No, but I don't have much interest getting invested in another community.

looks interesting

Yeah, probably.

But I can't think of anything significant. Maybe I'm not feeling sentimental enough at the moment, even though it's been a pretty rough week for me overall.

who’s banjo?

i will recommend the movie Good Time

i also live with ur mom aha

what would you get and why

It doesn't sound like he did anything that could warrant involving law enforcement. I also don't think she was wrong to share on social media about his shitty behavior. Regardless, the allegations are pretty tame, even if everything she described was 100% accurate.

Somehow I think he's going to make it out of this.

Doesn't surprise me whatsoever that this is a reoccurring problem in the gaming industry though.

stop

I'm pretty terrible about watching shows anymore (even when we were on lockdown). I'm watching that Epstein docu-series on Netflix. I watched Better Call Saul S5 a couple weeks ago. Also watched The Boys and Watchmen around February. That's all I can remember rn.

I've been considering re-watching Avatar TLA since it's on Netflix again, but realistically I'll probably watch a few episodes and then fall off.

But does society place too much emphasis on a college degree?

Yes.

I personally was pushed towards college (even though I didn't want to go at one point) and I think that's probably true for many people, considering almost 70% of high school students are enrolling in college immediately, according to these people. There seems to be this belief that I was fed: where you just need to get a college degree and life will basically be handed to you. I'm finding the reality to be a bit different.

According to the Federal Reserve, only 27% of undergraduate degree holders end up working in a position directly related to the degree. Contrast this with an average price tag of around ~29k (in America). It's hard for me to see college as much more than a risky financial/personal investment, at best; a bit of a scam, at worst.

The market today is simply over-saturated with bachelor's degrees to the point where many jobs have unnecessary educational requirements. It almost seems like college degrees are used to imply intelligence and work ethic, but obviously don't prove either.

Can a person become an educated and intelligent individual without having to enroll into tertiary education?

Absolutely

I mean, the man with the highest IQ scores on the planet holds no college degree. That may not be a great example, but you get the idea. It's not like the material used in academia is restricted from the public.

As far as self-taught education vs. academia in general: that's a somewhat loaded question. You could read dozens of chemistry books, but you likely won't go far in the field without a tangible degree. However, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg are famously college dropouts, so it really depends. I think in general, degrees won't make someone more intelligent or successful, even though they may correlate.

I guess I might as well mention that I graduated with a competitive major, with a decent GPA, from a well-known school, and have had a hell of a time on the job market post-graduation, so I'm obviously somewhat biased. But I consider myself lucky. A law degree has both a horrendous price tag and a horrendous employment rate. I've also read plenty of other stories of people with advanced degrees unable to find work.

I'm glad I picked a major where I learned skills that I otherwise would not have, but if I ever achieve any sort of success, I'm probably not going to be thanking my degree.

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i am happy to see it's still doing well.

You're the first person I've seen suggest that the current state of this site is "doing well."

It's doing better now than it did 6 months ago

but at what cost?

This is interesting. It's something I've noticed, but not something I've thought much about. As someone that can get heavily invested in entertainment, I don't think I've ever considered myself part of a "group" (subconsciously or otherwise) because of it. If someone told me my favorite movie was complete shit, I couldn't care less. I'm not sure if I've always been like this or not. In contrast, I have someone close to me that consumes entertainment far more heavily than myself (sports, novels, tv shows, all of it), and he can barely handle criticism of the those things he likes, but tends to be very critical towards the things he doesn't (even at someone else's expense). The complete end of this spectrum would probably be those accounts that patrol social media for criticism of their favorite celebrity, which I just found bizarre until reading this thread.

I honestly have no idea how to answer those questions you asked. It just strikes me as a very vapid form of tribalism that I tend to try to ignore.

class is the dark souls of sep7agon users

Fortnite 2 is bout to be insane 😳