I don’t disagree with you. I’m all for perennial reevaluations of how we train professionals to make sure we’re producing the best and brightest. But there is definitely a libertarian strain (especially among these commenters) that shits on formal education, which is dangerous and intellectually lazy.
Remember when medicine was unequipped to deal with COVID because it presented as-yet unforeseen challenges in treatment? It was a crazy time, I remember it well. It took months, but practices and procedures caught up. It wasn’t perfect, and I hope that we’ve learned enough that next time we do better. But medical professionals gave every ounce of their beings and sacrificed their safety, and often their lives, to provide medical care for a novel disease. While I’m sure you sat on your ass remote working from home.
Jewish people have returned home. They fought and won a war over it. I’m glad people like you say crazy shit like this, it makes it easy to dismiss everything you say without having to engage.
That function of colleges is still very much alive. As part of being an accredited college with accredited programs, most kids are required to take courses in the liberal arts, even for science degrees. And a college education is a very strong indicator of a person’s support for fascism in America as opposed to our democratic norms. Still a very worthwhile endeavor that should be more accessible to more people financially.
I’m pretty sure Europe has done a real bang-up job not only supporting genocide but perpetrating it on a massive scale in the modern era. The moral stain of these countries, especially as it relates to Jews, comes into sharp relief when they fund Hamas and its evil, supporting school curricula that teaches kids to hate and murder Jews, treats Israel is an illegitimate state from it’s inception, and uses histrionic language that itself proved the need for a Jewish state.
College was sold to us as a way to enter a rarified sector of the job market, and that’s not as true as it once was, and was never as true as it was sold. But a college education is tremendously important for our democracy to exist in any meaningful way. An educated citizenry is crucial, irrespective of whether that translates to wealth (by the way, it still does translate to higher wealth over a lifetime).
And yet they can’t/won’t do shit about it. Hence “people in power” not “third-rate states that take virtue-signaling votes but refuse to lift a finger”.
What a disaster of a product. This isn’t a true Gen 1 product in the sense that the iPhone was. Apple waited an entire decade after the Rift was released, and released a headset that didn’t leapfrog the industry in any meaningful way. Steve Jobs would have shitcanned this months before the announcement and told his team to go back to the drawing board. Do I think that 5 years from now Apple will have a worthwhile product at a reasonable price point? Maybe. Maybe not. But to expend all that social capital on a device that sucks is really destructive to the brand, as is the insistence that it gets to collect tens of billions a year in rents because it owns the most popular computing platform for most people.
Because the internal logic to pretty much anything falls apart at an egregious enough scale. 401(k)s are wonderful for nearly all Americans (although a weak replacement for pensions, and too many Americans start them too late for the miracle of compound interest to really kick in). But at the extreme end of the scale, the top half of one percenters pay little to no taxes as they take loans against the unrealized profits of their portfolios, wrapped up in complicated agreements and hedges. What works for 99.5% of Americans is broken at scale for the top .5%.
Japan’s story is different - Japan has been battling deflation for decades at least partially as a result of a rapidly aging population with zero desire to import workers. Which is not a judgment of Japan, which instead chose to provide a much higher per capita stimulus to its people with a focus on the quality of life of the average citizen.
Your comment beats me to it! I used to be in favor of UBI, but every point you make is valid. And the so-called Modern Monetary Theory of printing unlimited sums of money without triggering inflation either doesn’t work conceptually, or requires too many ancillary policy changes to ever be an option.
I think a good solution looks more like good old-fashioned workers rights laws that we see in Europe, which includes sector-level wage bargaining. And I would also like to see a federal jobs guarantee that would cause upwards wage pressure in the private sector, while providing a livable minimum wage for all who are able to work.
The “tech revolt” angle is silly. It’s about a casual disregard for the law. With all those cameras all around the car, in an area that cops should be patrolling after years of increased petty crime, nobody has been arrested? The commonplace nature of crime in California in particular is a real problem that needs a muscular response.
Yeah, Apple Watch is still a piece of shit. I’m on my third since launch, its functionality is basically nothing for me except telling the time and buzzing way too often for alerts I don’t care about.
Yup. It was one of those truly magical devices that leap frogged everything else. People who dispute that must not have actually used it when it came out.
Circumstantial evidence is still evidence, Chris. The fact that it was no longer available on the store tends to imply that Apple removed it. Especially since the alternative is that the developer, who clearly acted in bad faith publishing an app masquerading as another app for the purpose of tricking people into making that developer profit, pulled it himself. You can put on your big boy deductive reasoning hat and draw a pretty reliable inference.
UPDATE 2/9: Apple has removed the "LassPass" app from its App Store and also pulled the app's developer from its developer program, the company confirms to PCMag. Apple says it has also received a trademark dispute against the now-removed app.
“UPDATE 2/9: Apple has removed the "LassPass" app from its App Store and also pulled the app's developer from its developer program, the company confirms to PCMag. Apple says it has also received a trademark dispute against the now-removed app.“
I guess you can stop the logorrhea now… Although the true lesson I hope you take away from this is that you could have stopped the logorrhea at any time if you applied just a little deductive reasoning and common sense.