Claremont (country house) Puns

While a lot of people say they are 'in it for the tech', many of us are here because Crypto seems to be the best way to get to home ownership in the next 10 years.

For people who saw their parents work and pay rent all their life, I'm sure they want a different life. They want to help their family and get to home ownership.

One of the best asset class, in terms of growth, which is outpacing the housing market is crypto.

While people take huge risks, I think BTC and ETH will get people to home ownership.

You'd think the State would regulate home ownership since people are hoarding houses, you'd think they'd try to free us from the leeches who are the landlord class. Yet they are far more bothered that you or me are trying to invest in Crypto.

In France Half of the housing market is owned by 3.5% of families so if someone wants to get a house they'd have to DCA seriously for the next 10 years at least.
So let's meet in 10 years for the wave of 'I bought my house thanks to crypto' wave of post!

Boyfriend of 4 years is choosing his mother over me and we are about to break up over it. I need help!

Background: I have been dating my bf for 4 years. 6 months ago, we purchased a home together. I have a teenage daughter who also lives with us. His mother moved out of state 10 years ago, but comes in town every 5 weeks for 7 days to do people’s hair because she used to own a salon where we live. When he had his own home, she stayed with him. Since we moved in together, she keeps saying I do things to push her away. Here is what she says that about:

1. The first time she came, we had just moved in and our kitchen was under construction. She has been staying with a friend for several months while we sold houses and bought this one. I asked for her to stay with her friend one more time because our house is under construction and we don’t have running water or anything else in the kitchen. She was offended.
2. The next time she came, she stayed with us. I hugged her and had an allergic reaction to her perfume that made my throat close up. I kept my distance after that and asked her to not wear perfume or other smelly things when she’s at our house and to make sure that the clothes she brings have been washed. She thinks I made it up to push her away even though I showed her my medical paperwork and prescriptions for severe allergies.
3. Fast forward to 4 months later. I find out she doesn’t have a Covid vaccine. She travels on a plane from CA to TN and then works in a salon while she’s here. We ask her to get a vaccine before she comes back and she says she will. We are all vaccinated and don’t really hang out with unvaccinated people.
4. We find out 3 days before she’s coming that she didn’t get a vaccine and now says she won’t get one. I have plans to see my grandma on Christmas who is 84, has COPD and asthma. To protect my grandma, I have to quarantine for 10 days and take a Covid test. His mom is leaving 4 days before I plan to see my grandma. We asked her to stay at a hotel or with a friend this time so I can see my grandma on Christmas.
5. Now she is getting the vaccine because her mother broke her hip and the hospital/rehab center won’t allow her in to see her mother. No other reason. She just had the first shot yesterday and is planning to come back in 3 weeks again.
6. She now thinks she can stay with us because she’s vaccinated, but she’s traveling on a plane and working in a salon during the Omicron surge, so I said no, not right now.

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Totally overwhelmed with people and have just turned everyone away after an hour and a half wait

sooo... I'm a little bit (really) upset right now that I didn't apply to pomona. I just learned today that pomona, harvey mudd, claremont mckenna, scripps, and pitzer are all LACs that basically share a campus, so they don't have that super-isolated, small school vibe kind of thing.

anyway!! just wanted to let juniors know. I really wish I'd known, definitely would've applied.

Demographics

• Gender: Male
• Race/Ethnicity: Asian
• Residence: CA
• Income Bracket: Middle-upper class
• Type of School: Private, Boarding
• Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): First-Gen

Intended Major(s): Psych/ Econ

Academics

• GPA (UW/W): 3.54/4.0 UW, 3.71/4.0 W
• Rank (or percentile): N/A
• # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 7 Honors/Accelerated, 5 APs, 0 Dual Credit
• Senior Year Course Load: APES, AP Statistics, Advanced Studies Paleontology (Semester 1), Advanced Studies Museum Research (Semester 2), Advanced Studies (school has own humanities courses) Culture and Politics of the Border, Advanced Studies Age of Enlightenment, Honors Modern Constitutional Debates, Honors Spanish.

Standardized Testing

List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported.

• SAT I: 1520 (770RW, 750M)
• ACT I: N/A
• ACT II: N/A
• AP/IB: 3: AP Biology
• Other (ex. IELTS, TOEFL, etc.): N/A

Extracurriculars/Activities

List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc.

1. Research Organization for Mental Health; CHIPAO- Stanford Psychology Research Project... too lazy to write other stuff.
2. Student Vice-President- Vice-pres for school
3. Founder of School Psychology Club; Run biweekly meetings...
4. CMO of Start-up; No name for privacy reasons. Come up with plans for students struggling with reasonably priced college counseling by hiring professionals and running a service.
5. Volleyball- Played all 4 years on high school team, no outside practice or etc.

Awards/Honors

List all awards and honors submitted on your application.

1. Peccary Scholar; Straight A's for Junior year, and take Paleontology Course which culminated in publishing a Paleontological Research Paper

Letters of Recommendation

1st: My junior year English teacher, he was my Dorm head since Freshman year, and we were fairly close. I received great comments from him and he seemed happy to have me as a student. I do think I submitted quality work in his class, 8/10

2nd: My junior year math teacher, I was one of the only students in his class to attend office hours regularly as it was online school which likely gave me a bit of a boost. I showed attentiveness and even wrote him emails for the holidays and whatnot. 10/10

3rd: Research Organization head researcher, I attended every check-in meeting and worked with him with great attention. H

I bought Inferno last night and have received such amazing feedback here that it has motivated me to really jumpstart owning all of the relevant Claremont X books. Which are the absolute must have's? Which do I go for first, which are close to being out of print, which are coming back into print?

Loved it. I have always been a huge Xmen fan, but mainly through cartoons, video games, and a limited amount of the comics. Some of my quick thoughts on it.

• It was great to see how the comic started out in a very dated way but overtime really developed some characters and storylines that could go head to head with a lot of the best of more modern comics.
• I found Professor X to be quite the jerk, which I found surprising.
• I can't believe it took so long for the team to start getting a long and working together. The payoff was great, but I imagine that it could have been very frustrating read the comic as it came out since it was such a subtle change. Impressive stuff!
• It did a great job of addressing trauma and breaking it down in a way that was digestible to readers without being heavy handed. From storm's claustrophobia, to banshee losing his powers, to cyclops' processing of his grief.

Where should I go next? I will come back to finish up Claremont's run, but right now I want a break. I want to read the things that are both 1) Considered to be good a series, and 2) Considered to be Important runs, and 3) try to stay fairly in chronological order so I can follow what has been going on.

Right now I have just started off with X-Factor. I like that it brings back the originals (especially Iceman) and directly connects to the Phoenix Saga. I'm a little in the dark about who Madelyn Pryor is, but a quick google fixed that. Is there something big that I have skipped?

Thanks!

sorry for the huge wall of text. If you'd take a few minutes to read and give your opinion, I'd really appreciate it

In Finland we have compulsory military or civil service for people born with a dick. (In the governments words men)

When you turn 18 you are forced to decide, if you go to the military or civil service. If you choose neither you get 6 months of house arrest and if you break the rules of the house arrest you go to jail for 6months.

I was able to postpone my decision for 2 years for health reasons, but in 10months I must choose what to do. When you go to the civil service you work basically for free (under 10usd/day) for about a year. During this time the government pays your rent, but that's about it. Most of the civil service people work in libraries, elementary schools or in elderly care.

The military option is the minimum of 6months, but you can be forced to be there for a longer time tho this usually isn't the case if you don't want to be there any longer. The financial side is the same as with the civil service option. The military service is mostly propaganda and physical/combat training.

And house arrest is house arrest. You get an ancle monitor and a daily schedule is made for you which tells when you're allowed to go to the store etc. In my case I would also be allowed to go to the school.

I've thought about refusing to go to the military nor the civil service as a statement. But also 6months of house arrest/jail time isn't that nice of a deal.

In military I could maybe get some exercise and maybe even some useful skills, but I'd be complining in this system which breaks human rights and constitution by putting people in different positions based on their gender. If you were not assigned male at birth you don't have to do anything and you'll get no jail time etc.

Most of the people who go to the military are not leftists and spending 6months living with people like that would not be nice. They are often really vocal of their values and I personally refuse to be silent when someone expresses hateful/oppressing opinions, which basically means a constant state of conflict with me vs everyone else.

With civil service I'd probably go to some elementary school and be kinda an assistant for a teacher. I think I'd be able to make some kids think for themselves and question the norms. I have some visible political tattoos which would surely spark up some conversation with the kids. But also I haven't been around kids that age for

I know these are being reprinted next year. I have got so many Omnis on pre-order at the moment I don't think I can afford them all. These ones are low priority for me as I am mainly interested in the Chris Claremont era, and the new Hickman era OHCs, but I know they have been very hard to come by in recent year. Are these likely to sell out and then be gone for a long time, or do you think I could get away with cancelling my pre-order and waiting until later next year? Are marvel a bit better at meeting demand. I tend to buy as soon as release so dont get a sense of how scarce they become.