Candice_the_elephant

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[–] Candice_the_elephant@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

It depends.

If you're old and wealthy, doing it for the education, not for the income, then it's never too late. If you're not, then spreadsheet it. Calculate expected working life and expected income for current career trajectory, and compare with expected working life after education and expected income for new career minus full cost of further education including lost income while studying.

Or if your current works options suck, pursue further education so you can do something that doesn't suck as long as it won't leave you much worse off by retirement.

The calculations will be different for every person.

Remember any calculations and expectations will change over time, especially with the advent of AI. So do the calculations, then follow your heart. There's no guarantees.

Don't fuck around when it comes to ladders, I fell 3m onto tiles. Foot went through the ladder, my 80kg landed on the ladder and my ankle joint just snapped right off. It was pretty gnarly.

[–] Candice_the_elephant@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

If you save the images to your account, you can repost them when the thread calls for it.

eg I have a photo of my foot when I broke it off at the ankle. It comes up occasionally and the link is still usable years later. You also have more control over visibility (and posting to Imgur users etc, ie don't).

For throwaway memes you'll never want to share again, treating it like a url shortener is great.

I was also looking to support good non advertising startups at the time, the 2000s we were still excited about what an open web would become, before enshitification became the norm.

[–] Candice_the_elephant@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I'm so old I remember the first post. Hey you can host images for reddit here. The other image hosting sites at the time sucked, they were slow, purged content frequently, and were full of ads. I signed up immediately and imgur was good for almost 10 years and nearly the only place images from reddit reddit users were hosted. I think the pressure to monetize combined with reddit's own image hosting push sent them into the enshitification death spiral.

[–] Candice_the_elephant@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Well if we treated it as a public health issues rather than a law enforcement issue, the addicts could get the help & support they need and being a public nuisance would drop right off.