OOOHHH don't get me started on my soap box about apprenticeships. 25 years ago, the Australian government in their infinite wisdom scrapped the apprenticeship scheme, which had made it law that if you were of a particular size business, you were required to have at least one apprentice. Everyone said, give it 20 years, there will be no qualified tradies. Guess what - they were right, shocking I know. We now have a huge skills gap in pretty much every trade with experienced qualified people hitting retirement age and no one with the qualifications to teach the next intake. So now the government is offering subsidies and incentives for small to medium size businesses to take on apprentices, including adult apprentices. It's a mess.
Plus, my son the apprentice, has university grade high school marks, but wanted to do a trade because I have a university degree and I'm working as an admin clerk, so he says he'd rather work in a trade and get actual money.

My son is an apprentice sparky (Aussie slang for electrician). I totally agree with you.

Nope, it's real. I remember when the original article came out. https://web.archive.org/web/20040215163347/http://www.defrance.org/artman/publish/article_625.shtml

Me too, didn't even have sound on.

I realised other people have videos running in their mind and I don't, about 30 years ago when I was in my 20s. I actually felt good to know there was a reason why I couldn't do math the way my brother and sister could. I didn't know it was an actual condition until just now, I thought I had brain damage and I was the only one, I would love to participate in a study.

I'm the same, didn't know it was a condition. I can't see mental images but I can hear mental sounds, which means I have trouble with guided meditations when the person is saying "picture yourself blah blah" I stop listening at that point. When I read, I can hear the waves on the beach, or the footsteps of someone walking, or the sound of the voices speaking (that's always a shock if the book I read gets turned into a movie). The only real problem is I can't do high level math. My math genius brother told me that's because mathematicians need to be able to visualize relationships between shapes and angles. Once that was explained to me I felt much better for being the only person in my family who is crap at math.

Exactly what I was going to ask.

I was making a sweeping generalisation. For individual cases; we all make choices.

Terry Pratchett, Discworld series. Wyrd Sisters (#6 in the series)

That was my first thought lol.

My niece in Kansas has an $11000 bill for her daughter's 2 day stay in hospital for an asthma attack. Her grandmother will soon have to move to the "Sisters of the Poor" nursing home when her savings run out. She would love to go to college but can't afford to. Personally I would be happy to pay a decent tax and not have to worry about the other stuff.

Lol, but then what would the gays use? My daughter is mixed anglo/african, looks hispanic, but is not gay. I'm thinking polkadots.

That I can fully understand. Still working to recovery drive and ambition.