Guys, you have to be really extremely smart to become a professional, whereas any dumbshit can do a trade. I present exhibit A that conclusively proves my thesis: the Trump legal defense team.
plumbing in like 1960 was very challenging since you had to have very specific skills to join cast iron and copper and join rigid pipe which really requires you to pay attention. it has gotten easier with the advent of pvc and pex and compression copper tools, but it still requires significant forethought, attention to detail, etc., for any large job. I re-did my entire home and plumbed my basement addition with pex and pvc and fucked up like half a dozen times requiring me to redo shit because I’m dumb af
as someone who has NEVER EVER engaged disingenuous shitheads on this website, I’m comfy posting that y’all need to quit
Honestly, I’d probably be way ahead overall at this point in my life if I focused on a trade instead of racking up substantial debts and making poverty income on my way to not completing my degree after 3+ years. Finaid office basically said you’re SOL unless you find a private loan or pay cash and I was like welp cool see ya I guess. In hindsight there were definitely mistakes made on my part and I could have probably found a way, but in the moment I felt helpless.
^ It's such an opportune moment for the nat'l Ds to have a larger conversation about what we think America is and what it really is re: wealth disparity, healthcare, wages, etc. Let's see how they do.
Plumbers are currently charging me about 40k for what has so far been about 4 days of work and might be a whole 7-8 total by end of project. Its a good gig but I'd only do new builds and not like septic and shit like that.
You're all wrong, It means Prothrombin Time. Git wrekt n00bz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prothrombin_time
I grew up poor as shit. I turned 18 and couldn't believe I could jusy go online and put in a number and someone would just give me that much money. This was 2005, and was literally a money printing machine to get loans, usually way over tuition to pay for living expenses as well. Nobody taught me how to handle this. I had a lot of loans. I did pay them off about six months ago. There's not a reason on this planet I would want anyone else that came from my background that didn't catch the breaks I have that allowed me to be where I am now to have the ability to make 20k of burden vanish. Fuck the right for actively cheering keeping people down.
Wife wants to add a pool in our yard. I’m terrified of what the plumbing and electrical would cost based on the location, plus needing to tie in some other work to replace cast iron out to the street.
It's also so infuriating how they pit the middle class against the working class. Take a limb from Jeff Bezos, the Koches, etc, until they agree to pay for all college education.
said it before but this board was almost singularly important in me shedding my socialized belief that white collar people were smart mainly due to all the lawyers
My mother regularly votes Republican and has as long as I’ve been old enough to be aware of politics. She’s been tiptoeing away from that in recent years (sure she did not vote for Trump in 20 but definitely did in 16) but still defaulted to R down ballot in Texas. But the Roe overturn has completely severed her desire to vote red. I’m currently visiting to help her with some medical issues and as we were watching TV the first day I was there a Greg Abbott commercial came up and she visibly became upset. Talked about how Roe came about when she was in high school and how much of a victory it was and how awful it was to go backwards on human rights. How no amount of fiscal conservatism (she considers herself the “social liberal, fiscal conservative” cliché) is worth that type of price and that she was “done” voting Republican. She started talking about how Abbott, Ted Cruz, Ken Paxton, etc. had to go no matter what and would vote for any Democrat that would get that done. Very anecdotal, sure, but never heard her talk so strongly like that and wonder how many people out there are like her and have reached their breaking point due to Roe.
I wish I had the power to watch That Scene from the House of the Dragon premier. It's the most pro-choice thing I've ever seen, and a fate we're dooming women to today.
The talking points against this I keep seeing are 1. It's not fair that everyone else has to pay for this! 2. Whats the point because things are just going to be back where they were in a couple years due to the costs of going to college not changing/ going up
yeah, it’s the same as the convo about dirty energy. Well rechargeables rely on a dirty grid! so… clean up the grid???
i wrote a really complicated annoying post about this a long time ago on here. this is a much cleaner and easier path.
I get that they’re trying to make it a talking point but how the fuck did they come up with “making the taxpayers foot this”. It’s literally not a tax nor a cost on anyone. It’s just writing off a number on a ledger that isn’t tied to Congress’ fictional budget sheet.
I’m pretty good friends with a gay couple who have always been annoyingly apolitical, even intentionally contrarian at times. When Roe was overturned that changed with the quickness.
"Bribing voters" is doing something that helps them as an elected official. Novel concept I know, Mitt.