Yeah, but it is a bigger economic problem when the population is contracting.

China isn’t alone with this issue, though.

Yeah. It is interesting that Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Phoenix, and Miami aren’t on here while Salt Lake City, Denver, and Atlanta are very visible.

It filters out college towns with large masters and doctorate programs.

I would trust myself, but I know that I would be the villain in some people’s lives.

It’s free real estate boat

Yep. And now Israel has a friendlier government to solidify its gains.

In high school, likely physics. I could also teach various math classes.

It isn’t about conquering any kind of ordeal. College was designed to create leaders, not just teach academic subjects. A lot of people complaining here are focusing on the classwork when there are other skills that are supposed to be taught.

That’s good on them for doing that. It is also good for Mastodon in general since it means they are building the staff that can grow the service.

His buddy, Robert Rodriguez, did him a solid.

It is what it is; just getting a college degree by itself isn’t as useful as it was before. Also, some degrees are better than others.

I don’t know, since I’m not going to follow up on a conversation with a bad starter that just wants to talk without knowing what they want to talk about.

If you want to go the college route, you need to be strategic.

Choose a degree program that has a high return on investment. A lot of universities report salaries. Also ask if there are internship programs and if they are paid; paid internship programs generally mark a higher salary field.

Network in college. Get to know your classmates. Get to know alumni. Build study groups with people who will make you a better student.

Practice leadership. Participate in clubs and student organizations. Learn how to lead groups by leading groups. Go to different events/parties.

What you’re doing sounds like a lot of spam that I’ve been receiving.

We already kill cows to eat them. Wearing their skin is just using more of their material.

I’m assuming that the response is going to be similar to that of the NYC area’s response to Hurricane Sandy.

Building and fire codes start to get updated in the region. This likely creates a few new classes of fire resistance ratings, including ratings that assume a lack of city water to fight a fire. For the highest ratings, wood is effectively banned. Given how cheap wood is to build with compared to other materials, this will drive up rebuilding costs.

The ratings get tied to new maps developed by an entity to determine fire risk. These maps will become very politically charged and may be dependent on local firefighting capacity. A lot of libertarians are going to hate having to pay for either sky high insurance or higher property tax to fund firefighters.

Development of the codes and maps take years, with significant input from insurance companies on what they may cover. There may be state involvement in insurance, similar to how flood insurance is a government insurance given how government policy affects risk.

Eventually, cities rebuild. The cities look different, with far more use of concrete masonry units reinforced with steel or FRP wraps and covered in fire resistant stucco. It doesn’t look too different from current stucco buildings, but there is a difference.

Also, some cities likely build in natural fire breaks, like green belts or fire canals. People don’t build up into the canyons like they used to unless they have a lot of money to build their concrete bunkers.

For one year, California is no longer a donor state in order to pay for rebuilding. Current donor states talk a lot of shit about this.

A plan of action becomes available for the rest of the country to apply to their codes as a way to deal with this cost. Several states legislate to make sure they don’t update their codes.

No, but referrals are still going to be a thing. You’ll also have to maintain a reputation in your industry, especially for senior roles.

You get bad results when you expect that people can self certify what they are capable of doing. Word of mouth is still an effective way to see if someone is a good as they say, and that starts in college.

But you’ve consistently stated that the first step if an admin tries to build that sort of thing and does something that you disagree with is to leave. Don’t try to talk with the admins to help build a stable place, just leave.

I don’t see that as a good first step.

Outside of .ml and beehaw, what admins are that active and communicative with users in general? Who is publishing policy on how they are running their instance and showing how they are following through on it?

Most Lemmy instances are small hobbies run by vibes dictoral control of a single person and people change over time. Unless you build your own instance, admin relations will always be something that you have to deal with.

The mod in question is a major Star Trek nerd and there was a massive falling out recently with the user base of startrek.website and the mods/admins, which is why a lot of them moved to .world in the first place.