We have received the news that the floor repairs are proceeding on schedule. Tomorrow is the last day we'll have to stay at a hotel. On Friday we'll be back at our house, sleeping in our own beds and weathering the disdain of a fluffy cat who's had to spend over a week in a kennel.
It just hit me that these women get their "Mar a Lago" face because Trump is stuck in the late 70s/early 80s so they're all trying to look like "Charlie's Angels."
But because it's Trump, the image is all overdone and distorted so they look terrible and fake.
I understand that a lot of very pretty women realized that they could have a successful career in law because of Ally McBeal and Legally Blonde, but both of those lovely women were also EXTREMELY INTELLIGENT (and the point of Legally Blonde that Elle Woods had been told her whole life to shut up and look pretty, and she was tired of being underestimated.)
But that only works when you actually put in the effort.
Far too many of the current crop of the admin's lovely legal team got their law degrees from a degree mill and have no legal training or education on how to build out a prosecution case.
Oops. Looks like the witness they need to prop up the Comey case as far as approving leaks wouldn't testify to that effect. And they told Lindsey that, but still, she insisted/persisted:
The chic on original Miami Vice, magnum pi, a-team, McGyver, who, opening scene flys off back motorboat in bikini and washes ashore at the feet of her twin sister and beach full villains? … & also too the the smart city teoublemaking lady reporter from Big City investigating Boss Hog o dukes hazard
I'll go with "80s news-desk talking head". I can't tell if she's about to cut to a Sears commercial or tell me the latest about Solidarity protests and IRA bombings. She just has that look, IMO.
New anime season is starting. I'm watching the first episode of "Let's Play" (based on a webcomic of the same name), about a young lady named Sam who developed a video game that gets trashed by a popular Let's Play streamer and subsequently review-bombed by his followers. He pronounces it unplayable after ignoring the opening explainer for how to play the game and then trying to play it as though it's a completely different game. He gets pissed because the game he's trying to play isn't working. Think of it as if you were trying to play DOOM like Mario.
The scenario sounds exactly like what went down when streamer Quin69 tried out FFXIV, bought a skip to level 80, ignored the tutorials, and then stood in the bad during a raid, and died (predictably), screaming "WHERE WERE THE HEALS???"
"Life is a game. A massive, difficult S-Rank one. You can't use spells and you can't choose your class. How am I supposed to play it?!"
(I should note, her mom is an actress that's good enough that she's getting flown to other states to shoot commercials, and her dad owns what looks to be a pretty successful software company. (ETA: That she's expected to take over, btw.) If her life is S-rank, mine must be SSS-rank at least.)
THIS!! Is brilliant and would make an epic reality tv show in these most dystopian times… power fun fck U fascis, w huge ratings and abso MockU attitude towards all da overmade up wannabe pageant princesses masquerading as fasci politicians like go go boots gogobooys ron and all the makeup tables becoming sentient and telling secrets about “manly men” like Pete and pedofelongrift etc lols wow finally this green just hit
"It’s not clear why couples are choosing Connecticut — perhaps because unlike in some other states, including neighboring New York, couples here can obtain a license and get married on the same day."
It's also because there appears to be some seriously lax oversight on the part of Connecticut's records department if someone is getting married to multiple people in the same day.
I think this is more sinister than just bog standard immigration fraud or a mail order marriage scheme. This is a whole human trafficking ring.
IK,R? And there's no discussion of WHY these people do this. Benefits? Can stay in the US? How much does the marriage broker get? NO real journalism in there ...
Every city seems to have their own take on pizza. Sham marriages happen because of factors such as immigration, money, beards or any combination of the three. The differences in pizza from city to city is way more interesting.
I actually now prefer Detroit style over Chicago style AND New York style. The simplicity of the square shape makes it easy to cut and share. The toppings are arranged in an aesthetically pleasing line marching across the surface. The ratio of cheese to sauce to pepperoni is just right.
You get a thick, fluffy crust that gets almost deep fried in the olive oil, so it's crispier than the foldable New York thin crusts.
But the toppings aren't drowned under a jar of tomato sauce like Chicago style.
I love how these jackasses think a recommendation is a law ... like they think EOs are laws. The Texas Medical Association is a PRIVATE organization ... so fuck off, cheating asshole.
As a resident of California, specifically the Los Angeles area, it's time the UC and Cal State systwm as well as private Universities withinh this state give back in terms of using their endowments to make life better for the people that actually subsidize them and make life better for everyone. I'm not against higher education at all, but rather than churning out degrees that habe little value on the job market right now, give back in ways that are truly mean a positive change for the communities they are supposed to serve.
A lot of the land grant universities actually have a serious "giving back" arrangement with their states already - cooperative extensions. Over in Georgia, ours has an agent and office in every county and arranges everything from connecting faculty experts with counties for specific problems to running the 4-H program. https://extension.uga.edu/
Ugh, in my town, a college town, we had elections while all the students were out for civil and we ended up with an INSANE city council. They agreed to spend $15 million of tax payer money on a new arena for the university to use. Only after the city council agreed and signed the contracts was the public informed so now there is all sorts of fighting over how much the new city council will waste on terminating the contracts.
Why the FUCK are we building an arena for OU?! They get money from the SEC for shit like that and they are one of the wealthiest programs in the state. Glad we have our normal city council back.
And what does the community get back? Low paying jobs for the students? Revenue the University keeps for itself while students major in a degree that is hyper competitive and all the while it's go support sportsballl?
Sportsball is the second biggest waste of time and resources on the planet, after religion. Far too many high school athletes dream of going pro, when the odds are better for Powerball. And, if you do go pro, you're a crippled old man by 35. All so a bunch of macho assholes can watch you on TV and it somehow makes them real men? Really?
It's almost impossible to tell ahead of time what degrees 'have value' on the job market. In the last decade, students seeking science and technology degrees have gone way up. (Doubled, by the one source I was able to find in a quick google search.) But a significant number of those students don't go on to science or technology jobs, because they just aren't there.
We could instead let students get an education in whatever interests them, and then let companies do the job training, but that seems very unlikely in this culture.
"We could instead let students get an education in whatever interests them, and then let companies do the job training, but that seems very unlikely in this culture."
This is what my generation was told as well, and it's where the "underwater basket weaving" meme came from. I got an English degree in undergrad, and ultimately had to go back to get a master's degree in technology to get a career.
There ARE companies that are willing to do job training to some extent, but they want a raw skill set that they can mold into shape, not a student with an ivory tower education that has no practical experience. Part of the issue is that the curriculum doesn't explicitly say what soft skills it is teaching. A history class is really teaching critical thinking skills. A botany class is really teaching the scientific method. A writing class is really teaching you how to format citations correctly. A public speaking class is really teaching you how to get over your fear of presenting in front of others. And so forth. If student doesn't learn those skills at university, let alone know to write them on their resume, then an employer is going to assume that they slept through their classes.
I'm in the caboose of the Boomer generation. The "sloppy seconds" end of the boomers. My sister is 9 years older. When she graduated high school, she was told by society she could go to college OR get married. When she graduated college, society told her she could get a career OR get married. By the time I graduated high school and college, the mantra was, "You can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan and never let him forget he's a man." In other words, you have to do it all because single family incomes were a thing of the past.
But it's been pushed on generations as a way to "improve your life and be more successful than your parents were". But when everyone studies the same thing the job market doesn't have room for that many people that pursue the same thing. I think it is important that STEM should be emphasized, but not at the expense of a student who has no interest in it.
STEM careers also need other skill sets than just math or programming! I'm awful at math and only marginally better at programming, but I'm a writing whiz and have enough art and design skills that I found a place within a software team doing all the writing based work (because the programmers suck at writing.) We hired a former bartender as our marketing guru and she's an absolute pro and schmoozing our clients. We hired a person who has a degree in social work as our Tier II support and he's great at holding hands with lost clients who are scared of their own software.
I'm Gen X. I went to Magnet Schools for both Junior and Senior High. I actually told the Calculus 2 teacher in my Junior Year that my mom signed me up for that I won't be taking this class. Her response was absolutely racist, "Not going to be the stand up and be the only white kid in class?"
I have a PhD in geography, and firmly believe that college isn't and shouldn't be job training, outside of a few things like nursing. College can be career prep, because who knows what twists a career will take.
I've been a sustainability officer, community development consultant, college professor, environmental researcher, and now I run a GIS program. Lots of skills are required to do all that. But you know what helped get me my current job? I used to fish commercially. Didn't need to go to college for that, but it's been hugely instrumental in getting me into jobs I otherwise probably wouldn't get considered for.
Cuz in US went from being well rounding affordable transition to adulthood, leaving the nest, for some to to cokmdified yet exponentially expensiveAF basically grade 13 w quality standards plummeting.
Adulthood transition skills in a … obv unprecedented and exponentially increasingly overstimulating, overhyper informed by disinformation, totally out touch actual rest their lives when will prolly, be having be working/ earning.
Not necessarily. Grade school curriculum is shaped heavily by business and industry. Grade schools are, essentially, worker producers. Colleges are there for people who want a more rounded education. Career techs are more skills focused and focus more on job placement.
I disagree because I read so many articles about how the current generation entering the work force was told that to be successful you have to pursue a major that has such a highly competitive job market after they graduate that they do tik-toks for money about how unsuccessful their job search is going.
College teaches things like critical thinking, philosophy, and writing. These are valuable skills that many employers are realizing they actually need, and hence, hiring more generalized degree candidates within the past 5 years or so.
exception to the norm back then. in the 90s it was very much we want people who can do everything with no training day 1.
That, however, did not work out so well, no matter how much the employers kept trying to force it. Turns out, 22 year old kids still have to be trained even with a specific degree. Who knew?
God, I have to go to work in half an hour and I have a meeting at 11, which is normally when I start my siesta, so I'm sure that will go great. The person has finally given me what I asked for three weeks ago, so now I can start on his project in earnest. Fact: I fricking love my job. Also fact: I hate sitting at my desk all day.
I am manning the table for the needle exchange at the 10/18 No King's rally! I am thrilled to be representing our organization!
The department plans to review existing contracts, including agreements with vendors such as PragerU, Civics Outreach and Focus Strategies. Thompson said they will look at what early termination penalties are in the contracts when they review.
“All of that will need to be reviewed so that, again, we can make the best fiscal decisions for the taxpayers of Oklahoma,” Thompson said.
First thing will hopefully be getting rid of these programs.
That still doesn't explain why porn was on an office TV, or why he didn't have the sense, if that was really happening, to switch it to something boring before turning it off to avoid that kind of mishap.
Well, I think he was going to run for gov, and when that fell flat, he realized he was cooked politically. He's the new head of a right-wing, anti-teacher, anti-union group now. Not sure how much they are paying him.
More: Thompson said the department also plans to address teacher testing requirements.
“We’ll need to investigate what options exist for removing those obstacles,” Thompson said. “At least some of these tests were approved as part of the administrative rules process.”
When Mother Nature hits their private islands with all the consequences of the climate change they've spent their careers denying, I hope that whatever happens smacks them right in the face.
I know Lord Goldfish hates competent people in any field, but he really needs to stop hiring lawyers so he can bang them.
I mean, I didn't even have to *scroll all the way down the picture* to figure that out.
We have received the news that the floor repairs are proceeding on schedule. Tomorrow is the last day we'll have to stay at a hotel. On Friday we'll be back at our house, sleeping in our own beds and weathering the disdain of a fluffy cat who's had to spend over a week in a kennel.
It just hit me that these women get their "Mar a Lago" face because Trump is stuck in the late 70s/early 80s so they're all trying to look like "Charlie's Angels."
But because it's Trump, the image is all overdone and distorted so they look terrible and fake.
"Charlie's Angels" + "Real Housewives" + AI
I understand that a lot of very pretty women realized that they could have a successful career in law because of Ally McBeal and Legally Blonde, but both of those lovely women were also EXTREMELY INTELLIGENT (and the point of Legally Blonde that Elle Woods had been told her whole life to shut up and look pretty, and she was tired of being underestimated.)
But that only works when you actually put in the effort.
Far too many of the current crop of the admin's lovely legal team got their law degrees from a degree mill and have no legal training or education on how to build out a prosecution case.
Oops. Looks like the witness they need to prop up the Comey case as far as approving leaks wouldn't testify to that effect. And they told Lindsey that, but still, she insisted/persisted:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/central-witness-undermines-case-james-comey-prosecutors-concluded/story?id=126311648
Lindsey Halligan's look, more Dallas or Dynasty?
More kow bel!
AI
Cheers?
More like a guest star on "The Love Boat" but she's C-Grade so I'll to with "Hotel".
The chic on original Miami Vice, magnum pi, a-team, McGyver, who, opening scene flys off back motorboat in bikini and washes ashore at the feet of her twin sister and beach full villains? … & also too the the smart city teoublemaking lady reporter from Big City investigating Boss Hog o dukes hazard
I'll go with "80s news-desk talking head". I can't tell if she's about to cut to a Sears commercial or tell me the latest about Solidarity protests and IRA bombings. She just has that look, IMO.
She can talk about the plane crash with a gleam in her eye
It's interesting when people die
Give us dirty laundry...
Stepford Wives
Mary Kay
New anime season is starting. I'm watching the first episode of "Let's Play" (based on a webcomic of the same name), about a young lady named Sam who developed a video game that gets trashed by a popular Let's Play streamer and subsequently review-bombed by his followers. He pronounces it unplayable after ignoring the opening explainer for how to play the game and then trying to play it as though it's a completely different game. He gets pissed because the game he's trying to play isn't working. Think of it as if you were trying to play DOOM like Mario.
The scenario sounds exactly like what went down when streamer Quin69 tried out FFXIV, bought a skip to level 80, ignored the tutorials, and then stood in the bad during a raid, and died (predictably), screaming "WHERE WERE THE HEALS???"
(Very short clip of the HEALS!!!! incident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQcRVUlWWc4 )
Then spent weeks trashing the game.
Quote by the MC at the end of the show:
"Life is a game. A massive, difficult S-Rank one. You can't use spells and you can't choose your class. How am I supposed to play it?!"
(I should note, her mom is an actress that's good enough that she's getting flown to other states to shoot commercials, and her dad owns what looks to be a pretty successful software company. (ETA: That she's expected to take over, btw.) If her life is S-rank, mine must be SSS-rank at least.)
Ronnie D. is truly a small dick wonder.
𝗙𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗠𝗶𝗮𝗺𝗶 𝗕𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗯𝗼𝘄 𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗹
https://apnews.com/article/rainbow-crosswalks-miami-beach-florida-ad2cd62dd846867af4c5043554e4e6cb
ok Miami Beach, time to paint ALL YOUR HOUSES RAINBOW
all of them. Every fucking one
do eeeeet
THIS!! Is brilliant and would make an epic reality tv show in these most dystopian times… power fun fck U fascis, w huge ratings and abso MockU attitude towards all da overmade up wannabe pageant princesses masquerading as fasci politicians like go go boots gogobooys ron and all the makeup tables becoming sentient and telling secrets about “manly men” like Pete and pedofelongrift etc lols wow finally this green just hit
Connecticut! Pizza and Sham Marriage Capital of the Benighted States!
𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗺 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀
https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/ct-bridgeport-sham-marriage-questions-21050987.php
"It’s not clear why couples are choosing Connecticut — perhaps because unlike in some other states, including neighboring New York, couples here can obtain a license and get married on the same day."
It's also because there appears to be some seriously lax oversight on the part of Connecticut's records department if someone is getting married to multiple people in the same day.
I think this is more sinister than just bog standard immigration fraud or a mail order marriage scheme. This is a whole human trafficking ring.
Wasn’t pedofelongrift involved n some CA like basically trafficking Russian then Asian women into US to get BRC?
wtf with this line?
Couples — smartly dressed men and more casually dressed young women
"The girls go crazy for a sharp dressed man."
Where is Stroke when you really need him?
IK,R? And there's no discussion of WHY these people do this. Benefits? Can stay in the US? How much does the marriage broker get? NO real journalism in there ...
Nope. Just uncritical acceptance of what TrumpCo says, and a very paltry attempt to pretend they just care about those more immigrants
ah I see. Uncritically taking the Fed's word for it.
Pizza throughoutbthe United States is very interesting. Sham marriages less so.
How do U define “interesting pizza” “sham marriages” 😅😂🤩😎
Every city seems to have their own take on pizza. Sham marriages happen because of factors such as immigration, money, beards or any combination of the three. The differences in pizza from city to city is way more interesting.
Feel free to pineapple or blasphemy weigh in… or/&… keep going…🤩👅💦🍕
I quite like Detroit style.
But I wouldn't call it pizza in front of an Italian.
I actually now prefer Detroit style over Chicago style AND New York style. The simplicity of the square shape makes it easy to cut and share. The toppings are arranged in an aesthetically pleasing line marching across the surface. The ratio of cheese to sauce to pepperoni is just right.
You get a thick, fluffy crust that gets almost deep fried in the olive oil, so it's crispier than the foldable New York thin crusts.
But the toppings aren't drowned under a jar of tomato sauce like Chicago style.
Legit. It’s been easier to truly master Detroit style at home too, always a more satisfying end result for me.
I quite like pizza from the Piedmont.
Little Ceasars Detroit pizza is good!
Texas Tribune: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday accused the Texas Medical Association, the state’s leading physician organization, of skirting new federal recommendations that now state childhood COVID-19 vaccinations are no longer needed. [https://www.texastribune.org/2025/10/06/texas-medical-association-attorney-general-doctors-covid-vaccine/]
Pro-Death Party is staunchly pro-death. And anti-science.
Yet here in my reddish California county, the health department issued seasonal mask guidelines. Not mandates, but strong recommendations.
So weird how he did not sue anyone for skirting the federal recommendations when they were recommended
I noticed that too.
I love how these jackasses think a recommendation is a law ... like they think EOs are laws. The Texas Medical Association is a PRIVATE organization ... so fuck off, cheating asshole.
It's law because Trump Says So!
Never mind how they ignored all Biden's EOs
...the press
This breaks my brain.
As a resident of California, specifically the Los Angeles area, it's time the UC and Cal State systwm as well as private Universities withinh this state give back in terms of using their endowments to make life better for the people that actually subsidize them and make life better for everyone. I'm not against higher education at all, but rather than churning out degrees that habe little value on the job market right now, give back in ways that are truly mean a positive change for the communities they are supposed to serve.
A lot of the land grant universities actually have a serious "giving back" arrangement with their states already - cooperative extensions. Over in Georgia, ours has an agent and office in every county and arranges everything from connecting faculty experts with counties for specific problems to running the 4-H program. https://extension.uga.edu/
I can't speak to the endowments, though.
Ugh, in my town, a college town, we had elections while all the students were out for civil and we ended up with an INSANE city council. They agreed to spend $15 million of tax payer money on a new arena for the university to use. Only after the city council agreed and signed the contracts was the public informed so now there is all sorts of fighting over how much the new city council will waste on terminating the contracts.
Why the FUCK are we building an arena for OU?! They get money from the SEC for shit like that and they are one of the wealthiest programs in the state. Glad we have our normal city council back.
And what does the community get back? Low paying jobs for the students? Revenue the University keeps for itself while students major in a degree that is hyper competitive and all the while it's go support sportsballl?
Sportsball is the second biggest waste of time and resources on the planet, after religion. Far too many high school athletes dream of going pro, when the odds are better for Powerball. And, if you do go pro, you're a crippled old man by 35. All so a bunch of macho assholes can watch you on TV and it somehow makes them real men? Really?
Exactly!
It's almost impossible to tell ahead of time what degrees 'have value' on the job market. In the last decade, students seeking science and technology degrees have gone way up. (Doubled, by the one source I was able to find in a quick google search.) But a significant number of those students don't go on to science or technology jobs, because they just aren't there.
We could instead let students get an education in whatever interests them, and then let companies do the job training, but that seems very unlikely in this culture.
"We could instead let students get an education in whatever interests them, and then let companies do the job training, but that seems very unlikely in this culture."
This is what my generation was told as well, and it's where the "underwater basket weaving" meme came from. I got an English degree in undergrad, and ultimately had to go back to get a master's degree in technology to get a career.
There ARE companies that are willing to do job training to some extent, but they want a raw skill set that they can mold into shape, not a student with an ivory tower education that has no practical experience. Part of the issue is that the curriculum doesn't explicitly say what soft skills it is teaching. A history class is really teaching critical thinking skills. A botany class is really teaching the scientific method. A writing class is really teaching you how to format citations correctly. A public speaking class is really teaching you how to get over your fear of presenting in front of others. And so forth. If student doesn't learn those skills at university, let alone know to write them on their resume, then an employer is going to assume that they slept through their classes.
I'm in the caboose of the Boomer generation. The "sloppy seconds" end of the boomers. My sister is 9 years older. When she graduated high school, she was told by society she could go to college OR get married. When she graduated college, society told her she could get a career OR get married. By the time I graduated high school and college, the mantra was, "You can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan and never let him forget he's a man." In other words, you have to do it all because single family incomes were a thing of the past.
This. All the this.
The idea that you get a degree to get a job is fucking distasteful to me.
Opens a lot of doors though. Nearly impossible to be an officer in the US military (officer corps) without having one.
But it's been pushed on generations as a way to "improve your life and be more successful than your parents were". But when everyone studies the same thing the job market doesn't have room for that many people that pursue the same thing. I think it is important that STEM should be emphasized, but not at the expense of a student who has no interest in it.
STEM careers also need other skill sets than just math or programming! I'm awful at math and only marginally better at programming, but I'm a writing whiz and have enough art and design skills that I found a place within a software team doing all the writing based work (because the programmers suck at writing.) We hired a former bartender as our marketing guru and she's an absolute pro and schmoozing our clients. We hired a person who has a degree in social work as our Tier II support and he's great at holding hands with lost clients who are scared of their own software.
tfg has almost single-handedly propped up the legal professions though. Look at all the attorneys he's hired!
He's also committed to creating openings for new lawyers by continually getting his current ones disbarred!
what?
I'm Gen X. I went to Magnet Schools for both Junior and Senior High. I actually told the Calculus 2 teacher in my Junior Year that my mom signed me up for that I won't be taking this class. Her response was absolutely racist, "Not going to be the stand up and be the only white kid in class?"
Wait I’m being dumb… what did she mean?
Sounds like your HS was shitty, but not sure what any of that has to do with colleges not teaching skills though.
Cause it is. We already have training schools- training that employers should be doing themselves anyway. College is not for that.
Exactly that, Jen, exactly that.
If you want to read English or Geography or whatever the hell, do it!
Damn, this whole "degree for a job" thing makes me vomit.
I have a PhD in geography, and firmly believe that college isn't and shouldn't be job training, outside of a few things like nursing. College can be career prep, because who knows what twists a career will take.
I've been a sustainability officer, community development consultant, college professor, environmental researcher, and now I run a GIS program. Lots of skills are required to do all that. But you know what helped get me my current job? I used to fish commercially. Didn't need to go to college for that, but it's been hugely instrumental in getting me into jobs I otherwise probably wouldn't get considered for.
Cuz in US went from being well rounding affordable transition to adulthood, leaving the nest, for some to to cokmdified yet exponentially expensiveAF basically grade 13 w quality standards plummeting.
The whole degree for a job thing has been pushed as a way to NOT do what you want to do.
It is specifically what you are advocating
Or perhaps actually teach them skills?
THIS!
What exactly do you think colleges and universities are doing? Or, perhaps, which specific skills do you have in mind?
Adulthood transition skills in a … obv unprecedented and exponentially increasingly overstimulating, overhyper informed by disinformation, totally out touch actual rest their lives when will prolly, be having be working/ earning.
Adulthood transition skills are something no one can teach. You learn them from experience.
Sorta… wouldn’t suck to have a lols primer
It's more about pushing students into fields that are financially beneficial to the Universities and colleges to make money at this point.
Not necessarily. Grade school curriculum is shaped heavily by business and industry. Grade schools are, essentially, worker producers. Colleges are there for people who want a more rounded education. Career techs are more skills focused and focus more on job placement.
But what happens when you enter secondary school and realize you are competing with everyone else for a spot in a college or university?
unless the alumni are donating, unis aren't getting anything on what fields they "push" students into.
I've never, ever heard of a University "pushing" a student into goddamn anything.
No. It's not.
I disagree because I read so many articles about how the current generation entering the work force was told that to be successful you have to pursue a major that has such a highly competitive job market after they graduate that they do tik-toks for money about how unsuccessful their job search is going.
If they don't start start teaching proper media and financial literacy by fifth grade soon, the future will be even bleaker than it seems to be now.
College teaches things like critical thinking, philosophy, and writing. These are valuable skills that many employers are realizing they actually need, and hence, hiring more generalized degree candidates within the past 5 years or so.
Longer than that. Much longer than that. My friend with an English degree went into accountancy. That'd be, huh, 1994 or so?
exception to the norm back then. in the 90s it was very much we want people who can do everything with no training day 1.
That, however, did not work out so well, no matter how much the employers kept trying to force it. Turns out, 22 year old kids still have to be trained even with a specific degree. Who knew?
Most teachers in the LAUSD used to teach what they minored in, rather than their actual major. At least when I went to high school.
God, I have to go to work in half an hour and I have a meeting at 11, which is normally when I start my siesta, so I'm sure that will go great. The person has finally given me what I asked for three weeks ago, so now I can start on his project in earnest. Fact: I fricking love my job. Also fact: I hate sitting at my desk all day.
I am manning the table for the needle exchange at the 10/18 No King's rally! I am thrilled to be representing our organization!
Update on OK's new Department of Ed Secretary:
The department plans to review existing contracts, including agreements with vendors such as PragerU, Civics Outreach and Focus Strategies. Thompson said they will look at what early termination penalties are in the contracts when they review.
“All of that will need to be reviewed so that, again, we can make the best fiscal decisions for the taxpayers of Oklahoma,” Thompson said.
First thing will hopefully be getting rid of these programs.
"Oklahoma - Still not really OK"
Has it ever been?
"Could be better."
I thought it was "Hey, at least we're not Mississippi."
Ryan Walters' failed EMERGENCY press conference was that we should be "like Texas and Florida." -_-
Easier to spell, too.
Is there any good rumors why Walters quit? I don't buy it was about the money ...
Something something Chaya Raichik
This appeared to spark it, although now I'm curious if there was financial malfeasance as well: https://newrepublic.com/post/198495/maga-superintendent-oklahoma-ryan-walters-porn-investigation
It turned out his TV was malfunctioning. He had complained to IT about it coming on by itself previously. -_-
I'm just glad he's out. It seems the people Appointed to replace him are ready to do a lot of course reversing and corrections.
That still doesn't explain why porn was on an office TV, or why he didn't have the sense, if that was really happening, to switch it to something boring before turning it off to avoid that kind of mishap.
It wasn't porn, it was a scene from a Jackie Chan movie.
So his excuse is he was watching a movie during the meeting, instead of watching porn?
Well, I think he was going to run for gov, and when that fell flat, he realized he was cooked politically. He's the new head of a right-wing, anti-teacher, anti-union group now. Not sure how much they are paying him.
Probably a lot less than his cushy state job with the expense account.
I'd say it depends on how much insider trading and kickbacks he can fit into his busy schedule of watching porn and systematically abusing students.
Probably not. Even cushy state jobs don't pay as well as working directly for billionaires can.
More: Thompson said the department also plans to address teacher testing requirements.
“We’ll need to investigate what options exist for removing those obstacles,” Thompson said. “At least some of these tests were approved as part of the administrative rules process.”
But they'll still choose an option that is regressive for true student body.
They are still figuring out if the will do universal free lunch. -_-
They'll get flrid of it so save money, just like how Trump does not want to pay back wages for furloughed employees.
Which small peened treasonweasel is in charge of the Department of Energy again?
𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘱𝘴 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘴. 𝘖𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘦 𝘋𝘢𝘪𝘮𝘭𝘦𝘳 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘕𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢, 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘥, 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴, 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘦𝘺-𝘋𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘴𝘰𝘯, 𝘔𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘴-𝘉𝘦𝘯𝘻 𝘝𝘢𝘯𝘴, 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘝𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘰 𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢, 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘊𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘩. 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘊𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘴.
𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽’𝘀 𝗗𝗢𝗘 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗰𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗚𝗠, 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗱, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗹𝗼𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗽𝘀
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/trumps-doe-proposes-cutting-billions-in-grants-for-gm-ford-and-lots-of-startups/
You know I am ok with this. Why? Because these are the same sons of bitches who bought this government.
Let the face eating continue.
Course all this means is that they will have to bribe, I mean donate to the presidential library
Maybe they'll wise up and back Democrats.
Not going to hold my breath though.
Printing picture books does cost significantly more.
Not if you never pay your bills.
One neat trick!
Tariff incentives anyone?
Those overwhelmingly Republican autodealers don't care where the cars were built as long as they get their cut of the sale price.
They get exclusive rights to sell in most states. Kind of a bullshit deal for consumers.
You get what ypu vote for, folx.
Trouble is, we also get what they voted for.
And they all manufacture in the US.
Soon to be "used to manufacture in the US"
The unemploymed I'm union auto workers can all gather around and say "there was a girl in used to ..."
Huh. It's almost as if their whole economic plan is "steal as much as possible NOW."
Why leave anything for future generations when I can amass more wealth and power than I can ever spend?
Ask Robespierre how that works out.
Jesus. Do these people think they can take it with them when they die or something?
They're hoping to escape to their private island when it all goes tits up
When Mother Nature hits their private islands with all the consequences of the climate change they've spent their careers denying, I hope that whatever happens smacks them right in the face.
Ssssh. That was supposed to be a secret.
Good Morning Diane.
Good morning!
Posted yesterday afternoon by Frank Talk. It's Bailey.
https://bsky.app/profile/democratcats.bsky.social/post/3m2kdg7so5s24
Awesome! Confused as to how Bailey got up there, though.
Bailey!! Very Good Boi 😂🤩🐾