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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Too bad for all those stoopid suckers who worked hard to pay their student loans off. There goes another set of college educated people who won't be voting D any time soon.
Quote:Aside from the fact that not everyone can go to college ... or even get through high school ... or grade school ... college should be free to those who can do the coursework. Maybe one could set up a system where students are charged a reasonable amount of money to be in college, and then repaid on graduation - to prevent people from 'gaming' the system. And we need skilled trades and vocational training as well. That should be free, too. Maybe we could 'pay' for that as a society by having all graduates do a year of public service work. It would be kleggitch - donkey work - since you can't build up a skill in that time and get useful work from anyone. But there's plenty of kleggitch to go around.
You cry like a bitch. Education should be free. No one should have to go into debt for it. We need people with knowledge and skills. It would pay for itself 10 times over.
But for those who've already paid their loans, or made sacrifices to keep paying them, it'd be like a good, hard boot-kick in the gut. And I have no recommendation to address that. But I can see the potential for damaging blowback.
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More stupid than sassy.
Really stupid, actually. Any gay person who would vote Republican is an idiot.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Too bad for all those stoopid suckers who worked hard to pay their student loans off. There goes another set of college educated people who won't be voting D any time soon.
Quote:Aside from the fact that not everyone can go to college ... or even get through high school ... or grade school ... college should be free to those who can do the coursework. Maybe one could set up a system where students are charged a reasonable amount of money to be in college, and then repaid on graduation - to prevent people from 'gaming' the system. And we need skilled trades and vocational training as well. That should be free, too. Maybe we could 'pay' for that as a society by having all graduates do a year of public service work. It would be klegitch - donkey work - since you can't build up a skill in that time and get useful work from anyone. But there's plenty of klegitch to go around.
You cry like a bitch. Education should be free. No one should have to go into debt for it. We need people with knowledge and skills. It would pay for itself 10 times over.
But for those who've already paid their loans, or made sacrifices to keep paying them, it's be like a good, hard boot-kick in the gut. And I have no recommendation to address that. But I can see the potential for damaging blowback.
This is how we know you're a low IQ Russian troll. You do your shit job because you have no marketable skills.
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They're fascist, and the economic model US fascists aspire to.
We're watching it happen, now.
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"Fact's" should be "Facts". If you're going to make stuff up because you have nothing legitimate to say, at least get the spelling right. Or can't you manage even that?
RF is an idiot. It's that simple.
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I believe AI will cause massive dislocations in the labor market, and we’d best get ready for them. One of the most common counterarguments, however, is that if AI robots were truly putting people out of work, then we’d see labor productivity going up. (Fewer people making more stuff = higher productivity.) But that’s not what we see:
Not only has labor productivity declined a bit over the past 60+ years, but it’s cratered over the past ten years, precisely the time when AI has supposedly started making huge inroads. So the doomsayers predicting hundreds of millions of jobs lost to AI are wrong.
Ahem. We would be wrong if the past ten years really had seen the introduction of true AI. But it hasn’t. Nevertheless, a lot of people are persuaded by this argument because they hear, on nearly a daily basis, about some new AI breakthrough.
Bottom line: We don’t have AI yet. We’re still a decade or two away from true, human-level AI. In the meantime, what we’re getting is baby steps toward improved automation, which will have a growing impact on the labor market (for example, when self-driving cars and trucks become a reality) but probably won’t lead to massive dislocations.
But around 2035? All hell is going to break loose. I’m still not sure precisely what we can do about this, but the first step is to at least understand what we are and aren’t dealing with today.
More at https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2020/12/please-stop-calling-eve
rything-ai/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Too bad for all those stoopid suckers who worked hard to pay their student loans off. There goes another set of college educated people who won't be voting D any time soon.
Quote:Aside from the fact that not everyone can go to college ... or even get through high school ... or grade school ... college should be free to those who can do the coursework. Maybe one could set up a system where students are charged a reasonable amount of money to be in college, and then repaid on graduation - to prevent people from 'gaming' the system. And we need skilled trades and vocational training as well. That should be free, too. Maybe we could 'pay' for that as a society by having all graduates do a year of public service work. It would be kleggitch - donkey work - since you can't build up a skill in that time and get useful work from anyone. But there's plenty of kleggitch to go around.
You cry like a bitch. Education should be free. No one should have to go into debt for it. We need people with knowledge and skills. It would pay for itself 10 times over.
But for those who've already paid their loans, or made sacrifices to keep paying them, it'd be like a good, hard boot-kick in the gut. And I have no recommendation to address that. But I can see the potential for damaging blowback.
I could sign up for a a welding course right now, if I wanted to throw $12,000 plus gear and materials at it.
Will I get to do that for free too? Or it's not free unless I have to subject myself to 4 years of "professors" telling me why I'm a terrible person because of my skin color and genitalia?
Yanno.... REAL education?
What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :)
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After the Deep State Sabotaged His Presidential Bid, Bernie Sanders Mocks Those Who Believe it Exists
Also ridiculing "rigged elections" and "fake news" -- two other weapons used on him -- the Vermont Senator's relationship to the Democratic Party descends from loyal support to abject subservience.
At what would be the peak of Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign, the U.S. intelligence community, using anonymous leaks to The Washington Post, dropped a devastating bomb on the Vermont Senator. “U.S. officials have told Sen. Bernie Sanders that Russia is attempting to help his presidential campaign as part of an effort to interfere with the Democratic contest," the paper announced, citing “people familiar with the matter” whom the paper allowed to speak “on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence.”
At the time of this perfectly timed leak, Sanders was on a major roll. He had effectively tied Pete Buttigieg for first place in the scandal-plagued Iowa caucus, in which an app developed and sold by Democratic Party operatives made it impossible to reliably count the votes, and then won the first primary in New Hampshire (Joe Biden finished fourth and fifth, respectively, declared all but dead by the punditocracy and Democratic donors).
The leak to The Post was published on February 21 — the day before Nevada was to hold its caucus, as polls showed Sanders with a sizeable lead in that state. The next day, Sanders had a blowout win, defeating Biden by twenty-two points and scoring what The New York Times described as “a major victory in the Nevada caucuses that demonstrated his broad appeal in the first racially diverse state in the presidential primary race and established him as the clear front-runner for the Democratic nomination.”
But that intelligence leak, as designed, plagued him from that point forward, particularly heading into the South Carolina primary that would prove fatal to his presidential bid. At the time, Sanders himself seemed to acknowledge that the leak to The Post — a paper he had long attacked for its open hostility to him — was intended to cripple his candidacy. After exiting his plane on the day before the caucus, he was informed of the intelligence leak by the press on the tarmac, and he responded sarcastically, ridiculing its obvious purpose.
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/after-the-deep-state-sabotaged-his
It doesn't seem like he's getting a Cabinet position or anything. (And neither is Elizabeth Warren for that matter.) And democrats wouldn't dare throw him out of the Senate caucus since it's so close to 50/50. I wonder what they're holding over him.
And if democrats* don't do any different, how are they any better?
When Biden* fails to keep his promises - or even promote them - I'll be happy to laugh at his skinny saggy ass parading all over town in his New Clothes™.
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