Re: Job Offer

On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:31:39 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

On 3/21/2025 4:05 PM, Zen Cycle wrote:

On 3/21/2025 4:49 PM, AMuzi wrote:

On 3/21/2025 3:28 PM, Zen Cycle wrote:

On 3/21/2025 3:28 PM, AMuzi wrote:

On 3/21/2025 2:23 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:

On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 13:20:01 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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On 3/21/2025 8:40 AM, AMuzi wrote:

On 3/20/2025 11:33 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

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Apparently the far right still maintains its world
view by ignoring
all relevant facts it dislikes.
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An universal trait, across all ideologies.

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I strongly disagree. "Univeral" seems to imply
"everybody" of "all
ideologies." I think complete dismissal of facts is
far, far more common
on the right.
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What's more common universally is to disagree on the
relative importance
of various bits of data. And there were long periods
in U.S. history
when that was the main subject of disputes - which
data set is more
significant? Which facts should get more attention?
Which issues are
more important?
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We're far beyond that now, at least with the right
wing. Once a Trump
administration invented "alternative facts" verifiable
data went out the
window. The right now has a strong tendency to
blatantly invent "facts"
to justify its ideas. Vance essentially confessed to
that, regarding
small town Ohio pets being eaten by immigrants,
claiming it was OK to
"create stories" - IOW, outright lie. Musk is
"finding" billions and
billions of dollars of fraud that regularly disappears
whenever anyone
else looks into the details.
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Your efforts today are less blatant, but related:
"Here's _one_ glacier
that grew, so we should ignore the immense worldwide
shrinking of almost
all glaciers." And "Land here is slowly sinking, so we
should ignore
worldwide satellite measurements showing oceans rising."

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I recall hearing that Joe Biden is so sharp that his
staff can't keep
up with him.  That Trump went to Russia and had women
pee on him. That
there was choice but to pack up and leave Afghanistan
the way it was
done.  That there was no way to close the border
without Congressional
action. That Hunter Biden would not be pardoned. (etc)
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Both sides lie. Both sides make up "Facts." Both sides
fund their pet
projects. Both sides are crooks.
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--
Speaker Pelosi to Congress
"We need to pass the bill so you can find out what's in
it."

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Leave it to the dumbass to intentionally conflate
politics with science.
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Dishonesty may be among our smaller problems.
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Ms Pelosi also said (clearly and correctly) that Mr
Biden could not waive student loans without an Act of
Congress.
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Merely being truthful and correct had no affect on what
actually happened, as Mr Biden bragged about
subsequently defying the direct Supreme Court ruling.
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No, he didn't. He said "we'll have to find another way to
do it".
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And then continued anyway, misusing a 'special cases'
provision for large classes of borrowers.
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People (me) who worked two jobs to pay tuition at retail
in cash were miffed at least.

 
Must have felt the same way my cousin did when the drinking
age in Massachusetts was lowered to 18 the day after he
turned 21.
 
That's not the way life turns sometimes - I learned to live
with it.
 
My loans were paid off long ago, but I thought student loan
forgiveness was a great idea, and still do. One of the
reasons this country lags in education is that we make it
hard to get one. It's why Musk wants to keep the H1B program
going, and convinced trump to make it so - couple that with
this asinine thought that the government shouldn't be
involved in education, and it's no wonder American companies
need to have foreign students.
 
It's smacks of cutting off your nose to spite your face.

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That drinking age thing change happened to me as well.
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To no effect, I'd been frequenting bars occasionally since I
was 16 and never had any issues.

+1

Me too..

But I remember in College, driving my buddies (I had a car) to an 18yr
old bar and having to wait until midnight on the eve of my 18th
birthday before they let me in.

--
C'est bon
Soloman