hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
11hr ago
A significant percentage of people in community college are also training for things that are not normally four year degrees- some of the less prestigious healthcare specialties(think phlebotomy etc), lots of trades careers, etc. This is simply a different market from what a university is offering, and the alternative to a community college for these things is a for-profit technical school, not a university.
I don't know how much this explains, but the guy working on his ASE certification(automotive mechanical) who has to take a few gen ed credits to get through the program, and the girl working on her LVN who needs to take a few math and general science classes as part of it, would probably not otherwise be going to a university.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
The official IQ cutoff to be militarily useful is 83. This is not an indicator that the military requires all of its members to do algebra.
Now it does vary quite a bit by MOS, with high ASVAB scores leading to more desirable ones and lower scores leading to KP, warehouse work, and sentry duty.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
Rationalists are basically a doomsday cult dedicated to surviving the chaos of the singularity through human power; it's reasonable to assume they're very concerned with having sufficient human capital to harness that power.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
no steady gf is because divorces and tinder
But is that true? How much of the female withdrawal from the dating market is driven by the incredible level of fearmongering about male bad behavior? I mean, there's the family guy clip about campus sexual assault training, but tiktok is just way way worse at playing up female neuroticism than liability-minimizing bureaucrats.
How much of it is simply that a far higher percentage of young women are unattractive as GF's, mostly due to higher obesity rates?
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
Just pointing out, the stereotypical gas station owner is a minority immigrant who almost certainly votes D, and both Trump voters hate him(for not assimilating) and lower class minorities(for making them miss the white owner-men), but the hyper-educated parts of the democrat base do not hate the middleman minorities that own gas stations.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
There is a sufficient sample size of well connected and extremely wealthy celebrities to say that most of them don't cheat on their pregnant wives with porn stars.
hydroacetylene
12hr ago
IDK about that, but Texas has an age of consent of 17 unless you have some legitimate reason for knowing the minor in question, in which case it's 18, and flat out bans school district employees from having sex with the students. These seem like obvious rule patches.
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
These are completely different things- promise keepers was an evangelical men’s group which did standard evangelical things. Oath keepers is a veterans right-wing militia organization.
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
In nature, tough, fecund generalists invariably outcompete long established species in time of environmental chaos. Rationalists note that there is socioeconomic chaos on the horizon, they note that low birth rates are a contributing factor, and rationalists are not tough, fecund generalists.
This is an expression of anxiety about who the feral hogs of future society are. It’s quite reasonable to be particularly worried about that stratum’s biggest weakness.
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
Depends on the state, but crossing state lines to have sex with a woman under 18 is probably illegal somehow, even if the states involved have a lower age.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
What about those of us who aren't weirdos, can we just take the money and spend on a nice house, a couple cars, and retiring early?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Random Chadian peasants will not be going to American universities, or anywhere else more than five miles from their mud huts. The TFR of the African Elites who might go to university abroad is still collapsing.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I'm really looking forwards to the buddy comedy movie about the chinese exchange student who goes to howard because his english was bad enough to confuse it for harvard....
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Charter schools are free. They can totally rig the lottery to get your kids in if they feel like it, but they don't charge tuition. People who go to them are normal middle and lower-middle class.
They also do not get the creme de la creme of teacher quality, because they pay significantly worse than public schools due to lower per-student funding.
Charter schools do better because they have a plan and they stick to it, rather than following educational trends that originated in someone's ass around like a bull with a ring through its nose.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It doesn't matter. De facto a college degree is just a four year vacation. It's still a good investment to make, but less so.
Now, the motte is going to chime in that there's an absolute dingbat making six figures answering emails somewhere. I believe that, even if this isn't actually the boss's boss's mistress. But if you replace this person with a random trucker or construction worker, you will discover why this person's job required a college degree. There are of course jobs that require a college degree and don't need one- they don't pay six figures, but they exist. They also have a lower early-termination rate than their equivalent which doesn't require a college degree.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
There are two possibilities for the bill- one which does literally nothing but make abortions free, and one which is a series of 90/10 bipartisan bad ideas that passes with flying colors, gets labeled 'Trumpcare', and nobody blames when the price controls cause insulin shortages.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Pakistan's air force performed very well in their last flareup.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Uh, does the Taliban need assistance from India to carry out carbomb attacks? Like this naively seems to be "Jews caused the Ukraine invasion" tier conspiracizing- Russia doesn't need outside encouragement to invade a neighbor it's on bad terms with, and the Taliban doesn't need outside encouragement to be terrorists.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Ok, but democrats will infight to the point that republicans have a lot of influence on that bill. There'll be a faction that settles for nothing less than abolishing private insurance and a faction that really doesn't want to do that and it'll wind up with a republican-ish bill that everyone but Thomas Massie, MTG, and Rand Paul votes for. Probably some giant omnibus that actually succeeds in driving down drug prices over the short term and republicans present as 'Trumpcare'.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
It, uh, sounds like she doesn't want to get serious with you. See also 'been dating for ten years'. You should break up. She'll just find another excuse.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
For selfish reasons, I hope the democrats unseat them in bloody primaries which nominate #resistance dems instead of some of their highest value over replacement senators.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
AIUI, there are several 'foodstamps' programs, and the ones people might actually starve from not getting are funded- it's possible that a lengthy pause in foodstamps would cause issues for people, but private charity can bridge over it for a month or two- especially these two.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
‘The boss wants to use AI’
hydroacetylene
4d ago
This is not guaranteed, but it's what happened in every previous shutdown. I'd expect that 95-99% of the backpay gets disbursed; people that took vacation during the shutdown or something might not be.
Ah, yes, I look forwards to the universities acquiring translators for a dialect which can only be learned verbally, sending recruiters to deep backwater villages that pay tribute to warlords who themselves owe allegiance to military juntas that don't bother to develop infrastructure to access the deep interior of the country. It might bring universities to develop zeppelins to deliver their recruiters places roads don't reach. Assuming local dictator #500 allows them to do it, and stays in power long enough for it to make any difference.
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