This isn't fear, it is the results of DNA biology. and by the way, you just went reeeee!. Not me. I have no issue if a person wants to dress and act as what they consider the other sex. Not my problem, and I won't bother them. But it is still playing dress up, Just the same as if I wear a toga, and that makes me a 100 AD Roman. So your understanding of biology trumps mine? Tell me that a man is the same thing as. a woman, and that if he says he is a woman, he is legally a woman.

You see, your ideology and rejection of biology is the same as the Soviet Unions embracement of Lysenkoism. Real time evolution where the subject changes itself in real time. Just like your thinking a man is a woman or a woman a man. Why did they do that? Because Lysenkoism jibed with their ideology, but not reality. Then again, I have no surprise that you would embrace that sort of thing.

Your ideology while different than the MAGA's is just as warped as their's, you are just the opposite side of the coin

No, your narrative simply cannot figure out what to do with me. Define conservative first, Let's make no mistake. Rather than having a narrative of what I am told I believe, I think about exactly what I am told to believe. So some of my opinions are decidedly left sounding, I support abortion, I support universal healthcare. Sounds leftist, amirite?

Then again, I believe there are three sexes, male female, and a small group of intersex people. DNA serves as proof, and people of one sex demanding they are another, often through aggressive physical alterations are merely playing dress-up. I support the working class something that the Democrats very loudly and ambiguously abandoned in the last general election And let us not mistake, having been in the academic community for going on 45 years now, I can tell you that this so called conservative abandonment is not completely voluntary. Would you work for a place that tells you that you are a rapist? I've sat through those meetings. A place where they will march to keep conservative commentators like Anne Coulter out, and keep comedians like Larry the Cable guy, Bill Maher, and gasp... Ray Romano from playing on camupus. The first two are understandably different opinions, but Ray Romano?

With some of my opinions not falling in line with the leftists on campus, I don't voice those opinions.

When I first arrived on Campus, the concept of the liberal (in the classic sense) education was to expose students to a wide variety of thoughts and opinions. Over time, it started becoming more exclusionary. Even now, a sort of sexual apartheid has developed. I get all the Cleary reports. If they get 1 report a year now, it is surprising. Problem is, normal women would like to have interactions, possibly romance with the so called rapists who are actually just regular guys who would never abuse a woman. A completely unnatural fugue state has developed, with lonely women who wonder where the men have gone, and guys hanging out with their friends, playing games or getting outdoors and having fun. The bars are noticing. Many of us could have predicted this.

You see the effects on campus and around town. You might see 300 unattached students before you see a couple.

What you think is my cynicism is just me observing. And yes, it is infinitely easier to have your ideology preached to you, and told the other opinions are evil. Eventually it leads to cult like behavior , like the so called MAGAS. They operate on the ideology that if you are a Democrat, or whoever the Orange shitgibbon says is a Republican In Name Only, you are unworthy. Cult. But left wingers shouldn't get smug - they do the same, if only not as extreme. The same happens in society and in here, with people like me having thought based opinions, I can be called MAGA or commie depending on what I post.

I certainly have no reason to make shit up. If our animal lover were to check my posts, he's see that I've documented many cases, showing just how bad it is. Even Microsoft admits W11 is a hot mess of dog puke. Not links for you, you already know the truth - but since I already replied to our lad, here's something for him to read. Perhaps he can tell Microsoft that they too are full of bullshit, and that no one who knows anything about computers has ever had a problem, so they do not need to make any changes. https://techcommunity.microsof...

https://www.windowslatest.com/...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tech...

Oh, How about both. Sorry My friend who has a thing for animals, I only touched the surface. I teach classes for digital communications via RF. Have done so for years. You'll have a computer, a soundcard interface, and CAT control of the radio that you need to get working together. Back in Windows 7 days, in two classes we had everyone running in two classes, then started in on the details of the software, students gaining expertise.

In Windows 10 days, there were some hiccups, but eventually things settled down, usually 3 weeks to get everything running. Moved to Zoom, which worked great for this.

The next to last class, everyone had Windows 11. I even bought a laptop specifically for the class.

It was a FSCK'ing disaster. Every class, someone had a setup that was working, then an update wrecked it. I switched to running the software on my Mac mini. We couldn't proceed until every one had a working system. A couple just gave up.

After 8 weeks, with no progress the students were pissed, grumbling. Many talking about using Linux I suggested taking a two week hiatus explaining the process of making dual boot machines. They are smart people, they got Linux Mint installed. Got Zoom installed.

Then we started the Linux based classes. two sessions, and all was running. It stayed running.

We ended up terminating the classes early, not because of failure, but they ran through the syllabus at lightning speed. Word spread.

New classes will be Linux based.

Apprenticeship's are actually a very good thing. Or it might be said that not having a pipeline is a very bad thing. Once upon a time, I could have had an apprentice to learn about what I do. After the bean counters took over (seriously, we went from there of them to the largest single department in the institute, around 150 Bean counters) they just sucked up all the overhead.

So 5 years before I retired, I told them I was retiring at 55. That they better figure out what to do post me. Every year I told them we were one year closer. They told me I couldn't afford to retire. two years before I actually arranged a meeting where I explained my financial position. One year before, I wrote a memo that explained that they now needed to compensate me at a significant level, like 50 percent.

All this built up to the incredible shock when I turned in one month's notice. My idiot supervisor didn't even tell the director, who called me panicked on my last day. Next think I know, I'm an emergency rehire with the idea I'd train a replacement.

Dumbass supervisor and the bean counters still didn't give me an apprentice. So they tried to plug people in. Didn't work, but I wasn't going to continue the emergency rehire longer than a year. Word on the street was my stupid supervisor took a "early retirement".

Since then I've taken an appointment in another department who offered me compensation I couldn't refuse. They are also hiring an intern/apprentice for me.

tl;dr version - Apprentices are actually a good thing. Not all jobs are cookie cutter.

Such a victim.

Ain't that the truth! We see a lot of that embittered crowd in here. Utterly damaged young people, so cynical they aren't going to ever be successful. So angry, yet they have forgotten the only constructive outlet for anger is the revenge of becoming successful.

Affirmations and manifestation, which is what they were taught was the path to success, is actually kind of a lazy concept.

They've been focussed on the exceptional tiny minority of people who became wealthy at a young age as the standard. The 99.999999 percent of the rest of us have to be on our grind, and that it takes time to become successful. It takes perseverance, and a good attitude. Took me until my late 40's. But the fresh graduates expected to be making 6 figures to start, expected rapid promotions, and ending up in the C-Suite in 5 years, got a serious shock to the system. So many moved back with the parents.

I don't blame them. They weren't allowed to grow up.Well meaning parents and schools tried to shield them from any adversity while telling them they were the most important entity in the universe, and all they need to do is find their passion, and the world will part for them like the Red Sea But they do have to grow up eventually - there is still time. Just have to lose that crash and burn cynicism.

I work in a University environment. The far left have significant power. They accuse the rest of the University of being far right. There are indeed far right people, They accuse the University of being communist breeding ground.

So while the standard accusations fly, y'all in here sound like taking your cynicism to completely unworkable levels.

Better check the contract you signed at work. Every place I worked at had a place where you sign over rights to any invention of yours in perpetuity.

Now what does this mean? It means that if you invent something really worthwhile, there's going to be a hell of a battle. You can fight it pretty good if you can prove you developed it on your own time in your own place, without employer resources, But you better keep good documentation.

Now in reality, that doesn't happen too often. But it is there.

Maybe, but the whole thing reads more like a grift. At best, a very expensive associates degree.

I agree. But when it gets too far left, the ideology required starts getting as nutty as the far right.

It is more complicated than that. First, you have to define reality. But let's go with that first. What goes for left wing reality today is denial of physics. People who cannot tell what is a man, and what is a woman. Before people start going Reeee!, this denial of science, biology, and physics is the left wing equivalent of MAGA's immunization rejection for ivermectin treatments and shining UV light up one's anus. Where we have teh minister of health now looking at "chemtrails", actually contrails, produced by changes in air pressure from jet or other engines where the proper conditions exist produce a little linear cloud, and have been doing so since WW2.

Yeah the far wingers on each side are blithering idiots. So in some Universities, particularly ones that are more liberal arts focused, yeah, some of those have become left wing kook oriented. And at others, the kooks have had more power than they should.

But if engineering, biology, and other science is taught in a manner that provides ample compensation, far left ideology has problems with that. And while one can be liberal in the old sense, present day far left wingers deny much of physics. Biology and DNA is a real bitch. So despite the narrative, A lot of universities are turning out people who might lean a bit left or a bit right, but have to practice their craft using reality.

Oh summer child - this is my work computer, and I'd be fired if they found anything sketchy on it.

However, I do have a concern - It is rather concerning that the first thing you went to is bestiality pR0n. I think you might be projecting, and you should probably get therapy.

Be you, having serious comprehensive cognition problems. You are the human equivalent of Windows 11.

You are on to something here, and I like it. Here's the interesting thing. You've proposed a solution. And it makes sense, and is doable. It offers a path for the less talented or newer staff. Most in here just complain without actually proposing anything.