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ParticipantI have 5 cats. Flea meds, food and litter pay for my membership. Also Johnnie walker black is so cheap there I feel like I’m getting paid to drink it
ParticipantI don’t find that odd at all.
ParticipantIn the beginning was THE WORD…
Information…
We are nothing but data …
ParticipantPascal’s wager says scratch your butt, you have nothing to lose, and everything to gain.
ParticipantI am certain there is no physical reality, that everything is purely information, just bits and bytes, and that our reality something like a program running in nothingness.
This is not just speculation: I believe this will be proven true shortly. Scientists are working feverishly. Please stand by.
ParticipantDepressing image…the Disney fication of nature. Or maybe it’s a subtle Christian commentary of man’s divine right to subjugate nature …
Either way, I will decline any heaven invite offered me by any divine being, real 9r imagined.
ParticipantIt does seem counter tuition to let in lots of immigrants when people here cannot make it. Or at least politically suspect.
Participant[quote=flu][quote=ocrenter][quote=cvmom]This thread is so depressing. Hard to believe that this is 2015 and we have apparently not progressed beyond naked prejudice. What’s next–internment camps like the Japanese-Americans during WW2?
And with a major political party’s front runner saying similar things, it validates all those who have this kind of thoughts but before this have been too embarrassed to share them.
The worst thing is that this kind of attitude plays right into the hands of the terrorists and fuels extremism, making future tragedies more likely.[/quote]
This kind of intolerance is actually very much an American tradition if we look back and really examine our history. We just like to ignore our intolerant streak so we feel better about ourselves.[/quote]
If you think that’s bad, just go to layoff.com and read about all the hate against indians in the intel and qualcomm forums.
Reminds me of the time when american workers in auto companies were losing their jobs, blame the japanese.
When real estate is unaffordable, blame the asians for that one too. How many times have we read about how “we should cure foreign investment in buying real estate.
Sure, we’re about equal opportunity, so long as you’re not as good or better than us.
That said, I think Trump is a genius plant by the Democrat party to bring out every bit of hatred and intolerance imaginable out of the GOP. Well done, Hillary. I’d say you got White House seat pretty bagged in at this point.
Come on, we know Trump isn’t an idiot. His followers are kinda idiotic. So there’s something he’s got up his sleeve.
Isn’t this sort of how Hitler came into power, with the vast majority of idiots blaming jews for everything? Looks like same strategy by Trump, and it appears to be working. There’s certainly a lot of people pissed off enough in this country to point fingers at just about everyone else as to why they can’t get ahead.[/quote]
Isn’t it his best shot at the white house. Apparently it is. Best case he wins. Worst case, lots of brand publicity. Or maybe the reverse.
Participant[quote=yuhtey]alright, i have another mini-rant for you all: leucadia.
wtf. if i wanted to go to portlandia, i’d move to oregon. attention all shoppers: big box stores are not the devil – and i’d bet all the white people with hipster tats in the loo just go order from amazon or the apple store anyway (or are they sooooo hip that they don’t even have phones?) yes, they whittle wooden everything and recycle their feces for composting or whatever the global warming cult leaders tell them to do.
it’s not enough to be a good parent in leucadia, you also have to be “cool” LOL. do these people have unlimited time to put in an honest days work, do some man-grooming on those beards, change diapers, re-ink the tats, heckle motorists who dare drive on a street where pedestrians are consistently jaywalking, and shop around for some organic vegan gluten-free lettuce water?
rating: 7/10 if you didn’t have an ocean on one side, you’d be a 3rd branch of the san diego zoo. look jimmy, there goes a hipsterius dooforius. out in the water, over yonder – they’re log jamming the break. now no one can enjoy having a surf.[/quote]
Is there a place you’d like to fit in.
I’m not jusging. Personally I can’t stand most humans.
ParticipantSome career advice from a,poet:
“Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota”:
Over my head, I see the bronze butterfly,
Asleep on the black trunk,
Blowing like a leaf in green shadow.
Down the ravine behind the empty house,
The cowbells follow one another
Into the distances of the afternoon.
To my right,
In a field of sunlight between two pines,
The droppings of last year’s horses
Blaze up into golden stones.
I lean back, as the evening darkens and comes on.
A chicken hawk floats over, looking for home.
I have wasted my life.Participant[quote=bearishgurl][quote=dumbrenter][quote=harvey][quote=flyer]Shockingly, only about 20% of new college grads are getting the jobs they want, where they want them, and the BLS predicts that will not change much in the future.[/quote]
Why is that shocking?
What should the number be?
Personally, I’m not surprised by that vague statistic. Four of five people don’t receive fulfilling careers immediately after obtaining an undergraduate degree? Sounds like real life.[/quote]
Reminds me of the joke about the school where every kid in the school is “above average” compared to their peers int he same school!
But I think the shocking part is the expectations that grads and their parents have after they have been ‘sold’ on the school.[/quote]I’ll have to admit that I’m kind of ‘sold’ on my youngest kid’s school (a CSU campus). I DO think the CSUs have really, really good instructors who are dedicated to the success of their students (even the ones who teach GE’s). The problem is that students don’t take advantage of all on campus that is on offer to them for their really high fees. At my kid’s campus, the fees (exclusive of tuition) are now close to $2K year. Instructors DO have office hours and “free” tutoring is offered on most subjects several days per week in the library. Class sizes have now been reduced to 24 – 70 students with most of them capped at 34 students (even GE classes). Freshman are really coddled to the point where they get priority registration for the first quarter and are registered in all the right remedial ENG and MATH the summer BEFORE their freshman year begins. There is help in person and online for almost any problem, academic or otherwise. If the right help a student needs isn’t available on campus, they will be referred out to the appropriate community resource and an appt will be made for them (ex: problems of students who are single parents). Some campuses today even have mini-hospitals on campus and state-of-the-art multi-level fitness centers with climbing walls and a host of exercise classes, etc. All one needs is that magic student ID to avail themselves of all these benefits.
I really think the CSUs (at least some of them) are now trying mightily to address every concern of a student as a whole person to ensure their success and continuation to earn a degree due to high dropout rates of previous years (due primarily to financial issues, frustration with registration and poor preparation in HS). Their more holistic approach is contributing to the overall success of students in the long haul.
I like some of the smaller public campuses out-of-state, as well (i.e. 4K students). I think it is really cool that the instructors in these campuses get to know as many students as possible personally and walk with them on campus and lunch with them. Two that come to mind have several professors each who retired from the UC and CSU systems and subsequently came to work for these campuses for the more “personal” atmosphere.
If I was young and could have a do-over, I would enroll in the CSU … probably Humboldt State … so I could be out in the woods often, lol ….
“Bezerkely” would be my second choice (courtesy of spdrun, lol). And yes, I could get admitted to Cal. I was admitted to it over 40 years ago with an ACT score of 31 but declined because I “couldn’t afford it” back then (I went to HS out of state).Bad mistake. I could have gone on to law school at Boalt Hall and my life would have been completely different :=0[/quote]
I think Humboldt might be good for pre med. I picture less competition, more intoxication. I think it’d be easier to get As up in humboldt. That’s why I had my middle kid apply there. He’s so straight, I think he’ll excel there.
Participant[quote=Blogstar]Talking about how everyone is fucked up because they do x or don’t do y is just another way of bragging. That applies to social assistance. Our kids are the real moochers, getting all this material stuff and trips all over the place and enrichment learning before they ever even do one damn thing for society.
Getting houses, cars and cash passed down to them just because they were lucky enough to be pigg kids, moochers I tell you. The poor kids really don’t get shit, everybody eats and even the wealthiest person can have public education for their kid if the want it. Shame on us.[/quote]I’m a book of job man myself, but if the book were rewritten today job would be a vegan fitness freak with cancer.
Participant[quote=Blogstar]god specifically wants me to be a coffee addict, I have it in writing , so it’s almost biblical.[/quote]
Interestingly science says prayer worsens medical outcomes, but only when the prayer target knows he is being prayed over. Theory: pressure to get better to prove supernatural effects makes person worse. If no knowledge, no effect.
Not that this has anything to do with the existence of G-d. He might be displeased by specified or public prayers. Theres some textual support for the latter. He might just not care specifically. But it is indisputable: praying 4 others publicly is very unhealthy. Google 4 details.
No study yet on whether praying 4 specific kid outcome scholastic ally helps, but probably hurts if u tell them…
Participant[quote=flyer]Hope everything turns out well wrt any health issues, BG. I’m sure you’re seeing excellent doctors, with the great resources we have in San Diego.
Like you, we take very good care of ourselves, and even though I pass my FAA exams, my wife insists on both of us having every exam possible, so I comply. That’s about the best any of us can do, and, imo, the rest is up to a higher power.[/quote]
Dies g-d specifically control individual health, like giving individual children cancer as part of a,plan, or mak I ng sure a particular kid gets into Harvard?
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