Honestly I kinda stumbled into my specific career. I’ve known I enjoy working with computers for a while, so I took digital tech class all through high school. I went to uni thinking I’d do mechatronics engineering, but that needs chemistry so fuck that. I then switched to software engineering, but then I saw the timetable of some second year engineering friends I had, then said fuck that. Then I switched to computer science for the next year, planning to go into researching ai (this was in 2020, don’t judge too hard), but dropped out for my mental health. Then a family friend at my church offered me a position doing automation/efficiency programming, which was better than the pool attendant job I had at the time. I’ve been there since.

Also, if you’re not sure what to do, don’t feel guilty about taking a gap year. Take that year, earn some money, figure out what you enjoy doing. And don’t feel like you have to go to uni. Polytech and trades are just as good as uni.

And here is an even more cursed version

Solution: more blankets. Where I grew up we had regular frosts all through winter, but I never really went with anything more than 18. 2-3 blankets and a thick duvet does a lot for keeping you warm.

Non stick: alright for eggs and other relatively low temperature stuff. Make sure you only use rubber, plastic, or other soft utensils, and never clean it with a scraper or steel wool. The surface of the non stick is fine as far as I know, but if you go deeper by getting too hot or scraping with something too hard, you can expose the toxic chemicals.

Stainless: my go to. Use whatever utensils you want, and clean it however you want. The main thing to make it non stick is heat the pan up hot enough that when you splash a bit of water on it, it beads up and scatters. Then use plenty of oil. The main downside is you usually can’t put them in the oven.

Cast iron: better in use than stainless, but harder to clean. Upside is you can use whatever with them, and you can swap between oven and stove. Downside is you can’t clean them the same way as anything else.

Kiwi is also the nationality

My name is Joseph, and a lot of kids mispronounce it as “Jofish” or something similar. I can’t remember who actually started the nickname for me, but it caught on. It doesn’t hurt that I enjoy being in and around water anyway.

It’s basically impossible to say without knowing the two of you much better than is possible in a post like this. I know 16 year olds who know enough about life and have a good enough relationship that I’d be confident they could have a healthy marriage, and I know 30 year olds who shouldn’t be going anywhere near proposing. At 20/18, yes, you’re young, but it’s definitely possible for you to be mature enough.

Things to think about:

• are both of your parents still together? Not saying it can’t work if they aren’t, but it does help the odds
• have you fought over anything before? If so, was it something major, and how did you resolve it?
• how well do you handle being bored together? You’ll spend the rest of your life together, and not every moment is entertaining

This is some of the advice that me and my fiance (both 24) got from our parents and church community

Edit: I should say, if you go for it, do some pre marriage counseling. There’s probably a lot of things you don’t know about married life, and it’s best to find an older couple that you know and trust to tell you about those things.

It’s a pretty good simple system here. You have two wheely bins, one red lid for rubbish and the other yellow lid for non glass recycling, and you have a much smaller bin for the glass. Rubbish goes out every week, recycling goes out every other week, and the specific day depends on your suburb (mine is Monday). You just leave your bin on the side of the road the night before your rubbish day, and bring your bin back once the rubbish truck has been past.

SCOTT STERLING IS BACK

Does your dick hang low

Does it wobble to and fro

Can you tie it in a knot

Can you tie it in a bow

It’s also in large part Trump’s fault that any attention is on the files. He was the one pushing the conspiracy theory, and running on the promise of releasing them. So anyone who’s name is in the files can blame Trump for them not getting away with it.

I don’t like that line of logic, but it works out

I don’t have my firearms license yet, but I’m planning to get it soon. As for why I want guns (and why my dad, and my fiance and her family own guns), they’re for hunting, pest control (mostly rabbits and possums), and target shooting.

There’s probably less editorializing than you’d think. At least less that was successful in being hidden. There are verses that we know we’re added in later that seem like they fit in perfectly. Example: “for yours is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, now and forever” at the end of the Lord’s prayer. That verse feels right at home there, but based on early copies and differences between copies as Christianity spread, we know that wasn’t original.

He would and did quote the old testament. The prophets books were written at least a few hundred years before he lived, and those were the latest of the old testament to be written.

The new testament was written about 100 years after he lived, and canonized a few hundred years later.

Porn Revere

Oh we’re living in the information age. It’s just our information that’s being shared, not us receiving information

[Mark 12:17] is clearly about taxes

It is about that in the surface, sure. But when you look at the context, it’s one of many times the pharisees tried to get Jesus to either go against the Roman empire, so they could get him killed for it, or go against God, so they could exile him for it.

taxes are a pretty popular socialist repellant

Clearly one of us is misunderstanding socialist ideals, because I would say socialists tend to be the ones pushing the hardest for the highest taxes. Please explain why socialists, the community focused people who know no one can stand alone, would be against making sure everyone pitches in to help the poorest people.

[Jesus] just cared if people were following God’s orders

You should really actually give the gospels are serious read before making that kind of claim. Not saying you’ve never read any of the Bible, but I am saying that I don’t see a way to have genuinely read the gospels and come to the conclusion of “yeah, Jesus is all about the legalistic religion”.

the money changing was Babylonian money magick, of which was the reason they were thrown out

A. Where did you hear that it was Babylonian money? Babylon had fallen ~500 years earlier, so I doubt there’d be any of their money left in use. B. Jesus talks about the temple become “a den of robbers”. That doesn’t sound like the only issue was the choice of currency

the whole point was to accept handouts for those who didn’t work

Ignoring for now the fact that that’s far from the point, what’s so bad about “handouts”? Sure, if you refuse to work you shouldn’t expect to be given a mansion or something, but that’s not what anyone is seriously saying. The “handouts” that leftists talk about is stuff like food and basic housing. The idea is that your right to live is based on your value as a person, not your productivity as a worker.

Especially when you compare the effects in Lord of the Rings to the Hobbit. You can really see when the studio is overworked and underpaid, even when it’s a studio as good as weta.

Plenty of people here have talked about potential success or failure, and the economic side, but here’s my take. Despite Marx equating religion to an opiate, and especially despite the “no religion” stance of the USSR, Christianity (probably the other Abrahamic religions as well and maybe Hinduism and its offshoots, I’m not exactly sure please correct me if I’m wrong) should be massively in favor of communism over capitalism. In Christianity, we are called to be stewards of creation for God, we run it and manage it but it’s not ours. This doesn’t work with capitalism, which is focused on the concept of ownership. That’s not to mention the equality side of things, which is very much a Christian concept.

I’ve brought this up with some of my Christian friends, and it’s unfortunately not a popular idea. Probably because of lingering cold war attitudes of “communism is atheist”.

Also to be clear: yes I’m Christian, no I’m not pro theocracy, yes this is based on my knowledge of the Bible and on communist philosophy.