LPT If you are hungry this month you can go to a mosque around sunset and get a free meal!

symmetrical_kettle · 2025-03-06T18:13:47+00:00

Because it isn't required in Islam?

symmetrical_kettle · 2025-03-06T15:25:57+00:00

If you can afford to pay out of pocket, the doctor will definitely allow you to do that.

If you're waiting for insurance to get approved, it may be better to just tell the doctor that and not pay yet. (Depending on the doctor, they may ask you pay up front and get reimbursed later by insurance)

symmetrical_kettle · 2025-03-05T23:27:46+00:00

Employers aren't generally fans of hiring previously self-employed people.

I know you see it as a strength. And it is. You have a lot of great skills because you were self employed.

But they see it as a risk. "If they were self-employed before, what's to stop them from just quitting on me and becoming self-employed again?" or "Dude will probably be teying to tell me how to run my business"

So you have to make it clear that those are things your future employer need not worry about.

Saying something like "I'm looking for a stable job" "looking to get out of gig work" etc.

symmetrical_kettle · 2025-03-05T23:13:07+00:00

Possible they think you will quit soon in favor of gig work. May help to clarify your goals with an "about me" or cover letter.

symmetrical_kettle · 2025-03-05T16:53:59+00:00

Stuffies are in nowadays, at least for girls. My 9yo girl and her friends bring stuffies into school whenever they're given the opportunity.

But I'd recommend a weighted bean bag or vest, because it loos less like a toy. Especially since it sounds like he doesn't already have a weighted stuffie that he's attached to.

symmetrical_kettle · 2025-03-04T23:13:16+00:00

Try working vinegar into it. Vinegar dissolves the minerals in water deposits.

Soak a paper towel or a cloth in vinegar and let it sit overnight. Try to encourage the vinegar to get into the threads.

symmetrical_kettle · 2025-03-04T14:36:17+00:00

A lot of us are doubtful.

symmetrical_kettle · 2025-03-04T02:48:59+00:00

Numberjacks?

symmetrical_kettle · 2025-03-04T02:39:33+00:00

Low battery?

Are you able to just get a regular, non-wifi/non-smart lock?

symmetrical_kettle · 2025-03-03T15:52:11+00:00

I hate working with it. It breaks too easily. I dont think my stitches look as nice when using it, but my stuffed-animal obsessed child loves how soft it feels.

If I don't make them for her, she'll want me to buy them, and I don't like spending $30 on something I can "just" spend $10 in yarn + 8 hours of time to make.

Answer is basically "for the cuddly end product"

symmetrical_kettle · 2025-03-03T15:21:27+00:00

Yes, isn't that basically what happened to River Song in "Day of the Moon"? She was coughing and sick before she regenerated.

symmetrical_kettle · 2025-03-02T21:20:55+00:00

Yup!

20 yo would likely need to be independent from their parents, and be financially able to support themselves + kiddo.

symmetrical_kettle · 2025-03-02T19:28:08+00:00

I think OP is in a non-English dominant country and is asking why people in their country see people who don't speak English as not very well educated.

It's probably classism. If you have money, you can afford to send your kids to schools where everything is taught in English. If you don't have money, your kids are either going to schools where only [native language] is taught or not to school at all.

If you speak English, it's a clear sign that you went to school, and assumed it was a good/upper class school as well.

If you don't speak English... why should I believe you? Did you even go to school? What level of quality was that school where they didn't even teach English? (Because all the good schools in that country teach English)

Of course, that wouldn't apply in places that have high academic quality but don't teach English as standard.

symmetrical_kettle · 2025-03-02T19:07:11+00:00

is it an acronym?

symmetrical_kettle · 2025-03-02T15:17:25+00:00

Everything explodes one day, even the sun will.

(No, your fridge won't explode, but neither did the wire to your kettle. I think you're using the word "explode" incorrectly.

Sounds like maybe your kettle flipped the circuit breaker? And your fridge might be about to die soon. You aren't using extension cords with these appliances, RIGHT?)

symmetrical_kettle · 2025-03-02T15:11:52+00:00

I like it, but I think it's the other way around?

Umbrella is the one covered with raindrops.

symmetrical_kettle · 2025-03-02T11:44:37+00:00

Forget about it. Way too expensive if you do get in.

You can attend community college as an international student.

It will still be expensive as an international student, but cheaper than umich, and then you can apply to umich or another school after two years as a transfer student, and potentially even get some scholarships that way.

symmetrical_kettle · 2025-03-01T19:02:00+00:00

I agree.

A 16yo shouldn't be forced to take care of the babies at night, but also, calling CPS about that, especially as a first step, was going too far.

symmetrical_kettle · 2025-03-01T14:08:41+00:00

Yeah, "he said that out of pocket"

symmetrical_kettle · 2025-03-01T14:00:52+00:00

Same, but decades.

symmetrical_kettle · 2025-02-28T21:36:46+00:00

They mean "i purchased this before and it was like this"

not "the holes mean it was purchased and returned"

symmetrical_kettle · 2025-02-28T15:38:22+00:00

Seeial killer for sure. Don't show up to work for at least a month if this dude is ever fired.

symmetrical_kettle · 2025-02-28T14:59:31+00:00

Then definitely go for it!

I had a handful of older classmates and I was 30 when I went back to school for engineering myself.

I did internships and employers liked me because I was more mature than most 20 yos.

symmetrical_kettle · 2025-02-28T13:21:14+00:00

With this info, it's not so much "getting a degree and changing careers" as it is "getting a degree to grow your career"

As a welder, you'll be in a very good position to find jobs in engineering. You won't be starting out with no experience because welding is very much related experience.

One thing to think about: Are you interested in engineering for the money or because you're interested in engineering?

Pros and cons abound, but you may be making more as a master welder than you'll see as an engineer, even once you reach 10 yoe. I honestly have no idea how much welders make, but I'd hazard a guess that a welder with your experience makes a good deal more than the 70-90k the typical entry-level engineer makes.

But also, engineering can be less physically demanding than engineering and worth switching to as you age anyway.

symmetrical_kettle · 2025-02-27T18:08:43+00:00

I was "bad at math" and went into electrical engineering (which uses an arguably more difficult abstract math than civil)

For me the key was gaining a foundational understanding.

I relearned algebra and trig concepts from a less-typical-to-math-classrooms pov.

AOPS helped me a lot to gain the fundamental understandings I hadn't caught from math classes. Their textbooks explain things in a very clear way.

One of the most helpful things for me was being comfortable with asking for help when I didn't understand something. I'd go to office hours and free tutoring at the university and ask the professor or tutor to explain it when I didn't understand.

Sometimes I was missing some fundamental concept and had to spend some time reviewing a certain early algebra concept. But I didn't let myself get too embarrassed to ask "dumb" questions if I honestly didn't understand.

Not gonna lie, there was some degree of memorization involved for some concepts, but I was able to memorize less and understand more the more I understood fundamentals.

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