faltryka @ faltryka @lemmy.world

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How’d the skin turn out? Every time I smoke a bird the skin winds up being rubbery.

I initially dropped out of college because I wasn’t ready for it, twice. Went right into the workforce and felt a lot of struggle for many years and learned a lot about people, power, and the value of knowing how to open doors.

Later, in my late 30’s with an established professional career I went back to college at nights to work towards a bachelor’s degree for a field I already worked in. I found the education much more valuable this time around, and frankly, I was making better decisions at that point. I got a lot out of it, even with a great deal of the material being familiar, and even wish I had selected a major I didn’t have experience in so that I might have learned even more.

I’ll note that going back to school didn’t make economic sense for me since I had already established a career, I wanted to prove to myself I could and set a better example for my daughter. I probably wouldn’t have gone back if UoPeople hadn’t been so dirt cheap and flexible, big shout out to them for being so awesome and accessible. I spent way more failing twice than succeeding once :).

While I didn’t need the degree to get where I have gotten, I recognize that it may have gotten me some steps faster and certainly helps me not get prefiltered out by HR software for desirable roles I am well qualified for. I also recognize that I learned some really valuable things from being in the workforce first, that probably positively impacted my drive, social skills, and ultimately my earning ceiling.

I’m happy with my journey through education, I learned a lot both times around and eventually got a degree I didn’t need.

Fish, I want it to be fresh so I’ll just microwave it here at the office right before lunch.

Yes. I switched to vaping after smoking a pack a day for ten years. Then in about a year I was able to winnow my usage down and quit vaping too.

I had tried many times to quit before that. Have not smoked in 13 years now and after about 8 years I stopped liking the smell.

Was that their expectation of you, or just a common religious interpretation?

I know plenty of people who use the term and have no care for the religious history of it.

Welp. I guess that makes sense. They have a much broader audience and utility than a gaming console. Probably higher margins too.

He’s kind of right though, if you’re interested in understanding the flaw of your approach here you might try to read up on “The fallacy of composition” which is the fundamental logical flaw you’re sitting on at the moment that the responder is taking issue with, albeit impolitely.

Lol was “caught red handed” in the prompt?

This is constantly where my headspace is for any public statements by people, companies, or politicians.

I don’t judge people by their words, I judge them by their actions, and that makes the world make so much more sense.

You know… as common as it is to label and group and classify people online, I just don’t think that generally works the vast majority of the time.

Insurance companies don’t bill people as adults until 26 because our brains don’t finish developing fully until then and we make poorer choices in a statistically significant way until then.

So while the legal age of adulthood is often late teens to early twenties, the reality is you still probably act young in a way that older people pick up on.

When I was 21 I felt like I was an adult. But I wasn’t even finished growing, and looking back from 40 I was young and dumb and it was obvious to everyone but me.

That’s pretty neat, but photosynthesis separates that bond without using heat right?

There are many different accents across the US.

Some of them very much pronounce the word “than” like others pronounce the word “then”.

That’s not really how language… or humans… or culture… work.

This is a common mistake for many native English speakers and highlights the different challenges in speaking a language and writing a language.

In many regions of the US for example, “than” and “then” are often pronounced exactly the same.

than…

Yeah, if anyone should be shot, it would be that kind of person of course.

I went to kbin.social during the Reddit api exodus, and when that fell apart I had seen enough of lemmy through federated content to know that was where to go.

His name is The Funk btw, and I guarantee he just wants to sit in your lap and get chin scritches.

What is a bullet ballot/vote?