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So just as the title says i flashed my local Walmart. I can’t believe this happened and now i need to find a new Walmart to shop at.

For context I’m 7wks postpartum with my first child and the newborn tranches are trenching. I’m totaling about 10-15 hours of sleep per week and i constantly feel like I’m in a daze.

Last week i was running errands with my baby and he was screaming in the backseat. Walmart was our next stop so i decided to pull into an out of the way parking spot to feed my baby (he’s only breast fed). The day was already becoming long and my baby was so overtired and stimulated and frankly so was i. As soon as he was done feeding i put him in his seat and walked into Walmart.

As soon as we enter thru the door, my baby starts screaming. I look down to tend to him and realize my boob is not in my clothes. Now, not only is everyone looking at me because my baby is screaming but now they’re noticing my boob is out too. I wanted nothing more than to evaporate in that moment. I put my boob away and ran out and I’ve been beside myself ever since.

ABK macht eine extrem peinliche Ansage gegen die Bergische Universität Wuppertal, weil sie ihn nicht in einem Medienstudiengang angenommen haben. Dabei handelt es sich im Grunde um ein Studium mit Fokus auf Film. Es ist extrem offensichtlich, dass sich ABK nicht auf die Eignungsprüfung vorbereitet hat und dachte, dass er absolut wüsste, wie Filmschnitt funktioniert, weil er über 10 Jahre YouTube-Videos gemacht hat. Dabei blendet er ein paar Screenshots von amateurhaften Timelines seines Schnittprogramms ein.

Er ist ein super Beispiel für den Dunning-Kruger-Effekt. Ich habe bereits ein grundlegendes Filmstudium abgeschlossen und studiere gerade an der Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. Somit habe ich einiges an Erfahrung mit den Bewerbungsabläufen an den kleinen und großen Filmhochschulen in Deutschland gemacht.

Von einem technischen Grundwissen wird bei den Eignungsprüfungen ausgegangen, und daher wird meistens nichts Technisches abgefragt. Es geht um das Verständnis fürs Erzählen, darum, dass man etwas erzählen will und kann. Die meisten Studiengänge im Filmbereich sind extrem begrenzt und der Anspruch ist entsprechend hoch. An den großen Filmschulen sind es meistens 4-6 Plätze, die vergeben werden. An den kleinen sind es 20-40. Man reißt sich wirklich den Arsch auf, um dort angenommen zu werden. Ich kenne einen Haufen Leute, die Berufserfahrung und einen Bachelor im Medien-/Filmbereich haben und nicht einmal zur Eignungsprüfung eingeladen wurden, weil es eben hohe Ansprüche gibt. Nicht nur an das Künstlerische, sondern auch an die Person, deren Reife und Reflektiertheit. Davon hat ABK offensichtlich nichts.

Abschließend finde ich es spannend, welche Folgen diese "Hetze" auf die Uni für ABK haben könnte. Ein Aufruf, die Uni per Telefon, E-Mail und auf allen Plattformen zu belästigen, ist wirklich absolut peinlich. Besonders weil ABK hier die Rassismus- und Diskriminierungskarte spielt. Damit schadet er extrem der wirklich wichtigen Debatte um Diskriminierung an Unis, weil er das Thema für seine Agenda missbraucht. Er war einfach nicht gut genug, hat niemanden vorher gefragt, wie die Prüfung abläuft, und letztendlich mit dem Video wohl auch sein aktuelles Studium endgültig weggeworfen (falls es nicht schon durch war).

Mark,

My name is David Daniels. I have followed your journey since 2016 and I am here to express a genuine safety concern regarding the episode of distractible known as "Glauber Salt"

 For your own safety and the safety of your equipment PLEASE DO NOT MAKE GLAUBER'S ICE TO COOL A RENDER FARM. Water expands when frozen which will crush your equipment while simultaneously ripping certain (soldered) components away from the boards.
If the render farm starts after being frozen, ice is also a thermal insulator, which will create little igloos filled with water around the hottest components. These igloos will then be pressurized and superheated as the liquid tries to expand as it heats past boiling.
If you do this, you will essentially be turning your render farm into a superheated bomb. I understand that the render farm idea was probably a bit, but I am concerned for your safety.

David Daniels

Viewer since 2016

Hi everyone! I’ll just get right to it:

My MIL invited my husband (M24) and I (F24) on a family vacation to Hawaii with her, her husband (my husband’s step father), and their two younger boys, who are 15 and 13. She very kindly offered to pay for our hotel if we came with. (EDIT: we are paying for our own flights, food, and entertainment. It’s not a free vacation.) My husband and I have been together 6 years, married for 4, our marriage is great and I have a great relationship with all my in-laws. there’s no underlying beef with anyone here by any means.

However, my MIL texted me today and vaguely said we’d be “sharing a room” and my husband later confirmed that meant we’d be sharing with the two teenage boys. I’m not comfortable with that, to be honest. We have been on another vacation with them in the past in which my MIL wanted us to share a room with her and the boys, and at that time my husband agreed it felt weird and we paid for our own room. We do have the money to pay for our own room this time around too, especially since this vacation isn’t happening for another 6 months.

This time however, my husband said he doesn’t understand what the big deal is. I feel it’s not appropriate, it makes me feel uncomfortable to share a room with two teenage boys, one of which seems to have a crush on me, to the point that everyone in the family including my husband is aware of it. Idk yall, I don’t even wear a two piece swimsuit around my in-laws because it makes me feel uncomfortable, I really just don’t feel comfortable sharing a bedroom and bathroom with two teenage boys for a week and would absolutely pay out of pocket to avoid that. AITA?

EDIT: a couple things. 1. This is my MIL’s birthday trip that she’s been planning for a couple of years. I should have mentioned that to begin with, my apologies y’all.

2. I’ve just found out that apparently we can’t upgrade the room/get a separate room. I guess the hotel is like a military hotel or something, and we either cannot book through it and/or there is no availability. It’s almost midnight where I’m at and my husband is asleep, so I will have to get more details on this tomorrow. I’ll keep y’all updated on that, but just know I feel empowered enough after reading y’all’s comments to make this a hill I die on. I appreciate the support from everyone!

EDIT 2: WOW hi everyone, thanks for y’all’s input. This got way more attention than I thought it would! Feeling more empowered than ever to say no to this. I honestly originally posted this because I wanted to make sure I wasn’t just talking to people in my own echo chamber, but after like 800 of yall telling me it’s weird, I feel better about this. Haven’t been able to speak to my husband yet, but I’ll let yall know when I do!

Update: talked to my husband. He begrudgingly agreed and said he’d talk to MIL, but quite frankly I’m not satisfied with that because his attitude towards me is that I’m being drama queen or making unreasonable requests. If that’s how it’s gonna be, I’ll just bow out of the trip entirely. I’ll let yall know when the talk with MIL happens, probably tomorrow sometime because it’s getting late in the US. I’m honestly very frustrated because I laid out every reason why this is not appropriate and he just keeps telling me it’s not that big of a deal. Like ok, it’s not that big of a deal to YOU, but it is to ME, and that should matter to my spouse. Hopefully he has a change of heart.