stinerman [Ohio]

We were until recently a one car household (my wife and I both work from home). So I drove a 2019 Toyota Camry. Why? Because that’s what my wife wanted.

My sister got a new car so I bought her old one off of her so I could have a backup on the rare times we needed two. It’s a 2012 Ford Fiesta. Why? Because it was cheap ($2k) and it gets good gas mileage. I also like the car because I’m a minimalist at heart. It’s very simple and I like that.

We are given 24th/25th off. Most people supplement this on either side of the date with PTO. I never do because:

• I am not Christian and don’t care about Christmas.
• I have no children so I don’t have much to concern myself with this time of year.
• Many of my co-workers are Christian and do have children so I forego time off so we have enough coverage that they can spend time doing religious/family things.
• I have mental health issues and keeping as much of a routine as possible helps.

As others have said, the best instances of direct action are illegal.

I believe this is illegal in most jurisdictions.

Yeah I can hear the 60Hz hum a lot. It’s a blessing and a curse to have good hearing.

Loud low frequency noise. So cars, leaf blowers, lawn mowers.

I generally don’t like people touching me. Even with my wife it can be a little upsetting depending on the duration.

The TL;DR on this one is “if someone wants to quit being addicted to nicotine a vape is a decent way to stop.” If they don’t want to, they’ll just switch to the vape instead of smoking.

So they have to want to quit in order to get any benefit.

A2 is still a novice. I can read it reasonably well. Generating words on the fly is hard. Listening is harder.

How to fluently speak a foreign language. I’m A2 with French but I could live with Spanish or German as well.

I don’t have side projects because it’s hard enough to simply get up for work 5 days a week.

No, but I don’t see them much.

Ohio State football fans are notoriously whiny, spoiled assholes.

This is a private school so they don’t get much in the way of direct government funding. State-funded schools are considerably cheaper. I went to Wright State University in Ohio. Right now it’s about $13k/yr in tuition. This is still rather expensive on a global scale.

Why do private schools charge that much? Because people (like you) will pay that much. What about the University of Chicago makes it so that you are willing pay for it? What do you or your son hope to get out of it that a school in your home country (I’m assuming Canada) can’t give him? To compare to Wright State, even for out-of-country students the tuition is less than half of Chicago’s tuition. Is the benefit of going to Chicago worth that much more? If it is, then that is exactly what you’re paying for.

My understanding is that if I follow @dadjokes@lemmy.world from Mastodon what happens is:

• I will see all posts on that community
• I will also see all replies to that post
• The replies are listed in Mastodon as boosts from @dadjokes@lemmy.world

For example:

That’s what I see if I go to @dadjokes@lemmy.world from Mastodon.

Is that what you are talking about regarding boosts?

I find this is often the case. People want to make noise because they want other people to notice them or because they have oppositional defiant disorder and like to piss off people.

I can’t speak to whether or not it is “ok” unless I have a lot of knowledge of the situation.

I think the fairest way to split an inheritance is by need, although that’s not always known at the time of drawing up a will.

The actual problem here is that it’s not clear when he will be near a gun to the point that someone could do that. You only have a minute. Is Trump within a minute’s range of a gun and would not be stopped by his security detail if he tried to use it?

I have no religion. I guess I’m an apatheist. Not sure if I can be considered practicing or not.

Edit: I believe the existence of God/Gods is irrelevant.

I would die pretty quickly, so I’d do as much good as I could in the time I had. Mostly tons of wealth transfer.

Was just gonna say. I’m old enough to remember when it was the Slashdot effect. And you put links to the Coral Cache of the website as a nice way to guard against slashdotting.