Someone taped hostage flyers to a lamppost with razor blades on the back, blades pointing up, and the dumb Neo-Nazis got their fingers sliced up pulling them down. It’s a start.
I lived in Ann Arbor during the last years of the Vietnam War. Many stop signs in town had "The War" stencil painted on them. I'd do the same with "Hamas" in Dearborn, but the police chief there is named Haddad and they'd probably indict me for felony vandalism of public property.
Here's a review: Garth Ennis HATES superheroes, wrote an awful comic dunking on them, and then it was turned into an even shittier TV show. Everyone's an irredeemable asshole. Thanks. I got the message.
Full disclosure: I love superhero comics. But I also love Preacher and Ennis' first couple Punisher runs. Go figure.
Yes, this. There has been enough capeshit for one lifetime. The black humor is refreshing. I could do without the current year character gender swaps and related changes. The showrunners are probably having an 'Archie Bunker' moment where, to their dismay, the 'villains' are well liked by the viewers.
I wonder if the “throw it away” instead of fixing it mindset applies to our culture about the state of our country. It feels similar to folks who want to become expats or secede instead of doing something about the state of things. I admit to feeling this way sometimes.
That said, server racks won’t stubbornly resist, arrest you, or invent sexual assault allegations for trying to fix them.
please do. we have way too many of them moving down here, electing a left wing DA and then wondering why college students get shot in the crossfire at 2:30pm in the afternoon....
It's why were moving out of Davidson County if we finally decide to settle in Nashville full time
We had a civil war once over the secession question. It cost hundreds of thousands of lives to answer. I hope we do not have to ask it again.
I don’t believe separation would really make life better for most Americans. People hate each other for reasons couched mostly in cultural reasons and identity politics and this is encouraged by the uniparty. The same elite class would likely continue to rule both sets of places so you would have two weaker and still declining countries with the same shitty anti-industrial economic policies except you can be trans and get abortions in one while you can open carry firearms in the other.
It would also require a complete sacrifice of American hegemonic power. (Reader’s interpretation if this is good or bad).
Your story about leaving computer support reminds me of a book about Silicon Valley start ups. A guy in the book said he would leave a start up when they started to buy cheap pens.
The best line from the book was another guy’s justification for leaving a start up that was cutting back on its generous stock option packages: “Why work for Stalin if you can’t get a fur coat?”
I worked for a boutique securities operation that was a small subsidiary of a huge corporation, and we had a semi-monopoly that just printed money like mad. I distinctly remember being in the regional manager’s plush corner office with the great view, and he was bitching to his hot Puerto Rican secretary on how she was spending too much on pens! He actually did the per pen calculation! Needless to say, I did not get a fur coat.
I got about 5 minutes in and assumed it was about climate change and the guy with glasses was Leo. Couldn't go any farther into it. I wonder if I would have watched more if J-law went full frontal like her last rom-com. Probably not.
I had an epiphany the other day: I don't actually hate computers. I don't even hate software. Despite my volume of commentary on the matter, I realized it was true.
No, what I hate is the relentess neophilia that infects the geeks, nerds & dorks who write software. I hate the drive for New even though the Existing works fine and isn't broken.
This revelation slapped me hard in the face this weekend as I was filling out some straggler paperwork on my new car (2020 Mustang GT 6-speed) and I had to sign a few PDFs the dealership sent me.
Google Docs gave me a couple of app options and long story short, I had yet another experience with computers that left me in a white-hot, this-close-to-destroying-everything-in-the-room-rage.
What the hell was so dysfuctional about Acrobat that it wasn't good enough anymore? Jack and Shit, that's what.
My point here is that the whole subject of computers may literally result in the extinction of mankind. The intellectual horsepower of our society goes into Computers because that's where the money is (well, there and Law), and in the not-a-zero-or-a-minus chance that we have to deal with an extinction-level bolide impact, we won't have the spaceships we need to do it.
Because we kicked Neil Armstrong off the hero pedastal and replaced him with Mark Zuckerberg.
I like how you compared Linux to archaeology and hoarder therapy, and I absolutely think you're right about standardization being of paramount importance.
Get one common foundation squared away, then let everyone build on it, instead of 53 different conflicting pilings trying to hold up the building.
In all seriousness, random UI changes for no purpose probably annoy technical IT people more than anybody else. We are the ones who end up having to retrain our coworker, friends, and worst of all parents. In an organization that doesn't produce software as a product that retraining has very real and sometimes huge costs. That hurts our bottom line and keeps IT staff from being able to do something that adds value to the business.
So why does it happen? In software as a product companies having your UI look "dated" can be a sales nightmare. And since visible changes there are often faster and easier (with less potential to actually break the product) than non-visible code fixes to actual broken parts of the software they are going to get approved and pushed. In my experience the UI folks also have a tendency to be more "artsy" and young. Folks who by their nature respond positively to visible change.
But, see, I am a computer programmer and work with/"manage" a bunch of them. They _aren't_ dorks any more. The super-smart, socially maladjusted types who built the backbone of all the software powering our world today? They're gone. The new breed of programmer is a Scott Locklin-danger-hair social studies graduate who went to a Javascript coding bootcamp after realizing a full-time job at Starbucks won't pay back $200,000 in student loans. (This is pre-Covid, when you still had to pay back those pesky things)
"The new breed of programmer is a Scott Locklin-danger-hair social studies graduate who went to a Javascript coding bootcamp after realizing a full-time job at Starbucks won't pay back $200,000 in student loans."
Sir, are you trying to convince me that there is a meaningful percentage of white people in coding jobs?
At woke companies, yes. You've dallied more in the huge, Indian IT department scene, which I try to avoid thinking about. That sort of developer would impact your Adobe Acrobat woes, but not so much your Facegoomazon experience, I wouldn't think.
While I agree with you in principle - some of this was Adobe's fault by pricing and nickel and diming every useful feature so high that others feel they can fill a gap.
Okay, old man, you've needed FULL, $500 ADOBE ACROBAT PRO to sign PDFs for at least 15 years now. Why do you think Docusign and clones are a business? Anyone who writes a PDF signature app wants money for it, because PDF sucks.
My condolences for you suffering through this flic, Jack. When this flic came out, after seeing the trailer I knew there was no fucking way I'd ever watch it.
The real villain in that movie was the US government. If they'd dealt in good faith, none of the movie's events would've happened.
Wrongly imprisoned a man without trial for decades, conducted & then covered up illegal military operations, weaseled out of paying survivors' benefits, alienated a decorated war hero badly enough that he caused a terrorist incident and then tried to end the mess by shooting through dozens of hostages?
What about "Leaving Las Vegas?" A man dies drunk in bed have sex with a gorgeous hooker. Hollywood just can't make a movie with a happy ending like that anymore.
When I am flipping channels on the car radio the only thing that makes my fingers move faster than Kars 4 Kids is hearing "In this movie, my character..."
I've decided the Kars 4 Kids commercial is deliberately annoying. Only by being that annoying could they get you to not notice (for at least the first dozen plays anyway) that they never say what donating your car will do for kids.
I’d like to think that at some point an investigation will find that they have been doing horrible things with the money from those donated cars and that they’ll be shut down so we never have to hear that commercial again.
Maybe human trafficking? Like it's secretly run by Jared from Subway and they give you a Kid 4 your Kar but nobody knows because decent folk can't stand the commercial.
Honestly thought it was a climate-change parable, more than/instead of a Covid one. Interestingly, this new light does nothing to change my perception ('there's a couple low-return hours.').
Agreed, I didn't think it was about COVID in any way at all - it was about as unsubtle of a climate change nod as I can imagine. That movie was absolutely awful though. The only silver linings were getting to look at Jennifer Lawrence and Cate Blanchett.
I think it *was* intended as a climate change parable, I don’t think they could have released it in time for COVID otherwise. It just works for whatever the ignore/obsess science debate of the moment is.
They didn't start filming until the end of 2020, when TRUST THE SCIENCE was in full swing. I agree that the genesis of the film was climate change. Either way, the central assumption holds; "climate science" is like being an economist in the sense that you can't really do much science.
Totally missed this movie but didn’t miss the last three years. Unfortunately. Sounds like Idiocracy will be a better predictor of future events than Don’t Look Up will.
I'm not agreeing with the way "science community" handled the pandemic, but mRNA and epidemiology research have been going on for decades and can hardly be called science-adjacent. Those factors are essential to gene theory and our continued understanding of the human body
"mRNA and epidemiology research have been going on for decades and can hardly be called science-adjacent."
I hear what you're saying, but compared to orbital math these things ARE science-adjacent. Ask yourself: would you rather bet your life on the 1801 orbital mechanics math or the truth of either field mentioned above?
I see what you are saying but science or not isn't really a relative thing, its more about the process by which the information/field was derived. Just because you cant make an equation out of it doesn't make it not a science- it's not math sure
If you can't test a theory, it's not really science.
If your data doesn't pass a confidence test, it's not really science.
Climate science is woefully short on usable data and it has been shown more than once to be driven by politics and external factors.
Developing vaccines is closer to engineering than science, unless you can really test and determine the method. A lot of psychotropics are not really science because you're black-boxing the human body.
And, by the way, the government needs to abolish the student loan program for college education. Not "reform" it, abolish it. If you need to get a loan for college, demonstrate to your local bank that you've worked hard, behaved yourself, got good grades and high SATs in high school, and plan to major in a field where the odds are good that you'll make enough money to actually repay the loan.
It would be amazing how fast college costs would come down when there's no demand for Hamas-loving professors of worthless fields of study and the entire DEI staff is eliminated because students go to college to learn a marketable skill.
As a Gen Xer who graduated with ~$30k in student loans (1995), some of us were hosed too. When I graduated my market rate loans were at 12% and interest had started the day I took them out. Starting salary for an entry level IT worker in Seattle or Portland was in the $20k-$30k range at that time. Fortunately for me the .com boom happened a couple short years later and 10%-25% annual raises became a thing. That combined with roommates and driving 10+ year old cars until my mid-30s let me pay them all off in seven years.
The NC university system will no longer hand out “distinguished professorships” for non-STEM fields. The indoctrinators are up in arms, which is very satisfying.
They’ll get their way. In a few years, someone will notice that Distinguished Professors are disproportionately White or Asian males and that will be the end of that.
The first result of that would be to water down the hard sciences to ensure the correct mix of students graduates. It’s already happening. Group assignments, take home tests, etc.
The amount of leeway certain students get, especially in regards to writing, is mind blowing. I'm not sure you'd believe some of the stuff I've seen firsthand.
The only thing that will do is make college even more selective for financial privilege. There are plenty of people who take on loans for STEM degrees and plan to do useful things with them.
I'm sure the reason is around is that it is actually profitable. Fed student loan interest rates were over 6% when the fed rate was under 1. People would often be better using a private lender
"The only thing that will do is make college even more selective for financial privilege."
I can easily make the argument that only smart people and rich people should go to college. Seriously. And most of THOSE people would be better off if they spent four years hiking the Alps.
The CFO of a client of mine - a VERY interesting client that has disrupted a global industry and is also wildly profitable on 10 figures of revenue with ZERO VC funding - has a high school education. He learned accounting “on the job” earlier in his career.
Not anymore, paid for way too many years on a 3,000 dollar student loan at $50 a month. The 40,000 dollar one I am paying now is only $25.71. Even if I live another 30 years I won't touch the principal.
Same here. And it's a damn shame I'm never going to see it. But then Smokey and the Bandit won't watch itself for the 259th time so you can understand my dilemma.
Tear 'em down, and tear down the hostage photos while you're at it!
Someone taped hostage flyers to a lamppost with razor blades on the back, blades pointing up, and the dumb Neo-Nazis got their fingers sliced up pulling them down. It’s a start.
I lived in Ann Arbor during the last years of the Vietnam War. Many stop signs in town had "The War" stencil painted on them. I'd do the same with "Hamas" in Dearborn, but the police chief there is named Haddad and they'd probably indict me for felony vandalism of public property.
Especially the ones who are in their vehicles!
By themselves!! 🤦♂️🤦♂️
I'm glad you waded through this nonsense for us. It DOES sound unsubtle and pretty cringe.
ACF movie night when?
We never got that 'The Boys' review Jack mentioned.
Here's a review: Garth Ennis HATES superheroes, wrote an awful comic dunking on them, and then it was turned into an even shittier TV show. Everyone's an irredeemable asshole. Thanks. I got the message.
Full disclosure: I love superhero comics. But I also love Preacher and Ennis' first couple Punisher runs. Go figure.
You just described the whole CONCEPT of ironic deconstruction.
Yes, this. There has been enough capeshit for one lifetime. The black humor is refreshing. I could do without the current year character gender swaps and related changes. The showrunners are probably having an 'Archie Bunker' moment where, to their dismay, the 'villains' are well liked by the viewers.
Hellblazer, too. Ennis' take in Preacher was not a surprise after seeing that.
JACK GET ON IT
Oh yeah! I should do that.
I wonder if the “throw it away” instead of fixing it mindset applies to our culture about the state of our country. It feels similar to folks who want to become expats or secede instead of doing something about the state of things. I admit to feeling this way sometimes.
That said, server racks won’t stubbornly resist, arrest you, or invent sexual assault allegations for trying to fix them.
The only answers are bloody civil war or space colonization.
You know which way I'm leaning.
Maybe I wasn't clear....
The Golgafrinchans had it right.
Presumably you could swap with some Nashville hipster...
please do. we have way too many of them moving down here, electing a left wing DA and then wondering why college students get shot in the crossfire at 2:30pm in the afternoon....
It's why were moving out of Davidson County if we finally decide to settle in Nashville full time
We had a civil war once over the secession question. It cost hundreds of thousands of lives to answer. I hope we do not have to ask it again.
I don’t believe separation would really make life better for most Americans. People hate each other for reasons couched mostly in cultural reasons and identity politics and this is encouraged by the uniparty. The same elite class would likely continue to rule both sets of places so you would have two weaker and still declining countries with the same shitty anti-industrial economic policies except you can be trans and get abortions in one while you can open carry firearms in the other.
It would also require a complete sacrifice of American hegemonic power. (Reader’s interpretation if this is good or bad).
Darren Beattie said it best
https://nitter.net/DarrenJBeattie/status/1628054610173743111#m
For the sake of my continued career.... yes that's totally true
"server racks won’t stubbornly resist, arrest you, or invent sexual assault allegations for trying to fix them"
the "ai is real and a threat to humanity" retards will disagree with you on that
mine does too
its still pretty stupid
Duck you.
Your story about leaving computer support reminds me of a book about Silicon Valley start ups. A guy in the book said he would leave a start up when they started to buy cheap pens.
The best line from the book was another guy’s justification for leaving a start up that was cutting back on its generous stock option packages: “Why work for Stalin if you can’t get a fur coat?”
"A guy in the book said he would leave a start up when they started to buy cheap pens."
I can see the logic to that!
I worked for a boutique securities operation that was a small subsidiary of a huge corporation, and we had a semi-monopoly that just printed money like mad. I distinctly remember being in the regional manager’s plush corner office with the great view, and he was bitching to his hot Puerto Rican secretary on how she was spending too much on pens! He actually did the per pen calculation! Needless to say, I did not get a fur coat.
Absolutely
I got about 5 minutes in and assumed it was about climate change and the guy with glasses was Leo. Couldn't go any farther into it. I wonder if I would have watched more if J-law went full frontal like her last rom-com. Probably not.
Same. I put the “Bone” in “Ken Bone” looking at her butthole pics.
Not literally of course
Second best looking Mystique
isnt j-law jude law
Jude Law and I have the same tailor... who has to work a LOT harder on my stuff.
Has he been in anything since being a robot gigolo?
being a gigolo usually means being in things i presume
I had an epiphany the other day: I don't actually hate computers. I don't even hate software. Despite my volume of commentary on the matter, I realized it was true.
No, what I hate is the relentess neophilia that infects the geeks, nerds & dorks who write software. I hate the drive for New even though the Existing works fine and isn't broken.
This revelation slapped me hard in the face this weekend as I was filling out some straggler paperwork on my new car (2020 Mustang GT 6-speed) and I had to sign a few PDFs the dealership sent me.
Google Docs gave me a couple of app options and long story short, I had yet another experience with computers that left me in a white-hot, this-close-to-destroying-everything-in-the-room-rage.
What the hell was so dysfuctional about Acrobat that it wasn't good enough anymore? Jack and Shit, that's what.
My point here is that the whole subject of computers may literally result in the extinction of mankind. The intellectual horsepower of our society goes into Computers because that's where the money is (well, there and Law), and in the not-a-zero-or-a-minus chance that we have to deal with an extinction-level bolide impact, we won't have the spaceships we need to do it.
Because we kicked Neil Armstrong off the hero pedastal and replaced him with Mark Zuckerberg.
I like how you compared Linux to archaeology and hoarder therapy, and I absolutely think you're right about standardization being of paramount importance.
Get one common foundation squared away, then let everyone build on it, instead of 53 different conflicting pilings trying to hold up the building.
Oh.
We need to bully dorks even harder so they don't grow up to be the tards that change shit relentlessly.
As one of those dorks, revenge is sweet.
STOP CHANGING SHIT
SAY IT, BROTHER!!!
https://youtu.be/s_bCmiqFB7U?si=7lGZmrKoeKj1AcAP
In all seriousness, random UI changes for no purpose probably annoy technical IT people more than anybody else. We are the ones who end up having to retrain our coworker, friends, and worst of all parents. In an organization that doesn't produce software as a product that retraining has very real and sometimes huge costs. That hurts our bottom line and keeps IT staff from being able to do something that adds value to the business.
So why does it happen? In software as a product companies having your UI look "dated" can be a sales nightmare. And since visible changes there are often faster and easier (with less potential to actually break the product) than non-visible code fixes to actual broken parts of the software they are going to get approved and pushed. In my experience the UI folks also have a tendency to be more "artsy" and young. Folks who by their nature respond positively to visible change.
But, see, I am a computer programmer and work with/"manage" a bunch of them. They _aren't_ dorks any more. The super-smart, socially maladjusted types who built the backbone of all the software powering our world today? They're gone. The new breed of programmer is a Scott Locklin-danger-hair social studies graduate who went to a Javascript coding bootcamp after realizing a full-time job at Starbucks won't pay back $200,000 in student loans. (This is pre-Covid, when you still had to pay back those pesky things)
"The new breed of programmer is a Scott Locklin-danger-hair social studies graduate who went to a Javascript coding bootcamp after realizing a full-time job at Starbucks won't pay back $200,000 in student loans."
Sir, are you trying to convince me that there is a meaningful percentage of white people in coding jobs?
At woke companies, yes. You've dallied more in the huge, Indian IT department scene, which I try to avoid thinking about. That sort of developer would impact your Adobe Acrobat woes, but not so much your Facegoomazon experience, I wouldn't think.
Fine.
The nerds are gone, then let's go back to Terra Mechanica.
While I agree with you in principle - some of this was Adobe's fault by pricing and nickel and diming every useful feature so high that others feel they can fill a gap.
I just want things TO WORK.
Software is just a tool, and I don't have to fight my wrenches and hammers and screwdrivers when I want to use THEM.
A-FUCKING-MEN.
I'm only using this app because I HAVE TOO, THIS ONE TIME. I don't want to set up an account, or think up YET ANOTHER password.
You and Guy Clark.
Don't they have a SUBSCRIPTION MODEL now to read and edit a flippin' PDF?
"So what do you do here, Yogurt?"
Made me so mad I ripped it all off my machines and went out and bought PDF-XChange.
Okay, old man, you've needed FULL, $500 ADOBE ACROBAT PRO to sign PDFs for at least 15 years now. Why do you think Docusign and clones are a business? Anyone who writes a PDF signature app wants money for it, because PDF sucks.
Yes, they do.
The wanting money AND the sucking.
My condolences for you suffering through this flic, Jack. When this flic came out, after seeing the trailer I knew there was no fucking way I'd ever watch it.
People trash "Armageddon," but I've yet to see a more inspirational movie.
The real villain in that movie was the US government. If they'd dealt in good faith, none of the movie's events would've happened.
Wrongly imprisoned a man without trial for decades, conducted & then covered up illegal military operations, weaseled out of paying survivors' benefits, alienated a decorated war hero badly enough that he caused a terrorist incident and then tried to end the mess by shooting through dozens of hostages?
Does a movie entertain?
If it does, then it's a good movie.
Fuck the Jay Shermans of the world.
Penguins can't fly! And this one's been drinking!
The Rock was close to Shakespeare, really. You certainly had a brilliant set of actors there.
And also, Nicholas Cage.
What about "Leaving Las Vegas?" A man dies drunk in bed have sex with a gorgeous hooker. Hollywood just can't make a movie with a happy ending like that anymore.
having, not have, of course.
I must have lost 4 wedding rings that way.
I remember Elizabeth Shue in that role. A gorgeous hooker would have made the movie for me.
If as a commentariat were going to dump and Lauren Sanchez, Shue does not get a pass. Except in The Boys.
I associate any Las Vegas-sited movie with Nicolas Cage!
I'm glad I did not watch this trash. The hype made me watch the trailer and the question that popped in my head was
Jennifer Lawrence - Astrophysics PHD student?
Dicaprio - Astrophysicist?
Who the fuck does these castings. I cannot with infinite suspension of disbelief see those two as high IQ people.
Disagree, only cause Denise Richards doesn't look like a bimbo with glasses.
I have, still agree to disagree.
Jennifer Lawrence is 10/10 bimbo.
TOTAL.
NUCLEAR.
MELTDOWN.
I thought Christmas only came once a year.
No, but the movie was made for people whose idea of "high IQ people" is Neil deGrasse Tyson.
I don't know about you, but I always thought Michio Kaku's about half a notch above that "Ancient Aliens" guy.
Kaku has much better hair.
Fighting words.
That ain't sayin' much.
When I am flipping channels on the car radio the only thing that makes my fingers move faster than Kars 4 Kids is hearing "In this movie, my character..."
I've decided the Kars 4 Kids commercial is deliberately annoying. Only by being that annoying could they get you to not notice (for at least the first dozen plays anyway) that they never say what donating your car will do for kids.
I wish it were possible to downvote a post. And we still don't know what donating the car will do for the kids.
I’d like to think that at some point an investigation will find that they have been doing horrible things with the money from those donated cars and that they’ll be shut down so we never have to hear that commercial again.
Maybe human trafficking? Like it's secretly run by Jared from Subway and they give you a Kid 4 your Kar but nobody knows because decent folk can't stand the commercial.
Mayim Bialik, Dolph Lundgren, and Brian May all have credible hard science advanced degrees. Not everyone in show business is an idiot.
I'm well aware, some don't need me to look their credentials up to know they're stupid.
Honestly thought it was a climate-change parable, more than/instead of a Covid one. Interestingly, this new light does nothing to change my perception ('there's a couple low-return hours.').
Agreed, I didn't think it was about COVID in any way at all - it was about as unsubtle of a climate change nod as I can imagine. That movie was absolutely awful though. The only silver linings were getting to look at Jennifer Lawrence and Cate Blanchett.
I think it *was* intended as a climate change parable, I don’t think they could have released it in time for COVID otherwise. It just works for whatever the ignore/obsess science debate of the moment is.
Unless Fauci was working with the directors... 🤔
They didn't start filming until the end of 2020, when TRUST THE SCIENCE was in full swing. I agree that the genesis of the film was climate change. Either way, the central assumption holds; "climate science" is like being an economist in the sense that you can't really do much science.
And both are dismal pursuits.
Totally missed this movie but didn’t miss the last three years. Unfortunately. Sounds like Idiocracy will be a better predictor of future events than Don’t Look Up will.
I'm not agreeing with the way "science community" handled the pandemic, but mRNA and epidemiology research have been going on for decades and can hardly be called science-adjacent. Those factors are essential to gene theory and our continued understanding of the human body
"mRNA and epidemiology research have been going on for decades and can hardly be called science-adjacent."
I hear what you're saying, but compared to orbital math these things ARE science-adjacent. Ask yourself: would you rather bet your life on the 1801 orbital mechanics math or the truth of either field mentioned above?
I see what you are saying but science or not isn't really a relative thing, its more about the process by which the information/field was derived. Just because you cant make an equation out of it doesn't make it not a science- it's not math sure
If you can't test a theory, it's not really science.
If your data doesn't pass a confidence test, it's not really science.
Climate science is woefully short on usable data and it has been shown more than once to be driven by politics and external factors.
Developing vaccines is closer to engineering than science, unless you can really test and determine the method. A lot of psychotropics are not really science because you're black-boxing the human body.
mRNA and epidemiology theories can most certainly be tested
And, by the way, the government needs to abolish the student loan program for college education. Not "reform" it, abolish it. If you need to get a loan for college, demonstrate to your local bank that you've worked hard, behaved yourself, got good grades and high SATs in high school, and plan to major in a field where the odds are good that you'll make enough money to actually repay the loan.
It would be amazing how fast college costs would come down when there's no demand for Hamas-loving professors of worthless fields of study and the entire DEI staff is eliminated because students go to college to learn a marketable skill.
As a Gen Xer who graduated with ~$30k in student loans (1995), some of us were hosed too. When I graduated my market rate loans were at 12% and interest had started the day I took them out. Starting salary for an entry level IT worker in Seattle or Portland was in the $20k-$30k range at that time. Fortunately for me the .com boom happened a couple short years later and 10%-25% annual raises became a thing. That combined with roommates and driving 10+ year old cars until my mid-30s let me pay them all off in seven years.
Sounds like college would turn full STEM pretty quick.
Politics hardly matters when your entire field is shitcanned for being pointless. The DIE needs to leave, stat.
The NC university system will no longer hand out “distinguished professorships” for non-STEM fields. The indoctrinators are up in arms, which is very satisfying.
lmao stay mad
They’ll get their way. In a few years, someone will notice that Distinguished Professors are disproportionately White or Asian males and that will be the end of that.
The first result of that would be to water down the hard sciences to ensure the correct mix of students graduates. It’s already happening. Group assignments, take home tests, etc.
The amount of leeway certain students get, especially in regards to writing, is mind blowing. I'm not sure you'd believe some of the stuff I've seen firsthand.
Are you attacking my ILP? I am reporting you to Admin!!!!
The only thing that will do is make college even more selective for financial privilege. There are plenty of people who take on loans for STEM degrees and plan to do useful things with them.
I'm sure the reason is around is that it is actually profitable. Fed student loan interest rates were over 6% when the fed rate was under 1. People would often be better using a private lender
"The only thing that will do is make college even more selective for financial privilege."
I can easily make the argument that only smart people and rich people should go to college. Seriously. And most of THOSE people would be better off if they spent four years hiking the Alps.
Dumb question, but why can't you write the CPA exam after classes are done?
Scott, you got off easy. The State of Illinois requires 1500 hours (!) of “theory and practical study” for a hairstylist or cosmetologist.
https://apps.illinoisworknet.com/cis/clusters/OccupationDetails/100094?parentId=111000§ion=license§ionTitle=Licensing%20%2F%20Certification
The CFO of a client of mine - a VERY interesting client that has disrupted a global industry and is also wildly profitable on 10 figures of revenue with ZERO VC funding - has a high school education. He learned accounting “on the job” earlier in his career.
ill pretend for a sec that im one of those smart people
why would i spend four years in the alps
You'd learn more about other people, and yourself, than you would in school. If you read for two hours every night, you'd be better educated as well.
That would likely... uh... produce a lot more beautiful kids. That's for sure. "backpacking"
Only smart people and rich people should go to college, but only if high schools would do their damn jobs again.
didn't the gov't take banks completely outta the college loan business around '10 or so?
Profits are privatized, losses are subsidized.
Not anymore, paid for way too many years on a 3,000 dollar student loan at $50 a month. The 40,000 dollar one I am paying now is only $25.71. Even if I live another 30 years I won't touch the principal.
Those East and West Coast ocean front mansions don’t build themselves!
That’s why we’re letting millions of construction workers cross the southern border.
Yes, I believe the money goes to Obamacare.
Funny but the Dems are still listing “affordable health care” as a party plank.
That guy makes my skin crawl. He’s like a real life Caillou.
Universities must be on the hook for their student's loans via their endowments.
"In retrospect, America could have used a bit more partisanship, a bit more ignorance, a bit more unfounded skepticism regarding COVID-19."
I think there was plenty of ignorance, but I think there wasn't enough acknowledgement of it that was the problem.
I have never heard of this movie until this minute. I thought I was sort of "with it" but now I have realized that I am totally "without it."
I guess I am OK with that...
No good comes out of following the popular culture.
Same here. And it's a damn shame I'm never going to see it. But then Smokey and the Bandit won't watch itself for the 259th time so you can understand my dilemma.