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As of this morning I was reluctantly looking for jobs because I love my job and don't want to leave it, but see: $10k raise problem solver.

As of noon today this was no longer an issue, because my boss called me with the news that I was getting a $10K merit raise.

I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders. This is roughly $200 extra per paycheck. Enough to pay off debt faster, rebuild my savings, and spend a weekend a month in Milwaukee getting obscenely laid. The sex I'm going to have on $200 extra per paycheck. You can't even.

1. The aces have found me and yes I'm here to tell you that if you want $200 worth of yarn or Magic cards or cheese or what have you instead of sex, you're so valid.

2. I get 24 paychecks a year and was accounting for taxes and fees. It's actually like $230 per paycheck.

3. Yes I do get laid in Milwaukee, comprehensively, by my partner and not a sex worker (not that there's anything wrong with that, as long as everyone is consenting, swerfs need not apply, and come to that terfs don't need to either).

Second, the over 40 crowd started using the internet in the early days when keeping things like names, ages, life status and the like was paramount in keeping yourself safe online. A good portion have never stopped the habit.

Where are you all getting this shit? This is not the only place I've seen this misconception, which couldn't be further from the truth.

When people say "oh, old people come from an Internet where you had to HIDE ALL PERSONAL INFORMATION", they are talking about the safety advice given in the 2000s, to children. Small children. Children who are extremely fucking far from being 40 years old today.

But the Internet of the 90s and earlier was a completely different beast.

There was no concept of Internet safety on the early Internet. There were no children on the early Internet. You still largely got access through your place of study or work—consumer ISPs were still new. Danger online came from hackers, from viruses. And they didn't want your personal data—because, like, why would they? Unless they could use it to get in somewhere by pretending to be you, and nobody lived their life worrying about that.

You did not hide your name on the early Internet. There was no need. Some people went by aliases, but not most. You didn't hide your location—most of what you did was probably tagged with your email address, which identified you personally. There were entire directories online where you could look people up, complete with personal data, right down to their office—and that wasn't illicit in any way, it was how things functioned. Domain registries still listed phone numbers, names and addresses for their contacts—you can hide those details today, but you couldn't always.

You wanted to be able to contact people, if there was a problem. You wanted to be able to find people, and to be found. You probably knew most people, at least by reputation. I ran an international mail server that was accessible only via my listed telephone number.

As for hiding your age? What kind of weirdo shit is that? Who would even care?

I, for example, had to sneak out of my house to, wait for it, have sushi in a public restaurant during daylight hours with my local group of net.goths when I was, again, brace yourselves, 22 years old. Because my mother was Concerned about the Scary People From The Internet also known as my friends from the local mailing list.

There were some people who put their government name, location, and personal business all over everywhere, or met actual strangers from the internet in unsafe places at ill-chosen times, and those people invariably became Cautionary Tales and very much inspired all of the Online Safety messaging that happened both in the 1990s and later, all of which seems to have fallen directly out of the back of the brains of MANY of the people using the internet today.

#hello again martin and bosco!! sending you boys round for another go :)

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The way the pinch hits will work is this: you do not have to pick a username for these. If you put more than one choice down for a pinch hit, you are agreeing to take as many claims listed that are available (so if you only want one claim, put one choice down as First Choice; if you want two to three claims, put your top choices in the appropriate slots and we will assume that's your order of preference; if you want more than three claims, put down your top three in order in one form, then your remaining claims in order of preference in another form…do not put one claim in a new form if you are claiming multiple fics/art projects!)

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It reduced our cost getting into our local INCREDIBLE art museum from $30 to $1. We still had to pay for the special traveling exhibit, but the reduced price meant we COULD see the traveling exhibit!!!

And spread this link as often as you can. Email it to friends on SNAP right now. It is so important that lower income people get to see things like animals and art, too. It should not be limited to the rich. Thanks to this program, in many places, it isn't.

Meaning they were somewhat related to big celebrities such as Daedon (the “hell pig”) and Andrewsarchus.

The appearence of the first ancestors of whales probably looked like a small hoofed thing called Indohyus.

(Illustration by julio lacerda)

(illustration by Tiffany Turill)

Y'all know that one meme of the tank being dumped off the ship saying "I go kill submarine for the motherland"?

If not, here it is:

The origins behind this image are utterly fascinating.

This is not a soviet built tank despite what the meme implies, it is actually a chinese built tank, a T-69-2 to be more specific.

What you don't see in the image are the further 24 tanks that are also on the barge about to dropped into the water as well.

These tanks are being dropped in on personal orders by Queen Sirikit, the queen mother of thailand.

No, for those worried, this was not them discarding old unusable tanks, at least in this instance. Rather, each of these tanks have selected and prepared to make an artificial reef. Rather than melt them down for scrap, in 2010 there were pushed into the water off the gulf of siam to create a home for hundreds of sea creatures. All the internals are gutted, including the engine and transmission, don't worry.

If you looks a little closer into the image, you'll see that all the hatches are open or removed, probably to make room for sea life.

If you want anymore info, I'd suggest checking out ConeOfArc over on youtube, he has a lot more on this and many more fascinating subjects such as the origins behind the panzer of the lake.