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Should I go to trade school?

smiley wrote:
Auto repair, small engine repair, metal working/welding, 3D printing, robotics. I want to do all the things, but it ultimately goes back to a childhood desire to be a mad scientist and inventor.

But these are things that must be learned hands on, not from a book.

And even though I'm not broke anymore, I'm also not rich. I'll never be rich.

I would just say don't sell short the community college auto repair class. If it really is just textbook reading and quizes, i agree with you (trade school will have that element too) but i would hope they also have a garage and allow you to actually work on cars...probably depends on the school, it's facilities, and even the teacher. You can always sit in on the first class for free and at a community college they often have rolling enrollment...and you just have to sign up and pay the cost and there's no deadline or big formal application.

As far as cost, it may cost as little as a few hundred bucks for a single course...depending on where you live.

Speaking of books, i recently got a part time job at a library and i was shocked at how many books they have on welding, soldering, car manuals, etc. Books aren't great for hands on knowledge but they are a cheap way to explore as subject if you can't immediately start learning on the job.

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Should I go to trade school?

I think its hard to break into any business where you don't know anyone in the business. I am guessing your first job would be as a mechanic in a local shop or meineke or dealership. I have never seen a woman in those place (at least not as a mechanic) which makes me concerned about your ability to break in and how would be treated if you did. Also the schedule might not be ideal when your first starting out. Having less free time than you're used to when middle aged can feel punishing (does for me, recently got a 2nd job).

That said you'd be far from the first female mechanic and if it is something you think you genuinely be good at doing...why not if you can afford to experiment? You can always stop doing it at any point it starts to feel not worth it and its a great skill to have in any case.

Maybe try a local community college auto repair class to dip your toe in the water?

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Should I have an extramarital affair?

I have a gf and my brain goes there (not that i am any kind of ladies man, but lets say hypothetically I wanted to try) and i just think yeahhhhhh all the good stuff i get out of this relationship and knowing that i am not doing anything backhanded definitely worth it.

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Should I have an extramarital affair?

Its too easy when you answer your own question!

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Are you pro life?

I am going to respond directly to the post and then unsubscribe.


I think its a creative and fun legal argument. I don't know that it holds up if you assume that the fetus/zygote whatever is a living person with rights, because they did not choose to inhabit the womb. If a woman decides to have a child, conceives, and then changes her mind, she has basically put the zygote/fetus there against its will and is now deciding that it doesn't want it...and to me even if it is an accidental pregnancy that doesn't really completely absolve the potential mother from responsibility. Maybe it does in a case where the pregnancy is the result of sexual violence though.

My own opinion bears some similarity in reasoning, though in the opposite direction. I believe abortion is wrong whether or not you believe zygote/fetus has rights or not. I think the fact that it potentially will create a life is important and that we should respect life and allow it to do what it wants within reason. That, however, is a different question than whether or not abortion should be legal. Legality ought to be concerned about the rights of the unborn being, and that will depend on whether or not we consider it a person.

I'm sure that zygotes and embryos aren't people, anymore than the individual egg or sperm cell is a person, and I actually don't think there can be reasonable disagreement about whether or not zygotes and embryos have sentience. I think rights should be endowed based on sentience, and it's debatable whether or not a newborn has more sentience than adult pigs who are legally tortured and killed en masse everyday, and that we are in no great rush to protect the rights of.

So if personhood (or whether or not we endow a being with rights) is based on sentience, whether or not an abortion is legal, for me, is going to depend on the stage of fetal development. I haven't studied fetal development at all really and I'm sure there is a lot science doesn't know yet anyway, so I generally withhold judgement on that, but certainly first trimester abortions should be legal without restriction, regardless of whether or not I personally approve of them.

Edit: Forgot to mention: I believe that even after the first trimester, certainly if the mother's life is in danger some exceptions should made, also the question of serious side effects comes into play as well. If it is not discovered until late pregnancy that the baby is going to be born with a very serious deformity, abortion should be an option.


Also tangentially related monty python for fun:

https://youtu.be/fUspLVStPbk

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Are you pro life?

BA1 wrote:

Lano wrote:
Unrelated question...why am i able to edit this post?

Because that was a primary feature of the old Help website and Roco has seen fit to maintain that ability.

We were always able to edit people's questions? I don't remember that.

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Are you pro life?

Unrelated question...why am i able to edit this post?

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We have Covid-19!

TheClue wrote:
Get over it, man is not superior and never will be. Have a great day!!!

I agree with this completely. That hasn't stopped the vaccine from saving lives.

TheClue wrote:
If you body cannot adapt to this virus "Shots or not" then you will die. Plain and simple.

Respectfully, there is a lot of statistical evidence that proves that this is not true. Here is one article among hundreds i found from a simple google search:

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/coronavirus/a...

Im gonna bow out and turn off notifications on this before the drama kicks off again have a nice day ya'll

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We have Covid-19!

Prayers.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-...

Those are cdc guidelines. Your state will have specific guidelines, or quarantine requirements on their health department website (i would hope).

Your doctor should be able to tell you too.

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Every time I come here now is deader than a door nail.

I have been intentionally staying away after a recent negative interaction on here and also, like you, disappointed with the lack of traffic.

I think a lot of people who come here aren't ones to post and the ones who do ofteb post "controversial" things that don't appeal to those who drift in and out.

If someone posted a topic on the existence of God it might get 50 or more replies, primarily from the same two or three users who argue vehemently and disrespectfully with eachother.

There are the "i need genuine help ones" and i think those tend to be the most productive, but not many people do that lately. I mean, really, lots of people just post those types of questions to their twitter or fb page these days. Its pretty easy to get a few 100 or 1000 followers on twitter by simply asking people to follow you for a follow back. So they just post there i guess. And you can even be anonymous.

Also...lots of other sites like this one (or often used like this one) that are just more popular like quora and reddit. So people unlikely to take a chance on a random site like this and honestly not sure i blame them.


If we still had the help.com url...i bet it would turn things around. At least a little. But im sure that won't happen since it would probably cost a bit of money to secure it.

I think we have to face the fact that the primary appeal of this site is the nostalgia value for a small group of users. We do and will get randos seeking help from time to time but not often.

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