[ SECRET POST #3643 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3643 ⌋

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Comments

Re: What's the worst advice you were given as a kid?

[(Anonymous)]

Skip the optional coding class, computers will never be widespread enough to be worth it. It is a hobby class.

I'm paraphrasing, but that was the advice I was given when selecting optional classes. I got pressured into heavy machine maintenance instead, yeah that was a smart move. God I hope Trump delivers on shutting down NAFTA and getting those jobs back up here.

Re: What's the worst advice you were given as a kid?

[(Anonymous)]

"God I hope Trump delivers on shutting down NAFTA and getting those jobs back up here."

Yeah... not too late to get into coding, nonny.

https://www.codecademy.com/

Re: What's the worst advice you were given as a kid?

[(Anonymous)]

I am too damn old, too deep in debt, and too damn tired to go back to school. It might be the answer for kids, but someone needs to stop and think about older folks like me. That is not going to be an option. Someone should have been planning ahead for this employment situation instead of outsourcing and offshoring every damn thing.

Re: What's the worst advice you were given as a kid?

[(Anonymous)]

Code academy is free, and online. You can work at your own pace, fast or slow. But I get you. It's just that waiting and hoping that Trump can reverse the course of history is unlikely to amount to anything.

Re: What's the worst advice you were given as a kid?

[(Anonymous)]

Cnut couldn't master the tides, and I doubt Trump will be much better at it

Re: What's the worst advice you were given as a kid?

[(Anonymous)]

He should have hired an engineer then, the lazy Cnut.

Re: What's the worst advice you were given as a kid?

[(Anonymous)]

Apt comparison. But the modern day one is even sadder, because there are people who seem to be genuinely counting on Cnut to master those tides for the livelihood, and a good number of them aren't willing to admit the possibility that he can't do it.

Re: What's the worst advice you were given as a kid?

[(Anonymous)]

With a bit of funding and some heavy engineering, the Dutch mastered those tides just fine. As long as the will and the funding is there, it can be done.

Re: What's the worst advice you were given as a kid?

[(Anonymous)]

Well, first, I would argue that the money would be far, far better spent on something like UBI than on maintaining a massive infrastructure of job-holding and uneconomical manufacturing.

Second, I would say that the analogy with the Dutch is apt: you can hold back the tides but it's expensive and difficult to maintain and unstable and threatened by changing climate conditions

Re: What's the worst advice you were given as a kid?

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe not a great comparison. Thanks to climate change and rising sea levels, the Dutch may be losing mastery of the tides because it turns out there's only so much you can do against the forces of nature. Note: the Venetians are also learning this very hard, very expensive lesson.

Your statement needs a qualifier: with unlimited funding and will, you can do anything... but no real world organization has unlimited funding. It's a bit like saying that with enough funding and will, I could surgically become a half-horse, half-human with functional wings. Technically true, but in every practical sense, a terrible idea whose monetary and physical cost is too great for what you'd realistically hope to achieve.