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  1. Thank you for calling it like it is (thread title) and not Playing. The. Game. which is what Erick senior and junior would likely say. In most academic endeavors, the annual review assesses three areas: teaching, service, and research. The last is the one by which the most $$, the most prestige, the administrative appointments, the gravitas, and the respect is placed. It is a system that once was admired world-wide that has been corrupted over and over again. Sad.
  2. Picked this up at the library but it was disappointing. I didn't care for the writing style much at all. I wasn't looking for gossip, but more in depth information on the structure (which is touched on some) but for a critic who has spent a number of years writing, I was expecting something cohesive and it just wasn't.
  3. I suppose that naiveté is my fallback when I run across threads like that on their politics forum. By that, I mean I'm not surprised at their outrage or lack of knowledge about how degree programs, minors, and such work. Where I am consistently surprised is how little thought they apply to what a well-rounded education comprises. So much of the greater breadth of my education came from courses outside of my major; courses on topics that were not taught in my high school (at the time, no AP was available) and my first exposure to authors such as Toni Morrison or the history of the Tulsa Race Massacre or even a semester long intensive writing class on the various types of economic systems (including communism!) occurred at this time. Indoctrination? Hardly. The faculty wanted us to read, think, and then write; justifying or informing or expanding upon what we learned in class. I owe them so much for that. So these prolific angry posters want to never crack open a book that might invigorate the little gray cells into a world beyond the box in which they've placed themselves. What cowards. How little credit they give to the students brave enough to explore the world around them and to critically examine thoughts and ideas foreign to them.
  4. Rep for using Charlie Cox in a gif. So dreamy.
  5. Agree with the Fox propaganda. It's insane how effective it's been. Yeah, he makes me nervous with respect to potential skeletons but he's a charming guy and people seem to overlook a LOT of flaws when covered with that veneer. We are stupidly high school when it comes to electing competency and candidates with character.
  6. Don't forget loyalty oaths. A part of our history and useful weapons to bring around recalcitrant citizens.
  7. I disagree; quite a few of the elite schools admissions officers have discussed that they admit males with lower quality packets in order to keep a gender balance from becoming too skewed. Perhaps the discussion (in society) could be what are the factors for students of both genders to achieve their potential in higher education that doesn't 'punish' either? I believe that the stress placed on students (Slorch mentioned this a little) to have all the ducks in a row with respect to life goals, degree plans, and four year completion likely favors females to males. How can society assist young people so that those that need a little more time aren't completely shunted off on a dead end path? Perhaps I shouldn't have derailed the thread as this is specific to UT-Austin, and UT has around equal percentages of genders applying but the admission and enrolled rates definitely favor females. Hispanic females and white females enrolled at the same percentage in 2023. One would likely need to parse that data down to the top % rule to see if that is one of the factors influencing those acceptance rates with respect to gender. I'll leave that topic for now as it got into the weeds a little.
  8. Based on the comments one page prior, he probably never completed the GED. So, the Lauren Boebert path to Congress is still on the table. If he did indeed drop out two years prior to Kenosha, then it might take him half a year of prep, (cause he doesn't seem all that bright), but he could pass the four tests needed. Until then, it's going to be a struggle other than the circuit he's currently riding.
  9. Derail (slight). Back in 1990, 21.3% of the U.S. population had a college degree. As of 2022, that increased to 37.7% (both genders). One thing that some folks don't consider is how often women were discouraged from attending college in the not so distant past. Money was one of the factors in that regard--males were seen as a better investment for future prospects. Perhaps not so much with the upper/white collar classes, but among other things, Title IX began to really get rolling, loans became more readily available, and birth control prices dropped, women started competing for admissions slots. In 1970, 8.1% of US females had a bachelor's degree (males 13.5%), by the year 2000, it was 22.9% (males 26.1%). (I pulled this from some government census data tables). The doc I grabbed this from ended at 2000 and currently, that percentage now stands at 39%, with males, which had peaked at around 37-38%, dropping to around 36%. The solution is NOT to deny females admission (which does seem to be a policy advocated by certain quarters in the political realm-no CR) but to recognize that the field has grown more competitive. Higher education, technical (vocational) education, lifelong learning, and other educational endeavors have sometimes been a battleground between the abstract and the concrete when it comes to purpose, career paths, and society.
  10. With respect to the UTI. This happened with my late mother, and it can catch one off guard. While I was aware that they're more common in females, I didn't realize that sometimes the only symptom in an elderly person IS the cognitive decline. I've only ever had one, and it burned like crazy. So, with a patient with dementia, I can see why the presentation would be confusing to observe. Best of luck to you and your parents; it's a tough and stressful time.
  11. Whenever I get spend too much time ruminating about it, I remember that for awhile in our recent history, we had a leader who was nerdy enough to role model how to embrace that and not be afraid or too cool to show it by doing stuff like this....
  12. When the events of the fateful night occurred, Rittenhouse was 17 and as far as I know was already having difficulty with school and never completed his hs education. That closes a lot of doors even if one is carrying all the baggage and notoriety that Kyle has. His parents had split up and I don't know if anyone was giving him sound advice or if he would've even listened to it considering all the other voices whispering in his ear. I don't feel sorry for him, he's entered that George Zimmerman zone which has the effect of trying to reconcile one's psyche with past events while living in the present and society is going to forever place the two (past and present) together because that is the way it works. The difference between Rittenhouse and say, Zimmerman, is that Rittenhouse is barely 21 and has a lot of years left. Therapy, testing for a learning disorder, and completing his GED would go a long way in rehabbing his life (as opposed to hanging out with guns and guys who play soldier). I doubt he ever will.
  13. This scenario was along the lines of what I would imagine; random locales that have violence break out, not unlike what we have domestically already with the large numbers of unregulated firearms that wind up in the hands of angry people (mostly male, often mentally ill). As was pointed out, Trump is older than most despot wanna-be types but Michael Flynn and the rest are under 65 and more than happy to take up the mantle if given the opportunity. Dust off your anti-fascist songs by the American greats (like @cactusflinthead provided) or if you want some from the old days, there's always this one: I haven't a drop of Italian blood in my ancestry, but I can cook up a marvelous pasta dinner and feed the partisans. Win or lose, the struggle will continue. It always does as long as there is power and those who seek it.
  14. Perhaps a parrot would be useful. A parrot could talk to you while you dig.
  15. Definitely. But that's guidance I follow with every illness. Fluids really do help the body recover.
  16. I'm thinking of floating a new conspiracy theory that Peter Thiel secretly persuaded Elon to be the first recipient of that brain implant and has been the marionettist behind the keyboard and strings making more and more outlandish statements in an effort to hasten his vision of a Middle Class Mordor. Can't quite figure out the grift angle though. Needs to be workshopped.
  17. So, lab results in and not e.coli but cryptosporidium and the lettuce was the likely culprit. Ugh. But glad to know it wasn't something more serious. We wash our lettuce but will now be extra cautious about just how vigorous we do so. Will continue to eat healthy and exercise and I guess the extra weight loss will go down in the books as not a bad thing but I wouldn't recommend an intestinal parasite as the way to go about it.
  18. Store brand white is around 2 bucks a loaf. We buy frozen loaves so I can bake it as needed. That's about 6 bucks for 5 loaves. We have no allergies or other dietary restrictions other than I try and keep sugar to a minimum. We're lucky in that we have a decent health plan, but when I got really really sick it was difficult. Life comes at you with unexpected curve balls even when families have something set by, even when they save, even when they aren't extravagant at the grocery store or with anything else. It just does. So I feel for families who haven't had that reserve through no fault of their own. Compassion goes a long way and so does kindness. The emotional expenditure for compassion is actually much healthier in the long run than that of being an asshole, but the learning curve is...apparently steep.
  19. Something tells me 2024 is going to be a tough year. Lot of legends are going to be on these pages.
  20. Exactly. UT-RGV is already doing well. The only reason I can think of for A&M spending the money they've put into McAllen is if it's in a field of study/emphasis that UT-RGV doesn't serve already. If that is the case, then I retract my comments because the two schools can complement each other to serve student needs. Sorry for going off on a derail of the thread. Back to UT-Austin.
  21. Force 10 From Navarone. I'm a fan of ensemble casts and he could hold his own.
  22. Apparently Travis shouldn't be underestimated either; NY Post & NY Times both with articles. Two quotes below.
  23. Just for kicks, I pulled some data from Harvard (2021 so not direct comp to this year) and here's their applied, admitted, enrolled: 57,786 2,318 1951
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