We are an anti-intelligence country and always have been. Parents don't care a whole lot about their intellectually able kids - they want sports trophies. Sad, but seemingly true.

That's because their kids don't need skills, they need contacts.

And, ironically, back in the mid 1980s had I done the 4 year college route at a state school rather than 2 years at a junior college and the rest part time at night at a state university, I'd have had about 15K in debt. Less than today's 30K. Of course, I didn't even want that much so I did junior college and got a job as a grunt programmer at a company with tuition reimbursement and went to school at night to finish the bachelors and MSCS. You pay one way or the other. At the time, decent jobs did require at least a bachelors degree in comp sci and working where I did, an MS was needed. Now? Not clear, though yeah, for an electrical engineer I think you would. Then again, I have found my intense comp sci theory academic training to have been invaluable for my career to know what NOT to do - complexity analysis, for example, has saved my hide more than once. Though I've not written a compiler except when I was in grad school.

I suppose congressmen and senators who are making 175K and are suddenly worth tens of millions is okay to you?

Belay my last comment - the article ALSO implies antibiotics used for this. SMH. We're not going to make it as a society.

TFA actually says “Taken together, these data underscore the need to develop novel antifungal agents with broad-spectrum activity against human fungal pathogens, to improve diagnostic tests, and to develop immune- and vaccine-based adjunct modalities for the treatment of high-risk patients.”

I'm sure somebody, somewhere is running System V.

Woolite isn't a good way to clean wool, per someone I know who owns a woolen mill, interestingly enough. SOAP - genuine soap, like grate a bar of ivory soap, is the best, per her. I dunno but my wool long johns do clean nicely that way, so why not?

Mine as well. However if you have any that are 'no iron' they MIGHT have a plastic coating. It's difficult to find out exactly WHAT chemicals are on cloth - and even if you DO find out, well, it may be a lie. Annoying.

And yet many people seem to say "I only care what I'm going to pay, not what is tax or the goods." For full disclosure, I'd rather have it broken out the way it is. Different people, different opinions. Perhaps you see state actions as a positive thing - I see them primarily as a negative thing.

Here in my relatively poor corner of Wyoming, it is $12 - I think it was $11.75 when I had one last year? Hadn't had one for years, happened to be in town at lunch. I should have waited until I got home. As for cooking a veg, a potato, and a steak, it takes 10 minutes and is a trivial task. The quality is way higher.

We all do that. And if I do it, and someone corrects me, I thank them because I'm hardly the source of truth for what a word sounds like when spoken. I don't tell someone 'oh, no, they're wrong.' It's not that someone may be incorrect, but simply because the vernacular says something does not mean it is so.

The problem with that is misunderstanding. In vernacular speech this isn't a big deal, who cares if somebody doesn't understand that you're going to lunch. But if you have to do something that matters, that's a bigger risk. What I find particular amusing is folks' absolute ignorance of common sayings. The first time I heard "It's a doggy-dog world" I asked the person to repeat - then I explained what it was, and was told 'oh, no , that's not it.' In true genX fashion I said 'whatever, but you still sound like a cretin.' Of course, when I explained to another (sane) millennial what 'drank the koolaid' came from, he vowed he would never use the phrase again. I was happy because it is making light of a tragedy to use it so flippantly. But others have different opinions on that, too, of course.

Well, since we now prize illiteracy, that's no doubt true. Of course, this isn't new and has been growing since the 90s, so, no surprise.

Thanks but you might catch something, so, no.