arahir replies:
wait okay wait here's a story about how STAY WITH ME to format your thesis at my college. STAY WITH ME. please stay with me. stay with me.
so you finish your thesis which you thought was stressful. now you have to make sure it is FORMATTED correctly which is easy. where are the instructions for how to format it correctly? so glad you asked! they are stored in the INFORMATION portion of an assignment in a closed canvas course you were asked to complete the year before. the course is not available during formatting so you just have to have a friend who copy and pasted the entire canvas course into a pdf! got that? done? great! go format your thesis!
STAY WITH ME.
now that's out of the way you just need to PROVE it's formatted correctly by having someone official check it. when? well you make an appointment of course. now? no you have to make it starting at 9am two weeks before finals. everyone at the college will try to register to do this at the same time so you're advised to set an alarm and make your appointment as close to 9am that day as possible. alarm all set? great let's go!
STAY WITH ME.
it's 9am on the chosen day. now this is not for your formatting. this is for SCHEDULING an APPOINTMENT for someone to check your formatting. you have the link ready, right? to take you to the scheduling? get ready.
having clicked the link, you have to follow these instructions as fast as possible at the same time every other graduate student is trying to do the same thing. your ability to graduate on time hinges on this. not all will be successful. are these instructions written anywhere? no, so hold on to your hat and:
click the link and log in verify yourself wait for the page to load you are now staring at what looks like a bank website from 2005. there are options for employee resources and nothing else but that's okay go to "switch page view" in the top corner of the nightmare you are looking at and switch from teacher to student don't read or touch anything. expand the sidebar and click INFORMATION scroll three pages down - don't read anything - until you get to the blue "need help?" link and click that go to the blank drop down menu that has appeared scroll down 78 options past sections like "registrar"and "billing" until you get to the "graduate aid" section. scroll past the option that say thesis advising you dumb bitch. select the alluring and enigmatic "CULMINATING EXPERIENCE" instead. a new drop down menu appears. this time there are only three options. unfortunately one is advising, one is graduation, and one is "T/D/P" guess which one you need. advising? no. what, you didn't know it was called T/D/P? 🫵😂 "search times" will appear but don't do that. it breaks the page if you do that. click on the little calendar instead and select a day. you can now make an appointment to have your formatting checked. please note this is not the same as formatting your thesis, submitting it, or having it approved.
thank you for staying with me

arahir:
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it stands for "thesis / dissertation / project" as we all know, of course.

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narwhalsarefallBadg replies:
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the aircraft emergency frequency (known as GUARD in the usa) is SUPPOSED to be used for emergencies. the frequency is 121.5 mhz. it is for all international air distress and emergencies and stuff (theres a different one for military) however. for some goddamn reason. for at least the past ten years (maybe more) there has been meowing. random pilots going “meowww!” on the emergency frequency. this is often followed by at least 8 different people yelling “GUARRRRD” “YOUR ON GUARD” “STOP FUCKING MEOWING” and at least 3 others meowing also.
i have a radio and often tune into this frequency if i want to hear local airplane pilots/control tower operators act like absolute fools.
here’s some operators using GUARD to try to contact a flight that went missing (they found them) and just the absolute nonsense, the one guy spamming caribbean music, the voice changer, and the meowing and guard police are so fucking funny. GUARD is always doing shit like this. its great. (note that he isnt on the frequency until 1:30, so the other shit is just normal coworker conversations. “who the fuck eats honeydew” is just two coworkers not abusing resources).
usually radio etiquette is a lot more professional for these guys but mistakes do happen. people tend to be pretty quick on the jokes tho. if you ever want to listen to the funniest shit ever a lot of amateur radio operators upload the funniest dialogue they catch on youtube pretty often.

my-life-is-a-sidequest replies:
@antifatemptress is this true?

antifatemptress replies:
Yes, unfortunately this is true. Pilots are children. And since we're all legally obligated to monitor guard at all times when able, these guys know they always have an audience. Things I've also heard on guard include:

• someone barking, which was nice variety and very much appreciated to see more canine representation in my field

• airline captains making full cabin announcements, not realizing they were transmitting, followed by several other pilots asking questions as if they were in the cabin

• airline captain making about half a cabin announcement before stopping cold, pausing for about 3 seconds, and mumbling "...I am so fucking sorry," then presumably making the announcement again to his actual cabin

• two pilots for different airlines speaking Italian to each other (one of these was actually my captain, the other guy was a friend from his last job)

• pilot doing a radio shockjock voice saying "aaalrighty folks you're listening to one-twenty-one-point-five the GUARRRRRRD, bringing you the lastest in aviation disasters, mishaps, and tragedieesss! Up next, four more hours of nonstop cat soundssssss!"

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autistichalsin posts:
Some of you are literally watching the right wing continuously try to expand the definition of "pedophilia" to include "existing around a child while queer," and then agreeing with them when they say pedophiles deserve to be summarily executed.

Not only does this place innocent people in danger of political executions, it also puts children in danger, as most children who are sexually abused have this done by someone close to them, and feelings that they would be responsible for the death of their abuser if they reported leads to lower rates of reporting. It also leads to higher rates of abusers murdering their victims when they're found out because the punishment will be the same anyway.

Part of being on the left is realizing that it's better to let 100 guilty men go free than to wrongly convict one. Another part of being on the left is realizing that one's life is never something others have the right to take away- even the most evil people alive. Yes, that includes mass murderers and rapists and pedophiles. Once you make one group acceptable to kill, you give others a vested interest in defining groups they have prejudice against into that group.

You have to start dealing with the fact that no crime makes one's life forfeit. Not even the worst most depraved and sadistic acts. The worst people alive have rights, and if you can't accept that they deserve them, at least try to accept that it is to your benefit that they retain rights no matter what they're accused of. And if you can't do even that, well... you just might be the kind of person who would cut off your nose to spite your face.

If you want to protect victims, if you want to protect minority groups, you have to realize that sex crimes, or any crimes at all, do not deserve the death penalty. Period.

brettdoesdiscourse replies:
When a certain kind of person "deserves" to die, bigots will make sure marginalized groups all are that kind of person.

little-gay-dowitcher replies:
My former neighbors were the “kill all pedos” type. They were also incredibly transphobic. And I was visibly queer. So guess who got stalked, harassed and threatened all throughout the brief period of time they babysat for their friend?

Stop enabling fascists. They’ve already proven they’re willing to attack minorities for no reason. Don’t give them a chance to excuse it.