stinerman [Ohio]

I am Stine. Comfort the afflicted. Afflict the comfortable. High School Wrestler™. Can usually correctly use the past tense in French. Suffers from clinical depression. @stinerman@mastodon.social on Mastodon.

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Cake day: November 17th, 2023

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  • 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.











  • 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?