Re: OT: EV Charging Stations Stripped of Copper Cables

On 11 Jul 2024 at 01:32:44 BST, john larkin wrote:

I was just talking to a fellow old fogey (who is literally a Fellow) and
we agree that young people are getting stupider, so the productivity
increase probably can't  keep up.

 
Well, to be fair, that phenomenon is confined to the West and is due to
the dogmatic insistence of Leftists that all are equal and must be
educated accordingly. So the classes grind away at the speed of the
slowest ship in the convoy ("no child left behind" - George Bush Jr -
RINO). The brighter children in the class are thus dumbed down at best (at
worst, switch off altogether and start sniffing glue) and grade inflation
is employed to fudge the facts and make it appear that everything's fine
when it most assuredly isn't. This is definitely NOT happening in
countries like China and that is why they're kicking our arses and have
been for some time.
 

 
A bigger problem is kids getting bogus degrees, like film-making and
sociology and journalism and comparative literature and music theory.

Seriously? Can you imagine a world where society doesn't educate people in
such things?

I say 'educate' rather than train or skill. To understand how to do something
is one thing - to understand it and form an opinion is (often) something else.

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Cheers, Rob, Sheffield UK