>released a million documents
>acknowledges some of it fell into the hands of the enemy
>fled to russia
>started talking about cyber-warfare with china

If Snowden isn't a traitor, nobody is.

Surprising to see that Trump is still among the best republican choices on a certain specific issue then.

LOOK AT THIS OPPRESSED BITCH

HOW DO YOU LIKE YOUR FUCKING TYRANNY, DIRTY MAYO-EATER

did you get your placement at bham?

Nope.

I got three Bs.

Fuck.

Destroy the notion that college is necessary.

Oh, I completely 100pc agree with you there.

We have a 50pc school-leavers target in the UK for people who should be going to university, which is fucking ludicrous. If you fixed the quality of primary and secondary education--and perhaps put more emphasis on things like job programmes and apprenticeships--then you wouldn't have so many people thinking they needed to go.

Well, it wouldn't, first of all. You still have to get the degree, you realize, and that takes some hard motherfucking work. Free college =/= free degree.

Sure, but there are a lot of incentives acting on governments and higher education institutions that make keeping the standards uniformly high incredibly difficult. It might not be collectively rational for the government and universities to sneak students through the back door, or to lower test standards, but it becomes individually rational when you have funding incentives, prestige incentives et cetera.

Do you really mean that?

No, I'm exaggerating, but unfortunately not by much. Thankfully, highly specialised jobs like doctors--which require a PhD--still have an incredibly rigorous "weeding-out" process. I was thinking more of Bach degrees which are almost nothing to our generation.

I don't think getting a degree should be a matter of illusory, make-believe economic concepts like "worth".

It's hardly illusory that if everybody has a PhD, the PhD is worthless. Sure, if in 200 years everybody has a PhD then they're more intelligent than almost all of us today in absolute terms, but the point of credentials and higher education is to be relative. To separate the intellectual wheat from the chaff.

Because I don't think there's such a thing as "too many doctors". "Too many engineers." Whatever.

Sure there is. Well, maybe not at the moment--I don't have any evidence to hand--but it's certainly not a logically impossible situation.

There could never be enough of either of those two things.

If everybody was a doctor, there are too many doctors.

I've taken a look at the EdExcel grade boundaries and now I'm preparing to kill myself tomorrow.

Same for AQA.

No, for a number of reasons:

- University students, right down to undergrads, are not cost-constrained. The use of tuition loans insulates them from their eventual debt burden; the actual problem is that the students can't declare themselves bankrupt if they're unable to pay it back.

- The US labour market is currently highly over-qualified; encouraging more people to go to college by making it 'free' would spur credential inflation. The solution is to fix primary and secondary schools.

- The positive externalities of higher education are rather minimal, so forcing other people to pay for somebody's education just seems rather wrong.

Also, don't they know what gay people are?

Yes, because 1.7pc of the population is going to impact the results massively.

Besides, it's not like romantic relationships are the only channel through which this operates.

Is this in addition to or because of the high school curriculum and teaching methods being based around female-typical learning styles?

In addition to, I'd imagine.

Both genders suffer from a mixed atmosphere--academically--due the distractions it causes. This is a separate issue to teaching styles/curriculum.

Quote from: Meta Cognition on August 11, 2015, 07:06:18 AM

Quote from: Flee on August 11, 2015, 06:58:12 AM

Am I glad that the universities and general society over here has not been tainted with this kind of stuff I keep reading about.

It's happening in the UK, though. Shit's spreading to Europe.

About six months ago the national students' union banned gays wearing drag because it 'appropriates' black woman culture.

fucking what?

And they banned applause because it's 'triggering' to people with anxiety.

You have to use jazz hands, instead.

Am I glad that the universities and general society over here has not been tainted with this kind of stuff I keep reading about.

It's happening in the UK, though. Shit's spreading to Europe.

About six months ago the national students' union banned gays wearing drag because it 'appropriates' black woman culture.

Holy hell.

When students arrive on campus at the University of New Hampshire this fall, they’ll be welcomed with a “Bias-Free Language Guide” to help them in their conversations.

Since college campuses have become very concerned with “microaggressions” being committed on their campuses, UNH decided to help their students understand which words might offend others.

But, according to Campus Reform:

"The university website encourages readers to understand that the guide 'is not a means to censor but rather to create dialogues of inclusion where all of us feel comfortable and welcomed.'"

A few of the words which are deemed “problematic” are:

American
Mothering
Fathering
Illegal Alien
Caucasian
Homeless
Poor person
Obese
Overweight
Healthy
Orientals
Freshmen
For each category, the University makes recommendations that, for the most part, are much longer and contain multiple words.

Instead of “poor person,” for instance, the student should say “person who lacks advantages that others have.” Mothering and fathering are frowned upon because they advance gender stereotypes. Instead, one should use “parenting” or “nurturing” because they describe the behavior.

“European-American individuals” is the favored term over “Caucasian.” And instead of “healthy,” use “non-disabled individual.”

The purpose is to:

"…not stereotype or demean people based on personal characteristics."

Students will be able to access the university’s 4,750-word web page to easily understand which words they are supposed to use when conversing with their peers.

The world is literally fucking insane.

because he has a few things that i don't namely, patience

Oh that's what that is. I couldn't put my finger on how Pendulate was fundamentally different.

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Strength Through Unity.

Thanks

Go fuck yourself, imposter.