The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
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The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
29m ago
But what 'we' found was that no, you're basically treated as a lowly intern to start, your pay might be a little better than if you lacked the degree, but it afforded you almost no actual respect and, in all probability, you'd have more respect if you'd been working that job 4 years rather than studying in that time.
In what field would you be able to go in as a newbie either with or without a degree? Obviously not law, where you need an advanced degree just to get in. In a blue-collar trade you might have more respect after working for four years without a degree than you would in a white collar profession as a newbie with a degree, but that's comparing apples to oranges. In retail I think the most common thing is you work at the bottom forever, but if you're the ambitious type you could move up in four years -- but you're going to quickly hit a ceiling without the degree. The major chains seem to maintain a sort of "staff/line" distinction and while you can move from "staff" to "line", you need to get a degree.
So in this sense, think of how college was sold as an almost pure status boost. "You're a smart guy, you could jump into the workplace and eventually find yourself in a prestigious position, well-compensated and respected. But hey, if your SATs are high enough you can take a small detour to acquire a piece of paper that certifies you're a smart guy, and jump ahead to having some extra clout without the long climb from the bottom."
Except as you pointed out, this isn't how it was sold. It was 'go to college or you'll be flipping burgers'. The "detour" doesn't so much jump you ahead as put you on a different ladder.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
45m ago
The FBI director being a fanboy is cringe, but that's all.
Trump's joke was barely worth a sensible chuckle, but there's one constant in all waves of feminism, which is that the feminism light bulb joke makes sense:
Q: How many feminists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: THAT'S NOT FUNNY!
Anyway, the men's hockey team will still be up to their ears in "female attention" should they want it, the bitching of sportswriters notwithstanding.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3hr ago
There don't seem to be any "paedophiles" in the Epstein files, with the possible exception of Epstein himself.
No, regardless of your footnote, 17-through-19-year-old prostitutes don't count. There's a probably apocryphal story where Abraham Lincoln poses the riddle "If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have?" and he gives the answer as "Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it so." Well, same goes if you call someone who has sex with a 17-year-old a "paedophile".
I'm not even sure there's evidence of anyone (again, aside from Epstein) actually having sex with a 17-year-old. Yes, if you discard all the meanings of words and all the lack of evidence, there's something here.... but there isn't. A bunch of rich people partying with 17-year-old prostitutes (and I would guess cocaine also) isn't news -- "hookers and blow" is pretty much expected.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3hr ago
Demand for healthcare is comparatively inelastic, but it is not unbounded. If going to the doctor was cheap, you wouldn't spend all your time going to the doctor.
I wouldn't. As you probably know, there are people who do.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3hr ago
The major thing is you've got less than 2 years of post-college professional experience, which tends to disqualify you for anything but entry level jobs -- and those tend to be filled out of college recruiting offices. If I'm reading it right you're also specializing in on-site IT in an increasingly cloud world, though that might work in South Florida where there's a bunch of financial firms who remain (properly) wary of cloud stuff. Other than that it's all Windows stuff and I don't know much about that market.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3hr ago
Fair enough. But assassination was a move that clearly was not off the table.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3hr ago
The defeat of "Al Qaeda" (the professional terrorist organisation with global reach run out of a cave complex in Afghanistan that did 9-11) involved NATO and their local allies in the Northern Alliance conquering Afghanistan with boots on the ground.
If those, specifically, are the people you're talking about, they don't run Syria so your original post was wrong.
(The only reason "Al Qaeda" the meme which inspires Muslim immigrants to drive trucks into European Christmas markets isn't a problem for America is that you have fewer Muslim immigrants)
We've got sufficient Muslims to do that; they used to. Far fewer lately.
If they had done the black-bagging with no blockade the regime would be back in control by now (with Rodriguez either working with Maduro's people or replaced).
"If". The US had the ability to blockade with Maduro there, it wasn't sufficient.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
23hr ago
It used to be conventional wisdom that you can separate lesbians into two categories -- femme and butch. The latter do not look conventionally feminine but the former do. I'm fairly sure these categories do in fact exist.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
US decapitation strategy goes back at least to WWII with "Operation Vengeance" killing Admiral Yamamoto.
As for Al Qaeda, they're not bothering the US any more and that's what's important to the US. Same goes for Venezuela; the commies are still in charge but they're not buddying up with China and Cuba any more.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Did men who weren't Chad ever like dating?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
When the CEO says they're going to let the talent be the talent, expect micromanagement within the week.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
"Actually religious people aren't generous if you don't count religious giving" isn't really a very convincing line.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
Just don't accidentally go all the way back to Windows ME.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
Basically, any country which makes use of retroactive tariffs is not someone you would want to do business with. Nothing stopping them from nationalizing your company by retroactively applying a 500% tariff on all of the goods you have been importing in the last decade.
And yet companies keep doing business with countries which are known to outright nationalize companies. It would be nice if doing shit like that had the high cost you might expect, but they don't.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
Finally, he makes a compelling point that the majority seems to believe the statue permits a bull elephant in this elephant hole (the ability to prevent any imports from a country) yet the majority believes the statute precludes a baby elephant (ie a tariff). This is of course an inversion of how MQD typically work.
I don't think this point is that compelling. A power that can be controlled precisely is greater than a power that can only be used completely or not at all, so a tariff that can go from 0 to a percentage that is indistinguishable than a ban is actually a greater power than to merely ban or not.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
Kavanaugh's issue isn't partisanship, it's that he overweights "disruption" to an even greater extent than Roberts does. We saw this when he agreed that the CDC rent freeze was unconstitutional and allowed it anyway, and we see it here with him complaining about the practical effects of refunds.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
Of course, even that would not save him from having to pay back the tariffs people already paid, because anything else would be retroactive.
Theres no rule against retroactive tariffs and taxes, only retroactive criminal law.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
· Edited 4d ago
This would still leave him with having to pay back some 200 billion dollars, I think.
No, since SCOTUS didn't say the money had to be refunded, that'll be ANOTHER court case. And he'll probably claim the new tariffs are retroactive, which will be yet another case.
And nobody would assume that SCOTUS would let get Trump away with his next harebrained tariff scheme
All commentators seem to agree the Section 122 tariffs are on solid ground for at least 150 days. After that, Congress has to approve to renew... but Trump could just declare another emergency if they're not, and if anyone objects... well, it's ANOTHER court case.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
· Edited 4d ago
The across the board tariffs are back already, under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974. And the per-country tariffs are on their way back. Trump really has learned from his opposition. Just drag out unfavorable decisions, then make a small change and start the process all over again.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
Hegseth is a weak man. In the other sense of the term. But the weapons designers mostly aren't in the military; they're civilians at defense contractors.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
Yeah, a "mission specialist" is an astronaut. I didn't work with any astronauts. He was one of the guys you see sitting behind desks in the old NASA launch videos.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
Everyone who has thought about the policy design says that you should just give people money.
Sure. That way when they give people money and the recipients spend it on booze and drugs and are still "needy", the proponents can use that to push for an increase in the amount of money given.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
The people you are describing are mostly tools, or footsoldiers if you like. They apply the power but they don't make the decisions.
The elite that modern right-populists are attacking pretty explicitly includes anyone with a degree from a selective university
Certainly not. People from some of the most selective universities, but not nearly all from a selective university.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
Lockheed is juicing their numbers when they say that 20% of their workforce "has a direct connection to the military" but you should assume that former DoD personnel are overrepresented there.
Definitely. It's been a long time but when I was in the industry we had quite a few retired military. Some were doing a second career in nerding and nerd-wrangling, others had always been nerds (e.g. one had also been a NASA mission control specialist) and were now on the civilian side. I've run into far fewer since I got out of defense.
Managers will always go for friends (or at least former coworkers/employees they were on good terms with) first if they can. When jobs are plentiful, they'll search the resume pile, but only after exhausting the group of people they know.
The problem with people talking about "networking" is there are some people good at networking, and these people tend to be concentrated in professions such as sales, marketing, and in management in all fields. Whereas other people are bad at networking, and some fields -- certainly including non-management tech -- have a lot of those people. Telling those people to do networking is a waste of breath; at best they might know what networking is (but just as possibly the term may have no sensible referent), but they have no way of doing it.
Which of course is why networking works so well in those fields. You have to do networking to get a sales job, but everyone's doing it; it's a minimum requirement and you need more, or at least to be better at networking than your competition. If you can do networking in tech, you're way ahead of the competition.
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