Zephorah
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- Comment on Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% 37 minutes ago:
To be fair, jobs and degree value is 90% regional. There are states with less degrees and states with more degrees. The PNW, for example, has a glut of Bachelors degrees, meaning your Bachelors will give you very little if any traction for jobs. Why would it when there’s double digits in those degrees applying for every 1 job requiring one? Many Midwest, flyover states do not. When there’s no one applying to those degrees positions and then That One Guy shows up, he’s almost guaranteed at least a try in that position.
Sometimes you have to take your degree and move or it will hold little value. People don’t like to hear that, and that’s fair, but it’s also the reality.
You’ll have a cheaper house, cheaper COL, and be very competitive in a job in a flyover state, but because you don’t want to leave the city of Seattle or its surrounding beauty, you stay and bitch about it instead. Or San Francisco. Or [next high COL/housing place]. No one really likes Ohio or the ass end of Illinois but there are both job openings and cheaper housing there.
An in-law earned a safety degree. They could stay in there state for $80k or move to a degree bereft state, with cheaper houses even, for $125k. They moved, and on the company’s dime.
Some of what’s happening here is based in the human principle of: I don’t wanna.. “Don’t wanna” rules the day most of the time.
- Comment on Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% 54 minutes ago:
Not you. All the people posting with a shrug saying it’s just a piece of paper that doesn’t mean/do much except help getting a job. Like there’s no useful information there they can’t learn all by themselves & that they have the personal discipline of a 4 year dedicated college curriculum in conjunction with using AI to complete everything.
- Comment on Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% 8 hours ago:
The amount of scorn for degrees here is spectacular.
Medicine happens, in part, by experience. Even so, would you want your doctor or nurse working on you either of those roles without their degree(s)?
Psychologist?
Your lawyer?
The engineer designing that bridge you cross every day?
- Comment on Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% 23 hours ago:
What is the point of paying for college when you squander it this way?
- Comment on Satan's Ballsack 2 days ago:
Post pics. Share your imagery.
- Comment on Satan's Ballsack 3 days ago:
They’re the ones driving past the mutilated White House on their day to day. The reminders of his awfulness likely hits harder for them because they get the full visual on his lack of respect for American things.
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 6 days ago:
They’re DRM free, so why not burn it to physical media with a label? Even so, I’m ok with GOG downloads. What’s fun is you can share your account with your partner or your kids and no one will care.
- Comment on Time to bring back physical media on PC? 1 week ago:
The internal optical drives for PC used to cost under $30, and then you just need the right case.
- Comment on Examples of roles where actors from Star Trek give better performances than they did on Star Trek? 1 week ago:
She participated in the greatest movie fight scene ever. Crouching Tiger.
- Comment on Examples of roles where actors from Star Trek give better performances than they did on Star Trek? 1 week ago:
Mulgrew. Flemeth. (Kidding).
Levar Burton will always be reading rainbow guy, no matter what he does.
Zachary Quinto. Silar. One of the better villains, until the writers went on strike and the show fell off the rails. Granted, this likely just marks the man’s range as an actor.
John Cho. The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon.
Koening. Bester.
You could argue that everything Stewart does is equally well done. Scrooge. X. Gurney.
- Comment on America continues to fall behind the rest of the world 1 week ago:
They sell it to a third of the population, and those people rabidly vote for corporate USA every year.
- Comment on Single player games 1 week ago:
What recent games on the single player side? In the RPG side, content has fallen off.
We’re still waiting for Witcher 4 ten years later. Dragon Age killed itself. Mass effect trilogy is a one off. Spiders never really got to finish the Greedfall sequel before being shut down. The newest thing right now is Baldurs Gate 3.
- Comment on Hospitals in England declare critical incidents as machines and IT fail in heat 2 weeks ago:
Do the hospitals not have air conditioning?!?!
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 2 weeks ago:
The majority of people don’t like to lead. It’s simply easier and more comfortable to follow. Less conflict. Less confrontation. Less stress.
Leading requires initiative, the capacity to be confrontational, to step outside the box. It’s rather opposite of what is known as the bandwagon effect. Most people cannot do any of that without feeling extremely self conscious or anxious. Or, without being obnoxious and off-putting. You not only have to be able to function separate, you have to do it without annoying the fuck out of those around you.
Effective leadership also requires the capacity for some degree of speed. Some problems cannot wait for debate due to safety.
The bandwagon effect is a fun bit of study. What’s even better is the majority of people believe it doesn’t hold sway over them when the data shows that it absolutely does, something like 70-80%. It’s why, in part, so much money is thrown at AI and bots on social media, especially pre elections.
This appears to be a long but solid definition of it, with some easy bullet points: researchprospect.com/what-is-the-bandwagon-effect…
There’s also a reverse bandwagon effect, for, you know, the cool people.
- Comment on Why do companies require you to submit a resume but also put the same data into their forms? 3 weeks ago:
So they don’t have to.
- Comment on Electronic Arts has launched EA Advertising, a way for brands to integrate ads in games 3 weeks ago:
I think legos are in their own genre no matter what. That’s like advertising a game franchise.
- Comment on Dammit 4 weeks ago:
Covid proved this often superfluous content can either be in an email or consumed from home on Teams, with a peppy chat sidebar.
There’s a new manager who keeps trying to make them in person. She was angry only 4 people out of 40 showed up to the last one.
Lady, I’m not here to validate your power point creation. That, and I can watch your little slide show at home, in yoga pants, with hot tea, while watching deer out my window.
As the British so aptly put it: sod off.
- Comment on [Video] Hasan Piker wonders why he is banned from the UK but Elon Musk is not after inciting race-riots in Belfast 4 weeks ago:
I’d never heard of him until I listened to him on the Trevor Noah podcast. He sounded normal enough there, granted, that’s just a tiny slice of info.
That and he mostly talked about everything the Dem party was doing wrong.
If I had to guess, because he’s anti Israel, and both our countries are keenly invested in no one having a negative opinion of anything done by Israel. Ever.
- Comment on Hail math! 1 month ago:
To be fair, this was likely a reverse problem of today: not enough social media or freely flowing info via the internet.
People who did not know assumed much from manual covers.
- Comment on Is there an "Avoid Amazon" community for people who want to support smaller online retailers? 1 month ago:
The sticker shock on shipping from McMaster put me right off the first time I tried to order. Small things. Triple digit shipping even so.
- Comment on Is there an "Avoid Amazon" community for people who want to support smaller online retailers? 1 month ago:
Some businesses won’t sell direct, like 3M or most tool brands. But yes, you can often find things on the brand sites.
Amazon and Walmart are for things you can’t find anywhere else, but neither need the membership to make it happen. Strangely, Walmart is better quality lately.
- Comment on Is there an "Avoid Amazon" community for people who want to support smaller online retailers? 1 month ago:
Etsy has been more or less swamped with TEMU crap that can be shipped for free. If you don’t offer free shipping TEMU, I mean Etsy, wont show people your stuff. It’s like having the word dead in a YouTube vid, the Algorithm doesn’t like it.
Of course you can bake shipping into the price, but then you’re $5-$20 more expensive than the TEMU with better images section of Etsy.
Sure, there are real people, but they’re hard to find or be.
eBay is a mixed bag, and shipping is often $10-20.
- Comment on My brother wants to for Father's Day is volunteer at the local women's shelter. Not really a father but has two dogs. But is afraid to even ask because he is male. How does he go about this? 1 month ago:
Usually in a shelter you’re dealing with traumatized women who no longer feel safe around men. Do they need safe men around to re-learn trust? Yes. Is the point of their first housing after fleeing an abuse situation under enough threat that qualify for a safe house the time for it? No. Most are female staff only.
- Comment on insert mental health condition here 1 month ago:
I saw the big font item and thought this would be about colon cancer. Then I zoomed in.
- Comment on How do you pronounce 'Niche'? 1 month ago:
Neetch
- Comment on We're so back 2 months ago:
It spreads in secretions and poo of rodents, it’s not airborne like covid. That said, if you sweep up a dusty storage building with mouse droppings you can aerosolize it. Vacuums with crappy filters, the same. Bear in mind, any animal that grooms will spread their diseases with claw scratches. (Like when a bat passes rabies through a claw scratch…it’s because bats groom).
People can be dirty fuckers through. Not washing hands. Wiping their noses on the backs of their hands. Sneezing and coughing in public with no thought to cover, in any respect.
- Comment on Why is the US so into Israel? 2 months ago:
Imbuing governance with religion removes logic and reason from the answer to the equation. You’re looking for a logical reason where there is none.
- Comment on Not to get into a debate. If God is so omnipotent and above humans why does he or she have emotions? Like smiting or being upset or wrath? 2 months ago:
Religion is a primitive means of governance. Check out the Books of Laws in the Old Testament. This is literal civil code for the time lightly veiled as something mystical.
The problem is, the bigger a population becomes, the less wieldy religion becomes as a means of governance. It’s why cults work but the state of Iran (as one example) is rife with dissension and horrible enforcement laws. Too many people for stable governance via religion. Factions, insurgents, defectors will abound.
- Comment on How do I actually find a job that isn't retail? 2 months ago:
You’re right. Granted, consistent rotations or lack thereof will vary by both employer and manager. RN or CMA at a clinic will have consistent weekday scheduling. Same with the non-degrees roles.
Patient registration is an option. Retail experience will likely count in her favor.
- Comment on How do I actually find a job that isn't retail? 2 months ago:
If you can swing the time and tuition, every urban hospital needs CNAs. It’s probably the least schooling for the most job security. Phlebotomy as well. Hospitals also, historically, offer cheaper/better health care if you stay in house.
Mileage will vary a lot by location, in terms of pay and such, but it’s worth looking into. In adfition, it shows you options and offers tuition reimbursement.
Hospitals, not long term care. The latter is awful, in most locations.
Barring that, there’s no schooling options like EVS and logistics/supply runners. The latter will be among the first cuts if Congress allows further cuts to Medicaid or Medicare.