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Comment Re:With Science (Score 1) 95

Science? Really? There's a lot of soft-brained, unscientific and technophilic pseudo-religion in the article.

Let's work with the argument's load-bearing phrase, "exploration is an intrinsic part of the human spirit."

There are so many things to criticise in that single statement of bias. Suffice it to say there's a good case to be made that "provincial domesticity and tribalism are prevalent inherited traits in humans", without emotional appeals to a "spirit" not in evidence.

Comment Re:Maryland you say? (Score 1) 34

A direct line between County Cork and Loudon VA does not go through the east coast of Maryland on a spherical earth, that was the only point I addressed. Even if you wanted to maximize how much is laid in the ocean as opposed to land, there are still shorter distances that would land you on at least in Delaware. While I am sure there are logistical reasons to do it where they are doing, that is irrelevant to my point.

Comment Re:Basic Life Skills? (Score 1) 224

It absolutely never did for "most jobs" other than "unskilled labor". There is a long histor until recently of appreticeship systems and on the job training for anything that's more complicated than menial manual labor.

Not sure what you're on about with your immigrant non-sequiter. Virtue signaling perhaps?

Comment Re:Basic Life Skills? (Score 1) 224

Way to invent wht the OP said out of whole cloth and make it about you. Bravo!

Just so you can better make sense of this: it 1.) wasn't about you 2.) it wasn't infantilizing because it's largely true of most people 3.) again, it wasn't about you 4.) nobody said an "intermediary step" was "required".

Comment Re:Is corruption happening? (Score 1) 125

The number of college attendees vs. college age population is higher than it ever was, including at the school in question. It is predicted that population decline will overtake this higher rate of college attendance in the next few years.

In light of those two facts, what bar are you talking about exactly?

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