Very wholesome! I find that using cheap paper, and basic supplies from the dollar store really gets rid of hesitation when making art. After all, you're definitely not "trying seriously" when you use low-end supplies...
It's a useful mind trick, but for watercolour, good paper makes all the difference. It's still affordable, so I just bought a second pad for tests and practice. It costs the same, but it's not part of my notebook so I feel better about using it up.
I'm a big fan of Pastvu: go yo the "gallery" view, choose one of the "-stan" former soviet republics, set the date filter yo 1986-1996 and enjoy nostalgia from a parallel world.
This is why I alway bring a street urchin with me when I shop for groceries. I make sure he has a cellphone & wifi enabled. We carefully walk down the aisle side by side and the e-ink price tags start flashing. They usually settle on a price that's halfway between the personalized price for him and I.
There are a lot of positive outcomes from this technology: more revenue in the pocket of the family who own's Canada's biggest grocer & REIT, and a deeper relationship with the neighbourhood vagabonds for me.
Whenever I think to myself "how did things get this bad?", I also force myself to think, "how did they get good, in the first place?"
Today, we are building the Torment Nexus. But yesterday, we were building the Vietnam War, the Holocaust, etc. etc. Things can get worse, but they can also get better - we just have to do our small part in making them better.
The left is focused not on the correct thing (albeit a thing worthy of support), and the right refuse to acknowledge the benefit of regulation / legislation and are totally disenchanted with the possibility of politics while they just just blame the left for all their problems.
The thing about banks: AML is for the small fry. The big money launderers walk in the front door as VIPs, they don't have to sneak around.
A good recent case is how TD Bank actively helped cartels launder money. An interesting scenario from the past was BCCI, a bank founded to lend legitimacy to criminals (I'm sure it wasn't the last of its kind).
My sibling has spent a year looking for a dev job in the UK without success. Bear in mind that even with a work visa, employers are so conservative that they don't want to touch anyone with an unusual work situation. There is also an anti-immigrant vibe, a general economic slump and a lot of their tech ecosystem sounds like a kabuki show.
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