yeah that worked so well in 2024.... fuck's sake

TIL!

I couldn't stomach it.

I know a guy who repairs HVAC systems. He has a high school diploma and a bunch of technical certs. Handy with math but everything else is OJT and training certs. He makes bank. Same with a plumber I know.

in the US, at least, higher ed is a way to funnel people into debt, the military, both, or (if they fail school but still get the debt) - poverty. something tells me it shouldn't be this way, no one would design a system to operate this way if the goal was producing educated citizens.

I'm not cynical enough to buy the 'schools are just prisons for kids man' - between the shootings, overreaching bullshit (10 commandments, fear of woke etc.,) and absolute hell for teachers, I gotta wonder: who does all this garbage profit?

some conservatives want stupid voters, sure, but they also need skilled workers....

spin up 5 projects. hire devs from all over the world, make them work on site in person. people upend their entire lives for a chance at a stock option.

cancel 2 after 10 months.

cut the teams on two of the others.

cut the teams again.

and again.

oh wait hire like crazy and overcorrect so we can

cut the teams again.

Then cancel 1d3 of remaining projects, announce REMASTERED

All devs cut never neared their stock vestment, all shares returned to the mothership, start to consider spinning up 5 more new projects.

cool cool cool.

now show me the NVGs for the horse.

Some asshole wanted for war crimes wants to nominate some other asshole for a Nobel Peace Prize?

I forgot, when Stalin nominated Hitler, did the stache get one?

I don’t think the dogs can smell a knife,

perhaps an explosive knife!

but I am not a dog

I mean it's the internet, you could be deceiving us...

priceless

for everything else there's mastercard

indeed.

also, what if.. they ate their own immediate family?

wait, which thread is this?

why should reporting be limited to immediate family?

if the neighbors see mr. jones take out a shrub or hop curbs the rest of the world ceases to matter, just immediate family?

typical boomer privilege - oh wait, now I'm old? no don't test me....