When you say "STEM vs pretend degrees", you clearly don't know what you're talking about. There is a near continuum of "hardness" of subject, and even that's not well defined, and the quesiton of whether EE is harder than pure math doesn't have a clear answer, but which way you answer definitely affects what the opposite is.

E.g., "German" is not a STEM major, but it's also not a pretend degree. OTOH, Philosophy is often a fluff major, but some of them attempt to be as rigorous as any experimental physicist. (Most don't succeed, because it's a really difficult thing to do.)

Outlawing home schooling is too dangerous. Also MOST homeschooling is destructive, but some is the exact opposite.

I'll agree that home schooling is destructive to society, even when making accommodation to geniuses and other "special needs" students, but it's destructiveness isn't even the same order of magnitude as that of "social media". (I'll agree that social media needn't be destructive, but just about all of it is.)

Was that from "Blazing Saddles"?

And neither does humanities or social sciences is my point. The dominance of "woke progressive" programs is a conservative media bogeyman creation, as I said.

Also you do still need humanities and arts. We agree on business and law being flooded so I would prefer those people go into arts besides thoughts. America has dominated arts and entertainment for like a century.

That's not going to apply to factories that are built for full automation. And it's reported that that's the way the Chinese build auto manufacturing plants.

Full automation is probably an overstatement, but nearly full automation will still mean that health insurance isn't a major part of the expense.

Hold up, I said humanities vs everything else. Does stem include Law, Medical and Business?

Good! They should! We all know what marginal means right? Marginal rates? Marginal utility?

Why does anyone think this talking point means again,? Also what is their "effective tax rate". Most 0.1% pay an effective rate far less than the other top 10%

Is that actually true? Are more students enrolled in humanities than STEM and medical and others? I would be surprised if all humanities and social science add up to even 20% of all attending students. These are more conservativebmedia bogeymen than actual issues.

I think the more corrosive areas are business and law and tech. So many of our best and brightest don't go into research or science or engineering; they instead get into financial services, stock trading or end up making millions at FAANG.

I have no interest in a giant 4K monitor for my desk. But a 24" 4k monitor would look quite nice. I would want my font sizes to be the same as they are now, just sharper. I find sharper, higher resolution text easier to read as my eyes get older, than blurry text at the same size.

I was just thinking that although my eyes are getting older, I still can see the screen okay. Then I glanced up at the url bar in my browser and noticed I'm browsing the web at 150% zoom. Ha.

Okay so 27% feels like malicious compliance (and it is). But what is a reasonable fee, who decides what that is?

1. Try and charge him with crime. As stupid as the SC immunity ruling is they still left doors open on charging the President or former President. Of course I would say SC reform is much much needed.
2. Still worth doing and if things get bad enough you could get some defectors for such moves.
3. If Trump pardons people you can still try and get them under insurrection under the 14th amendment and bar them from holding future office.
4+5. Yeah, probably should be done but quite a long shot.

It's not treason to try and end the war but the manner and candor about it is pretty disgusting. The constant cowtowing to Putin, the pomp and circumstance of the Alaska summit, the disrespect Putin has shown to the US negotiators, the fact that Russia has broken at least a couple ceasefires that Ukraine agreed to.

Ukraine has been giving the Trump admin concession after concession and Russia has refused or continued bombing pushing the front so much so that remember earlier this year Trump was pleading them to stop ("Vlad Stop!!")

So it's pretty clear one actor here is operating in complete bad faith so why do we keep bending over backwards for them? Why is Steve fucking Witkoff negotating? How many bad faith moves will Russia make before we stop trusting them?

And I agree that maybe now arms shipments may not help but a fucking year ago they probably could have helped quite a bit. Remember this war was expected to be over quickly, the odds were totally in Russia favor and all this year theyve been able to expand the front like 5%, it has not been so inevitable as the pro Russia ghouls like to make it out to be.

It's just as absolutely ghoulish to tell Ukraine "ehh, just give up your agreed upon border because Russia wants it" even if it's the humane move today it's still appeasement and makes us all fucking ghouls because we could have stopped it if we had any leadership whatsoever.

He would have gotten more functionality and style from a smartwatch.

China has been manipulating the lithium market the same way they've been manipulating the rare earths market (ie, poor environmental standards and anti-competitive practices by trying to build a monopoly). No other car company can acquire batteries at the same low cost as Chinese car producers. As soon as the supply chains are fixed (for both lithium and rare earths) this won't be a problem anymore.

China's dumping practices are well documented in the car industry. They overproduced and are now selling below cost.

Where would we deport them to?