When I smell my hair burning

*California

Well said.

OP’s full of shit.

Probably conflating ECT with “shock collars”.

I don’t

Any more than I think about Canadians, or Italians, or Welsh, or Czech.

When pushed, best I got is “you do you”

Hahah, enjoy the upvote

They are?

Where was the memo? Guess I missed it.

Also I’ve never heard anyone call Musk “tough”.

Lots of assumptions there

Dude, come on, don’t be disingenuous, this is well established.

The trades have been denigrated for decades, despite many of them being well-paying, secure jobs that require significant re-training and re-certification on a regular basis.

It takes zero skill to pickup a box and move it. skill

Skill

[skil]/ skɪl /

noun

the ability, coming from one’s knowledge, practice, aptitude, etc., to do something well.

Carpentry was one of his many skills.

Synonyms:facility, proficiencyAntonyms:inability

competent excellence in performance; expertness; dexterity.

The dancers performed with skill.

Synonyms:cleverness, deftness

a craft, trade, or job requiring manual dexterity or special training in which a person has competence and experience.

the skill of cabinetmaking.

Origin and history of skill

skill(n.)

early 12c., “knowledge, divine wisdom;” late 12c., “power of discernment, sound judgment; that which is reasonable,” senses all now obsolete, from Old Norse skil “distinction, ability to make out, discernment, adjustment,” which is related to skilja (v.) “to separate; discern, understand,” from Proto-Germanic *skaljo- “divide, separate” (source also of Swedish skäl “reason,” Danish skjel “a separation, boundary, limit,” Middle Low German schillen “to differ,” Middle Low German, Middle Dutch schele “separation, discrimination;” from PIE root *skel- (1) “to cut”).

Haha, bunch of people got their knkckers in a twist cause they don’t like being schooled on how wrong they are.

That’s EXACTLY what it means - anyone can do it.

Mopping a floor takes zero skill.

Digging up a septic system requires no skill.

Moving pabel forms for concrete requires no skill - the GC or foreman will direct how it’s done.

Lots and lots of stuff requires no particular skill.

You wouldn’t say this of a tradesman. Such people pass tests about meeting code, etc.

Unskilled labor is essentially labor that anyone with 4 limbs can do.

I’d call that unskilled, as someone who’s done that kind of work. I’ve been the labor for a plumber, digging up septic pipes. Doesn’t take any skill for that, just a willingness to sweat and get nasty. The plumber however definitely had skills, and I learned a LOT from him.

This looks awesome!

Not youtube, but check your local library for productions by The Great Courses/The Teaching Company.

They produce videos of actual college courses by professors from schools like Columbia, Harvard, etc.

There used to be one on multiple religions, it was very long (probably 40+ 30 min videos). They’ve since split it into separate courses on each religion.

It’s really amazing, the professors are completely neutral (or perhaps sympathetic/understanding as to the circumstances that birthed each religion). They all approach it from an historical context to develop an understanding of each religion.

TGC also has a couple courses on Pagan beliefs, Nordic religions (for lack of a better word), etc.

I’ve collected about ten of the courses and ripped them to Mp4 and Mp3 so I can watch or listen as I want.

Not sure why so many people decided to downvote your question - it’s good to want to understand human history and the paradigms that developed over time to bring us here today.

I gave you an upvote when you were zero, and someone has already downvoted that. Bunch of Luddites.

It’s a “can’t be bothered” thing: age is irrelevant.

As someone in the “older” crowd, I can learn just about anything, I’m just sick and fucking tired of lazy ass devs who can’t be bothered to write proper fucking docs.

Note: I’ve been writing docs for going on 40 years as part of my job. It’s fucking tedious to do it well, to verify what you wrote actually works.

No, it’s not that it’s harder to learn (it may be) it’s that I have other shit to do too, and some dumbass has made using whatever tool way fucking more obtuse than it needs to be and hasn’t bothered to even explain their approach, their paradigm, in the all but non-existent docs.

Github’s website is an example - it leads with changes, the intro is halfway down the page, even then most descriptions are terse. Tech writers the world around are having strokes every time they have to look at it.

So the recent episode of Good Cop/Bad Cop was no Agatha Christie murder.

Word can convert PDFs, then its “easy” to copy the data to excel and manipulate it there

Why would I?

I use a mesh vpn to manage my servers otherwise, what’s the difference?

Hell I RDP to them all the time (or SSH) - if anything it’s providing another layer of encryption.