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Yes, very sad.

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Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. It's a day of fasting and prayer. The rule is basically no meat, two snacks and one meal. The sum of the snacks cannot equal or exceed the meal. It should be an easy sacrifice, but it never is. I'm a brat and don't like being told what to do.

The good news is that beverages are excluded from the rule, so 2nd cup of coffee is OK.

One year I gave up coffee for lent. That was a tough year. I ended up drinking a lot of black tea.

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A little light reading for Lent and St. Patrick's Day.

Great challenge today.

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Thanks so much for the generous amount of sats. If you are ever in New England, I'll give you a tour of one of our schools at:

https://porterchester.edu/

We do teach Automotive Technology as well.

Looks like "stop" to me, but I'm very rusty on my ASL.

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We do. The vocational technical high schools are governed by each state with significant differences from state to state.

We also have a post secondary market for technical/trade training. Again, this is regionalized and the markets are different depending on geography.

A lot of the post secondary market was gutted by partisan DOE hacks and liberal state and federal administrations.

Over the past two decades we have seen a precipitous drop in this type of training due to policies that favor traditional four year colleges. Literally hundreds, if not thousands of post secondary trade schools have closed their doors due to capricious stiff regulation.

For example, Obama and Biden admins and like liberal states have forced regulation on these schools that they don't on traditional colleges. Gainful Employmnet rules force schools maintain employment rates and cost controls based on median salary. These rules are waved for traditional colleges. If the cost outweighs the benefit or you don't place a certain percent of your graduates, you can lose funding or get closed down, but if you major lesbian basket weaving theory from Harvard, you are elevated, even though you are not employable, and there is no accountability for Harvard.

To put it in perspective, these schools are self funded through tuition, not endowments, international student funding, or state grants that prop up the institution. These schools are a fraction of the cost of traditional schools and provide a valuable service to the non traditional student.

I think most people see the value in vocational education, but policy makers dislike these schools because they are usually for profit institutions. Profit is bad. Surplus (non profit) is good. Essentially schools are regulated by tax status. The attack on these schools have been relentless for a while. Maybe this will change.

I do know that the median age of plumbers is like 55 and there are not a lot of plumbing schools.

Thanks Jimmy. The bullet about bitcoin jobs is best. Don't wait for someone to hand you a magic job. Start a business and add a bitcoin payment stream. That's how we move forward.

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GM, Our Lady watches over me as I work. Santa Maria, ora pro nobis.

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Yeah they are crap, but theoretically you can go as fast in reverse as you can an drive. The 2013 Nissan's with CVT's frequently failed before reaching 100,000 miles.

I always keep one car with a standard transmission in the stable. When you manually shift, you are part of the experience. Otherwise, your just along for the ride.

Many manufacturers are no longer producing cars with a manual shift. With electrification, CVT transmissions, and autopilot, this will all but disappear from the retail market. At least racing will keep it alive.

Aside from 4, 5 , and 6 speed on the floor, I haven't seen a three on the tree in over 30 years and those were 20 years old at the time.

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I know carbs are the enemy. You know what the mafia says? "Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer."

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GM, Happy Thursday. It's dad cup day.