adespoton

joined 2 years ago
[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 4 points 18 hours ago

Good/bad doesn’t have to do with age. Are you going to Harvard or a local college with subsidized night school classes? Are you wanting to learn a specific skill, get a degree, upskill for a career path, retrain for new work?

I had a grandfather who ended up deployed in the army when he was planning to go off to college. When he got back, he took the jobs he could and continually took night school classes.

My father got his masters degree when he was 46, which resulted in 20 years of increased pay at work.

Me? I’m constantly learning, using free online courses. I don’t care about the degrees or certifications; anyone who knows me knows what I’m capable of.

I knew a woman who got her PhD in Law at the age of 97.

My workplace pays for appropriate certifications for its employees.

There’s all sorts of ways to go to school.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 points 23 hours ago

Yes, that’s kind of the point of my question.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I’ll counter with another question: are tomatoes and peppers fruit or vegetables?

Sucrose is made up of glucose and fructose, so anything that contains sucrose contains fructose bound to glucose.

And just like fructose isn’t directly related to fruit, glucose isn’t directly related to glue. And sucrose doesn’t come from suits.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 days ago

Learn Ukrainian first maybe, and then learn Russian? It may be easier to learn if you already know Ukrainian, too.

Of course, if you already know Ukrainian, why not learn Russian too?

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

I got a miniPC 5 years ago that had a 128GB SSD in it that I used like that. When I went to get a second one last year, the same price point came with 1TB. I got it and swapped out the storage and stuck it in an external case.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

For it’s time, possibly… but I’ve played through it. There are others from slightly later that have so many possible endings and characters that I never felt like I fully completed them.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Catholics seem oddly cosmopolitan compared to Baptists, what’s the diff?

Basically the same difference between Sunni and Shia Muslims.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 18 points 6 days ago (6 children)

This is why you don’t use your real name online.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago

My kids have phones with no SIM card; they can call 911 and they can use WiFi when in range; I have them set up with a VPN to home, so that’s the only connection any hotspot sees.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Apple said “no” and they reversed course.

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