Originally Posted by Mblake1981 (Post 3369780)

Is that before or after you chopped your wang and popped the pills.

Originally Posted by imperiouskitten (Post 3369645)

Meh idk. I went to the magnet school for a semester in 2001 I think (yes because 9/11 happened while i was there), and it was in the middle of a Vegas high school. Like the kind with the metal detectors where as a white kid you are in the minority. Also ALL the students in the actual program were Asian and they excluded me at that school.

So I went back to Boulder City. Rich mormon town southeast of Vegas. At junior year of high school, was able to do a dual-credit thing at the community colleges around Vegas/Henderson to finish out high school, and they hooked me up with crazy shit like a no-show job on the campus so I was making $14/hr to go to class...school in vegas was pretty freaking sweet to be honest. Also after interning for a local congressman and meeting the student body prez there, he tried to make me inheritor of his position of student body president of the CC, but I was leaving for a university out of state so I passed up the opportunity to be student body prez of a 30,000 student COLLEGE system as a high school senior / college frosh.

Originally Posted by JurisDictum (Post 3369700)

So I have been looking up information on college degrees. https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/...t20_322.10.asp & https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=37

The total numbers of Bachelor degrees earned in 2018-19 was 2,012,854

Business (390,564)

Health professions and related programs (251,355)

Social sciences and history (160,628)

Engineering (126,687)

Biological and biomedical sciences (121,191)

(above is over 50% of all degrees)

...

Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities (44,222)

Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics (16,592)

Philosophy and religious studies (9,615)

Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies (7,724)

Total 70,429 or less than 3.5% of degrees

It seems to be that rightwing media and posting world are using a small minority of stupid degrees to explain why millions of people with good degrees can't get jobs like they used to. Or at least claiming its a big part of the story.

I submit to you that it is a string of anecdotes carefully crafted to mislead a part of the population. Its a story, a fictitious realty created by institutions that manufacture consent. Its a key part to make sure rightwing people from humble backgrounds don't support something that directly benefits people like them.

Originally Posted by Horza (Post 3369852)

“We’ve turned many rural communities into kill boxes.”

Originally Posted by JurisDictum (Post 3369700)

So I have been looking up information on college degrees. https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/...t20_322.10.asp & https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=37

The total numbers of Bachelor degrees earned in 2018-19 was 2,012,854

Business (390,564)

Health professions and related programs (251,355)

Social sciences and history (160,628)

Engineering (126,687)

Biological and biomedical sciences (121,191)

(above is over 50% of all degrees)

...

Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities (44,222)

Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics (16,592)

Philosophy and religious studies (9,615)

Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies (7,724)

Total 70,429 or less than 3.5% of degrees

It seems to be that rightwing media and posting world are using a small minority of stupid degrees to explain why millions of people with good degrees can't get jobs like they used to. Or at least claiming its a big part of the story.

I submit to you that it is a string of anecdotes carefully crafted to mislead a part of the population. Its a story, a fictitious realty created by institutions that manufacture consent. Its a key part to make sure rightwing people from humble backgrounds don't support something that directly benefits people like them.

Originally Posted by Jibartik (Post 3369856)

Originally Posted by Horza (Post 3369852)

Rural Americans are dying of Covid at more than twice the rate of their urban counterparts—a divide that health experts say is likely to widen as access to medical care shrinks for a population that tends to be older, sicker, heavier, poorer and less vaccinated.

“There is a national disconnect between perception and reality when it comes to Covid in rural America,” said Alan Morgan, head of the National Rural Health Association. “We’ve turned many rural communities into kill boxes. And there's no movement towards addressing what we're seeing in many of these communities, either among the public, or among governing officials.”