of the categories was 'White/Chinese'?
What is the historical rationale for this? Specifically, where does the idea of putting those two quite distinct ethnic categories together come from?
One character trait that gets emphasized with Kelly in Puzzle Showdown is that she’s hugely morally corrupt. She skims funds from her charity, doesn’t draw any dividing lines between her nonprofit career and her political career, and of course in another couple of routes she is basically a hypocrite and what amounts to a cult leader.
I kind of like that SBN3 gave her a personality trait beyond being sexually promiscuous, which is that she shows what moral trash she is when she gets near positions of power. But idk does anyone wish this was explored more in depth? Like, even with “Weekend at Kelly’s” being comedic there’s room for commentary on how the influence of corrupt and self-interested adults in her teenage years rubbed off on her.
I met the guy who says he's running this event in Miami and he seemed 50/50 like he might be chill, 50/50 like he may have been giving Marshall Applewhite charismatic cult-leader kind of energy.
Likewise the advertising for the event looks really groovy and like something that's meant to genuinely boost creativity and bring people together, but I'm cynical and often assume there's something I'm missing underlying all that kind of Human Potential Movement-type rhetoric.
Anyone know anything about this? Are my more negative instincts right, or is this real and positive?
The animated cutscene that opens up the story is hilarious and has exactly the kind of trashy, acerbic, sarcastic dialogue that played well in the animated shorts.
The gameplay itself takes up a lot of space that I'd rather see spent on story even though there is some character lore dropped here and there that gets pretty funny (especially when Emily shows up, because of course: naturally, she's in a bizarre situation that may either be a psychosis episode or a result of actual crimes she's done. With Emily, it could really be either).
The "Weekend at Kelly's" storyline is.... very weird to play as a grown adult because most of the dialogue is a teen girl fresh out of high school flirting with you. That can get a bit squicky and uncomfortable. The gameplay is also much more difficult for some reason since you don't have easy mode/medium/hard mode settings like in the main campaign.
Haven't tried Multiplayer yet but the audience of this franchise is so niche that I don't see that lasting all that long.
Also, I need to draw attention to this game's main weaknesses in playability: the Save feature and (as mentioned) the Difficulty settings. Not every portion of this game has the latter meaning you can't control speed and complexity, and the Save feature is very poorly designed. I'll save at a point right before two choices and then when I return to the game it's somewhere after the save point with no way to retrieve my original saved game.
There was quite a bit of socialism/utopian socialism going on in the world/s of political theory and political philosophy before Marx. Fourier is the first big name in pre-Marxist Socialism I could remember off the top of the dome before skimming the Wikipedia article.
What are this sub's thoughts on those various Pre-Marxist/Pre-Marxian socialist philosophers and theorists?
I interviewed for a role as one once but failed to land the role after I botched a question about my approach to customer service (or at least it was interpreted more negatively than I intended by the interviewer). That said I've kept on applying for the role at other offices - I'm just bummed about fumbling that particular opportunity since it was based out of a desirable city that I would have loved to have moved to.
Has anyone here worked as a Passport Specialist? What's day to day life on the job like?