I disagree. I used to listen to NPR a lot, but finally got tired of it and quit because the majority of the stories are about some minority interest group angle. Story after story, hammering home the same narratives over and over. I think they're just doing what they think is right, but most of their stories are on social issues and all of their commentators have the exact same mindset.

>They're currently accusing the current administration of doing EXACTLY what they'll gleefully do the instant they have any advantage.

Give it a rest. "accusing" the current administration of doing? Come on. The fascist administration knows no law, and they are abusing the law to the FULLEST.
SO don't give me that crap about "The Democrats MAY do it" They could have hung Trump out to dry with the Epstein files. They didn't because it wasn't *lawful* to do so.

God I hate you stupid anons. You think your argument holds water? Post under your real name. I think you know it's shit and are just stirring your own little shit pot.

If I had such a great solution to getting perfect information from crowdsourcing I suppose I'd be a rich man.

I experienced the same as others, I tried to contribute to stack exchange but was rejected, never met some criteria and never bothered to figure out how to do so.

The value of a degree might be depressed, and that is true. Education inflation is real. But there's a basic problem here. Having no degree bans you from a lot of jobs. You are filtered out by the AI or automated system before your CV ever hits the eyes of a human. The degree at least cracks open the door.

I have an extensive resume, with almost thirty years in critical systems, from operational programming and 24x7 support to my PMP, extensive leadership and managerial experience, successful projects up to $50M... everything but a degree. When I took a voluntary buyout, it took me a year and over 150 applications to find my next job... and I got it through personal contacts. I received exactly one callback through cold application. And my CV is excellent.

I retired last year. I shudder to think of what would happen if I had to enter this market, filled with newly exited, degree-bearing, hungry folks.

The degree is more valuable than not having one. That's what it comes down to.

Or you sit on it until circumstances change. Wash the data one direction, wash the money in others. Data brokerage started out off of plumb. It's not going to get straighter. The ethics were broken from the get go.

Traceability is no deterrent. Putting serial numbers on cars didn't stop auto thef5.

The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.

To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.

To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

And so this is the situation we find: a succession of Galactic Presidents who so much enjoy the fun and palaver of being in power that they very rarely notice that they’re not. And somewhere in the shadows behind them—who? Who can possibly rule if no one who wants to do it can be allowed to?"

Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

> If you have a capitalist society the money focused criminals are going to go into private business.

Why? Those private businesses are regulated by Congress and so forth on down the line to local city councils. They are the gatekeepers, and punishers.

People who go into congress suddenly have their wealth explode. Why is that? Certainly nothing corrupt! Lol. Right. Sorry but politics is *very* corrupt. And that was even BEFORE Trump! Now, there are so many illegal acts at so many levels of government in so many different departments it is mindboggling.

So yeah, maybe politics attracts the corrupt and corruptible (the "corrupt adjacent").

Gatekeeping (quality assurance) is their only value-add. It is the essential problem with crowdsourcing (if you manage to draw a crowd in the first place).

The overall average debt for bachelor's grads is $30K. It's not nothing. It's a car. But it's not enough to justify becoming an electrician instead of an electrical engineer.

In his book, the actual leader of the universe turned out to be oblivious to it. His thinking was that anybody who aspires to the role should under no circumstances be permitted to have it.

I've been saying for a decade or more that the altruistic public servant is an extinct species, and people entering politics now should immediately be suspect. It attracts poor quality people.

I think they'll get here, just later than everywhere else due to tariffs. Then we'll see if Americans actually buy them.

I own a 2024 EV Mini Cooper which is a really nice car with a really short range - about 100 miles. It fit how we used our previous gas Mini (mainly my wife's commuter) and she just likes how Minis handle and are easy to park. But it was never a big seller, most people expect more range for the money.

I read it, of course. But I'm 55. If the worst thing I do in my life is hang on to is secretly hang on to some nudes of an ex but not spread them around, I'm comfortable with that. :) I have the gift of middle age - the awareness that not everything I've done is stellar, and the clarity that no single act defines a person. We're complicated.

The BBC, being publicly funded (via the TV license, not general taxation) is constantly monitored for any sign of bias. So much so that the last conservative government abused this to try to place people in their to ensure there is a right wing bias under the guise of "eliminating left wing bias". Recent events from Trump and the right wing press in the UK have actually let the BBC clean out a few of those people the Conservatives put into managerial positions, which was fortunately the opposite of what they wanted to achieve.

Question Time having predominantly right wing guests isn't news to most of us over this side of the pond though. The right still claims it's "left wing bias" though.

Also the guests are the main focus of the programme as they're usually government or opposition politicians or otherwise highly politically engaged people like top journalists, analysts, et al. so the guest selection having a bias is a bit of a concern as it means the BBC is giving more air time to one side.

Spot the guy who's never driven in a lorry.

Or a sports car.

Vibration and harshness does not come from the engine. It comes from the road. This is why rail travel is often a lot smoother than road travel, you're not dealing with a poor road surface.

Try taking a car around a proper race track, the difference between that and street driving will be chalk and cheese, especially in a car with a hard suspension setup (which I strongly suspect, yours is not). Same car, same engine, same tyres, different surface.

PT Barnum was a hell of an optimist to think there's only one born every minute.