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How many of the graduates with degrees that end in "studies" are doing something useful with their degree?

And now it is right wing actors getting blackballed. It is people who don't agree with gay marriage like the former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich getting ejected. The funny thing is you had discrimination against Jews on Campus a hundred years ago, and today, on entirely different premises

In many US colleges you have more Registered Communists, than Registered Republicans teaching classes

Yes. These administrators are not teaching classes, they are not marking papers/exams. It's not unlike the Soviet Commissariat. They exist to enforce a political ideology, not do anything productive in reality.

https://www.policemag.com/patrol/news/15310860/half-of-surve... Half of Survey's Very Liberal Respondents Believe 1,000 or More Unarmed Black Men Killed by Police in 2019 The Washington Post database says the number was 12. The Mapping Police Violence database say the number was 27.

At the peak of construction, Levitt was building one house every 16 minutes. Each house cost around $8,000, a price that was reduced to about $400 with GI bill benefits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levittown Soldiers coming back after WW2 could get a house for 400$. And it had 2 bathrooms

I knew there was telescreens in every workplace and home in 1984, but Cameras in every vehicle observing the drivers action perpetually is something even Orwell couldn't come up with

China is going to experience this big time

Why don't more people buy diamond rings at pawn shops?

"concerns about our team's focus." I often hear this, but don't know what VCs actually want to hear, besides $$$

We can change the incentives of these game makers/designers, through the legal system. As an example, Paypal and credit card companies offer charge backs. What if you could charge back for all the money spent on a game, at the cost of getting your account/IP banned and being forced to uninstall the app? If the 400,000$ the whale spent got returned to them, they would be made whole. It's not like alcohol or tobacco where you've physically consumed resources. You are undoing access to digital resources and returning those to the company in exchange for all the money the player spent.

Do they have custom map support yet? Most of my time in TF2 was not spent on official maps. It seems like server browsers have been disappearing since the jump from MW1 to MW2, where the quality of the PC experience is dampened for the sake of making it more like the console experience.

It's not the trading, it's the paying money for lootboxes. Plenty of roguelikes/roguelites have loot boxes, but they randomly generated chests you open by defeating bosses, not by pulling out your credit card

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/01/25/511663527/epis... Relevant

I thought that Okinawans had longer life spans and lower incomes, something about the more tropical climate

Everyone is equal, but some people are more equal than others.

The Soviet newspaper Pravda issued corrections too. I wouldn't trust it more than the New York Times. https://nypost.com/2022/02/20/the-absurd-russiagate-pulitzer... They didn't retract their Pulitzer for Russiagate. They never retracted their stories about Iraq having WMDs in 2003 either. Their excuse is coached language, like the 50 intelligence agencies who signed a letter saying the NYPost Hunter Biden Laptop story had "all the hallmarks of Russian Disinformation", Saddam had all the hallmarks of having WMDs so there's no need to retract.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Rape_on_Campus Rolling Stone doesn't have the same credibility they once had

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehime_Maru_and_USS_Greeneville... There's other kinds of Sub collisions as well

So what is the Median house value in California? Or San Francisco which this SFChronicle article is from?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExgxwKnH8y4 If only Californians didn't actively try to stop construction. If you want to build housing and that will cast a shadow on a nearby playground, that's no good. California is literally the worst and most expensive place to develop anything.

https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/space-race-timeline Given the Space Race timeline, it seems like that would mean beating NASA to MANY major milestones. 4 October 1957: The USSR successfully launches Sputnik 1, the first Earth-orbiting satellite in history.

3 November 1957: The USSR successfully launches Sputnik 2, carrying a dog named Laika into space. They become the first nation to successfully send a living organism into orbit.

12 September 1959: The USSR launches Luna 2 and accomplishes its mission of creating the first spacecraft to reach the surface of the Moon.

4 October 1959: The USSR launches Luna 3 and succeeds in their mission of sending an object into orbit around the Moon and photographing the far side of the Moon.

12 April 1961: The Soviet Union achieve a clear triumph in the space race. Aboard the Vostok 1, Yuri Gagarin makes a single orbit around the Earth and becomes the first man to reach space. He remained in space for one hour and forty-eight minutes before landing in Saratov Oblast, west Russia.

96 workers died building the Hoover Dam. In 8 years it will be 100 years since Construction started on the Hoover Dam. It seems like the US just isn't able to make projects like that anymore. Look at the progress of California's HSR,started by Governor Pete Wilson, who established the California High-Speed Rail Authority in 1996. 27 years ago. We have a century's advancement in technology, but the costs of construction, and inability to deal with risk has become a gigantic problem

Is SpaceX charging the DoD 435$ for a Hammer, or 600$ for a toilet seat? General Dynamics did

If that's what you want, why not just tax the money when they take it out of the corporation, instead of while within it? If that company is spending 10 million on a factory, instead of taking out that 10 million to pay bonuses to Executives, you should encourage the former and discourage the latter. If you tax something you get less of it and if you subsidize something you get more of it.

I wonder if any teacher has the courage to teach kids "critical thinking skills" when it comes to the school closures of 2020-2022. Teacher's Unions won't back up that teacher if there's any controversy I suspect

I'm just waiting for them to counter the Misinformation that Iraq had WMDs in 2003.

Sam Bankman Fried representing Effective Altruism and then blowing it up is funny Sort of like how people stopped talking about Basic Income the moment we started experiencing Covid Era inflation. The dream of printing free money without consequences got blown up fast

Australia's government has over reacted and over reached since March of 2020. A backlash is inevitable.