Oh, I forgot "inability to shut the fuck up" too.
Have you ever seen the "What thing can men do that is impossible for women" stunts on youtube? A guy says "I know something men can do but women can't" then he just stands there and says nothing while she keeps talking, asking him "what is it" for a couple minutes. 8^)
But trying to figure it out, what was her issue?
No doubt a number of factors.
But, and I know this won't be a popular opinion here in the liberal land of Slashdot, but I think a liberal (in the new sense of the word) education played a big part. She used the ultra-left's language ("that's my privilege"). I'm sure that included plenty of material about how cops are evil and bad and whatever else, and she treated them accordingly. And of course, her complete entitlement mentality, the foundation of leftist politics.
Is it not amazing, when the officers gave her so many more chances, to just walk away and re-book with another airline. That's the part that really interests me. What causes that complete lack of control? Back in the day we would have called it her brain doing a core dump. She was not responding to the offers to just walk off without any repercussions. Damn, I'd thank the officers, shake their hands and apologize for causing anyone trouble.
My father taught me early on to
Beyond that, probably parents that didn't beat her ass and/or tell her no enough, if at all.
Nobody calling her out on her bullshit, as and before it escalated.
And let's not forget, like most women, just won't fucking listen. And I'm no incel. My wife has the same fucking problem. Doesn't understand why I get upset when tell her I want Klondike ice cream sandwiches and she brings home Klondike ice cream bars. No sweetie, they're not the same fucking thing!
My favorite "refuse to listen" story is some years ago, my wife's father had an operation, nothing serious, but she wanted to go to visit him for a while. I was really busy at work at the time, He lived around a thousand miles away. I told her I could drive her down, then return, and whenever she was ready, I could drive down and bring her home - she doesn't fly so it was land travel. But she said that was too much trouble for me (it wasn't) and that she was going to take a bus down and back. Lot's of "spirited" discussion followed. I told her that it really wasn't a situation a solo woman should put herself in. That while buses are bad enough, there is the bus station, where she'd be "fresh meat" so to say. But she had stopped taking input. So she was going to take the bus.
When she got back, I asked how the trip was. Turns out she was offered drugs, offered sex, was groped by a couple guys, and as a special treat, the bus driver on the last leg had a sort of religious epiphany, stopped the bus and started preaching to the people on the bus for like two hours.
Her final treat after I listened quietly to her tales of woe was when I asked if everything but the religious guy was not exactly what I told her would happen to her, she said yes. I then told her she could be anything she wanted to be in life, and if she wanted to be my wife, she would listen to me when I was emphatic about her not doing something.
She was at least astute enough to see that I really needed to vent. Worry can turn to anger pretty quickly.
Here it is as a competitor that hasn't been indicted (yet): https://www.renttherunway.com/
It looks like a sort of "next step" after businesses like Plato's Closet where they buy and sell gently used women's clothing. One of my son's gf's was a customer of Plato's Closet. There are a fair number of women who buy clothing, then wear it once or not at all, then move on to something new. So rather than have the entire house full of clothing, they buy back and forth.
So I can kind of understand this online business model. I don't think it will work, but I understand it.
A value of zero is still a value, after all.
Do you want to know what happens to math when you start to introduce shit concepts like this?
Girl Math. Girl Math is what happens. And every annoying-as-fuck defense of it.
Lets not encourage that. The word value has value for a reason.
Do you mean postmodern critical theory math, which just attempts to destroy math, or do you mean "ho math" which is this weird delusional stuff where 80 percent of women find only a minuscule number of men qualify for them, https://www.femaledelusionalca...
Microsoft To Stop Using Engineers In China For Tech Support of US Military
They have been doing that?
You aren't kidding. What surprises me is that it is such a well known fact that if you are Chinese, and working for anything involving the US government or military You are reporting everything to the Chinese government.
I cannot imagine that this is not known to Microsoft. In fact, expect an audit and investigation. Seriously, this would be like the US using German and Japanese support during WW2, and thinking they wouldn't be sharing it with Adolph and Tojo.
Kessler is not feasible
Weeeellll now. The critical element is the number of satellites, and even one rocket sent into a retrograde orbit with a bag of sand can get the ball rolling.
And it isn't just one orbital shell either. That's the thing about orbital collisions and the energy transfer that happens means that some of the degree will end hip higher, and some lower. Which is to say that some of the debris will deorbit fairly quickly, and some not. Can you tell me what the flaw is in Kessler's argument? I concur with what is on the Wikipedia page - tell us why we are wrong.
I think sometimes that orbital mechanics is very hard to grasp. When I use it in presentations I have to really simplify it. But I'm willing to be educated.
One of my favorite conversations with some of the cloud cult providers was when I pointed out the multiple instances of people not being able to access their data, he told me that people should make local copies too.
Wut?
I'm not sure if you intended to be humorous, but I'm still chuckling.
I see the advantages of keeping some data in the cloud. But the encryption has to be strong and reliable where that's appropriate, and I insist on having it available for offline access as well.
I laughed at the guy who told me that too. I asked "If I have to keep a local copy of everything, why do I need your service?" And I've seen where some dolt couldn't retrieve his PowerPoint from the cloud. All it takes is an outdated certificate. I mean crikey, I have my presentation on my computer, as well as on a couple thumb drives when I'm presenting. Ima belt and suspenders kind of guy. 8^)
Now this isn't against things like dropbox, where you might want to share a large file with people. That's a legit use case.
I use them to teach my 9 year old about the importance of controlling his emotions and having the ability to talk calmly about them, the importance of following rules and doing what he is told to do, especially when the police are involved, and making good decisions while avoiding making a bad situation much, much worse.
A good idea! I did see she committed suicide in 2024. That's sad. I certainly feel sorry for her family and her.
But trying to figure it out, what was her issue? I guess lack of impulse control, coupled with a propensity to freak out and become irrational. Did she perhaps find in her childhood that a temper tantrum allowed her to get her own way all the time? Because her not listening to the police when they were trying to just get her to book a flight on another airline, and avoid any punishment for her disturbance indicates her cognitive processes were working all askew. But she was not having a psychotic break. At best, she was listening to react, not listening to take input.
We discuss the contents of the video in this context, bringing it back to how me and his mother try to teach him to be a good person.
We also discuss what may have happened to these people to cause them to act this way, discuss how it isn't normal, and how he should even feel sorry for them - despite the fact that they're usually pretty funny.
I had to snort when she was Screaming and yelling "No, I did not cause a disturbance!"
In short: they're educational videos.
Yes, they are. I find it a little disturbing though. Is this how women have always acted, and only being exposed now because of the body cams officers wear? Or is it a product of recent years changes in gender mores, and more and more women losing mental control and espousing violence when confronted for illegal acts? Once upon a time, women served more to calm down their husbands in situations, now many I watch have the woman freaking while her husband tries to get her to be quiet. Because police are likely to let her go without charges if she just keeps her yap shut.
I mean when I was in high school and after in a rock band, raced cars and motorcycles, let's just say I was around my share of "spicy" young ladies. But not one of them were violent. And I only knew a couple in school who were. Now it seems like a trend.
The old fuck over the young. It's an old tale. And the young are so fucking stupid, they don't vote.
It's also an old tale that it is such a handy excuse. "I failed at life because of those fscking Boomers!"
Because it is easier to fail with a bucket of excuses blaming everyone else than to put in the work to succeed.
And actually, a lot of people, especially young men did vote this past year. Being marginalized and dehumanized by the far left and Democrats for so long, they didn't vote the way that Democrats and far left told them to vote. Gotta give the Dems credit, they demolished a demographic that used to be reliable. Of course, that wasn't the only one they castigated and tossed away to serve their academic overlords.
Maybe post secondary institutes wouldn't be broke, if they focused on education
Actually, focusing on sports is more profitable.
The classes are a money sink. Why have them at all?
And the sports departments fund a lot of scholarships, at least half must go to women.
One of my favorite points to make is when women, who make up a majority of the people who utterly hate the athletic departments and want them eliminated, get reminded that they are suggesting the elimination of hundreds of women or thousands at the big unis being kicked out of college.
Crickets is the usual response.
Do you want the elimination of scholarships for women?
I'd add that higher education is where corporations outsourced their training programs to, which is why people don't get out of uni with an education, but with a training.
I saw this on myself: from the 1st year it was always "in preparation for your future job" . No, fuck you, I want to learn stuff, and gain critical thinking, not become a trained monkey for corpos. I am a monkey now though.
You'd love some of my instructors. minored in art with a focus on Photography. When I'd press them on what a class was worth to a career, the universal response was "We' aren't training you for a job, your question is irrelevant". Another one once told me my work looked like the work of 5 different photographers. I thanked him. He said it wasn't a compliment. I told him that it looked like 5 different photographers because I had the chops to make work that looked like 5 different photographers, so I could do what is needed for the people who need it. He than regurgitated that they weren't interested in anything past the grant of the degree.I told him that was painfully clear.
We had so many graduates of that program look for employment with us. Photography was under me at where I was. None had the needed qualifications.
They came through a system that considered only Black and white to be acceptable, and egregiously, were not trained in composition, which meant their work was markedly inconsistent. They were not taught the you can break the rules, but you need know what the rules are first.
It really was kind of heartbreaking when they discovered how much money they had wasted.
When you're paying thousands of $$$ to attend University because HR drone says thou must - and you see your money being horribly wasted - how is that a personal gripe?? Universities are losing money and ultimately customers - why? more and more people see them as no longer worth the money/debt - and this is a great deal of why. Luckily I'm old enough to have gone to University for free (UK poster here and our crooked Govt even took that away from us, no lowering of taxes to compensate though!) - I'd have been very upset had I gone in debt for it - it wouldn't have been worth it.
All of this mess is part of the Degreed Übermenschen mantra, where a person's worth is indicated bay a college degree - and what degree they have is utterly unimportant. It is the concept that a person who has a communications degree, and has no job prospects other than the Drive-thru at McDonalds is still markedly superior to say a master machinist making 150 K a year.
So yes, more and more people are coming to understand that it is not a good bargain. More and more are coming to understand that not only having a random degree doesn't make one a Übermenschen, but there are some degrees that can help you, and some that hinder you.
"Oh but electricians will be treated by doctors who studied at university" goes the tired argument
The argument for funding universities used to be that they were funded by the increased tax rate that higher earners pay because, with very few exceptions, higher earners have either benefited from a university education themselves or have benefitted from the works of others with university educations.
The great thing with that system was that those who needed a university education but who ended up in a lower paying job like teacher or nurse were not saddled with massive debts and instead had their education paid for by those going into business and earning far more employing an educated and healthy workforce. the great thing with that old social contract is that it justified higher taxes for the more wealthy and they, along with the rest of society, got to benefit from it. Instead now we have a system where it's hard to justify higher taxes on those earning more because they are almost entirely excluded from the benefits and jobs critical to society, like teachers, are becoming increasingly hard to fill.
The system is indeed pretty messed up. It's a conglomeration of several issues.
One of the really big issues is that we aren't students forever. At some point, a person graduates, and needs to support themselves. I knew that way back in the day. I looked at my abilities, and what would allow me to make a living afterwards. I know people drone on about GS or Philosophy majors, but where exactly did they think their knowledge gained from listening to each other's opinions in an echo chamber would take them after graduation? Once upon a time the more socially inclined Liberal arts majors might find work in HR offices. And some degrees are not only limited in career opportunities, but actually considered toxic.
Teachers, In the public school system, there is absolutely no surprise that it is getting harder to fill positions. (gonna get a little political here - sorry)
After largely eliminating men from the public school system (men are all pedophiles, donchyaknow?) There is a big chunk of potential candidates - tuns out a surprising number of women enjoy boinking underage people too - but I digress.
But even among women, a fair number of them do not fit the stereotype far left mold. And that is how we ended up with the prime focus of public schools switching from learning the skills needed to adult, to what a reasonable person can look at and come to a conclusion that political and ideological indoctrination is the focus. And sometimes it gets weird. When a mother brought in a book from her children's library to a board meeting, and the board didn't want her reading form it, and censored the images - claiming, I kid you not, that there were children in the school board meeting. https://alphanews.org/mother-r... But the kiddies could check it out as an approved reading material. Note, the school board had this book pulled eventually- but why was it there in the first place?
So women of perhaps a less far left outlook aren't interested in that mess.
We've veered a little away from the main topic, it's just that when we see what the teachers are putting in schools today makes the case for home schooling a good idea. Originally the province of the religious right, now it is a good idea for people who don't support normalizing pedophilia.
I rarely post. But Shelley, you are right on the money. Moving to pay for education has killed our once elite universities. Unless of course you have a spare silver spoon and go to oxbridge. You summed up the situation well and the AC above can do one.
I'm not certain how they do it across the big pond, but the Student loan business over here was so messed up. Students were getting money for tuition, books, and living expenses. And the kiddies apparently thought it was an all expenses paid scholarship.
We should never have pulled such a stunt for young adults, many who have had every bill paid by parents from birth. It just seemed like one more benny for many.
So we're adjusting over here. Until the student loans took over, and the semesters edging into summer vacation time, students could work during the summers, and pay a big part of their tuition and other expenses. But now that fall semester starts before Labor Day, that's gone. The shore and other vacation spots still need people. Now kids from Europe come over and make a fair amount of money, then go back to pay for their education.
Loans can be okay, but parents need to be on the hook for them as well.
And let's face it - if a person is taking an opinion degree major, maybe they weren't actually college material.
In California, the number of administrative staff at state-funded colleges has tripled since 1980.
Some of the increase, but not all, is due to unfunded federal mandates.
"Some" yes, but the event's leading up to the student loan crisis allowed Universities to have more administrators than professors and researchers.
Where I retired from, when I started, and until the early 1990's, we had three people doing our accounting. When I retired, Accounting was the largest group in the place, they even put accountants in each group. With a total budget not much more than before. Sure was a strain on overhead. Actually eliminated it.
But my requirement to take professional development didn't go away.
That's just a small sample of the non-academic bloat, when they were awash in money.
"Anyone attempting to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin." -- John Von Neumann
