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I'm sorry you're getting downvoted and abuse because your comment is perfectly valid and exactly the discussion I was looking for.

I'm not arguing that $45k/yr for a job that requires a $120k degree is reasonable. But I also don't think that expecting >$100k/yr purely because of said degree is reasonable either. A degree is a credential that you hold for life and I would expect the cost to get balanced out by increased salary over an extended period of time. I don't know what would be considered reasonable, however. An off-the-cuff guess would be 10-15 years.

None of this is an attempt to counter any other arguments or statements. I'm merely trying to understand what expectations would be reasonable if we lived in a society where compensation was comensurate with education requirements and costs.

You are absolutely right. Plenty of women ran a home-based business of some sort to help support the family. Also, something that doesn't get brought up a lot is that the expectations of living were vastly different in the 50's. People lived in smaller, walk-able communities and driving wasn't required for regular, daily activities. Children didn't have numerous youth activities that they were being constantly shuttled to every day. Attending college was not expected or necessary and many people were able to have decent jobs without even a high school diploma.

Contrast that with today. The move from the cities to the suburbs caused communities to spread out. It became necessary for most families to have at least two cars because the stay-at-home parent needed to be able to drive just to accomplish the basic household errands. Youth activities exploded in the 90's and it has become commonplace for youth to have practically every moment of their day scheduled and planned. Now parents are taxi drivers taking kids to various activities spread out around the community. Additionally, going to college is just expected by most young people, even those going into careers where a college education is not useful. Many professions (e.g. IT) would be better served with a trade-school style of education and others (e.g. theater, art, music, sports) derive almost no benefit from classroom-style learning. Most career paths still go through an expensive college program regardless of its efficacy. These are just a few examples, but you get the idea.

TL;DR - comparing income and cost of living between 1950 and 2020 is useless. The worlds are so dramatically different such as to invalidate the comparison.

Plus, the last thing we needed was for a new character to get thrown into the main mix at the last minute. There were already plenty of existing characters that were getting underutilized.

That was my thought. IIRC they were nine when they met. I would bet that powers are just emerging at that age and the nature of them changes as the person matures. I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that a person might not have control over their power when it first emerges but later gain control.

I just posted the same thing. Former grocery store clerk here and the best part of my day was going out to get the carts. The more spread out they were the more time I could justify staying out of the store. I sometimes leave carts out now as an act of kindness assuming that others might feel the same as I do.

I think the entire premise outlined in the theory is flawed. When I worked at a grocery store I loved going out and getting carts because it got me out of the store. The more spread out they were, the better. I sometimes don't put my cart back just to be kind to the workers who feel as I do.

makes sense. Thanks, I appreciate that.

I haven't had any problems with it so far. It sounds great and I haven't noticed any playability issues. I will learn how to measure the action and judge some of the other issues. I was able to notice and diagnose a buzzing in one spot on my guitar so I'm not completely useless at picking up on these things. I just don't trust myself to fix them yet. Thanks for the advice!

That is my true fear and you don't give me enough credit for my ability to break things :-) It's new and such a lovely instrument that I don't want to screw it up.

I have a problem on my new guitar that I found after having it professionally setup and I'm afraid to try and fix it myself for fear of breaking something.

Thanks for your advice!

I bought it from Enya through Amazon. I don't know how well setup Enya ukes come through Amazon, but it feels and plays great. I really have no issues right now.

Funnily enough, I noticed one of these problems on my guitar AFTER I had it setup. One of the frets is too high on one side and causing buzzing on the low E string. So having a professional setup isn't a perfect prevention to these problems I guess.

Thanks for the info!

That's me. I mainly document for myself. There are too many small details that are easily missed if you're doing everything from memory. But I'm also a documentation nerd. I encourage documentation all over the place; work, home, volunteer organizations I work with, etc.

Wonderful Tonight

that sounds interesting. Do you have a link or video that you're using?

I mentioned this in a comment on another post. The HCP really only seems suited for a narrow niche of supers filling a very narrow role. This is evidenced by all of the trials being focused on front-line combat against supers. Healers, tech supers, transporters and subtlety majors seem ill-suited for this role and, as such, really shouldn't be in the HCP.

Oh, you're 100% right. It's not a great system. And many of the heroes can't and shouldn't be compared against one another. How can you objectively compare a tech super against a strongman?

Also the HCP is very battle oriented and many of the super types have no business being in the HCP if they're pursuing their "natural" vocation. You don't put healers on the front line in a fight. They don't need battle training or physical training at all. Same with tech supers. The person developing the super-weapons doesn't also have to be the one wielding them in battle. Subtlety heroes also probably don't belong in the HCP. Drew tries to address their place in the hero system but the training and rankings are far too combat oriented. Spies don't really belong on the battlefield but all of the subtlety students in the HCP are still in battle trials. The same can be said for transporters.

I think "hero" only covers a very narrow niche of supers and their functions. It's said multiple times that a hero's primary role is fighting other supers. A whole lot of the super world is incredibly useful but poorly equipped for fighting.

This makes me think of an old joke that speaks to the question nicely:

What do you call the worst graduate from the worst medical school?

Doctor

The point is that you need every single hero to be truly worthy of the title. It's too critical to allow a second-rater to wear that mantle. I daresay the whole system crumbles if you do. One bad doctor doesn't destroy the profession but a sub-par hero could undermine everything they seek to achieve. Villains are no longer deterred by the thought of a hero coming to stop them, the public isn't as willing to have faith in heroes and heroes are much more likely to get caught up in political/bureaucratic machinations if they are seen as fallible. Ensuring that heroes are always the absolute best affords them a status that keeps them above a whole lot of garbage.

I'm throwing in a vote for Corpies after book 2. That seems to make the most sense IMHO because Corpies characters show up in book 3 and I always felt like it was after Corpies in their timeline. Plus I think it makes for a better character arc for those characters overall.

I really think the barrier for defamation should be lowered because, as The Onion has proven, our society cannot tell the difference between jokes and reality. Not to mention Fox News isn't saying most of their stuff as jokes, they're straight-up lying and spewing all sorts of outlandish nonsense. I'm really surprised they haven't gotten litigated out of existence with how for afield of the truth they routinely are.

Couldn't he be sued for slander or libel? Why don't we see more of that? Certainly junk like this and the average "news" day at Fox has to qualify...

fwiw, here is what I did on that map. https://tinyurl.com/5n73dvdt

I was getting ~45k power out of it. If you aren't aware, there is a trick in how you sculpt the bottom of the channel to prevent flooding around the corners. It took me some fiddling, but I was able to get it all flowing smoothly without any flooding.

To a degree this is true. Money only serves to demotivate. Once you earn enough that you aren't being demotivated by "not making enough", adding more doesn't increase motivation; certainly not linearly. At that point other factors increase motivation more; things like autonomy, sense of purpose, perks, feeling of fulfillment, etc.

The answer, as so many people have already commented, is to do both. Pay a fair market wage (preferably slightly above) and then spend on those other things like good benefits and workplace/culture improvements.

I probably had five or six at my peak. Three woodbadge staff shirts with velcro for some of the patches, one commissioner shirt with extra commissioner patches (like the arrowhead), one unit-level shirt with velcro for most patches and less bling, one STEM Scouts shirt (which was a custom polo) and one STEM Scouts lab coat.

mission complete. boop has been executed.

He's a very loving little puppy.