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Comment Re:Ontario, Canada, has the same issue (Score 1) 112

> Point is, they spent 4 years, to get an unusable skillset.

My point is that to get a skillset, you go into apprenticeship. Higher education should grant mainly knowledge and a way of thinking, which then get applied (later) together to create a skillset. That's IMO supposed to be the value of higher education: mental acuity.

Both statements are extreme on their own, I agree that a balance should be sought, and my feeling is the balance is way off to the interests of capital.

Agreed, there is some balance needed.

Apprenticeships really are needed to come back. Best example I know is how I told the place where I retired from that they really needed to get an apprentice for me. None of the other people with my job title had any clue about the specialized things I did.

Nope! No money for that! The bean counters ate up all the overhead, and since Most of the people in my department were considered "cost center" employees, I couldn't even mentor them - it would cost too much, and our accountant team was trying to get the costs under control. I kinda pissed them off when I told them "Perhaps stop hiring 6 figure accountants to keep track of a few thousand dollars per year."

I gave them 5 years notice of my retirement. They didn't believe me, after all no one can retire at 55 any more. They were wrong.

Then they were gobsmacked when I put in my two weeks. So I end up on emergency rehire. Even then, after a while I saw they weren't doing what they said they would do - have me train someone else. Just have me continue as before. So I exited after a year of emergency rehire.

While no one is irreplaceable, they thought they could just tell another person, to do what I did, and all would be well. After a few people left for greener pastures, including one guy who just said no and left without even trying. I stopped keeping track at that point. Not my problem any more.

Point is, the lack of mentorship, killed by accountants and cost centers, is pretty short sighted. Some of these things take time to develop proficiency, and skills. And that's difficult for people who live on Excel spreadsheets to comprehend.

Comment Re:I remember what I was relieved... (Score 0) 225

I'm not sure what you are fishing for. It could be: - They are not citizens and therefore couldn't have voted. - They are citizens and voted for Trump. If the first is true, then such a question would be xenophobic. Our undocumented neighbors are still human, and deserve a chance for a better life, just as all our undocumented forefathers, when they arrived in this land. Oh wait, there was no documentation back then, you just came by...coming. So the whole idea of "documentation" is nothing more than a barrier to keep out people who didn't get here first.

If the second is true, then I say they were deceived. Trump deceived many groups: Christians, Mexicans, young workers, farmers. Now he is starting to show his true colors, and who he is really all about: *himself.*

I gotta preface this with:

1. I didn't vote for Tump ever - in fact over 26 years since I voted for any Republican.

2. He and his cronies aren't going to do much good.

3. The bitching and moaning about America turning fascist a sort of Rooshia rev 1 is specious. 4. If the Democrats want to be in office, they need to adjust a little.

5. The only way to do this is introspection and adjustment, not doubling down on what got them curb stomped.

Fact: Americans already had a president with African origins. Then we re-elected him.

Fact: Ms Clinton got 3 million more votes than Trump. In a country where popular vote counts, not our weird Electoral College, she would have been President.

When Trump became president in 2016, a sizable portion of Democrats went batshit crazy. Then with Biden's election they put some of their more nutty reactions into their dogma.

Stick with me here. Much of the left utterly hates what I have to say. And it was building up over the last decade.

It is no secret that the Democrats have abandoned the Working class. Ms Harris publicly stated to the leader of the Teamsters that she would win with or without them https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fokmagazine.com%2Fp%2Fkamal....

That one aged like milk.

Democrats aligned themselves with a relatively small group of far left academics. With some odd ideas.

I think that those ideas were a big part of why they lost, because the ideas were anti-science and anti-biology. A person is not MAGA if they believe that genetics tell us that there are male, female, and intersex. Also known as man and woman. Intersex is just that, and a very tiny number of people. Males do not become women by wearing a dress, taking puberty blockers, hormones and amputating their genitals.

But we were told that they are women, and all it takes is defining themselves as a woman. Then we got into a wordsmithing battle where they started making up new terms for women. Women became "Birthing people" and after that was problematic, "menstruating people"

Talk about objectifying women as objects of one thing. Which BTW, put prepubescent, post menopausal and barren women outside the new definition.

And it was official, as the 2001 Biden administration used "birthing people" in its 2022 budget proposal. Which creeped out a lot of birthing menstruators. 8^)

This controversy led to a dictate that to be a Democrat that you must approve of biological males playing against menstruators. Ask Democrat Seth Moulton, who they tried to cancel when he voiced his opinion that he didn't like the idea of males running over his little menstruators on their sports teams.

Know who really didn't like that? Mothers. Or do I need a new term? How about post birthing menstruators? If we're going to objectify women, we must do it properly!

The Democrats amped up the widening divide between men and women. They even put up with the Hollywood people they obey to put out ads like Vote against your husband by Democratic leader Julia Roberts. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F... Talk about casting men as your mortal enemy.

Thinking pop culture was the path to power. There was this concept that an estrogen fueled blue wave was going to sweep out the males that were the cause of all problems, replacing it with a new era of peaceful and intelligent pop culture female rule. Did not work.

They claimed to be against racism while being just as racist or worse than the people they called racist. They claimed to be against sexism while being completely sexist. And the Republicans just took this facts and made electoral hay out of them. So what did this get them? https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pewresearch.org%2Fpo...

But I fear the Dems might be doubling down on the actions that lost them the White House, the senate, and continuing minority status in the house, after losing the Supreme Court before that. They only have one tool now - the filibuster. A huge harbinger of bad news is that young men went largely for Trump. Many have noted that the Democrats, as the party of women dehumanized them over the years. And here is an msn article doubling down on the hatred of all things sperm donating people https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fnews...

You won't get your plans enacted if you aren't in office.

Comment Re:I remember what I was relieved... (Score 1) 225

It is always easy to find tons of pathetic losers that are willing to (fake) elevate themselves by looking down on some other group. Too many people are crap like that.

The need to hate "the other" is a core competency of homo sapiens, sapiens We get a primal thrill out of killing other humans. And a sizable number are even happy to have their own killed. I'm certainly happy that I'm not a Russian male at this point, They've reached the point where they ate sending sailors to fight the ground war.

Does poppa Vlad have a plan to save at least a few males as seed stock for the next generation of cannon fodder?

We aren't going to be successful as a species much longer until we can modify our built in need to hate and kill others humans by quite a bit.

Comment Re: This is just so cool (Score 1) 36

Yeah, till they create a black hole and we are all spaghettified.

While another comment mentions The Italian Institute of National Physics (I don't know why them specifically), I believe it is just as plausible that we will be spätzleified, kartoffelpuffer-mit-apfelmusified, or even racletted.

I am hoping to be made into a Pierogi.

Comment Re:Maybe... (Score 1) 38

Most laptop sizes are dictated by the screen size. On most modern laptops, the keyboard usually doesn't even fill up the bottom half of the laptop.

The Thinkpad 701 was tiny, less than 10 inches wide, 640x480 LCD. Wikipedia says:

The 701 was discontinued because the keyboard design was no longer a necessity after screen sizes increased.

Comment Re: I remember what I was relieved... (Score 1) 225

Well there was this thing in 2001 and we all went a little crazy then the Bush admin took complete advantage of that and got us into basically Vietnam 2.0 via lies,

If Bush hadn't invaded Iraq, then Putin wouldn't have invaded Ukraine. It's the mistake that keeps on giving.

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