TabbsTheBat (they/them)

They/Them A chaos bean bat/bunny. I do art sometimes

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  • In lithuania conscripts and volunteers earn 340€ a month for the 9 month period they serve for daily expenses, and an additional payout which is based on their performance and type of service. Chart:

    For a fulltime soldier I believe the pay is around 1,500€ a month (18,000€ a year), and for a general it’s around 5-6 thousand a month (60,000-72,000€ a year). Most of this is based on a quick google search, so if it’s inaccurate, that’s your warning lol

    I know an well experienced American Colonel lives under the salary of $128,700 (~111,365.70 euros) what are you able to purchase in your country with that amount of money?

    2 basic houses in the countryside. Or 1 relatively nice one




  • We already have military conscription here in lithuania, along with the voluntary service

    I did get conscripted to it (and didn’t have to do it, on account of failing my medical exams), but prior to that, my opinion on military service was more or less that I wouldn’t join the military if the call was for some war in the middle east, but if russia ever started throwing more than illegal planes and spy drones over the border and something had to be done about it, then I would’ve been more likely to, I suppose ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯




  • Haven’t had US school food, so I can’t make a direct comparison, but given I heard ketchup counts as a vegetable, and the weird gloopy slime milk I’ve seen online, I imagine it’s a lot better here

    For the free school lunch, usually we’d have random rotation of a starch (mashed potatoes, buckwheat, or rice usually), a salad (beetroot, bean, coleslaw, I don’t remember the others on rotation), meat (pork patties, patties stuffed with egg, chicken cutlet, fish patties), a soup (bean, cabbage, beetroot and some others), and a drink (usually tea, juice or kompot). For the paid lunch there were more varieties, and extra goodies like pastries

    And for the quality, I wouldn’t say it was quite like home cooked. I mean it was all cooked fresh and all, but it used a lot of long shelf life vegetables like dried beans and potatoes, and sometimes it definitely had an aftertaste of basement lol. Though at least most of the stuff was fresh. There used to be a truck unloading produce whenever I was going into the school since I got there early

    Overall I’d definitely say the school food was at least palatable




  • Story time!

    TW for mental health and SH I guess :3

    So, this was a few years ago now, but I got conscripted for military service, and at that point you’re supposed to go to recruitment stuff, and medical evaluations and all that. At the medical check up they did a bunch of tests, eyes, feet, spine, heart, and so on, and then eventually it got to the psychological bit.

    First was a go to the psychologist there, and it was all the standard stuff of fill out a questionnaire, then go in and talk to the psychologist about it, whatever. At the time I was pretty depressed, had a lot of anxiety, and also self harmed, which of course I answered without lying. They ask to see my SH scars, which I showed, and then they wrote some stuff down and sent me across the hall to talk to a psychiatrist, they again ask about the stuff I filled out, and eventually ask to see the scars, which I show, and they basically say “you don’t need to any more tests today, go to such and such mental hospital, say it’s for this military thing blah blah blah” and so on.

    (I cut myself on my legs, so to this day that remains the only time a mental health professional has asked me to take off my pants)

    Anywho I register to go there in a few days, and it’s much of the same process, talk to the psychologist, they ask about my life and parents and relationships (was kinda like a therapy session lol), talk to a psychiatrist, talk to the psychologist again… Eventually I get taken to another building, they tell me to wait while they fill some stuff out, then I got taken into the office to answer some questions in front of a bunch of doctors about myself and how I feel about the military service thing, and at the end they hand me a large sealed envelope to deliver to the military recruitment centre, which I do, and then im officially dismissed from the military :3… and I got paid like 20 bucks or something like that for the day I was technically in the military lol