The number of young women on birth control pills has increased in percentage over the years, and those that use them are staying on them for much longer durations than in the past. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a link.

Just in time for Neil Young to return to Spotify.

Old Man, look at my life, I'm a lot like you were...

And the math scores? There is no "cultural bias" in math. 2 + 2 = 4, whether it's in Cambridge Massachusetts or Nairobi Kenya.

Oh FFS. You're being dense here.

If someone repeatedly cries "Wolf!", and the wolf never comes, people are naturally going to start ignoring that guy.

And the 2015 prediction wasn't even the first. We've had similar "ice free Arctic" predictions for close to 30 years now.

If you think a deep state doesn't exist, then you're a fool. It doesn't take "Putin's useful idiots" to be wary of its reach. Because everyone in Washington fears it:

Do U.S. Politicians Need to Fear Our Intelligence Agencies?

FTA:

"Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you." - Sen. Chuck Schumer

And that's just the Intel agencies. Your life is in this country is governed by a veritable army of alphabet agencies that seek to rule you from top to bottom. They monitor your communications, your financial transactions, and your property in a manner that would make Orwell's Big Brother envious.

I'd say Wikipedia is mostly reliable, but on contentious political stuff, I wouldn't accept it as a source as say, a teacher handing out an assignment. If a kid were doing a short paper on the Ford Model T, then sure, I'd take the Wikipedia page as a source. But nothing recently political.

Like how a man can be a woman by just saying so?

Yeah, I heard this somewhere.

But it's been that way for decades in the whole Bay Area, though. Back when I was stationed there before the base closures, one of the first things that struck me on my first trip to Berkeley was the contrast between the poor beggars crowding Telegraph Avenue, and the expensive luxury cars driving past them as if they weren't there. Even back then the middle class was disappearing fast in the Bay. So the Rich/Poor divide is not causing the current crime wave.

No amount of cameras will do a goddam thing if you don't actually prosecute criminals.

I have no idea why you're being modded down, when everything you posted was true.

Unless it's a STEM degree, the quote from Good Will Hunting applies:

“You wasted $150,000 on an education you could'a got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library.”

In any given year, up to half of law school grads don't work in law and don't make a salary much above the median average. Many end up working in various government bureaucracies in positions that don't require a law degree. In many years, there are more law school grads than legal jobs available. Usually what happens is that the excess go to work in jobs that don't require the bar, and just eat the debt.

It would be more accurate to say that no elite law school grad will risk unemployment. But there's not a lot of those schools.

Right before I graduated, I was in my school's library, and found myself passing the section where they printed the masters' theses. Just out of sheer curiosity, I grabbed a few at random to look at titles, flipped through them. They were all social science topics with the most ridiculous themes and subjects. Topics that were absolutely meaningless in the real world. No one was going to make any money. All of these people that couldn't get a teaching job somewhere were going the barista route.

The government, guidance counselors, HR departments, etc, have been barking for years that college was the only path to a good future. And so parents joined the chorus as well, because they trusted the experts, and what parent doesn't want their child to do well in life?

The result was a farce. Unpayable debts for jobs that didn't need college. So many new colleges expanded, built, or made out of thin air that the resulting mass rush of increased students had the unavoidable result of lowering the quality of the college grad pool.

Everyone cant have a pony. Someone has to build the roads, fix the pipes, and run the cables. Yet we denigrated those jobs, telling our kids that such manual labor was beneath them.