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what advice was great when you first heard it, but has aged like milk since then? (lemmy.world)

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[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 93 points 3 days ago

Something along the lines of "don't ever go to bed angry at each other." Like, yeah, you should try to work it out, but if you fucked up real bad, don't push it. Sleep on the couch.

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[-] Vanth@reddthat.com 54 points 3 days ago

Ages like milk...

Drink a full glass of milk at every meal. Otherwise, your bones will turn to pudding and you'll get kidnapped at the mall because you'll be too soft to put up a fight. Or whatever scare scenarios Big Milk pushed in the US in the 80s and 90s.

Now everyone's drinking nut and oat milk because of health reasons and also drinking the milk of another mammal is kinda weird.

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[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 65 points 3 days ago

Go to a four year college so you can get the best jobs.

[-] exasperation@lemm.ee 57 points 3 days ago

Nah, that advice is still correct. The 4-year degree provides a huge benefit over not having it.

It's just that a lot of people don't realize just how much shittier not having a degree in 2024 is compared to not having a degree in 1974.

So while the baseline has gotten worse, and the actual benefit of college has shrunk, it's still easily worth the 4 year commitment and the tuition/opportunity cost.

[-] linux2647@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 3 days ago

Counter-point: not everyone is cut out for a four-year degree*. Some people are better suited for trade schools. My wife worked at a university and saw a number of students that were attending just because family wanted them to, but their heart wasn’t in it. Often they’d drop out with student debt and no degree to show for it.

*or at least when they’re young

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