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What are some others you enjoyed? *Gets pad and pencil out*

From what I've read, this was literally years in the making. Years of threats to do this. To act surprised, to the extent anyone is, seems weird. To your point about Houston being the king-- it's definitely the biggest takeover I've read about (others being Philadelphia, New Orleans and Detroit in recent years) and am curious if this can help improve the empirically and undeniably underperformance in some schools (along with allegedly illegal stuff that was going on in HISD with inappropriately influencing vendor contracts for kick-backs).

But doesn't the data bear out that the "underwater basketweaving" degrees and "lesbian afro-diaspora art poetry" degrees that are maligned, are actually not the problem in that they constitute a low-percentage of degrees? The bold above is commendable and pragmatic, and I'm not trying to be condescending when I say this, but that is because you are not of the Male, Pale and Yale privilege class who has the luxury of such things (which is not to say even if you did have the luxury, maybe you'd still enjoy learning about finance or banking or whatever would earn an upper middle class salary quickly). If memory serves you are Asian and likely a second or third degree American, which fits into exactly what that New Yorker article was saying:

Word. So why did you choose this movie as something that was your chief identity during your transformative years? What pricked the nerve? I ask because the movie was good, not great, (but maybe great for the time it was made, I don't know), and the characters were just okay IMO.

Wrong. I rebuke that behavior and those people, despite what you may think or wish to the contrary.

Giannis knew:

Disgusting.

When I think of people who peaked in the 80's a la Bonfire of the Vanities, I think of you, is all.

I think the problem is you two are being colorblind as well. When we talk about the Arts & Letters degree paths being dominated by the privilege class in a world where education is only looked at through the speed to value and ROI it can bring to the capital markets, we are saying that the Arts & Letters will continue to be dominated by the "Pale, Male & Yale" demographic. Didn't y'all read my review on Netflix's treatment of DeLillo's "White Noise"? Do we really need more of the 80's cultural scene? I'm joking because I think YFGIS would relate, but I'm serious. When you make it to where only the elite can study disciplines and crafts that aren't directly tied to a production KPI the minute you leave the campus, you are marginalizing poor (and people of color, especially) in defining and curating what is cultural relevant, through our macro, shared aesthetic (via directly in what books get published, what movies get made, what art gets galleried, etc. through indirect as this is communicated and trickled down).

Great post. Would like to get your thoughts on this, because I agree with you, but one of the reasons I still push for my children to get a college education versus an apprenticeship (if they had the desire to go straight into that) is because a lot of what you mentioned about being able to run the business. Maybe most importantly, it's easier to pivot and make a wholesale career change if you want to if you have a college degree. A plumber with only plumbing experience who hates plumbing can't wake up one day and go into corporate marketing or selling cybersecurity or be an associate accountant in a firm, whereas I can go start a plumbing company tomorrow because I can manage a business, I understand the basics around AR and AP and working capital and can be dangerous with an SMB version of QuickBooks in a matter of hours. I don't know maybe it's the chicken or the egg, because you obviously need field training and knowledge as well.

Sure, but the point is, if you solely base criteria around ROI and time to value, you are going to have consequences like cultural studies and arts and humanities being dominated by the privileged class. Which is bad for society, it is argued. Beyond that, it might be only the most privileged (Ivy and/or expensive privates vs state schools) who get to study these expensive, less-lucrative degree paths. Here is a good, but long, read on the death of the English major I posted last month which investigates that with some hard numbers thrown in. It's long but worth the read if you are serious about the discussion of what higher education is and should be in our society.: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/06/the-end-of-the-english-major

Cool read about Visual Basic: https://retool.com/visual-basic/

Here are a few good visuals to help those who don't inherently know the difference (like I didn't):

I'm making the distinction between equality (you used equal) and equity (I used the word equitable). I think you are responding to equality.

Full Scale IQ 120

To be fair, BTC has spiked in value during this banking debacle.

You are right, but the counterpoint is by taking this financial angle, you are perpetuating a liberal arts education as one of privilege which hampers the equitable arguments.

The Sting (1973) Pretty good; is there a story why @henrygandorf spells his eponymous handle incorrectly? The subtitles say Gondorff.

I, too, have a degree in finance. I also took art history as a freshman. With those supporting facts, I think y’all are insane. Heck let’s go all-in on subjective anecdotes: Cultural Anthropology was harder than both!

We really just say anything on this website, don't we?

He's hilarious. On top of that he was "cancelled" from SNL after getting a spot based on some past tweets.

I love Dan Pink but I am a bit fatigued by him and didn't buy this one. Sounds like I didn't miss much, which was my first inclination. The pressure to churn out ground-breaking books is difficult once you have that first huge success.

Recs for 4 or 5 year olds who love dinosaurs?

Also, for my money, Steve Carrel's acting job was better than even Kevin Spacey's as it was also my first time seeing him do a dramatic turn. He would later also kill it in Vice as Donald Rumsfeld.