A well made pour over will be every bit as “good” as a well made espresso. It’s also way less demanding in terms of equipment and technique.

Making an espresso on par with the best coffee shops requires a great deal of skill/experience and thousands of dollars in equipment. If you don’t have the skill or equipment, straight espresso is usually pretty disgusting.

You can make a phenomenal pour over with a YouTube video and $150 in gear.

However, they’re different styles of drinks. A pour over is much less concentrated and doesn’t have the crema/body of espresso.

Like most buildings, my house has windows I can exit in an emergency

Double cylinder deadbolts are pretty common IME

Some houses have a deadbolt that has a lock cylinder on both sides because it’s more resistant to breakins. My house is like this and I need a key to leave unless I want to jump out of a window

This is 100% a thing. Basically just give it a flowering light cycle when it’s barely past the clone stage

Ironically, search and rescue services in the USA are usually done by volunteers and park rangers, and typically free

Yes if they put you in a helicopter it’s gonna be expensive, like $10k, but 99% of the time S&R won’t cost you anything. They’d prefer you call when the situation isn’t so dire instead of waiting until it gets really bad because you are scared of the cost.

Generally no if we consider it from a financial perspective. Whether or not it’s worth it on an emotional level is very individual

I work in engineering with a masters, and I make more than people with only a bachelors. However, even with the masters pay bump I am unlikely to ever make enough extra money to make up for the financial losses I incurred in getting the graduate degree. It’s only “worth it” financially if you work full time and have your company pay for the degree.

PHDs make about the same amount of money and get about the same positions as someone with an only Masters. You get a PHD because you love studying and research enough to basically give up half of a decade of your life.

I considered getting a PHD until I realized that >50% of the PHD students and graduates I spoke to described it as, “6 years of my life I’ll never get back”.