You’re right that it varies by state. For example, in Pennsylvania, the ballots have to be received by 8pm on Nov 5. Source: https://www.pa.gov/en/agencies/vote/voter-support/mail-in-and-absentee-ballot.html

The election day ground game is crucial! Don’t waste your time just worrying. If you’re in the US, look here: https://events.democrats.org/ It’s not too late!

It was kind of funny to watch Hanzawa Naoki, and they’d be like: “As punishment, we’re transferring you to this city outside of Tokyo!” And they’d be like: omgz a fate worse than death. And I’d look up the city and it’d be a place with great public transportation, a famous temple, and amazing local cuisine.

Dunno, I’m not a natural at this, so I’m still “decompressing”. I kept thinking of that picture with the kid holding a sign saying “It’s so bad, even the introverts are here!”

Hey, I was working solo through a 42-door canvass list when I saw your post, it was encouraging!

Yeah, there are a couple benefits:

• what if you plan to vote on a certain day, but then there’s a problem like illness, car breaks down, work or family emergency, etc. If you were planning to vote early, you still have a chance.
• if people try to suppress the vote, it’s harder because they’d have to do so over several Early Voting days and there’d be more chance to counter them
• it puts less pressure on the system and increases throughput. Sometimes machines just break down normally, or there are supply shortages, and if it’s the last day then you might have people waiting in line for hours.
• Finally I think from a campaign perspective, you’re more likely to tell your friends that you voted early and suggest they do the same (or even that you contact the campaign and get involved somehow)

Yeah I voted yesterday, here in my “battleground state”. The wait was less than 5 minutes.

Don’t forget to feast and get buzzed.

Last time I interviewed I saw a couple jobs that had 9-month academic calendar (fall/winter) obligations, for a given salary. If you wanted to teach summer classes at that college for additional pay you were welcome to, or you could just take those months off. or do consulting, or visiting teaching somewhere else, or get a grant to pay your salary while you did research, etc.

My last post got downvoted so I hope it doesn’t sound like I love the current academic environment. On the contrary I’m jaded. But if you’re just starting out, ask the older people for advice, the more you know the better your chance of survival.

Yeah, I agree that most faculty are underpaid, especially in the humanities. Also, I agree that universities should have more tenure-track Teaching Faculty (whose main job is being good teachers to undergraduates) rather than just having part-time adjuct faculty or research-focused professors who don’t really want to teach.

I didn’t mean to sound like I was defending the status quo. Just that there are a lot of career considerations that I didn’t learn “until it was too late” that I was hoping to communicate to younger generations.

It’s OK dog. The thing is, you figured it out. You’re better off than those that never figured it out. Now you just gotta move on from where you’re at.

Choices - we make them, chances - we take them

Some are mistakes, some we celebrate them

We don’t look back, cause so much we facin

I always stay proud of myself, I’m yelling, “Fuck regret!”

It’s a little more complicated than that. I think the factors are:

• part-time adjunct vs full-time
• research vs non
• type of college (prestige, size, focus)
• what you do in summers
• field

So for example you could be a machine learning Research Professor (non-tenure-track) in a first-tier university and bring in a lot of money through grants. Or you could be a tenured teaching professor at a smaller college and not work in summers and make a mid-level income. Or you could be a part-time instructor (e.g., adjunct faculty) in the humanities and make very little.

Emo nights are a thing around the US, not sure about the crowd age.

for the uninitiated: https://theonion.com/opinion/cartoons/

Dad says: “He JUMPS to the conclusion!”

I love the way rollingstone refers to X/Twitter:

X (formerly Twitter), the social media site Musk purchased for $44 billion in 2022. Recently, Musk shared that the company is now valued at just $19 billion, a $25 billion decline.

hmmm you may have a point. I guess I was thinking of barbarian in terms of:

People of towns and cities take pride in their settled ways, as if denying one’s connection to nature were a mark of superiority. To a barbarian, though, a settled life is no virtue, but a sign of weakness. The strong embrace nature—valuing keen instincts, primal physicality, and ferocious rage. Barbarians are uncomfortable when hedged in by walls and crowds. They thrive in the wilds of their homelands: the tundra, jungle, or grasslands where their tribes live and hunt.

https://www.dndbeyond.com/classes/9-barbarian

In the context of embracing nature and thriving in the wilds, it seems like a barbarian would have more cause to use their teeth.

But imagine a barbarian bit a DM, and then some guy who hit the gym a lot and could lift as much as the barbarian bit an identical DM. I maintain that the barbarian would do more damage, due to a lifetime of e.g. breaking bones with their mouth, gnawing the bark off a tree, etc.

I’m not looking to get married, but keep in mind it’s a Barbarian bite. So the biter’s half-feral and accustomed to gnawing on raw meat.

Even if they could read, they’d stop after the 4th line or so. They need a video of someone staring them in the face and saying this in simple words with sound effects and pop-up visuals.