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How to get back into academia for a masters degree after being out for 20+ years?

I'm thinking about getting back to uni to get my Masters and later a PhD. The thing is, I'm out of academia for more than 20 years, and completely at loss. I don't quite know where to begin. Any tips?

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A Physicist Reveals Why You Should Run in The Rain
  • To sum it all up: it's a good idea to lean forward and move quickly when you're caught in the rain. But careful: leaning forward increases Sh. To really stay drier, you'll need to increase your speed enough to compensate for this.

  • When did we stop saying "things are fire" to say "things are cold"?

    And what the hell are all supposed to mean? Also, get off my lawn.

    EDIT: I'm talking about "cold", not "cool". I'm seeing it being used along with snowflakes and freezing emoji, sometimes even saying "ice".

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    Microsoft and OpenAI ‘bromance’ begins to fray
  • Take a cup a coffee, a comfortable seat, and enjoy the posts from Ed Zitron about OpenAI and the AI fever in general outlining clearly how that hype is a financial disaster waiting to happen. It's a good read: www.wheresyoured.at

  • Horoscopes actually tell the personality of someone.

    Hear me out: if someone believes in horoscopes, they know what each sign mean. Which means they recognise themselves into a sign. Which means they will mostly act in ways to conform to that sign, giving you a way to figure that person out. The sign tells it all, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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    Uplift Rock songs about being alone

    Can someone recommend songs about going to life alone and feeling good about it? There's too much depressing stuff about loneliness around. All I have on my playlist for now is:

    Whitesnake - Here I go again

    Morrissey - I'm OK by myself

    Jimi Hendrix - Stone Free

    The Beaches - Me & me

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    Windows 11's new AI feature makes it way too easy to steal everything you viewed or typed
    www.neowin.net Windows 11's new AI feature makes it way too easy to steal everything you viewed or typed

    Windows 11's Recall is a brand-new headline feature for Copilot+ PCs. While the idea is interesting, researchers say it makes it way too easy to steal everything you viewed or typed on your computer.

    Windows 11's new AI feature makes it way too easy to steal everything you viewed or typed

    Oh, you're saying that Recall is a privacy nightmare and a sweet target for malware? Surprised_pikachu.jpg

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    Cycling GPS on a motorcycle?

    I was looking around for some GPS equipment for my motorcycle and came across some dirt cheap (in comparison) cycling computers with GPS tracking. This got me wondering, has anyone tried it? Since I don't need nor want all that fancy stuff like tracking, consumption, points of interest, etc, and just want a map, a route and something to show the way, would that be a good idea?

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    How do I stop wanting to be on a relationship?

    It's not that I can't. The problem is that when I'm with someone, I deeply yearn to be alone. I'd love to have my life for myself, with no responsibility with no one else - just me.

    But then, when I'm alone, I feel like a failure, like I need a relationship to feel complete, and I fucking hate that. So I end up in another relationship, and after two years I can't stand it anymore, and the cycle repeats.

    What the hell. Has anyone suffered from something like that? How can you be alone and not feel lonely? How to kill this need to be with someone?

    EDIT: Thanks for all the answers, I'm taking every single one into consideration. Please, keep them coming.

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    An opinion downvoted to hell is actually a good indication that the opinion is indeed unpopular.

    It's upside-down world here, people. Downvoted away, that is the true hallmark of an unpopular opinion.

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    What is a "tax write off"?

    Let's say that I have this one movie that is finished that I spent 80 million to make. I decided to "write it off". So when I get to pay my taxes, do I get a 80 million discount?

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    Newsgroups?

    Just saw on Titus Tech Talk that torrents are last decade, and newsgroups is where it's at for this stuff. Of course he didn't elaborate, so I need some help here.

    What is he talking about, and what are these groups that can I enter er, avoid?

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    What’s a “sovereign citizen “?

    Came across this recently and I can barely understand what’s about.

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    What’s Usenet and how can I access it with modern hardware (phones/laptops)?

    Pretty much the question. I heard about Usenet a while back but never managed to wrap my head around it.

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    Why has the world gone to shit?

    In the last 5 to 10 years everything seems to suck: product's and services quality plummeted, everything from homes to cars to food became really expensive, technology stopped to help us to be something designed to f@ck with us and our money, nobody seems to be able to hold a job anymore, everyone is broke. Life seems worse in general.

    Why? Did COVID made this happen? How?

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    What are the best motorcycle communities/resources on lemmy?

    So far I found that l/motorcycles is the biggest and most active on lemmy.world, is there any other that my search couldn't find?

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    [Feature request] Browsing instances

    A feature that seems missing from all lemmy apps is a way to browse instances I’m not signed. Say I’m at lemmy.ml and find a post I like from lemmy.world. I’d like to see what else lemmy.world has to offer, so listing the communities there would be awesome.

    To me that’s the worst part of the fediverse, not being able to browser neighbors communities. This feature would bridge this gap and make using the fediverse more pleasurable.

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    Tiger Jerusalem @lemmy.world

    Just a bastard roaming around the world

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