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Reading the answers here is absolutely horrifying. I'm sorry that so many have had to go through so much - the shit yall went through is something that should not have happened. I teach econ at a small private university, and while most of the faculty are fantastic, there's always that handful who treats teaching like a power fantasy fulfillment o......   reply

What I have noticed screws people over the most when presenting is thinking that they have to rememer EVERYTHING. Your audience will not know if there is something you forgot to mention, and if it's something they need to know, they will ask you (and answering is easier at that point). So don't stress yourself over needing to remember every small t......   reply

I don't know if this counts as a trope, but when the story starts focusing too much on the side couple. I'm there for the MC and the MC's rights (and wrongs), and inevitably messy relationships, idgaf abt the side characters falling in love with each other.   reply

If you view your future as an abstract, unspecific thing then I think it's honestly understandable that you don't feel motivated, and don't know why you should try. What motivates me (well, motivated as a student, and continues to do so even afterwards) is a standard of living that I want to enjoy: work as little as possible in a job that doesn't ......   reply

(Jinx related) I hate Potato. I think this is unpopular, because I've seen a lot of people love him? I stopped enjoying the plot a while ago because Dan's suffering just kept going on and on, but kept briefly skimming over the updates to see if even an ounce of remorse was going to manifest with JJ. So I was intrigued again when Dan finally left, ......   1 reply

I took econ all the way through, lol! B.Sc., M.Sc., and then PhD. Now I teach it lmaooo (i love it. I'm def biased but it's my one true love. men come and go but nothing fucks you better than the economy!! ) That said: rather than focus on a major/field, you might benefit from focusing on certain milestones that you want to reach. E.g. a certain l......   reply

They went to the same med school (different classes, dad was a year older). He asked her out, and that was that, lol.   reply

Because the attention economy is peaking, and while people think that short attention spans are only relevant when you want to advertise something, the truth is that people's attention towards each other is also harder to capture. Those who are interesting (either by character or appearance) will still usually get enough attention to be well-socia......   reply

Somehow ending up as a gainfully employed adult with my own life and healthy relationships, despite having grown up in an extremely neurotic and dysfunctional family. During my late teens I did not think this was ever going to be possible for me.   reply

I mean... a lot of people are just bad at sex. It's portrayed as this thing that's amazing all the time, but tbh it's not - if your partner has no idea what turns you on beyond the common physiological points, then yeah... sex will be a waste of time and energy. If you're doing it with a partner that you actually click with and are sexually compat......   reply

I'm sorry you're experiencing something like this. What you are feeling is real, and a coping response to the circumstances you are going through right now. Both feelings, negative though they are, are indicators of your own awareness towards deserving, and having potential, for better. I obviously don't know your exact circumstances, but it sound......   reply

Here's my ultimate favourite that fits the criteria: https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/watashitachi_no_shiawase_na_jikan/ I read it years ago, then lost track of it but couldn't forget about it. It's so beautiful.   reply

I do think it's inevitable. The quality of comics will suffer for a while, though, because AI just doesn't draw distinctive characters well. I can totally understand the temptation of using AI if you're an artist who is not paid well, and yet keeps getting bombarded by (often rudely phrased) demands for faster updates and longer chapters (and some......   1 reply

No. In Sweden, we have bananas on pizza instead, which works much better.   1 reply

No, no, and no. He's got the personality of soggy wet napkin and the desperation of a self-hating pick-me, and no amount of money will turn that into something that deserves any physical contact from me. Not even a handshake. Sorry.   reply

Of all the feelings I've had towards this hellscape of a website, respect is not one of them. I like it, though. It's full of degenerates which keeps the standard of coexistence on a tolerably manageable level. No one is better than anyone because we've all read weird shit we don't want to be associated with. That said, no one IRL even knows I kno......   reply

As a gay man, I absolutely agree. Not to say that there aren't people IRL with strict preferences, but in fiction there seems to be a strong adherence to gender roles even in portrayals of gay couples (you can tell that the authors tend to have a "which one is the woman in this relationship" way of thinking when writing gay couples).   reply

I already finished mine (economics, did it in Sweden). It was hard, but I am glad I did it. I was being paid for the whole duration of it, and I got into teaching early on so by the time I finished my PhD I had already landed myself a permanent teaching job at a university in my city. The hardest part for me was the academic community (some aspect......   1 reply

What kind of bank would process 70k worth of transactions that are out of the ordinary? Because if you don't have an established pattern of spending 70K-range in a day, then most banks (depending on where you are and what kind of bank you're using) would flag expenditures of that scale as abnormal and require confirmation (via a phone call). And fo......   reply