So I was thinking about a possible Pochayuu calendar… it would probably be a calendar that starts in March 2019 -> Feburary 2020 because of a couple of reasons.
There is no way I can finish it and ship it on time before January and I don’t ship out packages in the second half of December to begin January to avoid the busy Holiday season (the risk of packages being lost is too big around that time and I like to sleep at night lol).
Was also thinking of making it a desktop calendar (will probably still have the option to hang it up as well)
I personally think the 18 month format starting in July would be better if you’re not starting in Jan. Business, teachers and others are buying calendars in July as well, so you could hit that second rush when people are thinking about it.
Just my 2 cents though.
As a teacher, I’d 100% spend more on an 18 month calendar than a 12 month one.
Nerdy Fact #1501: The producers of Star Trek included scenes of overt sexuality to deflect the focus of NBC’s Broadcast Standards Office censors from other controversial aspects in certain episodes, like blatant allegories of the Vietnam war and racism.
today in ‘i wasn’t actually expecting this, but i really should have expected this’: i do a lot of visa application invites for people for work, and the passport first page for just about every country i’ve seen has clear, black text printed on light/white background with maybe some simple pastel-coloured designs. and for the first almost-three-decades of my life, i was happy in the naive belief that all passports around the world were similar; that one day all countries of the world gathered in Geneva or wherever and formed a Passport Design Committee where they all agreed on the general aesthetics for passports worldwide.
then, about two weeks back, i saw an american passport for the first time, and it straight up has a giant-ass flag, an eagle, a fucking ear of corn, and the first line of the constitution on it, the text is on glaring multicoloured backdrop, and while i was caught off-guard by it, it is also completely in line with its country of origin, and also i feel like this tells me everything i need to know about america as a nation.
…American here and I really shouldn’t be surprised to find out that nobody else in the world does this and yet every single fucking time
Jfc that’s what our passports look like?!
(Also that’s wheat not corn)
Man this doesn’t even get into the fact that the eagle’s eye fluoresces under black light.
So does the Statue of Liberty on one of the back pages iirc.
The US passport, for anyone who hasn’t seen one, is pretty wild. EVERY PAGE is like that, with different ‘Americana’ images throughout. It also goes west to east, so it starts with totem poles of the pacific north west, and progresses through the desert of the southwest, the buffalo on the plains, Mount Rushmore (I had a visa affixed to the Mount Rushmore page so George Washington is just peering over the edge of the visa sticker all shifty like, looking like a Kilroy), agricultural fields, steamboat on the Mississippi (iirc again, I’m doing this from memory, I’m too lazy to go get mine), and eventually the Statue of Liberty. The final page is the FUCKING MOON. WITH THE AMERICAN FLAG ON IT. It’s an artist’s conception of the 1969 moon landing, obvs, but it really feels like they’re saying the moon is the 51st state or something.
When I was living abroad, people were always shocked at how colorful the US Passport is. I once had to show it at a large bank after my debit card had been compromised, and all the bankers wanted to look at it. Every page has some ~inspirational~ quote on it. I told them some of the pages glow under black light and they got out their pen lights for checking money and just played with my passport for a while, looking at all the glowy stuff and all the pictures.
I have yet to encounter another passport half as EXTRA™️ as that if the US of A.
Other countries passports aren’t colorful and extra??? I probably shouldn’t be surprised but I am
adults are always talking about how “kids will do anything to get out of school” and okay, first of all that’s not true, but I think we really need to ask why that idea holds so much sway.
children’s brains are hard-wired to take in new information and acquire new skills. consider, for a moment, just how thoroughly our society had to fuck up the concept of education for it to be a normal thing to assume kids are universally desperate to avoid learning.
couple things here:
multiple things can actually be bad at the same time
I’m 32
couple more things:
Little kids really aren’t equipped to work full time without damaging their physical, mental, and emotional development and health, and when you play the “but adults work all day!” card you sound like a nineteenth century textile baron.
Highschoolers can easily be “working” 40+ hours a week, between school, homework, and extracurriculars and/or part-time work, and still hear this smug “:/ wait til you get to the real world sweaty” rhetoric all the time.
The original claim here wasn’t even “school is too hard,” it was “school is failing to perform its most basic function,” which is different.
The Archery Range 