the i dont care about politics anymore thread

[starkind]

Originally Posted by Mblake1981 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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

What's the word, irrespective of?

[Mesocyclone]

If you wanna see using women for sex in Hollywood just scroll down Yahoo any given day.
Yet they claim we are all equal...

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Originally Posted by imperiouskitten [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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.

Right but going to High School in Las Vegas is the issue (not so much elementary/middle school) and Boulder City is not part of the Clark County School District so a lot of people actually get an address or move out to Boulder City when their kids get to high school so they can be in that school district. idk if I could deal with being out in Boulder City... but there and Pahrump are growing a ton lately because of the huge influx in home prices in Vegas and people moving in from CA. I got a lot of years until I have to deal with it but my wife who went to palo verde wants the kids to go to public school and I'm from out of state but the more I hear the crazy stories about Vegas high schools the more I think I want to send them to bishop gorman or the other one.

[unsunghero]

Originally Posted by JurisDictum [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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.

I have no problem with free money and unicorns for everyone for any idealistic cause

I only have problems with the funding. Saying that bailing out billionaires is also unethical use of funding is obvious whataboutism, I never claimed to back such a thing either

Present a means of funding that doesn’t involve taxing a certain group to what I would consider theft and I’m all ears. We are talking hundreds of millions of people that will need huge sums of money for even just an undergrad degree

“It will pay for itself in the future” and if it doesn’t? Then what? The economy crashes as a result? It’s much safer to find a funding source that isn’t a future hypothesis

This isn’t even including the ridiculous costs for free healthcare for everyone

[Horza]

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.”

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[Jibartik]

Originally Posted by Horza [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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

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[Toxigen]

Originally Posted by JurisDictum [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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.

newsflash - an undergrad degree in business as a standalone is essentially useless these days...you'll be managing high school drop outs at fast food / retail / etc for 50k a year

"health professions and related" is all the way down to nurse technician (aka bed-pan changer)

social sciences and history? cmon now

your entire argument is skewed hard...you cherry picked numbers

"Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies" 53,546 - LOL...may as well study underwater basketweaving

[starkind]

Originally Posted by Jibartik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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That poor kid later killed himself. Like 29 yrs.

I don't blame the show. Maybe Hollywood culture. Or maybe transition with a new identity and no records tying to the past. Reroll. Witness protection.

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Originally Posted by Horza [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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.”

Peacock is fake news though