valtia

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[–] valtia@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The only time going to school isn't worth it is if you're already burnt out in your job, genuinely have no time to do it, and make so much money that adding university classes on top of that isn't worth the effort or time investment. Having said that, if you need the degree to increase your earning potential, even in your 30s or 40s or whatever, then it's worthwhile despite all the challenges. My mom got her degree in her 30s and massively increased her earning potential and that has paid off over the decades, and I'm currently getting my degree in my 30s to increase my earning potential as well.

There are remote school options where you don't need to attend classes so those are much easier to fit into your schedule, and much cheaper, places like Western Governors University.

[–] valtia@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Absolutely not

[–] valtia@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Of course I do. Mostly because I avoid communities that I know will be toxic as hell and full of chuds

This seems to be the opposite experience for many who have expressed that they don't check—they feel entitled to be present and post in every space regardless of any context

[–] valtia@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah! If women want their own space they should sequester themselves into a backroom with no advertising and an onerous sign-up process requiring an ID check that no one ever sees or hears about but somehow all women will know it exists because they have a psychic sense for those kinds of things

[–] valtia@lemmy.world -3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Alright, but none of that was really relevant to this comment. Why are you soapboxing on it?

[–] valtia@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

The app required ID uploads ostensibly to verify that you were a woman signing up, men were not allowed to join for obvious reasons

[–] valtia@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago

If deplatforming and political action by the ruling class are the main methods to stop this crisis, then none of us had any power to do anything in the first place

It's no wonder no one takes this seriously: the epidemic of disaffected young men is only a symptom of greater societal issues and can't effectively be addressed on its own. That's also what I was getting at with my comment

[–] valtia@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (10 children)

Stop what? Stop it how? Suddenly make every parent in the US loving, compassionate, and effective at raising their children? Or maybe we could just fix the economy? One of those is bound to work, easy!

[–] valtia@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'm sure Google literally doesn't care, as long as a more effective compression algorithm is used. That's why they made it an open standard, use whatever you want but don't demonize .webp unnecessarily

[–] valtia@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

They made it because better image compression means less storage is required for images. Even if it's a small upgrade, over trillions of images or exabytes of data saved translates into millions of dollars saved. This is the same thing for the delta format as another example

By making .webp an open standard, more people will use it, thus more space savings will be had by default

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