Yes, that is generally how ladders work.

As far as I know, you don't get flight hours from online courses.

You couldn't infer from the headline?

stonking
adjective, UK slang
us /ˈstɑːŋ.kɪŋ/
uk /ˈstɒŋ.kɪŋ/
used to emphasize how good something is:

• We had a stonking good time at the party last night.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/stonking

There are free ones. Plenty of comparison guides if you look.

Different flag

https://www.iana.org/assignments/special-use-domain-names/special-use-domain-names.xhtml

I did my BS in person in three years. It wasn't particularly difficult, just a bit more work.

Correspondence courses have been around for decades. You probably could have asked them for multiple courses at once and done them as fast as you like.

They are part of the same Catholic church. They answer to the pope.

"Vitamin" is an arbitrary term.

What trap? What friction? Any time I change phones, I call up my carrier and give them the new IMEI, and it almost instantly connects and downloads the esim.

I've had it not do that automatically once or twice, so I do still prefer a physical sim, but I don't really know what the article is talking about.

That account was created three hours ago.