Comment Re:first step... (Score 1) 47
What if it's the government itself?
Comment Re:Let's be honest (Score 1) 217
Were your teachers the best and brightest? Pretty sure all mine would have been doing stuff like cashiering or driving a taxi if the taxpayers weren't so generous as to put them on the payroll for life
Comment Re: We're in the group (Score 1) 217
Why trans and not foot fetish or tentacles? It's grooming, the schools are filled creeps shielded by the union
Comment Re:Did we not have reason enought to hate Harvard? (Score -1, Troll) 26
Bitcoin is a more solid investment than their non-reproducible and/or plagiarized research
Comment Re:How about typing! (Score 1) 245
That was for low-paying secretary jobs. Now that kids are expected to pour coffee or empty bedpans for minimum wage they really don't have to teach much, even reading has mostly been silently dropped from the curriculum.
Comment Re:Consistently timing the market is impossible (Score 1) 65
Passive funds, such as index funds are the way to go. In finance, you get what you don't pay for - fund expense ratios and other transaction costs.
Might work, but buying at any price doesn't sound very advisable.
Comment Re:Verizon's Profit in 2024 was $17.51 billion... (Score 1) 40
I don't know the inside story at Verizon, but if there is lots of room in the budget it's easy for the payroll to get bloated with people who don't really do much.
Comment Re:Smart man (Score 2) 65
Not many taxpayers are innocent, everyone wants free money. They want their 401k to go up 1000%, they want to sell their home for 1000% to someone who also expects it to go up 1000%. Everyone is in the MLM.
Comment Re:Maybe stop graduating students who aren't (Score 2, Interesting) 174
It's not politically correct to fail minority students (and there are a lot of them now) so no students can be failed, even for nonattendance. This ideology is not going away so most practical solution is to shut down the public schools.
Comment Re:Equality is a religion (Score 1) 65
If all the winners were white it wouldn't be a problem?
Comment Re:Simple Example (Score 1) 248
I haven't thought about it that much, but it seems like your computer could still simulate a simpler universe for some Sims to live in
Comment Re:I'm curious (Score 1) 138
If you mean a mental disorder, say they are mentally ill...
Comment Re:There are two types of people in the world (Score 1) 31
The next bailout is gonna be a doozy.
Fixed that for you
Comment Re:There was a time (Score 1) 26
All the while using my money to make tremendous profits, which they keep to themselves (and stock holders)
Worse than that, they make tremendous losses, and use Ponzi accounting to give themselves bonuses.
Comment Re:"Security" (Score 1) 33
If thieves took everything French taxpayers would probably save money, so the security was about right.
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