BF2S Forums Pandemic thread

SuperJail Warden wrote:

RTHKI wrote:

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That's unfortunate. You can become an high school engineering teacher. You are a pretty good looking guy. So you can have jailbait vie for your attention all day and 5 to 7 years after they graduate maybe start dating them. In the post pandemic hell scape of Ohio, settling down with an older male will be the best the checks notes ignorant rural white trash ladies of Ohio can hope for.

SuperJail Warden wrote:

We do have trade schools where really derpy kids are taught how to change oil or wire a house without killing themselves but those are mostly unregulated scams. They will give kids a useless piece of paper saying they know how a transmission works for the price of a real college education. The trades only take those certificates as a little serious.

SuperJail Warden wrote:

On your Flickr account isn't the profile pic you?

SuperJail Warden wrote:

By the way it should be legal to briefly strangle anyone who makes a sincere argument that the virus is a bio-weaoon from China.

Jay wrote:

uziq wrote:

so you read totally unqualified sub-journalists on online blogs and bias mouthpieces like the national review instead, gotcha.

you do realize that almost all of the columnists and people writing for the 'fake news' mainstream media aren't graduates of 'journalism' undergraduate courses, right?

this is the same thing as your 'wow he went to wharton for undergrad!' talk. you simply do not have a clue how formal education works.

Unqualified by whose measure? I read mainstream right-leaning digital magazines for the most part. I generally have my opinion formed long before I find a concurring piece. I don't get my opinions from the media, I get my confirmations from the media.

You're far too obsessed with credentials, as always. I don't really give a fuck where someone did their undergrad education five years ago, let alone fifty years removed like Trump. To you, it's the all important measure of a man. I also don't care about grad school. I don't think an extra two years in college in your twenties matters at all whatsoever when you're forty. I don't care what his grades were. I don't care what he studied. None of it is at all relevant. Did he go to vocational college to become President of the United States? Doubtful.

When I judge a person, because I do have to judge people when I hire them, I care about what they've done since college. What are their hobbies? Do they read? Do they work on their car? Do they like to travel? This tells me more about a person than their tie pin does. You know what a degree really means, right? It's a social signal that shows the bearer can follow directions, has at least a decent memory, and can form basic sentences. If they went the math route it means they can plug numbers into formulas. It doesn't tell me the person is creative, or rebellious, or can think outside of the box, it tells me that they can follow directions and put together IKEA furniture.

Academia, for all its affectations to the opposite, does not reward deviation from a very strict path. You MUST do your homework. You MUST turn in term papers on deadline. You MUST study for X number of hours if you hope to pass an exam. You MUST hit certain points in your paper or it will be marked down by the professor. You MUST follow steps x, y and z if you hope to possibly derive answer A. People who do well in these types of formats tend to be cautious, conservative, and terrified of having their heresies discovered. They are risk averse, but ambitious. They are un-creative, but supremely confident that their opinion is correct, even though they would never have the courage to form their own. You can't have that many paradoxes inherent before lay people start pointing them out and distrust forms. The Elite are not Elite. They are strivers not taught to be anything but followers, but convinced of their divine right to rule. If asked to deviate from a script, they flounder.

And it is a script, uzi. There are checklists for getting into Ivy's. Do x number of hours of community service, do y after school activities, score z on your SAT's, play a sport, etc. It has less to do with the student them self, and more to do with the drive of the parent behind them pushing them and shuttling them all over the place between activities. An Ivy education is less a symbol that you yourself are talented, but that your parents understood the game. It tells me who your parents are and what your economic background is. And frankly, I don't care who anyone's parents are or what they've done. I care about the person sitting in the chair across from me fidgeting through an interview. What have they done with their life? Script followers are good for some tasks. They're terrible for others. The fact that the script followers are so convinced of their own supremacy, that they are trying to crowd out everyone else, and force everyone to take their path, is one of the reasons the world is currently falling apart. The world needs more leadership, responsibility and creativity. Looking to academia and their fellow travelers is not the correct path.

Jay wrote:

What do you think a senior design project is? It's a capstone that theoretically applies all learned knowledge. A thesis is a formalized research paper that is supposed to perform the same task. I did not do a thesis, I did a design project.

Last edited by Dilbert_X (2020-04-08 16:39:20)

uziq wrote:

SuperJail Warden wrote:

By the way it should be legal to briefly strangle anyone who makes a sincere argument that the virus is a bio-weaoon from China.

i have actually fallen out with my peruvian ex about her weird conspiracy theorising over this. we aren’t talking. it’s embarrassing to me that people can be so susceptible to such ideas.

Jay wrote:

NEW YORK: In New York City, an intensive care nurse treated patients for three days after she started displaying symptoms of COVID-19, but couldn't get a test from her hospital. In Georgia, a nurse was denied a test after treating an infected patient who died.

In Michigan, one of the few hospital systems conducting widespread staff testing found that more than 700 workers were infected with the coronavirus - more than a quarter of those tested.

More than a month after the pandemic hit the United States, the persistent test shortages mean that health workers are treating patients while experiencing mild symptoms that could signal they are infected themselves, according to Reuters interviews with 13 nurses and two doctors who described testing shortages at their hospitals.

Many medical centres are testing only the workers with the most severe symptoms, according to the frontline workers and hospital officials. As a result, nurses and doctors risk infecting patients, colleagues and their families without knowing they are carrying the virus, medical experts say.

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uziq wrote:

A doctor who warned the prime minister that health workers urgently needed more PPE has died after being diagnosed with Covid-19.

Abdul Mabud Chowdhury, 53, passed away after 15 days in hospital.

a very high proportion of the senior surgeons and doctors who have died on front-line duties battling coronavirus in the UK have been british-asian descent.

remember that the next time dilbert starts banging on about how his beloved roofers and plumbers are 'entitled' to be xenophobes.