IceBear

joined 1 year ago
[–] IceBear@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not sure what the comment you responded to was, but I used public transit to get to my junior high. The school provided me with a transit pass for free, which was really nice. I also live in the US. I actually only took the school bus to school for first grade.

First grade - school bus 2-6 - walking and they also did not have school buses for anyone but kindergarten 7-9 - transit, they also had no school buses 10-12 - I was either driven or drove. They did have school buses, but I wasn’t allowed to use them because I lived out of the district

Now, to be fair, I had a pretty unique situation with almost all of my schooling.

The elementary school, all of the kids that went were super close and lived in a super dense area, so walking was feasible and buses were not really needed

Junior high was a “choice” school. Meaning it was part of the public system, but it had a special theme to it and students had to request to go and they only let in a few students each year. If you did they in, you went to the normal school instead. The school had a total of 90 students and so buses were not feasible, especially since all the kids came from all over the district. They provided bus passes instead.

High school, I lived outside the district and had requested to go the school anyways, and part of the agreement to allow me to go was that I had to get my own way there. My older sibling could drive my first year and then I drove myself the next two years.

[–] IceBear@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The creality slicer also has a brim option called mouse ears, but I haven’t tried it out myself, so not sure how well it works. Also, there is an option to bring in basic shapes that you can then adjust the size of within the slicer too. That way you don’t have to find an stl of a disk, you can just bring in a basic shape in the slicer if you’d prefer

[–] IceBear@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’d say it was worth three shots 😉

[–] IceBear@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

I mean, if these are caused by sinkholes, then that should have been addressed during construction. Roads can be very thick and are made of lots of different layers, each of which should be compacted very regularly and thoroughly during construction. If sink holes are common in the area, then they should have designed countermeasures to minimize their impact. My understanding of sinkholes, is that they typically form due to water phase erosion, which again, should have been known and at least partially accounted for. But, hey, I’m not a civil engineer, so I could wrong, but those definitely seem more likely to be potholes as opposed to sinkholes.

[–] IceBear@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Newer: Dandadan!

[–] IceBear@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Have you ever used the purchase protection from Amex specifically? Cause a lot of places tend to have decent return policies. Do you often use the Amex in a situation where you would actually need their specific protections? If you’re worried about fraud, a lot of cards have good protection from fraudulent charges. I’ve had three different instances of fraudulent charges on various cards and have always been able to get the card company to handle it, and it has always turned out ok for me. Obviously, that can’t always be the case, but in my experience, it is not necessary to pay for a card for the added protections.

Personally, I have three cards. One stays on the drawer and is from a specific company and only used for a monthly charge from that company to get a discount and is setup for auto pay. I carry two cards with one being my main and the second is there in case there are issues with my main for some reason.

[–] IceBear@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Why not? Having two paycheck going into one place seems like it would make things easier, since you’d only have to deal with one set of accounts. And if something happens to your SO, you already have access to the finances and don’t have to worry about getting access while dealing with whatever happened