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user-inactivated  ·  3116 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Dear hubski, what do you look back on as your proudest moment in life?

    Some of the students I'm attending classes with call me kid despite having their parents cash in their wallets and eating food that they did not make themselves.

I've been there. It'll pay off in the long run, and probably in the short run too.



Devac  ·  3116 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks. It's already paying off, mainly because I went to the dorm knowing only how to make grilled cheese and pizza, by skill to skill comparison I'm already feeling like much less obnoxious/shouty Gordon Ramsey. Next year I hope to get that much better.

In your experience, what's the benefit in the long run? I'm banking on self-reliance and not being suddenly completely baffled how expensive everything is ;).

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user-inactivated  ·  3115 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    In your experience, what's the benefit in the long run?

I mean, what's not? You'll value every single good thing that happens to you that much more, forever.

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user-inactivated  ·  3115 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I supported myself for a good chunk of college by parting fools and their parents' money. I definitely don't advise doing that, but it does give one perspective on what it means to live in a world run by people who had their place in it handed to them.

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Devac  ·  3115 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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user-inactivated  ·  3115 days ago  ·  link  ·  

hope it was ransomware

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user-inactivated  ·  3115 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ransomware wasn't a thing yet, would have been too indiscriminate, and besides that no fun at all. You don't need much skill to pick a drunk fratboy's pocket, and you can find many drunk fratboys conveniently clustered together pretty much every weekend.

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