and using the "current dollars" column (which I assume means "not compensated for by inflation")

Your assumption is wrong, "current dollars" means the numbers have been inflation-adjusted (so 1995 in $6256 current dollars means $3625.12 in 1995 dollars). Or $6256 in 1995 vs $17237 today is about a 275% increase in the cost of tuition, even after adjusting for inflation. Without adjusting for inflation it would be 475% increase in the same span.

Hope that helps.

In today's workplace flooded with Millennials that may or may not show up to work on time. And, when they do show up they feel they are entitled to play with their phone and eat breakfast instead of getting to work

So here's a good example of a bully. If you run into somebody who tars entire classes of people with the same brush, they're a bully. Extra points for using terms that are commonly used to denigrade.

Even if a particular behaviour which the speaker thinks is bad is overrepresented in a given population, a good person won't be a bigot about it, and will be open both to the possibility that their audience doesn't exhibit that behaviour, or that others might not consider the behaviour offensive

Thank you, good sir, for contributing so helpfully to the conversation! :)

Susan Houseman of the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research notes, the number of factories also declined by around 22 percent between 2000 and 2014, which isn't what you'd expect if assembly workers were just being replaced by machines

Uh, that's exactly what I'd expect. I'd fully expect that more automation and fewer human employees would lead to fewer factories, as centralization becomes cheaper (no need to locate the factories quite as close to human population centres), and decentralization becomes more expensive (as you need to send those fewer employees you have further afield for retooling and maintenance).

I know a lot of people are going to be upset, I think they're wrong to be. A lot of people have been wondering if Mozilla has turned on their users, if a historic FOSS project has been totally corrupted. I think Mozilla is awesome to include advertising like this - I mean think about it, they're getting paid to advertise for alternatives and forks to Firefox. Plus now we all know for damned sure that Mozilla is a sinking ship and we need to hop on the nearest life raft.

I do nice things all the time, frequently without anybody knowing (so it can't possibly be virtue signalling).

You're just a giant asshole and/or troll :)

Hope that helps.

Hah, your sarcasm actually proves the OP's point: building and maintaining a browser is a fantastic amount of work, and the current stewards of the Mozilla codebase are not currently acting in the best interests of their users, the institution, the platform, or the community. They have a responsibility to do well by many people and they're failing miserably.

Are you on crack? If not, you may want to seek medical attention.

Macbooks in particular are notoriously poorly-made. They use adhesives for everything rather than fasteners "because reasons."

For anybody too lazy to do the math, that works out to $4.16 million per permanent job, or $208k per year per permanent job for 20 years.

Seriously, are you high? From the US Constitution:

I point you to the very first part of that sentence, "to promote the progress of science and useful arts."

Jesus, come on.

Actually the second-worst war on that list was apparently religious in large part, from the Taiping Rebellion Wikipedia page:

What vendor did you end up going with? (I ask because I like the sound of that for my own laptop, and I'm not shy about paying for it.)

I think it's you who miss the point. Both Christianity and Islam teach their followers to believe without question, to believe in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, to believe despite all rational logic and reason. It's that blind faith which is dangerous, not what they have faith in.

Also, you're just plain old crazy if you don't think Christianity can be every bit as bloody and brutal as modern-day Islam. We don't have to go back far to find atrocities. (Hell I'm in Canada, and we had horrible, shocking, disgusting Christian atrocities as recently as the 1970s.) Sure, Christianity in general might be "nicer" at the moment, but that can change in a hurry due to the blind faith they inculcate into their followers.

So relax; breath. Trust in yourself and find the opportunities presented. You, and society, will be fine, I promise.

There is no natural law that says that all societies will last forever - history in fact demonstrates quite the opposite. And societies don't usually collapse because of one gigantic catastrophe - they collapse because of millions or trillions of small "well whatever" failures. It's apparent in the US and some other cultures that the proportion of people who don't give a shit is growing, and once they reach critical mass we'll be living in a shithole where the only way to live let alone succeed will be through avarice and meanness. There are any number of cultures in the world where this is already the case. (I'm looking at you, Africa.)

If you think the US or the West is different, it's only because there's a critical mass of people who'll give a shit and who'll fight for what's best and right.

So fuck you for telling people to relax and just get theirs.

So I'm not saying you're wrong (I'm not a parent and I haven't carefully considered how I would do so), but surely you must realize you're an (extreme) outlier and your experience doesn't necessarily apply to most people right? 8 kids over 24 years with the same wife is incredibly unusual, and I can think of several things off the top of my head that would apply to you and that situation that wouldn't apply to me.

Does that really need to be said so negatively? As if the will of the voters were the only thing that mattered, and as if the voters' will was omnipotent, omniscient, and without error?

Even the "checks and balances" of the US acknowledges that there are huge swathes of life that shouldn't be routinely subject to the will of voters (namely law enforcement). And anybody who's watching this particular USian slow train wreck MUST acknowledge that in this instance the democratic will of the people was at best misguided.