I think the anti-war movement - more specifically specifically the anti-draft movement - caused a lot of unintended damage. By effectively ending the draft it removed many young people’s connection to world events.

The Iraq and Afghanistan wars would have been met with a lot more resistance. If all those years of stop-losses and quadruple deployments had instead been years of drafting young people, a lot more people would have stood up the the Bush administration. That would have gotten a generation politically active and would have prevented a lot of what’s happening today.

That describes the 2/3rds that’s watching or being killed. Our complacency is what makes us vulnerable.

Trump tried to manufacture conflict of interest. The best part was when he dogwhistled for his insane followers to go after the judge’s daughter.

He threatened the judge and his family, then used that as a basis for why he couldn’t be impartial. If that’s how the system worked then any defendant could get away with anything so long as they threaten the judge.

We actually bombed the moon on the day of the Nobel Prize announcement!

Seriously though, it was a middle finger to Bush more than anything.

Steam’s strategy was to be first to market and essentially the only player in the game for a decade, making themselves the default.

I usualy love it, but for some reason Firefox fails to retrieve web pages about 75% of the time when on the internet connection at my parent’s house, and I don’t know why.

It acts like a DNS failure, but the DNS settings are the same in Firefox, Chrome, and the router.

Meanwhile Chrome and Edge work great.

I work for a municipal government where we all receive a phone stipend because of 2FA.

If we use our personal phones for city business, they become searchable in Open Records Requests.

There’s so much NIMBY about landfills they’re rare and very far apart, so they can get away with charging 4x what’s fair.

You literally can’t take the bar without a law degree. The bar is just a test at the end of the journey.

Because the ability to pass one test is no replacement for a holistic education in the law.

Hell, I know more about the law in my particular field than 99% of attorneys. But that doesn’t mean shit in a courtroom.

Do you care of your electrician is licensed? You should. Because someone can know enough about electricity to get by and make things work and still be dangerous. That shortcut they used to steal a return off a separate circuit to save a wire run in the garage works great until the GFI fails on a short and you get electrocuted using the sink.

Credentials are important. Some college degrees are essential for their specific jobs (doctors, lawyers, scientists). Others are useful skillsets combined with a degree that acts as a credential that says “independantly accomplishes multi-year complex goal involving 40+ successful milestone tasks (courses) with no supervision required.”

For big times like furniture, engines, toilets, construction debris, etc it’s to save money. You can’t throw those things in a dumpster, and a trip to my local dump costs $160.

Someone simultaneously spending money, building debt, and foregoing income for years to complete a project that will result in better longer-term prospects absolutely shows drive and a focus on the long-term.

Not going to college doesn’t mean someone doesn’t have those qualities, but the degree is prrof of minimum qualifications and drive.

I know everything necessary to build a house from the ground up, but if you want an electrical upgrade you should hire a licensed electrician and not me because they have the credentials to back it up.

I’m staying. Just like I’ve stayed in Texas.

But I also don’t have kids. My sister left Texas when she decided to start having children and I support that decision 100%. This is no place to raise a child.

There’s a world of difference in dedication to completing a 4-year project when you’re being paid to be there working and when you are not.

Sucessfully completing a college degree shows that someone is driven, can accomplish goals, and make forward-looking decisions.

While it’s true that many people’s careers post-college are not directly related to their degree, it’s still valuable to employers.

What a degree says is that an individual can sucessfully complete a project that takes years of work and at least enough professionalism to get through.

No, they’ve been placed on probation and cannot graduate for at least 1 year.

Moses didn’t get to live in the nation he created.

Had a coworker that was going through some stuff when I started. On my fist day, she breaks down about her situation.

She and her husband had been extremely happy and decided to adopt. The kid turned out to be violently agtessive towards her. He’d tried stabbing her, burning her house down when she slept, etc. She told her husband she couldn’t live with the kid. He said he completely understood that she couldn’t live in that situation, and there was no way they could raise the kid in those circumstances.

So he filed for divorce. He said he’d agreed to take on the responsibility of raising the child and he couldn’t walk away.

“…so, I’m Chilie. I was told you had the key to the supply closet.”

And installing Linux and axe-murdering anyone with a car.

It also partially explains the Western feeling to Star Wars. Lots of Kurisawa films were made into Westerns.

Seven Samurai became the Magnificent Seven (and Bug’s Life!). Yojimbo and Sanjuro became A Fistful of Dollars and A Few Dollars More.

I also use mine when starting a fire. Way easier then using a pot lid of blowing.