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.

I work with plenty of people from India. They’re pretty good at their jobs. They should be paid the same as us in the USA.

I don’t mind that they work on the other side of the world. I don’t mind them at all. I mind that the main reason why they’re hired is that my employer can pay them peanuts. They deserve better.

Ohio State football fans are notoriously whiny, spoiled assholes.

No silver bullets. That’s not how this works.

I recommend that you attempt to control your drinking a bit. You don’t need to quit today or anything like that. Just cut yourself off at a certain time every night.

I wish you a better 2025.

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?

Don’t forget to multiply that value!

The people who are taking up extra space are trying to tell you that they’d rather sit alone than talk to a stranger on the bus/train/etc.

They will move their stuff so that you can sit down if you ask. There is no trouble in asking and you don’t need to “pick the biggest guy.” Just ask someone “may I sit here, please?” That works 99% of the time.

What happened, he ended up vacating the seat and like a preschooler wanted to know why him and not everybody else.

That’s because some person yelled at him for what should have been a very civil and simple conversation.

This time of year is always hard for me because it disrupts my routine. There are plenty of things that I’d like to cancel as well, but can’t. My strategy is to:

• take it very lightly on the weekends
• get to bed early
• make sure my wife knows how I’m doing

Sounds like you’re on the right track.

Sorry bud, the only way you’re getting immunity is by becoming the President of the United States.

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.

It’s weird that “this group of people don’t like that show that you like” is supposed to create some sort of negative reaction. My enjoyment of a thing does not depend on a certain number of other people liking it.

I must be numb to “outrage is the best way to engage people” that everyone uses these days.

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?

Agreed in part. We should absolutely continue to support Ukraine in any/all ways possible against Russia. However Russia doesn’t have the economy to really do much to the rest of Europe. Rubles are going to be worth more as toilet paper than money in the next few years.

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.

In some states they simply reuse the picture they have on file when you get a replacement card. Depends on how old the picture is.