Yeah. No. With 3 kids all in engineering, I can tell you they do NOT just hand out A's in classes that matter. Now, if we're talking about lib arts and the like..... well..... 99% of the folks in those programs probably shouldn't be in them anyway.

Insults at random? Check.
Brandishes his e-peen? Check.
Blames DEI for something? Check.

Guess we know who you vote for don't we?

"Know any smart people."? Heh. I'll see your "top five" with a "#1" and your "STEM scholarship" with a full ride. And I now work at one of the top engineering firms in the world. But I bow to your 'expertise'.

College education is required for those going into the engineering field, which is what Panlantir is labeling their hires.

I agree with you - but in this article we're talking about people that Palantir is calling 'engineers'. Hence my post.

Military veterans have their own sets of issues. They generally are fairly rigid and struggle to see other points of view, and their personal interactions can be.... stilted. They aren't all Jack Reacher. Though, generally speaking, they've proven they can work hard and take orders.

Ahhhh, tell me you didn't go to college at all without telling me.

I do NOT want someone who has skipped college engineering my cars, my nuclear power plants, my wind farms....

I do NOT want someone who skipped college treating my wounds, performing surgery, or teaching me advanced mathematics.

The number of people who can learn fluid dynamics, system mechanics, aeronautical engineering, nursing, doctoring, or any other real technical subject by just going 'online' is vanishingly small. Like - near zero.

Getting requested requires a certain threshold of suspicion. ICE does not. If they CHOOSE to stop you, they scan your face. And they can stop you for any reason they choose. There is a big difference between someone suspected of committing a crime being scanned, and ANYONE THEY WANT being forced into a biometric database.

This is out of control.

You stood on the shoulders of giants, using their technology for your accomplishments.

You got huge government contracts with enormous kickbacks.

And now you turn around, call the people who provided that technology and money "boondoggles"....

You are arrogant assholes. If it weren't for your your suck-up neo-nazi Elon playing in politics and paying off all the right people - you wouldn't be shit.

I have no patient for assholes like you. It's time to cut the government money off, cancel the contracts, and tell you to fuck right off. Then start restricting all that airspace you're being given to fly your satellites, and watch you crumble.

I'm curious. I just went through your posting history. In every single one, you are spewing conspiracy theory laden "white male" crap.

So.... I'm curious if you have difficulty tying your shoes because of the "woke DEI brainwashed masses".

Take that a step farther. I'd argue innovation in video games isn't all that important either. Fun gameplay, and decent story telling is all you need.

Sure, Nintendo has made their bread and butter on putting out "unique" blockbuster games, like each new Zelda iteration.

But frankly, most successful games are simply games that are fun to play. These deveopers lose sight of that.

X uses AWS.
Bluesky uses AWS.
Signal uses AWS.
Telegram uses AWS.
Instagram used AWS, now Facebook.
TikTok uses AWS and Google.

Elon should go back to doing drugs and insulting Trump.

We have a problem. We don't make shit in the US anymore. Which means that innovation is happening elsewhere. TP-Link is on the table for a potential ban by the US government, but they are also leading the way in Wi-Fi development. So.... do you ban TP-Link and screw yourself out of early wi-fi 8 adoption? Or do you find some way around that by certifying certain equipment from TP-Link?

I remember when people said the same about Roku. Just go into the menus and turn off the ads. Then they added them to the screensavers. Then the home screen, unremovable. Now they are also modifying it to stop pi-holes from working. This is the end game from Amazon. Just quit them now.

Uh.... not even close. There might be a particular reason the felt tip is still made in Japan, but I can gauran-damn-tee that it isn't because Japan is the only one who make quality items at scale.

For the loss of basic writing skills.

Are they dieing? Are they really? "Publishing" is going away, because there are so many ways to write, edit, and market books yourself. Did this study look into the number of e-books that are being sold, and shared? I agree that reading literature is slowing. But I don't think it's going away.