Yup. Maybe I’m just a lazy bum but I can only really handle college a few years at a time. My first time was awful, I wasn’t ready and blew off half the year I went. My last go was 2 years long and I did incredibly well, but transferred to a new career using my newfound knowledge and had to put a pause on things. Now I’m about 2 years into that and am just starting to feel like I have the mental wriggle room to start thinking about picking up a class or two… I may be 50 by the time I end up actually “completing” something! But one of my last classes had a gentleman in his 60s, so I’m not too worried. Everyone has their own speed, just find yours.

Seconding this. The library was my best friend when I was still in school (I did not finish my degree but the field I am in was satisfied with what I’d accomplished). I made myself do most of my homework there and it’s probably one of the main reasons I got as far as I did. My college had private study rooms with a large table and white board in them; some people would isolate themselves in there and use it for a large workspace for their own projects, but when I was in Gen Chem (that class nearly killed me), I was there with classmates most weeks doing study groups.

OP, if you are the introverted type, these informal study groups are one of the best ways you can get to know people imo. It’s like the classroom, because you’ve all got the same class, tests, homework etc, but it’s less formal and more social. It was my favorite place to share the weird ways I made the concepts make sense to me, and next to my professor was the best source of information.

Snacks, maybe. Drinks? Oh, hard disagree.

I only have one and it’s for a user I see pop up every once in a while, the tag is “nobody wants to sleep with them” and I cannot remember the context at all

Being hanged is famously difficult to move on from

“Damn that sounds pretty significant, I learned about similar events in school but definitely never this. I wonder if it’s as big as the post implies or if it’s being exag-”

The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history and is the largest armed uprising since the American Civil War.

“… Huh.”

Well I see why they left this one out.

Tbf, a country with universal healthcare (and a corrupt government) is the perfect target for a predatory healthcare industry; doesn’t matter to them if the money they get is directly from the patients, or if it comes from the government.

My decision isn’t based on metrics, just by how many .ml posts/comments I see that I know I wouldn’t if I’d blocked the instance. I know a lot of crap comes from them, and I don’t doubt they’re problematic, but for the most part, the shitty posts and comments from them are down voted to hell so I never see them, or are from users I’ve already blocked.

I could, but for the very reasons you cite instances don’t defederate from them, I don’t. I block individuals that post bullshit I don’t like, but my feed is already small as it is without purging a sizable amount of it.

It’s insanely easy to swap out a faucet. I’m sure you could do it, if you’re slightly experienced or mechanically inclined you probably won’t even have to look up an instruction video. Just be sure to shut the water off under the sink before you unhook anything, and put a bowl or towel under the hoses for the residual water in the lines when you unhook them.

OP is assumedly going to companies looking to hire eg a copyrighter for themselves and pitching himself as a one-person team with no experience.

OP should be going to copyright companies looking to hire a copyrighter as an employee for their own firm, where they will receive training.

For the mechanic example, it’s like trying to start your own freelance mechanic company with no experience vs getting a job at a shop as a rag-getter and learning things as you go.

I’m pretty sure that they specifically repost things posted from .ml accounts. They aren’t looking at the posts or hoping to farm “karma” or whatever, they’re trying to de-populate the instance.

Can be pretty annoying when all the .ml posts line up with the cm00* posts.

But how would you feel if a financially stable, but socially flawed, middle aged woman from the South, were to date a moderately financially stable, but socially accepted, young man from Singapore? What are your thoughts on that?

If someone asked why a character in a movie or TV show you enjoyed did what they did, would your answer be, “it was in the script”?

I feel like if someone’s already ratted you out, you’re already known as the “airpod wearer” and won’t have a lot of luck with other covers

Honestly, fair and valid. But maybe op has not had it explained this way before? Only ever getting banned for “breaking the rules” without an explanation behind the rule.

Why the condescending tone? 90% of users on Lemmy post things and have “some other person” host it. I personally don’t enjoy much of the content they want to post, but in a platform starved for content (and easily user-filtered) I don’t think we should be getting feisty with people wanting to post.

Clavicular on Channel 5. Yeah, that was quite an interesting watch. You can tell that Clavicular has the foundation of someone that could actually be intelligent, but his brain is so rotted away we’re left with that.

You really don’t have to be tech literate to use the fediverse imo. To fully interact with it, maybe, but a former Reddit user can figure out the basics in an hour or two

you don’t have to install it because it’s already there

This sums up their knowledge in a single sentence, really. I wonder if they know they can build a computer and it won’t “have” anything on it. Or that Apple computers exist.