bluGill

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[–] bluGill@fedia.io 2 points 6 hours ago

i assume you mean as in your increased earnings will no longer pay the expense. The never too late crowd is thinking of school as a pure 'fun' activity which is a valid way to look at things but if you don't like school isn't for you and that is how I'm choosing to interprut your question.

the question is never answerable unil after the fact: I can calculate after you are dead. However I went to school with someone who went right to college, a mistake because he died in an accident at 21. Other people get mental decline in older years and so it is too late when they are no longer able to learn.

you can retire at any age when you have enough savings, but some people find it boring and will continue to work anyway - if this is you it can be worth it even if ecconomics don't work out if you get a job you like (or perhaps one that by not wearing on the body you can do longer)

many jobs pay for your schooling. if this applies the only quesntion is will you have to remain at the job longer than you want to afterwards.

if paying for your own schooling you can calculate the expected earnings after and compare to the cost to make a decision.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 2 points 4 days ago

That is lines outside - we have no idea how many of those got one.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 3 points 4 days ago

Never say never. There are some things I hope I never figure out what those wide men are talking about, but this isn't even in that same league. Maybe I'll buy one, it remains to be seen if there is some potential use I haven't thought of today. Probably not, but...

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 11 points 4 days ago (4 children)

20 stores only. Sold out in minutes. I'm guessing it takes a minute to get from the door to the display, pick one up and get to the checkout. Now people are still in parallel for this, but still I'm guessing 10 per store, with 100 the absolute max - so between 200 and 2000 (could be as low as 20)

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Good for you I guess, but I value the space under my bench and so I would never put drawers there. The bench is for clamping things to, and often that means taking the clamp apart and reassembling with half on each side.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 4 points 5 days ago

3 homemade tractors that my mom's uncle made before he died (IIRC in 1984). 1.5, 3, and 12 horsepower, so not really useful machines for any work, but they have meaning. If anyone comes across a "Pearl" tractor let me know, there are about a dozen out there (if not scrapped) that he made and I want the rest.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago

This is not religion. If you don't belong to my exact sect of christianity you are going to hell. However if you use a differet pan than me or even have a mix there is nothing wrong with it. So get and have a mix and learn what each does well / poorly.

i won't fry an egg on anything other than non-stick. I won't sear a steak in that, or my stainless (my stove takes too long to get my thick stainless to temperature - ymmv with different pans or a better stove), so cast iron it is. Most of my cooking is in cast iron because it is cheap and versital, but I use my stainless often enough that I'm keeping them.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 0 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Upvote-downvote is a great reaction to all the trolls. combined withan algorithm they can surface the good stuff and alert moderators to garbage. Algorithms are wrong in many places, but that is the implementation that is bad not the idea itself

Lemmys culture of downvoting well written things you disagree with is a problem though. So long as nothing is done about that you can't make a good algorithm. idealy you would have the guts to upvote things you disagree with, but at least we need people to stop using downvote to disagree - respond with reason if you disagree.