Not sure about this. People told me I would not be able to learn piano as an adult, but after 5 years of playing 15 - 30 minutes per night I feel like I am about as good as a child or teenager who put in the same amount of time. I am starting to see how people can sight read at full speed (vs me for an intermediate piece I might be able to get 20% speed, with probably poor accuracy).
I think you might be comparing someone else's 20 - 25+ years of experience (eg, someone who has consistently played piano their whole life) to your ability to pick up a new skill from scratch. There is just a huge time sink for a brand new topic and it takes anyone a ton of time. So if you really wanted to pick up some theoretical physics or something, but are currently bad at math, it might take 15 years just to get to the beginning to really be one someone's level who... Started 15 years ago.
Unless I guess if there is unlearning time. Like the smarter every day video where they made a reverse turning bicycle that was impossible for people to use unless they spent forever relearning, vs his son who picked it up relatively easy. I think they had to unlearn what they knew so well.
TSA just loves to power trip. Last trip my pre check got messed up so my wife and daughter went through and got on the plane, and I got sent to the 45 minute other line. They let a handicapped person go right ahead of me and skip the line when I finally got to the front (normally okay, but now I had 10 minutes left to run to the plane for final boarding). They flagged my bag for extra checking because there were baby wipes in there, and when I asked if they could check mine first before the guy who got placed in front of me, he yelled at me that I should have been at the airport 2 hours ago and it wasn't his problem if I missed my flight and my wife and daughter flew without me.
Rather than the idealistic "get minority representation", which might not resonate, think of it differently. It's currently being framed incorrectly as "getting someone not qualified the job because they are [minority]" when really it is "get the talented individuals from the ENTIRE labor pool, not just limiting to what can be found in the white male US born protestant applicants".
For an extreme example, we tried very hard to make our own rockets during the space race. We absolutely did NOT want a German to help. But we were unsuccessful and after several rockets blew up without even coming close, we asked an engineer from Germany who had defected to the US. We ended up winning the space race based very largely on his input. Like, within months of him leading a team. How many other opportunities are lost because we don't want to include [example minority] for our goals?
It's another stab at public education. We already pay like 49th in the nation for teacher pay, I think they are trying to get rid of the pension system by making teachers independent contractors or something, and Florida has an $8000 voucher for "private school or homeschool expenses". So they currently pay you to subsidize a bit of tuition elsewhere, and make the quality of the teachers so low at the public option that starts to become more appealing as you see how badly the underfunded public schools are. And now, with vaccines only being like 97% effective, if you can afford to send your child to a private school (or just homeschool), you will. Why take a 3% chance your fully vaccinated child is going to get measles or polio if you can afford not to?
Then you nicely have your wealthy people who get a good education, and for the rest you have a population that consistently votes against their best interests because they are uneducated. Win all around for Republicans. I can't wait to leave this place.
I've been with the same company almost 20 years, and I'm that time have taken so little time off, I have accumulated 75 days. But I just had a child a couple years ago, and this year I took 8 days off throughout the year, since she brought home so many sicknesses. One of those required 3 days off, and I actually got a doctor's note because it was 3 consecutive days and that's the policy.
It still came up in my review. I basically got a "barely passing" score with "needs to be more reliable".
It's the rush and hubbub of those around you. You won't expect things to happen instantly because there aren't enough people around to jump when you ask. I live in South Florida now, and if I want a tree cut down on my property, I can call an arborist and he will be there to estimate and probably complete the job in a matter of days. I am moving to NH, and the same service they are like "we only do estimates on Saturdays...and it's raining this Saturday... So maybe next Saturday we can come out for an estimate".
It's not a terrible thing. You get used to things taking a little longer. Might be a long walk or a bit of a drive to get to your favorite diner, but you know the people there now, and you can spend a bit more time on breakfast catching up with them.
Shops probably close a bit earlier too. You might as well go home for the night early since nowhere is open. Might be nice to catch up on reading that book this evening. You can shop tomorrow. Etc etc.
Not really. I'm not sure how it ended up so rounded, but getting a degree is more than just "get skills for the job". When you are getting any bachelor's degree, you also have to take a certain amount of history, music appreciation, etc, heck my school even required lifetime fitness. It's also learning alongside your peers to suffer together, I mean work together.
Also, for something like engineering, you don't want a job to teach the basics of safely designing a building. You want that in school so when your job asks you to do something dumb, you can explain to them why it is unsafe and correctly refuse.
I like how my friend put it: "You COULD go to a technical school to get a job, but you wouldn't be very interesting to talk to."
Ugh and I just imagined if they made something like "Walgreens pharmacy school" that would train you to be a pharmacist but only for Walgreens. Imagine if your ability and certification to work in any field was tied to a specific company. No way to leave to CVS or whatever unless you go to "CVS pharmacy school". Sounds awful.
"You can always trust Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all other options."
We need actual like, American rebuilding from the ground up change. But for that to happen we need actual, America is completely broken and people are going hungry. Until that time we will keep going back and forth between "normal" and fascist, with the "normal" slowly creeping towards fascism anyways.
So we will probably go back and forth a few more times because Donald Trump will die happily of old age soon, and Democrats will claim a quiet victory and pretend nothing bad ever happened. Reverse a couple meaningless law changes. Keep the rest. And then be shocked when the new Donald Trump takes the reins.
We won't ever as a country look ahead and be like "ah yes, that is the correct course of action. It's okay to lose some profits now because the long term prosperity of the nation is what's important." We always try the easy but wrong path first.
I think he is saying they are following the same path, just a few steps behind. So if the US is running over a cliff, the UK will probably consider that a blazed trail and head in that direction too.
So yeah, the US sped up. Doesn't mean the UK isn't trying to follow.
Eh, it can be fixed. Once Trump passes of old age, they lose their charismatic leader and they begin to fracture. Democrats retake the house and Senate and win the presidency and... Keep a lot of the nonsense that was started under Trump. We kick the can down the road a few more cycles and we are back to being slaves to corporations hoping we can keep our healthcare. While hoping the next Trump doesn't win.
That's probably what will happen. It's quite profitable to keep us slaves.
Only way we get back to actual good times is if we get a New Deal kind of presidency who really reinvests in the workers rather than chasing short term profits and grifts. We have a good location so with enough time that will happen. In our lifetimes? I'm not sure about that.
Ehhh agree that it frequently happens from poor planning, but I think we should do what we can to improve safety rather than blame victims. Learning about and paying for obscure satellite tech only helps those people who already know a lot about hiking, whereas this could bring the tech to everyone with a phone.
But also I think they could do it with a lot fewer satellites than this. They don't need absolutely great coverage. Just a message service. The government could provide this on an emergency basis.
It's not for streaming. As far as I know it's just text messages. Absolutely agree we should not be using screen time when out and away. We just need that little bit of safety.
It's still a good thing for cell coverage in remote areas for hiking emergencies though. The few satellites that currently do that are stupidly annoying and expensive to use. You have to carry specialized equipment, and if you use Garmin, you pay a yearly fee for the privilege of signing up for the low tier plan, then a monthly fee for the service, and then pay by the text message after the first few. Starlink just added T-Mobile so if you have a newer phone and use T-Mobile you can skip all of that and message out in emergencies without all that nonsense. Hopefully more brands will be added soon, but I don't know.
Western society: "Overruled"