WhipperSnapper

joined 2 years ago
[–] WhipperSnapper@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

High school here runs through grade 12, and is part of primary education. It's publicly funded. The only costs to students are for clubs and sports, and for school-provided lunch (which is excepted if your family is below a certain income). Most students graduate the same year they turn 18, so higher education (college or university) considerations only apply to adults.

There are heavy restrictions on pre-18 employment because of school. Limited hours per week, and evening cutoffs to ensure teens still have time for family/homework/etc.

Some schools (maybe all? I can only speak to my own experience) allow work release to grades 11 and 12, provided you're ahead enough on required credits and coursework for this to not set you back. Basically, you can trade elective classes for early release, but you must prove employment.

[–] WhipperSnapper@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

I used mine 3 days ago. Admittedly, it had probably been a few years since the last time that tray opened, but all was good!

[–] WhipperSnapper@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Unrelated, but you have any rabbits I could pet?

[–] WhipperSnapper@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Run run, fast as you can...

[–] WhipperSnapper@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

Whelp, gonna have that song stuck in my head for days.

[–] WhipperSnapper@lemmy.ml 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

In the US, $ comes before a number, and ¢ comes after. It helps differentiate them at a glance. $1.50 or 75¢ You only use one symbol at a time.

Not all that many uses for the ¢ left these days, I suppose.

[–] WhipperSnapper@lemmy.ml 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Certain ants are pretty distinct. Thatch ants spray formic acid as a defense, and will have a sour smell (and taste, or so I've been told). Odoriferous house ants are named so for obvious reason, and smell (to me) like pen ink. Assuming they taste terrible, but I dunno anyone who's tasted one.

Also, for what it's worth, my entomologist father refers to the thread's subject as "sow bugs", so that's how I know them, but pill bugs and rolly polly are common here.

[–] WhipperSnapper@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

In the winter, they are. English cukes you might find hothouse.

[–] WhipperSnapper@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

I was gonna say I think I liked reddit more before the digg folks came. Maybe Lemmy is right where it should be.

[–] WhipperSnapper@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

Tried to order pizza but it got Noided

[–] WhipperSnapper@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's a wild time to invest in phone booths!

Real answer is dialup modem speeds. Doubled our download (in my case, from 10 minutes per mb to 5 minutes!)

[–] WhipperSnapper@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Wait, so you do or do not remember the excitement of going from 14.4 to 33.6 for dialup?

 

I gather some server is for some arcane reason censoring naughty words to protect our delicate sensibilities. Is it on my end, on lemmy.ml? Is it the server people are posting from? Is it something happening in the federation? Is it the Romulans?

 

As a side, it might be nice to eventually have a pvp-centric community, but for now I feel like this falls under WoW general discussion.

GL to all those warlocks out there, and the healer that love them.

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