iowagneiss

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[–] iowagneiss@midwest.social 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I shared this with my wife, who takes Adderall, and your comment is going to finally pull her away from Reddit to Lemmy. Thank you for your service.

[–] iowagneiss@midwest.social 38 points 1 month ago (2 children)

He has a very low bar by most of the developed world's standards, but he refused to lower it further for maga, so he's history now.

[–] iowagneiss@midwest.social 4 points 1 month ago

I was about to say, old reddit in browser works fine, but I use Mullvad, so I never noticed. I'm increasingly spending more time here too.

[–] iowagneiss@midwest.social 5 points 1 month ago

I work in college financial aid. Students are eligible for federal/state funds if they've been granted asylum and in the country for at least a year since being granted asylum. So many still have an application pending. The process shouldn't take more than a year, but I've personally seen someone whose application has been pending for seven years, and I've heard of longer ones. In the interim, they get a temporary status and work authorization, but I can't imagine the stress they're under while waiting this out and watching the new administration work against them.

[–] iowagneiss@midwest.social 4 points 1 month ago

Back-office college financial aid at a larger state college. Financial aid mostly disburses by batch process, so my job is to audit that. Some things, like external scholarships, are manual and require a quick reassessment of the financial aid package to ensure the student is still eligible for everything (if anything, loans need reduced sometimes per regulations). Some things require "professional judgement," like when a student is not yet 24 but claims to be independent due to unusual circumstances. There's more, but it's really just an accumulation of batch work, queues, and audits which require a reasonably good working knowledge of regulations.

[–] iowagneiss@midwest.social 14 points 1 month ago

Works in mysterious ways, right?

[–] iowagneiss@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

I was using Sync for Reddit before the API issues (switched to old reddit with ublock and Firefox after that), and the creator make Sync for Lemmy with the same feel.

[–] iowagneiss@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I still have it but only follow niche and local subs for which there isn't enough engagement here yet.

[–] iowagneiss@midwest.social 7 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Let me know when they make a flag for Dumbfuckistan and I will fly that shit.

[–] iowagneiss@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

Their business is more important than integrity, and they've seen that the president will attack anyone who tries to get in his way.

[–] iowagneiss@midwest.social 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's the Swedish bakers dozen so you can eat 3 raw eggs + shells on the way home and still have a dozen eggs to put in the fridge. It takes three eggs to equal the calories found in a small donut which is why the bakers dozen eggs is 15 instead of 13.

[–] iowagneiss@midwest.social 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I know the frog mating calls for all species of frogs in my area and volunteer for the local DNR to survey frog populations in my county. It's a good indicator of water quality.

I took a random amphibian research class as an elective, loved it, and still do it 20+ years later.

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